Dutch Sheets:“At times when I’m praying in the
spirit I feel like a butterfly looks.
Have you ever observed a butterfly flying from one location to another?
They flutter this way and that, up and down, ‘herky-jerky.’
It appears they do not have the slightest idea where they are going.
They almost look drunk. When I begin to pray in the Spirit, not knowing what I’m saying, sometimes with my mind wondering this way and that, I feel as though I’m trying to move in the ‘butterfly anointing.’
Have you ever observed a butterfly flying from one location to another?
They flutter this way and that, up and down, ‘herky-jerky.’
It appears they do not have the slightest idea where they are going.
They almost look drunk. When I begin to pray in the Spirit, not knowing what I’m saying, sometimes with my mind wondering this way and that, I feel as though I’m trying to move in the ‘butterfly anointing.’
Where
am I going?
What am I doing?
Will I land in the right place, on the
right person?
Is this really accomplishing anything?
But just as surely as the butterfly
knows exactly where it’s going, so the Holy Spirit directs my prayers
precisely! They WILL ‘light upon’ correctly.
[Sheets
continues by relating the experience of a minister who experienced this
‘butterfly anointing’ first hand.
While preaching in a place he was visiting, the Holy Spirit instructed him at one point to stop preaching and pray in the Spirit. He told the congregation of this, and began praying, and pacing the platform, praying the spirit audibly.
While preaching in a place he was visiting, the Holy Spirit instructed him at one point to stop preaching and pray in the Spirit. He told the congregation of this, and began praying, and pacing the platform, praying the spirit audibly.
After 20 minutes, a woman screamed in
the back of the church and ran to the front of the church. She told of her
daughter who was a missionary and dying in a very remote part of Africa.
The woman said that she had learned some of the language where her daughter was ministering, and told the minister that he had just said ‘You can rejoice, your daughter is healed. You can rejoice, your daughter is healed.’ And she was!}
The woman said that she had learned some of the language where her daughter was ministering, and told the minister that he had just said ‘You can rejoice, your daughter is healed. You can rejoice, your daughter is healed.’ And she was!}
‘WOW! Now that is PAGA! That is lighting upon the right person at the right time in
the right way. That is Holy Spirit help. That is the butterfly anointing.”
“But you,
beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit.” Jude 20, NKJV
“And he who reaps
receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and
he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows
and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored;
others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
John
4:36- 38
Prayer
Note #34: THE
BUTTERFLY ANOINTING- Taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory
Prayer (pgs. 100-101)
(5/22/12)
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