Prophesies – what do I do with mine? (part 2)

Receiving a prophetic word is like receiving a gift. We need to accept it, unwrap it and then do something with it otherwise having a beautifully wrapped gift just sitting on the bench is a waste. The giver also wishes you to accept and unwrap the gift so that it can be useful as well as the fact that they love to see your reaction and delight. The same applies to our prophetic words that we have received. They are useless just hearing them and laying them aside. Maybe even occasionally remembering back to when you were given them doesn’t change the words.

1. Grab a set of highlighters, coloured pencils, textas or anything where you can highlight words and phrases with different colours. Read through your prophetic word (hopefully double spaced for ease of use) and highlight, preferably with different colours for ease of use:

  • Any words or phrases repeated
  • Words that really impact you or are very meaningful
  • Words that keep being repeated in various other prophetic words
  • Any themes
  • Any promises
  • Any conditions
  • Any Bible verses – look them up and write them out fully.
  • Any sense of timing

A beautiful lady I mentor received a prophetic word from my husband about 6 months before she received a word from a world renowned prophet. My husband had written in the prophetic word for her “It is time. It is time. It is time.”. This international prophet said to her “It is time. It is time. It is time.”. A couple of months later, another world renowned prophet also gave her a prophetic word and said, “It is time. It is time. It is time.”. Not only was the phrase repeated three times by each person, but it was exactly repeated by the three people. She needed to pay particular attention to those words.

Whenever I receive a prophetic word, I see the themes of healing and restoration. Thus, I tend to look for them now. I also, though, love looking for new themes. We have received some prophetic words about promises and we use these to partner with our faith in our contention in seeing these promises fulfilled.

2. See the opportunity

The prophetic word you receive is an opportunity to partner with God to become the person you need to be so that the prophetic word can be fulfilled. It is not an automatic process. An individual prophetic word, apart from if you were Jesus in the Bible, is conditional. We need to step into it and grow to become the person whom this prophetic word speaks about. When we partner with the Holy Spirit and lean in to the character and identity changes and growth, we unlock the prophetic word in our life.

I have had a number of prophetic words given to me about my gaze being awestruck with the gaze of God, my eyes being locked with the eyes of God, that the Lord and I having the same gaze. This was a foreign concept to me at the time so I went on a journey of exploring this and looking at God through new eyes, trying to look into His eyes, focusing on God and drawing near to Him so that I knew where His gaze was so that I could join Him.

Partnering with our prophetic word is an opportunity to go on a journey with God to become the person He created us to be. It is an opportunity to look at our identity, that of who God created us to be. Our prophetic word usually highlights how God sees us, how we are known in heaven. There may well be a ‘gap’ between how God sees us and how we see ourselves and the prophetic word is an invitation to close that gap.

Grab your coloured highlighters again and highlight:

  • Any words that speak about who you are
  • Any words that speak about how God sees you
  • How you are known in heaven
  • Who does God want to be for me
  • What part of God’s nature is an invitation to grow in?

3. Get a large sheet of paper and label it “My identity”.

Write down all those words you underlined that speak about your identity and who God wants to be for you. Use this as a working sheet. Group like words together, draw mind-map type of diagrams, be as creative as you want whilst you are drawing all the identity words out of your prophetic word. Find out how God wants to encourage, strengthen and build you up from your prophetic word (1 Corinthians 14:3 “But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort.”) Write it down on your sheet of paper. Then look at it and see what really sticks out to you.

Part of our mandate for being on earth is for us to grow in the likeness of Christ. Therefore, look at your prophetic word and highlight any aspects of God’s nature that are there and that are an invitation for you to grow in. Peace and joy are often mentioned in prophetic words. If peace is mentioned, then that is God’s provision for you. The same with joy. If you currently are not the most joyful person, then this is your opportunity to access God’s provision of joy for you and to grow into your new identity of being a joyful person. How do you do that?

  • Choose joy over misery. Make a conscious choice whenever you are feeling miserable or not joyful to be joyful.
  • Ask God to help you.
  • Find all the Bible verses that speak about joy. Read them over and over.
  • Worship God.
  • Practice turning your heart to God whenever you don’t feel joyful.
  • Meditate on God and His Word
  • Look for the joy in your everyday life. Find things to be grateful for as people who are grateful are joyful.
  • Look at practical things you can do – practice smiling, read comics, do silly things, be around joyful people.
  • Look at what hinders you from being joyful and address those issues.

