DEFINING THE ANOINTING
A New Anointing for a New Generation
1. I Corinthians 12:4-6, "Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. And there are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons."
2. Psalms 92:10, "But Thou hast exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil."
3. Isaiah 10:27b, "...the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing fatness."
4. Acts 10:38, "...God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him!"
Definition of the Anointing
Supernatural enablement, grace, manifested presence of the Holy Spirit operating upon or through an individual or corporate group to produce the works of Jesus.
DEFINING THE PROPHETIC
What is the Prophetic?
1. As a people, we have been called to carry a prophetic-type burden; to live out on the living edge of God's eternal purpose.
2. We should, especially in the New Testament, make a working distinction between the office of a prophet and the prophetic ministry of a corporate people.
3. We see the prophetic ministry as one aspect of the five-fold calling, resident in a degree in every ministry; more evident and activated in others.
4. God's ultimate weapon is a man or a woman who has encountered the prophetic anointing. It should ever be kept in mind that God does not anoint projects but men and women--people!
5. A working definition of the prophetic ministry is as follows:
They speak the Word of the Lord in the Name of the Lord.
They carry "weight" by virtue of the ethical, moral, and spiritual urgency in their message.
They are prophetic, not by birth or official designation, but by the power of their inner call and the response of their hearers.
The single most characteristic mark of true prophetic people is the evidence that they have stood in the counsel of Jehovah and have, thereby, faithfully declared what they have heard from His mouth.
They are primarily concerned not with the distant future, but to tell forth the will of God in the crisis of their own days. They are then essentially, interpreters of God.
Their major task--Old Testament and New, was to declare that in Christ, all the prophecies were foreshadowed and fulfilled: Acts 3:24, I Peter 1:10-11, Revelation 19:10.
What is Prophecy?
We could say that prophecy is the expressed thoughts of God, spoken in a language that no man in his natural gift of speech could ever articulate. The substance and nature of prophecy exceeds the limits of what the natural mind could conceive. (God's thoughts are not man's thoughts, Isaiah 55:8.) The gift of prophecy comes through the mouth of man, but it comes from the mind of God--spiritual thoughts in spiritual words. (I Corinthians 2:9-16)
DEFINING VARIETIES
Varieties (from Webster's Dictionary): Being various or varied; absence of sameness; different form of same thing, condition; collection of different things.
Different Levels of Prophecy
1. Spirit of prophecy.
2. Gift of prophecy--circumstantial or occasional that comes upon a person.
3. Ministry gift--residential, consistently abiding within a person.
4. Prophetic office--that can be a foundational ministry in the church. (Ephesians 2:20)
Seven Expressions of the Prophetic Spirit
Prophets and those in prophetic ministry are as different as one snow flake is to another. The following list of seven distinct expressions gives us a sampling of these prophetic variations.
1. Seers operating in dreams and visions.
2. Those who proclaim God's corporate purpose.
3. Those who proclaim God's heart standards for His people.
4. Those who proclaim the church's social responsibilities and moral actions.
5. Those who speak forth the administrative strategy of God with a political slant.
6. Prophetic worship leaders who usher in the manifested presence of God through prophetic worship.
7. Prophetic intercessors who pave the way for prophetic fulfillment.
VARIETIES OF PROPHETIC ANOINTING
The Kingdom versus the Church
1. Some are placed in the church to equip the church. Others are placed in the church for ministry to the secular community to release God's Kingdom influence.
2. With governmental authority or without? Some prophetic vessels carry a governmental leadership anointing (Moses, Abraham, David, etc.) Others do not and should not. Let us not covet another person's grace allotment.
Other Possible Categories Needed Today
These are simply a few additional examples of the variety of prophetic anointing the Holy Spirit wants to release.
1. Spirit-Bearers:
John 3:8, "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
The practice of the presence of Jesus--releasing the ordinary manifestations of God's glorious presence, through a love-walk.
Extraordinary manifestations, such as falling in the Spirit, quaking, shaking, ecstatic speech, power encounters, kingdom clashes of angelic and demonic warfare, angelic activity, fragrance of Christ, etc.
