The most powerful thing in the world is the Word of the Living God. It feels just like other religious text for most of the time. But when your heart is right and you feel the words jump out of the Bible, you know that you are hearing the present highlight of God. And the power hits you. Let me share with you one occasion that happened in my office when I was reading the Book of Revelation.
'And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me. See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.' Book of Revelation 19:10. I was reading this verse and was blown away by the powerful revelation the last sentence gave. It is enormous. It is infinite. Not even Apostle John entered into the fullness of this.
Therefore, I spent some time meditating on the verse and asked the Holy Spirit to help me understand its meaning. After a few hours, the answer entered my office. A brother of church, Jim, came in and shared his testimony of how God miraculously restored his marriage. After the testimony, he said, bill, you can share my story to any other people who needed to hear this.
What Jim said to me helped me join all the dots. Testifying an prophesying are two critical element of a normal Christian life. But only at that moment did I truly understand how I could prophesy to people with Jim's testimony.
Prophecy is a word that reveal the future or a word that induced changes to the current situation. Prophecies have catalytic power. It can change the atmosphere and prepare the way and room for God's supernatural interference.
The two assumptions Jim made are first, since God did this great thing for me, He would also do it for others; second, the proclamation of a testimony is a medium to pass the promise to other needy persons.
'And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me. See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.' Book of Revelation 19:10. I was reading this verse and was blown away by the powerful revelation the last sentence gave. It is enormous. It is infinite. Not even Apostle John entered into the fullness of this.
Therefore, I spent some time meditating on the verse and asked the Holy Spirit to help me understand its meaning. After a few hours, the answer entered my office. A brother of church, Jim, came in and shared his testimony of how God miraculously restored his marriage. After the testimony, he said, bill, you can share my story to any other people who needed to hear this.
What Jim said to me helped me join all the dots. Testifying an prophesying are two critical element of a normal Christian life. But only at that moment did I truly understand how I could prophesy to people with Jim's testimony.
Prophecy is a word that reveal the future or a word that induced changes to the current situation. Prophecies have catalytic power. It can change the atmosphere and prepare the way and room for God's supernatural interference.
The two assumptions Jim made are first, since God did this great thing for me, He would also do it for others; second, the proclamation of a testimony is a medium to pass the promise to other needy persons.
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