Hi, my name is Joaquin Evans, senior leader at Bethel Austin and I’d like to welcome you to God Today. I’d like to talk to you for a moment about prophetic timing, and I believe that this is important in this season and that some people could use and glean from this nugget. You know, we all get prophetic words from time to time and some words are now words, directional things that we’re supposed to do today or tomorrow to act on them. Then we also get destiny words or long-term prophetic words that really dangle a carrot in front of us of what is possible and what God’s leading us into.
But I find that most people get tripped up by the prophetic, not over whether the word was accurate or not, but over the timing of the word. And I would like to invite you into this understanding that when God speaks, God’s holding out a picture, but the invitation for us is to not just engage with that as a prophetic picture alone, but actually as an invitation into a prophetic journey. When God speaks, He’s inviting you into the process of fulfilling that word.
I like to give this example. If I tell my kids that I’m taking them to Disneyland and I show them a brochure of Disneyland, it’s glossy, and it’s shiny, and it’s got the fireworks in the background and they see the picture of Disneyland. What I don’t communicate at that moment is the hours in the car that is going to take to get there, all the stops for food and breaks along the way and hotel stays. I say, “Hey, here’s where we’re going.”
And that’s what the prophetic does to us. Oftentimes to you and I, it says, “Hey, here’s where we’re going.” But what you need to realize is that God is actually inviting you on the journey and the journey is part of the fulfillment of the word. So don’t resist the journey. Embrace it and know that it’s taking you to the fulfillment of the picture.
The last thing I’d like to say is it’s not our job to make the word happen. When we get these destiny words, I want you not to go, “How do I make that happen?” Instead, I want you to ask yourself this. “How do I become the person that I want to be, or that God wants me to be when that word is fulfilled?” Because if you will go to work, creating inside the character and the nature that God wants you to have for that word to be fulfilled, God will do His work. And He’ll fulfill the word on that foundation that you create.
In Romans chapter five, it tells us that perseverance creates character and character hope. Well that perseverance is required to create that character, but it’s the character that unlocks the hope of God and the promises of God. So go to work on becoming the person that you want to be, that that word could rest on, and God will go to work at fulfilling the word.
I’d just like to pray for you. Father, I just thank You for every accurate and true prophetic word that’s been released into people’s hearts over the years, and even over the decades. Father, I thank You that there are seeds that are planted that You have not forgotten about. God, I pray that right now that You would release a grace into people and even a shift in perspective that their job is to go after creating the character in themselves – not the word itself, that’s Your job. I bless you with the ability to see through God’s eyes. I bless you with the ability to enjoy the journey on the way to the fulfillment of the word and to not lose hope on the journey. I bless you with that in Jesus’ name.