Christ’s Death is the Key to Contentment

This statement seems almost unbelievable, that the key to true contentment is found in the finished work of the cross. Everything about us tells us that contentment is found when we lack nothing. But the Bible tells us in the letter to the Philippians, that contentment is found in the one who gives us strength - “I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” (Philippians 4 : 11-13).

Paul here presents himself as an example of a man who has learned to be content in times of plenty and in seasons of lack. What was the secret to Paul’s contentment, that “ He could do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” He found everything he wanted in the person of Christ, for in Christ Paul discovered that he lacked nothing.  In his own words, he had been crucified with Christ and he was now seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Through the death of Christ he had been planted into the ocean of God’s grace.

Contentment is an awakening that when Christ died on the cross, we died. The key to Christ-centred contentment is the cross. When you let the finished work of the cross invade and overwhelm your life, the enchantment of the world is broken. You are dead to the world, and the world is dead to you. Or to put it in real terms, you are a New Creation. The old you is dead. A new you is alive – a you filled with Holy Spirit, overflowing with the glory of God and overwhelmed by the majesty of God.

Being dead to the world means that our hearts run and abide in the blessings of the cross and finished work of the cross is the motivation and joy of our lives. For the greatest satisfaction and contentment is found in the death and resurrection of Christ.

Christ’s Death Is Our Guarantee

The death of Christ is a guarantee that every promise God has made is ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’ in New Creation life. This guarantee is a promise “right up to the end that you would be counted free from all sin and guilt.” (1 Corinthians 1:8). Because of the finished work of Christ on the cross two thousand years ago, we are now counted free and every moment we live until the day He returns we are held in the guarantee of the cross.

The foundation of the New Covenant is sealed with the blood of Jesus. When the bible speaks of the blood of Jesus, it is speaking of his death. Everything that was accomplished at the cross, was made possible by the shedding of his blood.

But more than this, much more, is the revelation that the blood of Jesus accomplished His resurrection.  The resurrection of Jesus was God’s universal endorsement that the obedience of Christ was fully absorbed and completely paid for, all the consequences of Adams sin. The point is that the resurrection proves that the death of Jesus paid everything in full. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure.  His death provided his guarantee that his resurrection would be our resurrection.

This is the absolute promise of today. God wants you and I to live our lives free from the consequences of sin and free from guilt. Guilt free living is God’s best for His people.  By God’s grace we are guaranteed to live a life of communion with his son. A co-partnership of fellowship with the son.  A guarantee that we are now blameless in Christ and much more than this, we are made holy by the death and resurrection of Jesus.

God’s guarantee is that he is forever faithful and He can be trusted to fulfil all his promises in our lives.  His guarantee is that his finished work is complete and therefore we are now complete in Christ Jesus.

Christ’s Death Sets Us Free.

The message of the New Creation planted into us, was declared by Jesus in a synagogue in Nazareth,  when he stood up and read from the book of Isaiah to the religious leaders, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind see, and that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord’s favour has come.”

This is the revelation of the New Covenant. Christ has come to declare the healing restoration of God to his creation.  The free gift of the Lord’s favour.  A gift we receive, given by Christ to his great treasure. It was His death that would accept us into his family and would restore us.

Christ died to break every chain of oppression, captivity, and to release us from the prison of despair. Christ did not die to make it merely possible or give us a half-hearted answer. He died to bring freedom and to plant his passion into our hearts. For New Creation life is not a refurbishment of our old life but a complete transformation from old to new, darkness to light, from death to resurrection.

The New Covenant is an oath of freedom, a promise of eternal redemption purchased by the blood of Christ.  Our sinfulness, our fear, our captivity all died in the death of Jesus Christ.  In the death of Christ, was the death of everything that oppressed us. When we see the cross through the eyes of faith and trust, we simply find that everything is already done and the chains that had bound us are broken and grace overtakes us.

The end of our quest for wholeness is found in Christ, for Christ heals the deepest parts of our hearts, He opens our blind eyes to the magnificence of His finished work and He sets our hearts free to be filled with his majesty.

The death and resurrection of Christ ends our pursuit of freedom, for in our New Creation life we are eternally connected and set free in Christ to enjoy and delight in him forever. In Christ we are raised with him in His resurrection to live in the abundant life he promised and provided.

