https://odb.org/MY/2021/10/13/burning-words
I think everyone who has ever used Microsoft Word with Microsoft Outlook would have experienced the disappearance of your entire piece of work (like your mark ups and edits) when you close your document without saving it. If you go to the Temp folder, you will probably be able to save some of your work as autosave would have preserved your work at certain intervals. But the safest way is to always save a new copy either locally or up at the cloud after you have opened the document from your email.
Also most often than not, you will be able to reproduce the same edits and markups again even if you had to start from scratch. Just that it will take time. Thus it is not surprising that an author may reproduce his work even if his manuscript was destroyed by fire or in our present context, his hard disk crashed or his computer was stolen. Of course logically the rewritten work will probably not be exactly the same.
However, when it comes to God, God being God, He is able to reproduce the exact words, and add on more! We see this today when God through prophet Jeremiah sent a warning to King Jehoiakim to repent. The King burned the scroll but God had it rewritten to the exact words and added the consequences to the King’s actions. See Jeremiah 36:27-32.
As humans we may remember what we wrote and rewrite the same. But with God, we know that not only can He remember and rewrite like us, but His Word has power and will come to pass. God created the world with His Word and thus He speaks things and events into existence. His Word also reveals His heart, His love for us. He warns us to remember Him in our ways and to take heed of the consequences of our actions. If we ignore His Word, we do so at our peril as the consequences are real and will likely occur. It is not so much a prediction but it is more a foretelling of the future as the consequence of us choosing to ignore His Word or worse, the calling of the occurrence of those consequences as spoken.
I just like to say today that most of the things spoken to me in the prophesy I received from a preacher that didn’t know of my circumstances then in 2017 had already occurred. I have had new opportunities, my debts have been fully repaid. I have seen recently how my network and contacts of years past are now helping me achieve my work goals. In fact, my past network and contacts are also helping me in my present spiritual journey. I’m becoming a shepherd to a group of young adults in my cell group. And I believe a big inheritance will come my way as per my spiritual inheritance in Christ as I respond to His call on my life and continue to yield myself to His purposes. No doubt the prophesy was spoken to encourage and edify me then, to give me hope, to lift up my spirit. But the thing about God’s Word is that the things spoken do come to pass; things actually happen. Not mere words of encouragement but words that create and call into occurrence and existence events and situations. Thus God’s Word indeed has power as can be seen in numerous occasions in Scripture or as seen in Jeremiah’s case today or even as seen in the prophesy I received.
If God has ever spoken a personal Word to you, I encourage you to hold on to the Word in faith and as you respond to Him, I believe you will see the things spoken coming to pass one by one. Just trust God and march forward in faith to the goal that God has set for us heavenward in Christ.
Ronnie's Thoughts 