2. Prophetic Counselors: This is a combination of pastoral and prophetic. Often mingled with the spirit of counsel and understanding (gifts of healings and discerning of spirits). Their concern is with the internal condition of the heart and mind of man.
3. Prophetic Enquirers: This is a prophetic and teacher combination. They explain the ways of the Spirit, taking the bizarre and making it practical, relatable, and understandable. Their call is to multiply and disciple.
4. Prophetic Writers: This is a gift-mix of writing and prophetic. They write with revelatory anointing, expressing God's heart to contemporary society.
5. Prophetic Evangelist: This is taking the revelatory gifts to the streets, stadiums, neighborhoods, health clubs, executive places, shopping malls, etc.
SOME CLOSING ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS
The Killer
Comparing oneself to another, and wanting what they have produces death. Avoid jealousy and insecurity. God has plenty to go around--seek your own call and anointing, learn from others but get your own.
The Antidote
Walking in accountability with others. Cultivate faithfulness with what you already have. Find your identity in Christ Jesus first, instead of gifting. Then give yourself to that unique expression of His grace in your life.
Breaking Barriers and Mental Limitations
There can be "molds and yokes" that seem to hinder people. Through rejection, wrong types of comparisons, and the residue of legalistic traditions permeated with the fear of man, we can walk under false "yokes and molds" that need to be identified and broken off. The Holy Spirit will help us and liberate us to be the unique, varied expressions of His wonderful prophetic presence, and yet walk circumspectly with integrity within the Church.
Breaking out of the Box
God has never been in a box! We are the ones in boxes! We must let the Holy Spirit take the lid off, flow in creativity, and be all that you can be in God!
Blessings!

James W. Goll
Encounters Network
www.jamesgoll.com
29 July 2006
"THAT" is annointing - a humorous grassroots definition
The young man came to the wise man and ask him WHAT is anointing?
The wise man answers:
Do you see that bird in the tree singing to give God the glory. That is not annointing.
Do you see that cow grazing in the field. That is not anointing.
BUT when you see that cow sit in the tree and sing like a bird- THAT is anointing!
Faith makes things possible, not easy...
There once was a man who had nothing for his family to eat.
He had an old shotgun and three bullets.
So, he decided that he would go out and kill something for dinner.
As he went down the road, he saw a rabbit and he shot at the rabbit and missed it.
Then he saw a squirrel and fired a shot at the squirrel and missed it.
As he went further, he saw a wild turkey in the tree and he had only one
bullet, but a voice came to him and said "pray first, aim high and stay focused."
However, at the same time, he saw deer which was a better kill.
He brought the gun down and aimed at the deer!
But, then he saw a rattlesnake between his legs about to bite him,
so he naturally brought the gun down further to shoot the rattle snake.
Still, the voice said again to him, "I said 'pray, aim high and stay focused."
So, the man decided to listen to the voice.
He prayed, then aimed the gun high up in the tree and shot the wild turkey.
The bullet bounced off the turkey and killed the deer.
The handle fell off the gun and hit the snake in the head and killed it.
And, when the gun had gone off, it knocked him into a pond.
When he stood to look around, he had fish in all his pockets, a dead deer
and a turkey to eat.
The snake (Satan) was dead simply because the man listened to God.
Moral of the story:
Pray first before you do anything,
aim and shoot high in your goals, and stay focused on God.
Never let others discourage you concerning your past.
The past is exactly that "the past."
Live every day one day at a time and remember that only God knows our
future and that he will not put you through any more than you can bear.
Do not look to man for your blessings but look to the doors
for you that only He is able to do. Doors that you will not slip through but doors
that only He has prepared in advance for you in your favour.
Wait, be still and patient: keep God first and everything else will follow.
FROM ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER...
The Wild OX Annointing
defining both anointing and prophetic
Could you please send me more info on the Wild Ox anointing and the Horn. I have had dreams of an ancient horn. And my Pastor prayed for the Wild Ox anointing. Would like more info please!!
Grace and Peace and intense increase in you lives!!
Lisa
I have something wonderfull to share!!!!!!!
All Praises to God our Father, Jesus the Son and and the Holy Spirit!!!!!!!!