Nourish and Nurture Your Heart

When we look in the mirror, what we see before us, reflecting back is what most of us believe we are. Every day we are either busy with thoughts and fantasies and actions, or we are held captive by the constant distraction of digital devices, social media, television, the morning news. Every interaction whether positive or negative influences us, it is so powerful that it controls us.  

Our whole being, body, soul and spirit is caught up and entwined in our belief system. This belief system has the power to give us life or ultimately kill us. We call this belief system the heart and the heart is the conduit for the river of life.

Every interaction we have with creation – whether it be the bus driver or our family – and every transaction we make in the world – whether it be shopping for food or negotiating a contract – and every project we undertake – whether it be baking a cake or climbing a mountain – carries with it the sowing of seeds of belief or unbelief into our hearts.

We need to understand that even the tiniest word or seed creates a belief that can soften or harden your heart.

The fact is life is full of rich moments that make life worth living. It can be amazing and wonderful in its ability to connect with our hearts. There are days when our hearts are captivated by the experiences that enlighten our darkness and change the mundane into adventure. Those captured memories of precious moments where the richness of love and the closeness of acceptance are found in the value of those we treasure and love.

Today's fast living world does little to encourage us to embrace the experiences that surround us. Modern media sells us a dream of a perfect world where we can have anything we want providing we have the resources at our fingertips. And if we don't it sells us the tools to get that which is out of our reach. But deep down inside we know that the things that surround us don't really satisfy us.

For life in all its glory is found complete in the embrace of its designer. Every experience is a chance to connect with the God who formed the universe from nothing. As surely as the sun rises, the sun sets and as surely as the tide flows in, the tide flows out. The everlasting love of God is as relentless and as sure as the universe that we are placed into. And it is here that the mystery of God’s love shines into our world, for God who is complete does not need creation in order to experience love because he is love and every time we open up ourselves to the love of God we move into the now of time. And in the now of time the omniscience and omnipotence of the creator meets the compassion and goodness of the Father. But whenever we move away from the abundance of real love life clips our wings and dulls our shine. God's love was given to be shared. Shared from his heart of goodness. A manifesting in and to creation that we were created and birthed out of His good pleasure. And every moment is a now moment where his love is giving his goodness to us. 

God encourages us to nourish and nurture his love and his life in our hearts. To grow a rich harvest of life giving and life enhancing truth, for it is in knowing the truth that renews our minds and sets us free to know and experience the life of God in Christ Jesus. God's goodness is his story. His story is a work of total commitment, desire and passion. It is a story about you, about someone else, about the world, about life, about God and above all else it is a story of intimacy beyond our wildest imagination. 

Time is NOT the Magic Ingredient.

"He turns paupers into princes and seats them on their royal thrones of honor." - Psalm 113:8

God does not see or view us as we see and view ourselves.
The reflection we see in the mirror each morning is not the reflection God sees you.
God sees us as we are. In Christ.
God sees us as His son or daughter.
God sees us as a joint-heir with Christ.
God sees us seated in heavenly places in Christ.
God sees us glorified in Christ.

God does not see us as incomplete.
Time is Not a Magic ingredient that brings about completion.
Time is Not an an easy answer to cover up our lack of understanding.

For many, many years intellectuals have used the element of time to explain away things that they cannot explain.
Scientists believe the unbelievable idea of evolution by adding the magic ingredient of 'time.'
Just say that everything happened over 'billions and billions ' of years and anyone will believe it!
And this magic ingredient has weaved it's way into our Christian thinking.
Just because we don't feel or experience it we say that it has not happened and that in time we will!

Today you are In Christ Jesus.
You are righteous
You are redeemed
You are holy
You are innocent
You are a New Creation in Christ

The moment you came into Christ
You were set apart
You were restored
You were made whole
You were given a new heart
You died to sin
You were raised to a new life in Christ

In Christ you receive new life.
His life has replaced your old life.
Christ is the Promised ingredient that has made you instantly a New Creation.
You are now seated in heavenly places.
You are now seated on the throne of honor.
You are now blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

As Christ is NOW so now are you!

The Fire of God.

The safest place to be is in the centre  of God's fire.
In the centre of God's fire the enemy is unable to stand.
In the centre of God's fire we are made invincible.
For in the centre of God's fire Christ dwells and Christ dwells in us.

