PROPHETIC EVANGELISM

I get an opportunity to prophetically evangelize in restaurants, airports, unusual places because of my frequent traveling. These divine appointments and encounters are the confirmation of His promise that He will make us fishers of men. I remember a few years back when I was traveling frequently from Pensacola, Florida to Ashland Virginia to Calvary Pentecostal Campground. I had three friends traveling with me. One of the gentlemen was a young man named Ryan Sellers. He had been a former college wrestler and weighed over 300 lbs., a big man. Along the way, he said he was hungry and wanted to stop and eat. I looked up and saw a sign for Ryan’s Buffet and Restaurant and I told him the Lord was looking out for him, that it was prophetic. I was only joking, but it was much more prophetic than I thought.

When we went inside the Lord spoke to me concerning a woman who was seated by herself, and I told my friends that I had a word for her. I asked them to go and pray We were in South Carolina, and I didn’t know anyone there, but I went over to the woman and told her that I was a minister and felt that God had given me a message for her. Would it be ok to share it? She didn’t say no so I began to speak. I saw a dark cloud over her head and that she recently had a bad experience of heartbreak and betrayal and that hopelessness and depression had set in and she was considering suicide. The Lord wanted her to know that He was on her side and knew what she was going through and understood the pain in her heart.

She began to weep uncontrollably. I made my way back to my seat. The restaurant was crowded. It sounded like the waitresses knew her and began to go over to her to see what was wrong. She told them what happened. They came over and asked me to pray for them and two of them were slain in the Spirit. A buzz came into the restaurant. Patrons came and I prayed for them as well. They went and got the manager and chef and again God blessed them dramatically. It made for such an unusual moment as the presence of God swept thru that establishment.
After things settled down and we were eating our lunch there were three elderly black sisters sitting about two booths down and one lady said this is what we need in our church. They asked me to pray for them. So I got up and went over to their table. She said they went to a Baptist church, and I began to pray for the baptism in the Holy Spirit. It seemed like nothing was happening and when I was through, one of the ladies said we will pray for you. They began to pray and all of a sudden, they were baptized in the Spirit and began to speak in other tongues. What an amazing moment.

As we were leaving, they were so excited and lit up like light bulbs and the one lady said she couldn’t wait to see her husband for the service that night and tell him what God did. Her husband was the pastor of the Baptist Church.

Jesus said “Follow me and I will make you fishers of Men” in Matthew 4:19. In the very next verse, they immediately left their nets and followed him. Just as Jesus knew exactly who to speak to, the timing of when to go, and what to say, He wants to lead us where to go, who to minister to and what to say to someone.
Paul wrote to the Corinthians and exhorted them to desire earnestly the spiritual gifts, but especially that they may prophesy, (1 Corinthians 14:1). Paul is saying that we all can learn how to prophesy if we desire to do so under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation, as well as edifying the church, (1 Corinthians 14:3-4). For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged, (1 Corinthians 4:31).

In John 10:27, Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me”. Isn’t it wonderful to know that we can hear the voice of God, and speak truth and life and destiny into a person’s world? A great example of this is in John 4:6, the story of the woman at the well. Jesus knew the Kairos time of meeting this woman, at this place. Kairos means to seize the opportunity, to use skill, the right moment, the opportune time, it also refers to an opening. He spoke to her and asked for a drink. Just the fact that he talked to her caught her by surprise. Jesus goes on to speak about living water and that whoever drinks of this water will never thirst again but will become in him a fountain of water, springing up to everlasting life. Now she is thirsty for this water. Jesus operates in the Word of Knowledge and says to her to go and get her husband and she answers and says I have no husband. He says, “You have well said you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the one whom you now have is not your husband.” These words were precise and unlocked her heart. Jesus now gives her the gospel because her heart was opened, and so we read in verses 4:20-26 where Jesus speaks the truth about worship and bears witness to his own deity. Probably for the first time in years she receives hope and believes.

The result of this prophetic act was that this woman received the word, witnessed to the whole city, and brought many to hear Him. Verse 39 “And many of the Samaritans of that City believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, ‘He told me all that I ever did.” Jesus did prophetic evangelism when the Father was leading Him to do it. Look at what Jesus said in verse 34. He had sent His disciples away to go buy food because He was hungry. The Father led Him to have this prophetic evangelistic encounter with the lady by the well while he waited for. His disciples get back with the food. But when they got back, He wasn’t hungry anymore, which the disciples found very peculiar. Jesus explained it to them this way: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me.”

Truly, I say to you this is the hour to be ready in season and out of season, to have your ear planted to the ground. The fields are already white for harvest for ministry opportunities, Kairos moments to evangelize prophetically. The Father says “Go” and I say to you “Go and do the Father’s will.”