One thing I shared with my team a couple months ago is how I feel like I’ve had so many people speak certain prophetic words over me and have yet to figure out what they mean or see them fulfilled. There is one from nearly ten years ago that I still think about and wonder if I’ll ever understand what it meant. One from five years ago that I wonder if it will come true or if I just haven’t recognized its fulfillment. I was sharing this with my friend Kacie this morning and she pointed me to 1 Timothy 1:18-19
“Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, holding on to faith and good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.”
I realize how there have been so many times I have grown bitter because I haven’t seen things come true that people have spoken over me. But, I realize, I have been interpreting those words with my limited perception and understanding. I don’t know what those words will end up looking like, but I’m learning that they are to be an encouragement to me as I wait on the Lord and during times when I struggle with him. They are to be like a lighthouse for us] in the storm, because dear friends, storms will come.