The storms may ravage and bluster but you are safe in the centre of God's fire.
You are protected and sheltered in the refuge of God's fire.
For the fire of God burns with the presence of the Holy Spirit.
The presence brings us fullness of life and never consumes us.
And this fire of the presence of God is the fire of our heart.
As the psalmist wrote:-
"My heart is on fire, burning over with passion." - Psalm 45:1.


For the depths of God are alive with His passion and his delight.
His passion is consumed with His fire
His delight is filled with His fire
For the glory of God's presence is alive with His fire.
Nothing can stand before the fire of God
Nothing can stop the fire of the Holy Spirit.
In Christ we are burning with the fire and glory of God.
The fire of God dwells in us.
The fire if the Holy Spirit ignites our hearts.
The centre of the fire of the Holy Spirit is our hearts .
In Christ we have become the furnace of the fire of God.
In Christ we experience and manifested the glory and the fire of God.

Love is Not a Formula

Love is not a formula.

It is not a mathematical calculation or an academic exercise or a theological assertion.  It cannot be found in prescribed devotion or calculated study. You cannot steal it, you cannot not hold it captive and you cannot manufacture it. For love is responsive,  reckless and passionate.

Love is consumed with burning desire.

Desire comes from delighting in the beauty and splendour of our affection.
The burning desire to listen, for every whisper of love makes our heart beat.
The burning desire to look into the eyes of love, for every glance fills us with courage.
The burning desire to be entangled with beauty, for every touch fills us with confident hope.
The burning desire to step into the awareness of the love God ravishes upon us.

For the burning desire of Christ is us.

Christ comes to allure us.
Christ comes to us to awaken us to love.
His thoughts to us are to pour out his gladness and pleasure upon and into us.
For Christ's love pardons our sin and forgives our wayward affections.
Christ's love showers us with heaven's inheritance.
Christ's love empowers us with His grace.
Christ's love comes to us in an intoxicating kiss.
Christ's love is planted into the heart of Man.
Christ's love is devoted to you.
Christ's love given freely far exceeds all other loves.
For Christ loves us with an everlasting love.
A love that embraces us through the ages.
A love that holds us in His desire
A love that keeps us in His delight.
A love that allures us into His burning heart of passion for us.

Prophetic Word - Unwrap and Let Go!

Over the last few days the words from the scripture of John 11:44 have been coming back to me over and over again, “Unwrap him and let him go!”

God is saying, “It is time to be unwrapped and let go. The finished work of Christ has set you free. It is your time to walk in the freedom of the finished work of the cross. For too long, the condemnation of religion and the lies of the world have wrapped you up. For too long, sickness, lack, depression. oppression, broken-heartedness have held you in a straight jacket of death. All these things have held you back! God says, I have unwrapped you and this is the day to let go. This is the day to receive all I have won for you and to see the things that have held you back drop off. For whom the Son sets free, is free. You are a New Creation in Christ and all the past has been put to death, don’t resurrect the past, leave the past behind, leave condemnation and guilt behind and walk free from the tomb into resurrection life.

Be unwrapped of the lies, failures and oppression of the old life and let them go and walk into the fullness of the new life you have in Christ. God’s life is now your life and the Holy Spirit dwells and overflows in you. You are new in Christ, unwrap yourself of the past and everything that would hold you back.”

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It is my prayer that this word helps you, strengthens you and causes you to have greater hope for the future! I believe for some believers there will be greater challenges and situations that arise for believers, but our future is bright and full of Light! What is this light? It is the Light of His glory and truth as manifested in Christ Jesus the Son. He indeed is the Way, the Truth and the Life and He gives Light to the whole world. It is in His Light that we see Light (Psalm 36:9). May the Lord open the eyes of our understanding and flood our hearts with revelatory light and truth that we may know the hope of His calling and the glory of His inheritance in the saints. (Eph 1:18)

The Cosmic Story

The bible is a cosmic story about death and rebirth.

From the very first words out of chaos and darkness, life and light were created.

It is a thread of crimson that is woven into the heart of creation.

From Noah reborn from the deluge, Abraham reborn into the promise, Isaac born from barreness. 

Israel reborn from Egypt, Esther reborn from captivity, Nineveh reborn through repentance and Jesus born from the light.

