A GLORIOUS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!
As we leave this year and enter into 2011, I am reminded of the evening of March 11, 2010. Prior to this time, I had only once had someone to speak a very phenomenal word about my life in October, 2002 of what she believed God was saying to her concerning what would happen for me. However, 2009 was a very disheartening and discouraging year for me, to say the least, the worst year of my life (no exaggeration), just an extremely difficult time... PERIOD! The person I was to marry left me for someone else. I was without a job, and therefore, lost my beautiful house that sat on a lake where I'd go rowing or fishing periodically. I lost my automobile. And almost lost my life. I had experienced loss and tragic situations before, but this pain was excruciatingly wrenching!!! I had always followed Jesus, but this seemed to be a time of great dispair for me. My only option was total surrender... I literally had nothing left to lose. As I entered into 2010, I began to be placed within the path of various Pastors that began to speak over me once again.
March 11, 2010, Pastor Tim Bagwell, whom I'd never met before, called me forth from the church audience and spoke to me saying repeatedly, "The old has passed away, behold all things become new!" He then went on to tell me, "Do not look at your future based on your past. You have looked at your tomorrows through a limited perspective. You've had opposition, disappointment, heartache and loss, but NOW you'll live up and move up! You'll walk in things different and see things different." Okay, so you might say this could be just about anyone's past, however, he did not choose anyone else from the audience to say this to but me... and the truth of it touched deep within my heart as tears began to stream from my eyes! He also told me, "You've looked at Jesus as a weak Jesus. But now through your situations, you'll see Jesus in the High Place... Seeing Him High and Exalted! You'll see His Glory moving the doorposts, and He's opening for you doors no man can open. He's moving the foundations and breaking the back of the enemy. Old things ARE passed away! Healing is going into your body. Virtue is going into your body. The anointing is going into your body. Energy levels are shifting. Things are now cycling right. Things are now being restored. You are WHOLE SAYS GOD!!!" During that season of turmoil in my life, something miraculous and supernatural happened for me and within me that night!
Another word spoken throughout 2010 for us was that we were entering into a season of "Unmeasurable blessings, unmeasurable favor, unmeasurable manifestations, nothing missing, and nothing broken!" And now as I reflect over 2010, it has absolutely been the most miraculous year I've ever experienced. I know without a doubt that things will never be the same. I can honestly look back and count the multitude of blessings, the unmeasurable favor, and the manifestation of God's pure goodness in my life.
In taking the time to go before our Father in prayer and fasting these last few days, there are a couple of scriptures He gently placed within my spirit:
Psalm 23:1 (Amplified), "The LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack." and, Isaiah 6:1, 3 (Amplified), "...[in a vision] I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the skirts of His train filled the [most holy part of the] temple. ...And one cried to another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!
For 2011, these scriptures caused me to remember the above words that had been spoken into my life. The Lord is still shepherding us, and true hope in Him never disappoints. Most versions of Psalm 23:1 say we shall not want... In Him, there is no lack. We shall move forward believing that God is still fulfiling His promise of nothing missing and nothing broken, and perfecting us for His promises that all might come to pass. And this is absolutely the best time to be within the Kingdom of God, because His glory is filling the earth. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts!!! 2011 is a "Year of His Glory and Holiness!" In entering 2011, we are going from fullness of how He has blessed us into overflowing prosperity in every area... family, relationships, health and finances!!
Unfortunately, discouraging things do happen, but nothing in Him ever happens without reason and purpose. Therefore, let go of what is behind, especially those things and memories that have been tragically disappointing. Every promise that God has spoken shall be fulfilled. He does not lie, and He never forgets all of the good He has for you. In looking forward toward all that we are believing our Father to fulfill for us, see those desires seated in Jesus, the One Who is highly exalted. Jesus, through the completed work of the Cross, has already attained our abundant, victorious and glorious living. We're not in the ring trying to win the title belt, IT'S ALREADY OURS!!! When Jesus won that victory, He went on to be seated at God's right hand in honor, strength and power. The word also says that we are seated in the heavenlies with Christ, therefore, we are seated in that position of honor, strength and power, having all authority as sons and daughters of the Most High God! We speak things that be not as though they already exist... and they shall be established!
See those loved ones that you've been praying for already seated in Christ, and speak that they are saved... see your finances and bank account already seated in Christ, and speak that you are wealthy... see your health already seated in Christ, and speak that you are healed and all is well... see your marriage already seated in Christ, and speak that the two of you are one... AND IT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED! Keep your focus and endeavors within this new year on God, His Word, and accomplishing His work and will, just as Jesus did, and you shall prosper!
We are not of this world, but in this world living within the Kingdom of God and within the REALM OF HIS GLORY!!! 2011 SHALL BE A GLORIOUS YEAR!!!
