Understanding Spiritual Gifts: The Gift of Prophecy… In Under 10 Minutes
WELCOME to Issue #204 of The Seedhead from Alex and Hannah at Dandelion Resourcing - a weekly confidence booster to help you step into naturally supernatural discipleship and mission!
For a Christian, prophecy is the supernatural ability to know and appropriately speak the mind of God on a given subject at a given time by the prompting and inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
As you know, the Bible is packed full of prophets, prophecies, and teaching on how to use this gift in healthy ways.
In this video, the example we reference is from Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well in John 4. He reveals prophetic insight about her that eventually leads to her becoming a disciple of Jesus.
In the light of such a passage, sometimes our temptation can be to say, “Well that was just Jesus being Jesus!” and then let ourselves off the hook. But it’s important to remember that when Jesus used the gifts of the Spirit, He did so in ways that are to be a model for all of His disciples to imitate.
If you’re willing to be that sort of disciple, all sorts of options will open up for you! For instance, we have personally seen accurate prophetic words cause lost people to fully commit to following Jesus.
Of course, the gift can be used with both the lost and with believers, in major and in minor situations of life.
And specifically related to prophecy, there’s a simple yet powerful discipline that can really help you move forward:
We’ve found that the key for developing prophetic gifts is simply to wait and listen to Jesus. It’s amazing what He will show and say when we do so! We give you some practical tips on how do this in the recording.
Here’s the video:
Next Steps
Read a passage of Scripture and ask the Lord so highlight a particular verse or phrase, and then why. Be willing to wait and listen!
When you’re next praying for someone, pause and ask God for a word (picture, Scripture, or whatever), ask Him ‘why that thing?’, and then share what you sense.
To learn more about Prophecy, The Naturally Supernatural Course has a whole module that will give you strong biblical rooting and simple practical outworking. Look for Part A: Foundations, and start watching Module A1.
*If you enter coupon code gifts24 at the checkout, you’ll be able to purchase all 6 videos in Part A at half-price - down from $49 to $25! This offer is good until August 31, and comes to you with our love!
Alex Health Update
Many of you have been praying for me (Alex) as I recover from radiotherapy. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!
I am on the mend, although it’s going slower than hoped. I’ve had issues with stopping losing weight, but we’ve had some great input and Hannah is now busy calorie and protein counting and encouraging all sorts of unsustainable cake and ice cream eating! So if you could pray for me to put on weight (in healthy ways - muscle 💪!) that would be great.
The other big issue is that I’d love to be rid of the coughing fits that often hit me. This is slowing down the healing of my throat, and in turn hindering my voice from coming back with strength. The doctors don’t really have any solutions other than “it will get better eventually”… so I’d LOVE for the Lord to intervene to bring relief and healing in this specific way.
We’d really appreciate your prayers for those two areas, as well as anything else that’s on your heart for us.
Thank you again for your love, prayers, and encouragement. We are grateful beyond words.
With love,
Alex + Hannah
ALEX AND HANNAH ABSALOM
P.S. This autumn we’ll be speaking at Exponential West (in the Bay Area, Oct 22-24) and Exponential Central (in Chicago, Nov 19-21). Find out more here - and if you enter the coupon code holy2024 then you can join our pre-conference for free!
