Prophecies given to me

Before I continue my study on prophecies of the Bride of Christ, I wanted to share with you some prophecies that were given to me that are starting to be fulfilled in my life.

When I was a teenager, an Evangelist with a gift of personal prophecy came to our Church and gave me a message from God. He said that God has called me and gave me these specific scripture references:

1st Scripture Reference: I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. (Isaiah 42:6-8 KJV)

2nd Scripture Reference: And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, as We are One: (John 17:22 LITV)

3rd Scripture Reference: You have not chosen Me, but I chose you out and planted you, that you should go and should bear fruit, and your fruit remain, that whatever you should ask the Father in My name, He may give you. (John 15:16 LITV)

The references to these scriptures and God's message to me was written down on a small piece of paper with the Evangelist's name on it and given to me. At the time, I did not know what they meant, but I kept the paper in my Bible.

I love to read and I usually keep all the books that are special to me, so I kept that Bible, even after getting a new one. It had a zippered cover, so any notes or papers that I had with it stayed inside. Many years later, I picked up that old Bible, unzipped the cover, and started to go through it.

I had just started reading the Bible again, so I thought it would be fun to see what kind of notes I took when I was a teenager. I had notes written on the inside cover, on the pages in the back, and I had underlined certain scriptures throughout it. Old memories of when I was a child, growing up in Church, started to come back to me. I reviewed all of them and then I started to look at the papers that I had folded up and put in the inside pocket of the cover. When I opened this paper, though, my heart skipped a beat. I couldn't believe I had kept it all these years!

I was intrigued, so I hurried and flipped through the Bible to read each scripture reference, hoping to understand the special calling that God gave to me years ago. I read each scripture thoroughly, but I still didn't understand what I was supposed to do. So, I folded the paper back up and placed it back where I found it.

In the midst of all of this, my husband was preparing to go to Iraq to fight in the war. We were living on an Army post in Colorado at the time. My husband and I had been talking about wanting to buy our own house and to find a place where we could settle down and raise our kids when he got back from the war. My Grandfather had recently died, and my Grandmother was having a hard time trying to take care of her home in Ohio by herself. It was out in the country but close to a nice, small town, which I knew would be a good place to raise kids. So we talked about maybe seeing if she would want to sell the house to us, then we could keep the house in the family.

So, before my husband left, I talked to my Grandmother about the kids and I coming to live with her while he was gone and the prospects of buying the house from her. She was excited about that and agreed.

We had been going to a Church off post and had made some good friends there, so we knew it would be hard to say goodbye to them. I had been meeting with a group of ladies at Church and we had been doing a Bible study together. The time had come for me to tell them that I would be leaving soon. So, at the time of prayer requests, I told them our plans to move to Ohio. One lady asked if she could pray for me.

As we closed our eyes, waiting for the prayer to start, this lady started to tell me that the Lord had a message for me. She then started to quote a scripture to me. As I listened, I realized that this scripture seemed familiar to me. I thought, "are these the same scriptures from the paper in my old Bible?" She went on to give me a couple more scriptures and then prayed for me.

Well, when I got home, I raced to my bedroom and found my old Bible. I zipped open the case and pulled out the paper. I then flipped through the pages to find the scriptures in Isaiah (1st Scripture Reference), and read it again. To my surprise, it was the same scriptures that the Evangelist gave to me. I couldn't believe it! After that, I knew the Lord was really trying to tell me something, so I decided right then that I would study these scriptures to understand the meaning of His message to me.

With my Bible and Bible software, that is what I did. I searched the whole Bible to find other scriptures like the ones that I was given and read all the stories of these ancient people who were called by God to be righteous like Him, who were given the power to open blind eyes, to set prisoners free, and to be a light of His truth to nations of people.

The Lord then started showing me the covenant that He gave to His people in His Word. With the help of His Holy Spirit, I began to understand how He wants to be "one" with us and also how He wants His people to be "one" (2nd Scripture Reference).

I couldn't keep all this information and understanding to myself, so that is why I wrote "Basic Love Training". With the skills God gave me, I knew I was to teach others how to study the Bible with today's technology. By doing this, then I would start to accomplish the calling God gave to me according to the scriptures that were given to me:

· "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. " (Isa_42:6-8 KJV) - to help people understand how they are spiritually blind and are being held captive. I believe we are blind because we have forgotten or don't know the basic qualities of a Christian and we lack Biblical knowledge. We have gone into captivity because of it.
· "that they may be one, even as we are one" (Joh_17:22 KJV) - to help people understand our relationship with Jesus and how we are to be one with each other (His covenant with us and our relationship with each other).

Studying the Bible is a whole lot easier when you search for key words with computer software. The Lord provided all the resources I needed to write and record the Bible study and to publish it out on the Internet so that all the world can see it and use it. The Lord wants us to search His Word to find the knowledge of God (Proverbs 2:1-5). When I started to do that, then that is when I started to understand God's message to me.

Now for the 3rd Scripture Reference, I have recently been given an understanding of that and I have written about it previously on my blog - The King's Garden. We must now really understand what it means to bear fruit in our soul and how that relates to a fruit tree. Judgment is coming upon the trees that don't bear fruit, so I believe that God wants me to warn the keeper of the trees.

So, this is my calling that I am pursuing with a passion and this is how God's prophecy to me is being fulfilled in my life. If He can fulfill prophecy in my own life, then I know He will fulfill His prophecies for His Bride. Now is the time for us to understand.