Hosea is an Old Testament prophet that had to live the message God wanted him to preach.  He was directed by God to marry an adulterous woman, name their children after the prophetic themes they represented, suffer the pain of her further adultery, and then receive her back again.  What a life’s message!  Jeremiah, the Weeping Prophet, and other prophets, as well, had to live the message they preached.

I believe it is God’s divine will that I live the message that I preach, as well.  I must be a model of the message.  As you know, two central truths I communicate most are 1) God has called us to be overcomers, and 2) first comes a death, then a resurrection.  I suspect this cancer represents sin nature working death in my mortal body.  As I stay faithful to God in faith, I must die to my self-will, so I can rise to new life, and become an overcomer!

If a genuine prophet must live through the message he preaches, let it be so with me, so I can preach the good news with His power.

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