I have never anointed anything before and frankly I did not believe in the power. I thought it was symbolic only. I believe this is part of a very powerfull process of learning lead by God. Somany miracles have happened to my family in the last few months due to the power of prayer, I just can not leave it to chance.
Now before I tell my story I need to say there is a difference in 'believing' in God and truly believing and giving your all to God. I never knew just how much God loves us until lately, He is so patient and forgiving it is so difficult for a mere mortal to discribe. Even now, after going through this whole process of God leading me; yes little old me, who is a mother and a wife and not much more, I still doubt in Him briefly. Thinking this is too good to be true, how can all this be true? But this is just how evil in this world works, they know how weak we are waiting for the slightest sign of weakness to pounce. God is so amazing and loving He forgives us every singel time we truly have remorse and embraces us. Every time, with out a doubt I started thinking like this, God smacks me with yet another miracle. I say smack because it hurts knowing how small my faith really is.
Last night after having somany nights of restless sleep for all of us, due to nightmares. The most horrifying nightmares. Putting up with tantrems every night before bed and throught out the day. (I have a 2 year old) I was feeling so hopeless seeing my child so unhappy all the time. I prayed and asked God to reveal the problem to me. I removed things that I believe could be ungodly a while ago as part of my home cleansing process, but I needed to secure the room. I believe God wanted me to annoint the room to secure it against evil. Now if you think I am totally NUTS, no worries, I thought so too, but I needed to do something.
I grabbed a bottle of oil from the kitchen once both babies were sleeping and annointed all the doors and windows in the room, top sides and bottom. After this I rebuked all demons, evil spirits and things with evil intent out loud in the name of Jesus Christ, you dont have to shout they have good hearing even though they have existed for many years. And then I prayed asking the Lord to keep us safe and give us a peacefull nights rest.
Well we all woke up rested, with no nighmares even my hubby who is an insomniac. I woke up with praises for God in my heart and have been singing all morning. And the biggest miracle of all, we have had no tantrums all day not even going for an after noon nap, which is normally our worst time.
God bless you! May God move in you today.
Praying for your children
Hi Lizz,
It is so wonderful to hear these testimonies of how God is moving and teaching us each day. I want to recommend a book to you which has helped me so much in raising my kids (4 year old boy and 7 year old girl). It is Stormie Omartian's book called the "The power of a praying parent". I learned that we need to cover our children everyday in prayer and for every aspect of their lives. Also, it is such a priviledge and responsibility to be a mother - and therefore God gave us such power when we pray for our children.
May God bless you and your children abundantly!
Wow, I can totally relate to the power of Anointing one's home
Wow, I can totally relate I did the same to my house and have noticed an incredible sense of peace and well being. I also 'anointed' my daughter inlaw after praying for her and since then she has had the baptism of the Holy Spirit and visibly looks like a different person she is now bold in praying for others and telling others the good news of Christ. I too have had some incredible visions and revelations from the Lord.
Re: Praying for your children
Thank you Jeanette.
That book is wonderfull. I have Stormies 3 in 1 collection Praying book which contains the praying wife/parent/women. I am currently still busy with the praying wife. I was having problems with our little boy and the nightmares when something told me to skip to the praying parent one and I read the chapter about her own little 11 year old boy having nightmares and that annointing the room helped. That is what gave me the urged to anoint the room. At that stage I thought it was plane curiosity that made me read the chapter but now looking back it must have been the Holy Spirit moving in me.
I think it is definately a book for everyparent to read. There is defenately a very calm motherly sense around her writing.
Can this feeling of me be a sign of a : True or False prophecy?
True or False Prophecy? Trying to help with an answer
I honestly don't know what the answer to your question is, but I will try and help you get the answer with my own experience.
When I was a newly reborn child in Christ, which was not that long a go :), and I tried to speak the word of God, rebuke evil from my life or read about the spiritual world, I would often get goosebumps running all over my body. This use to scare me tremendously, I use to think it was demonic presence. And the more I got scared the more I felt these goosebumps. I felt them most extreme when we were discussing demonic activity to try and figure this whole spiritual world out for ourselves.
