Do Your Prophetic Words Seem Impossible?
Julian Adams • October 31, 2019
God Wants To Partner With You to See Your Prophetic Words Come to Pass
My wife and I respond very differently to prophetic direction from God. All Katia needs is a hint of prophetic inclination, and she says, “Let’s go!” But I’m much more “rational” in responding to prophetic words--I need to do the due diligence. My response to Katia in these moments is, “We need TEST this word, honey. We can’t just respond to every prophetic word we hear.” I often joke and say I need at least 15 confirmations before I make a move on a prophetic word!
Recently, God began speaking to us about moving--and not just moving to a new house, moving to a new country. A country where we had no visas, no job waiting for us, no connections, and no clue. Not only would this move be impossible, but it would also be unsettling. See, I felt comfortable where we were. It felt like we were just beginning to settle into our home in South Africa, and get a bit of rhythm with our kids. Where we were felt safe
to me.
But the prophetic words kept rolling in. “I see God is about to accelerate your move to the United States,” someone prophesied over us at a conference. Needless to say, my immediate response to this word was not excitement. As my wife grew more and more encouraged, I grew more and more frustrated. With each new prophetic word (and there were many!), the impossibilities seemed to grow bigger and bigger. I felt the weight of responsibility that came with each word.
It wasn’t long before God began to reveal to me what was going on in my heart. As I wrestled with his promises, he brought to mind some of Paul’s words in 1 Thessalonians:
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good.”
As a prophet, somehow I was beginning to despise prophecy. What an irony!
After coming to this realization, the Lord began unpacking it for me even more. See, the prophetic is meant to be an invitation to partner with the sovereignty of God. And the sovereignty of God can never be sacrificed at the altar of His love.
God’s invitation in the prophetic is into a loving encounter
so that you begin to journey with Him in your process. Sometimes we think of the sovereignty of God simply as a “blueprint” that tells us what will happen. We sometimes think we’re receiving a fortune-telling word, that requires no partnership.
The prophetic is not passive. When we partner with Him, we see the outworking of the prophetic in outrageous ways. Seeing prophecies come to pass requires action on our behalf, it requires a response. And it requires faith.
But neither is God passive in His partnership with us. He does not Give us a prophetic word unless He is prepared to journey with us in it. It’s this beautiful picture-- as we partner with Him in faith, He partners with us in the miraculous, making the “impossibilities” of our scariest prophetic words come to pass.
The Bible says all of God’s promises “find their ‘yes’ and ‘amen’ in Him.” In other words, if you’re looking to find the fulfillment of promises, you have to pursue Jesus, because they find their fulfillment in HIM. Fulfillment of prophecy is not found simply in what you do for Him; the fulfillment of prophecy is found in the pursuit of JESUS.
As God spoke these things to me, the weight began to lift, and I was able to rejoice again in His promises. As the reality of partnership began to sink in, I was able to respond with more faith and trust God for greater miracles in the process of moving. Suddenly, this radical step of faith didn’t seem so impossible. What looked like hastiness in Katia’s response to these prophetic words was actually an understanding of God’s love and sovereignty that I did not grasp, because I was despising the prophetic.
My prayer is that as you read these words, God instills greater faith for those prophetic words that just seem too big, too impossible, and too radical. Pull out some of those old prophecies that you’ve forgotten, and ask for God to breathe new life on them.
Choose to partner with Him.
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