The prophetic word may depend more on the soil it lands in than on its own power
A farmer went out to sow his seed... But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it and by persevering, produce a crop.
It's always very exciting to have the Spirit lead you back into a familiar passage and show you something very fresh and new! In a recent prayer commitment, the Lord directed me to Luke 8 and instructed me to pray through these verses, regarding not the preached word of the Lord, but the prophetic word of the Lord which had been "sown" into our lives, businesses, and nation. I had never considered that before!
The passage came freshly alive, as did the confirmation, that the fulfillment of the prophetic words received from the Lord may have more to do with the heart condition of the hearer than the inherent power of the word. Join me in praying through this passage; allow the Spirit to shift the focus from hope deferred to His grace releasing persevering expectation.
The fulfillment of the prophetic words received from the Lord may have more to do with the heart condition of the hearer than the inherent power of the word.
Rev. Peggy I. Kennedy
The prayer
Lord, we thank you for sowing into our lives. As you have spoken prophetically we have heard your desires and plans for our lives, businesses, ministries, and even nations. Stir us afresh to resist your enemy (and ours) from snatching that Word from the pathway that we are on, even when the pathway looks far different than the future landscape of the fulfilled Word.
Lord, at times we are fickle! You speak to us and we respond with joy. But soon the Word "withers". We fail to allow the Word to root in our hearts. Even when the received Word does take root, we do not tend the Word, with faith. We give place and space to "why not" and the Word is displaced by worries, value placed on other things, and even distracting pleasures. We have not cultivated and cleared our lives of what would choke out the prophetic seed sown.
We repent, Lord, and we ask you to cleanse us from our inaccurate allegations against you that you speak but do not fulfill what you say.
Our greatest desire is that your desires will be fulfilled. We align ourselves with even the timing required, to allow the Word, as good seed, to germinate, sprout, and rise up in our view line. We receive the prophetic intentions you have declared. We invite your Spirit to survey the soil of our hearts. We appropriate your grace to work fresh perseverance within us.
We pray that we will be in that number that bear the prophetic Word to completion; and we will see what you have said. We will share in your joy of ripened fruit and a crop of fulfilled Word.
We pray that we will join the ranks of those who have celebrated:
Praise be to the Lord... who with His hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth.
Sow more prophetic seed, Lord, until the landscape of our lives, ministries, businesses, and nations becomes a fertile field, bearing much fruit. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Rev. Peggy I. Kennedy
Speaker and author with Two Silver Trumpets Ministry in Canada, where she and Jack Kennedy have served the church for over fifty years.