Prophetic Evangelism

As I was sharing some of my stories from Honduras at the church on Wednesday night, I realized that one of them provided a wonderful picure of the body at work. I briefly described the encounter in which Pastor Francisco led the young man to the Lord, but for this purpose I should expand upon it.

My interpreter, Teresa, was sharing about how she sees the darkness or the light within people and was giving a very specific example to me when a young man walked across the park and took a seat on the knee wall behind her. Although she did not see him, I was facing his direction and it almost seemed as though she was describing him personally. With this knowledge, I chose to open a conversation with him and ended up giving him a prophetic word and interpreting a couple of dreams, all of which indicated there was a battle between darkness and light that was raging within him. Upon recognition of what these words were speaking to him and noticing that he was open to what I had spoken, I then called Pastor Francisco over to speak to him. Within a few moments, Pastor Francisco was praying with him to receive Christ.

This is a wonderful picture of how each member of the body of Christ has a role to play and that each one is necessary in order for our primary role of destroying the works of darkness to be fulfilled. Teresa's discernment identified the one in need (notice that this happened even though she didn't know what was going on). My use of revelatory ministry opened the man's eyes to recognize his need and Pastor Francisco's evangelistic gifting brought in the harvest. This young man would not have come to the Lord without each member of the body giving the piece that they had. It is even more significant to me when I realize that the young man needed someone who could speak Spanish directly to him and not have to go through an interpreter to bring him to the Lord. For me, this is the key to prophetic evangelism. When we share what God has given us in a revelatory gifting, it needs to be interpreted and understood and it can open the door, but it takes the Holy Spirit speaking directly to the heart to complete the task.

As we continue to engage in prophetic evangelism, it is essential that we follow the instructions of the Holy Spirit in putting these teams together. We must have a team balanced with the correct giftings to meet the needs of those that God will put in our path. Each one, whether intercessor, evangelistic, prophetically gifted, discerning, or otherwise, will have an integral part to play in completing the assignments that God will place before us. No member of any outreach team is expendable, they are each a valuable part of the plan of God for the moment.