Inside Pass to Prophetic Feeling

My last post gave a little history and foundation for the whole concept of prophetic feeling.  This post will cut to the chase and explain a few of my recent experiences as a prophetic feeler.  Before I go on, I first want to say that I am discovering there is great diversity among the prophetic gifts as well as great diversity within the same prophetic gift.  A gift and how it is expressed and experienced can vary greatly from person to person.  That being said, please don't be discouraged or make harsh comparisons if your experience is not the same as mine.

Today I woke up anxious.  I felt like ants were running all over my little emotional nerves.  I had no reason to be the feeling nervous but the feeling reminded me of how I felt during finals week in college.  I pushed away and set about making coffee.  I put on some worship music and began to sing but quickly got distracted.  The discomfort drove me and I could not sit still.  I did not know if I was feeling something in the atmosphere, in the spiritual realm or one of my close family or friends.  I did not know if it truly came from me.  Finally, I gave up trying to concentrate on God and went for a walk by the water.  The feeling continued unabated.  For me prophetic feeling is strongly tied to physical sensations.  My body acts like at translator of prophetic feeling.  This morning, my stomach was in knots, and I was slightly nauseous.  My head hurt and my skin felt itchy and irritated.  I pushed all of these things aside and chalked it up to being tired and worried about work and being behind in my paperwork.  Then I stepped into work and the uneasiness continued and intensified. I work for a recovery program and today was graduation day. Today there was 50+ women excited and nervous to be graduating from another semester of program.  I could barely concentrate.  Again, I dismissed it as my own internal stress and concerns.

Eight hours later I stood and clapped for the women as the graduation event was finally over.   The women were all smiles and some happy tears.  As the last woman exited off the stage, I felt a moment of huge relief.  The nervous feeling left and the antsy feeling dwindled away.  My stomach relaxed and my skin did not feel as irritated.  I could not believe it.  It seemed that much of my struggle the first part of the day was from the women and the community I am deeply connected to.  The shift was so sudden and dramatic that I could not help but notice.  I am sure there are other factors in play that I have yet to discern or identify but the experience was remarkable.  I know that the HS does not desire for me to struggle as I did but I still have yet to discover how to find relief when I become overwhelmed by the intense emotional riptide that I was drug into. 

From my experience, part of the issue is struggling to identify where the input is coming from, and  the potential for multiple levels of input.

So this thing called Prophetic Feeling

Five years ago, I was sharing with a friend about my experience of how certain things tended to impact me deeply and it could take days for me to get my equilibrium back.  She responded and said, oh you must be a feeler like me!"  When she said it, something rose up inside to meet her words with a yes!  This statement started me on a journey to understand this thing called a prophetic feeler.  One clue, led to another to yet another God appointment and connection till I well and truly understood that I was a Prophetic Feeler, that I was not alone.  A year after the conversation with my new friend I was able to understand that my ability to feel things so deeply was an ability given and powered by the Holy Spirit for the purpose of the establishing the Kingdom.  However, looking back it has become clear that through much of my life this ability had been a significant source of suffering and heartache.

So what is prophetic feeling or a prophetic feeler?  In all reality it is a made up term prophetic folks came up with to describe what a section of prophetically gifted folks were able to do.  It describes how some people are able to experience for themselves, the feelings and struggle of others and God, through their own emotions or being.  A few years ago prophetic feeling was not that well known or discussed.  However,  something has shifted in the last year or two and more and more people are aware of this gifting and or familiar with the term.



Prophetic Feeling = Overwhelming + Draining

For me prophetic feeling as been a real source of suffering and presently still is.  My hope is that through this blog, I will remember and grow in greater revelation from the HS of what it means to be  a feeler.  I hope that other prophetic feelers can benefit from my experiences and have hope for how to manage and use their gifting instead of having it crush them.  I also hope that those who know  prophetic feelers might be better equipped to cover, challenge, collaborate with and understand the feelers whom they know and love.