1 Timothy 1:18
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18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare.

Imagine an athlete at the starting line of a championship race. The coach has given clear instructions: the pace to maintain, the turns to watch for, the moment to accelerate. The athlete has reviewed the strategy, visualized the race, and prepared mentally. But then the gun fires, and the athlete doesn’t move. All the preparation, all the strategy, all the prophetic insight about the race means nothing if the runner never leaves the starting block.

Over the past two days, we’ve journeyed through the importance of remembering and praying over the prophecies God has spoken over your life. You’ve gone back to your journals, revisited your camp notes, and brought those divine words back to remembrance. You’ve entered the place of prayer, warring with those prophecies like Elijah persisting seven times until the cloud appeared. But today, we arrive at a critical juncture: What are you doing with what God has said?

Prophecy is not given merely for inspiration or emotional encouragement. It’s a divine blueprint, a heavenly roadmap that requires your active participation. God speaks to direct you, but the fulfilment of His word demands that you move with it. This is what it means to run with prophecy, aligning every decision, habit, and action to match what God has already declared over your life.

When God speaks prophetically, He’s not just predicting your future; He’s inviting you into partnership with Him. Yes, His word is guaranteed and cannot fail, but your obedience positions you to experience what He has promised.

Think of it this way: God provides the blueprint, but you must build according to the plan. We see this partnership principle clearly in the life of Abraham. When God spoke to him, the word came with both promise and instruction:

Genesis 12:1-4
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1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: ‘Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.

2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Notice the pattern: God spoke a prophetic word filled with incredible promises, a great nation, a great name, blessing to all families of the earth.
But embedded within the prophecy was an instruction: “Get out… go to a land I will show you.” And verse 4 tells us that Abram departed as the Lord had spoken. He didn’t just write down the prophecy. He didn’t only pray about it. He moved. He ran with it. Abraham’s response demonstrates a fundamental truth: prophecy requires action.

God guaranteed the outcome, but Abraham had to take the steps. If Abraham had stayed in Haran, admiring the promise but never moving toward it, he would never have experienced the fulfilment of what God declared.

The same pattern appears in the New Testament. Before Jesus ascended to heaven, He gave His disciples a prophetic promise:

Acts 1:8
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8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

This was a clear prophetic word about their future ministry. But what did they do after Jesus ascended? They didn’t just talk about it. They didn’t passively wait without purpose.

Acts 1:12-14 
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12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey.

13 And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying: Peter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James.

14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

They positioned themselves. They gathered together. They prayed with unity and consistency. They created an environment for the prophecy to manifest. And when the Day of Pentecost came, they were exactly where they needed to be, doing exactly what they needed to do. The prophecy came to pass, but their obedience positioned them to receive it.

Just as Scripture shows us those who responded rightly to prophecy, it also reveals the tragic consequences of those who didn’t. The generation of Israelites who came out of Egypt received prophetic promises about entering the Promised Land—a land flowing with milk and honey, a land God had already prepared for them. But when it came time to move, to take action, to align their steps with God’s word, they refused.

Numbers 14:22-23 
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22 Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,

23 they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.

God had spoken. The promise was guaranteed. But their refusal to act in faith, their disobedience to His instructions, cost them the fulfilment of what He had declared. They wandered in the wilderness for forty years, and an entire generation died without seeing what God had promised them, not because God’s word failed, but because they failed to run with it.

This should awaken something in us. Prophecy is not automatic. God’s word is true and cannot fail, but our obedience determines whether we personally experience what He has spoken.

Now, you might wonder: If prophecy requires my action, does that mean God’s word is uncertain? Absolutely not. Here’s the beautiful tension of partnership with God: His word is absolutely guaranteed, and yet He graciously invites you to participate in its fulfilment.

Numbers 23:19 
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19 God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Isaiah 55:11 
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11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

God’s word cannot fail. What He has spoken will absolutely come to pass. But you must align yourself with it. You must run with it. This isn’t about earning the promise through works; it’s about positioning yourself through obedience to receive what God has already guaranteed.

James 1:22-25 
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22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;

24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Running with prophecy means becoming a doer. It means looking at the blueprint God has given you and building accordingly. It means listening to the instructions embedded in the prophetic word and following them with confidence, knowing that the outcome is assured.

As you stand on the threshold of a new year, with fresh prophecies ringing in your spirit and old promises awakened through prayer, the question before you is simple but profound: What are you doing with the blueprint that has been given to you? Will you just write them down and leave it at that? Will those words remain beautiful notes in a journal, inspiring but inactive? Or will you run?

If you believe God’s word is guaranteed, if you truly believe that what He has spoken cannot fail, are you acting on it right now? What decisions are you making today to align with the prophecy spoken over you? What habits are you establishing? What steps are you taking? Perhaps God told you this year that you would walk in greater influence. Have you positioned yourself to lead? Are you developing the character and skills required for that influence?

Perhaps you received a word about ministry, business, or family restoration. What actions are you taking today that align with that promise? Are you studying, networking, reconciling, or building in the direction of what God said? Prophecy calls for you to act. Not out of anxiety or striving, but with the quiet confidence of someone who knows the race is already won. You’re not running to make it happen; you’re running because it’s already happening, and God has invited you to participate in the unfolding of His perfect will.

So run, beloved. Run with the prophecies spoken over you. Move with intentionality. Make decisions with clarity. Take steps with boldness. Because when you run with what God has said, you’re not hoping it will come to pass, you’re living as though it already has.

Prayer Point
Lord, I choose to be a doer of Your word and not just a hearer. Give me the courage to run with every prophecy You have spoken over my life. I align my decisions, my habits, and my actions with what You have declared. I trust that Your word cannot fail, and I position myself to walk in its fulfilment. As I move, I know You are moving with me. I will finish this year strong, and I will run into the next with confidence in Your guaranteed promises.