Thoughts on Prophecy November 20, 2009
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I’ve taken my very long comment on my earlier post and decided to make it a post on its own. To backtrack – I asked a question on my very first poll about if God ever revealed his destiny to you (my loyal readers, and even those who just happened by!) I then realized that most people had their destiny revealed via someone having a prophecy for them. In answer to one of my commenters, I started expounding on prophecy, so I decided to put it in its own post – and here we are!
So, to the question of whether prophecy is real or not… here’s a Scripture to verify what I’m saying (that I believe that it is not only real, but important for our lives):
Proverbs 29:18 (Amplified Bible)
18Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish; but he who keeps the law [of God, which includes that of man]–blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he.
Where there is no prophetic revelation the people perish…. When I realized that this is what this verse said, as I usually hear it in the KJV (“Where there is no vision, the people perish….”) this blew my MIND!!!!
Of course, God also says in his word…
1 Thessalonians 5:20 (New International Version)
20do not treat prophecies with contempt.
So let’s press in for the prophetic… Even Jesus said
Luke 4:4 (Amplified Bible)
4And Jesus replied to him, It is written, Man shall not live and be sustained by (on) bread alone [a]but by every word and expression of God.(A)
And that word “WORD” in the above passage is “RHEMA”…
Digging into this word we see it means
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) that which is or has been uttered by the living voice , thing spoken, word
a) any sound produced by the voice and having definite meaning
b) speech, discourse
1) what one has said
c) a series of words joined together into a sentence (a declaration of one’s mind made in words)
1) an utterance
2) a saying of any sort as a message, a narrative
a) concerning some occurrence
2) subject matter of speech, thing spoken of
a) so far forth as it is a matter of narration
b) so far as it is a matter of command
c) a matter of dispute, case at law
Do you see it? Rhema – The LIVING VOICE…. WOW… That is so deep….
How important is the prophetic voice to you? Do you hear the Living Voice for yourself?
Quick Question: Supernatural Callings November 11, 2009
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A lot of the Bible heroes were called by God through some supernatural means – a burning bush, angels announcing their birth, things like that.
I even started to remember when God called me to ministry by giving me a vision of being knighted.
I realized recently that a lot of prophetic people I know have had the same type of vison when the Lord called them – and it made me curious….
Has the Lord used any supernatural means to tell you about your calling? Tell us about it!
Or am I the odd one out here? I can’t be!
Calling for a Counter Culture October 27, 2009
Posted by bajanpoet in Christianity, House Church, House churches, apostolic, emergent, links, missional, new churches, personal, prophet, prophetic, testimony.Tags: Christian, church culture, counter culture, prophecy, prophetic, prophetic essay
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I’ve had a message the Lord gave me about 3 weeks ago that has shaken me up – again. God has been speaking to me about the fact that he wants to create what he called a ‘counter culture’ of Christianity – which is not the same thing as the religious culture of having Christian music, Christian apparel and stuff… but really, really impacting society by bringing in Kingdom thinking and Kingdom principles. I emailed it out to a couple friends (okay, about 20) asking for input, and Archie put it straight on his blog – go to it here – http://wp.me/pwYvw-w. I am also attempting to attach the document itself here – until I do get it done sucessfully, you can get it from the above link. (Update: Here is the link to the Counter Culture document itself. Finally figured out how to get it done!)
Disclaimer – For those who read the text of the email on Archie’s website I wasn’t thinking at the time I sent my original email that it would go beyond the Caribbean – at least not yet …. so the original wording is specific to that region. (“Yeah, right,” I can hear some of you saying. “You didn’t think it would get out?”) The other thing is that the wording seems to single out my Christian experience at my tertiary institutions, but underneath God is really speaking to the fact that he wants to interact with society in a real way, in a new way.
