God gave me the name of a mountain range and told me to pray for it. Here’s what happened next

When God dropped the name of an Australian mountain range into Catherine Disher’s heart, it sent her on a journey of discovery. Writing on World Environment Day, she urges Christians to return to our God-given role of being caretakers of his creation

A few years ago, I awoke one morning feeling an unfamiliar grief around a name I had never heard before: ‘The Boomer Range’.

I hadn’t heard anyone say it aloud — I had simply felt it by the Spirit of God. It was as though a strange new land I’d never heard of was crying out for help. Crying out for someone to watch over it. I opened a map of Queensland and began searching. My intuition pointed to a particular region but I couldn’t find anything by that name. There were a lot of mountain ranges, but none called ‘The Boomer Range’. 

“Maybe I heard wrong?” I thought. Pushing my original impression aside, I got on with my day, but several hours later I felt it again. More intensely. Louder.    

I began to message friends who had travelled through the location I’d been researching: “Morning! I know this is a weird question and super out of the blue, but would you happen to know of a place called ‘The Boomer Range’?”  

The first travelling friend got back to me with a “Nah, sorry Cath. Can’t help.”  

The second: “No, sorry. I’ve never heard of a range called that.” 

 “Ok, obviously I’m losing the plot,” I thought. “All signs point to crazyville.” I dropped the search again and again and became busy with my evening. 

The range is real

The following morning, I awoke with the same name in my spirit yet again. It was louder. More insistent. I decided to contact one more friend who lived in Central Queensland:

“Jaz, do you know anything about The Boomer Range?” 

The Boomer Range was real. It did exist. She described to me which mountains and ranges formed it, and they were in the location I had been searching on the map.