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Keep your eyes open, watch out, Daddy God is sneaking up on you and you are going to be enfolded in the biggest hug ever. That hug is going to undo in moments what has taken years to erect – walls of protection are tumbling down, being breached by love that will surge in; it will come in power and wash clean. Hurts, fears, protective masks are going to be washed away and instead of feeling exposed and unsafe you will know healing.
There is a new outpouring of the Fathers love for you now! Ask Him for it, ask Him to wrap you in His arms and love you.
Over this year there is going to be an increasing awareness of the Fathers love and for some, Daddy is going to surprise and overwhelm them with love like they’ve never known before. Love is going to pick you up, hold you to itself and never let you go. Enfolded, protected, sheltered, safe and other words like these are words we will hear over and over again, as people try to find words to describe the feelings of being loved by the Father who is love itself.
For some who have not known a Fathers love that feeling will at first be strange yet at the same time everything you have longed for. It will become your strength, your safety, your trust because you will know that one who loves like that can be trusted and where he leads you can go, knowing He goes with you into every circumstance of life.
When the Word of God says there is healing it doesn’t mean ‘learning to cope’. It doesn’t mean living behind a mask in case other Christians see you aren’t really healed and you will be exposed as a fraud somehow. There is real healing available in Daddy’s love. Allow Him to love you to wholeness. Allow the orphan heart/spirit to be removed from your life and the spirit of sonship to be implanted within you. It is absolutely critical in this season for those in the Church to allow Father to love them. The sons and daughters of God that the earth has longed for will never be revealed without it.
Ask Him to love you now. He will you know, and you will be changed by His love!
Father I pray you will wrap your arms of love around every wounded person and in doing so will wipe away years of hurts and woundedness. I pray that those who know your love will know a fresh reality of it filling and refreshing them, now! I pray that your love will become our place of strength and trust this year.
Father, I pray for a removing from hearts and minds of arrows that have pierced and words that have wounded. We cancel the assignments of words that wound. We cancel the assignment of words that tear down and demolish people both within and outside the Church. We cancel every curse spoken by Christians who spoke before thinking and spoke before loving. We cancel every curse spoken by Fathers, Mothers sisters and brothers. We cancel and break every curse spoken by people in positions of authority that brought wounding and hurt into peoples lives. We break the power of every word curse, every incantation and every image used to bring curse upon people; we decree their power broken now!
Instead we decree a releasing of the oil of healing, the balm of the name of Jesus to be applied and the love of the Father to wrap around those things and bring healing to those wounds. Holy Spirit, pour in the oil of healing and Father come and bind their wounds with love. Wrap them in your arms and love their hurt away I pray.
Let the outpouring of love come… now!
Day 8
Part 2 of Increase…
Increase of the glory
There will continue to be an increase in the glory – the manifested presence and power of God. Manifestations of that glory will increase. Correspondingly, as human bodies encounter the glory of God, they will be affected. Spontaneous healings will take place, miracles will occur, shakings, falling to the ground, etc will increase. At the same time God is releasing an understanding that this is not new – it has happened in every move of God in every century, but now God is releasing more. Oil, supernatural weight-loss, gold fillings, glory dust, gemstones and more; what we’ve seen in the past is just the beginning as God pours out afresh in this land. Expect it. Don’t say “It was nice for a season, but that season is past.” It is not past! What you saw before was a foretaste of what He will release.
Increase of the supernatural
At the same time hunger for the supernatural will continue to grow, both in the church and in the world. Christians will become increasingly dissatisfied with church as usual and hunger more and more for the reality of a power filled Christian life. The Church is in a state of radical reformation – much needed and longed for by many. Supernatural sons and daughters are rising up in the love and power of God and will more and more work miracles in daily life. They won’t wait for a church service or crusade meeting. Out on the streets boldness is increasing as more and more the church wakes up to who Jesus is in us. There is a release, an impartation of boldness today for those who will take it. Father, I release that impartation of boldness now, in Jesus name. There’s a fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit coming upon people today also, be filled in Jesus name! Can you receive an infilling, an impartation by internet – too right; there is no time or distance in the spirit realm, God works beyond those, so be filled – now! Tell God right now you receive it and then begin to walk in it. Don’t wait for the feelings of boldness step into faith, open your mouth and the feelings will follow as the power of God is released through you.
