A Year of Overwhelming Grace
The Hebrew New Year 5785 begins tonight (October 2) at sundown. We will enter the month of Tishri, which is the seventh month on the Hebrew religious calendar and the first month on the Hebrew civil calendar. This is why it is called "Head of the Year." Tishri is noted for three fall feasts. They are the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah, which begins on the 1st of Tishri (October 2) at sundown, then Yom Kippur (or Day of Atonement), which begins sundown October 11 through sundown October 12, and then Feast of Sukkot (or Tabernacles), which begins sundown October 16 through October 23.
I believe this Hebrew new year will be categorized as a year of overwhelming grace! It is a year ending with number 85 (eighty and five, or Pey and Hei). Pey and Hei, together, denote the mouth of God speaking grace.
A Season of Repentance
We are in the season of Teshuvah (or repentance), which will go to October 12, the Day of Atonement. At this time, God calls us to reevaluate our way of doing things in the earth. God is eager in this Hebrew New Year 5785 to have us build His Kingdom and do it from a framework of knowing we have our needs met in Him. How do we know this?
Let's go to the book of Haggai. I encourage you to read all of chapter 1.
It Is Time Now to Build My House
In the book of Haggai, chapter 1, God's message is this: "Consider your ways. It is time now to build My house."
"In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built. Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways." (Haggai 1:1–5)
To consider our ways is to assess our hearts and our own needs. Are we allowing our needs for provision, protection and acceptance to stop us from doing God's will? When we consider our ways, we become open to the greater things that God wants to do in and through us. It's all a heart issue. Are we thinking small and living in fear, or are we thinking big and living in vision?
Don't allow provision to be a stumbling block to the next levels God wants to reveal to you. Don't allow provision to stop you from stepping into the glory He has promised. (Photo via VectorPortal)
You are a part of the Kingdom today for the release of glory. This is why God said the temple must be built, because it was His time on the calendar for the glory of the Lord to be revealed. The earth is crying for God's glory, so let us participate with God and change our mode of action so we can build the Kingdom and His glory will be released in the earth!
"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps." (Proverbs 16:9)
Consider Our Ways
God is calling us to consider our ways and build His house. God says prophetically, "I have you covered. Do you believe Me by faith? You're not in a faith crisis but a faith challenge. Let Me show you how to make some changes so you can build My Kingdom and be blessed at the same time."
God is challenging you to step out and build His Kingdom. Just as He did when He spoke to Zerubbabel and Joshua by the prophet Haggai.
Consider your current mode of action so a change can be made and you can be used of God in His Kingdom and accelerate to next levels!
There is an ordained way to build in the Hebrew New Year 5785. Not only should we consider our current mode of action, but we need to reposition ourselves from the realms of the earth to ascension living instead. We must know we are the Church that has its conversation in Heaven (see Philippians 3:20).
"Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD." (Haggai 1:7–8)
"Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
"And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God." (Haggai 1:13–14)
"Stirred up" in Hebrew is the word ur (Strong's 5782). The word ur also means "to be exposed or bare" (Strong's 5783). I believe this symbolizes God Himself waking up their eyes to their self-consciousness and making them bare or naked to their ways (see Haggai 1:7–11).
God calls us to wake up and see how we have built in the past, and instead see with His eyes the mountain to build upon. We must assess our position, bring what we have, and use our gifts. Then God says He will make it all prosperous.
He is calling us to have faith to come up to the mountain. In summary, it's time for a change! This change means you must stop looking at yourself through earthly eyes of death, with eyes to only save yourself, your family, your resources or relationships. Instead, God wants your eyes open from His view on the mountain top, and He will bless the work of your hands as you live by faith and ascend the mountain in your mind from the lower-level thinking places.
The test of this remnant of people in Haggai was to stop focusing on self but instead to live by faith and build God's house. The reward was that prosperity would come to their personal houses.
He Is with You in the Building Process
The key is for us to learn that God was with the people He called to build from the beginning to the end. The way to build properly is to come up to the mountain and see from God's view! (Photo via WannaPik)
He blessed their faith and stirred their spirits to not focus on themselves first, but instead to put Him first in bringing what they had and their spiritual gifting, and then He was glorified by their faith and action as they lived from a "mountain perspective." Here in this ascended position, God blessed the work of their hands as they built His temple.
Consider this: Maybe all our issues arise because we're trying to save ourselves first?
Our needs for provision, protection, and acceptance are driving us to make all kinds of decisions to save ourselves, when the only One who can save us says, "Believe that I can save you, but the only way is to come up to the mountain first, and in faith bring something."
God says, "I'll make you like you were in the garden, which is to have your eyes open and be free from death." To be free from death means that God will not only save your life but also give life to what He is asking you to build in this new season. So, stop trying to gain for yourself and God will cover you!
Instead, let us consider our selfish ways and now ASCEND the mountain and watch God give us all we need! It's training for reigning as the calendar is turning over today, at sundown, to the new Head of the Year 5785! Let us ascend the mountain now and begin to build!
When we endeavor to build from the mountain first, then the glory can be released in the earth. The glory is released from fullness, not from lack. So let us assess our lack and create structure, not to fill the void but to release from fullness and the place of promotion on the mountain. Remember, we serve the God of more than enough, not the God of lack. We serve the God of the Promised Land, not the God of Egypt. We just must change our small thinking to His big thinking, and God will direct our steps.
Rethink the build and God will bless as He extends His overwhelming grace in 5785.
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Candice Smithyman
Founder, Dream Mentors Transformational Life Coaching Institute
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Dr. Candice Smithyman is an apostolic and prophetic revivalist, and a healing minister who is founder of Dream Mentors International, biblical life coaching school. She hosts the Glory Road Television broadcast and Your Path to Destiny on ISN – It's Supernatural Network. She has appeared on Sid Roth's Its Supernatural, among other shows, and is the author of "Heavenly Portals: How Eternity Impacts Your Past, Present and Future," "Releasing Heaven: Creating a Supernatural Environment through Heavenly Encounters" and "Angels of Fire: The Ministry of Angels in the End Time Revival," among other books and publications. She writes for multiple online and print publications such as Charisma, The Elijah List and Spirit Fuel. She also hosts the course Journey through the Hebrew Calendar with Charisma Magazine and many other courses.
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