Throne Room Experience! October 9, 2009
Posted by bajanpoet in Christianity, prophetic, testimony.Tags: anointing, glory of God, kabod, testimony, throne room experience
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I promise that this post will be short – to make up for the last one… I’ve been inspired to share this one while listening to Pastor Bill Johnson from Bethel Church speak about the Throne Room experience. As I mentioned at my friend Tam’s blog, Pastor Johnson comments often that testimonies carry an anointing with them to duplicate the miracle spoken of. The reason for this blog is testimony – at it’s core – and I do pray that all who read, pass by, lurk ( 
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My wife and I had a time of praying to the Lord last Sunday that was so strong – the presence of the Lord descended and she was into heavy intercession before she started prophesying over me! But after that time, this happened: (This is an excerpt from my journal)
The presence of the Lord was so strong that, after we had prayed, when she went to the computer (that has been playing Israel and New Breed songs all through our prayer time), she could literally feel the Presence of the Lord all around the computer. She sat there to make sure a song played, and I had come up behind her and touched her shoulder to get her attention – and she fell out under the power of the Lord, which surprised both of us! She was down and speaking in tongues, with the power of the Lord heavy on her. I tried to lift her up when it seemed to lift – but when I spoke again she crumpled for a second time and she said, “It’s you!” So when it started to lift for the second time she told me not to speak until it lifted completely.
And, we have a prophetic miracle too – she prophesied that rain would come when she played “Open the floodgates of heaven – let it rain!” and – after it had not rained for the WHOLE DAY…. at 5 pm, when we finished our prayer time, and EXACTLY when she started to play the song … the rain poured down in a torrent!
She also told me before we prayed that, when she prayed the chorus, “Let it Rain” on the computer that it would rain physically – and, so said, so done! It hadn’t rained all day – and, just as she said would happen, when she started to play the song the rain suddenly POURED down! I was in the shower, and I heard a faint shofar in the distance – it sounded like it was coming from the computer. I asked her if she heard it, and if it was in the song – but she hadn’t heard it, nor was it in the song – I played it over twice to make sure!
Come! Share a testimony or connect with the power of the Lord!
Testimony of FIRE! October 6, 2009
Posted by bajanpoet in prophetic, testimony.Tags: fire, glory, Jennifer, prophecy, prophetic, South Africa, testimony
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I’m about to share another AWESOME testimony of God’s power, but for once – it isn’t mine! haha! (This post may get long, so bear with me, ok?)
One of my closest friends (actually, my Spiritual sister Jen, who lives in South Africa) was telling me about a meeting that she was going to lead in her home. She was meeting with about 20 women, and she and I were having a discussion about it beforehand. It started with a conversation about the manifestation of gold dust. We’re jumping into the middle of our conversation:
Rob: well God has just given u the strategy and told u how he wants the meeting started
Leave the rest up to him
For them to have the fire, u will have to carry it … it wasn’t for nothing that I said it should come to u early… God can and will move, but with u in the fire early he can move through u to release on the others much easier.
Jennifer: AMEN…thats been my prayer…in fact a few days ago…i felt the Lord tell me that the power is in my hands……just to release it….and at that time the meeting wasn’t scheduled as yet
so yes…i feel i need to release the FIRE onto the ladies and for them to take back to their homes, families, churches (different churches they all are from) and their situations….
cos i can sit and counsel with them…but if i give them the FIRE of God…then they can make the necessary moves and changes on their own by the power of God!
So after that Friday’s meeting I asked her what happened… this is what she said:
Jennifer: there were abt 20 women there……and the Glory just fell…..literally….with the manifestation of Gold Dust…..women were set free….broken ones were healed and the ones who were desirest and yearning for more….received the gift of prophecy…..we truly had the dancing hand of the Lord there……by 8a.m. the next morning….no one wanted to leave…..the Spirit of the Lord just filled us up….What amazed me was the obedience of the people so much older than me ….that just became submissive to the Spirit of the Lord and cos of that they received a greater breakthrough…..i am gettting calls left right and centre of breakthroughs in peoples lives and in their spiritual walks
PRAISE GOD….It was awesome stuff!!! And over me I just felt the demonic hold over our lives just break….a women there that never spoke a word in the prophetic….broke into this new level of the anointing and the Lord gave her words for my life…..