There is an increase of visions and heavenly experiences this year. Expect to have them they are part of your inheritance. Jesus walked in them so can you. Father, open their eyes to see, their ears to hear and their heart to receive all you have for them in this area. I release vision now in Jesus name!
Sons and daughters will more and more openly talk about their heavenly experiences with a supernatural God. Where before they hid their experiences for fear of being ridiculed now they talk openly about them, not to glory in the experience but to glory in the God who can do those things. As the true wheat grows along with that will come a rise in tares – those who for one reason or another fake experience or teach that the flesh can take you into heavenly experience. Be aware so you don’t get caught up in that deception but do not throw the true out with the false. Seek the true and let the Holy Ghost lead you into truth. He knows all about the glory and supernatural realms of God and only He can guide you safely into experiences in heavenly realms.
In the world there will be a rise in hunger for the demonic side of the supernatural. We see this already with mediums and other things blatantly filling our TV screens and enticing young and old to dabble in that realm. But there is an increase coming.
Increase of Joy
The Joy of the Lord that is our strength will increase in our land. There will again be outpourings of joy coming upon people, in their homes, in their churches, and even in the market place.
“This outpouring of joy will also become a weapon in my children’s hands. My people will join me and begin to laugh at the enemy’s plans. As they do strongholds will be broken, bitterness dealt a deathblow and healing released. My joy will deliver many from the hands of the enemy,” says the Lord.
Lord, I stand with you and I release it now. Let the waves of joy surge across this nation from top to bottom and from side to side. I decree that your people will gain new strength as it does and that the works of the enemy will be brought to nothing in their lives. Blessing and favour will increase instead as a spirit of joy is released in the land.
We are called to release heaven into earth – and have fun doing it. It is okay to have fun serving God. The joy you feel as you see God work through you is born of Him. Revel in it, marvel at it. Thankfulness, joy and fun in service will increase this year as people step from striving into rest.
Wrap up
Well, there you have it. These are the insights I have received so far from God for this coming year. I pray that they have witnessed with your spirit and with what you have heard from God as you have prayed into 2010. I pray that God’s plans and purposes for both you as an individual and the church in New Zealand will be fulfilled in total, with nothing missing.
I asked in Day 1 of these entries if you know what is on the Lord’s heart to accomplish in you and through you this next year. If you haven’t had time yet, to ask God, why don’t you make time during this Christmas season to do so. God is doing exciting things in our nation at the moment and I’d hate you to get to the end of next year having missed out on what He had for you.
Please feel free to feedback to us constructive comments on this series of prophetic insights; we can be contacted through the email address here on the blogsite. I’d love to hear what you believe God is doing in our nation. Bless you all as you walk into this New Year.
Release heaven into earth – and have fun doing it!
Day 7
Increase
Increase of revelation – an increase in the release of the spirit of wisdom and revelation.
“The revelatory realms will continue to open. Heavenly encounters and visitation will increase this year. This is an ongoing release that will continue to build and break on the land as I ready my people and make them more heavenly minded so they will be more earthly good. They will be blessed to be a blessing and to release my blessing,” says the Lord.
We are openly encouraged to ‘seek those things which are above, where Christ is seated…’(Col 3:1) we must see what God is doing to be able to co-operate with Him in it.
Increase of angelic activity – new angelic assignments.
Angels of breakthrough are being released into the land. Angels bringing provision are coming with supply trains filled. “New supply chains are opening – provision will come from the right and the left, from the North and the South. Get ready to see and receive provision. Angels to minister refreshing to weary ones are rushing into the land to make ready the harvesters. Get ready, get ready, get ready, I am coming suddenly.”