A few months ago my baby girl started screaming uncontrollably. The more I sang to her and the more I prayed the more hysterical she became. In my spiritually confused state I started rebuking evil, thinking she was being tormented. I called my husband to pray with me and we eventually called our pastor. Our pastor Prayed out load for a while and thanked God for our beautiful child. During all the time she was screaming I felt these goosebumps, and became hysterical myself.
Our Pastor came to visit us the next evening and we had a lovely meal. I discussed the previous evenings events with him and it was clear that my baby was bothered by her teeth or something and my hysteria was causing her to be even more upset and I most definitely frightened her. I told him about the goosebumps and his words made me feel more stupid and loved than I have ever felt. He told me that my goosebumps is normally the way the the Holy Spirit uses to let you know that you are not alone. Even if it scared me and I insulted the Spirit by thinking it was evil, He NEVER left me, not once.
Now, being richer in my knowledge, the goosebumps make me feel happy, calm and safe. God is with me no matter what!
I am trying to use my story to let you know that maybe God is trying to tell you something, but it might not be what you think it is. Search the Word and keep your eyes and ears open, God speaks to us in different ways. He can use anyone and anything, even someone that is not yet saved.
God Bless you, I hope you find the answers you are looking for.
Lizanne
Questions on: being a Prophetic Counsellor
My Question please
1. I have the gift of prophetic counsellor with the discernment of spirits. Please advise how do I pray. I would sit in front of a person and suddenly I would see another person looking back at me. It can be only the face (head) or also the persons whole body. What does discernment of spirits mean? What type of prayers do I do for the person? Are these people I see ancestoral spirits, graveyard spirits (what?). I usually pray against witchcraft spirts and have them denounce any attachments to witchcraft and other. Please can you advise me.
2. I also noticed that my eyes twitch alot. When this happens there usually is something that is going to happen negatively (this is what I have begun to think. Sometimes both eyes twitch and then sometimes just one. I usually pray that the Lord should turn whatever has been set out for bad and turn it to good. Please advise what this twitching could mean. Am I correct?
Thank you Anthea 073-175-4106
Prophetic Counselling
Dear Anthea
When you are called to do prophetic counselling, The Lord will always prepare you really well for your counselling encounters. You will receive gradual training and experience in exercising the gifts of discernment, knowledge, wisdom and prophecy. When The Lord sends someone to you for counselling, He will clearly confirm that this is within His plan and He will prepare you well for the session. If you are less experienced you may receive dreams and visions before-hand with the relevant information that you require. Some more experienced counsellors often only receive the information from The Lord while the session is underway.
Children of The Lord do not see into the spiritual realm. This is not how discernment works. Discernment is The Lord revealing to your spirit what the problem is or maybe about the presence of an evil spirit – but you will not physically see the spirit. Discernment can involve the use of visions and symbols or simply the word of The Lord coming to you. There are various ways that The Lord can do this. But you will not be seeing evil spirits and will definitely not have scary experiences.
Fear is not from The Lord. If you are seeing evil spirits then you may very well be in need of deliverance yourself, in which case you should not be counselling others since you may be deceived and you may even deceive others – no matter how well your intentions are.
(Please note that there is a difference between seeing an angel/demon and receiving a vision from The Lord of such a spiritual being.)
My advice is that if you are unsure about any of the above that you should seriously seek answers from The Lord on this before you continue with any counselling.
I hope this helps – you are welcome to email me privately if you wish.
Shalom
Hugo
Re: Prophetic Counsellor
I am a counselor in the field of healing and deliverance. God also uses me prophetically and with discernment of spirits in counseling situations. Discernment of spirits is a gift where the Holy Spirit reveals to your spirit if the person you are dealing with have an evil spirit (demon) influencing his/her life. E.g. a spirit of fear, a spirit of perversion, a spirit of rejection, etc. You would also be able to walk into a room and sense in the spirit that there are a presence of evil spirits. God did not intend for us to see into the spirit world. If you can see an evil spirit it means that either by your own involvement or the involvement of your family in the occult or freemasonry, your third eye (also known as the all seeing eye) has been opened. I speak of experience, because I could see other spirits from a very early age, before the Lord intervened (and closed this third eye) I would suggest that you seek more equipping in these areas and be very careful on what which spirits you pray against. The eye twitching could be a reaction to what you are dealing with. I can contact you personally on your cell and give you more detail if you are comfortable with that.
prophetic worship
Lately Ive had an unsettlement in my spirit about worship. Im not satisfied. I think there's more to it. I feel "shallow", I feel trapped. Like there's more. I started googling PROPHETIC WORSHIP because for some reason when I think about that I feel that is the direction. But HOW do I tap into it? How do I make the people in our worship team understand, hunger & desire for this? How do I explain the difference? How do I tap into it?