Rob: WOW : COOL STUFF
Jennifer: oh i have so much to say…..the Lord allowed me the night before to bless three cloths…more like shawls.. red, gold and purple..
well [one of her best friends] and i prayed over them the night before and i said that i would keep them away until the Lord shows me how he was going to use them in the meeting
and lo and behold he did……
She interrupted herself to tell me about a dream she had that was relevant to her meeting:
well before i go on….let me tell u about a dream…i had few days before the meeting…l it was about a murder and the cops were raiding my home and i was feeling guilty…..
And then she continued:
Jennifer: well i forgot about that dream until the Lord pressed in my spirit to read ps 51 before the meeting
and when i read it aloud…especially the part about have blood on our hands…and being guilty…i nearly fell to the floor when i remembered the dream
and yes…thats what the Lord wanted us to do…get on our knees and truly repent….we spent like an hour doing this….it was phenomenal
Rob: my word ….
And here’s the awesome part – God sovereignly moving to direct the meeting with the cloths that were blessed the night before:
Jennifer: just as we were on our knees the Lord told me to get up and get the red cloth….of course….THE BLOOD OF JESUS….washes away our sins
and so it went on….after cleansing….the Lord made me take them through the tabernacle…and then bring out the gold cloth…THE GLORY! that went on for a while….
and then eventually…..ABUNDANCE, BREAKTHROUGH, PROSPERITY, ROYALTY……the purple cloth….
Rob: wowwww
Jennifer: and that was basically the night…interwined with loads of prophetic words, words of wisdom, knowledge etc…but different women in the group…all guided by the Holy Spirit
And as an epilogue … she told me about what happenend when God told her get the cloths:
Jennifer: …well this part about the cloths….i know it was from God….well as we were on our knees….remember i got up first and ran for the red cloth….and just dropped in one of the ladies on her knees…she had no idea what i was doing….she just nearly collapsed under that strong anointing…and at that time…[my best friend] gets up from being flat out and was just abt to run for the cloths…and she saw me already started…..she barely could get the words out! She was saying,”Jen, the Lord just told me as well about the red cloth…..” i just stood back and marvelled at the Lord.
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So that’s it. What an awesome testimony – of hearing the Lord, obedience – and the Glory! I loved the progression: from the Blood of Jesus to the Glory to the Abundance, referenced by the Red, Gold and Purple cloths. She was worried that she was rambling, but I think she hit the nail on the head, don’t you????
Has anyone else seen Gold dust? Any other manifestations of the Spirit?
MSN Testimony! October 1, 2009
Posted by bajanpoet in deliverance, personal, prophetic, testimony.Tags: Christianity, commissioning, deliverance, impartation, prophecy, prophetic, testimony
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I’ve again had an awesome time praying for someone over an MSN chat. I hope these testimonies bless those who read as much as they bless me for the telling! Here’s another way God is shown POWERFUL!
I have been home on sick leave from work, and I’ve just started a conversation with one of my friends. Just after the small talk, “Hi, how are you!” kind of opening I said to her:
I was gonna ask you how your relationship with God was going [but] God interrupted me and gave me the word, “Fire-carrier”…. with the sense that you should ask him for ways to extend the reach of his Spirit beyond the church building and carry it to those around you, as it is inside you already! Your passion for him is radiating off of u… I can see it from here!
That doesn’t mean u don’t have bad days Just that God sees the direction of your heart and it is still towards him, no matter what’s going on right now.
She replied:
wowww as usual God is always on time and i really thank God for you and even more for your openess to allow God to use you as a voice piece…i have something on my mind (cant share it as yet) but that is just some confirmation.
I told her:
don’t have to share it with me …. His presence is around you like sparks …. you need to stop doubting who HE is in YOU and ACT
To this she replied:
uhhhumm i keep getting that … i need to get up and do something i am a bit too relaxed.
