Jennifer LeClaire - Walking in Your Prophetic Destiny: How to Work with The Holy Spirit to Fulfill Your Calling

2019 Jennifer LeClaire

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I dedicate this book to all those who helped me along my journeythe apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, publishers, editors, loved ones, and friends. There are simply too many divine connections to list, but you know who you are. I love and appreciate you. I wouldnt be here without you. To God be the glory.

CONTENTS

I t was a miracle. State prosecutors wanted to put me behind prison bars for five yearsand my own attorney, who at first said he would have the charges utterly dismissed, actually suggested I should take the deal and leave my baby parentless! But God had different plans. God had a prophetic destiny for me that did not include time behind bars.

Yes, my testimony of surrendering my life to the Lord Jesus Christ begins in a Florida jail. Just months after my life was shattered by a wayward husband who ran off to another country to start a new life without his family, I was arrested for a crime I didnt commit. It looked as if life as I knew it was coming to an end. But I was really finding a new beginning.

Bill Glass Champions for Life prison ministry entered the jail on an evangelistic mission to set captives free from a life of sin and death. They had people from all walks of life share testimonies of how they came to know the Lord and then shared a message on how we too could be saved. When they made the salvation call, I stood up right there in my county blues (although the jumpsuit was actually orange) and said yes to the Lord.

Something in my heart immediately shifted. I had stepped into the next stage of my prophetic destiny. I suddenly had a burning passion to serve the Lord. I started a correspondence Bible school and devoured the Word of God. Of course, my particular prophetic destiny could not be accomplished in a county jailor the prison to which they wanted to send me. And my particular prophetic destiny could not be accomplished without ministry training.

Keep in mind, I wasnt raised in a church. I didnt know the first thing about the Word. But I did have a prophetic word over my life. My kindergarten teacher once told my mother I had a writing gift and I could be using that gift to earn a very profitable living. She may or may not have known she meant profitable for the kingdom of God. Ill talk more about that in the pages of this book.

In some ways I believe our prophetic destiny begins even before we are living for Him. I believe He gives us gifts and talents and opportunities to cultivate them before we know Him. In my case, I was a successful journalist before I got saved. Being a single mother who received no alimony and no child support, my goal was to make as much money as I could to give my daughter, who was now without a father, the best life and education I could give her. I wanted nice houses and cars and comfort.

My paradigm changed when I got saved. All I wanted to do was write for Jesus to profit His kingdom even though I had lost every penny I had defending myself from the bogus charges. Completely vindicated by the legal system, I stepped out of jail and sought to pursue my prophetic destiny. In my fervor to follow Christs plan for my life, I reached out to every Christian magazine I could find as soon as I got out of jail.