Monday, July 09, 2007 | 12:34 AM
Just came back from school not long ago.
Today only half of the lesson was being taught. The rest of the time was about practising operating in the gift of the word of knowledge. I think this gift is even tougher than prophesying. When a person prophesies, it takes time to see if the word comes to pass, at least it wouldn't be so malu on the spot if u r wrong. But a person will know if u r wrong or not in the gift of knowledge. Because this gift is asking God to give you a word to the situation this person is facing through right now. What if u say abt he or she is having financial problems but it turn out that he or she is currently rich?
In any case, we are to practise that and the thing is we got to find partners that we do not know about. We have to practice the gift over them and them over us. I was quite blessed by the result.
For the first person that i prayed for i was very kan cheong. Because i don't know this girl at all. i dun even rem seeing her in sot. (if it's my fren i can still say some words of encouragment to his or her situation). Well, we started to pray and some moments later, I started to hear God speaking. you know when someone speaks to u, u will be able to see words forming in your head? Well i din hear an audible sound but i see words in my head. It was tell her i love her. tell her not to be afraid. then i saw her in an office. So i said the exact words that i heard to her and as i speak i see more n more things and just tell her what i actually see. after that bobby asked was it at least 80% correct and she raised up her hand. phew.
the second one was christina cause i couldn't quite find anyone else. anyway, again it was words that God wanted me to speak to her. later she was to tell me that the first person who prayed for her spoke the same thing to her. well, at least it was an confirmation.
the third one we have to practice laying hands as well. I was praying for this delegate from canada. he is a caucasian who can speak chinese pretty well. I was like hmm he is already about 30 cm taller than me? and when i was praying for him he cupped his hands to his lips so i can't even touch him. anyway i still prayed for him. It was about the same way that God moves through me and i just prayed for him. I don't know him at all and i started out from a point mainly about his calling in God and when i was praying, suddenly i felt lead to speak to him that God having knowing this particular thing in his life and that He will see him through. Before i had even finished, he was saying correct correct throughout. and at the end, he was like telling me that i prayed very well for him. the other sister who was with us also said that although i dun know why she said that since i was praying for that guy and not her.
Holy Spirit is awesome.
anyway i prayed for others and there were others who prayed for me as well.
the first one talks to me about decision.
the second one was about my ministry about leading people, that God will rise me up to where He had promised that there are times i question, i stumbled but He is faithful to His promise to me. The sister who prayed for me regarding this saw me ushering even though she doesn't know me.
Very true also. On the previous day i was sharing with God something about my ministry and i guess He is answering me through that person.
the third one simply says only one word patience and that God wants me to have the gift of patience. (although i m not sure if there's such a gift)
very true also. I was telling God about having patience in some things in my life because i feel myself lacking of it.
are you scared now that God will reveal your sins to others? :)
to me i believe that after confession and repentance, the sins are covered by Christ's blood and washed away. No matter how anointed the minister may be i do not think that the Holy Spirit will reveal to him or her. but unconfessed sins, sins that you think no one will discover, like what bobby said, will be brought to the light.