Standing on Your Prophetic Word!
Every one of us has received prophetic words throughout the years that still have not come to pass.
Some of you have received words from personal prophecy, and others have received words through the Bible or the Holy Spirit himself.
Most of the time when you receive a Prophetic Word, it will be followed by warfare.
Sometimes the enemy will come and steal the seed that was planted and other times God himself will test you.
In the book of First Timothy, Paul encouraged Timothy to wage a good warfare concerning the prophecies that were given to him. He wouldn’t have told him that if he wasn’t going to experience spiritual warfare.
The Holy Spirit is showing me that many of you have become disheartened because that prophetic word has not yet come to pass.
For some of you it has been months, and for others it has been years that this promise has not yet manifested in your personal lives, families and ministries.
There is a process between the time that we receive the word, until the word comes to pass. The bible says in 1 Timothy 1:18 that we are to wage a good warfare with that prophecy, and to fight the good fight of faith.
The Holy Spirit gave me this analogy of two trees. Two distinct seeds were planted in the same field and at the same time.
The first seed was a cherry blossom tree seed and the other was a sequoia tree seed. Each seed had the same care as they were both provided the same sunlight and water.
The cherry blossom tree grew quickly and flourished beautifully with brilliant pink flowers and bright green leaves, but the seed of the sequoia tree seemed to be taking a long time to show any signs of growth.
As time went on, the cherry blossom tree continued to grow and flourish but the sequoia tree seed didn’t appear as if it was going to amount to anything.
After some time the sequoia tree began to grow towering over the cherry blossom tree and multiplied in size, surpassing the cherry blossom tree in height, width and overall proportion.
The reason why the sequoia tree took longer to grow was because it required stronger and deeper roots to support its tremendous size. Neither tree was insignificant, but each one served their purpose.
Although the cherry blossom tree was beautiful to the eye, the sequoia tree grew to be the tallest and strongest tree in the world.
In the same way, some of you have promises that are taking longer to come to pass because they are more extensive and wide range.
Don’t let go of the prophecy that has been given to you no matter how long it takes. Your promise will come into fruition just as these two seeds which were planted.
Every one of us, and every promise is unique and exclusively designed. When His Word comes to pass in its appointed time, you will see the vastness of it and you will be amazed at what Jesus has done in your life and ministry.
“This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,” 1 Timothy 1:18.
“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses,” 1 Timothy 6:12.
“O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge- by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith,” 1 Timothy 6:20-21.
Blessings in Christ Jesus,
~ Elaine
ELAINE TAVOLACCI
Staten Island, NY
www.awordinseason.info
www.TheVoiceOfBreakthrough.com
First, thank you sister for allowing the Lord to use you to encourage the people of God. I am a worship leader. I was discouraged tonight because although I have received a number of prophetic words from as early as 1999, all have not come to past. I just finished reading them and while I was once again encourage d, I was still looking over my life and realizing the tremendous push back from, sadly, members of the body of Christ who were not or are not very encouraging when it comes to individual gifts on the worship team. I am thankful for you post a nd your example of the two trees, how timely for me. May GOD bless you richly.
Thank you Lord, I receive. God bless.
Profound. Love it. Thank you sister.
Praise God. Thank you for taking time and strengthening fellow believer’s in Christ.
A Very interesting send by you. Timely as well. Thank you.
About 3 weeks ago … I was unexpectedly prophesied over … as a result … what was said … actually spoke into the very first Prophetic word through scripture given to me 30 years ago …. All your children will be taught of the Lord … when in fact we had finished adding to our family … it was spiritual children He was speaking of.
So the nature of the word you shared … immediately fits into this … longevity.
Secondly
about 10 years ago … I was at a prophetic gathering … and I gave a word, I knew I had to …
It was a picture of a huge redwood tree … and I was embracing its huge trunk, whilst trying to look up to its top … of course my little arms were nowhere near big enough, nor my sight good enough … but it was a picture of His embrace and positioning with us …. his height, his breadth, length and His depth, even downward into His great, vast and immense roots
As soon as I read this, He brought the past image of this redwood, giant redwood … He lives for many as does the depth of the roots of his promise prophetically to us
… and I needed this
…. I knew of the redwood tree from being a very young child through pictures I was fascinated by
But I didn’t know until today it was also called the sequoia
Even that knowledge adds as a witness a testimony
Thank you again
For faithfully bringing to mind what He is saying
Bless you