Words of Knowledge

I was reflecting on some of my first few words of knowledge and the stories behind them.

My first word of knowledge:    SORE BACK

We were in church and we were asked to look around the room and see if the Lord impresses on us anything for someone in the congregation. I looked around and over the other side of the room I saw an older gentleman (55yrs approx.) who I hadn’t seen before sitting next to a couple who went to the church.  I felt that he had something wrong with his back.  We were encouraged to get up and call out what we were getting but I was fearful. At the end of the service I was talking to the girl of the couple and she said that the older gentleman was her dad, visiting for the first time.  I asked Angelina that when I looked around the room my sights stopped at her dad and I felt that he had a bad back.  She said to me that he has a very bad back and she was excited because the Lord had picked him out.  She ended up telling him what I saw and he was encouraged that this took place.  It was his first time in church and hence he was also very wary about the things of God.

My second word of knowledge:   YOU ARE PREGNANT

It was again a church setting and this couple was in my home group. They were having trouble conceiving and it was causing some heartache.  They already had one child but dearly wanted another. In the meantime I had bought a book from Koorong called ‘Healing the Sick’ by TL Osborn and it really impacted me. One day I felt to lend this book to the lady to read.  So I left it with her.  A few months later I was sitting in church, Marissa had finished reading the book at this stage, and we were on other sides of the room.  I had such a great urge to stand up in the middle of the service and the congregation and yell out to her ‘you are pregnant, you are pregnant’ but I didn’t.  A few weeks later they told everyone that she was pregnant and she ended up having a girl.

Another word of knowledge:    YOUR CALLING - TEACHER

It was at a time where I was on a trip to Adelaide for a church conference. I had met one of the girls new to the church, who I didn’t know really well, and it so happened that she ended up being my flat mate for a couple of years following on from this.  During the ride home from Adelaide to Sydney, going through the inland road home, I asked the Lord, ‘what do you see for Imelda’. And I instantly got a picture of her sitting on a chair with children around her and some of them with their arms raised like they were in school.  I thought, wow, she is a teacher.

So during and from this time she was not sure what she wanted to do in life. She worked, and years on, once we stopped sharing, she started studying. First she went to bible college and then she did a counselling type course, but now, just now, 16 years after that picture, she is heading toward her final year of study for a teaching degree for primary school children.  I emailed her last year, I felt to encourage her to keep going with what she was doing and told her the picture I had all those years ago.  She was very encouraged.

There is more, but that is all I can think about right now.

With the first word of knowledge, it would have been best for me to pray for him.  But, still, in him knowing, he was blessed that it was revealed, as he was seeing that it was God that did the revealing.

In the 2^nd word of knowledge, because I had such an excitement and urge bursting in me, I don’t know if it would have been right for me to get up in the middle of church, but again I think I spoke to them after.  But it truly was a God miracle.

With the 3^rd word of knowledge, I think it again is an encouragement, both to me and to my friend, especially at the place she was at when I revealed that vision to her. But also I can see that the Lord will give me other prophetic utterances for people.

The key in this one was to remember to ask!

Dream - Graduating University

Last night I had a dream.   24th August 2016

I was in a room with a group of people and the girl that led me to the Lord was there and at one point I was sitting next to her.  We were in a church setting and she was sipping on coffee, relaxed, and saying something like she was enjoying being in a place of freedom, and she was happy.

Then I remember that I was also there to celebrate my graduating University.  At first I had to calculate that I was not leaving high school; thinking of my age, I finished high school at 17, then 3 years university means 20 years old - and in the dream - that was a reflection of my age.  My mum was with me and I looked at her and said thank you for paying my tuition fees as I know it would have cost a lot.  I was still in that same church environment that I was in with my friend.

That was pretty much all I can remember but I do reflect firstly that I have had a number of school and graduation dreams over the years; from primary school to high school.  Then I remember I was graduating high school and going to university, and this one was not that long ago really, probably in the last few years.  Now, in this dream, I have graduated university.

I note that I don’t feel that I have done anything spectacular in my walk recently to have this dream of graduating, nor any of the other dreams, but maybe it is significant for something new that is coming. Something new to learn, and now I am graduating from school and coming into some real life situations?

Yesterday I did recognise a prayer I said:  I said ‘Holy Spirit, teach me about You and to flow in You and be in You’.  I recognise that there can be so much more in my relationship with Him. Maybe it is because I want more and deeper and am coming into a new confidence, but in Him, not me!

I also had a lovely connect group with some girls and there was one girl there who was very sweet and my attitude was, I can learn something from her.

The other thing is, often my Dad or his house, or my mum or my sister are in my dreams.  I have seen that my dad often reflects Father God, my mum – Jesus and my sister, the Holy Spirit.

Saying to my mum, thanks for paying my tuition fee, I know it cost a lot, was like me saying to Jesus, thank you for paying the price for me. I know it cost you everything.

I also note that this September, I believe, is when I first went to church to listen to a testimony and was so touched by God that He got my heart then.  I didn't formally go forward for prayer and be baptised until the following June, 1997.  But, this September testimony in 1996 was extremely significant for me.  So reflecting now, that is 20 years. Praise God for keeping me.

I find my dreams so interesting and descriptive at times, especially when links are being revealed, pictures and analogies. 

