HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!

Today is the last day of yet another year and I am blessed. It has been a great year and I have seen God's hand in many areas especially my career. Of course there have been highs and lows but I have been very blessed in everything. There are things that I had hoped to have this year that did not happen, like shed the extra weight and find a mate. However, my blessings and achievements are far more than my disappointments.

I took the time to meet with God for 6 days to discuss the year 2009 and to seek him about it. Two things were promised to me:

a) Every barren place in my life will be watered by the river of God and bear fruit in 2009.

b) Every dark and shadowy place in my life will be illuminated by his Light (Glory) in 2009.

I am blessed and excited and cannot wait for tomorrow. On my end I have purposed to do the following in the new year:

a) Spend two hours with the Lord in prayer and bible study daily.
b) Read the Bible through in 2009. I bought the One Year Bible today in order to make it easier.
c) Go back to school to study my Masters.
d) Participate in the 21 day fast at my Church in January.
e) Change jobs so I can do something less demanding of my time, thus allowing me to participate in various church events.
f) Live out each month, week and day purposefully. I want to set goals that will enable me to achieve much in the given period of time.
g) Save 10k monthly.

My focus is set and I feel really good about this year. I know God has a plan for me. I want to find that plan and work it like crazy in 2009. I want to seek him and find him, because I will seek him with all my heart. I can't wait. I am blessed!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The Day of my Visitation

One thing is for sure, I do NOT want to be like Jerusalem, not knowing the day of my visitation and therefore suffering a lack of peace and even defeat.

Luke 19

41And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

42Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

44And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

The Lord is talking to me about a very significant opportunity that I must catch or I will be pretty miserable thereafter. He says not to look at the wrapping in which he sends the gift. Not to judge by outside appearance (1 Sam 16). He is sending me a gift this Christmas and I thank him for it. Lord, open my eyes to see your gift. Help me to see past the outside, the wrapping paper, but to take the time to open my gift and enjoy it. Lord, I am human and you know my tendencies. Help me to see as you see, put some salve on my eyes so that they can be opened to see truly. I open my heart and mind to this gift. I acknowledge the time of my visitation and believe that this is both my chronos and kairos time. I bless you Lord for you are good. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Prophetic Acts

Prophetic acts are very powerful and are great for rendering the devil powerless in any situation. One thing I have learned from David Oyedepo, founder of Winners Church is that you should always ask God what you are to do in any situation. And whatever he tells you to do, do it.

I have exercised many different prophetic acts by the Spirit of God and seen the results almost immediately. On of those involves a rock I call "Eb." I was in need of clients and had been praying to God for help when I read about Joshua and Samuel setting up a stone as a witness between God and the people. I felt God move me to set up a stone that would be a witness between he and I. That whenever he saw the stone he would come to my aid.

So I ran outside, got a small rock, anointed it with oil and called it Ebenezer "The Lord is my stone of help" and whenever I worked I would put it on my PC and when God saw it he would give me favor and give me the jobs I was bidding for, and I would remember that I am helped. And wouldn't you know it, before long I had more work than I knew what to do with. So much so, that I began to jokingly refer to Eb as the trouble maker, because I couldn't handle it.

Last week I spoke to God about a harvest I needed from my year of giving (2008). He gave me some strange instructions. I could not understand the purpose of the action, but God did and all I had to do was follow his instructions. He told me that when I got to church on Sunday, I was to get an envelope, write on it the amount of money I would give as first fruits when my harvest came in (which I had designated as 50% of my net income) and then during praise and worship dance and wave that envelope to him. When I got to Church on Sunday, we sang all these warfare songs, and I just followed the Lords instructions and waved my envelop in his presence. When we finished praising, I sensed in my spirit that it was done. And the Lord said to me, now loose your harvest. So I loosed it and called in forth in Jesus Name. The Lord reminded me of Matt 12:29

"Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob is house."

The Lord revealed to me that as I was singing and praising and waving my envelope. I was binding the strong man, and now I could go in and take my stuff. Isaiah 30:32 says it very well:

"Every stroke the Lord lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the music of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm."

So as we sang and praised with shouts and musical instruments, the Lord was fighting for me and in the end he said to me just call forth your harvest. It is yours. The strong man is bound, now you can spoil his goods. Hallelujah!

Matt 16:19 tells me clearly that "I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

Hallelujah! Now all I have to do is wait on my harvest. It is surely coming!

The Breaking of a New Dawn

Some things are more amazing to me than I can say. About 2-3 months ago the Lord spoke to me and said that he wanted me to separate myself to him. To be consecrated to him. I was not sure what that meant but I agreed to it and let him know I was his to have, hold and keep. In the last few months he has kept reminding me about it, that I must separate myself to him. Now I think I know where he was going with it.

Towards the end of October, he began to speak to me about change. That he was shutting the old doors in the market place and would lead me down a new career path. I wasn't understanding it. In fact, I thought he was saying that he needed me to go out and start my own business. Turns out that is not it. God has plans to use me so that he impacts not just my world, but the world through me. Amazing!

There are some things that I have always justified in my life and sincerely speaking could not figure out what the fuss was all about. Clubbing was one of those things. I don't club but 2 -3 times a year, but I wanted to have that freedom, and up until now God has let me get away with it. This morning he said "STOP" just as clear as he could. Additionally, I was led to sign on for the 21 day fast in January with Jentezen Franklin and his church from Jan 4th to 25th 2009.

All that was great but today he has again called me to covenant with him. Only once in my life has God asked me to covenant with him. Now he has called me again and said "Covenant with me." What does he have planned for my life? What is this next phase of my life about? I know that I have finally walked into what I was created for. I feel that I am on the edge of my destiny. That I have come to the end of an era, and began a new one.

I am in awe of God as I write this, knowing that my life will never be the same again. This is the end of life as I know it. I am walking into a new place in God and with God that I have never been to before. My heart is pounding with an awed excitement and a knowledge that God is getting ready to use me to bring about his agenda on the earth.

I lay myself down at his altar. I offer my self as a living sacrifice Holy and acceptable to him. I surrender my own desires, plans, passions, hopes and dreams. All that I am I give to him. I surrender all. I give up all. I just want God. I separate myself unto the Lord to be used of him all the days of my life. Here I am Lord, I have come. It is written about me in your scroll. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!