At the Healing Rooms of Greater Syracuse, I ministered on a team to a young mother who was in intense pain. She said her pain level, which was in her ears and head, was an 8 or 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. She also indicated that her hearing was badly impaired and that what she could hear sounded like she was hearing underwater. She had become good at reading lips. Her mother said that she had repeated infections as a child and had a food allergy that had caused her ear drums to be damaged by the infections and subsequent scar tissue. This individual had a "seer" gifting and as such was used to seeing things in the spiritual realm, so I asked her if I could share what I saw with her as we worked through the prayer session. We do not normally share such things as someone not familiar with the seer prophetic gifting can cause an individual to fear. She said absolutely. So we began.

But just let me digress and share a little about this gift. God often speaks in pictures and sometimes in words. We see many examples of this in the Scriptures as God speaks through His prophets. As the sheep of His pasture, we are all supposed to be hearing His voice. He is always speaking, but many of us miss it because we do not understand how He is communicating. (To help you hear His voice, go to: http://godspeakonline.org and click on the orange sticky note: "God speaks, R U Listening." There are also several posts (more to come) of specific words of encouragement for the Body of Christ which will help you to renew your mind and come to an understanding of just who you are IN Christ and the tremendous love and destiny that He has for each of you).

When the seer gift is in operation, we have to understand that in many cases what we see is a metaphor. For example, you might see what appears to be snakes around a person's ankles. It does not mean there are actually snakes around their ankles. It might be that God is showing you that the enemy is trying to hinder that person in their walk for God. This is why when you see something, you always need to ask the Lord what you are seeing, what to do with it, if anything at that time, and how to share it if the Lord wants it shared.

But in this case, I was free to simply share what I saw.

As we began to pray for her, I saw a tight metal-looking band around her head going around her ears. I had a sense that what I was seeing was the outworking of a curse, but I was not sure. So I told here what I saw and we kept praying. As we prayed, I saw it loosen up ever so slightly. I asked her how her pain was and she said somewhat better. We kept praying but it would not release. I looked intently at the band and I saw a word on the band. I asked her if she wanted to know what the word was. It is always good protocol to ask permission. She said yes, and I spelled it for her. C.U.R.S.E.

I then explained to her that a curse not deserved would not light, but would return to sender. That when Jesus had remarked: "here comes the god of this age and he has nothing in Me", what He was indicating is that the enemy had nothing in His life to hang onto, no legal sin-right to afflict him. I gently shared that if the curse had effected her, there had to be a reason. I asked her if she had unforgiveness or some such undealt with issue that might have allowed the curse to light. She hesitated, but was unsure. So we kept praying, and as I watched the band I saw more words on it. They were "envy" and "jealousy". I told her the words I saw, and she said she thought she knew what it was. I instructed her to ask God to forgive her (in this case she had believed a lie of the enemy about a situation and it had caused envy or jealousy). As she prayed with her eyes closed, I saw the band slip off her head and fall around her shoulders - she was wearing it like a necklace. I asked her about her pain, which she said was vastly improved. I told her what I saw and she blurted out that she could feel the weight of it on her shoulders. I felt the Lord was not going to completely heal her during this particular session because it was a situation where He wanted her to press in and to speak to Him about this in an intimate way. I then prayed, now that the device of the enemy had been removed, for God to completely restore what the locusts had eaten. I assured her that she would be completely healed. She left with a lot less pain. See Friday, 3/16/20 for the rest of the story.