There is nothing for me to do in this other than be thankful that God has kept me these years.  I believe that there is something new coming, and this 20 years in the Lord is quite significant. And to give thanks to Jesus for paying the price for me, I love that about this dream.

So, yes, thankful, blessed, hopeful.  God is good!

Favourite preachers at the moment

I've been enjoying some encouraging preaching lately.

I've been listening to Graham Cooke - prophetic ministry encouraging people to keep their eye's on Jesus and to see their prophetic promises come to pass, and to operate in the prophetic.

I've been listening to Dan Mohler.

What started me listening to Dan was the wife of one of the pastor's of my church. She had been listening to Dan. I was talking to her about generational curses and curses in general and my concern with regards the emphasis which people have in searching out curses and looking for the demonic in people.

I read in Exodus where God was giving the 10 commandments and He said the following

For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

When I saw this I immediately thought, 'of those who hate Me' the generational curse extends. So I thought that for those who love the Lord there is mercy and to thousands. And I thought about Jesus who is cursed for us, so we could have relationship with God, joined to Him.  I have also other scripture that say that God will not punish the fathers for the iniquities of the son's or the son's for the iniquities of the father.  Plus other scriptures.....

I do believe that the enemy can have a hold of people, and I have see deliverance take place, but I would so encourage people to be renewed in their thinking and to let the Word transform them. And to even be careful of what they believe, as you can enforce and idea based on what you think.

I also have seen the work of the Holy Spirit in peoples lives bringing clarity and truth for the Word to transform, so I am not necessarily separating the Word from the Spirit.

Just some thoughts I've had, which go much deeper than this, but this is enough for tonight.  :)

This is an 8min video where Dan is discussing curses.

Chronological reading through the bible - The First 5 Books!

I'm on day 65, going through the first 5 books of the bible! Finishing Deuteronomy soon.... 

So much insight and revelation. So good to read. New found love of these .... 

Moses is now preparing Joshua and Israel to go in and inhabit the Land. He is reminding them to have no idols as God is a jealous God (in that our hearts are to be His first of all).  To help them, Moses was reminding them what God has done to bring them to this place, so they would not depart from Him in this new land. To remember who He is and to honour Him.  To pass down to their children all that the Lord had done to bring them out of Egypt and into the promised land.

Some scripture's that I highlighted today:

* To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord Himself is God; there is no other beside Him.

* And He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence and Power.

* Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD Himself is God in heaven above   and on earth beneath; there is no other.

Even today we can reflect and gain encouragement from the revelations from the journey of Israel, and also in what God has done in our lives to bring us to where we are. So thankful to our Creator and author. To God.  Father, Son, Spirit.  Love Him above all.

Answers

God's love is so beautiful.

For many reasons, one being because He is God and I can trust Him and rest in Him.

The last few day's I've been asking Him for an answer to a question I had. I love the various ways that God answers.....

Yesterday I felt to go through a small pile of books I have, but not yet read, one being on the book of Joshua. I had picked this book up from Lifeline and it was around the time I was about to start my daily chronologically reading through the bible. I'm now at day 65. I had actually forgotten that I had picked this book up.

After reading the first chapter this morning, I happened to flick further on and open to the 2nd last chapter. On the 3rd page there is a scripture underlined. It was very much highlighted in various ways (like a beacon) with a red pen, and this scripture was the very answer to the question I had been asking God about. This marking, the only one in 4 pages.

I was really pleased as it was God showing me that He hears and knows.  It's in the details!

Orphan hearted and a sinner

For a long time in my life I was 'love poor'.

I had an orphan type spirit, I actually thought I was an orphan and spoke that over my life often as a child, wondering what had I done wrong to feel so unloved and left out.

My only answer was that I had been born.

I walked around like this for many years, but would manage to put on good show that I had it altogether. I actually told myself when very young, that I will just have to look after myself. I never asked for anything as I didn't want to be a burden.

So when I was saved, it was the knowledge of God's love for me that initially drew me - it was His love. That God loved me, that someone loves me.

It was not my sin or need of forgiveness, just His love for me; the me who thought I was unloved and my life wasn't worth anything.  The little girl who thought that at least my cat loves me! 

I do know that God was with me from young and that He knew of me. I grew up saying my prayers, reverent fear, and I remember saying to God one night in bed that I wanted to do things the right way according to Him. But I did not know His love.

So after the revelation of His love in 1997, it took me a while to understand Jesus, His Son.  I didn't get it at first, although I dearly wanted to. I had questions, Who would die for me? Why? I had no value in myself and was t looking from God's perspective and truth.

But the truth is God did send His only Son that whoever believes in Him would have eternal life. And I realised, His love was a double blessing, for not only did He love me, He died for me. I had to come to the understanding that I needed a Saviour not just for love, but so my sins and my separation from Him could be taken care of. That I would be made alive by His Spirit.

I had to understand that at all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, that at the core, as I compared myself to God and His ways, there was nothing good in me. Now, any good I do is all for and to the glory of God who has worked in me.

Every person needs this life transforming moment with God - a new heart and a born again spirit - the gift and the freedom in repentance.

What is Repentance - turning from my own way to following Jesus wholeheartedly. Which simply means to know His will and do His will, which is fulfilled by LOVE!  This re-uniting is called SALVATION!