Habakkuk 2:1 - 3 – “I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected. Then the Lord answered me and said: ‘Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.’”
At the beginning of each year I pray and ask the Lord for prophetic direction for the coming year. Revelation 2:11 instructs, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” This command is repeated 15 times in the New Testament. We need prophetic insight and direction for the times we live in.
The Bible teaches that we should seek after and value prophetic direction. In Jeremiah 33:3 the Scriptures declare, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” The Hebrew word for mighty can be translated as secret or inaccessible things.
In praying about this year, 2019, I also examined the Hebrew year 5779. It is a year to write your vision and make it plain (Habakkuk 2:2). It is a year to allow God to form a new wineskin. Mark 2:22 –says, “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.” This is a year to give birth to vision.
This year will be a year to allow God to form our new wineskins so we can receive the outpouring of new wine. Recently the Lord spoke the word GPS to me about this year. What is GPS? GPS stands for Global Positioning System. I read this definition, “GPS helps you determine exactly where you are, but sometimes important to know how to get somewhere else.”[i]
Prophetic ministry helps you determine exactly where you are, and helps you get to your next destination. This is referred to as forthtelling and foretelling. Forthtelling is communicating the mind of God for the present. Foretelling is when God communicates His mind for the future. Amos 3:7 says, “Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to the His servants the prophets.”
The three letters of GPS represent three things God is saying about this year. They are as follows:
- G – A Year of Goodness – Psalms 34:8 says, “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!” No matter our circumstances or difficulties God is good. In His goodness. God plans to bless and increase you this year. He will overwhelm us with His goodness. This will be a year of joyful increase. Nehemiah 8:10 says, “The joy of the Lord is our strength.”
- P – A Year of Positioning – This is a year to be positioned for the harvest. John 4:34-35 says, “Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!” Expect movement this year. There will be new assignments and resurrection of dreams that have died. I believe in this year we are being positioned to see a culmination of transition.
- S – A Year of Storms – This will be a year of contrasts. We will experience the goodness of God, but there will be both natural and spiritual storms. How do we survive the storms? We stay in the eye of the storm. We are safe in the eye of the storm. We will experience peace in the eye of the storm. We must be positioned to hear God’s instructions this year, and we must be ready to write your vision and make it plain. Nahum 1:7 says, “The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him.”
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