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I’ve been seeking information online and came here, forgetting that I registered here a long time ago!
When I pray for someone, the Holy Spirit sometimes puts an image in my mind, and the understanding to interpret what it means. What is this called?? I would love to meet someone else who experiences this.
 

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hello,
I’ve been seeking information online and came here, forgetting that I registered here a long time ago!
When I pray for someone, the Holy Spirit sometimes puts an image in my mind, and the understanding to interpret what it means. What is this called?? I would love to meet someone else who experiences this.
Is it really the Holy Spirit giving you these images, or your own imagination?

This is something that should be discussed with a mature, experienced spiritual director, not with strangers on a computer blog.
 
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Welcome to CF :wave:

I have to say I agree with Monk Brendan here - any visions/pictures that come into your mind can be of very doubtful origin.

Are you attending any Church ? If so please seek help about this from your Church Leader
 
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hello,
I’ve been seeking information online and came here, forgetting that I registered here a long time ago!
When I pray for someone, the Holy Spirit sometimes puts an image in my mind, and the understanding to interpret what it means. What is this called?? I would love to meet someone else who experiences this.

I Corinthians 12:1
“Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.”

I encourage you to give 1 Corinthians chapter 12 a read.

It sounds like God has blessed you with a spiritual gift. I’m not sure, but it sounds like you may have the gift of prophecy and visions.

When you see these images, I believe it’s your duty to tell the individual you’re praying for what it is that you’re seeing. Also fasting and praying will help your gift to grow.
 
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When I pray for someone, the Holy Spirit sometimes puts an image in my mind, and the understanding to interpret what it means. What is this called?? I would love to meet someone else who experiences this.
I have experienced that most of my life. It is a form of prophetic intercession.
 
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Hello and welcome to CF.

There is no way that people who do not know you (all of us) can tell you what it is.

It can be that God uses images in our minds to prompt us to pray for someone. However ... forgive me please but here are some red flags ... why do you come here seeking a name for it? If it is really from God, which it can be, God would be more concerned for his servant taking such a gift and using it to puff himself up, potentially falling into the dangerous sin of pride.

We should ask ourselves IN ALL STRICTNESS, allowing NO excuse for ourselves -- Why do I need a name for it? Why do I want to tell people what I'm experiencing? Why do I want others to think God has given me a gift?

God gives such gifts to truly humble persons, so that he doesn't risk damaging one of his beloved children for the sake of asking prayers for another one.

In the case of most people, it is much more likely the above possibilities can be true. It can also come from one's own mind, or it can come even from a demonic source - in both cases tempting us toward pride, thinking God is using us in some special way, and opening the door to pride and delusion. These are such serious spiritual illnesses that we must always be on guard.

If it were me, I would advise you to seek out someone very experienced in spiritual matters (and the false is much easier to find than the true) and ask them for guidance.

But we ARE directly commanded to pray for others consistently, so that we should all be doing. You are right in doing this, and no one need to tell you so. :)

Again, welcome to CF. Please forgive me if anything I've said offended you. (Though with that, one more bit of wisdom I was blessed to receive - when we are offended by someone, it can offer a huge clue to our own problems - that has helped me a great deal and is something I wish I'd learned sooner, and I might have heeded some very good advice I received at a critical point in my life.)

God be with you.
 
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