So I gave her encouragement about time management (yeah right, ME??? Ha!) only by telling her to let God tell her what to do, when, and for how long. She told me she set her timetable deliberately so that if she got a job she could go to class in the evenings. No job has come yet, so she wonders what else God has in store – she told me that she felt God had given her something in her heart that she should do – so I said, “God says GO FOR IT”
So near the end of the conversation I gave her my cell number and said to her:
I know that there’s a reason I connect with your spirit every time we talk - so I want to keep u close lolol
whenever we talk the prophetic flows freely. That shows me that there’s a like spirit there, shows me that u’re open to it; shows me that God has plans for u
She replied:
uhhum – you’re telling me and it always leaves me in awe because it encourages or re-affims and it is just when i need it.
uhhumm - now this is profound! wowwww …. but Lord i thank you
(Isn’t that the goal of prophetic ministry? God is awesome!)
I have sensed that she herself has prophetic giftings, so I said:
I want to see you step out coz I am sure that you have a prophetic streak in you that you’re afraid to use …. or don’t know it’s there. I feel like you get thoughts about others but never say it coz you’re afraid you might be wrong … you know what? I started out like that too! Just have to jump for it and take the risk… and realize that you don’t miss it as much as you think you would!
To wish she exclaimed:
OOMMGG (g=goodness) ROBERT u need to stop it!!!!! no i am jus kiddin
(Sounds like I hit a nerve, eh?) 
While she continued to exclaim I told her
You have gifts that Father wants to nurture and release – not only back into your Wesleyan context – but outside into the world! There are people who are not going to grace the inside of a church but will meet God as u speak into their souls, revealing what God has shown you.
What is happening with you is that you are seeing – for yourself – that God is real, his VOICE is real and HE KNOWS YOU; so that you can use that as testimony to others when u tell them what God is showing u for THEM. When others challenge u, u can say, I know it’s real – it HAPPENED TO ME!
She confessed that I was right and that she never went ahead because of fear, so I started to pray over her right there, praying against fear and releasing the BOLDNESS OF THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. I said in part:
ROAR with GOD’S VOICE
lay hands on the sick and they shall recover
prophesy to the breath and let the Spirit revive those slain (Ez 37)
God has a mighty work for her to do
Do not fear the uninformed… God breaks you from your tradition NOW
in the name of JESUS CHRIST
He wants to be able to move you wherever, whenever
give him ur allegiance!
When I asked her what happened she said:
well i even as you prayed i prayed and believed God with you and yes i yawned and i felt a release and i started shaking and said something i did not understand and i kept saying Jesus is Lord
She told me later she’d heard the tongues in her head, but this was the first time she’d spoken them out loud.
All I have to say is: WOW. GOD IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone have anything else they’d like to share?
A Party in Heaven….. September 20, 2009
Posted by bajanpoet in Christianity, devotional, personal, prophetic, testimony.Tags: Christianity, devotions, family, Nikao, prayer, salvation
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“In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” – Luke 15:10
I am rejoicing this morning! The Lord is good and worthy to be praised! Yesterday, my wife went to her church’s cell group’s for people born in June and came home with prophetic words for our two boys and for me.
Before I mention what they were, let me say that before our boys were out of their mother’s womb, we had prayed, prophesied and laid hands on them through her bump and called God’s pupose down upon them. We spoke the prophetic into and over them both and said to God that they belonged to him. Our second son, Jonathan, especially, has a major call upon his life. We knew this because Satan kept trying to take him out – even BEFORE he came out of the womb! There were several times that Lesanne (my wife) nearly tripped and fell, there was one person who was encouraging us to abort him (as he was a surprise to us and we weren’t planning for him!) and even some medical conditions that arose in Lesanne during and after his birth. We always said that God had to have a special work for him if Satan would be working so hard to stop him from being born!
Our older son Nikao (means ‘He who overcomes’), who is four years old, loves to make up songs and we got him into learning the violin early, as ours is a musical family – his mother and I and one aunt (her sister) all sing well, and her sister’s husband plays the keyboard at his assembly. Her uncle plays the organ at an Anglican church as well. With that being said, the one giving the prophetic word over Nikao didn’t know any of that when he said that Nick would be a prophetic psalmist, who would be able to play several different instruments and would be able to release the presence of God through songs that he plays and writes. People will be released from bondages when he plays, too! Our friend said that strongholds would be broken when he plays, and that nothing will stop the songs from being released. When I heard that both Lesanne and I were excited, to say the least! WOW!
