6. Treasure Hunts - Practices the prophetic gifts (words of wisdom and words of knowledge) as well as the gift of healing and the gift of evangelism
This wonderful activity has swept the nation as Christians have become dissatisfied with the monotonous ineffective way-of-life that the traditional American church has been raised in. This began with Kevin Dedmon and you can read more about it in his book Treasure Hunts. So here's how you do it: get a group of people together if possible (it's not required, I started doing these on-my-own before I ever practiced this with a group), wait on the Lord for prophetic revelation for clues for who to pray for and where to go, then go out and find the people God points you to!
The way that you can be sure to practice the gift of healing as well, is to ask the Lord for people to pray for that need healing and He will point them out to you. This is the beginning of walking as true witnesses that we were called to be. I wrote another article on how essential this practice is to the growth of the believer/Church as a guest post for The Prophetic Life and you can view that article here.
Okay so this one is just what it sounds like, go to a hospital and pray for the sick. There are a few things to pay attention to when you go to hospitals. The first is that security doesn't always like it when you do this. I have never been personally kicked out of a hospital for praying for people, but I do personally know people that have been (you'd be surprised how many hospitals are branded with the name of a denomination of Christianity that disallow praying for the sick). There is a tension between submitting yourselves to authority and going through and obeying the mandate from Christ to pray for the sick. While I have called the clergy at multiple hospitals seeking permission to pray for people there, I have yet to be given that approval. So how do you get in? There are two ways that I (and others) do this.
First, if you can let your pastor or healing team leader know that you want to pray for the sick, oftentimes they will notify you when a congregation member is in the hospital. This gives you the excuse to be at the hospital. When a member is in the hospital, not only should you pray for that individual, but visit as many other people as possible! Just peek your head in and say "Hi, my name is ____ from ____ church, would you mind if I pray for you?"
The other method can be done more often, but it is a bit more risky: simply go up to the hospital/ER and start praying for people. We won't see the sick healed if we don't pray for them... and we don't build our faith on what we never do. Just be aware that people are there for a reason and that Jesus wants to heal every single one of them!
8. Spiritual Reading Booth - Practices words of wisdom and words of knowledge
As seen in Furious Love, this entails setting up a booth or table with a sign Free Spiritual Readings and giving people prophetic words. This creates excellent opportunities for evangelism as well. As the Lord reveals things about people's lives, call forth the destiny of their calling. Sow promise and prosperity over all that you minister to with the love of Christ. Do not be afraid to use the name of Jesus! However, it's important to remember when doing this that you are not brow-beating people to Christ. Nor does a prophetic word necessarily require the salvation of an unsaved person you are ministering to (let the Holy Spirit do His work, so that every time that person thinks about the word you give... he/she will be contemplating the reality of Christ).
A word of caution for this one, I do NOT recommend starting off in a New Age or Witchcraft festival like you see Jason Westerfield do. This is a great thing to do for people that are accustomed to walking in the power of God, but especially for people that have experience in battling the demonic. Those settings can be dangerous for someone that has not quite learned to walk in the authority Christ has given them yet... so just pray about it before you determine to do that in an occult atmosphere.
9. The Quickdraw - Practices words of wisdom and words of knowledge
One moderator gets two individuals to be back-to-back, the moderator then counts out 10 paces, after the 10th step the two turn and whoever gives the accurate prophetic word first wins! Obviously the paces can be increased or decreased to permit more time to receive revelation. This exercise removes the "logical" human reasoning from the process, since the immediacy of the prophetic word disallows much contemplation on the revelation. It's important that the winner must also have a correct interpretation if the revelation is abstract. In other words, you can't turn around and say "I see you looking in a mirror that's shattered into a thousand pieces and then it becomes a solid pane" (the only way that word wins is if that is something that has recently happened to the recipient, because it has no interpretation). The interpretation has to come with the abstract revelation. In the example it could be something like, "I feel like the Lord is saying that you see yourself as have a shattered/disconnected life and that the parts don't seem to make a whole, but He is saying that He is making you whole."10. Concentric Rings - Practices words of wisdom and words of knowledge
This one requires at least 6 people. There is an "inner circle" and an "outer circle". Every person faces another person. Those on the "outer circle" give a prophetic word to the person he/she faces. A moderator allocates a period of time to receive the words and then give them. After the prophetic words are delivered, the circles rotate and new words are given to the new partners.
To mix this one up, the moderator can have the group receive the revelation... and then rotate the circles (this prevents the bias of foreknowledge from interfering with the accuracy of the words). A good starter time limit is a minute. As the group progresses, the time to receive revelation can be decreased.
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