5 Tips for Developing a Healthy Prophetic Culture

Julian Adams • January 16, 2020
A healthy prophetic culture demonstrates the value of people and reflects the heart of Jesus. Learn these five tips on maintaining a wholesome internal environment in the midst of ministry.


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    - Hi, my name's Julian Adams. I wanted to give you my top five tips for developing a healthy prophetic culture. So, I got to pastor a local church in Cape Town for over seven years as a social pastor and we would have loads of people coming in and out, amazingly gift ministries, prophetic people, and prophets coming in and out. And one of the things I had to learn was how to pick up the pieces when prophets who had not developed an internal core system that valued the church, that valued people well, but were in it for the honorary and were in it for the publicity. Maybe not even as deeply sinister as that but just unwise in their own internal world. I had to pick up those pieces and come to people when destiny words were not fulfilled, when brokenness was a trail that was left. And one of the things that I've learnt is to hone my internal culture, so that I get to to be a blessing to the maximum amount of people and reflect Jesus well to the world around me. The first tip that I want to communicate is around discovering a deep love for Jesus. I know that sounds obvious but as a prophet who has an emergent prophetic course, you need to learn how to love Jesus. Not only learn to love Jesus but you have to learn to love your church. The church is the most beautiful thing that God has fashioned together for Jesus and Jesus wants to come back for his bride, and I see often that prophetic ministries love Jesus but struggle with the church. The second top tip I want to communicate is simply understanding that everything we do must flow from the place of humility and servant heartedness. We've got to be a people as prophetic ministries who go low and who go slow. Who learn to stop for the one in front of us and serve them with the prophetic. It's most often what we do in the hidden place with honoring instilled in the prophetic that gives us opportunity and platform in the public space. My third topic point is learning to discover a love for scripture. We have got to be a people who learn to wrestle with the text of scripture, who learn to give ourselves to understand scripture, because all of scripture the bible says speaks of Jesus. It reveals who Jesus is and when we get to discover the prophet Jesus in scripture, when we get to discover how the bible reveals Jesus as the perfect representation of the father, our prophesied will be better. It will be deeper and it will fill out in more ways to discover and unlock people's destiny in this way. My fourth top point or top tip for the prophetic is learning to walk in a place of submitted accountability to people around us, not only to our friends but to ministries around us. We need to be people who learn to live in a place where ministries speak well of us. Where people around us, we're in deep relationship with them, with leaders. An accountable relationships that get to shape our prophetic gift, that get to shape who we are and who speak well of us. It is so important that we have a level of integrity that is reflected by other recognized ministries recognizing who we are as prophetic voices and emergent prophetic voices. My fifth point is very simply learning to walk in emotional health. That is so important that as prophets we get emotionally healthy. We deal with our junk, we get rid of the stuff that has caused rejection and pain in our lives. We process that with people and it is important for the sake of revealing who Jesus is to walk in incredible emotional health for the sake of our families, for the sake of legacy, and for the sake of those around us. We want to represent Jesus well and so how we deal with our integrity personally, with out finances, with the purity that we walk in all reflect something of Jesus. If you want to learn more about how you can develop your prophetic gift, I want to encourage you to get my e-course amplified which will help define and refine your prophetic gift. It's got over six hours of teaching where I instill about 20 years of walking in the prophetic for you. It comes alongside with a workbook which is incredible. It's got incredible activations that will help you learn how to shape the prophetic in you. Just click on the link below and you're be able to get all the information that you need to go on this e-course with us. It's really, really encouraging. We've had incredible feedback.

By Julian Adams June 19, 2025
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