Our younger son Jonathan is two, and loves to dance. He also likes to try to boss people around! Anyway, for him, our friend said that he saw the little boy as a dancer and a preacher, also able to release the prophetic. Again, our friend doesn’t see when Jonathan dances at every single jingle that comes onto the television. You should hear him singing “How Great is Our God” – he can’t pronounce all the words yet, but he loves it! Our friend said that Jonathan will be a prophetic worshipper, and that the Glory of the Lord will fill the place when he ministers – like when the Glory filled the Temple after Solomon dedicated it. Again …. WOW!
For me our friend simply said that God has an anointing for me, and when it hits me it will be big and awesome.
God is ….. WOW….
But all of that is just the introduction for the real reason for this post.
This morning, before I sent the family off to assembly, Nikao was watching a show on TV with a preacher praying for the sick and seeng them healed. First, I realized that this was the first time that he was sitting down in one place and being intent on the TV for something that wasn’t cartoons. Lesanne and I started to pray that what God was doing on the TV would impart to the little boy. At breakfast, I felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit, so I knelt down beside him as he had his cereal. I asked him if he remembered the story of Jesus dying for him on the Cross. He did. (He makes me read it to him quite often.) I had a toy in my hand and I asked him if I gave it to him as a gift what would he say. He said “Thank you” after I presented him with the toy. I explained that Jesus dying on the Cross was a gift to us, so that we could live with him and have him in our hearts. I sang the old Sunday School chorus that I learned as a boy:
“Into my heart, into my heart
Come into my heart Lord Jesus
Come in today
Come in to stay
Come into my heart Lord Jesus”
And I explained that to have Jesus into his heart all he has to do is thank God for the gift of Jesus Christ’s death. I was being a little overwhelmed by the presence of God and my emotions at that point, so Lesanne led him in a prayer of salvation. I laid hands on him afterwards and prayed that God’s purposes would be done in his life, and that what he had prayed be sealed so that Satan would not steal it. And then I knelt on the floor and cried in joy.
I know the little boy is only four. I’m praying that my God will keep him, as the Word says that He is able to keep that which I have committed to him. So in faith I am declaring to the blogosphere – I LED MY LITTLE BOY TO JESUS CHRIST TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nikao, Robert, Lesanne and Jonathan (l-r)
Please pray for our family – Nikao, his brother Jonathan, my wife Lesanne and myself – that GOD WILL CONTINUE TO POUR OUT HIS BLESSINGS ON US ALL – and that at the proper time, Jonathan too, will COME TO FAITH and that the Glory of the LORD will rest upon us ALL!
TO GOD BE THE GLORY! GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE!!!!!!
Salvation Testimony: Social Media Salvation! March 27, 2009
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I know that I had a post to write concerning deliverance and healing – but I have to post this! God constantly blows me away with his power and goodness….
While sitting at my computer today I had a Gmail chat with one of my friends, J, in Africa. She had a young family member, T, who wanted some advice… who felt smothered at home because she is female as well as being the first born. My friend thought about me because she thought there might be some deliverance involved.
After we started to chat, T told me that she’s not the type of girl that can sit and do nothing for long periods of time. Since she’s doing nothing at home all the time, she finds herself disobeying her parents and doing things her friends do. She said to me, “I’m messed up and I need help.”
As she talked I heard the voice of a teenager that wanted to grow up, that wanted to be accepted. It seemed as though there were overall control issues (at least from her perspective) .. I could hear every teenager in her voice “My parents treat me as if I was 15-16 years old. My mother doesn’t let me do anything on my own… my dad gets angry if I want to be treated as an adult…” I know, I’ve been there too, right?
