Divine Alliances: Prophetic Insight About Marriage, Ministry, and Business Partnerships

This is the account of the angelic visitation I had in 1991 that led to my book Divine Alliances: Prophetic Insight About Marriage, Ministry, and Business Partnerships. 

The following is an excerpt from the book and the former name of this message was End Times Marriages. This prophetic message is starting to be fulfilled now. Couples are beginning to come together for the purposes of ministry and strategic business partnerships. 

I was at a Friday night service at a church in Vacaville, California in the summer of 1991 when during worship I saw a picture in my mind of a beautiful stream of water flowing through a wooded area. It was so vivid that I knew it had to be a vision from God. Whenever I would close my eyes, even to this day, I can still see the stream of water and feel supernatural peace.

After praying about how to respond to the vision, I felt that God was directing me to go camping and spend some time alone with Him in the woods. I had a strong feeling in my spirit that God wanted to speak to me so I came prepared with my Bible, some study books, my writing notebook, and my guitar so I could worship.

I decided to go tent-camping alone in the great Redwood Forest of Big Sur on the coast of California. Early in the morning on July 6, 1991, I went for a hike in the woods to pray. As I walked and prayed and worshipped God, I came upon the exact stream of water that I had seen in the vision the week before. I was blown away by the experience. Before I could even enjoy the peaceful setting there came a sudden, startling presence of God. It was as if I had walked into a heat wave that felt like a mini electrical storm (it was a cool sunny day). I immediately went to my knees and was breathless as waves of God’s presence washed over me.

I knew that there must be an angel right in front of me. I had never experienced anything like this. Though I did not see anything, I felt the presence of God and knew that the angel was about to speak to me. It was as if I could hear the angel’s voice speak directly to my spirit (it’s hard to describe unless you have experienced it). I began to say out loud the words that the angel was speaking to me. The words came so rapidly and spontaneously that it was obvious that I was not making it up myself. My entire body pulsated with God’s love and presence.

The angel told me about my mother’s upcoming death and instructed me to tell my stepfather to stay in church because he will remarry a godly woman. I was also told not to tell anyone about my experience until I had seen these things happen.

The strange part about this prophetic word was that my Christian mother was alive and well and my stepfather was not a Christian and did not go to church at the time. I knew that in the future when I saw these three events occur, it would signify that the rest of the message I received would transpire.

After the experience I first ran to a pay phone and called my mother to see if she was all right. I did not mention the encounter I had just had, but I did pray with her. I went back to my campsite and over the next 24 hours I continued to receive visions and deeper insight into various verses of the Bible. God began to direct me to 1 Corinthians 7:29–30 regarding marriage and some future events that were going to happen.

I also received over a dozen words of knowledge that I took back to my church for our Sunday night service. All of the words of knowledge were accurate and several people were healed, including one person who was healed of partial deafness. This confirmed to me that the entire experience was from God and not Satan masquerading “as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14).

I did some further study and research, but for the most part I felt that the revelation I received was too much for me to comprehend at that point in my life. I felt God tell me to file it away and not talk to anyone about it until He told me to. I have to admit that it was frustrating for me not to talk about such a powerful experience. Other people I knew were allowed to write books about their supernatural encounters, but I knew that it was not God’s timing for it yet.

That was 1991. As it turned out, my mom became terminally ill a few years later. My stepfather gave his life to Jesus Christ in the process and he began going to church. After my mother’s death in 1999, I was able to share with my stepfather the message about staying in church and that he would remarry.

Five years later I was the best man in his marriage to a very godly widow from his church. In 2004 I watched his bride come down the aisle and God spoke to me that it was now time to pull out the message from 1991, because He was about to do something radically new in the area of marriages, relationships, ministries, and business partnerships. He was going to realign things and bring about strategic alliances.

[Update: This book is no longer available in our online store, because I am in the process of updating it with what God has revealed since then.]

Blessings,

Doug Addison

Doug Addison is a prophetic speaker, author, and coach. He is known for his Daily Prophetic Words, Spirit Connection webcast, podcast, and blog. Doug’s message of love, hope and having fun reaches people around the world! His powerful, positively funny teaching style and coaching helps open people to discover their destiny and experience God’s supernatural love and power. He and his wife Linda live in Los Angeles, California where he is impacting the arts, entertainment and media industries.
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