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I believe that the year 2012 is a very significant year.

As I stated in my last blog post, the number 12 symbolizes divine accomplishment and governmental perfection. 

This year is about the government of God arising in us. It is a time when heaven will be revealed on earth in a greater way through the people, the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the heirs of God.

This year is about the government of God arising in us. It is a time when heaven will be revealed on earth in a greater way through the people, the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the heirs of God.

For the last 8 vuotta, we have been walking in a prophetic cycle that has been unfolding before us.  It began in 2003 with the prophetic word spoken by Barbara Yoder.  Those who were in attendance will well remember the response of the people.  They began to run the building, forming battalions across the front of the platform. We were so moved by what God was saying to us, about moving us out of an old, hidden place, we could no longer remain in our seats.  It truly was a God moment and we were responding as best we could in that moment.  We were coming to the understanding that we are a people on the move and God would continue to unfold the fuller meaning as we walked in response.

Vuonna 2004, Dutch Sheets spoke to us about being on level 11, a level of darkness and confusion.  But, God was moving us up to level 12, a government level with Godly authority.  He paced across the platform with a golden key in his hand saying, I give you the key, I give you the key, and finally placing it in my hands as the leader for Aglow and speaking Isaiah 22:22 over us.  The Key of the House of David I will lay on his shoulder.  So he shall open, and no one shall shut; And he shall shut and no one shall open.

Two other words given at that same conference stand out to me.  Graham Cook stated that we were a forerunner ministry.  A forerunner is one who goes before or precedes and leads the way for others to follow.   Aglow has been doing things that could be found to be, a running before, a preceding. There was another word that indicated we were entering a season of acceleration.  We all thought it meant a time of great growth.  While we did have a spurt of growth the following year, as I look back, I see something even greater.  I believe it also meant an acceleration of spiritual understanding that would multiply over us.

One other word I want to underscore is about Aglow becoming a prototype ministry.  Now, that is a word to ponder!  And ponder we have for this 8-year prophetic cycle.  I believe that word is in the process of unfolding before us.

At our last Worldwide Conference in Houston, Texas, Johnny Enlow spoke of 3 seasons or stages he sensed were being walked out.

1.  The Awakening, 2008 – 2011
2. The Arising, 2012 – 2015
3. The Shining, 2015 – 2018

These words are taken from Isaiah 60.

The Awakening

I believe we have been experiencing The Awakening as we have been stirred anew through the teachings of Graham Cooke.  The words of life he has been bringing us are todella words of the Gospel. The truth of the life changing reality of the cross is that we now have a new starting place, which is God’s mindset towards you. It’s about living the ascended lifestyle and receiving the magnificent truth of Christ in me.

I believe there is a new anointing on the New Covenant.  These are truths we have known, yet as we are hearing them anew, there is a quickening spirit attached to them. New life, new insights, and new joy are coming into us as we listen, and ingest them.

The Lord spoke two words to me in early January.  I felt He said, It’s been a time of accumulation and now culmination.

When I speak of accumulation, I see things that have been sown in faithfulness in the spirit realm and being stored as treasures in heaven. They are being accumulated in the spirit realm until the time of culmination.   There are things being accumulated you may not even be aware of.  It could look like nothing much has changed…yet you have kept on.  In the midst of it all, you have come into a new relationship with God. Relationships have changed. Some interesting connections with people have been made, and everything has been in the process of being altered in unseen ways.

When things accumulate in the spirit realm, the bowls of heaven are being filled.  When those bowls are filled, there comes a tipping point, a point when they must begin to overflow.  You can call that culmination, fullness, or a tipping point.  What will flow down is a greater anointing and an ability to do what you have seemingly not been able to do in the past season of accumulation.

2012 is an important year because we have reached a point of culmination. It is a time of fullness and something has shifted.  All of a sudden, things will begin to be open before you that were not open before.  Suddenlies will occur…not of your doing, but because of your faithfulness.

The Lord showed me several significant 12’s.

• This is Aglow’s 12^th year of traveling into Israel to bless the land, to pray for the people, and to stand with the tender shoot of Messianic believers in the land.  We will be sowing financially into the land on a consistent monthly basis this year as never before.
• This is the 12^th year for our Diwanaya Arabic television series.  It is now available around the world.  We have heard of thousands who have come to the Lord through this programming.
• 12 regions in the United States have taken teams into Washington DC for one week every single month to pray.  Significant connections have come out of those trips.
• This is the 12^th year since the 9/11 attack, an attack that changed the world.
• 2012 is Aglow’s 45^th year as a ministry.  The number 45 means “preservation.”  God always keeps His word with man.  He preserves it until the fullness of time.