The harvest is upon us, and we need to make ourselves ready for it. Make sure you are rested and refreshed this summer. In several meetings lately we have seen angels coming with basins of water and towels to minister to and wash the feet of the weary ones. God is refreshing and restoring His Church so that we are ready to ‘go again.’ Yesterday I mentioned an acceleration in evangelism and that things will happen quickly. We must make sure we are always ready so we don’t miss opportunities when God opens them to us.
Angelic assignments to reveal Jesus to Muslims & Hindus
As we were in the Spirit during a meeting a few days ago I very clearly saw ‘Angel of the Lord’ encounters for Muslims and Hindus happening in New Zealand. I saw them having face-to-face encounters with Jesus or the angel of the Lord, awake and in dreams. I saw incredulous looks on their faces as the realization of whom they were encountering hit them. I saw revelation break through in their eyes as they saw the Lord. I saw person after person accept Christ and swear loyalty to him.
Father, I stand with you in heavenly places and release that now into New Zealand. Let the revelations increase, let the encounters come. Angels, we come into agreement with your assignments. Go and do what God has called you to do!
Angelic assignments to reveal Jesus to Children
At the same time I clearly saw angelic encounters for children happening, especially children who are broken and hurt. I saw children lying in bed, afraid of what might come n the night, and those who encounter night terrors because of demonic activity. I saw angels who bear peace and the revelation of Jesus coming to them and even teaching them to stand against the demonic that would seek to attack them. Some of them will be transported to heaven and come back and tell of the wonders they see, causing many to hunger for that reality. These young children will begin to see their families changed and saved as a result of their encounters.
God we come into agreement with you on this. Let the visitations begin! Let the little ones come to you without hindrance. We decree the release of revelation and heavenly encounters, we decree the ceasing of demonic encounters, we bind their activity and we release the angels of God to work in the lives of children across this nation. Face to face encounters with Jesus – increase! Heavenly visitations – increase!
There is too much in this section for one days entry so I will continue this section on increase in tomorrow’s entry.
Day 6
Acceleration –
Accelerated destiny and breakthrough shifts into the promise
New birthing – conception, growth, development, birth…
There is an acceleration of breakthrough for birthing and the membrane that has held people back from the promises of God being fulfilled will suddenly give way; it’s about God’s timing. Barrenness is giving way to God’s promise. Hannah wanted a son and God wanted a prophet – someone that would hear and obey, and in doing so bring a nation out of spiritual apathy and disobedience. We want something to come from our lives, to birth something we can call our own. God wants to birth something through us that sets a people and a nation free. Allow His purposes to be conceived and birthed through you.
Accelerated possession – There is a possessing of the land happening. Churches that had no home will find homes this year. Title deeds to land and buildings will be handed over – this is a sign of a greater possessing of the land that will happen in the spirit. There is also a grace for those who long to own a home. There is strategy available for the ‘how’ of making this happen; ask God for your strategy.
Acceleration in healing emotional issues – “There is an acceleration in healing emotional issues coming for those who will run toward healing, not away from it. Insecurities will bow, shyness will be broken, wounds of generations will be healed and iniquitous holds destroyed. Face the giants of hurt and woundedness so you don’t repeat destructive cycles. The orphan spirit will be dealt a death-blow in those who will recognise its work in them and come to me, allowing me to father them,” says the Lord. “I am releasing the knowledge of my spirit of sonship into peoples hearts. Where before they knew they were sons with their head now they will know with their heart and they will come into a place of peace and rest.”
Acceleration in Evangelism with Power
“There is an acceleration here, now, in the area of evangelism. What before took ages of careful working and building relationships to speak into lives will happen quickly. It is coming; do not despair if it seems harder at this present time than before, it is a false wall, push against it and it will dissipate before you. Where before you shared with words now you will share with words and power. There is an acceleration, I am coming quickly into peoples lives and they will run, they will run, they will run to me, says the Lord. Ask for the release of my power, then be bold, do not hold back and you will see, I will come though quickly. “
Acceleration In World situations
There will continue to be an acceleration of darkness and an increase of shaking in the world – the dark will become darker but the light is and will continue to become increasingly brighter!!! I am not talking doom and gloom here, far from it. I am talking about the releasing of the glorious sons and daughters of God to shine brighter and become more full of God’s power as the world becomes increasingly more hopeless, despondent and violent with famines and wars increasing. As they do, many will be saved, healed and delivered as a result of that revealing of the sons and daughters of God. The harvest is upon us – let us make sure we are ready to take part in it and reap.