Our transformation begins with how we think. Proverbs 23:7 says “For how he thinks in his heart, so he is”. What we think about ourselves determines who we become. This then influences what we do.

4. Summarise

Look at the words you have highlighted and the words you have written on your large sheet of paper. Bring it together to summarise:

  • What God is telling me about my identity
  • Who do I need to become for this prophesy to be fulfilled
  • Who God wants to be for me to help me become that person
  • What is God developing in my character

Next week I am going to look at working with your prophetic word to reveal your destiny and calling. Please subscribe to my blog so that you will receive the new blog post next week.

Prophetic Activations / Exercises to incorporate into your week:

The purpose of these exercises is to help us hear God’s voice in a clearer manner. They sharpen our senses to hear and recognise God’s voice and His way of communicating with us. This enables us to grow in our relationship with God and also to impart to others what God tells us for them. Feel free to use as many of these activations each week as you can. The more you practice, the sharper you become at hearing God’s voice. Enjoy!

Remember that whenever you give another person a prophetic word or picture etc, please make sure that it is encouraging, edifying (strengthening) and comforting (1 Corinthians 14:3) and that it comes from a place of love.

1. Children / Families Activation: Spread flour on a baking tray and place the tray in front of a person. Have them draw or write something in the flour that they feel or sense God is saying for the person on their right. Ask them to share and explain. Then get the next person to have a turn etc.

2. Group Activation: Pray for insight for people to get a picture/scene/image from God and then give out paper and pencils to everyone and ask them to draw that picture/scene/image. Set a time limit of 5 minutes. Then get people into small groups of 3-4 and ask everyone to look at their picture and to share how their picture relates to their life. Pray for each other after sharing.

3. Beginner Activation: Find a calendar that has photos on it. As you ‘flick’ through the calendar, ask God to highlight a particular month to you. Ask God then to highlight what it is about that photo and that month that is especially applicable to you or to someone close to you whom you can share it with to encourage.

4. Intermediate Activation: Ask God to highlight a Bible passage or Bible verse to you and then ask God whom that verse is especially applicable to that day. Share it with that person as an encouragement.

5. Advanced Activation: Spend time with God asking Him to give you a poem or write a new Psalm for someone whom God highlights to you. Share it with them at an appropriate time.

Prophesies – what do I do with mine? (part 1)

Just because you have a prophetic word, it doesn’t mean that it will come true. A prophetic word is conditional. It is a ‘working document’. You need to become the person you need to be so that the prophetic word ‘fits’. This blogpost is the second in a series of blogs about “What do I do with my prophetic word?”. In this one, we will address what to do to begin with, the first steps to take after receiving a prophetic word.

Habakkuk 2:1-3 says, “I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint. Then the Lord replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time”.

1. “Look to God to see what He will say to you”.

Do the hard work by chasing God and spending time with God in the quiet place. Draw close to God. I find that prophetic words confirm an answer to me of what God is already showing me. Prophetic words are not just ‘out of the blue’, completely random words given to you. It is God showing you through yet another way or yet another person the answer to a question you have been asking or a solution you have been looking for. Your relationship with God must come first and seek Him, not a prophetic word. God will come through and show you the answer or give you a prophetic word through someone but seek God, not a prophetic word.

2. Whenever you can, try and record your prophetic word.

If you have a digital device, use that. Otherwise, try and write down as much as you can as soon as possible after you have received it. Please write it down yourself and do the hard work. Don’t automatically assume that the person who gave you the prophetic word will remember it all. I know from the times that I have given prophetic words, I can remember some of the really huge stuff, but I quickly forget what I have just said, especially if I am given a number of prophetic words to different people one after the other. I also know from chatting with other prophetic people that they are the same. If you completely do not remember any of it and the person who prophesied over you doesn’t either and you didn’t record it, God is a good God. He will bring it to you another way and take comfort that your spirit will not forget it. Ask God to bring it back to you. Spend time soaking/ meditating on God and also ask Him to reveal it to you in your dreams.

