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Supernatural
Biblical Guidance 8
Cooperating
with Holy Spirit Inspired Prophecy
by
Pastor John Hamel
“This charge I
commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went
before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a
good warfare;” (1Timothy 1:18)
We are still
studying supernatural prophecy and guidance. In the last lesson we saw the Biblical steps
that must be taken in order to properly judge a prophecy, or how to
determine whether it has come forth from the Holy Spirit or not.
In
this lesson we are going to discuss briefly some of the things that you can
do to cooperate with the fulfillment of a prophecy once you have determined
the Spirit of God gave it to you.
The Apostle Paul
told Timothy in our text Scripture to “war a good warfare … according to
the prophecies which went before on thee.”
Many have received
prophecies recently and do not know how to cooperate with their
fulfillment. Others have received prophecies in the past that have
yet to be fulfilled and they have put them on the back burner, so to speak,
forgetting about them.
It is time to dig out those prophecies that
you have forgotten. It is time to stir yourself
up concerning them. It is still the will of God that they come to
pass.
There are several things that can be done to bring the
fulfillment of prophecy whether the prophecy is recent or from times
past.
Always
Document Your Prophecies
“And the Lord
answered me, and said, WRITE THE VISION, and make
it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth
it.” (Habakkuk 2:2)
Although the Holy
Spirit is talking to Habakkuk about recording what he was told concerning
the Second Coming of Christ, there is a
principle here that needs to be applied to prophecies. The Holy
Spirit told Habakkuk to write it down so it would not be forgotten.
The mind of man was
greatly affected by the fall of Adam and does not have the
ability to recall details to the degree that Adam did. You must write
your prophecies down in order to remember every detail. The further
you get away from a prophecy being given, the more you are going to forget
the details. My wife, Barbara, and I keep a Spiritual Journal where
everything the Holy Spirit says to us through others, through one another
or directly into our spirits is logged and dated.
As a matter of
fact, there is hardly ever a time that we go into prayer or go into a
public service that we do not have a miniature handheld recorder with
us. If you are in position to be around someone on a regular basis
who stands in the Office of the Prophet,
you should always have a small recorder with you. You never know when
the anointing will come upon that individual to speak to you.
We
always record prophecies when they come forth and then we transcribe them
to where we can read them on our computers or on paper. They are
always available to us. If you have forgotten older prophecies, ask
the Holy Spirit to bring to your remembrance what He spoke to you so you
can write it down. He promises to do this for you. (John 14:26)
Meditate
on Your Prophecies
“This book of the
law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but THOU SHALT MEDITATE THEREIN DAY
AND NIGHT, that thou mayest observe to do
according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt
make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have
good success.” (Joshua 1:8)
Oftentimes we think
we know exactly what the Holy Spirit is saying when prophecy comes forth,
when really we do not. Prophecies are just like the Bible in that
without periods of prayer and meditation
there are things that do not make sense to us in it. Even if they do
make sense, we later realize that we understood them in a limited
manner. Get those prophecies written down to where you can spend time
reading them for a few minutes daily. As you
do, further enlightenment will come.
Recently the Holy
Spirit said to me, “The Body of Christ needs to understand that when a
prophecy truly comes from the Holy Spirit, it is as binding as the written
Word of God. Whether the Word is written in the Bible or spoken by
the agency of the Holy Spirit, it is still the Word of God and it is
binding on you.”
We are to stand on
our prophecies in the same way that we are commanded to stand on the
written Word of God. Spend a little time each day just reading your
prophecies and faith will come for their fulfillment
because faith comes by rehearsing something over and over. (Romans 10:17)
Rehearse
Your Prophecies Verbally
“And the Lord said
unto Moses, WRITE THIS FOR A MEMORIAL IN A BOOK, AND
REHEARSE IT IN THE EARS OF JOSHUA: for I will utterly put out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” (Exodus
17:14)
Here again we find
evidence of not only writing down your prophecies but also rehearsing them verbally. The Holy
Spirit told Moses to write the above prophecy in a book and to keep
speaking it to Joshua in order that faith would come into Joshua’s heart
for its fulfillment. The principle of speaking your prophecy out loud
over and again is tremendously effective. How effective you may
ask? To which I respond, “Do you see any Amalekites
walking on the Earth today?” They are all gone because Moses and
Joshua prophesied
their destruction. There is power in the spoken word
particularly when that Word came forth by the Holy Spirit. (Proverbs 18:21;
Ecclesiastes 8:4)
Get off alone and
speak your prophecies out loud. This will encourage you to have faith
in them, particularly when Satan challenges the truth of your
prophecies. As you remind yourself out loud of the truth of your
prophecies, Satan is stripped of his ability to torment you, causing you to
doubt. As you remind yourself out loud of the truth of your
prophecies, the Holy Spirit sees how serious you take it when He speaks to
you and that you have confidence in Him. Even if there are parts of
your prophecies that you still do not fully understand, refuse to worry
about it. The Holy Spirit understands and He will bring it to pass
and then you will really understand.
Expect
the Fulfillment of Your Prophecies
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, BELIEVE THAT YE RECEIVE
THEM, AND YE SHALL HAVE THEM.” (Mark 11:24)
Remember what the Holy Spirit told me, “The
Body of Christ needs to understand that when a prophecy truly comes from
the Holy Spirit, it is as binding as the written Word of God. Whether
the Word is written in the Bible or spoken by the agency of the Holy
Spirit, it is still the Word of God and it is binding on you.”
