~~ An Different Experience Yesterday, 05/18/2007~~

[TRFrance]

Deep.
Beautiful story.
Thanks for sharing it with us.

That reminds me of the first time the Lord sent someone to prophesy a word to me. I was in a Christian bookstore just minding my own business when this woman stepped up to me and started telling me some stuff that only God would have known about. Then she finished it off with some words that literally changed my thinking, and the course of my walk with God from that point on. It totally blew my mind.

Many of us have had similar experiences of our own, but when we go through the valley, we can forget sometimes to look back on those moments when the Lord manifested himself strongly to us.

Even in some dark times I've had since then, I look back to such moments where the Lord has sent someone to give me a word from him. The devil can never take that away from you when stuff like that happens. That's the kind of experience that stays with you for a lifetime.

That's one reason I'm a strong proponent of the gifts of the Spirit, particularly the gift of prophecy .. because I've seen the Lord use it so many times in my own life to bless me. And I'm strongly and eagerly looking forward to the Lord stirring up a renewed outpouring of these gifts in His church in these last days, to the glory of His name.

Amen .