Day 5
Expectation
Expectation / Hope – there is a rising release of hope again in the body of Christ. Sons and daughters who have been dissatisfied or despondent are beginning to be filled again with hope. An expectation that God is going to do good things in and through them is awakening within them.
There has been a lack of hope that has been fueled by an inability to see what God has been doing, and that has brought God’s people into fear and unbelief. Where there is no vision the people perish (Prov 29:18). Too often we have taken that to mean ‘where there is no project to get on board with’ but its meaning is simpler and deeper than that – it is about our ability to see. Where people cannot see what God is doing, or wants to do, they get discouraged, and slip into fear and unbelief. That causes their hope to perish and they then slide into passivity and apathy; spiritual decay sets in and the end result is loss of spiritual life. Remember – the thief comes to steal kill and destroy (Jn 10:10)
Expectation to see & hear – Expect that there will be an opening of your eyes and a sharpening of your hearing in the Spirit. This ability to see is critical for our Christian walk in the days ahead. Many Christians are living frustrated lives because of their inability to see and hear what God is doing.
Expectation to know God’s will – Too many don’t know what God’s plans are for their lives and so they lack purpose, causing a drifting from day to day and a slow slide into passivity. They wait for God to reveal to them whether they should become a lawyer or whether they should go to university; but those are in some cases being used by the enemy to sidetrack people when the will of God that has already been revealed lies unwalked in. Expect the plans and purposes of God to be unfolded to you. Expect that you will discover more of your true identity this year and in doing so there will be an unfolding of God’s will. So much of God’s will for us is written plainly in the Word. Expect the Word to be opened more to you so those things that are written there, that are His will for you, will become rhema’s that release faith into your life and propel you into supernatural divine encounters.
Expect miracles, expect the supernatural – “Expect them, expect them. expect them! Expect the miraculous, expect the supernatural, let the power of expectation fill you, it draws and calls me to act. True biblical expectation is irresistible to me, it draws me like a magnet to the one who walks in it. It is the precursor to my releasing the word that gives faith. Expect the supernatural, expect miracles, they are here for you to grab hold of and release into the earthly realm, says the Lord.” There will continue to be an increase in the release of the supernatural, press through your fears, press through your personality barriers, press through passivity and unbelief and look with expectation for God to act.
Learn to rest in your expectation– There is a place of rest and not striving in expectation that is there for you to step in to. Expectation that causes’ striving is not what the Lord has for you. Don’t go into your mind, stay in the Spirit. Surrender to the Lord and rest in Him, you can’t make miracles happen but you can position yourself in faith and rest and expect God to work through you.
In line with that, there is a place of seated authority that God is bringing people into. Seated authority is that place of rest in the presence of our enemies. Psalm 23 will become more and more the reality people walk in as they rest at that table God has prepared for them in the presence of their enemies and decree from that place of seated authority into situations and see them change. No striving, no flailing reactive warfare but strategic well placed blows that cripple enemy resources and supply lines.
Trust – Trust is a key foundation for expectation and faith to blossom within us. Trust will again be a focus this year as God deals with the things that rob us of our ability to trust Him. There will be situations that God will allow because we must see where our trust lies. Our trust must be in Him, not in our efforts, our bank balance, our families etc. It must be only in Him.
Day 4
Alignment…
Alignment with God and the Kingdom of God
This year decide where you stand. Commit to living a life of obedience to God, of hearing and obeying. Make a commitment to live a Kingdom lifestyle – one of words and power (1Cor 4:20). Think with your renewed mind – let the ‘mind of Christ’ work in your thought life. (Rom 12:2, 1Cor 2:16) Expect the supernatural; expect the miraculous to become part of your everyday life. Expect to walk as an ambassador of that kingdom, not just know in your head that you are one.
