Translation from Spanish
[Revelation 12:11] And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
I want to share my testimony about how the Lord began to speak to me, how I started hearing His voice, and how He revealed my calling to speak to the nations.
I prayed a lot and kept asking the Lord, “Lord, what do You want me to do? Do You want me to only prophesy, or also share my testimonies about everything You have done and are doing in my life?”
I didn’t want to do anything that wouldn’t please the Lord or share anything that came from my own ideas; I only wanted to do what He asked of me. I felt a stirring in my heart to begin sharing the experiences He had given me, the things He did and does in my life, and the Lord answered me through a dream.
In that dream, I saw some text that said, “All the works that Jesus does in your life, you should share them with your brothers,” and I woke up. At that moment, I felt a conviction in my spirit that the dream was from the Lord. When a dream comes from the Lord, He usually makes sure we know it.
Another reason I will share my testimony is because I feel it’s a sign of respect for the person who hears the prophecies God gives me. When I listen to a sermon or am built up by someone, I like to know who that person is and how they live. I like to hear their testimony to know how God touched and called them, and why they do what they do.
First of all, I was always a perceptive and sensitive person. Even before I was converted, I had some supernatural experiences, like dreams that came true, and I was always drawn to the supernatural. I always knew there was something beyond what we could see, but it wasn’t as intense as it is now.
From the moment I was converted, I started having dreams and visions of stars falling and fire coming down from heaven, and I began to receive revelations and words of knowledge about people. I also had a certain degree of discernment of spirits, but it wasn’t as strong as it would be later.
When I met Jesus, the first thing I did was develop a personal relationship with Him, with God the Father, and with the Holy Spirit. I made an effort to know Them. I was so hungry for the Lord and to know His ways.
I spent all my free time reading and listening to the Bible, listening to sermons, researching, studying. It was like nothing satisfied me. I had to seek for myself, aside from the teachings I watched and the encouragement I received through other brothers and sisters.
I was always passionate and a perfectionist in everything I did, and now I had even more reason to do it that way for the Lord. That’s how I felt.
Some time after meeting Jesus, I began to seek and ask what my calling was and what my place was in the body of Christ. The urgency kept getting stronger. I felt I had to do something.
All my life I felt I had to do something, but I didn’t know what it was, and even though I had moments of happiness, I never felt fulfilled. I always felt something was missing, that there was something I had to do, but I had no idea what it was. I was always searching, but I didn’t find it until I met Jesus.
That feeling kept getting stronger, especially after I was converted and established that relationship with the Lord, after getting to know Him and His ways, having a life of prayer, fasting, praise, and fellowship, laying the foundations of faith.
From there, this urgency to know what my place was, what part of the body of Christ I was, kept growing more and more. But God took me through a process. First He told me, “Build yourself up.”
This need to know what I had to do became so intense that every day I prayed, cried out, and even wept. It was like a fire burning inside me, and I had to know what it was that I had to do.
One day I was praying, asking the Lord to show me my path: “Lord, what should I do? How do I serve You? I want to be useful and do things for You. I want You to see how much I desire to serve You and work for You.” I closed my eyes, trying to listen, and then I heard, “Build yourself up.” It wasn’t an external, audible voice, but an inner voice, different from my own thoughts.
In that moment, I knew for certain it was the Lord answering me, and I understood that He was telling me, “First, put things in order; first, learn how to be a woman, how to be a wife, how to be a mom, how to be My daughter, and then I will show you your place in the body of Christ.” That’s how I understood it, and that’s how it was.
After that, the urgency to know what I was supposed to do grew stronger and stronger, and the Lord began to ask me to let go, one by one, of the things from my old life.
I was a dance teacher. I had been dancing since I was eleven years old, and all my life I was a dancer. Dance was my passion, and it became my idol. It was practically everything to me. I loved my profession; I spent countless hours dancing, teaching, and rehearsing. I felt that if I didn’t dance, I was nobody.