Listen to it over and over. The more we hear our prophesy and read it, the more it becomes part of us. Listen to the language and the manner it was imparted to you as that also forms part of the prophetic word. A prophetic word is what the Fathers heart has for you. It is from the heart of God to you for you.

In my last blog post that I wrote about how I used a prophetic word over my daughter when she was critically ill in hospital as an 8 year old. That prophetic word came to my mind because I had read and re-read that prophetic word. It had become part of me as I had intentionally read it and prayed over it every day for several months. I took that prophetic word with me in my handbag and whenever I had a few minutes spare, I would grab it out and read over it and pray it through. With your prophetic word, go through each sentence and pray it through. Thank God. An example is if it said that “Jane, the Lord has given you a heart for healing. A heart for restoration and reconciliation.” I would then pray and declare, “Thank you Father that you have given me a heart for healing, restoration and reconciliation. I decree and declare that I am a healer, that I bring healing from the Lord and will also bring restoration and reconciliation to people.”

3. “Write down the prophetic word”.

Transcribe your prophesy. You are then able to visually see it. I find it helpful to type it on my computer so that I have a copy I can print off at any time. I then double space it so that I can begin to work with it more easily and make notations above and below words. Your prophetic word is a working document. When someone prophesies over you, that is just the beginning. You still have to do the work and get the most out of it to benefit from it. Read it and re-read it. Keep it with you and whenever you have a few moments, get it out and read over it again. Let it soak into you and become part of you. Read it every day. If you have more than one prophetic word, try and put them together in a document so that you can read them all through regularly.

4. “Make it plain on tablets.”

This is where you begin to work on it.

  • You need to test it. Does it ‘feel’ right and does it witness to your spirit.
  • All prophesy needs to be weighed against the nature of God. Does the prophesy bear witness to the nature of God & what God says in the Bible?
  • Do you go “yes” that’s right or put it up on the shelf for awhile or discard it? I have found from the many people I have chatted with that while they may have thought that a particular prophetic word was totally wrong and not for them, they shelved it and looked at it again several years later and were shocked at how accurate it was. Just be careful to not discard it too quickly!! I am yet to come across someone with whom the prophetic word given to them was completely wrong. I’m not saying it can’t happen, but usually it may not apply to them at that moment but wait a few years and it may well be very applicable. I have had a number of people come to me recently and say that they thought a prophetic word I had given them 5-6 years ago was off but they recently have pulled it out and see that it is very relevant and most have come true.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 “Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all, hold on to what is good.”
  • Remember the purpose of prophesy is to encourage, build-up and comfort us from God’s heart. 1 Corinthians 14:3 “But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort”.
  • A great question to ask is, “Will responding to this prophesy bear good fruit in my life?”

5. “So that a herald may run with it.”

Is there any sense of timing in your prophetic word? Is it a ‘now’ word for today or perhaps a word for several years time. Read through your prophetic word again and look for any clues as to timing or what will be fulfilled, or who you will become identity wise, before the prophetic word is fulfilled.

My next blogpost will highlight various questions it is great to ask about your prophetic word as you begin to dissect your prophesy.

Prophetic Activations / Exercises to incorporate into your week:

The purpose of these exercises is to help us hear God’s voice in a clearer manner. They sharpen our senses to hear and recognise God’s voice and His way of communicating with us. This enables us to grow in our relationship with God and also to impart to others what God tells us for them. Feel free to use as many of these activations each week as you can. The more you practice, the sharper you become at hearing God’s voice. Enjoy!

Remember that whenever you give another person a prophetic word or picture etc, please make sure that it is encouraging, edifying (strengthening) and comforting (1 Corinthians 14:3) and that it comes from a place of love.

1. Children / Families Activation: Ask everyone present to close their eyes for a minute and imagine Jesus walking through the door into the room. What does He say to them? Share.

2. Group Activation: Get into small groups of four or six. Have a leader in the room who gives the instruction. Number the people 1-4 or 6. Start with number 1. When the leader issues an instruction, eg person opposite, the number one person asks Jesus “What do you want to say to this person opposite me?” and then they share it. Be careful not to say, “Jesus says” but more “I sense Jesus saying….”. Then for number 2 person, the leader may say “the person second on your right”. They ask Jesus what He wants to say to that person etc

3. Beginner Activation: Ask God to highlight different tastes to you this week. As it comes to mind, and you savor a taste, ask God to show you something about Himself that relates to that taste. Delight in the various taste sensations and the new things you learn about God.