God is all about creating life from the grip of death.

It is in times of this grip of darkness that God shines light into the confusion we make of this life

It was the prophet Jonah rescued in the belly of a great fish that revealed the dilemma of mankind. “Those who regard and follow worthless idols. Turn away from their [living source of] mercy and lovingkindness.” – Jonah 2:8.

Jesus said the same thing, “Lose your life and you will find it.”

Paul said, “ I am crucified with Christ : nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” – Galatians 2:20

And that is how creation works, the old dies and the new brings forth new life.

Life comes through death.

Life out of chaos

Light out of darkness

Completeness out of emptiness

God reaching out in his unconditional love and embracing us in our darkness.

And this embracing of us is passionate. It was a burning fire of desire for intimacy with the delight of His heart.

It is Gods consuming glory and infinite love that ignited the cosmos from chaos into glorious life.

Prophetic Word 2020 – Norway and London

I felt GOD say "2020 Will be a special year for nations from the North, my North wind will blow my Spirit through northern nations”

NORWAY

As I considered this word, the nation of Norway became the focus of the Holy Spirit’s prompting followed less prominently by Denmark. I feel that in 2020 there will start to erupt from Norway a colourful explosion of God’s glory and grace. A colourful light will emanate from Norway and a fire will start to erupt through the northern nations. God has a specific purpose for Norway, and his purpose will work within the hearts of the people of that Nation. Out of Norway will come shards of glory light to illuminate the world.

LONDON

I felt that God was saying the London would be covered in the peace of God. That the Holy Spirit would release a spirit of peace that would flood out from London and just as in the past London held peace conferences that affect the nations, so now in the spirit out of London would arise a peace from God that would heal and restore nations. This might be totally unexpected and challenge many traditional religious concepts and theologies, but God was pushing back the boundaries of all we hold, and he was going to do this by restoring peace and taking away conflict.

I believe that in 2020 God has a specific purpose in his plans for Norway and London.

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It is my prayer that this word helps you, strengthens you and causes you to have greater hope for the future! I believe for some believers there will be greater challenges and situations that arise for believers, but our future is bright and full of Light! What is this light? It is the Light of His glory and truth as manifested in Christ Jesus the Son. He indeed is the Way, the Truth and the Life and He gives Light to the whole world. It is in His Light that we see Light (Psalm 36:9). May the Lord open the eyes of our understanding and flood our hearts with revelatory light and truth that we may know the hope of His calling and the glory of His inheritance in the saints. (Eph 1:18)

The bible makes it clear that we “prophesy in part and we know in part” (1 Cor 13:9). It is my hope that I can share a glimpse of what the Lord is doing in 2020. I encourage you to seek the Lord for yourself and see what He might say to you for 2020.

Prophetic Word - 2020 The Song of God's Victory

I HEARD THE LORD SAY "2020 WILL BE A YEAR THAT THE SONG OF MY VICTORY WILL BE SUNG ABOVE THE NOISE AND TERROR OF THE WORLD  AND THE FIRE OF MY GLORY WILL START TO  SPREAD"

2020 will be a year that the song of Christ’s victory will be sung above the noise and terror of the world. Over the past few days God speaking to me about the song of victory. He has been highlighting the phrase ‘Hear the birds sing!” and  I have been constantly drawn to an awareness that God is singing a song of victory over his people and his church and this song of victory is being sung for those that are listening.

The song of Victory is a song of the finished work of the Cross. It is a song of restoration, healing, wholeness, freedom and favour. It is a song surpassing all other songs, a song that echo’s on the wind and a song that sings out that all the promises of God that are yours in Christ Jesus. The song is a song of enthralment, it says, “Come to me, be delighted with me, be inspired by my love for you, be driven by my love for you, be captivated by me, and be enthralled with me.”

The world has stolen promises from you, and has tried to destroy the dreams God has for you. The world has put up a barrage of cracking distractions and booming unbelief.  For some believers it has been a time of taking cover and a time of defending. The shelling of the world has just been non-stop, but above the noise and terror of the world, God is singing a song of Victory.

The song of Gods victory is crystal clear, it is a song of spring hanging in the air, a song that hangs in the atmosphere on a windless night and a song that baths in the sunlight of every day. It ripples the waters with waves in crystal clear melody of heaven. It is a song that destroys fear, pain and terror. For the enemy would come to mutilate the promises of God and attempt to cause as many casualties as he can, his purpose is to make you hear the shrieking of fear and the booming of pain and not the birdsong of his victory.

