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If you need encouragement of who you are and in your destiny - you need to read this word by John Mark Pool. So many have been waiting for their breakthrough and waiting for the promises of God. Let me remind you that this is a new season of hope and newness of life.
Be encouraged for your set time as John Mark shares below.
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John Mark Pool:
A Year of Prophesying Your New Seasons
And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years."—Genesis 1:14, KJV
With the Light of God ever increasing, we must take the authority to transform our atmosphere both physically and spiritually into the Kingdom of Heaven, now on earth and in our lives!
2011 Will Be a Year of Making Good on the New Seasons of Our Life
Never think for a moment that, whatever your circumstances, God has ever left you alone to fend for yourself or your destiny. When God placed mankind upon the earth, His creation, He did so after creating light. This light was not the sunshine to mark daylight from darkness; this light was the brilliance of His glory presence dissipating all darkness which Hell has never wanted your heart to perceive!
In Genesis 1:14 above, when God decreed light, the word used in the Hebrew here is maor.
maor (maw-ore'); also (in plural) feminine mpowrah (meh-o-raw'); or morah properly, a luminous body or luminary, i.e. (abstractly) light (as an element): figuratively, brightness, specifically, as a brilliant increasing luminous source.
Upon further examination, this light is also from the root word, owr (pronounced as "ore"). This word literally is like the "break of day," yet more emphasis upon a glorious, kindled illumination of the Spirit than the natural eye. Interestingly enough, it is also the word selected to mean "to set on fire" and to increase a fire into a huge light.
God is telling us to shine like never before. As the physical backdrop seems darker, that will only serve to cause our lights to be the light of life the desperate world is searching for. What is that light leading them to? Great light of ever-increasing grace! When we see this light that God first created, we must realize it has not only never ceased shining, but has also never stopped increasing! This is the year to focus upon the greatest brilliance of the grace of God for the world to see since creation! Great grace is coming in an illumination the world has never seen!
How? Through those who love Him and seek the Light of Life that Jesus offered the world.
We Are into a New Season of the Light of Life!
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."—John 8:12, KJV
This light that Jesus spoke of was only mentioned once in the Bible, and comes from an obsolete word, phao (to shine or make manifest, especially by rays), yet, it has the overlapping words God decreed in Genesis meaning luminousness (in the widest application) as a brightly burning fire light. This is a season of demonstrating the growing brilliance to the world of the fiery light of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.—Matthew 5:16, KJV
As we move into this new season of 2011, know your authority comes to you from the Father of Light through the Son, the Light of Life for all those who now grope in the darkness of the enemy, hoping for God's brilliance of great grace!
2011 is a Season of Great Grace!
When you think of grace, you must realize it is only from God, not a gift that can be administered by man, whom God created to be His light of His grace! Men may show mercy, yet only God can administer grace. As we move into this season of the great grace of God, it is indeed time to dispel the religious myths that we "must be like" what men expect and move into the image of the Son, through the grace of God. That will release such freedom many have been searching for that people will be set free in a moment in this great grace.
This is a season to break the shackles of "performance evaluation" from religious mindsets. Great grace will allow us "to BE," rather than to simply "appear to be like" the Father. In the heart of our Father emanates the desire for genuine intimate relationship with His own, not a fear-based lifestyle that doesn't know HIM in Spirit and in Truth!
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God."—Ephesians 2:8, KJV
In this new season of great grace, we are not only demonstrating this is how we became intimate in a relationship with a Holy God, we are yet maturing as Believers to love this relationship more than any other gift, ministry, works, signs or wonders, or the outer demonstrations that will serve to be following those who believe He is our Father.
You will never have to live under any performance to accept the fact you are in a loving relationship with Abba Father! Just remember, relationship is not the same as communion and intimacy. The latter two will indeed require more participation for more development through our obedience. This desired communion leads to the innermost sanctuary of intimacy. It never comes without a sacrifice or a greater price required, yet blessings of abundance can only then be enjoyed. Relationship is our base, and the ultimate goal for His children should be abiding in the secret place of the Father's intimacy!
2011 is a Season of Spiritual Awakening
• This next year and for at least eight years following, from 2011 into 2020, will be the greatest spiritual awakening in America that we have ever experienced.
• God is adjusting the vision of His Church to live in the prophetic 20/20 vision the early Church was birthed in. We will see apostles and prophets begin to establish the new visionary Church on the foundation of the five-fold ministry it was born from. Ephesians 2:20 "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone."
