The scriptural basis for my thought is 1 John 2:20 & 27. The reason you can’t sometimes explain what you accurately “know” is because you are taught by Holy Spirit based on the anointing over your life. As an intercessor I need to “know” things in the moment when I’m praying over patients in the hospital. Holy Spirit teaches me all kinds of things on the spot I have to go look up in the Bible later or share with my bosses. Since I understand how the anointing works and I try to partner with it, I don’t question the information or myself. And praise God, it has always been found in the Bible when I have gone looking. I HAVE read it after all. Probably many times over in fact. But nobody has it all memorized. And then there are the nuances of extra information connected to my calling as an intercessor that I just “know” as well. I can’t sometimes find chapter and verse but I can usually find Biblical examples even if I don’t have language or “how to” for hardline Biblical exegetical understanding of what I know. BTW Holy Spirit gave me that phrase, I had to look it up. LOL Example. As an intercessor who prays over people at a hospital I have to spend volumes of time reading my Bible and also praying in tongues to tap into what I call “prophetic flow”. Beyond interceding for someone’s body to be healed, they need encouragement from the Lord sometimes or a direction for His purposes in their lives. I can find verses that TALK about tongues all over the Bible. But the various denominations that say it’s strictly limited to known languages based on their own interpretation will see the same exact verses differently than I and also the literal thousands of people I go to conferences with around the world who also pray in tongues. I don’t argue, I stay in my lane, I have European friends and they all know multiple languages, 1 more wouldn’t be any sign or wonder and certainly not a sign to Peter to go ahead and baptize the house of Cornelius. Why would the Lord bother to have this household break out in French if they knew German and in such a multicultural city as Caeserea and that even get noticed by Peter as a sign of Holy Spirit? When Europeans speak to me in English then turn to each other and speak in any number of languages it definitely doesn’t register as coming from God. What happened demonstrated to Peter Holy Spirit came down on them even as yet unbaptized. Had he known it would be so hotly debated today he probably would have been more clear. LOL I also know what tongues does for prophecy but that INCLUDES specifically how I should pray for someone’s healing. Again muddy theological waters. Side note I went to a conference in Sweden and one of the sessions was literally intercession for the country in tongues. A person (it was organized) would go to the podium. Introduce their topic (schools, churches, government, people, etc) in Swedish (somebody next to us interpreted the Swedish a few times), maybe read a scripture, stepped back from the mic, and the entire congregation prayed in tongues until they stepped back to the mic to close and step off the platform so the next person could introduce their topic and scripture. It was wildly refreshing to me as an intercessor. Outside of that session we usually had interpreters. Intercession tongues does not require interpretation, tongues in church does but I’ve only seen that once in my life. And it was interpreted. Long answer short? What is your God given calling? The anointing over your life will teach you everything you need to know to blow it out of the water with God if you stay heavily in the Word. Adding a tongues-prayer-life-chaser will take it next level. And you will not always be able to explain it because God quickened the knowledge you need directly to your spirit. You just KNOW. And that’s the best. And so super cool when you hear someone teach from the pulpit what God simply downloaded to you with Biblical references and it locks into a new place. Taking an online Danish Bible school and it’s just been mind blowing.
Getting from point A to B to C and D...yes, all of that resonated. As so many of your words do here. Thank you. 🙏🏾❤️
Thanks for sharing, Brandy!
The scriptural basis for my thought is 1 John 2:20 & 27. The reason you can’t sometimes explain what you accurately “know” is because you are taught by Holy Spirit based on the anointing over your life. As an intercessor I need to “know” things in the moment when I’m praying over patients in the hospital. Holy Spirit teaches me all kinds of things on the spot I have to go look up in the Bible later or share with my bosses. Since I understand how the anointing works and I try to partner with it, I don’t question the information or myself. And praise God, it has always been found in the Bible when I have gone looking. I HAVE read it after all. Probably many times over in fact. But nobody has it all memorized. And then there are the nuances of extra information connected to my calling as an intercessor that I just “know” as well. I can’t sometimes find chapter and verse but I can usually find Biblical examples even if I don’t have language or “how to” for hardline Biblical exegetical understanding of what I know. BTW Holy Spirit gave me that phrase, I had to look it up. LOL Example. As an intercessor who prays over people at a hospital I have to spend volumes of time reading my Bible and also praying in tongues to tap into what I call “prophetic flow”. Beyond interceding for someone’s body to be healed, they need encouragement from the Lord sometimes or a direction for His purposes in their lives. I can find verses that TALK about tongues all over the Bible. But the various denominations that say it’s strictly limited to known languages based on their own interpretation will see the same exact verses differently than I and also the literal thousands of people I go to conferences with around the world who also pray in tongues. I don’t argue, I stay in my lane, I have European friends and they all know multiple languages, 1 more wouldn’t be any sign or wonder and certainly not a sign to Peter to go ahead and baptize the house of Cornelius. Why would the Lord bother to have this household break out in French if they knew German and in such a multicultural city as Caeserea and that even get noticed by Peter as a sign of Holy Spirit? When Europeans speak to me in English then turn to each other and speak in any number of languages it definitely doesn’t register as coming from God. What happened demonstrated to Peter Holy Spirit came down on them even as yet unbaptized. Had he known it would be so hotly debated today he probably would have been more clear. LOL I also know what tongues does for prophecy but that INCLUDES specifically how I should pray for someone’s healing. Again muddy theological waters. Side note I went to a conference in Sweden and one of the sessions was literally intercession for the country in tongues. A person (it was organized) would go to the podium. Introduce their topic (schools, churches, government, people, etc) in Swedish (somebody next to us interpreted the Swedish a few times), maybe read a scripture, stepped back from the mic, and the entire congregation prayed in tongues until they stepped back to the mic to close and step off the platform so the next person could introduce their topic and scripture. It was wildly refreshing to me as an intercessor. Outside of that session we usually had interpreters. Intercession tongues does not require interpretation, tongues in church does but I’ve only seen that once in my life. And it was interpreted. Long answer short? What is your God given calling? The anointing over your life will teach you everything you need to know to blow it out of the water with God if you stay heavily in the Word. Adding a tongues-prayer-life-chaser will take it next level. And you will not always be able to explain it because God quickened the knowledge you need directly to your spirit. You just KNOW. And that’s the best. And so super cool when you hear someone teach from the pulpit what God simply downloaded to you with Biblical references and it locks into a new place. Taking an online Danish Bible school and it’s just been mind blowing.