Head Dump: Prayer 11

Prophetic prayer.

While I am praying, some prayer does not seem to flow out of my conscious mind. God calls things to my mind (scripture, songs, pictures, insights, etc.) to be prayed about. I believe that it is the Lord revealing to me things He wants me to pray about, how to pray for a particular situation, etc.

I have had this happen any number of times, often in the context of group prayer.

I think that may be related to what Paul calls, in I Corinthians 12:8, words of knowledge and wisdom. However, I do not think that this a gift limited only to those have "it." But rather can be a normal function of prayer, if one is open to the Lord speaking to (and through) us.