My child, don't walk away. Stand by My side. Look into My face and receive My sweet embrace. All your sins were washed away. With My blood you were set free. Forever rest in My finished work of Grace. Be set free to live endlessly. Forever you will reign with Me seated at the Father's right hand...the place of victory. There never has been a moment as precious as the one when you came to Me to receive My love for you at Calvary.
Did you know that God wants to give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation? And why - it's in knowing Jesus. And that's the main purpose of the spirit of wisdom and revelation, is that we would have an intimate connection with him. One of the ways you can really connect with the spirit of revelation is by engaging in the heart of worship. And scripture says Jesus said, The Father is seeking those who will worship him in spirit. And in truth, he is looking for worshipers, he's looking for those who will take time to connect with his heart, and that they worship through their lives.
What is faith? And what does it look like to actually live by faith? These are important questions because we receive and experience the blessings God has for us through faith. Hebrews 11:1 (AMP) says, "Faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality - faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses]."
You are anointed and your anointing has not left you is what I recently heard the Spirit of the Lord say while I was in worship and prayer before my Sunday night web church service. It was for the people of God. He said, "Tell My people they are anointed and that their anointing has not left them. Even if you aren't operating in the gifts and the full potential that I have given you, it doesn't mean it isn't within you or has left you. My anointing does not leave My people. They may not activate it, but they can cultivate it and release it. It has not left them. It is My anointing." The inadequacy, shame, guilt, condemnation, unworthiness and regret you feel and may experience does not make your anointing leave you. The Lord still wants to use you.
Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe. Ezekiel 2:9-10 NIV The Lord is bringing an end to the long and difficult season of mourning, sorrow and loss. We are coming out of a dry and barren time similar to the Ezekiel 37 Valley of Dry Bones. Many people, including myself, have been walking through the Valley of Fear and the Valley of the Shadow of Death - all at the same time. But there is great news! The Lord is now moving to set us free starting in February. This prophetic word is not limited to February, but this is indeed a major turning point, spiritually. There is new power and anointing being released from the Lord to break free.
Recently I heard the Lord speaking over many in the body of Christ and He spoke, "It may look like the end, but it's new birth." I began to see people all across the body of Christ in a place of feeling like they had "lost themselves" in 2021 because of all the hardship and battles they had endured. They came to the beginning of 2022 and were feeling 'lost.' Feeling like they were but a shadow of themselves and who they were and beginning to flourish into, in the years before. The Lord began to show me that their hearts were crying out to Him in deep pain.
The year 2022 is here, and we are bearing witness to unprecedented shifts around the world. We are seeing an increase in disease, natural disasters, violence, war - all of which are tearing at the fabric of communities on a global scale. We are also living in an unprecedented hour of prophetic fulfillment. The earth is crying out in intensified travail (both in the natural and the supernatural) as if preparing to give birth, as Jesus foretold in Matthew 24. As children of God, we must stay steadfast and focused on truth as these birth pangs are released. As we continue into our journey in the year 2022, I feel there is prophetic significance in the year.
The Bible teaches us that our thoughts are the determining factor which controls our actions. Proverbs 23:7 says, "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Romans 8:6 says, "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." Notice that carnal mindedness doesn't just tend toward death - it is death! No one can consistently perform differently than the way they think; therefore, we cannot change our actions without changing our thinking. It's not just what we think about that needs changing, but we must change our thinking process. Our emotions are linked directly to how we think.
God is revealing His glory as never before, and in the year 2022, we will see this double glory expressed, with His light and power coming forth. The Gregorian calendar year 2022 lies within the Hebrew new year 5782, which began on Sept. 7, 2021. This year of 2022 is a powerful year in the Lord and one in which God is preparing His people to carry double glory. The numbers 5-7-8-2 on the Hebrew calendar are biblical numbers that mean "grace," "perfection," "new beginnings" and "double portion." In addition, the number 20 in 2022 represents a number of a cycle of completion, a time of waiting finished, and 22 often means "light and power."
How can we be thankful in the midst of everything going on in the world today? We've been through a lot in the last few years and I just want to stop a minute and thank God, even for the difficulties many of us have gone through. One of my favorite songs is "Through It All," written by Andre Crouch in 1971 after having purchased an engagement ring for a young woman. He was heartbroken when she announced that she was getting married, but not to him. He wrote: "I thank God for the mountains, and I thank Him for the valleys, I thank Him for the storms He brought me through; for if I'd never had a problem, I wouldn't know that He could solve them...I'd never know what faith in God could do.
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