Prophetic Acts and Intercession

11/20/2024

As a prophetic intercessor, you can be asked to do some terrifying, yet awesome work for God.  Foretelling acts in intercession are a powerful tool used to force the hand of the ‘enemy’.  The prophet/intercessor performs for God; like an actor on a stage whether it be to speak, or to perform a prophetic act. To proclaim that which is not as if it were.

The intercessor does as the Lord requires and requests. They are ministering to God and stand in the breach to intervene before judgment falls. They can take the brunt.  This takes a lot of love, brokenness and facetime to stand in the breach. 

The following story is one of these accounts. The Lord showed His mighty hand of saving the pastor and wife through the fire of this predictive performance.  In addition, He was displaying the spiritual reality through the actions that I took.

I am reminded of the verse the Lord gave me about Moses concerning the assignment: Psalm 106:23 “Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.”

His anger burned hot against this couple.  I knew because I was receiving multiples of scripture addresses regarding fire and burning as I prayed for the pastor.  It was a frightening time. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 1 Corinthians 3:15.

If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames. NIV.

In January 2012, I was awoken to a request of the Lord to burn a 25-year anniversary brochure of my former church.  The booklet had been sitting on a bookshelf for over three years, untouched.  I did as I was told and burned it outside in a metal firepit.  End of story, I thought!

I returned from church on March 18, 2012, and it had rained a couple of inches.  I went through the yard looking for any damage.  I came to the fire pit, which fills with water after a rain; I was going to dump it out.  To my surprise and shock, I found the faces of the pastor and his wife looking up at me from beneath the water in the pit!  See the charred edges of the picture below.

It appears that when I burned the booklet months earlier, it was all destroyed in the fire except a picture of the couple (just their heads).  It was so creepy to see them looking up at me from below the water.  I took the picture out and placed it in the sun to dry, not even wanting to bring it in the house.  I was scared. 

Then I went to my prayer closet asking God if this was from Him.  He gave me a scripture address:  Ezekiel 15:7 “…and I will set My face against them. They will go out from one fire, but another fire shall devour them. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I set My face against them.”

‘Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy’; page 106 states: “Dramatized prophecies…showed the true heart of God in and through the very emotions and lives of His servants.  The prophet, like a stage actor caught up in the part being played, experienced and identified with the intensity and reality of God’s love in a way not otherwise possible…he lives his prophecies.  His (the prophet’s) witness is not simply what he says but what he does…In a sense the authority of God so infused the action that the acted word was more than a symbol; it was a sign…the prophet himself was an extension of Jehovah’s personality, thereby becoming himself the word.”

Ten years later in the same month, January 2022, the Lord finalized the assignment and shockingly took the pastor home.  I believe through this prophetic act, the Lord’s anger was cooled enough to turn His wrath away and give this erring pastor another 10 years on this earth.  Ten meaning to determine whether to accept or reject something (measured in the balance).  Ten is also the number of years the church prayer assignment lasted.

“The prophets were communicators; they didn’t merely speak out prophecies; they acted them out as well. Unfortunately, the nonverbal components don’t get much press today, so we often mistake these sign acts as yet another prophetic oddity when, in fact, they’re a key ingredient in the compelling, multi-sensory presentations that fill the prophetic pages. Sign Acts: The Weird, Wonderful World of Prophetic Communication (bibleproject.com)

If you recall the prophetic gathering on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on October 12^th, believers fasted and prayed for America.  #jonathancahn #amillionwomen. During the live event, Jonathan Cahn performed a prophetic act smashing the alter of Ishtar. Jonathan Cahn Smashes The Altar Of Ishtar On The National Mall. He warned the enemy, proclaiming that which is not as if it were.

The spiritual warfare of smashing the altar of the principality, Ishtar was a markedly dramatized prophecy. This was a sign to the enemy its days were numbered and resulted in Ishtar’s crown being removed and falling from heaven over the mall in Washington DC the next night. Read the account posted 11/6/24 The Celestial Crown Fell!

As an intercessor, if you are asked by God to do an unusual task during an assignment, know that you are and have been in good company!  Redeem the time, no idle time, it’s not about building our kingdom. It’s about building HIS.  Believers are all called to affect eternity… faith without works is dead. As we have always heard ‘the Lord works in ‘mysterious ways.’

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? Romans 11:33-34.