Another Prophecy

June 1973

I was at South Side Assembly of God in one of the back rooms with some other Christians when this girl told me she had a message from God for me. I pretty much remember that she said God was going to teach me His Word (the Bible) and .... I don't remember the rest, maybe she told me I was going to be a great prophet or something. She may have said I was going to be a pastor...in which case, Wow! She was right on the spot! But then maybe she said I was going to be a circus clown. The heck if I remember.

I was just thinking during the whole time, "Oh no, here we go again," but it wasn't extreme like the first prophecy I got. In other words, she didn't say anything that was too outrageous. I was even drawn to what she was saying about God teaching me His Word and hoping that it was true. I really wanted to know a lot more about the Bible, there was so much of God's Word that seemed so foreign to me and I wanted to know so much.

In the end, I basically decided that if the prophecy were really from God, the message would come true. If it wasn't from God there was no loss. I took that position from then on. If I felt like God spoke to me in any way, whether through dream, word, prophecy, a feeling or whatever, if it's God speaking, then it will happen like He says. But if not, I don't need to sweat it out.

Its done me good in life.

By the way, the part of the prophecy about learning the Word of God was true. I have been a professor for 4 different Evangelical Universities.