So I told J that I’d be willing to join her in praying for T… and as we started to pray, I started to hear the Spirit whispering “1 Cor 13.” I told T that God was giving her the definition of love! J continued praying and said to the Lord that she does believe that T did need to be reassured of God’s love and the love of others around her. As I assured T of my love for her, I started to prophesy to her…
me: The word says ‘when father and mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up’ in the psalms. You feel as though they have rejected you, have forsaken u, but God is taking u up right now
j: Thank you Father for you are her true FATHER! Onlly u Lord know that T has these Fatherly issues!
me: yes
j: Praise you Lord for using Robert! Continue downloading knowledge and wisdom to him
I continued, words of knowledge and prophecy kept coming:
me: I was praying … she feels abandoned, but the Lord is saying that he will release the spirit of adoption over her. She just needs to accept it
When I heard that, I knew what was coming next – an opportunity for another life to be snatched from Satan’s clutches! So I called her by her name and I said:
T, do u know Jesus Christ? Would you accept him right now? God wants to be your FATHER?
j: T verbally responds – YES I WILL ACCEPT! YES
me: AMEN
j: hallelujah!!!!
me: Do u believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins and do u accept him as your Lord and saviour right now?
j: I sense such an awesome presence Robert!
Yesme: Well pray this: “Father, I accept your sacrifice and accept Jesus into my life.”
j: Praise you Lord! (T is doing it robert)me: “I turn away from all sin and believe that my life is changed right now”
j: AMEN!
me: “I accept you, Lord, as my FATHER”
j: thank you Jesus! hallelujah!
me: “And ask you to heal me from the pain of not being fathered properly”
“I Thank you that my life is changed and that my name is now written in the Lamb’s book of life”
“I accept what you have done on the Cross – and I am YOURS! AMEN”j: Praise You Lord!
From there, I wanted to pray that she gets filled with the Spirit of God immediately:
me: The angels are rejoicing, and so am I! I pray right now that the POWER OF GOD would overshadow T now! SEAL HER with the HOLY SPIRIT! J, place your hands on her for me.
j: doing just that!
me: IN the name of JESUS CHRIST I release the anointing of the Spirit of GOD that she be baptised in the SPIRIT RIGHT NOW. LET HER FEEL THE PRESENCE OF GOD in LOVE and JOY. Let laughter bubble forth from her belly! Remove the spirit of depression! I curse the spirits of suicide. I reject the demons of rejection! IN the NAME OF JESUS
“He gives beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for the spirit of heaviness” Is 61:3
LOOSE HER NOW
EVERY FOUL SPIRIT
LET HER GO
SHE IS NOW A CHILD OF JESUS CHRIST
(tell me what’s happening)
My friend told me that she DID feel the presence of God when we prayed:
j: she feels like a breeze over her
me: lol
keep coming Holy Spirit! that’s the presence of God fill her to completion, to overflowing
tell her to speak out in faith…let the tongues flow NOW. I’m putting my hand on the screen and releasing the power of God through my own tongues now
Then I saw a mini vision:
I just saw something representing sludge being pushed out… she’s being cleaned out from the inside. T, how do u feel, honey?
jady3375: praying with her here!
I continued to pray:
me: the power of God is evident. he is present to heal and to deliver… and to SATISFY. I pray right now that the SATISFACTION of GOD be upon her. That she is satisfied by GOD HIMSELF and not needing men’s approval!
j: Thank you robert- T did expereince the power of God! When i placed my hand on her chest and then her tummy – she felt like a release… like something loosened…………
she will be staying over with me tonight – i will continue praying!
Isn’t God awesome???? I had a final word of knowledge of a personal matter for T, and J confirmed it and glorified God as I prophetically spoke out words of restoration!
GOD IS GLORIOUS!!!!!!! I’m so glad that the Internet can and IS being used to extend the Kingdom of God as easily as this? Thank God for the Internet – it makes it so much easier to “go ye into ALL the world….” without leaving my seat!