PLEASE email me and advise. Im almost desperate because I believe this is the key to breaking through in worship. Im so tired of just singing and just allowing a bag of emotions to overwhelm and leave myself and people unchanged. I believe prophetic worship is the key or answer. PLEASE respond.
My dearest friend I agree
My dearest friend
I agree one hundred percent with you. I also feel empty and lost. And I want to give my all. So please the moment you find something will you let me know?
To Paul Le Roux and Anonymous
When God begins to work in you, really work in you, you will find that you are given a great hunger and thirst for Him. It is not prophetic worship, which is an experience that will satisfy, really satisfy that hunger I believe you are both looking for, but Jesus Himself. Not a "WOW!" moment as you have explained in another way above, but a JESUS moment. Only He can satisfy this emptyness you are referring to. How do we get to that place with Him? By first of all telling Him we want Him just for Him - not for anything HE gives us - just simply, Him. You see, He has to do it, we cannot of ourselves, of our flesh bring this change about in our own lives. Up until we get to this point, all has been just emotional highs and lows without any reality involved. We create the reality because we don't know any better. I spent the best part of 30 years trying to create this, not knowing any better. Now I know the difference, and all praise and glory to God for it, for it is nothing to do with me at all - just me saying to the Lord, "Here's my life for you to help Yourself to and use as you wish, but If I cannot have You I would rather be dead, because my life with you is a lie so far - ther has been no reality with you - just me making it up and using the right sounding words."
The reality of living with God everyday is not about the WOW MountainTop moments, it is about the daily, ordinary things in the Valleys that we do with Him in Him as we go about our lives and understanding and accepting that to grow us, He has to stretch us and most times it is a very painful thing to go through, but absolutely necessary. Most modern preachers, you will not hear about this from.
If you would like to chat further, you are welcome to e-mail me. stephcarolkay(at)gmail (dot)com. I would love to hear from you both.
In Christ
Steph
prophetic word
IS THERE ANY BODY THAT CAN ASSIST ME? MY WIFE WERE ON A LADIES CAMP AND THEY SENT HER A CD WITH PROPHETIC WORD ON BUT NEITHER OF US KNOWS HOW TO UNDERSTAND IT.
Help me understand God's dealing with me. .
I need help understanding what could be going on with me.
In recent past I have had revelation in which I feel closer to God with the joining of me and the Holy Spirit. It feels like a cross over of sorts in which I feel completely free from past bondage and a healing of my heart. In the process of this, God has given me several dreams and few visions, only during the night with many many songs and prayers that happen throughout the night. This wakes me up almost every night and most of the time involves scripture that I have not ever read before or heard of. I have only told my husband and a very dear friend about it in fear of response of others. I often wonder if God will stop blessing me this way and I yearn for Him to do this all the time. I try to discern what the messages mean, and my friend has helped me alot. I meditate on the things he has given me and feel so special and blessed. I have asked Him to use me and fill me every day.
I also must mention that when I was a small child, me and two others friends were playing and an indian appeared in front of us. We were terrified and ran away, but he was very real and I believe he could have been an angel, not sure. His presence has haunted me my whole life. One of those children passed away later in life.
Also God is giving me the message that my nephew is to be annointed by a body of Christ (people of his church) by praying over him while he is kneeling. I prayed for my nephew to be convicted by the Spirit during a fast and I immediately got the message that something bad had to happen before this would take place. I closed my eyes and used my hands to wipe away this thought and said "Please Lord not that, not anything bad, please" and tried to ignore it hoping it was just a thought of my own. Two days later his wife had a stroke and almost died. Two days after that my nephew had his conviction! Now his wife is doing much better and the prognosis is good. God is giving me direction in this and I am having difficulty passing on the info to my nephew. He is a baby Christian and doesn't understand what is going on with me, and quite frankly I am not sure either. Please help. How can I get more understanding to what God is doing here with me?