The bird song of His victory is the song your hearts needs to delight in so you can walk in joy, strength, and peace in 2020. It is a song that you need to hear above all the noise, it is a song you can tune your heart into and it is a song that you can sing as the God who created the heavens lives and works in you. 2020 is the year of the Song of His Victory, listen and sing the song of His Victory.

THE FIRE OF HIS GLORY

I also started to feel that there will be flames bursting from house to house as the fire of God’s glory got set free. These flames would set people free in their homes and where they call home. It would heal households, where families had been torn apart, healing would take place. Especially with broken hearted families. The flames of Gods glory would bring a transformation within families. As the enemy has tried to destroy families and bring division. I felt that God’s glory would bring restoration and healing specifically within family units. I felt that as this fire spread that healing would take place in communities and neighbourhoods would be restored. This fire spreading would transcend political beliefs and classes. It would unite brother with brother and daughter to mother.

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THE NEW DAY TO WALK OVER THE DUST OF THE PAST

In November I had a dream – “I  saw  a cloud of thick dust rose up and covered my view of the sky. Daylight disappeared and I started to choke on the dust. I thought the dust would engulf me. I could not breathe. I could not see. I was engulfed in dust. As I stood there the dust started to fall to the ground.  After a few minutes the dust started to settle, and after a few more minutes the dust lay and covered the ground. The air was now fresh again and I could breathe. God said, “Its okay, the dust has settled, you can walk on the dust it is under your feet. The dust cannot harm you anymore.” So, I walked forward and walk over the dust.”

I felt God say – “For some believers the past year 2019 has been a difficult and traumatic year. It has often seemed that troubles and tribulations have been constant. That one drama is followed by another drama. And just like a cloud of dust these dramas have engulfed you, and sometimes it has been difficult for you to get your breath. But God says “The Dust is Settling” the constant dramas are ending; the dust is now under your feet and 2020 will a time when you can walk over and away from those constant drama’s. 2020 you will know and experience that greater is Christ that lives IN YOU than he that lives in the world. That Christ has overcome, so now you can walk free in the victory of Christ’s overcoming triumph. Christ victory and his resurrection power lives in you, in 2020 you can know and experience His power in your walk with God and in your daily life. Don’t look at the dust, don’t remember the dust instead trample the dust under your feet. Acknowledge the power of the Holy Spirit in all you say and do.  Do not look back to the past, walk into the future you have in Christ. “

2020 AND BEYOND - A TIME OF OVERFLOWING WINE

I had a picture and I saw an ornate silver chalice encrusted with many jewels and gems’, being poured into the chalice was a deep crimson wine. The wine kept flowing and flowing until it ran down the sides of the chalice and started to pour over the hand that was holding it and onto the floor. The wine was a ripple, it soon becomes a puddle and it became a river and its source was the crimson wine pouring into the chalice.

There is an overflowing of the Spirit coming in 2020 that will start with a filling up and with continue with a trickle but over time with develop into a stream. To many, many people this might seems as a delay, that something is not happening.  It will seem like ‘Getting to a train crossing and barriers have come down’. There might be times of delay, but the train is coming and suddenly. Unexpectedly, the answer and the solution will appear!

The Spirit is an overflowing Spirit; this overflow will affect every area and scenario of everyday life. It will overflow in health, happiness, contentment, acceptance, finances. God is pouring more and more wine, so the overflow of his vineyard of delight will touch and change everything we touch and have contact with. His desire is for the whole earth to be filled with the glory of God.

You are the vessels, the empty jar, which this overflowing wine is to flow through. God can do anything, nothing is impossible to God, but just as God chose Mary to bring forth Jesus, He has chosen you to carry him and overflow through you to the world and you will in 2020 and beyond have the choice to dive into the overflowing wine of the Holy Spirit or just to sip as much as you want.. 