Alignment with God’s Word – logos and rhema – we need to know God’s word and come into alignment with it. So many Christians don’t know what the Word says about things or else don’t live by what it says.
God is saying – “Hear from me, come into agreement with me, stay in agreement with me no matter what your circumstances say, then watch your circumstances give way to what your faith creates.” Have no plan B and don’t allow your plethora of choices to steal your faith. Living by faith takes the stance – “My only option is to believe what You have said. You can use any means you like, God, to work the miracle I need, but the baseline is – it’s You. You’re my only option.”
Abandoned into deeper relationship with God – How far will you let me go God? How abandoned will you let me be? How deep is too deep in God? What is our fear? Is our fear that when we find out how far out the boundaries of God are, and what He has for us, that we will be responsible to walk in it? Is our fear that we won’t be able to live up to the greatness that is God within us? That we will let Him down, so it’s simpler not to try? We need to face the fear, whatever it is, and know that God has already made provision for all our fears and that we can trust Him. There’s that word ‘trust’ again.
Alignment with Identity- “Align yourself with who I say you are. Prophesy – decree my purposes over your life. Believe you can do what I call you to do, go where I call you to go, release miracles where I call you to release them. Believe!”
God is causing sons and daughters to realise that that’s who they really are – sons and daughters of God. They are beginning to believe they are inheritors of the Kingdom of God and that doesn’t mean when they die but now here on earth, and that they are called to release that Kingdom wherever they go. These sons and daughters are rising up in presence and power. They know their power walk comes from the secret place of intimacy of relationship with God. They are ones who, like Jesus, see what the Father is doing and do it and hear what the Father is saying and say it. As they do, the Kingdom of God is released and situations change – often in an instant.
Alignment with others
Recognise people by the Spirit. Listen to the promptings and checks of the Holy Spirit so that you won’t step into alignments, friendships, submission situations or contractual agreements that either aren’t godly or aren’t what God has for you. Make godly alignments. Disentangle yourself from ungodly alignments and that doesn’t mean just ungodly alignments with non-Christians. This doesn’t mean that we should cut off all contact and friendships with non-Christians. We are to be in the world but not of it.
Some ungodly alignments with Christians may need to be severed in order for you to move on to what God wants for you. Yes, they do happen unfortunately and we need to be aware of that.
It’s heart alignments and soul ties that are the issue here. A soul tie does not just happen in a sexual relationship. It happens when your heart becomes bonded and submissive to another person, either by your will or their manipulation and control.
Alignment with a Kingdom perspective
There will be an increasing call from God for Churches, Pastors and congregation members to align themselves with a global Kingdom perspective, not limiting themselves to just their local Church perspective. In other words, we all need to know what God is doing in this hour and season and come into alignment with it. We can continue to focus solely on ‘our vineyard’ but if we do we will find we will become insular and introspective, and may at best have to play ‘catch up’ or at worst miss out on what God is releasing.
Day 3 – Looking ahead to 2010
Hebraically we are already well into the New Year now, but here in NZ most individuals (including me) and churches usually work by the Roman calendar, where the New Year begins January 1st. I realised with some surprise during writing these insights that while I am addressing myself to this year starting Jan 1st I had already begun to see evidence of these things happening since the birth of the Hebraic New Year (Rosh Hashanah) in September 09. So to some of you these things will be no surprise as you will already be noticing them beginning to be released. For others of you it will be the first you have heard of them, but as you read them I pray the Spirit of God will give you a witness in your spirit regarding them.
As with each year I asked God for words to encapsulate what He wants to do this year in the Church in our nation then an expansion of those words. The words He spoke were
Alignment
Expectation
Acceleration
Increase
So over the next few days I will expand on those and release the things I believe God has given me to release over the nation.
(Is 45:11) ASV Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me.”