I also had a dance school, and when I had just converted, my conversion was so intense and honest that I started choreographing for the Lord. I began to dance for the Lord and to preach to my students and their parents. I started to talk about Jesus, even at work. I didn’t feel that the Lord was condemning me for what I was doing, because my motivation was to do everything for Him.
This lasted a year, and then the Lord began calling me to let go of everything that represented my past life. Even though I had transformed my dance and was serving Him through it, I felt that stage of my life had to come to a close.
I loved my students, but the Lord was asking me to be free for something else. The Lord didn’t pressure me or make me feel condemned, but He put in my heart the sense that it was time to close that chapter so I could be completely free for Him to show me my purpose and my calling.
So there came a moment when I made the decision to close the school and stop dancing. That was around May 2016, and it was a big step in my process of leaving the world behind. And only then, when I truly felt free from the world, did the Lord begin to answer my prayers and give me a dream.
In the dream I was at home and from the window I saw a tsunami approaching. Even though I tried to stop it, I couldn’t. That giant wave didn’t destroy my house, but it flooded it completely, and there was nothing we could do to get the water out.
A few days later, the Lord gave me the interpretation, showing me that the tsunami represented the Holy Spirit, who would come into my life in an overwhelming way, that I wouldn’t be able to stop Him, and that what would happen would be shocking, something very big that would manifest suddenly and that no one could stop.
A few days later, I was in bed with my eyes closed, trying to sleep. I wasn’t praying or reading the Bible or thinking about anything related to the things of the Lord. Suddenly, I began to hear a voice saying, “Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that I am the King.” It wasn’t an audible voice, but an inner one. This disturbed me and I didn’t understand what was happening to me. I thought, “It must be my own thought, something that came from my head.”
I closed my eyes again, trying to fall asleep, and after a while I heard the same voice again: “Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that I am the King, the first and the last, the Alpha and the Omega.” I opened my eyes and asked myself, “What is this? What’s happening? Could it be that the Lord is speaking to me?” But I didn’t believe it and I didn’t accept it. I didn’t think I was worthy for the Lord to speak to me, and I didn’t know He could do it in that way.
I hadn’t asked for the gift of prophecy, because it had only been about a year and a half since I’d converted, and even though I’d read about prophecy in the Bible, I didn’t know much about it. I thought prophecy was just about predicting the future, and I didn’t realize it was also about sharing the mind and heart of God.
I wasn’t scared or afraid, but I was definitely unsettled. I asked myself, “What is this?” and that’s when I started to remember some scriptures where God called the prophets. But it was as if the devil was playing with my unbelief, my doubts, and my lack of self-esteem, and I thought, “It can’t be. It’s not the Lord. It has to be something else. It must be another spirit. It must be me talking to myself. These must be thoughts coming because I’m trying to fall asleep.”
But then I figured I had nothing to lose by listening, just to see what would happen, so I said to the Lord, “Lord, if it’s You speaking to me, I ask You please to reveal it to me. I’ll listen without judging, just trying to clear my mind, open my ears, and see what happens.”
I closed my eyes for the third time and tried not to think about anything, because I didn’t want to get involved in what was happening. I didn’t want to influence it; I just wanted to see what would happen. That voice started speaking again, adding more phrases: “Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that I am the King, the first and the last, the Alpha and the Omega, and I will come with my white horse, and all the nations will kneel before Me, because I will destroy them simply with the spirit of My mouth, with the breath that comes from My mouth.”
As I listened with my eyes closed, I was both amazed and troubled. I felt a spiritual battle inside me. On one hand, I thought, “No, it can’t be,” but on the other hand, I wanted to keep listening. I decided I didn’t want to believe it or accept it and I lay down to sleep. But the next day I felt a fire inside me. It wasn’t a fire that hurts, but something burning within me, and I couldn’t stop thinking about what had happened.