Vision: can someone help interpret it?
Late last year I prayed and asked the Lord to show me the inner me, that only He knows.
I did this as I read and meditated on Psalms 139 : 23 & 24. After quite some time, the Lord allowed me to look right into the very core of my being.
It was like an ocean and there in front of me was some kind of a leather bag which was zipped shut. There was a something inside and it was moving. I asked the Lord to open it. The bag was opened and out came a baby turtle as it swam out into the open sea.
Could someone shed some light on this.This took place during my Bible Reading sessions from 11:00 A.M to 1 P.M. Thank you !
Metuisela Bukarau - Suva , Fiji Islands.
Interpreting Visions
Hi there
Interpreting Visions
When you receive visions from The Lord, He will normaly use symbols that are from your environment or that has a particular meaning to you or maybe that can be looked up in The Bible or other books available in your home. It may for example point to an idiomatic expression. If you get regular visions you may be very surprised to see how The Lord starts using the symbols in a new book the day after you bought it.
To illustrate the point, let's take the example of a tortoise or turtle. To one person it may represent being slow or shy but to another it may represent someone that discerns the seasons of God or someone who is always on the move or going places.
The important thing is to think about what the symbol means to you personally, based on your own frame of reference and personal exposure. Further to that think about the object you see and consider its characteristics and uses which will point to what The Lord is saying.
If all else fails then get a Christian book such as a dream dictionary or prophetic dictionary but remember these books provide guidelines only and it is important to let The Holy Spirit guide you.
Make sure that the book you use considers the biblical meaning of the symbol as first and foremost and that scriptural references are provided for each explanation.
Again it is important to let The Holy Spirit guide you. Most Christain books will for example tell you that the Sea represent nations or people groups. (Is 60:5, Rev 17:15). But if you look at the story of Moses then the sea can be a symbol that you have reached a barier or boundry but that The Lord will make a way for you.
In the same manner baby animals could represent inexperience. A baby eagle could be a symbol of a prophet in training but a kitten or a baby turtle may be cute to you and could represent innosence for example.
Don't allow your emotions to interfere in the process because misinterpretations will only lead to frustration. If you don't get it right then ask The Lord for wisdom and understanding. He is faithful and will give it but sometimes He wants us to ask first.
Finally here's a story about visions that we can all learn from:
A woman is about to meet with a man that The Lord is sending to her. The woman looks around her and sees a watch and prays the following: "Lord if you are sending this man to me then please let him say something about a watch."
The Lord hears her prayer and gives this man a vision of how this woman borrows a watch from him. The man does not consider the vision properly and doesn't ask The Lord what to do with it. He jumps to conclusions and when he gets to the woman he says "The Lord showed me that you are living on borrowed time" - implying that she will die soon.
All he had to do was say: "The Lord gave me a vision that you are borrowing a watch from me."
It is clear from this story that a lot of heartache, pain and misunderstanding can be avoided if we try to make sure that we don't react presumptously to visions received - specially if we are still inexperienced and in the early days of our walk with The Lord.
May The Lord bless you and keep you and show you unsearchable things.
Regards
Turtle Vision: can someone help interpret it? some clarification
Thank you , Serving the Watchman....I just want to follow up on your explanation.
Firstly....the turtle is ( as far as Fijian customs is concerned ) the traditional symbol of my village
and Secondly....When I was a child , I was slow and terribly shy. I have gotten over this to a certain degree.
My Father used to call me Slow Motion.
Could you Please help me further !
Further Info - Turtle Vision
Yes I think I can help you further.
Praise The Lord.
A turtle is real slow on land but when he makes it to the Ocean he is free in the water - just like a bird is in the air.
I think that in this vision you are the turtle on its way to discovering the vastness, comfort, security and beautiful, deep secrets of the Ocean that represents God in this vision.
If you look at these little turtles after they get born - they only have one thing on their minds - Water!