God is saying something here; He is saying we should ask Him about the future, ask for prophetic revelation then begin to co-labour with Him by coming into agreement with Him and asking Him to do those things he has revealed. The different Bible translators are equally divided as to whether God is stating something here or asking if we dare question Him. I am going to go with the former here, as that is how it came to me; as a rhema from God concerning prophetic decree. I believe He is saying – ask me what I want to do, then come into agreement with me through prayer; tell me what you want, release the word and give me something to work with. God has given dominion of the earth to us but He wants and chooses to co-labour with us.
It is amazing that the God who created the universe, who called all things into existence and holds all things together by the power of His word chooses to co labour with us in seeing His kingdom released and established on earth as it is in heaven.
Our words are powerful. They as well as our actions release the power of God to work in us and around us as we hear and see what he is doing in heaven, come into agreement with it and release it into Earth by our words, decrees and obedience.
As I release these words over the nation this coming week I align myself with Him in expectation and co-labour with Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit who broods and hovers, waiting to set the power of the spoken word into motion and create the reality of that which is released.
Alignment, expectation, acceleration & increase are waiting for you and your life this year in many areas. Ask the Lord to show you and unfold those things to you over the next few days as you read the other entries. Get ready to start some things in motion in your life this year. Get ready to ask and get answers. There will be a seeing in the spirit realm that will cause you to come to a new place of alignment, expectation, acceleration and increase this year. Faith & expectation will increase, answers will come quicker, things will happen, shifts and changes will come suddenly for many of you this year as you continue to press in to God. The adventure is shifting to a new level get ready for it.
Day 2 – Looking back over 2009
Many of you will have read the Prophetic Insights God gave me for 2009. If not, they are still on the blogsite (see pages above) and you could look them up if you want to read the whole series. But I will do a quick breakdown on those before I release what God has given me for this coming year. Some of those things carry over into this year, too, as God continues to build on them. The three words God gave me for 2009 were…
Trust
Praise before
Step into
These were further broken down into the following areas
Trust…
Trust and ‘Father’ ‘Mother’ issues – dealing with the stuff of our past so we can trust God the way He deserves to be trusted – wholeheartedly, without reserve, with childlike faith.
Trust and moves of God / manifestations – trusting that God is big enough to know what He is doing and why He is doing it and that when manifestations happen He still knows what he is doing and why.
Learning to look for the revelation hidden inside the manifestation.
Trust and provision – will God provide for us or not? Dealing with our unbelief. We saw trust being a big issue on God’s heart for His people this past year as turmoil and insecurity tried to take hold of them. Many had to look and see how deep their trust of God actually was. For many it was surface level as the cares of the world ripped at the seed of trust and the Word planted in their hearts. Some found that their trust was deeper than they thought, as they stood against the winds of circumstance that raged around their lives. Trust will continue to be tested this coming year also. Allow God to test it so that you can see what needs strengthening and then, with His help, strengthen it.
Praise before…
Praise before – before you see the manifestation of what you’ve prayed for. Praise in faith, believing that God has already granted all you need pertaining to life and godliness (2 Pet 1:3)
Continue this year also to use the power of ‘Todah’, the power of thanksgiving and praise that honours God and prepares the way for Him to show you His salvation in whatever circumstances you face (Ps 50:23). This kind of thanksgiving is the thanksgiving and praise of faith. It does not beg or plead with God to supply what He has already promised is ours. It takes the promise and by faith begins to thank God in advance for those things already released in the heavenly realm but not yet manifested in this realm, and in doing so it pulls them from one realm to the other.
Step into…
Step into… wholeness – finding real healing for hurts and wounds. This is, of course, something God is always doing, but we definitely saw an increase of it this last year and it is one of the things God continues to highlight for 2010
Step into… destiny / the will of God for your life. More and more we, the Church, are waking up to who we really are and what we are called to do – release the Kingdom of God with power into the earth. Many are finding that the will of God for their lives is not whether they become a lawyer or a checkout chick, but that they move in power, healing the sick and releasing the captives, wherever they are.
