This post is what is on my heart from the Lord for 2018.
First, 2018 be a year for return and restoration
People that have be away or distant will be drawn back to the Lord and will return to their true calling and purpose. The hearts of the fathers being turned to the children and children to the fathers. The outworking of return will be restoration of relationships in right order before the Lord.
Fathers (and Mothers) in the faith need to connect with their children. We need to empower, restore, build, encourage, guide, love, teach, and release the children the Lord has given us.
There will also be a return of things stolen and a restoration of right. This will outwork in both health and finances. Where things have been destroyed, damaged, stolen, or demoted the Lord will bring His justice and redemption.
Expect to see miracles of restoration. Restoration will not be just same for same, but will include an overflow abundance that will include the David’s spoils of war (ref 1 Samuel 30:16-20).
Healing gifts will be restored and released. When you pray in faith expect miracles to minister to those you are loving and praying for.
Seek to love people! As Danny Silk said ‘If you minister to people they may be loved, but if you love people they will be ministered to’.
Secondly, 2018 will see a return to Holiness in the Church and a restoration of the Church’s authority in society
2018 will be glorious, but we need to live this year with penitent, broken, and humble hearts that seeks the Lord and His Kingdom above all else. We cannot received the personal return and restoration promised without fully embracing His holiness.
The Church has lost much authority over the last 50 years, we have let significant moral issues be stolen by evil people and agendas in society (SSM, abortion, euthanasia, porn, divorce, adultery, and compromise). These sins are fully manifest in the Church, both in leaders and the people. We will start regaining our authority through deep repentance and recognising His true Holiness.
Some reading this post will feel uncomfortable and/or challenged, if you do, then cry out to the Lord now for His holiness and truth to come into your life, those around you, and into our nation.
A catch cry of the SSM proponents was ‘love is love’, but the truth is love is holy. We cannot have God’s love without His holiness. This is a key we need to to grab hold of!
We have a short window of time to cry out to the Lord in repentance. In many cases parts of the Church need to own up to grievous sins (child abuse, financial misappropriation, abuse of authority, and all sins of immorality, porn, etc.).
Australia is on a trajectory of destruction, darkness, and death. The Church of our Lord Jesus is the only answer, but only from a place of Holy repentance.
Again 2018 will be glorious as we lay hold of all the Lord has for us. It is His purpose that His Church rise up and take its rightful authority and see transformation of our nation into righteousness.
He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
For some it maybe time to grab the horns of the alter in prayer.
This is a 4 horned alter at Tel Be’er Sheva in Israel today.
