Recently I kept hearing this word about ten years. It has been popping out more frequently than before so it caught my attention. When it first came out, it was in Pastor Joel's message: God can do more in a year what you couldn't do in ten years. Then I was just talking to a mum about whether a ten-year age gap between the kids will be big. She said it wasn't too big as she heard of others with 17 years' difference. Her old kids have an age difference of 14 years.
After that I kept seeing ten years in TV drama and in messages that I read. Today Pastor Prince's meditation talked about how a couple tried to conceive for ten years but no success. But when the mil pleaded the blood of Jesus over them, she conceived supernaturally! It was like what the nine plagues couldn't do, the blood of Jesus did it!
God also impressed upon me to celebrate the end of cycles and that He has brought me out of the old into a set time of favour. He has finally completed the work which He started in me for the last season. I have come out of the narrow place, the birthing canal into a broad and spacious place. Like Doug Addison said, Feb is a month of old things dying but the result will bring new life. No wonder I have been impressed upon the newness of all things again recently.
Another thing that I came upon was this: it's only a matter of time that you see the manifestation, that you possess your possession. I wondered why this phrase caught my attention this year. Then I realised why...God has already released the word when Pastor declared this is the year of possessing your possessions and it is really a matter of time that this word manifests in the physical world. It also occurred to me that I have really come into my set time, the appointed time for the manifestation.
And yesterday I saw Lonnie Mackley's word which was so spot on. He was talking about God resurrecting our Lazarus, quoting John 11:40, a verse God had been impressing upon me since 2010. It also reminded me of how I crucified this dream with tears in end 2012, not knowing if He would resurrect it. I had to crucify it because it was causing me too much pain and heartache.
Now I understand why God allowed me to do that. I held on to this dream so tightly that it caused my hand to bleed. And it competed for attention and prominence with God. I had to see that my life would go on without this dream being fulfilled and that the only thing I need is Jesus. Indeed I found myself living a happy and fulfilling life while waiting for this dream to come to pass.
But then I was very encouraged by this statement Lonnie Mackley made: Now God is bringing this dream back to life. But He wants me to hold onto it lightly. Else the enemy will be able to press my button even after the manifestation comes. This was also a prophetic word about how when I see this promise manifest, great will be my joy and great will be the faith it creates in me and for those who witness it. Just to share what Lonnie Mackley wrote on 20 Feb, titled 'Your Lazarus's will Live Again.'
I have felt your pain and heard your cries in the night as you have grieved over all that has seemingly died in your life. You saw everything that you held dear and hoped for seemingly dashed to pieces before your very eyes. But I would tell you this day that I am the God of resurrection, and I bring new life from that which seemed dead. Look to Me now and trust Me to bring back to life all that I have given you, nothing shall be lost.
It has been good that these things that you love and hold so dear have left you for a season because you held on too tightly to some of them, and they competed for attention and prominence with Me. You had to see that your life would go on without them, and that all you need in life is found exclusively through Me. You had to see that I can control and manage all things, and that you can trust Me with all that which you love.
Now as I bring these things back to life, I would have you hold onto them lightly. For all things dwell in My hands, and they are mine to give life to, or remove life from. I cause things and people to be attracted, or be repelled, according to my good purposes and plans. Trust Me that what lives in your life is by My doing, and what is taken from your life is also decided by Me. And know that My motives are always good in everything I do concerning you.
Even as Lazarus was brought back to life and there was great joy, even so it will be with you as you see your Lazarus's brought back to life, and great will be the faith it creates in yourself and in others who witness it. I even allowed your family, friends, and others to witness the death of these things, so that they could witness them being brought back to life. They will surely know that I am the God that lives, and they will believe that I bring new life, from death.
John 11:40 Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"
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