Besides that, I questioned a lot of things, because at the same time I was hearing that voice, I could feel that it was someone else. I felt an authority and a respect that I had never experienced before. It couldn’t have been me speaking.
I kept doubting and it was very hard for me to believe, but every time I tried to sleep, the same thing would happen again, and every time I tried closing my eyes during the day to see what would happen, I would hear that voice again, always circling around the same theme: “Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that I am the King…”
I needed to listen and understand what was happening to me; I needed answers. I started talking about it with my husband, and together we began to test it to see if everything lined up with the Bible. What I heard was related to biblical prophecies and added to them, but always in harmony with the Scriptures, never unbiblical or leading to sin.
I began to ask the Lord, “If it is You, Lord, why are You speaking to me? What do You want me to do with this?” I felt as if the Lord was pushing me to do something, but I still didn’t understand what it was, until I tried to listen and the Lord said to me, “Share it. It’s a message for the church. Share it. Make a video. Record this message I’m giving you.”
So I recorded it and published it on July 9, 2016, with the title “Every Knee Will Bow,” and only when I shared that message was I able to have peace. When the Lord asks you to do something and you finally obey and do it, no matter if it’s pleasant or not, if you want to do it or not, that’s when peace comes, and that’s usually a confirmation.
From that moment on, everything began to change, because prophecy transforms you deeply—not just because you can hear the Lord, but because you can feel His heart and know what He wants, what pleases Him and what doesn’t please Him.
I began to look more deeply into prophecy, into how the Lord speaks, and I started to find many answers, especially since we weren’t attending any church. Everything that happened to us came directly from Jesus. He was our pastor and our mentor.
Back then, I would talk with my husband about the interpretation of tongues. One day, while I was home alone praying, sitting on the carpet, a thought came to me: “But the Word says the one who has the gift of tongues should pray to be able to interpret.” I already had the gift of tongues, so I said to the Lord, “Lord, if You want to give me the interpretation of tongues, if You find me worthy, please give me this gift, in the name of Jesus.”
I started to pray in tongues, closed my eyes, and tried to listen for the interpretation, and I began to receive it—mostly in the form of images, because the interpretation of tongues isn’t a translation.
I spoke in tongues again, closed my eyes, and got ready to listen. This time, it was a prophecy, and that surprised me, because I didn’t know how the interpretation of tongues worked or what you might end up hearing. I didn’t know you could prophesy in tongues either. I would say a phrase in tongues, interpret it, and in the interpretation the Lord would speak about what will happen in the world.
The same thing happened with the interpretation of dreams. Back then, in the month of July, the Lord gave me a dream, which I shared in the video called “Is Your Spirit Dead?” After the tsunami dream, that was the first dream the Lord gave me along with its interpretation. I hadn’t asked for anything, and the Lord gave me that dream. I was sure it came from Him, but I still didn’t understand it.
I asked for the interpretation and a few days later, I received it. When the Lord wants to speak, He gives you a sense of urgency—that you have to seek out the answer no matter what. The Lord revealed the interpretation to me and told me again, “Share it. Publish it. Speak about this dream. It is for My people, it is for the church, so that they will wake up and follow Me and know Me.”
That’s how the gift the Lord had given me started to unfold.
The truth is, I had never asked for prophecy. The only thing I would ask in prayer was, “Lord, reveal Your things to me. I want to know You more. I want to know more about Your mysteries. I want to have discernment to know when something comes from You and when it doesn’t. I want to know more about You.” But I had never specifically asked for the gift of prophecy, because I didn’t really know what prophecy was and I also felt I wasn’t worthy to receive something like that. I still felt like a baby, too insignificant to receive something so great from the Lord.
The same thing happened with the discernment of spirits. I began to see what spirits each person had—whether they had the Holy Spirit or not, what kind of spirit they were praying with, or what kind of demons they had. I would see the people my husband was praying with and say to him, “This person has a spirit of alcoholism. This person has a spirit of fornication. Be careful, because this person is praying with this kind of spirit. This person has already received the Holy Spirit.”
