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Eleanor wrote this question:
In 2001 I was blessed with a prophetic word that included me traveling to minister across the seas. Since that time I've received another prophetic word a litle over a year later which was more laid back than the first one in 2001.My question is, if I've been disobedient in my walk with God, have I changed the prophetic word or will God keep His Word as His Word dictates?
I have had a similarly "preplexing" situation which I will share shortly. Let me start by giving you four different possible explanations of what happened:
I am not 100% accurate myself .. shock of shock. I can only think of 1 time that I have missed it (and know about it) but there could easily be others I am not aware of. Elvi Glass (a friend of mine at that time) was in the early stages of her pregancy and was having difficulties that looked like a possible miscarriage in progress. She was a bit alarmed and we chatted before the trip to the doctor's. I gave her a word that the child would come full term and that it would be healthy and THAT IT WOULD BE A BOY. (I almost never prophecy the sex of an unborn child, but I thought I heard God so clearly on this one.) I also heard the "call of God" on the child's life.. its spiritual destiny. Well, they got through the potential miscarriage, the baby was full term (and then some) .. usually Elvi has her children about 3 weeks before the doctor estimates it is due.. this once came later than the estimate. It was a perfectly healthy baby Girl. They named her Rachel.
But Rachel is a girl, not a boy. So I clearly missed it on this one. Because of that error, I am not sure whether or not the part of the child's spiritual destiny is correct.. we will see as she grows up. (I am, of course very happy that that part about no miscarriage and the baby being born healthy were accurate). But I definately heard wrong when I predicted that this particular baby would be a little boy.
Most of the time I am very accurate when it comes to specific details. But that time I missed it. It does happen from time to time, and that is part of why it is so important for each of us to to prayerfully judge all prophetic words that we get.
Usually if you are in rebellion against God, the Holy Spirit will convict you and make it very clear to you. You will know that you are in trouble with Him and you will know what changes you will have to make to rectify the situation. So the chances of being disqualified from a prophecy because of unknown rebellion is unlikely... usually God will make it very clear to you.
Let's hyothetically take the case of Moses as a young teen. God may send one prophet to tell him that God has a call and destiny on his life to lead His people and teach them His way. He could send another prophet to tell Moses that he will be exhiled to a foreign land, but fear not because God will bring him home. He could send another prophet to tell him that God would perform signs and wonders through them to the point where his very nation will be shaken. Those prophecies sound very different, don't they? They almost sound in conflict with each other. Any yet they were all real parts of God's plan for Moses.
Now on to my similar experience. I can relate to how you must feel, because I had a similar experience myself. In August of 2001, Bill Hamon came to California to meet with the CI ministers there (including me), and we were promised that each of us would receive prophetic ministry at that meeting. I had never been prophecied to by Bill Hamon before and I was really looking forward to it because I very much respected Bill Hamon as a prophet. I had received words in the past from others about God sending me to the nations, about Him releasing various anointings on me including healing and signs and wonders.
Bill prophecied that sort of thing over most of the ministers there. When he got to me, I expected that sort of word. Instead, he talked about God bringing a lot of changes into my life over the next year... some in the first half of the year but even more in the second half. He told me about how some people are trying to restrict me or tell me I am not qualified and I must not listen to them because God has called me to do it. He talked about God keeping me on the narrow path and that I must hold strictly to what God shows me to do and what I know to be His will when others try to pressure me in other directions. There was also a promise of more responsiblity and more challenge. I was told not to be anxious, to fear not and to keep waiting on God. In fact, the phrase "fear not and fret not" was used multiple times, which did not thrill me. I was basically told to keep on doing what God had already given me to do, and He would give me more opportunities later on. Then there was an aside at the end that God would provide.
That did not feel like a very encouraging word, particularly when others were getting things like, "I am lifting you up, I am enlarging your territory, I am giving you signs and wonders and miraculous healings." And (at the time) it seemed that all I got was dirctions to keep trudging along and a warning that a lot of changes were in the works that would make me want to fret and be anxious. On one level, I was so disappointed. Not one word about God having a call and destiny on my life, not one word about the nations, not one word about signs and wonders.. everyone else was getting them except me. Later than night, I began to feel like all of my previous words were null and void and like I'd somehow disqualified myself. I spent most of the night crying out to God and in the morning I called one of my mentors. He pointed out that this word does not nullify past words, that God not mentioning the power gifts did not mean that He has taken them away from me, etc. (You can read more about this experience in lesson 8 of the Desparate for a Word teaching:
http://www.godspeak.org/ps_lessons/ps18_week8.html
There are times when we feel very disapointed because God decides to speak to us about something other than what we hope He will speak to us about. This does not nullify things He has said to us in the past.
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