Thread: What do Pentecostals mean by "self fulfilling prophecy "?

What exactly is a "self fulfilling prophecy " ?
What if I don't fulfill the prophecy ?

I'm so amazed at these people by how I can only talk negative things into being , never anything positive how dare I lol

What are these people talking about ?

agree with "captain fantastic"

Like all you can eat buffets. they go and self fulfill

Self-fulfilling prophecy is more at home in the academic fields of psychology and sociology. In sociology, the concept is explained as:
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. Although examples of such prophecies can be found in literature as far back as ancient Greece and ancient India, it is 20th-century sociologist Robert K. Merton who is credited with coining the expression "self-fulfilling prophecy" and formalizing its structure and consequences. In his book Social Theory and Social Structure, Merton defines self-fulfilling prophecy in the following terms: e.g. when Roxanna falsely believes her marriage will fail, her fears of such failure actually cause the marriage to fail.
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.
Many people who declare prophecies that are not true are often thought to be delusional, but in many cases that is not the case, as a delusion is an impossible or fantasy belief. In other words, a prophecy declared as truth when it is actually false may sufficiently influence people, either through fear or logical confusion, so that their reactions ultimately fulfill the once-false prophecy.

In psychology, Steven Jones of the University of North Florida pioneered the concept, and is credited with its origination in that field.