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Greetings,
Welcome to the year 2023. We had a great day yesterday at Alife. Pastors Jonathan and Dannie cast vision for the new year and we had a wonderful time having a meal together as a church family. There was a release of thoughts from God and some prophetic declarations. I gave the following word:
I just hear the Lord saying that, Many of you have been looking for Me to redeem your situation, to redeem your past, to redeem your circumstance, but I say, I have redeemed you. Because I’ve redeemed you, all things are new. This is not a season of do overs, this is not a season of fixing what has been broken, this is a season of rising to what you have never seen before. Because I’ve redeemed you, this is a season of fresh appointments. Fresh appointments: to understand in your heart and let what’s in your heart flood your mind. That you would know that you are about to find the treasures of My glory. Do not end the year with conclusions but begin your year with expectations.
Now in that, I want to share something I sense – this is almost a ‘thus says God’. Sometimes God has me say a story that connects to what He is saying prophetically. Last year I wrote a new book, Friendship With God – The Empowerment of Honor and Grace, and I anticipated that the print copy would be done before the end of the year. The e-book copy was up but the print copy was waiting upon the final draft, but the US mail didn’t get it to me on time. So, yesterday was the final day for it to be ready by the end of the year. It said it was out for delivery, but It’s stuck in the post office – so, it’s probably coming Tuesday.
As I was hearing God say what He just said about, He has redeemed us. I heard God say, You expected to close your year knowing that I am Your friend. But I am making so that you begin your new year knowing that I’m your friend.
So, He purposely is saying that what looked like it was delayed was only delayed so that it could be said in a different way. I want you to begin this season, God says, as a new season in your life. I want you to begin this season as something you have never seen before because I have redeemed you. And because I have redeemed you, the words of your life are always future. The words of your life are always hope. And this is a season of you arising, rising above what has been because you’re not looking to fix what was. You’re not looking to do a do over concerning something that didn’t work. You’re stepping into something fresh because you know – “I am the redeemed of the Lord.’”
And because ‘I’m the redeemed of the Lord’, the price has been paid for the treasures of heaven to invade my earth. And the goodness of God will be seen. And the sound of God will be heard that God is great, God is good, and His mercy endures forever.
On Sunday, Jonathan and Danie shared that they had heard a phrase for Alife Church this year is to “Rise Above”. Pastors Jonathan and Danie cast vision for the year, and they challenged us to plot our own course to ‘Rise Above’ in the new season. As in past years, they challenged us to hear some personal words.
In the past couple of weeks, I have heard God say that 2023 is a year of ‘new strength’. There will be hurdles to overcome, but those hurdles are not meant to stop us. They are meant to draw our fullest potential from within us. Yesterday I heard the phrase “fresh appointment”. It is in the place of fresh appointments that we will find new strength, and we will face hurdles that will draw out a fuller testimony of who we are in Christ. We will find unexpected turns that will reveal the greatness, goodness, and mercy of God in a fresh new way.
The hurdles that we will face and the turns that we will have to make are not a negative thing, but a positive thing. I believe that God is going to do things that are beyond our expectations. New doors of effectiveness are going to open. Those doors of effectiveness are not doors of opportunity, but doors of destiny. They are doors that will reveal the goodness of God‘s love in our lives.
I believe that 2023 is going to reveal the sound of God in a greater way. That sound is a sound that declares that God is great, God is good, and his mercy endures forever!
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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