Francis Drake
Returning adventurer.
- Apr 14, 2013
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- Married
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About 30 years ago I was praying for a couple in their mid 50s, it seemed the husband's business attempts constantly ended in failure and they had become exceedingly frustrated.I have seen first hand how a prophetic word can deliver a word of knowledge which brings emotional healing that then brings physical healing. I'll give an example, it doesn't come from me, but another minister, however it is a true story that perfectly illustrates this:
The minster is praying for a young woman and gets a word for her, the word is simply, "I (God) hate mommies and daddies"... The minster struggles with God about releasing the word because to the minster it makes no sense and seems to maybe even violate scripture. However the unction is so strong he finally relents and trusts God. He tells the girl, "God says He hates mommies and daddies". The girl breaks down crying. Turns out she had been sexually abused by someone close to her and this person would say it was a game called... you guessed it... mommies and daddies.
That was a word of knowledge delivered via prophecy. She knew this minister could not have possibly known this deep hidden secret. Just hearing those words that she knew came directly from God brought her tremendous emotional and spiritual healing. Also, many times physical ailments are connected to emotional/spiritual wounds, and that is what happened here, this girl was also healed of a chronic physical condition as well.
So the truth is this girl wouldn't have been healed if that prophetic word hadn't been spoken. So was what happened truly a prophecy? Was it a word of knowledge? A healing? Or, perhaps instead of trying to dissect and define and depower what happened (milk), one should look at the result; recognize the work of the Holy Spirit; glorify God, and not worry too much about which gift did what, but rather trust the gifts were in operation and be looking and ready for the next opportunity to minister to someone (meat).
As I prayed for them, I had a sense of something I couldn't really nail down, so I tried to describe the scenario in my head.
"I get the impression of something like a parents evening at school. You are there with your mum and dad sitting across the table from your teacher, and the teacher says something like 'David is a complete waste of time and nothing he ever does will succeed.......'".
Dave immediately replied with "Yes, yes, that's right" So I continued trying to expand on what I was sensing, but he kept interrupting me, finally telling me to shut up for a moment!
"When I said that's right" he said, " I was trying to tell you that you had quoted the exact words my teacher spoke over me at that parents meeting!"
I was quite shocked. I was simply trying to describe a vague scenario, quoting vague words to describe the feeling I was witnessing.
Of course, the teacher's words had operated as a curse on Dave's life, with demons constantly robbing him of fulfilment in all his business adventures. We broke the power of those words from his life and commanded various demons to flee and he was set free.
Who really cares whether I was operating in vision, word of knowledge, or prophecy?
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