It was as if it just started happening, just like with the word of knowledge. I had already had the word of knowledge since I was converted, but now it was much more intense and mixed with the gift of wisdom and the gift of prophecy.
When we ministered to someone, the Lord would start to give me a word of knowledge about their past that was connected to their present, and that would lead me to see what needed to be done about their future—what direction to take, what needed to be corrected—and that’s how I would deliver a prophecy.
Revelations from God started coming to me in many ways, but especially through images. I am very visual, and I receive visions and dreams, although dreams are not the main way God speaks to me. I see what happens in the spirit, but I also hear the Lord’s voice or receive revelations through impressions, knowledge, sensations, and even smells.
For example, once we were ministering to someone and I started to smell cigarette smoke, even though we don’t smoke and there was no such smell in my house. So I said to my husband, “This person smokes, because I am smelling cigarette smoke.”
The Lord also allows me to see, know, and feel people’s hearts and their intentions.
The Lord began to show me whether people were in sin or not, and what kind of sin. He began to show me the past, the present, and the future, to the extent that He allowed me, and also the kind of calling they had, what the Lord had created them for. The Lord began to give me not only exhortation and edification for others, but also direction and sometimes correction.
Since July 2016, the Lord also began to show me things in the spirit—good things and bad things, things that come from the light and others that come from the darkness.
For example, I can see things around people, above people, or inside people. I see spiritual burdens on their backs, spiritual blockages, snakes around their necks, clouds over their heads, blocks of cement on their necks, or spiritual yokes.
I can also see if there are angels around people. I can see the anointing, oil on their backs, on their heads, on their hands, or fire in their hands. All these kinds of things are what the Lord began to show me since He gave me this gift and showed me my calling in July 2016.
That was when I realized that the tsunami dream had started to come true, because all of this happened together and all at once. When the Lord began to speak to me, He never stopped. I couldn’t stop it. It was something burning, overwhelming, something that impacted us deeply. It was very strong and unexpected. I never asked for this and I never thought it was possible. I saw it as something very far off, because I didn’t know any prophets and I didn’t go to church.
From that point on, a process began—a process of understanding, accepting, and acting, a process of training, healing, and deliverance, to learn what I had to do with what the Lord had given me and how to do it for Him.
I asked myself many questions: “Why is this happening to me? Is it okay for this to happen to me? What kind of gift do I have? How do I use all this? What do I do with these messages and revelations that the Lord was giving me more and more? What do I do with what I hear and what I see? How do I share it? Do I speak it? Do I write it? Where? How? Lord, what do You want from me?”
God always guided me in everything directly. Yes, my husband was always supervising everything, and he is the one who gave and gives me the OK, who tells me what I have to do and what not to do. But it was God who showed me my calling directly. No one laid hands on me to receive this gift. It was a direct calling from Him.
Every time I prophesied or opened my spiritual ears to hear Him, He would say to me, “Get up, Noelia. Speak on My behalf. Do not stay silent. Do not be afraid. I am with you. Open your mouth. Do not be rebellious,” because sometimes I had so much doubt and unbelief that I thought this couldn’t be for me. I wanted to step away and distance myself. I didn’t want to know anything because I didn’t want to do it wrong.
The Lord began to show me what my calling was during those months, especially in July and August. He revealed it to me directly, saying, “I call you to speak to the nations, to give messages to My people. Use all the gifts I gave you to build up My people. I want them to know Me, to seek Me, to wake up. Work with My people. Bring deliverance and healing to My wounded people. Impart gifts. Write. Publish the messages.”
The Lord showed me, one by one, the different aspects of my calling, including the artistic and musical sides. He would say to me, “Sing for Me and dance for Me. Praise Me,” and encouraged me to show His people how much He loves praise and worship.
