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Prophetic Prayer and Word for the Prayer Shawl Jessica Wickham © 09.13.06 When I make prayer shawls, it is a way to express God’s love to an individual, their colors and meanings are two-fold, the vision God gives to the maker and the words God speaks to the receiver over time and seasons. As I tell everyone, who I have ever made a shawl for as you read what God spoke to me as I made your shawl, remember seek God in everything first, my final blessing over this shawl was only that which what God wants is there and revealed, his timing, his seasons, his way (Ecclesiastes 3). I know you know these things, but from my heart I want God’s will to be done, not my own. I began making prayer shawls in 2003. A United Methodist Church, in McKinleyville, California had a Small Woman’s Group where a kind older woman taught me the skills to create these gifts of God. From her teaching and kindness I began my journey. Through word studies and Scripture I have studied mantles (like that of Elijah) and prayer shawls over time and history. The shawls I make are made up of a three-step stitch, with four loops. The stitch has three loops, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the fourth loops pull through the three loops, and is the blessed Trinity. The foundational verses of all prayer shawls are: Psalm 139:13-14, "For the Lord our God has searched you and knows you. He knows when you are sitting down and rising up. He understands your thoughts afar off. He comprehends your path and your lying down and is acquainted with all your ways. For God has formed your inward parts and knitted you together in your mother’s womb. Praise Him!! For you are truly fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are the works that the Lord has and is preparing to do. May you know him well." Numbers 6:24-26, ""The Lord will bless you and keep you; The Lord will make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord will lift up His countenance Upon you and give you peace." As I made your shawl I prayed this: May God's grace be upon this shawl...warming, comforting, enfolding and embracing. May this mantle be a safe haven... a sacred place of security and well-being...sustaining and embracing in good times as well as difficult ones
In the name of
God: the creator, the giver of life, the holder of time I knit this mantle of protection, upon her and her family. Father, in times of change, and times of rebuilding and structural change hold her in father, wrap her in your wings, may she rest in the peace and knowledge, Father that you are sovereign, and may her spirit begin to be at peace with your sovereignty, Holy One, May this mantle be a veil of protection Father, a physical symbol of what you are doing in the spiritual.
I knit this mantle
of wholeness, Lamb of God for your shed blood brings us back into
communion with you, it is a symbol of renewal with my sister, Father,
Good Shepherd, may she begin to be perfected as your bride, LORD of
Lords may she come to know you as she becomes as Adam once was made in
your likeness. I knit this mantle of strength, Lord of Hosts. I ask for your guidance, your counsel, and above all your protection from every spiritual thing that would rise up against my sister, her family, or her ministries. Father that you would continue to surround her and her family with your warring Angels, the heavenly host and prepare the ground for them, Father give them strength to endure while the war is being fought. I knit this mantle of healing, Father for healing within to without, for healing in the spiritual and in the physical, Father may she put on a garment of praise to you, to praise you Lord for the healings you have done, are doing and will do. Father, thank you for the work you have begun, thank you Father, may your Spirit blow on through her. I knit this mantle of patience, may she know your love deeper. I knit this mantle to enfold her with your presence Lord, may your presence fall anew on her. I knit this mantle to encircle her Father. Encircle her with the reminders of Your goodness, Your love, Your mercy, Your comfort and Your greatness. I knit this mantle to empower her with the gifts you have given her; with the power you have given her through the death of your Son on the cross. Finally, Father I ask you to seal your love and power upon this shawl. May only your word and will be spoken through it. Father, may she have a fresh revelation about You. May your words of wisdom and truth speak through this shawl. Amen. I can’t thank you enough for who you are, and what you allow God to do through you.
You are an awesome, woman of God. Thank you for stepping out and allowing me to make my Glory Ring. …… Sincerely, Ms. Jessica Clair Wickham~McOtter~~~~~~~~~ Permission is given to print the Prophetic Words for personal study or sharing with family, friends and/or prayer groups so long as the contents remain unaltered. Any other use of the articles or materials would require written permission. © 2001-2006 - All Rights Reserved.
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