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It is my prayer that this word helps you, strengthens you and causes you to have greater hope for the future! I believe for some believers there will be greater challenges and situations that arise for believers, but our future is bright and full of Light! What is this light? It is the Light of His glory and truth as manifested in Christ Jesus the Son. He indeed is the Way, the Truth and the Life and He gives Light to the whole world. It is in His Light that we see Light (Psalm 36:9). May the Lord open the eyes of our understanding and flood our hearts with revelatory light and truth that we may know the hope of His calling and the glory of His inheritance in the saints. (Eph 1:18)

The bible makes it clear that we “prophesy in part and we know in part” (1 Cor 13:9). It is my hope that I can share a glimpse of what the Lord is doing in 2020. I encourage you to seek the Lord for yourself and see what He might say to you for 2020.

Prophetic Dream - Challenges and Rain in 2020

In November I had a second vivid dream, this dream I shared at a prayer meeting in my local church on a Sunday evening. That night two other people gave words that both contained pictures of ‘God’s Rain’. Initially, I wasn’t going share this dream at that meeting, but prompted by the Holy Spirit I did, this is that dream : -

I dreamed I was standing on top of a building, at a party with some of my friends. The sky was blue with just a few clouds bubbling up.  As the party was progressing, I noticed a stream of smoke rising from an adjacent building, this smoke started out as a small trickle but started to grow blacker and started to spread. The Fire Brigade arrived and began to put out the fire, but to not avail. Nothing could stop the fire and the black smoke grew thicker and deeper.  The sky started to blacken with the smoke and the smoke turned the daylight into darkness. Slowly the smoke started to drift towards me and my friends. As this mass of darkness came closer, my heart was filled with dread and terror of the impending doom started to fill me. My friends started to scream, and, in the panic, they ran away and left me. After a while I was standing along, watching the cloud of black smoke, I stood there waiting to be engulfed in the darkness and terror of the black cloud. The black cloud now filled the sky and slowly it came over my head. I closed my eyes, and I expected the doom. I waited and then I felt drops of pure crystal water touch my face and trickle down my cheeks. The pure raindrops became more intense. I opened my eyes and the crystal rain filled the air and sky. The black doom was dispersing, and the crystal rain had taken its place. The rain poured down on me and drenched me. The rain filled me with joy and covered me in refreshing life. I looked around and I was the only person experiencing this rain, all my friends had run away.

I felt God say – "For some believers there will be unexpected challenges from the world in 2020 that will be unleashed from the world to cause dread and panic in believers.  For some believers there will be a distraction of circumstances and situations unleashed to take away your attention from God’s promises to focus on the things of the world. These unexpected  challenges will take the form of every type of distraction. God said, that the first report is not the last report. Don’t let dread and panic fill your heart. Stand Firm. For the rain is coming. You may see and feel dread, but this is not the truth, the truth is that you have been given the joy of Christ. Stand and experience the life of the Holy Spirit in you.  God is working IN YOU, to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think. The World’s cloud is full of dread, but God’s promise is established in Christ. Christ will never leave you or forsake you.  You are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. The rain of God is more powerful and disperses the clouds of the world’s dread. God is faithful, he is working in you, listen to his voice and reject the world’s diagnosis. There may be bad reports, but the first report is Not the last report. God will not let you down, you are his beloved and you are a royal child and you are seated in heavenly places in Christ."

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It is my prayer that this word helps you, strengthens you and causes you to have greater hope for the future! I believe for some believers there will be greater challenges and situations that arise for believers, but our future is bright and full of Light! What is this light? It is the Light of His glory and truth as manifested in Christ Jesus the Son. He indeed is the Way, the Truth and the Life and He gives Light to the whole world. It is in His Light that we see Light (Psalm 36:9). May the Lord open the eyes of our understanding and flood our hearts with revelatory light and truth that we may know the hope of His calling and the glory of His inheritance in the saints. (Eph 1:18)

The bible makes it clear that we “prophesy in part and we know in part” (1 Cor 13:9). It is my hope that I can share a glimpse of what the Lord is doing in 2020. I encourage you to seek the Lord for yourself and see what He might say to you for 2020.

