Usually it doesn't take that long to hear a response. As I go through life and learn how to have a relationship with the Lord I realize that every year it gets easier. If I've kept my heart sensitive to His, if the bottom line is I desire to hear His heart above anything else it becomes easy. I feel like every year the Lord lays something out for me that seems impossible and not probable, my unbelief kicks into high gear. Then at the end of the year I look back and see every promise full filled beyond what I could have hoped, expected or thought. Why? Because our God is an unchanging, unshakable, covenant loving God that is faithful even when we are not.
This year I will share some of what I feel the Lord has promised me because I believe in my heart of hearts that it's for the entire body of Christ. These promises belong to you! This is the year!
The passage that the promise is from is 2 Kings 3:15-20:
I'm going to give you a bit of background for this. The King of Isreal wanted to battle the Moabites so he convinced the King of Judah and Edom to come with him. Unfortunately the armies got stuck in the desert because they weren't using their thinkers. They were basically going to die in the desert because they couldn't move forward, the enemy had trapped them there. The Moabites plan was to trap them in the desert and let them die. So the King of Isreal asked if there was a prophet among them who could tell them what God was saying. The King of Judah happened to bring Elisha along this journey (good thinking) so they called for Elisha. Now Elisha wasn't the biggest fan of the king of Isreal but because he was loyal to the king of Judah he called on the Lord so this is where we start.
vs 15: "But now bring me a minstrel." And it came about, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
vs. 16: He said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Make this valley full of trenches.'
vs. 17: "For thus says the LORD, 'You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, both you and your cattle and your beasts.
vs. 18: 'This is but a slight thing in the sight of the LORD; He will also give the Moabites into your hand.
vs. 19: Then you shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and fell every good tree and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'"
vs. 20: It happened in the morning about the time of offering the sacrifice, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
Here it is the promise! I felt the Lord tell me the last 2 years was me digging trenches in your life. I know for myself and many around me this word is so true. There has been a lot of "digging" going on. Some feeling like they've tried everything and it's still all falling a part, some are in a completely different place, job, or position then they were 2 years ago. Here too many I've heard say they feel like they've been in a desert season. There's been a lot of shaking and moving. I know that in my community the favorite word is transition. We seem to always be in transition or about to be in transition. Here's the bottom line we've been dug up for a reason.Whether it's been hard or just strange we are emptied. For the reason that this year is the year of the "and suddenly". Notice that Elisha said you won't see the wind or the rain but it will just happen! This is the year where in one second it's all going to flip around. That house you couldn't sell, that job you couldn't get, that marriage you couldn't heal, that dream, promise, breakthrough that you have been contending for is here.
It has to start from a place of worship. If we don't have our hearts aligned with His we could miss it. Worship and thanksgiving always draws heaven. We start with worship and thankfulness and then we get our "and suddenly" then what happens?
Our enemies get defeated and the land (country) gets filled with water. I believe we haven't just been contending for just ourselves in the last seasons but our lives are intercession pulling on heaven for the "country" the land that we all live on. As our hearts stand in the place of utter surrender to the mystery of who God is in our lives we become vessels emptied so God can fill us with His Spirit that spills into the desert around us watering the land we stand on.
If you read on the Moabites see the water and think it's blood. That ultimately brought them to defeat. The water and the blood is what poured out of Jesus's body on the cross. The water and the blood always defeats the enemy! God is breaking through this year with the power of His Spirit and the price that He paid on the cross. Jesus deserves to get everything that He paid for! The people of God live in victory because the blood of Jesus was enough!
I hope this encourages you out there...I release hope over you that you would put all your hope in the person of Jesus Christ. That this year would be the year you see His promises manifested in your life. That this year would be lived in victory and not defeat.
Be blessed!
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