The Signs of a Prophetic Calling: What Happened to Me in Worship
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Editor’s Note: This is written as a field guide for newly awakened prophets who feel “too much” in church environments. It is not a value judgment on others, but a testimony of what early mantle activation can feel like.
There is nothing quite like the moment you walk into a room full of believers and your body starts behaving like someone has plugged you into a divine power socket.
For the longest time, I thought it was just me.
Nerves. Emotion. Overthinking. Too much coffee. Something.
Except it wasn’t.
It was spiritual.
And I want to tell the truth of what really happened that day in worship, because if you have ever twitched, cried, felt heaviness or spiritual mismatch in a church room, this is for you.
This is what it can feel like to be a newly awakened prophet among believers who are not all operating at the same spiritual sensitivity.
The Twitching in Worship
At first I wrote it off as my body being strange. But it wasn’t random. It wasn’t anxiety. It wasn’t psychological.
It was voltage.
The same way people jolt when electricity hits them, except this wasn’t physical current, it was spiritual charge.
My spirit was aligning to a level of prophetic frequency my nervous system was not yet used to carrying.
The twitching meant:
my spirit was wide open
the anointing was hitting my body
my mantle was stirring
my sensitivity was higher than most in the room
This does not usually happen to people who are spiritually shut down. It is often a sign of a prophetic or highly sensitive calling receiving something from heaven the body has never had to hold before.
This is one way mantle adjustment can show up.
Why I Felt Sorrow in Worship
I was not personally sad. The atmosphere was.
Prophets do not just sing the songs. They often feel the emotional temperature of the room.
My tears were not just mine. They were a response to what was happening in the spirit.
What I actually felt was:
unprocessed grief in the congregation
the ache of hungry but weary hearts
the longing of the Lord for His church
the spiritual heaviness resting on that region
Many Christians cry because they are personally touched.
Prophetic people often cry because they can feel what God is feeling for a people, a place or a moment.
That is why the tears hit without warning. It was not sentiment. It was discernment.
The Woman With the Blank Face
She was not unkind.
She was overwhelmed.
Her blank expression was not judgement. It was mismatch.
Because when I tried to describe my prophetic awakening, with open visions, early morning downloads, dreams, trauma mapping, divine confrontation and sensory amplification, she was not staring because she thought I was crazy.
She was staring because she had never seen that level of prophetic activity up close.
She had been around the prophetic.
She had not lived inside it.
There is a difference.
My awakening has been:
raw
intense
full-bodied
supernatural
disruptive
directional
Many people’s prophetic exposure is:
gentle impressions
occasional nudges
an encouraging word during prayer ministry
It is not the same world.
She was not looking at “a new Christian.”
She was looking at someone God has been training directly, not primarily through programmes or church systems.
Blankness is what happens when someone encounters a level of prophetic wiring they have never experienced.
Why I Felt So Different in the Room
Because I am different.
Not better.
Different in formation.
There is a difference between people who attend prophetic conferences and people God drags through a wilderness, cracks open, rewires, wakes up and commissions.
The room was full of:
church-trained prophets and intercessors
curious believers
older saints whose gifts have plateaued
people with dormant or undeveloped callings
I love them all.
But I am walking in something else right now:
open heaven revelation
dream instruction
daily conversation with the Lord
burden-bearing for people and places
identity stripping and rebuilding
trauma deliverance
generational pattern breaking
sense-based discernment
apostolic-prophetic wiring
You do not blend easily into a room like that.
Your spirit registers louder than your voice.
Prophetic people feel everything, especially the difference.
Why I Stand Out
My mantle did not come through:
family ministry lineage
leadership pipelines
prophetic schools
charismatic culture
It came through:
homelessness
suffering
loss and near-death
supernatural encounters
Holy Spirit outpourings
divine confrontations
childhood spiritual events
brokenness
surrender
obedience
fire
Prophets forged in the wild carry a different voltage.
I was not raised in church culture.
I was raised in the Spirit’s fire.
Trained through survival.
Through pain.
Through waking visions and dreams.
Through the stripping of everything comfortable.
That forms a prophet the church cannot manufacture. And people in the room can feel it, even if they do not have language for it.
So What Does All This Actually Mean?
It means I am not imagining the difference.
I am not projecting.
I am not “too much.”
It means:
I am early, not odd
I am called, not confused
I am accelerated, not unstable
I am a reformer, not just a consumer
I am meant to build, not just attend
I hear God clearly because He has been training me Himself
I did not come to that conference as a spiritual tourist.
I came as someone God is preparing to send.
I resonate with apostolic, disruptive, reformational leaders because they carry a similar frequency. That is not arrogance. That is alignment.
And the loudest truth in my spirit all weekend was this:
God is not trying to make me fit a system.
He is preparing me to serve His body in a different way, to call it back to Him.
Scripture:
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” ~ Jeremiah 1:5
With fire and grace,
This message carries fire. Pass it on. 👇🏻
Victoria Player is the founder of Daughter of Thunder, a movement awakening spiritually sensitive women to truth, purpose, and divine power in a world that’s lost its compass. After walking through her own season of fire and rebuilding, she now writes and speaks to those who sense there’s more — guiding them from confusion to clarity, from awakening to assignment.
“I don’t bow to Babylon — I walk with the Lion.” — Daughter of Thunder