Prophetic Dream - The Coming Glory in 2020

On the 8th September 2019 I had a vivid dream, that captivated my sleep in the early hours of the morning. This was the dream which I believe was an insight into the coming year of 2020   -

“ I saw the sky erupting in violent storms of molten glory. Clouds of molten masses filled the atmosphere and I stood and looked on as clouds of molten power moved overhead, exploding the sky, turning the sky into colours of amber, red, vermilion, blazes of scarlet, crimson, yellow . Great clouds of black smoke rose from the storms and covered the sun. Suddenly this storm of molten glory moved and started to disappear from me and it went north into the distance, erupting as it went. I stood and watched it and a voice said to me “This is my creation power, this is my glory released on the earth, exploding, erupting, changing the atmosphere. This is my creation power coming to earth.” Suddenly it started to rain, a torrential rain, so strong that I could not see the sun and in seconds I was drenched in the rain. As I looked through the driving rain, I saw a rainbow; the rainbow filled the sky, from the bottom to the top. The colours were bright, blindingly bright, so bright that they pierced my eyes and all I could see was colour. I closed my eyes and the colours were there, the rainbow was inside my eyes.”

I felt God say – “There is a wave of glory, coming and is already here unlike any wave of glory before. This will be creation glory. It will erupt, it will explode, it will change the atmosphere. It will change everything. It will be messy, it will disrupt, it will turn everything upside down, and everything that stands will fall. It will be indiscriminate, it does not care for protocol, status, gender, race, colour or rank, and this will wash away all that is held high and bring about a new day. The earth will be filled with the glory of the grace of God. The rainbow of God’s promise will fill the earth. This promise that the judgement of God has been taken on Christ and this is the day of the Lord’s favour. Everything will be covered in the vibrant grace of God. This is the day of blessing, miracles, new life. That God is declaring through the vibrant rainbow that he is not counting men’s sins against them and that he declares that peace has been given to mankind through the reconciliation of the cross.”

The erupting power of God’s creating glory comes to declare the finished work of the grace of Christ at the cross. The Glory is the declaration that today is the day of the Lord, the Day of Reconciliation, healing, new life and resurrection power.

Jesus Is The Solution.

Jesus's life was a demonstration of how things are done in heaven.
His life was a declaration of God's way of thinking.
His life was a language that was not spoken on the earth before.
His life was constantly vulnerable to the majesty of God.

Jesus was the promise and provision  to every problem on earth.
Jesus was the answer.
Jesus is the solution.
Jesus is the positive heart of God to mankind .
Jesus was the full manifestation of God's provision to the world.

He healed everyone who came to him.
He set free all those who came to him in captivity.
He opened blind eyes, opened deaf ears and he set free the tongue to speak and declare the goodness of God.
He provided food for thousands of people with two loaves of bread and five fishes.
He brought the dead back to life.
He refused to condemn those that the religious wanted to kill.
He showed us what it is to be dead to sin and alive to God.
He embraced the rejected.
He showed us that every problem was an opportunity for God to work in your life.

And today "As He is so are we in this world "
He rescued us so that we could live in victory.
He seated us in heavenly places in him, so we could bring heaven to earth.
He filled us with the resurrection power of God so we could bring the majesty of God to the world.
He made us complete in him so we could bring completeness to the earth.
He made us whole in him so we could release his wholeness to everyone.
He gave us the solution so we could be the solution.
For Christ in you is the demonstration of heaven now alive in the earth.

A Reconciled Cosmos

Creation is made in the heart of God. From the stars in the sky to the soil beneath our feet and from the air that we breathe to the blood in our veins, we are made in the image of God. Our existence is dependent upon the manifestation of God’s love, everything - from an whale to an amoeba  and from the vastness of the sky to a molecule - has been crafted,  planned and made to express the glory of God.  Where there is life there is the creator.  And where there is the creator there is Christ. All life is connected to Christ because all life originates from Christ.

It was this life that Christ came to redeem.  In everything Jesus did and every word he said was from the passion of his creation.  His miracles are a guarantee of a Redeemed Cosmos.  His miracles were a demonstration of God's love and favour. His death was the final judgement of human sin and with this one act at the cross he forever removed the curse of creation. His resurrection was the beginning of the transformation of the heavens and the earth.  The empty tomb declares that death and everything associated with death has been defeated and that we live in the New day of His victory.  We have a new name, a new life, a new conciousness,  a new covenant and a new identity in Christ.

For now in Christ the cosmos has been reconciled.  Everything that Christ did declared that heaven has now invaded earth. That in Christ God has taken up his home with man and has moved from heaven and now dwells within man.

And this is the declaration of Christ, that we are now the children of God and that as He is so now are we .