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Prophesy meaning
To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet. | To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration). | To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
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One prophesy which has been consistently heard from Primate Ayodele remains his prophesy that “Only Saraki can up seat President Muhammadu Buhari if given the right support by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)“.
Bye the way, did you not prophesy about a first woman Premier?
Community, I don’t care how spiritual we act, how much we prophesy or speak in other tongues — there’s some hidden stuff, some evil desires trying to dominate our lives, trying to raise their heads.
He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.
It is also something that is subject to prayer,” goes prophet Mtupa’s prophesy.
Meanwhile, foreign Office Minister said this week that he could not "prophesy for the future" when asked about the plan - before saying it "will remain in place".
In a grizzly prophesy, Jesus claims he’s about to be mocked, flogged and killed.
The god Apollo, thanks to his ability to prophesy, discovered that the culprit of the robbery of his cattle was Hermes; he then went to Cilene to accuse him in front of Maya.
He compared the horrifying deaths to the slaughter of the infants ordered by King Herod and the voice of Rachel in the prophesy of Jeremiah (Jer 31: 15), lamenting bitterly over her children because they are no more.
Then he cunningly zooms in on the number plate of the classier and expensive cars, gets the car numbers and uses it to prophesy, sending the owners into panic mode, thereby taking advantage to take money from them”.
And his prophesy proved right.
My prophesy has come to pass, and all can stand and witness.
This is not Senator Johnson's first prophesy against the President.
A little later, he added, "For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged" (1 Cor.
I don’t wanto prophesy, but I expect that in the end, all sides, whether or not claiming Christianity, won’t use it to prevent conflict, but enable it, as has always been the case.
Paraphrasing the prophet Joel, he added: “And if the young make the old dream, I assure you that the old will make the young prophesy.
God again commands Jonah to visit Nineveh and prophesy to its inhabitants.
He is identified with the Obadiah who was the servant of Ahab, and it is said that he was chosen to prophesy against Edom because he was himself an Edomite.
Moreover, having lived with two such godless persons as Ahab and Jezebel without learning to act as they did, he seemed the most suitable person to prophesy against Esau (Edom).
One such anecdote is given by William of Malmesbury (lived c. 1080– c. 1143), who reports that Æthelred had defecated in the baptismal font as a child, which led St. Dunstan to prophesy that the English monarchy would be overthrown during his reign.