4. Intermediate Activation: Ask God to highlight a business person to you and to give you a prophetic word for them about their business. Arrange a time to deliver it to them.

5. Advanced Activation: Ask God to show you something significant for your local member of Parliament. Either arrange a time to go and share this with them or write it in an email or letter and send to them. Please keep the language appropriate and no church jargon.

One of the Benefits of having a Prophetic Word.

It was 8pm, September 2011. 6 Years ago. I was standing beside my daughter’s hospital bed. The Doctor’s addressed me saying, “Mrs Berry. You have a very sick little girl. We don’t know yet what is wrong with her but by the morning, we should have some answers back. So far, we have tested for HIV Aids, Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Cancer, Leukaemia…..” My mind went blank and I didn’t hear anything else.

The Doctors left the room and I managed to settle my 8 year old daughter for sleep. I sank down into the chair beside her bed. Thankfully, we were in an isolated room (as they thought my daughter may be infectious) so we didn’t have to contend with anyone else.

As I snuggled into that hard plastic chair, my mind was racing. It had taken us over ten years to be able to fall pregnant. Now, I was looking at losing her. Would she die in two years, one year, four months? This was all flashing through my mind. Suddenly, my mind was arrested.

We had just returned from Mozambique, Africa where we had attended the Iris Harvest School for three months under Heidi Baker. Whilst we were there, we had received a prophetic word from a man called David Wagner. We were new to prophecy and had no idea about it apart from the fact that this guy was meant to be very accurate. We didn’t even know what to do with our prophetic word so we had recorded it, transcribed it and prayed it through. In fact, we had prayed it through so much that we knew it off by heart.

It was now that a sentence or two from that memorised prophetic word came back to me about my daughter. “I saw the Lord putting a doctor’s coat on you in the days ahead and I just saw you as one who walks who is not only going to be a physician, but one who carries the great physician and I saw you as one who ministers to people with miracles and medicine and medical missions and all of those things.”

I suddenly realised, for my 8 year old daughter to become a doctor and fulfill this prophetic word (& for me it is not truly about whether she becomes a doctor as she can have the freedom to choose whatever) but it meant that she would have to be at least 24 years old to be finished university to become a doctor. That meant that she was not going to die from whatever disease she currently was facing.

At that moment, I laughed in the face of adversity like the Proverbs 31 woman (Proverbs 31:25). I grabbed that prophetic word and I began to contend and war with the situation we were currently facing and I used it to give us hope. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

I knew the outcome. I knew that this huge ‘mountain’ in front of us was not the end. With that prophetic word, I could ‘see’ over the top of that ‘mountain’ and ‘see’ that there was a future. This mountain we were facing might be huge, but it wasn’t going to be the end. Sure, we had to get through it to get to the other side, but it wasn’t the end. The prophetic word gave us hope and a future.

Friends, please, please, please. If you don’t have a prophetic word for you, your children etc, get one. Secondly, use your prophetic wisely and contend with the current situation you are facing. Make your prophetic word into a declaration and speak it out against your current situation. Pray your prophetic word into being.

Make sure you subscribe so that you get next week’s blogpost as I am going to look at “What to do with your prophetic word”. I will be breaking this down in to a three week series.

To prepare, grab your prophetic words out and read over them. If you don’t have one for yourself or each of your children, ask someone you know who is prophetic and whom you trust to give you a prophetic word for yourself or each of your children.

Prophetic Activations / Exercises to incorporate into your week:

The purpose of these exercises is to help us hear God’s voice in a clearer manner. They sharpen our senses to hear and recognise God’s voice and His way of communicating with us. This enables us to grow in our relationship with God and also to impart to others what God tells us for them. Feel free to use as many of these activations each week as you can. The more you practice, the sharper you become at hearing God’s voice. Enjoy!

Remember that whenever you give another person a prophetic word or picture etc, please make sure that it is encouraging, edifying (strengthening) and comforting (1 Corinthians 14:3) and that it comes from a place of love.