John 14 states that Caleb was kept alive, preserved 45 years for the fulfillment of the word God had given him.   Moses said to him, Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.  So Caleb inherited Hebron saying, I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.  Now, give me this mountain!

There is a new awakening upon us.  And it has come with a quickening a spirit. New foundations are being laid which will enable us to overcome the roots of our history and continue moving into the fullness and future of God’s plan for Aglow.

The House of Lydia

Chuck Pierce spoke to us that, This is the year that women will build the House of the Lord from nation to nation. Chuck spoke of four houses, one of them being the House of Lydia.  I just returned from Europe, after meeting with all of our European leaders there.  They were so alive with all that had been spoken in Houston.

As I shared about the House of Lydia I said, This is the House of Europe.  Recall that when Paul was told to leave Asia and go to Macedonia….that was a call to Europe.  The first ones he met were a group of women who had been meeting on the river bank, praying.  It was because of Paul and Lydia’s meeting that the purpose for Paul’s visit to Europe began to unfold.  I told the European leaders that this was the year, the time, the hour for them to arise in the leadership and be used to impact Europe in a meaningful way.

Aglow is no longer a hidden women’s group.  We are a movement; we are on the move.

God has given us keys we have forgotten about….but those keys are for this season.

Rise up and build, O Aglow women and men!

Welcome to 2012…a New Year that has already begun unfolding before us!

Twelve is a significant number.  It is the number of government and it
symbolizes divine accomplishment and governmental perfection.

The year 2012 is about the government of God arising.  If we want to see the government of God arise in the earth, we must first allow it to arise in us, His people, in a greater way.

Because God’s work is always a continuum, the uusi didn’t begin with the midnight stroke of a clock on December 31^st.  What God has been building in our lives is ongoing and eternal.  It is line upon line, truth upon truth, and experience upon experience. Siis, we have not started something new in 2012, but we are continuing in the path He has set before us.

We must remember that our starting point is the resurrection.  We rose with Christ to a new life.  Now, THAT was a new beginning!  We begin with who Christ is in us and for us!  We are alive to Him and to all that He wants to do in establishing His government and His righteousness in us.  He is helping us learn to live and abide in our new identity.

This year, as God continues His work in us, let us allow the increase of His government in these areas:

• Receiving and then expressing His goodness daily.  You cannot give away what you have not first experienced for yourself.   So, expect and receive His goodness every day and then show someone else that aspect of His government.
• Living in a limitless way….not measured, showing God’s abundant heart towards all.
• Being more astonished at who God is for us rather than feeling overwhelmed by circumstances.
• Processing everything through God’s majesty.

This is a year to live with excitement and expectation! Expect God’s divine work to manifest through you on a daily basis. His work in us is part of establishing His government in the earth.

Romaanit 12:2 urges us to, not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind.

Give up old mindsets and let them be replaced with a renewed mind.

Earlier this month, Tony and I, along with members of our family, went to the 12^th annual choral celebration, “The Sacred Sounds of Christmas,” featuring Seattle Pacific University’s concert choir, wind symphony, symphony orchestra, and other fine musicians and readers.  What a way to begin the Advent season!

The Benaroya Hall, in downtown Seattle, is a 2500 seat performance venue and it was filled to capacity.  As we were seated, my eyes were immediately drawn to the simple but elegant decorations setting the atmosphere for this beautiful event.  There were several Christmas trees with white, sparkling lights, and a huge wreath of greens with their lights.  It was dramatic in its simplicity.  The atmosphere of the season was filling the air.

As the lights went down, the members of the orchestra took their seats.  Then the conductor walked on stage, taking his center stage position.  Every orchestra member’s eye was focused on him in readiness for his first signal.  There was a pause.  He then lifted his baton, and pointed towards the wind instruments.  With the first stroke of the conductor, every wind instrument played a single note simultaneously.  They were obviously tuning their instruments so that the sound they would make for the glorious musical event of the evening would be beautifully coordinated and in tune with each other.

Minun viimeinen blogi Puhuin identity on avain muutosta, and transformation is about moving into the next stage of identity.  Often, God uses prophetic words to bring us into a greater understanding of His view of us, which is usually something we wouldn’t have considered for ourselves.  When a prophetic word comes, it gives us a glimpse of our future, even though we may not fully see it or understand it.

It is a fact!  God uses ordinary people.  Think about Abraham.  He was a man born into a family that served idols.  Neither his background or beliefs made him a likely person for God to choose for the purpose of recovering man from his sinful situation.  At that time, Abraham wasn’t even a believer!  Yet, God’s intention for him was that through him and his descendants, God’s authority and glory would be expressed in the earth.  Amazing!