Many of you felt yourselves at rock bottom, like there was nowhere further down to go. In 2021, we saw the bottom of that bucket corporately and personally. The bucket represented a season of extreme “emptying out” in preparation for something new to fill that same space.Īt the wedding feast at Cana, they had to reach empty before the miracle of turning water into wine could happen. ![]() But that is all about the change.Īs I was praying into 2022, I was drawn to this image of an empty bucket God kept showing me and knew right away that this bucket represented the season of endless storms, the “emptying” and the reset we have been through the last two years. We have been in what has felt like a global holding pattern, as the nations inevitably face the results of a church stuck in the mud of warfare, religion and cultural pressure, while fighting the fires of the enemy’s side-show games instead of the real battle at hand. “The lion has roared-who will not fear? The Sovereign LORD has spoken-who can but prophesy?” (Amos 3:8). Where is the word of the Lord if the prophets don’t prophesy? The domino effect from that has been more catastrophic than we realize. Then the greatest assault of stifling came a year ago during the inauguration, when the church and media chased the prophets into hiding. For many, it was during the initial lockdown of 2020 when the enemy started spinning his web, taking many off course into prophetic diversions and down rabbit holes designed to silence them. ![]() 20:9, NIV).īefore I get into the main word, I have to highlight this: For the last few years, many voices have gone into hiding. I am weary of holding it in indeed, I cannot” (Jer. “But if I say, ‘I will not mention His word or speak any more in His name,’ His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I pray this doesn’t just give you information for you to add to your “2022 word repertoire,” but that it’s a word which encourages you, shakes you to your bones, ignites your spirit and sends you running into the year with a courageous and undignified roar of righteous vengeance. We have the authority and we are the rudder of the ship.ĭistraction, divisions and sneaky games have cost us our power and effectiveness, and bowing to culture and the media’s lies has silenced our voices…but no more. ![]() People have asked me one question in a myriad of different ways, but the question is essentially : “Is this year going to go well or will it be like the last two years?”Īfter sitting with the Lord and letting the dreams, visions and conversations marinate, let me answer this question by simply saying: This year, God’s heart is to see the church rise as the mighty bride she is called to be. Leading up to 2022, and even now, I have felt such anticipation about this year.
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