When Prophets Don’t Recognise You: Why Your Awakening May Look Nothing Like Theirs
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Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. ~ Jeremiah 1:5
And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and He set me on my feet. ~ Ezekiel 3:24
The fire shut up in my bones. ~ Jeremiah 20:9
Editor’s Note: This journal entry speaks directly to the misfits and the newly awakened ones who wonder why their encounter with God looks nothing like the stories they hear in church. If your awakening has been violent, emotional, disorienting or supernatural, this is for you. You are not alone. And you are not crazy.
I sat down next to a woman on the first morning of Convergence, full of hope that I had finally found a room where people would understand me. A room full of prophetic voices. A room full of people awakened by God. A room full of people who had heard the whisper, felt the fire, seen the visions and lived the shaking.
So when she asked, Tell me what your awakening has been like, I told her.
I didn’t sugar-coat it. I didn’t dilute it. I didn’t hide the supernatural.
I told her about the dreams that opened like scrolls.
The grief that rose out of nowhere.
The early morning visitations.
The life review.
The mantle that landed like fire.
The shaking.
The visions.
The voice of the Lord that moved through me before I even knew His name.
And I watched her face the entire time.
Nothing.
Blank.
Puzzled.
Curious but not resonating.
For a moment I wondered if I had misjudged the room.
Wasn’t this a prophetic conference
Wasn’t this the place where people understood spiritual awakening
Why didn’t she recognise one single thing I was describing?
I walked away confused… until the Lord spoke.
Not all prophets awaken the same way.
And suddenly everything clicked.
Some prophets awaken gently. I didn’t.
Some prophets grow into their gift slowly, nurtured inside church culture. They sense impressions. They hear God through Scripture. Their awakening is steady, incremental, pastoral, contained.
Mine wasn’t.
Mine was a spiritual earthquake.
Mine tore my life open from the inside out.
Mine was loss, homelessness, grief, collapse, isolation, supernatural encounter and commissioning all woven together.
Mine was God flipping tables in my soul to get me out of the life that was choking me.
I wasn’t awakened.
I was summoned.
And that’s when the Lord explained it.
Remnant Prophets Are Awakened Differently
A remnant prophet is not raised in the pews.
She is forged in exile.
She is called outside the structures.
She is awakened violently because her assignment is violent.
She is trained by collapse because she will carry fire into a collapsing world.
She is awakened through stripping because her voice must be unpolluted by man.
She is called through supernatural shaking because natural language will never be enough for what she must speak.
Your awakening will always match your mantle.
And mine is not gentle.
It is thunder.
Biblical Proof: Prophets Awaken in Different Ways
When I looked at Scripture, it became undeniable.
Samuel
Awakened by a gentle voice in the night.
A tender calling.
A soft entry.
A Nabi prophet raised in the house of God.
Jeremiah
Awakened by grief, burden and fire that burned in his bones.
Emotional intensity.
Heaviness.
Internal combustion.
A weeping prophet forged by sorrow.
Ezekiel
Awakened by visions that knocked him flat and the Spirit physically entering him.
Trances.
Supernatural experiences.
Signs.
Physical manifestations.
A prophet of encounter.
Elijah
Awakened through wilderness, collapse, exhaustion, loneliness and angelic visitation.
A remnant prophet who confronted systems.
Daniel
Awakened through dreams, angelic encounters and revelation knowledge.
A prophet of insight.
Mary
Awakened suddenly, unexpectedly, by divine visitation.
A prophetess called outside institutional religion.
All prophets.
All different awakenings.
Mine is in the lineage of Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Elijah.
Remnant.
Raw.
Supernatural.
Costly.
Fire-forged.
No wonder that woman looked at me blankly.
She has likely never lived through this kind of awakening.
Her gift didn’t require it.
Mine did.
Your Awakening Reveals Your Assignment
The Lord said to me later that day:
The shaking is the sign of your office. The fire is the proof of your mantle. The wilderness is your training ground. You are not waking up for the church. You are waking up for the world.
And suddenly it made sense why:
the dreams were relentless
the grief was prophetic
the visions were specific
the timing was divine
the encounters were physical
the voice was unmistakable
the mantle dropped like a weight
the transformation was immediate
the cost was catastrophic
the call was unstoppable
I was never meant to awaken gently.
I was meant to awaken like thunder on dry ground.
Because my assignment is not to comfort the comfortable.
It is to awaken the asleep.
To call the hidden ones out of the shadows.
To name the experiences no one in church knows how to translate.
To speak to the misfits, the outsiders, the wilderness women, the remnant.
To be the voice I didn’t have.
Why You Must Know This
If your awakening looks nothing like the people sitting next to you
If your encounters are violent, emotional, supernatural, or strange
If the Holy Spirit hits your body like voltage
If dreams ambush you
If grief rises without warning
If visions come without permission
If your life fell apart just before God’s voice came alive
You are not broken.
You are not unstable.
You are not too much.
You are not imagining it.
You are being awakened according to your mantle.
Some prophets grow.
Remnant prophets erupt.
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
