Prophecy

Earlier this year my best friend and I embarked on a journey that took us to the west coast to visit Redding, CA where we met so many great people and made tons of new friends (and my newest penpal!) The night before our departure a group of about 14? people all got together at our friends house and decided to prophecy over us. I was reading all of them to a friend the other day because I wanted additional insight and his interpretation, as he is very gifted in the prophetic and in interpretation. There were four reoccuring themes or points: grace, rest, prophetic giftings, trees. These are the words that I received about me being like a tree, or root system or anything to do with trees. I love trees.

"I saw the earth and there was this tree on the top of it and as you grew you were reaching your branches out to uphold those around you and intertwining your branches with theirs.  I saw this time in your life when you were in need of rest and the Lord told you to just take a deep breathe and just release and because of that intertwining you’d done you were able to just rest. Those around you are going to now be able to uphold you and help you in YOUR time of rest and need.  The lord was saying that at no point when you were reaching out to those around you was he not reaching out to you. At no point when you were helping those around you understand the depths of God were your roots not also going deeper.  At no point when you were helping those around you reach up to grasp their dreams were your branches not also becoming closer to the things you’ve dreamt and the things on your heart.  This is a time for you to just release and be held up.  It’s YOUR time."

"The picture that she described and I know you didn’t go to the redwoods and they are these really long trees and they don’t have the best root systems but their branches reach out.  Their root systems knot up with those around them and the reason they last so long is because they have intertwined.  You will be able to hold on and withstand the strongest storms because of who you’ve connected with those."

"I see family over you and you have a grace and a love that creates family around you personally.  You have a grace and a knack for it. People that you know here as the middle-man you create this intertwining family.  I don’t know how your family was growing up but you will create peace and love that isn’t found in normal families and a comfort for everything to love one another and be themselves and you create connection.  With the tree thing you create the connections that bind each other together and strengthen each other and in the end you all last because of it."

"There have been a few words about staying rooted in people and I feel like the strength of the family and the rootedness and its not all there yet and at times you stand alone because you know you can stand under anything but I really feel like god is going to surround you with the right people and the right groups and networks of people and that you’ll be able to grown even taller and stronger with the stronger surroundings.  It doesn’t mean you have to leave behind the weaker things around you because they’ll be strengthened as you become strengthened.  You getting strong with strong people and will strengthen those around you who now have your strength."



mmm...amen.