Jess's prophetic history part 3

I have dated very few women in my lifetime, partly because of the call of God upon my life. However, if I were to put out a personal ad, it would probably go something like this:

WANTED: Relatively young Proverbs 31 woman who is an intercessor and a worshipper of God (preferably a worship leader). Has experience in confronting principalities and powers in Christ with the healed-up wounds to prove it. Knows that they will likely suffer, be imprisioned, and martyred for the Gospel. Preferrably knows several languages, likes to travel, and likes intense situations. CALL I- Ha,Ha,Ha,-He he.

Goofing off and personal ads aside, Here are some scriptures:

Isaiah 6:8- Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?

Matthew 28:19-20 "Go therefore into all world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit; teaching them to obey all I have commanded you. And I am with you always, even unto the End of the age."

1 Corinthians 4:13 When we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

STORIES:
During a time of overt mistreatment by an older roommate in 2006 God directly gave me the bottom scripture (when I didn't know about this passage) as a prophetic word in describing why he allowed so much pain and difficulty during my elementary school days where I was literally treated as "the scum of the earth". This was not the first (or last) time I had been given a prophetic word like this.

Holy Spirit Conference 2003 story.

I knew that this was my last Holy Spirit conference before I would go to IHOP-KC. R.T. Kendel had spoken about overcoming offense and I went forward, though I was not consciously aware that I was holding offense against someone. Earlier in the day, God spoke to me a little bit about why He was sending me to Kansas City.

I got prayer from Bob and his partner who were captains of the altar ministry team. They begin praying over me and Bob strongly gets the prophetic word, "Apostle". (Oh great...maybe he knows God is sending me to KC.) His partner gets a vision of me in the middle of a parade, leading it along the street with large crowds on the side. Add this to IHOP history CD #7 and what God had spoken earlier in the day and I was trembling with the fear of God.

The next day, I didn't want anything to do with the conference but I came back for the evening session. I got prayer from my friends in my Church Bill and Teresa. Bill prayed something like this:

"Oh Lord, bless Jess as he goes to Kansas City...and make Him a leader, and let Him touch millions and millions of people."

This 2-day incident had confirmed 2 other major prophetic encounters I had experienced in the last year:

1. August 10th, 2002- Open vision where I saw the flags of the nations of the earth rotating around the earth, me preaching in power to fields of people as far as the eye could see. God gives me Matthew 28:18-20.

2. February 21st, 2003- Another open vision where I saw the floods of glory, judgment, mercy, and grace filling the earth. God gave me Ephesians 5:25-27. It was about the call of God upon my life.


September 16th 2006- I was sitting at the front when I was asked to move. It turns out that someone had forgotten to reserve 2 spots for some key Cyrus partners. Mike was staring at me in the midst of this whole awkward drama.

All this was going as Mike Bickle was reviewing the parade experience (in CD #7). I was sitting near the front. He mentions in sharing the story, "Those whom God calls to this type of ministry will be known for their meekness, for their identity will be in who they are before God, not what they are doing before people."

What's the ultimate purpose of this individual ministry call? Tune in tommorrow...

Jess Gjerstad