1. Children / Families Activation: Gather a number of items that have different surfaces and textures. Spend some time touching the various textures and asking God what He wants to reveal to everyone about Himself through the different textures. Then ask God if He has something to say to the other family/group members through what He has said or shown you.

2. Group Activation: Get everyone to stand up and move to the edge of the room. Ask everyone to turn around and face the wall so that everyone’s back faces into the middle of the room. Ask everyone to focus on God and quieten themselves down before God and then ask God to highlight something directly in front of them on the wall. Then get everyone to use that which was highlighted to them in a prophetic word to the person on their left. Allow five minutes for sharing the prophetic words.

3. Beginner Activation: Go outside where you can see something of nature. Ask God to highlight a particular aspect of His nature and character through looking at nature. Ask God what He wants to tell you or show you about this and how it applies to you. Write down what you feel, hear or see God saying to you and declare it out aloud over yourself.

4. Intermediate Activation: Ask God to show you someone who needs encouragement today. Then ask God to show or highlight to you a verse or passage in the Bible that you can craft in to a prophetic word and use to encourage this person. Share it with that person.

5. Advanced Activation: Look for a news headline from today. Read it and ask God to highlight a person from that headline/news article to you. Then ask God to give you a prophetic word for that person. Either declare it aloud into the atmosphere or write it down and investigate a way to send that prophetic word to the person.

Believing that anything is possible

Believing that anything is possibleHubby and I were in bed last night chatting after a full day of church, hanging out with friends and ministry. Hubby commented on how it was exciting to be in a church where one of the cultural values (whether anyone realises it or not is another question as it is an unwritten and unspoken value) is that of believing that anything is possible with God. Not just believing it, but actively pursuing it.

Core Value:

As we reflected on this more, I realised that whenever we want to see the supernatural become our natural lifestyle, this has to be a core value. That God can and will do anything and that anything is possible with God.

Miracle – an illiterate person able to read the Bible

Yesterday morning in church, we heard an amazing testimony from one of our church members who was ministering in Cambodia. An old village woman had become a Christian and 3 days later wanted to be able to read the Bible but had never had the opportunity to go to school. She heard a testimony from some other people who had supernaturally been given the ability to read the Bible. This lady was prayed for by those people and within 20 minutes or so the lady could read the Bible.

Testimony:

Last night were having a meal with friends and reflecting on the testimonies we hear in church. Most of these testimonies come from the Healing Rooms we are part of. I was voicing that I am a bit tired of hearing about the back pain and the neck aches being healed. Sure, it is a big thing for those people but what about the exciting stuff we see of cancer being healed, eye sight restored, the time I prayed for the lady in hospital who no longer needed a heart lung transplant etc. I then shared how our family had experienced some amazing healings – anaphylaxis, teeth miracles – no longer needing fillings or a root canal etc.

Creative Miracle:

My friend then expressed how she has been waiting for 9 years for a huge creative miracle. Straight away I knew we had to pray for her in this area. So we did. In the natural, it seems completely impossible but with God anything is possible. We joined our faith with hers and her husband’s faith. There were a couple of prophetic acts I asked her to do as I felt they were an important step. A huge step of healing had already been overcome by our friend sharing this unusual and personal issue with us.

Prophetic Act:

In asking my friend to do a certain prophetic act, I was reminded of at least 7 years ago when I was at a ladies’ camp and I really felt to pray for a lady with a thyroid issue who had bulging eyes. This lady at the same time approached me and asked me to pray for her. As I waited briefly to hear from God, I sensed that I was to spit on my hands and place them over her eyes. I was relatively new to praying for physical healing for people and was aghast. “What would the lady think?” As I shared this with the lady, she became very excited. She shared how she had asked God to heal her and that she had told God that she would know if it was going to happen or not if the person praying for healing spat on their hands and placed their hands over her eyes. I learnt a huge lesson that night to be obedient to what God wants you to do.

Where are you currently at in believing for the impossible? Believing with such a certainty, not just that it would be great but a total belief that God can and will do anything.

Align your mind:

If you need help in this area, I encourage you to take a Bible verse from the list below. If you believe the Bible is the Word of God, then meditating on the Bible and verses from it, will help your mind align to what God wants to do.

