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Lord, may we never be numbed by the news.

Let us mourn for every life that is lost, and every person affected. Let us mourn for the hearts of those who committed the crime. Let us mourn, Lord. Let us surrender and seek Your heart in these matters, and let us surrender and come to You in prayer. For only You know the things that are unseen, only You know the plans you have for this world, for us. For only You know what brings You greatest glory, and what brings home your children. Let us mourn, Lord, but let us also pray. Let us move this nation in intercession, and into intercession. Let us move. This mountain. Together. With You. For we are your children. We are your children in name and in form; in our image, and in our spirit. We are your children. So as we hold our hands together, or raise our palms to You, Hold our hands together, Your mighty hands over ours. And impart upon us, Your wisdom, Your love, Your courage, Your peace. Your impartation upon us, into us, over us. Let us pray, let us rise, let us walk, let us fight. Knowing that You alone are our shepherd, our God. That You alone have saved us from death, And in You alone we have life. Joy. Peace. Victory. Let us walk. And walk with us to see Your kingdom here.

Prophesying Adventures

As I was saying, I received the green light to pray constantly for people and God is showing me visions as I do that. I've been having a really great time, just going back and forth with Him to get more details and more visions, and He's come through 100% of the time. A lot of the time, the visions show what the person is going through, which basically means, God knows your struggles, and He is here for you. Sometimes, it carries instructions, which is pretty amazing, and other times, it shows afflictions, which depending on the situation, I'm not allowed to share, and instead, I pray in intercession. It's pretty amazing. And now that I'm constantly receiving, I am able to discern what I should be sharing, and what I shouldn't, so He has lifted the rule that He gave me, and gave me more flexibility in discernment.

Over the past 2 weeks, I have had constant visions of the people around me, whether I know them or not, and it is because I have been constantly seeking Him in prayer for intercession. It's a bit like doing my homework, now that I have been taught a new skill, and so, as I continued to do this, I have worked out with God, or rather, He has taught me the way it will work now. First, I will approach Him and ask for what He may want to say about a person, then He would show me a series of visions (at request), as sometimes I won't understand them until He illustrates them with more variations. Then after He's told me the general idea of it, I would either seek Him for more details, again depending on the situation, and He would answer my questions in epiphany (sudden knowledge). After that, I would either pray for the person, or approach the person to share the vision, and offer to pray for them. As I do that, God will speak through me to reveal even more secrets. I've repeated this process on average 5-10 times a day, every day for the past 2 weeks. And just when I thought I got this, as everyone (100%!) I approached confirmed the accuracy of these visions. He went a step further, by giving me very detailed visions about people's lives, and it's only happened to two people so far, one each day of the weekend past, but I know how He is training me, and so I am excited once more for more teachings. This will be an amazing journey, indeed.

Funny side note, the people in my fellowship has started noticing my "Seeing" face, and it gives them the giggles, which is hilarious! Basically, I just space out and talk to the air a lot now. And as I continued to learn, I am also passing what I learn onto those around me. God is raising up a very powerful army of prayer warriors and intercessors.

Final reminders, as said in Ephesians 6:

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Growth of a Sunflower: Fulfilment of prophecy

If you cast your mind back to October, I mentioned that I had a vision of Sunflowers on a Soccer Pitch at around March, and it was that I was staring at all these tall sunflowers and wondering whether I'd ever grow to be like them. People that were in my fellowship that have been there forever and had ministered to everyone in the group. Reliable, gifted in love, ministry, prayer and prophecy. And God had replied, I'll grow you as tall as these, and that was very encouraging.

Looking back now, I once again see myself on that soccer pitch, and as He had promised in slightly more than a year ago, I had grown to be one of the core flowers on the pitch. 

Recently, He's been growing me as a healer, something that I had also been praying for since I stepped foot into the Vine Church. One morning, I woke to His voice saying: "There, you're a healer now." And I understood His meaning, as I had taken up a new view of my gift in prayer and prophecy and had acted upon it. 

It is this: having realised that I am gifted in prayer and prophecy, I knew the only thing to do is to walk it in my life, and that means to pray whether I have something to share or not. It isn't the prophecy that requires me to pray or approach people, it is the need that people have for prayer. And since anyone can pray for anyone else, I had walked that into my walk, and when I do have prophetic visions or knowledge, I ease into it as part of my gifting. Our practice in faith, our presence, our faith and discipleship in God, is what makes us the Gift worth giving, not simply what we can offer in prophetic vision or knowledge that comes only from God. We ourselves are renewed and also from God, and we are also His hands and feet. If we don't do, and we don't walk, then it is just idle faith. Anyone can have those. Take courage, be strong, go forth as the Lord has already gone ahead of us.

So as I started to pray for people simply because I observe the need for prayer, whether there are physical issues, emotional issues, or spiritual, I offer to pray for people, and in response to that faithfulness, God had started pouring out an overflow of accurate visions for me to share with the people that I pray for. And it's been over a week since the day, Jesus said to me: "Go ahead, I'll do the work from now on, the visions will come as you open your heart and open your mouth."

And so, I'm very excited about what I'm experiencing right now, as He is indeed blessing me through this gifting to heal not only physical, but also emotional and spiritual issues. For it is not me at all, but Him who gives me the visions, then gives both myself and the recipient the decoder to apply it to their lives, and sometimes my own. I have long learnt to listen in when God is speaking through me, because of the hidden treasures that only He can reveal. It is such exciting times!

He has also been expanding my reach, not only have I grown in capacity to walk with my brothers and sisters in the Young adults fellowship, but He is also leading me to start to minister to members of the rest of the church. 

That's the update for now! Thanks for reading!