As I sought the Lord concerning this year last year, He told me that 2013 to us shall be a year of divine visitation in the manner which He visited Sarah in Gen.21:1-3. That text of scripture reads as follows: "And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac." He also said He will visit us in the manner He visited the children of Israel in Egypt after 400 years of servitude under their cruel master. In Exodus 3:7-9, the Lord said to Moses: "… I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them". He also talked about visiting us in the manner He visited Elizabeth and Zechariah in Luke chapter 1 when they received the miracle of a son in their old age who turned out to be the forerunner of the Lord. Concerning this couple, the Bible says in Luke 1:5-17 "There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." There is one common thread that runs through all these bible testimonies and that is the fact that these cases were all long standing issues that only God could handle.
In this year 2013, God will be attending to long standing issues in your life; whether you are aware of them or not. God destroyed barrenness in the lives of Sarah and Elizabeth respectively in fulfillment of a promise of visitation He made the year before and blessed them with the fruit of the womb. If you are believing God for this kind of miracle, you can start rejoicing now because your days of mourning are over. God is going to judge every enemy of your fertility and work a creative miracle in your life in Jesus’ name.
Your case may not be one of barrenness of the body; it could be unproductivity reflecting in fruitless endeavors just like the children of Israel who were working so hard to build for their slave masters for nothing. When God visited them, God gave them favour enough to spoil their captors and when the captors sought to
get them back into slavery, God judged them with a death sentence that was immediately issued in the red sea. This will be your story in Jesus’ name.
God will visit you this year and turn your sorrows to joy and your tears to laughter like He did for Sarah and Elizabeth and the children of Israel in Jesus’ name.
All the wicked that have risen up against you without your cooperation, shall also be visited by the Lord in His vengeance. So rejoice and prepare for your personal divine visitation.
In light of our divine visitation, our main emphasis this year shall be our spiritual growth so that we can be prepared and understand and flow with God when He visits us. Welcome to January, 2013; our year of divine visitation As though that was not enough, God has graciously declared to us that this month of January for us shall be our month of Rejoicing. He gave me this text in John 15:11: "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full." From this text of scripture, we gather that the more we receive rhema from heaven, the more joyful we will be. If we place this text side by side with Isaiah 12:3 which says therefore, with joy shall ye draw water from the wells of salvation, we would see a close correlation between being joyful and receiving insights from God. Nothing decorates like having insights from heaven. Knowledge revealed to us, releases light and the light shines in darkness and the darkness cannot comprehend it. This is why joy is the strength of the believer. This was expressly stated in the book of Nehemiah 8:10 where the people were encouraged to rejoice because the joy of the Lord is their strength.
For the New Testament believer, Apostle Peter said, believing in the Lord Jesus Christ produces unspeakable joy full of glory in us. As I write, my heart is bubbling with so much joy I cannot explain, but I know that the source is the truths I am gleaning from the word of God by the help of the Holy Spirit who is also responsible for the oil of gladness which believers receive.
When we pray, the release of joy from our inner man is proof of answers to prayer or victory in spiritual warfare.
Like we have earlier seen, joy is released in our inner man when we receive the spoken word of the Lord. To this end, this month, we shall be positioning ourselves to hear the Lord on every issue of life to enable us bask in His joy so that when others shall say that there is a casting down, we shall sing a different song that there is a lifting up. We will therefore give ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word.
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You may have been plagued by sorrow for so long that you are even afraid to rejoice. I have good news for you. This year, God is going to address every long standing issue in your life and fill your heart with joy as He visits you this month. However, you problems may just be traceable to the fact that you have not yet established a living relationship with God because you are not yet born again. What a time to make this decision. Resolve to make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life today at the beginning of this New Year and let all your sorrows pass away with last year. As surely as last year will never come again, your past sorrows are buried in the red sea of the wrath of God never to arise again. To activate this truth in your life, you can say the sinner’s prayer as below: Heavenly father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. I repent of my sin and receive the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary’s cross for my salvation. I believe He died for me and on the third day, you raised Him from the dead for my salvation. From today, I receive Him as the Saviour and Lord of my Life.
Thank you father for forgiving me and writing my name in the book of life with the blood of Jesus. I pledge allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ from this day forever in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen!!! If you just said this prayer, congratulations! You are now born again. Please let me know by emailing flourishinggirl@gmail.com and I will send you an e copy of our "Believers’ Guide to Growth" to enable you take off on this glorious adventure of the new creation. You can also log on to my blog on www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com or follow me on face book at www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl for more resource materials to enrich your Christian life. God bless you!!!
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