This is Chapter 1, an installment of a new series, entitled Standing on God’s promises, a memory and a personal look at my life.
I have said it, I will also make it come true; I have proposed it, I will also do it. Isaiah 46:11
It was a sunny day in Coffs Harbor, a rural town in New South Wales in Australia. There was a group of about 50 people around a plane that could accommodate about six people in addition to the pilot.
The men on the plane that day were going to an evangelistic meeting in the inner cities of New South Wales and New South Wales, two of Australia’s states. All the churches in all the towns that they were going to visit during a two-week trip knew they were coming and had used flyers in their respective towns to announce that there was going to be a plane full of people coming to speak about the Christian faith. .
He was 12 at the time. I tried unsuccessfully to get my parents to let me go on the trip because I was sure that I could talk to the children and convince them of the reality of Jesus Christ. And while I was there, I tugged at my pastor’s sleeve at the time, Don, and asked him if I could persuade my parents to let me go.
Don, my pastor said, “No, you can’t go on this trip today. But I have a feeling that in the future, if this is your wish, a church that you attend at that time will take you to the airport and you will go.” . we have a mission trip to share Jesus. “
As I sit and write, I am 42 years old and it has been 30 since the day my Pastor Don said those words. Most of my life in those 20 years I have lived as a prodigal son that Jesus spoke of in the parables he shared when he was on earth.
My mother has told me that my pastor Don was Pentecostal and although he pastored a Baptist church where the nine gifts of the Spirit were not recognized, most of the time when he predicted the future would come true. Don said that one day my mother’s mother would become a Christian. This happened last year true to God’s words through Don.
Personal prophecy is the act of announcing the future and other things of God from the person with the gift to the person to whom the message is addressed. It may have been 30 years since Don said he would speak and travel, but time is nothing because, as our verse says, “I have said it, I will also make it come true; I have proposed it, I will too.” “
There was a lot of maturity that had to come into my life in character, for the word of the Lord to be fulfilled. At 42 my life has not passed me by. If the Lord wants me to speak, He will make it possible. I have been learning the fruit of patience in good measure and I have been learning to be humble when my life used to be full of pride. My life has been fine-tuned by God. He cannot let me loose in the world until I have a wonderful message for them, and each year that I have to wait, the better I become as a person as the Holy Spirit searches my heart and removes impurities.
The promises of the Lord are true and one day I will be well known to the people of God and this chapter will be the first to be read in my memoirs. I hope my short messages in each chapter inspire you.
Review the questions for you or a group to consider.
1. Where did you say things as a child and they haven’t manifested yet? If you have things that have not yet manifested in your life, do you have them in writing?
2. Do you think the Lord can make a promise about the future through personal prophecy?
3. Do you have dreams that you are willing to wait for no matter how long it takes? Do you feel like waiting is helping you develop more fruit of the Spirit?
