My own testimony: God restored to me a certain kind of prophetic gift

A few months back, before all the ugly hoo-ha started, somehow God gave me the ability to confirm whether a certain instruction was from God or not. This ability involved God manifesting his power in order to say "Yes" or "No" to a specific request. Particularly, it was helpful in terms of making decisions and when needing to know if God was in a certain decision or not; it was also useful especially in an emergency where I didn't have the luxury of praying for a long long time to get an answer to a query.

But a few months ago, I 'lost' that ability. Somehow I would pray, and ask, but nothing would happen, whether Yes or No. And I found it weird that God chose to speak to me in other ways, sometimes even speaking at length about other people's lives, but in terms of my own crucial decision making, I was left all alone to "fend for myself".

Had been very uncomfortable, and so asked myself and the Lord whether anything was wrong. 4 times I was reminded of a particular incident, but brushed it off because supposedly "I was correct".

Just want to thank the Lord for revealing so clearly yesterday. Yesterday Jan asked me to seek the Lord about a particular decision she had to make. I told her I had lost this God-given ability for some time already. Pressed by the situation, I sought the Lord again, and for the fifth time the situation came to mind. I decided to give it a go and repent (partly whether to find out whether despite all my justification, I was still in the wrong). Then the power of God came upon me, and I felt myself being restored. Cannot explain it, but something was healing within me and I felt some kind of rejuvenation--and suddenly today, it was back to good use!

I still have some unanswered questions, but I've decided to let the Lord do the sorting out of those details for me so that I can learn from them. :) Glory to God!

Postscript (14 Sept 09): I quote loosely from Benny Hinn what God was trying to reveal to me about His power--"the main thing I [Hinn] learned was that God only chooses to release his power when I choose to obey. And that is absolutely pivotal. God only chooses to release his power when you step forward in obedience. What do you do with a little that He gives you? Obey, and he increases its amount. Disobey, and God makes it stop". By the way, I had come to a similar conclusion about a week before (on my own), but didn't know how to put it into words (and was not sure if I understood correctly). =) Thank God for this article. And I don't think it's an accident that I came across this article a full 8 days later in my quiet time!