REBECCA: Then he went further. It wasn’t just to say, hey, here’s what I know. Aren’t you impressed that I knew that? But then he went further and he was able to give her his love for her, his salvation. He offered her living water. That transformation led to the salvation of her entire community. And that’s what the prophetic does, it opens hearts so that Jesus can redeem what’s been lost.
SID: You say that most people sense things, but they don’t know how to shift sensing into prophesy.
REBECCA: Absolutely. I feel like we probably all are hearing God in a continual sensing sort of way, even if we wouldn’t have known how to articulate it. One of the best, or at least most entertaining examples of this that I experienced when I was really young in the prophetic, kind of new to the prophetic—
SID: You look pretty young to me now, but everything’s relative.
REBECCA: It’s all relative. It’s one of my first times being exposed to people to prophesy in this way. And so everyone was excited this prophet is going to minister at it. So I was like, “I hope he ministers to me.” And they all said he’s a great, great prophet, and he is and was. But when he got to me, he was smiling.
SID: And your heart’s beating a million miles.
REBECCA: Oh my heart’s beating and he’s so excited and I’m so excited. What’s going to happen? And he goes, “You’re a butterfly.” Kind of like, he gets so excited. And then he’s like, Flutter, flutter you butterfly.” And then he walks away.
SID: What a profound word. See, you all can prophesy like that.
REBECCA: And for one, I felt jealous because this man was having the time of his life. God was touching his heart. You could see it on him how meaningful it was. But I mean it meant nothing to me at all. And for a second I thought, am I even spiritual? Maybe I’m missing it and everyone else gets it. But about 10 years later, Jermaine and I were sitting with a prophet, we were just meeting with him for counsel for our lives. And out of nowhere he turned to Jermaine and he said, “Rebecca, she’s like a butterfly.” And my ears perked up. And he said, “She flutters from issue to issue, topic to topic like a butterfly goes from bloom to bloom. And on the outside it looks shallow cause it’s just this in and out.” But he said, “The truth is for her, it’s her whole heart, every bit of her affection and her passion goes all in to whatever that thing is.”
REBECCA: So he was saying to Jermaine, don’t think it’s shallow because don’t close your hand on that butterfly saying that’s just a little shallow thing, but know that the intensity and the value of that. I mean both of us knew what that meant because we know me. But I wept and I immediately remembered 10 years earlier this prophet who probably saw the exact same thing and did not know how to interpret and articulate it so that I could receive meaning from it.
SID: Now, are you ready right now to be activated in prophesy? I mean, every one of you. I know you are. We’ll be right back.
