The Chessboard and the Sign of the Rook -08-13-22
Saturday, August 13th, we were praying at SOG on our Corporate Prayer Watch and as Pat was leading the prayer I saw a vision of an arm reaching over a chessboard to select a piece to move it. Now I don't play chess and I don't know one piece from another, so I just tried to focus on what the Piece looked like. It's top looked like a castle edging, so I asked the people at the prayer watch what was that piece I was seeing that had a top like a castle top? Stephen said it was a Rook. I then asked what they do, and we discussed this for a few minutes.
Then Deborah researched the word castling and found:
(Besides the basic moves of a rook, It also has a special move combined with the King called Castling. The Rook and the King moving together in a joint move.)
Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving one’s king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over.[2] Castling is permitted only if neither the king nor the rook has previously moved; the squares between the king and the rook are vacant; and the king does not leave, cross over, or end up on a square attacked by an opposing piece. Castling is the only move in chess in which two pieces are moved at once.[3]
Castling with the king's rook is known as castling kingside or castling short, and castling with the queen's rook is known as castling queenside or castling long; here, short and long refer to the distance the rook moves.[4] In both algebraic and descriptive notation, castling kingside and castling queenside are written as 0-0 and 0-0-0, respectively.
Castling originates from the king's leap, a two-square king move added to European chess between the 14th and 15th centuries, and took on its present form in the 17th century; however, local variations in castling rules were common, persisting in Italy until the late 19th century. Castling does not exist in Asian games of the chess family, such as shogi, xiangqi, and janggi, but it commonly appears in variants of Western chess.
So, yesterday, on Monday, we went to a friends house that we had never been to before and we were given a tour of their house. We went upstairs to the prayer room and on the floor right where we stood was a chess board with the pieces set up. I was so surprised and excited for the sign.
The Father is about to make an important joint move in this season ahead of us with his people moving at his side through their obedience to his instructions in prayer times. Strategies are going to be revealed which will bring forth a doubling and a multiplying of our effectiveness as we continue to agree with heaven in prayer.
Be encouraged, the Father knows exactly what He is doing with us all and also among us all. Stay focused in prayer!
(I'm sure there will be many who do play chess here that will have more prophetic insights into this vision, and can share more revelation with us on this subject.)
