A Prophet's Life: Heather Clayton
Heather Clayton comes from a Christian family. Much of her life has been centred around Jesus, His church and His ways. Heather and her husband, Matthew, live in rural Wales and have two grown children.
She loves to be outside if the weather permits and can hear her garden beckoning often! Funny enough, Heather says she doesn't often hear it when it’s cold and rainy though (which is quite often in Wales). She also keep ducks, which were one of her daughter’s ‘lockdown’ projects.
We asked Heather a few questions and here's her reply:
How/when did you come to know Christ?
I officially made Jesus Lord of my life at the age of 13 during an evening at our local YMCA – but already had a child’s understanding of His word and enjoyed going to church and ‘Sunday school.’
Throughout my life, as I have moved around, I have been part of various churches (covering a multitude of denominations!) and have been involved in pastoring and leading for quite a few years.
Heather is sharing one of her ducks with us.
When did you meet Rebecca?
I saw Rebecca online quite a few years ago now …. not really knowing much about her apart from that the Spirit of the Lord was strong in and through her. I had been caring for my parents for years at various levels until they died – and the day after my mum passed away, I asked the Lord what I was to do with my time next. His words were ‘get in touch with Rebecca King.’ That, I did – and the rest is history, as they say!
What is your role with Invictus Prophetic Global (IPG)?
I am a core leader of IPG … and what a journey it has been from the very beginning! The Lord told me that He would teach me to be ‘comfortable with the uncomfortable’. And He most certainly has! I used to be a real ‘home bird’ for example, until the Lord started opening the doors to different nations – where we teach, train and ‘do prophet work’.
I lead Invictus Wales, or Ty y Gweleddyion (in Welsh), which means ‘House of Seers’ and walk with a wonderful group of godly prophets – all of whom carry different aspects and focuses of the prophet call. It gives me such joy to see them thrive in the things the Lord has called them to do.
What has surprised you this past year?
I know I shouldn’t be surprised by this, but the way I have experienced the goodness of God both during and after a very difficult year has been so incredible!
Where is the Lord leading you?
Back into the wildness of TRUSTING Him. In all honesty, at the moment I think He’s leading me into a much simpler but increased level of faith and trust.
I know I am to become more childlike – not childISH, childlike – whilst continuing to grow and mature. He has been showing me that I have ‘reasoned’ so much through recent years that sometimes I have talked myself OUT of the very thing He has wanted me to walk into. And of course, there have been many reasons for this…fear, preference, etc. But, often the reasoning has come from my worldly understanding of a godly concept and therefore led me to walk less in faith and more in understanding of formula of how things work. In my call to ‘mother’ those in prophetic ministry and the church, this seems to be such a strange thing to say!
What is the Lord saying to you right now?
This relates to the last question regarding where the Lord is leading me. We have become a people (church, ministries AND prophets) who are dependent on the world for so many things. I have been seeing us for quite some time, literally HOOKED up to colourful drips of special formulae for growth in different areas in the spirit that we actually don’t need but have become accustomed to. We may not even realise that we are still ‘buying into’ these because they have seemingly made such good sense. Where there may once have been a place for some of these ‘extras’ to give us fresh impetus, they are now surplus to requirements. These things are actually causing toxins within our systems now.
This is a time of unhooking from that which is no longer necessary. I am seeing this particularly as business mindsets, but we need to ask Him to show us what our patterns/ways/ministries have become attached to that we need to now choose to let go of.