Bible verses:

  • Job 42:1- 2 Then Job replied to the Lord, ‘I know that you can do all things, no plan of yours can be thwarted.’
  • Jeremiah 32:17 ‘Ah Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and your outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.’
  • Matthew 17:20 Jesus replied, ‘Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.’
  • Matthew 19:26 Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible but with God all things are possible.’
  • Mark 10:27 Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.’
  • Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
  • Luke 1:37 For nothing is impossible with God.

Turn these verses into a declaration that you can declare regularly eg “Thank you God that nothing is impossible for you. Thank you God that you say in your Word that whatever I ask for in prayer and believe that I have received, it will be mine. So Father God, I now thank you for giving me (answer to my prayer) and believe that You will give it to me because nothing is impossible for you Father God. Thank you God.”

God is at work:

When we left our friend’s home, nothing had appeared to have occurred in the way of a creative miracle for this lady but something had shifted in the spiritual. I totally believe that God can do this seemingly impossible creative miracle of growing body parts that are no longer there. I also knew that God was at work since we also prayed for my back pain from a pulled muscle that was causing me some incapacity. The pain completely disappeared and I could move freely.

I know that God will come through for this beautiful friend and her miraculous testimony will be huge in her future ministry that she will have in changing teenagers lives and perceptions.

God is in the business of the impossible.

Prophetic Activations / Exercises to incorporate into your week:

The purpose of these exercises is to help us hear God’s voice in a clearer manner. They sharpen our senses to hear and recognise God’s voice and His way of communicating with us. This enables us to grow in our relationship with God and also to impart to others what God tells us for them. Feel free to use as many of these activations each week as you can. The more you practice, the sharper you become at hearing God’s voice. Enjoy!

Remember that whenever you give another person a prophetic word or picture etc, please make sure that it is encouraging, edifying (strengthening) and comforting (1 Corinthians 14:3) and that it comes from a place of love.

1. Children / Families Activation: Put together a collection of different food tastes or even a chocolate fondue with different fruit, marshmallows, biscuits, and food textures. Set the scene by sharing how in the Bible in Psalm 34:8, it says to ‘Taste and see that the Lord is good’. Encourage family members to select a food and taste it and encourage them to savour the flavour and texture. Ask them to think of how that flavour might reflect God’s goodness or a characteristic of God. Share. Then get everyone to select a different fruit or food and to taste that and whilst doing that to ask God to highlight what it is about that flavour and how it describes or relates to the person sitting on their left. Share again.

2. Group Activation: Grab enough blank paper so that everyone in the room can have one sheet each. Before you hand them out, write down a name from someone in the group on the back of the sheet of paper ie each sheet of paper has a different name on the back with everyone in the room having their name on a sheet of paper. Encourage people not to look at the back of the paper so that they don’t know who they are writing a prophetic word for. Get everyone to quieten their hearts before God and ask God to show, tell or give them a sense of what to write or draw. Allow people ten minutes to hear from God and write the prophetic word. Then, if time, get people to read out what they had written and say who it is for.

3. Beginner Activation: Quieten yourself before God and imagine standing under a huge waterfall. Ask the Holy Spirit to rain down on you. Whilst standing under that imaginary waterfall, ask God to help you tangibly see or hear or feel something from Him. Ask Him to give you a fresh hope for an impossible situation in your life. Ask God to give you a Bible verse or reassurance that He has heard you.

4. Intermediate Activation: Ask God to highlight to you something that is impossible to see becoming true but something you so desperately want. If there is nothing you desperately want, think of someone close to you who needs a miracle. Write a declaration out and ask God to give you a prophetic word for that situation. Incorporate the prophetic word into that declaration. Begin declaring and decreeing it.

5. Advanced Activation: Grab a pen and 3 pieces of paper. Ask God to highlight 3 people you know and write each name on the back of a different sheet of paper. Turn the paper over so that you cannot see which name is on which paper. Select one piece of paper and ask God to show or tell you a prophetic word for that person whose name is on the back of the paper (with you not knowing who it is for). Write down what you sense, feel, hear or see. Repeat the process with the other two sheets of paper. Then turn the papers over and read what you wrote for each person. Give the prophetic words to the appropriate people.