Are there verifiable written reports of Christians praying to God about recent events and receiving supernatural knowledge?

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A magazine called Prophecy Today had an editorial in its August/September 1990 issue that may fit the bill. I could not find any denominational ‘tag’ for the magazine but I suppose the article writers would be open to the charismatic movement. Just to mention at the outset that the editorial Policy Statement on page 3 says, in part:

“We believe the nature of God is unchanging and that the God who communicated with his people in biblical times still communicates with his people today through the Holy Spirit… We believe that the Bible contains all that is necessary for our salvation and that it is the full and final revelation of God that can neither be added to nor taken away from…”

The editorial in question relates a BBC Radio 4 broadcast in January 1989. The editor had been part of the pre-recorded broadcast that dealt with miracles and supernatural interventions. It ended with his view that the York Minster lightning strike had been a warning sign to both church and nation, and that other signs would follow. As it ended at 9p.m., there came a sudden announcement that a passenger aircraft had crashed on the M1 motorway in Leicestershire (crashing just short of the start of the East Midlands runway on the east). The editor immediately got to prayer, to pray for the victims as well as to seek for any spiritual significance in the disaster. Several days later, he said he got an answer that was most disturbing. He had kept getting the idea of confusion and particularly sought the Lord for the cause of the confusion. That’s when he got a clear vision of the runway the plane was heading for.

He saw an open space beyond the west end of the runway, then a small wood, followed by a clearing just over a mile from the runway and directly in line with it. He saw a witches’ coven in the clearing. From there some connection with malign powers of darkness was made, which was causing confusion with the pilot and co-pilot after the port engine had suffered fan failure and fire. They needed to shut that engine down, but the report published after the public enquiry said the pilot and co-pilot argued about which one to shut down, and they shut down the wrong one, losing all power. This was confirmed in the UK weekly Flight International.

The editor prayed about this from time to time, wondering if he was to do anything about this knowledge. He asked a prayer partner who lived in the area of the airport if she knew what was beyond the western edge of the runway. She didn’t, but took three other ladies with her to tramp over the fields to find out. They found the woods a mile to the west of the runway. Further on and on the edge of the wood they found a clearing. In the middle was one of two lightning trees. Around the tree with the thickest trunk was a wide circle of large stones that had been carefully placed there. From the low branches hung a dead blackbird, on string. A photo of the site was in the magazine. An Ordnance Survey map was marked by the ladies to show exactly where the witchcraft circle was. The article had a sketch of the whole layout. If I had a smartphone, I could photograph both, but the article showed the crash site on the M1 was just short of the airport, and beyond it, about 3 miles in a straight line from the crashed plane was the coven site. The editor had never been near that area at any time in his life (and lived near Brixton), and even the local ladies didn’t know about the clearing. He noted that this was the fourth air crash to occur in successive years at the East Midlands Airport, and all four had happened in January.

After the official inquiry report had been published for that latest crash, the editor sought God in prayer for why he had shown him the witchcraft ring. He came to understand that God wanted the destructive elements of witchcraft today to be taken much more seriously. He was to (spiritually) ‘blow the trumpet’ to warn of both effects and the cause of them; to face spiritual warfare in these days, to intercede in prayer, asking God to break the powers of occultism that have widespread effects on people (not just occasional dramatic ones like that.)

So, there is one example that can be corroborated by the official enquiry report confirming confusion between the two pilots leading to an inexplicable error, as also in Flight International. Also, there are the four ladies who discovered the witches’ ring in direct line to where the passenger plane crashed on the M1, half a mile from the runway. And the Christian who prayed and got the supernatural knowledge publicly published his account. Note that this was not a premonition. Understanding only came gradually after the crash as to what was spiritually behind it. Many will mock, but since when has any Christian’s claim to have been given words of knowledge and a vision from God been taken seriously by unspiritual people? And given that this was to warn Christians to waken up to malign spiritual forces at work in Britain, the source could not have been dark spiritual forces: “If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?” Matthew 12:26

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I'm afraid this is going to be anecdotal hearsay at best, but if true, it was at least verifiable for the parties involved, as the supernatural knowledge that was (allegedly) imparted included testable predictions about events that were about to take place. Unfortunately, for the rest of us who were not there, there is no way to verify this story (which is what the OP is probably looking for). That said, the story itself is quite impressive, so I kindly request that we at least give it the benefit of the doubt.

The story starts at minute 15:42 of the video Best of FOTM - What Good is a Manual without a Radio?. The speaker, Doug Perry, is the founder of Fellowship of the Martyrs (https://fellowshipofthemartyrs.com/).