The responsibility for the fulfillment of
your prophecy lies with your faith not
with God’s faith. You must expect your
prophecies to come to pass, even as you must expect the promises of the
Bible to come to pass. If you refuse to expect your prophecies to
come to pass, the Holy Spirit is not obligated to you. Many
prophecies have come forth by the agency of the Holy Spirit and were never fulfilled.
This is never God’s fault. The responsibility of expectation lies with the
Believer. If you consider yourself a Believer in Christ, a
Believer in the Holy Spirit, a Believer in prophecy then do your part and
believe. Believing is very simply expecting what the Holy Spirit said
to come to pass. Look for it. The best way to tell whether you
are expecting the fulfillment of your prophecy or not, is by listening to
the words of your mouth. Are you rehearsing your prophecies
verbally? If you are, you are releasing expectation. If you are
not rehearsing your prophecies verbally, then you are not releasing
expectation.
Do
Not Let Your Confidence Be Shaken
“CAST NOT AWAY THEREFORE YOUR CONFIDENCE,
which hath great recompence of reward. For ye
have need of patience, that, AFTER YE HAVE DONE THE WILL OF GOD, YE MIGHT
RECEIVE THE PROMISE.” (Hebrews 10:35,36)
Paul is here referring to soldiers in
battle who throw down their weapons and run away in despair. Paul
told Timothy that when prophecies come forth you could expect warfare.
(1Timothy 1:18) Satan will
challenge your prophecies. The more threatened he is by them, the
more he is going to throw up dust, make lots of noise and make you think
that all the forces of Hell are coming at you. Jesus said the gates
of Hell will not prevail against you no matter how loudly Satan bangs the
trash can lids together. (Matthew 16:18) Do not be moved by his embellished distractions.
If you will persevere and endure his resistance,
your prophecies are guaranteed to come to pass.
If the Holy Spirit said revival would come
to your Church and your finances will increase, then revival will come to
your Church and your finances will increase. Pastor, if He told you that He would
increase you numerically, financially and in the realm of the anointing,
then He will increase you numerically, financially and in the realm of the
anointing. Why not start pricing some new chairs? You are going to be needing them.
Faith acts like it
believes what was spoken. If He told you that He would increase your
business, then He will increase your business. Why not start pricing
space to spread out? You are going
to need it. Faith acts like it
believes what was spoken. If He told you that you will have the
baby that the doctors have said you will not have, persevere, hang in. That baby is coming. Why not start
stocking up on diapers and toys? You are going to need them. Faith acts like
it believes what was spoken.
The trials, tribulations and resistance
that you are going through because of your prophecies are preparing you and
maturing you for increase. Do not
resent your difficulties. The Holy Spirit is allowing them for your
good. After you have suffered a little while your prophecies will be
established.
“But the God of all grace, who hath called
us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, AFTER THAT YE HAVE SUFFERED A
WHILE, MAKE YOU PERFECT, STABLISH, STRENGTHEN, SETTLE YOU.” (1Peter 5:10)
The Greek word that Peter used for
“strengthen” in this verse is “sthenos.” It
means, “to strengthen so that there is no danger of warping, splitting or
falling.”
Sometimes the Holy Spirit gives us a
prophetic word that we are not quite ready for yet. He must take us
through a period of suffering, through the temptation to quit, in order to stretch us and prepare us for the increase
that He has for us. It is possible that if the prophecy were to be
fulfilled right now, you may warp, split or fall because you are not ready
for it.
Hold on. Do not bail out. The prophecy will be
fulfilled and probably sooner than it appears right now. Let the Holy Spirit prepare you and
strengthen you for the new load He is about to put upon you. Physical
muscles are not developed without resistance. Spiritual muscles are
not developed without resistance. Do not walk away from the
fulfillment of your prophecy just days or weeks before it comes to
pass. You can make it or the Holy Spirit would not have given you
that prophecy. (1Corinthians 10:13)
Refuse to let Satan’s lies shake your
confidence. If he tells you that your prophecies will never come to
pass, that is a guarantee that they will. It is not true just by
virtue of the fact that he said it. He is the consummate liar.
He has never told the truth yet. What makes you think he is going to
start with you? (John 8:44)
Do your part to see to it that your
prophecies are fulfilled and the Holy Spirit will do His part. Always
document your prophecies. You are fooling yourself if you think you
are going to remember every detail. Meditate on your prophecies.
This will keep faith built up in your spirit. Rehearse your
prophecies verbally. Remind the Holy Spirit, yourself and the devil
of exactly what it is that you believe. Expect the complete
fulfillment of every prophecy. If you are speaking forth the
fulfillment of your prophecies, you can know that you are unleashing
expectation.
Remember the Wizard of Oz? He was
just a little old man behind a curtain, pretending he was God, pulling a
bunch of levers, making a lot of noises and scaring everybody into
submission. When the curtain was pulled back he was exposed and the
Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Lion and Dorothy were no longer afraid of
him. This is exactly how Satan operates. Deceptively. Do not allow your confidence
to be shaken no matter how loudly Satan bangs those trash can lids in his
effort to make you believe that he’s mightier than he is. He is mighty. But our Father God is
Almighty.
The Bible says one day the whole world will
look at him and say, “You gotta be kidding
me. Are you the one I was afraid of?” (Isaiah 14:16)
Why wait? Be unafraid of him
now. Trust God’s love.
Your prophecies will come to pass as you
speak them forth.
Be blessed … John
and Barbara Hamel
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