Here is another 'type' in scripture: 'Watches'... a military term.
My best friend does this type of thing in prayer. She sees what the enemy is coming to do before he does it.
A couple of years ago, she saw as she was praying, her daughter-in-law in a horrible auto accident which would not likely have any survivors. She prayed against it etc. That week, her daughter-in-law, who is diabetic, was driving to work when she went into a diabetic seizure. She crashed her car, totaling it, but left the scene very shaken but unharmed.
My friend, when she first started out in this type of prayer work, didn't know what to do with the things that she saw. She learned over time, what God wanted her to do with them, and is still learning.
She serves more in this 'watch' kind of prayer, while I serve more in the 'hold up the arms' kind of prayer. One of the signs of a prayer 'watcher' is that the Lord will often awaken them at 3 am or have them stay up all night etc.
Lamentations 2:19
" Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who faint from hunger at the head of every street."
Revelation 16:15
"Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame."
Exodus 14:24
Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the LORD looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians.
Judges 7:19
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
1 Samuel 11:11
So it was, on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and killed Ammonites until the heat of the day. And it happened that those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
2 Samuel 13:33-35 (in Context) 2 Samuel 13 (Whole Chapter) 2 Samuel 18:24
Now David was sitting between the two gates. And the watchman went up to the roof over the gate, to the wall, lifted his eyes and looked, and there was a man, running alone.
2 Samuel 18:25
Then the watchman cried out and told the king. And the king said, "If he is alone, there is news in his mouth." And he came rapidly and drew near.
2 Samuel 18:26
Then the watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, "There is another man, running alone!" And the king said, "He also brings news."
2 Samuel 18:27
So the watchman said, "I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok." And the king said, "He is a good man, and comes with good news."
1 Kings 20:33
2 Kings 9:17
Now a watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company of men." And Joram said, "Get a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?"
2 Kings 9:18
So the horseman went to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king: Is it peace?" And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me." So the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger went to them, but is not coming back."
2 Kings 9:20
So the watchman reported, saying, "He went up to them and is not coming back; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously!"
2 Kings 11:5
Then he commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall do: One-third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall be keeping watch over the kings house,
2 Kings 11:6
one-third shall be at the gate of Sur, and one-third at the gate behind the escorts. You shall keep the watch of the house, lest it be broken down.
2 Kings 11:7
The two contingents of you who go off duty on the Sabbath shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD for the king.
And many, many more.
Sometimes you can have some thoughts enter your mind and your not sure if it's what God wants you to pray for, but then He'll give you a confirmation through scripture or something someone might say, and then you know to watch and pray.
