The Weapon of What God Said

Has God spoken a word over your life?

That moment wasn’t meant to become a distant memory. God gave it to you as a weapon in the ongoing war of your faith.

Timothy had a defining event like that.

Through the prophetic word of a group of elders, Timothy received his lifelong gift and call (1 Tim. 1:18, 4:14; 2 Tim. 1:6).

But Paul knew his protégé had to come down from the powerful mountaintop moment into the plain of everyday life. A long journey was ahead—and if he wasn’t careful, the vision would fade into a distant blur.

“This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience.” (1 Timothy 1:18-19)

How would Timothy “wage the good warfare”—the battle to walk in the standard of God’s holiness and call on his life?

By “the prophecies previously made about” him.

God’s specific words over you are forever a weapon against the temptation to settle.

What has God specifically spoken over your life? Do you recall the “prophecies previously made about you”?

It is tragic for a child of God to think that he has nothing specific to say about his beloved.

You should expect prophetic clarity over your life—and when you receive it, you don’t hold it loosely (1 Thess. 5:20-21). You wield it like a sword against the lure of the world to a lesser standard.

In the mountaintop moments—when God speaks over your life—you learn who he is and who you are.

But it is only in the mundane plain that you learn to live it out.