{"id":33364,"date":"2021-05-16T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T06:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33364"},"modified":"2021-05-16T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T06:37:51","slug":"prophets-in-the-land-jeremiahs-or-pashurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33364","title":{"rendered":"Prophets in the land: Jeremiahs or Pashurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Buti Sam Kputu<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The prophet who has a dream should tell his dream. However, the person who has my word should honestly speak my word&#8230;&#8221; [Jeremiah 23:28, GW]<br \/><br \/>Whenever a people and a nation are in a crisis and seek the Lord&#8217;s intervention, the first thing God sends is a Prophetic word. That word gives a proper diagnosis as well as prognosis to the challenges.<br \/><br \/>However, there are always two kinds of prophets in the land: a &#8216;Jeremiah&#8217; &#8211; a true prophet who speaks God&#8217;s mind; and a &#8216;Pashur&#8217; &#8211; a political, pseudo-prophet who speaks to please the King and the people [Jeremiah 19-20]<br \/><br \/>The answer to any personal or national crisis lies in the accuracy and authenticity of the prophetic word, and our response to it as God&#8217;s people. Little wonder, the enemy labours so hard to compromise our prophets and distort God&#8217;s word.<br \/><br \/>Would you rather listen to God&#8217;s Jeremiah or a political Parshur?<br \/><br \/>\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">@<strong>butiSAM<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Buti Sam Kputu &#8220;The prophet who has a dream should tell his dream. However, the person who has my word should honestly speak my word&#8230;&#8221; [Jeremiah 23:28, GW] Whenever a people and a nation are in a crisis and seek the Lord&#8217;s intervention, the first thing God sends is a Prophetic word. That word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}