• America is about to experience the great awakening of knowing the Father through the Son! This is the season of a super brilliance of grace to be seen by the world – the Sonshine of Jesus, the hope of glory, through His family!
• There will be a beginning of fiery pentecostal outpourings that will rage even hotter than the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We will demonstrate a new understanding of "baptism by fire"! This will also be initiated from the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government from Washington, to show that as the head goes, so goes the nation!
God is now demonstrating that we, His family, must pull into our now, the season of spiritual awakening in America and the nations. 2011 is that "set time" to be ready for 2012 to 2020!
This next year and for at least eight years following will be the greatest spiritual awakening in America that we have ever experienced. This will become the NOW TIMING GATE for our nation to go into and never look back!
2011 is a Season of God's SET TIME
Acts 3:1-6 "Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, "Look on us." And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Then Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk."
This Gate Beautiful is correctly detailed from the original language as a "Timing Gate." The Hebrew word for this gate is hora, (pronounced "ho'-rah") and is apparently a primary word, as we would now use for an "hour," thus we can see that instead of a "pretty" gate, we have a much more decisive word for our timing, that represents exact time from God, such as the day, hour, instant, or season of His time.
Because the Bible translated in English the inclusive truth as "beautiful" however, we must now take in the complete definition, and it must be viewed as God's proper setting for the season of the birth of the Church with signs, wonders and miracles accompanying. Today, we must understand this season as the hora, as "a now timing" gate for the Church's hour of breakthrough.
We are in the infancy of the "Timing Gate" of God for our nation to return our hearts to that of Abba Father's. This is undeniably a very powerful and critical "Season of Now Timing" to march into Zion. We will need every person who pursues this time of God to be relentlessly passionate to grab our "lame brothers and sisters" who are laying around asking for mere alms, to give unto them the miraculous timing of God. In doing so, Kingdom citizens will now go leaping, dancing and praising God through a beautiful Timing Gate of God. Yes, we will do this in 2011 and beyond! This is a new season of a "Timing Gate" we call the Great Awakening of America!
2011 Will See an Increase of Great Shakings in the Buildings!
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.—Acts 4:31
As we come together in the correct timing of God to begin filling the houses with desperate prayers, we will then incorporate prophetic words of God overflowing with His Holy Spirit, creating a shaking of God as a great sign to those around our places of worship. The Lord of the harvest is now ready to shake the nations with His Living Word, which will not be viewed only as a book of study, yet a demonstration of powerful signs, wonders and miracles. America is at the gate of the timing of God to produce an outpouring as an Awakening that we have awaited for centuries. This is a critical season of God's Set Time!
2011 is a Year to Decree, to Be and to Receive!
We have had an "identity crisis" beyond proportion in the family of God for so long that God is now opening up the revelation of "Who we ARE in the Father."
LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him? Psalm 144:3, NASB
When we view even the way the Psalmist asked this of God, it is now a new way to consider this revelation. As we view this in another portion of Scripture in the New Living Translation, you will see how the Father views His own creation, made by His hands into His image.
Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything You made, putting all things under their authority – the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents. O Lord, our Lord, Your majestic name fills the earth!—Psalm 8:5-9, NLT
We will become His Word as the light and life of the world, and this will be a demonstration to others who have been cheated into living out less than God's best – it will turn the average, even the ones who have accepted the crumbs of God's table as food, to now arise as a new person. They will arise and be the ones that now live and move as the way the Father sees them and not what the accuser of the brethren indicts them as ("insignificant") in God's master workmanship plan. This is the year to not appear like, but to BE HIS WORD!
When a person begins to know who they are in the view of the Father's eyes, then the Father, who is wanting to pour out great gifts of revelation upon His family, will certainly do just that! As we become familiar in our new identity of the Father, we will then live out the new workmanship God made us as from the beginning, and no devil ever wanted us to realize this! New and powerful revelations can be distributed to those who know their Father and who they are, in view of Him! We will see new revelation coming to the most unlikely sources that we have seen in the natural as God is transforming the naturally-minded into the supernaturally-living!
Yes, we have so much to enjoy for this new year of 2011, and without a doubt, we will begin to experience the Great Awakening now as all the prophets of old had lived and hoped for. We are marching on to Zion, Zion that beautiful city of God!
2011 is truly your year of prophetic transformation of abundant inheritance of God's best!
John Mark Pool
Word to the World Ministries
Email: MarkandSandyPool@aol.com