They use all their energy and head straight for the water as fast as they can.
Water, not in flood is a reference, amongst many other, to:
- Life-giving provision of God.
- Knowledge of the glory of Yahweh.
- Peace of the Lord.
- Inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
- The Spirit of life (Ruach) and the salvation of the Lord.
Jesus said: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink." - John 7:37
Again I have to say that The Lord can use one vision in many different ways - this is merely a possible explanation and you should let the Holy Spirit guide you.
Visions & Interpretations
Last Saturday evening at around 6:30 ( Nov 7 ) , as my family and i sat down for dinner , I noticed that my eldest son was not comfortable in his sitting position - I pretended not to take any notice but I heard him tell his mother that his back was aching bad .After dinner during our devotion , as I began to share from the Bible ,my son sweated profusely and could not sit still due to the increasing pain.When I started to pray , I saw in the spirit, rising up from behind his back and over his head - a huge snake with it's mouth open showing it's fangs dripping with saliva.I began to rebuke and cancel it's demonic assignment in the name of JESUS . I watched ( in the spirit ) as the serpent was haived but still held together by what seemed like an umbilical cord.The tail -end of the snake tried to slip back behind my son.Beside this snake tail was the form of an old woman and her head was covered with an old and torn bread basket.I saw through the hole on the basket her gaping mouth and lower teeth.I began to rebuke the woman and the lower half of the snake in the name of JESUS.They quickly dis-appeared - Praise the Lord !
The pain left my son that same moment but I could still see that there was a certain tightness in the way he walked.Just this Sunday evening ( November 14 ) I asked him about his back .He told me that he was completely healed.Praise the name of JESUS CHRIST.
Is there a connection between this and the turtle vision ?
The above is just one of quite a number of similar sort of visions which have taken place in my life.I have been praying , fasting and asking the Holy Spirit to help me in all this.
I would greatly treasure your continued contribution.
Visions and Interpretations
I have not received any response since my last e-mail on 14 November 2010 .The story is genuine and it really happened - the Lord is my witness.But I would welcome any views from Serving the Watchmen based on the Light and Power of the Word of God.
Thank you.
Response on Vision
Dear Metuisela
Please accept my apology for not answering your question. I delayed my response at the time in order to wait on the Lord for any special revelation that He may wish to give. This unfortunately never came and thus I have no concrete answer for you.
From my experience it is really difficult if not impossible to answer this kind of question without a proper counselling session. The risk of incorrect identification of the problem based on inadequate background information is simply too high and the only alternative is specific knowledge and wisdom received from the Lord on the matter – which in this case didn’t happen.
There are some things that we don’t need the answers too and the Lord will decide the necessity of supplying an answer and the timing of the answer.
My advice at this point is that you seek the Lord in prayer on this matter if you feel that it is critical for you to understand it.
Many, many things happen in the spiritual realm and the tiny bit that the Lord reveals to us is enough for us to operate with since we operate on faith and on the guidance from the Bible.
I would like to leave you with this scripture:
Rom 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Serving the Watchmen
Praise the Lord and thank you
Praise the Lord and thank you Serving the Watchmen for waiting on the Lord for me.
The answer "is" the scripture you quoted - Romans 12 : 21
Truly the Lord works in mysterious ways
Praise Be to His Name!
God Bless you.
I was first baptised in the
I was first baptised in the christian church about 40yrs ago, after which I bounced in and out of churches and some level of faith for the next 5 or 6 years at this time I became very involved in a penicostal church and had my first experiances with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. After a few months I became involved in a family bussiness that required that I move back to my home town at this point I left the faith and spent the next 30+yrs deeply involved in the meth world. Just over 2 months ago after having attending a few weeks attending services at a General Assembly/ (Name edited out)..., n the Lord finally got through to me and I was rebaptised and have given everything to the Lord. I have been blessed more than I ever could have expected to be, my concern is that at times things seem to be moving so fast that I sometimes find myself wondering if I am truely lead by the Holy Spirit when I am lead to read Sciptures or to stand and tell about things that the Lord is doing in my life. I don't know that I have question as this is an example of what I'm talking about feeling that i have been lead by the Holy Spirit. Gods Blessings
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