Supernatural Stories – First Prophetic Word – UPDATED! March 15, 2009
Posted by bajanpoet in personal, prophetic, testimony.Tags: calling, first prophetic word, God's calling, obedience
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UPDATE – While talking to Jenny recently I suddenly realized I had forgotten to mention a key thing that happened before I had that first prophetic word! So, I’m re-publishing the post, with the addition highlighted in bold. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!
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I remember my friend Jenny asking me how I knew I was called into prophecy and deliverance. That question has been the catalyst for this series – that’s why my first post in this series was about my first demonic encounter. Now, let me tell you about my first prophetic word. (Now I was hearing God’s voice before this – go back to my Reminiscing post on my Holy Spirit Baptism - but this is the first time I was actually in a prophetic role, as in having to give a message to someone else…..)
Now, onto the story… There is a place on the Barbados Community College campus that was the home of the owner of the land on which the campus now sits. It was called Eyrie House, after the name of the owner. It was not in use by this time and was in a state of disrepair and neglect. That being said, it was a place where the UCCF would meet for “Prayer Garden“, which was a small group meeting in the middle of the day.
Ok, after that background… I went up the hill to Eyrie House to have some alone time with the Lord. I was just going to worship and to commune with him by myself. I carried my Bible, some paper and a pen up there and started to sing and worship the Lord.
I started to read Isaiah 6, where Isaiah saw the Lord… and when in verse 5 he was under a strong conviction of his humanity and sinfulness, an angel came down and touched his lips with a coal, cleansing him of sin (vs 6 -7)
6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
When I read those words my lips started to tremble uncontrollably all on their own! I couldn’t stop them! I recognized God was doing something, but I didn’t know what …
I read the next verse (verse 
which says:
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
And then the shaking stopped….
Suddenly, I felt the urge to write. And I mean write. I started to write a long letter, like if I was a secretary and God was doing dictation… that’s exactly how I felt. I wrote about how this person was weak and needed to go to the Lord for strengthening, but that God was kind and he wanted to restore him. It was a long letter (a full front and back of foolscap paper) … the specifics of which I can’t remember at this moment, as it was over 10 years ago. However I remember reading it afterward and thinking, “This is harsh… ‘You are weak?’ ouch!” I even remember reacting internally to when God dictated the words, “You must listen to the prophet in your midst…” And I was like, “Who? ME??? Oh no, you must mean somebody else!” I had just read a story in the Bible where a false prophet was killed…. I didn’t want that label!
Then came the clincher. I felt as though I heard the Lord say, “Oh, by the way… I want you to give that to your pastor.” Wait …. WHAT?
“Yes. I want you to take this letter and give it to your pastor….”
I really felt like Samuel – his first word from the Lord was one of judgement and warning too… 1 Samuel 3:10-15. And just like Samuel… I was scared spitless. How would you like to have the responsibility of going to your spiritual father and tell him that GOD says he’s weak and needs to be restored?
I cried over that letter. I begged God to reconsider. I told him I didn’t want to do that – that my pastor didn’t teach me about spiritual gifts and so he wouldn’t understand this… but Father was resolute.
So… I wiped my tears and got down off that hill.
Next Sunday, I got to the pastor alone and passed on the message – gave him the paper and waited for the inevitable. He read it and asked me, “What does this mean?” So I told him the whole story. He looked unconvinced and upset. I eventually said, “Look, don’t shoot the messenger! I’m doing what God told me to!”
What was the result of that? For my pastor at the time, I don’t know. But for ME? Since that time, my prophetic gift has increased and my prophetic responsibility has deepened over the last 10+ years. At the end of this encounter, the Bible says that God did not let any of Samuel’s words fall to the ground, because, although scared, Samuel told Eli everything he was told, leaving out nothing. (1 Sam. 3:17-21)
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I remember that I talked later to my prophetic mentor, relating the whole story from beginning to end. I said, “I don’t understand what happened!” I mean, I knew God something, but I didn’t understand what … until she asked “But what was Isaiah, Robert?” I didn’t get it at first – and then it clicked. “He was a prophet….” God was calling me to the same thing! stunned silence…..
