The prophetic gift can especially be very dangerous if left un-checked, since people think the words spoken are directly from God and will often obey them without question or the use of discernment.

Based on all my years of operating in the prophetic, as well as mentoring, nurturing, overseeing and hosting many prophetic ministers, the following are ten signs of prophetic abuse and manipulation.

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

In '05, the last time he played Cornerstone, he was booted off the grounds for being shitfaced, a milk jug full of vodka in his hand.

(The festival is officially dry.) I worked as Bazan's publicist from 2000 till 2004.

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word "Africa." According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth.

Unable to banish from his mind the possibility that the God he'd loved and prayed to his whole life didn't exist, he started drinking heavily.

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people.

This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system.

And who can say where the road goes, where the day flows?

We may never know, and these songs about time will almost surely not help.