Do you let the prophecy become alive? What do you do after someone has prophesied over your life? I think most of you, have received a prophecy in your life. If not, don’t feel sorry. Because the Word of God tells you, who you really are and through His Word, you will find out God’s plan for your life. But if you have received a prophecy, what have you done with this prophecy?
Receiving a prophecy
A few years ago, when I went to Bible College, a few teachers, pastors, ministers, and prophets prophesied over my life. The remarkable thing was, that all those prophecies were somewhat alike. They were all pieces of a puzzle, that made a clear picture of what my future would be like. I think (but I don’t say it will always happen like this), that when you receive a prophecy, you will always get a confirmation, by God, through His Word, or by people around you.
You might think, that’s nice, but why do you share this with us? Well, let me tell you that not all of these prophecies are visible in my life yet.
Maybe you have also received several prophecies and you think; that’s nice, but I don’t see any of them coming to pass in my life.Maybe you think, that they were all wrong. Maybe they are, maybe they are not. But the only way to find out is to sow those prophecies.
Sowing a prophecy
What? Sowing a prophecy? What do you mean? Well, I will give you an example: Let’s say, you have a garden, and one day you look into the garden and say to yourself: "I think an apple tree would be fabulous in my garden”. At that moment, you imagine, what it would look like. In your mind, you see the whole picture of your garden, with the apple tree. The apple tree does not exist yet, but you see it in your mind.
You enjoy what you see, and go immediately to a store, to buy the seeds. Before buying the seeds, you will look at the pictures on the bag of seeds, to see if that apple tree is the one, you had in mind. When you find the exact seeds, you buy them and take them home with you.
When you get home, you look at that picture again and get all excited. But you are also very busy, with other things, and postpone planting the seeds.
On the following days, you are so busy with the issues of everyday life, that you again, postpone planting the seeds in your garden.
You put the bag of seeds on a side table, on a shelf, or maybe you put it in a drawer. Once in a while, you open the drawer and are reminded of the apple tree. But you postpone it again. This goes on for weeks, months, and years, and after 4 years, there is still no apple tree in your garden. Why?
Don’t forget to put the seeds in the ground
The answer is very simple: because you did not put the seeds in the ground and nurture them properly. There could have been an apple tree and you could have enjoyed the apples. But you did not take action, you didn’t do anything. That apple tree only existed in your mind and on the image of the bag of seeds.
The seeds stayed seeds and never became an apple tree.
This story is the same for prophecies. You receive a prophecy, God shows you a picture of your future, you get that for free, you don’t have to do anything. It won’t cost you any effort.
When you receive the prophecy and take it, but don’t do anything with it, because you are too busy with other things, it will just stay a prophecy. Maybe if you’re lucky, it will come to pass, but it will take action from your side as well.
How do you plant a promise?
Your job is to plant that promise. How do you plant a promise? By proclaiming that promise; “Lord, you said that……“, and by thanking Him, it will come to pass.
Even when you don’t believe it, or when the circumstances are so bad, that you cannot imagine that this promise will come to pass.
Don’t give up! Keep that prophecy alive and proclaim it, day after day, and keep standing on the promise of the Lord.
You could write that prophecy down and hang it up on the wall. Every time you see it, you will be remembered, and instead of nodding and thinking; “yeah, someday maybe…“. Believe it, proclaim it and say it out loud!
Let the prophecy become alive
Call those things which be not as though they were (Romans 4:17)
I would like to encourage you, to hold on to that prophecy and don’t be discouraged. It doesn’t matter what kind of situation you are in now, or what people say about you. Believe the Word of God and His promises. Speak that promise into existence and be patient,
And while you wait, keep your eyes on Jesus Christ and stay in Him, because in Him all things are possible. Stay in Him, stay in the Word and keep His commandments. Stay on His way and don’t take any sideways.
I will promise you that if you stay faithful to Jesus, the seed will grow and bear fruit, and the prophecy become alive.
“Be the salt of the earth”
