Seeing a Turtle...

In the morning prayer, we practice prophecy. We were each given a piece of folded paper with a name of one of our classmates written in it and we were not allowed to open it. We prayed in tongue, asked God what we should tell the person mentioned on the paper, and had our sharing session of what we envision.

When I close my eyes, I saw a very unusual scene. I saw something that resembles a ‘turtle’, and it looks miserable. So I asked myself, “Why God let me see this picture? How will I bless the person, and what does the turtle represent?” Since the turtle looks miserable, I explained the picture with my own words. So, I said: “I saw an animal that is heavy laden, very miserable. I felt like this animal is the representation of this person (written on the paper), he/she is stress because of the pressures. God wants this person to be liberated (let it go)”.

(At that moment, I dare not mention the turtle; logically there won’t be any turtle at that place, and turtle gives people the ‘slow’ impression, so I choose not to mention the turtle. (Please do not follow my way of elaboration!)

Later, we opened the piece of paper, ‘Yu Zheng” name is written on it. We ended the session and headed downstairs to have breakfast. After breakfast, on my way up the top floor, I saw my classmate – Wei Liang holding a bucket. He asked me to take a look inside the bucket. I saw a trionyx. I told Wei Liang, earlier this morning I actually had vision of this animal, it looks miserable. He asked me if the prophesy was for him, I told him it was for Yu Zheng. He then mentioned that the trionyx was caught by Yu Zheng.

I was dumbfounded for a moment; I thought to myself that I should have mentioned the whole vision earlier. Instead, I doubted God, used my own way of explaining God’s prophecy. Brother and sisters, God is a talking God, whatever you see, you must have confidence to speak out, do not doubt God, and do not doubt yourself if you can hear God’s when He reveals to you. May God bless you, Amen!

** I don’t know how to differentiate a turtle and a trionyx **

16-07-2009早上晨祷的时候，我们操练预言。每个同学都被派了一张纸，里面都有我们同学的名字，但是我们不能开。所以我们就方言祷告，然后问上帝要对纸上的人说什么，再来就分享我们所看见的。

当我闭上眼睛的时候，我看见一幅很奇怪的图画。我看见长得很像乌龟的一只“乌龟”，样子很痛苦。然后我就问自己说，“为什么上帝给我看见这幅图画呢？而且这幅图画是要祝福手上的那个人的，乌龟喻表着什么呢？”因此，因为我看见乌龟的样子是痛苦的，我就用我自己的方式去解释这幅图画。我说：“我看见一只动物被很重的东西压着，很痛苦。我感觉这只动物喻表着这个人（纸上的人），可能是被环境所压迫，所以感到很压力，我感觉上帝要告诉这个人出去出去（释放）。”

（当时我不敢讲乌龟，因为理智上告诉我这个地方不可能有乌龟，而且乌龟通常给人的感觉是慢吞吞的、不好的，所以我不选择讲乌龟，请大家不要学我用自己的方式去解释！）

后来，我们就打开手上的纸，里面的名字是“玉真”。之后，我们便结束祷告，下楼吃早餐了。完了早餐后，当我正要上楼的途中，我看见我的同学伟良手上拿了一个桶。他就顺手叫我看桶里面的东西，后来我看见一只鳖。我告诉伟良说，今天早上我就是在异象中看见这只东西，样子很痛苦。然后，伟良就问我今早的预言是不是为他发的，我说不是，而是为玉真发的。后来，他竟然告诉我，这只鳖是玉真抓的。

其实当时我顿时傻了一下，心想我真的不应该没有把整个异象的所见说出来。反而怀疑上帝，还用了自己的方式去解释上帝的启示，真的很不应该。弟兄姐妹们，上帝是一位会说话的神，你所看见的，就要用信心把它讲出来，不要怀疑上帝，也不要怀疑自己是不是能够听到或看到上帝的启示。愿上帝赐福于你，阿门！

** 我不会分辨乌龟和鳖...