The Gift of Prophecy: 12

1 Cor. 14:24-25 – if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying… the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”

Prophecy is an evangelistic tool. The fact that this unbeliever is now excited about God, shows that prophesy restores the lost and draws them closer to God. God is love and accord to 1 Cor. 13, love protects; so God isn’t going to shame someone in public. The secrets revealed here involve God pulling out the questions and concerns of a person and applying His love to them.

~ Developing Your Prophetic Gifting, by Graham Cooke ~

I mentioned previously that I had taken an opportunity to do some prophetic evangelism at a non-religious public event this weekend. A friend & I prophesied to nearly 100 people this past Saturday as people lined up waiting on us. We saw a lot of unchurched people, and people with unfortunately circumstances. Many of the people said we were ‘scary accurate’ in our words to them. As my friend spoke to one guy about his friendships, the Lord gave me a Word of Knowledge, dropping the names Jodie, Sadie, and Jon into my Spirit. The boy was shocked when I spoke the names and confirmed two of the three names as people he was good friends with. We spoke to one girl and told her that she burns a lot of incense and that she’s had some big prayers recently that didn’t come true, that had caused her to quit praying, leaving an emptiness in her. She immediately looked to her friends in the room who were wide eyed. She confirmed that all these things were true. We then gave her a Word of Wisdom directing her to pray some smaller daily prayers to help her build up her trust with God again. One girl came in asking about a relationship, and we spoke Bible verses over her about the worth and purpose God built into her; her entire countenance changed as she lit up and received the words. She was willing to accept a challenge to purity and was excited to find out the difference between ‘fortune tellers/dark arts’ versus God’s gifts. This girl who came in confused, left with confidence in God’s power and love. One lady was in an abusive relationship and began to cry once God asked us to bless her with some money that someone had given us earlier. We received a Word of Knowledge about back pain in one lady who confirmed that she had pain everyday. We loved praying with all these people about their situations in the name of Jesus and watching them come into agreement with Jesus! What a powerful outreach prophecy can be! These people left knowing they had encountered God in a real way and left encouraged and with direction for their lives. They left healed and empowered to change, with a drive to know more about who this God was who was concerned about the details in their lives!

Predestination & Prayer

2 Kings 20:14-19 – The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”

God had just told King Hezekiah that he would die from an illness, earlier in this chapter, but when Hezekiah prayed, God used his prayer to change the outcome of his life. He added 15 more years to his life. (2 Kings 20:1-7)

After just going through that–watching God change what He had decreed, based on a single prayer–why didn’t Hezekiah pray for God to save them from Babylon too? His one prayer could’ve saved all of Israel.

Our prayers, or lack of prayers, can change the outcomes of nations. We should be praying for the coming generations, even in times of peace; and especially when the coming generations are reaping what we’ve sown.

#Pray #PrayForParis

God doesn’t change, nor does He think like us. He doesn’t change His mind, as if He can learn of some better way to do things. He has a plan that has been in place since the beginning of time. His plan includes your prayers. Your prayer is a tool in the hand of God. When you pray, His will comes on earth as was planned in heaven before the dawn of creation. Don’t water down the power of prayer. Every prayer is important, and every prayer changes the course of history.