Prophetic Sense

Those of you who know me know that I believe the prophetic is in everything. There is nothing that is not influenced by the prophetic in some way. When we define the prophetic as “seeing into the spiritual realm and communicating it into the natural realm,” then we can begin to see how the prophetic feeds all that we do.

Almost everyone has the ability to see into the spirit in some way. Even those who are not Christians can see into the spiritual realm. Our bodies were created to be able to sense the spiritual realm and respond. The difference with Christians is that we are new creatures that have the capability to recognize the voice of God with a higher frequency than those who are not believers.

One of the major ways that we sense the spirit is through our imagination – our mind’s eye. We have the ability to “see” something in our mind that is not there in the physical. What we see may look similar to the physical world, because that is the way our minds were made to process things – the physical realm is the visual language of our minds. But what we see or imagine is often a physical representation – a symbol – of a spiritual reality. That is why Jesus frequently taught in parables. He used physical pictures to release a spiritual message.

When a person has a creative idea, or finds an innovative approach to something, they are pulling that from the spiritual realm. When what they pull is from God, then it has potential to transform things for the better – often in a big way. There have been many unbelievers who have stumbled across something from God and have brought it into the physical realm simply because they were looking, and God’s timing was so precise that He allowed it to be released through whomever was willing to bring it about. Historically, believers have allowed unbelievers to develop much of what God has wanted to release, simply because we weren’t looking, or because we didn’t feel that what God was saying was spiritual enough to actually be Him.

This does not mean that every idea we have is from God, or even from the spiritual realm. The Bible warns us to put away vain imaginations. Those are the ideas that are from our flesh and are self-serving. But once you put away the vain imaginations, what remains can be considered revelation from the spiritual realm that we can chose to act on or not. In later discussions, we will talk about how to determine if the revelation is from God or from other spiritual activity that has its roots in the demonic.