Disability and Justice Prophets on the Edge

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Hi everyone and happy summer to most of you as well. I found this online about Prophets on the edge, modern day prophets with a disability and I thought it might interest some of you.

http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/disab ... -the-edge/

http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks-archive/#featured

I downloaded the talk and listened to the recording above.

Prophecy is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12). A prophet means that someone proclaims a divine message from God.

There are different streams Seer versus Nabi-

Nabi prophets sometimes sees visions as Seer prophets sometimes but regularly and dominantly Nabi prophets receives inspiration from the Holy Spirit and prophesy to people spontaneously and verbally while Seer prophets receives pictures and visions before prophesying.

Me, I think that this minstry role and many other ministry roles such as ministers/apostles may appear more diverse now than they have been in many decades. May be we just see it reported more, but I think it has always may be been there. In the recent past we mostly just heard more of prophets who were looking for lavish lifestyles or who were false with messages of venom and evil not sent from God, which caused friction and distress for some people. This lineage has a long ascendy to the Old Testatment.

These modern day tags I flounder at again as I have walked with my faith with a neurodiversity since a child and God made provision for me before it was ever trendy so to say. May be it is just reported better now and they are serving in more diverse church's as an acceptable face and doing more activism work and on social media. God is about justice and so who he awards these roles, I doubt in actual terms they would have changed that much. Perhaps we are just seeing more representation now.
It is about time.

Do you think things are changing and need to change or we are just seeing more representation now.

This article talks more about neurodiversity and people in the church as well.
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/ ... urotypical

This website can tell you more about this ministry role if you want to know more.
https://charismanews.com/opinion/why-th ... -believer/

In the Old Testatment women used to have this prophetic role like Deborah and Huldah.

I really like Jonah because he was not part of God's Chosen people and he was a Prophet and was one of the minor prophets and was weaved into their story as well. He was the one who spent three days in a whale before God got him to turn around. He had to go and preach repetenance. It relates somewhat to the story of my life and I like that he was an outsider and was given one of the preistly gifts as well to serve God and the people.

An old Bible of mine states this about Jonah-
" This didactic little tract is designed to teach in opposition to a narrower view that God's purposes of grace are not necessarily limited to the Chosen People and in any case that obedience is required of a prophet"