Step into… boldness – and be empowered to share the love of God and move in miracles
Step into… the supernatural & revelatory encounters – they are here now for us to walk in daily by faith. There will continue to be an increase in this during this coming year as the Church rediscovers that walking in revelation and encounter has always been our inheritance and is not just for when we die, but now.
Step into… change – change in jobs, change in churches, change in personal life issues, change in economic situations, change, change, change. Come to grips with it, embrace it and enjoy the adventure.
Step into… financial security – related to trust and being secure, whatever the state of your finances. Also step into secure finances.
Step into… your glorious future – the church as a whole, and each of us individually, are undergoing reformation. Bring it on God, change us!
We have definitely seen the reality of these words released and established this year, but their work is not yet finished. They will continue to work in us and around us as God adds to that the things He wants to do this year. Continue to allow God to work these things out in your life this coming year and allow Him to build onto them new things.
Day 1 – Vision
2010 is almost here – we are about to leave 2009 and enter a new year and over the next 8 days I will be releasing a series of blog entries on things I feel God has been saying to me concerning 2010. Eight is the number for resurrection, new beginnings, putting on the new man. I believe it is a significant number for where we are in the timetable of God and for this coming year. There is a putting on of the new man happening in the Church in New Zealand, It’s happening to new Christians and old alike; the new man, the glorious sons and daughters of God is being birthed and we are in the beginnings of it. We are not yet what we will become but we are also not what we were.
Do I have the whole picture? No, that would be foolish and arrogant of me to think so, but I do believe God has shown me some things as I have asked Him to – so I share from that perspective. The Bible says we know in part and prophesy in part.
This time of year when we move on from one year and look forward to a new year with all its promise stretched out before us is a time pregnant with promise. For us there is a genuine sense of excitement in our spirits as we look forward to what God will do among, and through, us all this year.
One thing I know is that unless we hear from God and discover what He has planned we will not be able to align ourselves with His plans and purposes. We will tend to drift into the year and the busyness of life will swamp us and the year will slip by. Then we will get to the end of it and wonder why our lives haven’t changed and why God’s purposes for us haven’t been released and established. The Bible puts it this way, “Where there is no vision the people perish.” (Prov 29:18)
What’s your vision from God for this coming year? What do you feel is on the Lord’s heart to accomplish in you and through you? I’m not talking about New Year resolutions here but the plans and purposes of God for your lives. There is destiny waiting for you. See it, hear it – receive that rhema word from God then reach into the glory, grab hold of it by faith and pull it into your life. Decree it daily over your life; envisage it happening, pray into it, asking God to release the provision and favour needed for it to be accomplished. Then, in His timing, begin to step out and walk into it.
Last night we had our muso’s practice and sitting there in the church was a surprise – Elmo sat waiting for us to turn up and ready to turn our time together into a laugh-fest. Thats right -Elmo the short red furry monster Elmo, and boy did he make us laugh. But the adult in us prevailed in the end and we did get on with the practise eventually. Funny thing though, everyone there seemed to think Elmo reminded them of me. Now I definitely aren’t red and furry but when I get drunk in the Holy Spirit I have to admit the similarities are surprising.
One of the guys in the team said he had heard that young children laugh on average 400 times a day. Whether it is that much or not it is certainly still a lot more than we laugh as adults. It made me think when it was that I last laughed but then I remembered it was only a day or so ago so I felt a bit better then. But it certainly wasn’t five minutes ago or five minutes before that and it certainly wasn’t 400 times yesterday.
How many days has it been since you laughed? The Bible says that a merry heart is as good as a dose of medicine for whatever ails you – okay thats my version but it does say that, in slightly more correct English, and it also tells us the Joy of the Lord is our strength. There is a divine exchange waiting for you today, His joy for your weakness, His joy for your despondency,or your depression. Father God wants to take upon himself and take away any heaviness you are carrying and in exchange give you His joy.
So if your strength is waning and you feel like you could do with a dose of good medicine check out this You tube clip and let Elmo and Father God cheer you up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4x-VW_rCSE
