THE HOLY SPIRIT MOVES
I love the Holy Spirit. You are probably aware that the Holy Spirit is as much God as the Father and Jesus. He is the one that is here on the earth with us. His assignment with us is to baptize us into the Body of Christ (help us get born again) and to pour out of us like a river after Jesus baptizes us in the Holy Spirit (this is where you will get a new prayer language).
Acts 2:1-4 (NKJV)
1When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
WHEN I WAS JUST A KID
I was barely 18 years old when I had a radical experience accepting Jesus. I was playing music in bars and dives and had been for a number of years. I was not looking for God. Funny thing! He found me anyway!
After I was born again, I was introduced to the baptism into the power of the Holy Spirit. I didn’t know such a thing existed. In spite of my ignorance, the Holy Spirit gave me a new language. This has helped me grow into prayer through the years. He is my prayer partner…the better part of me for sure.
I STILL RELY ON THE HOLY SPIRIT TODAY
Every day is an exercise of faith.
2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV)
7For we walk by faith, not by sight.
The Holy Spirit is there continually to lead the way. He is my teacher, guide, comforter, and constant companion. When I can’t see, He can and leads me to the right places.
TUESDAY NIGHT PRAYER
I say all of that to explain what happened on Tuesday night for prayer. I spent the day with Jesus by His Spirit. I had things that I put into my notes as I read and fellowshipped with Him, but when I got into prayer at the corporate meeting, everything changed.
THE WORSHIP WAS SUPER CHARGED
Brenda Haney and her team led worship. They had been worshipping as they were practicing before the prayer meeting. The atmosphere was thick with the presence of Holy Spirit. There was a tangible presence. If you couple that with the other prayer meeting for warfare that runs an hour before the prayer meeting I lead, you can see why it was so palatable.
AS WE WORSHIPPED
I began to get words of knowledge. Do you know what that is? It is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit imparted to us as believers.
1 Corinthians 12:7-11 (NKJV)
7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE
A word of knowledge is information that you have no way of knowing except by supernatural means. I was hearing in my heart things that I had no way of knowing such as: different people that had different sicknesses. I heard about choking, digestive issues, lupus and a couple of other things. I would call them out and the people would receive prayer for their sickness or disease.
I also had a word of knowledge that told me of a daughter that had run away, which we have called in through prayer (waiting on that testimony).
HOW DO YOU HEAR?
I have people ask me all the time, ‘How do you know you are hearing God?’ The truth is this…
John 10:27 (NKJV)
27My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
IT’S NOT AN AUDIBLE VOICE
Although God has no problem speaking in a loud audible voice that is not typically how I hear Him. I hear down in my spirit. I call it down in my “knower”. You may think of it as your gut. After you are born again, your spirit comes alive and God impresses you in your heart, gut, or knower. Sometimes it will come up as a picture. That seems really normal because we think more in pictures anyway. Maybe the Holy Spirit makes use of the platform in our picture place because that is how we were designed before Adam mucked it up in the garden.
EITHER WAY…GOD SPEAKS AND WE LISTEN
If you decide to go to the video and pray with me, you will hear these words of knowledge. If the word fits you, use your faith and receive your healing!
DREAMS ARE NORMAL TO ME FOR WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE
Maybe it’s because I am quiet when I am asleep, but God will speak words of knowledge in dreams to me as well. Prayer night wasn’t around a dream but I figured I would tell you that words of knowledge can come in many different ways.
AS A YOUNG MINISTER
I had been to early prayer one Sunday morning at the church where I was a youth pastor. I went back home afterward to clean up and get back to the church. I told my husband that I was so tired I just needed a 10 minute nap. I laid down and immediately went into a dream.
THE DREAM (WORD OF KNOWLEDGE)
I was standing at the front door of the church where I worked. I went in though the double doors and no one hardly was there yet. Sitting a few rows from the front was an entire pew filled with people I didn’t know. I heard a voice speak in the dream and tell me that this was a family. They were all adults and had come to bring this man (who was sitting on the row) and his wife because their marriage was in trouble. He was a traveling man and had an affair. “The affair had come out and the wife was devastated and the marriage was ready to end. The family brought them to church to try and get help.”
I woke up from the nap and thought it was odd. I cleaned up and headed to the church.
WHEN I WALKED IN
When I walked in there on the same row was all the same people I had seen in the dream. I didn’t know any of them. All of a sudden I realized that the information in the dream was real.
I led worship that morning and didn’t know what to do with the information since I was not well versed in the supernatural yet.
God spoke in my “knower” and I “knew” I was to speak it as a general word from the place of leading worship.
That is what I did. I said, “There is someone here…” and I spilled it. Sobbing started on that row of people and that day, God interrupted a breakup!
IT IS SO FUN WALKING WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT!!
Just today, God gave me a dream. I saw a young man. I know what he looks like and what he was wearing. I heard the voice in my dream tell me what to tell him. I have not seen this man yet but I will and when I do, I will tell him what I am supposed to tell him.
WALK WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
He is full of surprises! He is a way of life.
I hope you will pray with me today.
Love you much in Jesus.
lisa
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