That’s how the Lord revealed His calling for my life and began to speak to me and manifest His gifts in me. All of this came from Him, and I responded with obedience.
This completely changed our lives. First, my husband and I had to test it, because we know the enemy also imitates and counterfeits, and always tries to interfere. We had to learn that the enemy has power too, and we learned to discern when and how the Lord speaks through His Spirit.
I had to learn what kind of gift God had given me, because little by little we realized I could not only prophesy, but also see that what God was revealing to me was happening in the spirit.
I had to do a lot of research, pay attention to the manifestations of the Spirit in me, and compare what the Bible says about the different levels of prophecy to understand what kind of gift the Lord had given me. I studied what the Bible means when it talks about the spirit of prophecy, which is the testimony of Jesus in Revelation 19:10, and what the difference is with the gift of prophecy mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:10, which any believer can receive. I also looked into the difference between the gift of prophecy and the gift of prophet that the Lord mentions in Ephesians 4:11, an ascension gift that Jesus gives to some.
That’s when we began to realize that this last gift was the one that best matched what was happening to me. Once we understood the revelations were coming from God, I had to accept that He had given me a gift I needed to learn to use, guided by the Spirit. I had to trust God, because He was sending me to use these abilities He had given me.
I would say to Him, “Lord, how do I do this?” I felt totally incapable. I felt like I wasn’t worthy of what He’d given me and that I wouldn’t be able to do it the way He wanted. But He would say to me, “Just trust Me, I will do it through you. Just trust Me. Be obedient and surrender to Me, and sanctify yourself.” He always answered me. He never left me alone, even when I wanted to walk away from all this.
It was like when someone gives you a bicycle and you have to learn by practicing: you fall, you get up, over and over, until you learn to ride well. Like a dad who gives you a bicycle: at first he helps you so you don’t fall, but in the end you’re the one who has to do your part, learn to ride it, and take care of it. Or like if I gave my daughter a tablet: she has to charge it, take care of it, clean it, and learn to use it, without expecting the tablet to do everything on its own.
We have to be good stewards of the gifts God gives us and work to nurture what He’s given us and help it grow.
I had to cling even more to the Bible and learn more about prophecy, as I said before, even though I was already walking very, very close to Scripture, reading and listening to the Bible every day, praying, and listening to teachings and sermons, learning and studying.
For someone with a prophetic calling, prophesying becomes a necessity. If they don’t do it, they feel like a plant that’s drying up. And one of the devil’s tactics is to take advantage of that, so the person focuses only on prophesying and stops reading the Scriptures, leading them down the wrong path.
That is why I began to focus much more on the Bible, always consulting my husband about what I was seeing and hearing, seeking his guidance and the discernment he has.
That is how the Lord began to shape my character. He taught me discipline, He taught me to trample on my pride, and He showed me how to use the gift through the fruits of the Spirit, which is so important. The Lord also taught me to work for Him regardless of the problems, even on difficult days or when emotions do not help.
God was shaping in me a much more balanced and upright character. I came to understand that having a lot of revelation and prophesying without a meek and balanced character is very harmful and dangerous. A prophet needs extreme self-control and must be completely submitted to God. All followers of Jesus must submit to the Lord, but I believe a prophet’s surrender must be much deeper, and the prophet must be even more submitted to the Lord.
I began to realize that the more I allowed God to work in me, the more I surrendered myself into His hands so He could shape my character, and the more holy and set apart from the world I lived, the more clearly I could see, hear, and discern His voice, and understand and interpret the revelations He gave me. Because it is not just about receiving information, but about knowing how to interpret it and communicate it.
That is how the process of healing and deliverance began and intensified in my life. God was healing traumas from the past, like fear and sadness, which were very strong. He began to unify the parts of my soul that the enemy had fragmented and to cleanse all the filth that was in me.
From that point on, the process of surrender, breaking, deliverance, and healing became even deeper, and the Lord began to train me so I could respond to this calling.