How Prophetic Prayer Releases Kingdom Promises by MARK VIRKLER for Charisma News
Prophetic prayer begins by hearing God’s voice in your heart. For me, this comes as flowing words that just appear.
For example, as I was wondering how to pray for a situation in which there was animosity, the following phrase appeared effortlessly within me as a spontaneous, flowing thought:
“My peace that surpasses all understanding shall fill their hearts and their minds, their sleep, their dreams, their bedroom, their home and their office.”
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It was clear to me that I was to pray and speak this prophetic reality into the situation. This was the way God was moving in that situation. The phrase came to me day and night over three weeks, and each time it came, I declared in faith that this was God’s will, purpose and promise concerning this situation.
This is prophetic prayer. In each case, the timing of the fulfillment comes from the Lord. In this case, after three weeks I received a wonderful letter of peace! Prayer answered! Thank You, Lord!
God Speaks Concerning Prophetic Prayer
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there but water the earth and make it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands (Isa. 55:10-12).
What Does ‘My Word’ Mean?
“So shall my word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void” (v. 11a).
The Hebrew word translated “word” in this verse is dabar, and its literal meaning is “speech” or “speaking.”
