Dear friends:
As one year comes to an end, another one begins. I want to write this letter to encourage each person in this season that we are facing. The key to survival is that God is faithful. I believe that the Lord has given me this word to give to others and so I thought I would start with you.
In this season of Famine- and we can see that we are in a season of Famine, in our country and the world at large. I believe many are in seasons of famine in their spiritual walk with the Lord.
This is what I believe the Lord is saying for the body of Christ for the upcoming year.
Before any famine there is a warning sent out to warn us what is taking place in the earth, so that as believers we can be proactive and not reactive.
Define
famine- Being in a state of without: You can add the word that suit your situation of what being without : Food, Marriage/Relationships, Job, ect.
Webster 1828- Famine-
1. Scarcity of food; dearth; a general want of provisions sufficient for the inhabitants of a country or besieged place.
2. Want; destitution; as a famine of the word of life.
As believers we get the warning so that we may plan according, not only for our lives but it will all so have an impact on the lives of others, in the Kingdom and those who will join the Kingdom in days to come.
1.I believe that God is going to give specific details on what you should do during this next season, as a result of your obedience to whatever it is that God is telling you to do. ( That means one will have to increase our time in the word,prayer,fasting,quiet time and listening attentively for directions and not move to quick or to slow.)
Scriptures References: Genesis 41: ( Read the entire chapter) God has prepared a door of opening for you: Be attentive and he has also prepared a door closing: Joseph move from the prison(closed door) and to the Palace(open door)
Verse 14-16
14.Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph and they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; and he shaved, changed his clothing, and came to Pharaoh.
15.And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that you can understand a dream,to interpret it.”
16.So Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying “ It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of Peace .”
Verse 17-36 Deals with Pharaoh dream and the interpretation of the dream, by Joseph and the detail plans of how to survive in the famine .
Verse 37-57 Deals with Joseph divine appointment and assignment to help God's People in the tough season that would face them. God gave specific details and He is doing that today. Do not take lightly the things God will speak in many ways to your spirit man, on how you are to impact the Kingdom of God in this season .
Lets look at another example of how to survive the season ahead
Read the entire book of Esther: When a whole nation was saved because a girl decided to obey the details given to her and as a result not only was her household spared, but an entire nation of people was spared. and God placed a man who stood for Godly order back into the place of God's original plan for his life
Acts chapter 11:27-30
vs 27 Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch
vs 28 And one of them named Agabus stood up and began to indicate by the Spirit that there would be a great famine all over the world. And this took place in the reign of Cladius.
Vs 29 And in the proportion
Our influence should be for the preservation of not only our lives, but also for the lives of the future generation.
I believe if the body of Christ will follow the plan of God: Many plans of the enemy can aborted as it relate to our religious freedoms that we experience in the US. But the key to that turn around will be the fact that we each individual judge ourselves, repent and ask for the mercy and grace of God to intervene on the behalf of this nation. As a result of our obedience read below what will take place.
2.God is going to cause the church of the Lord Jesus Christ to shine in a dark world. And as a result the dark world will want to know our secret. (We should be prepared to give answer answer to our hope. In deed and word)
READ Isaiah 60: 1-2 (Whole chapter )
Arise ( Indicates a change of position) shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you, 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth. And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you and His glory will be seen upon you. (People will see God's glory not yours) We must always step into the position that God has set up, to see God's manifestation in the earth. The Glory of the Lord will be so prevalent in the lives of the believer in this season, I pray that each of you will get a glimpse into the spiritual realm of what the Lord showed me, Man I can not express things that are going to take place. The season of Famine is for God to show himself strong and mighty on our behalf. We must talk(pray) to God about his will in the earth at this season and not last season, but this new season and we will experience and see the Glory of the Lord, like never before.
I ask you to take the time and read the scriptures and as you read ask the Lord for revelation and enlightenment as you read his word.
1.I ask every believer to examine his/herself during this season, many things will come too a close in areas of our lives, where we have refuse to hear the voice of God, and the hand of God's judgment will have to render, what you will not surrender to him. Also note that Judgment is favorable as well as none favorable: Expect favorable Judgment as you follow the plan of the Lord and note that many of you will receive Favorable judgment in many areas of your life, because of your faithfulness unto the Lord in the previous seasons.
2.I ask that many of you will take the first month of 2009, get before the Lord, in fasting and praying and quiet time and see what God is doing and saying for you to do. As we end 2008, we have seen the hand of God's judgment in the lives of the believers, starting with the head/leadership and if it is happening within the leadership of the church, both nationally and locally. ask your self what about the body of Christ at this time.
3.I was given a word last year regarding the medical community. I believe that within the next 2-3 year that there will be a drug released for cancer treatment, that will greatly improve the lives of those facing this disease. What has been known of Cancer and the fear of the disease will no longer be known .
4.It is very important that we listen to the fine details of whatever the Lord will speak in the Secret place. I can not express the importance of self evaluation, during this upcoming season. Living in the Secret Place, a place that is not hidden from us but hidden for us. The place of God's divine presences, It is a place where protection,peace and divine intervention and spiritual growth always take place. It is a place made available to each of us no matter where we maybe at this time in our lives because there are times and season for every reason in our lives. But God will not force you to enter in but one must choose to enter into that place.
Psalms 91: He who dwells in the secret place shall abide under the shadow of the almighty.
Listen to this whoever chooses to take up residence in Christ who is love shall forever dwell and live under the covering of the almighty. I want to encourage you that what the word of God has said remains to be the truth in our lives.
John 15 If you abide in me and my word abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
5.Experiencing the new wine in 2009 will be a results of how we hear and listen and follow the specific details given by the Holy Spirit. Matt 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottle break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles. And both are preserved.
Ask God this year what of the old in your life that needs replace with the new: Then ask for the strength and him to help you do it.
The word of the Lord concerning President Obama is to pray : and He did speak other things but he told me for you to pray and he would reveal them to you as well.