2018: The Year of the Impossible

2018: The Year of the Impossible!

12/31/2017

Dear Friends,

There are so many wonderful promises from the Lord for the coming year that I found it nearly impossible to title this week’s post. In the end, the most significant of these promises is the one I chose: 2018 is to be the YEAR OF THE IMPOSSIBLE COMING TRUE.

The Year of the Impossible

Many of you have dreams that have never been realized, and 2018 is the year those dreams will come true. It is a year of joy, a year to hit your targets; a time when doors open for you and God restores family relationships that have been strained.

The Lord says, “What you had previously considered out of reach or beyond achievement is exactly what I will do! Nothing is too hard for Me; nothing is impossible! I will open up ways in the Spirit, rivers in the desert, dry land in the swampy undergrowth, and highways in the bush.”

He showed me Isaiah 35 as a key scriptural “picture” for us this year. Isaiah 35 describes a “highway of holiness,” an open road through the wilderness, and a smooth and uninterrupted path into the things of the Kingdom.

I saw in the Spirit this “way” God described. As I looked, the earth’s surface became smooth and glassy all around. I heard the Lord say, “That which has stood in your way in the past will now be flattened, the rough places made smooth, so that you can pass by easily.”

The road I saw was glossy; silky. I heard Him speak of the “Silk Road,” that ancient trade route from Asia to Africa. In the same way, God is reopening ancient “Silk Road” routes in the Spirit. These routes are so well-traveled that they are easily traversed, having already been forged. (See note 1, below)

I saw that this year’s work was not a heavy, groundbreaking work with great difficulties, but an easier revisiting of previous routes in the Spirit that have worked before. A returning to some of the ancient ways that will accelerate you in the present. You may find that discarded practices such as meditation or the singing of hymns have greater meaning and propel you into greater movement as you revisit them.

I saw that trade in God’s Kingdom was now possible along these “Silk Roads” – the wealth of the wicked has been laid up for the just, and there is a mercenary aspect to the Kingdom this year that will enable those who need resources to receive them; an increased sharing of our resources.

A Year of Recompense

In addition, the Lord woke me in the middle of the night several weeks ago and said, “This is the time of recompense.” Recompense (according to Google) means “compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made.” Synonyms include: reparation, restitution, restoration, and indemnification.
God has not forgotten the things that have been stolen from you, or the ways people have wounded you. He intends to restore the years the locusts have eaten! (2)

The Hordes of Hell Will Not Detain You!

As I prayed, I saw a giant cross hovering in the air above us; not upright as at Gethsemane, but flat and horizontal, as if suspended like a covering. I heard the Lord say that He is holding back the hordes of hell right now, restraining all that would seek to oppose us, so that we are free to move, free to advance and free to reposition ourselves as needed. I saw that this freedom was intended for the reaping and gathering-in of the great harvest. God is holding back our tormentors in order to give us time to bring in the lost and sanctify what is unholy.

I saw believers working with a happy urgency in the harvest fields, as if in a relay race in which one runs, but the others all yell, cheer, and urge him on quickly so that they, too, can run and fulfill their parts. Great JOY! (3)

Envision Expansion!

2018 is also to be a year of increased ACCELERATION and EXPANSION for the Body of Christ. I hear the Lord saying, “ENVISION EXPANSION!” Having birthed the promises of God in your breakthroughs this past year, you will now begin to move forward and advance in them. Corporately, not just individually, the Lord is placing His hand upon His flock to guide us gently into greener pastures and cleaner waters. What has become muddied and sullen is no longer fit for drinking or eating. God is releasing fresh revelation of who He is, revelation that will sustain us like good food in the days to come.

"Acceleration cannot happen without activation. You must be positioned to move and in motion already in order to accelerate. You must be ready!"

"New enterprises will spring forth, new ideas will take root, and though at first you will not notice the rooting, yet in time you will see the growing. Expect green seedlings to be popping up and emerging everywhere around you, like Dorothy’s poppy field in the Wizard of Oz! Yet the effect of this new growth will not be sleepy or deadly inaction, but peace and satisfaction on the part of God’s “gardeners,” the ones who have sown freely and prayed for increase."

I hear the Lord saying: “A great JOY is coming to My people, JOY at the protection I have offered them and the boundaries I have set, to create a “garden of renown.” (Ezekiel 34:29.) This joy and rejoicing will have the secondary benefit of drawing people together as family, as co-laborers and fellow “gardeners” in My Kingdom, delighting to both show and share the blessings they can now see.

“For what has been hidden is now apparent, and the eyes have been opened to My wonders. Previously there was a blindness of foggy confusion over My people, but I am leading you now to sunnier shores where all is in plain sight. (Isaiah 35:5)

“This year is not the time to fear, but to go forth boldly in the power and anointing of My Spirit. Rejoice in the new growth you can see, and encourage those near to you as you help cultivate the gardens of their dreams also.

“I am building community where once individuality reigned. I am restoring families where once independence separated. I am calling people home, like prodigals, to the goodness and richness of the Father’s land and Kingdom, something they once rejected but now can receive.

“My door is open; in fact, ALL the windows and doors have been thrown open in the Spirit, to allow full access to My delights. I would prohibit NO ONE in My Kingdom from having full access to My treasures, because I am a trusting Father who builds His Kingdom on the basis of trust. Those who trust Me in return are blessed.

“Pull out of My storehouses all that you need to cultivate your dreams and expand My Kingdom! Envision the expansion you would like to see, even to the farthest boundaries of the Kingdom! For I am limitless, and My children will learn to operate under a “limitless” anointing this year. Is it not My Spirit who directs you, who dreams within you? Together, all things are possible. Together, we can conquer the world with the goodness and love of a Father whose love knows no bounds.

“Ask Me for EXPANSION this year. Expand your vision so you can stretch beyond your previous limitations.” (4)

“Expansion will happen first in your mind, then in your world. The desire for expansion will drive you to break out of previous limitations and pioneer new frontiers. Think of the Kingdom as a vast, unexplored territory that knows no limits and is therefore INFINITELY discoverable. There can be no “superstars” in this Kingdom, since daily new realms are being discovered, each as vast and great as the other. And each as necessary to growth and sustainable life as the others have been. Your frustration and lack will drive you to explore and expand, because discovery is often born out of need.

“Stay within the boundaries I have given you, but see your life as limitless and unconstrained, for in the power of My Spirit, IT IS. Work together with Me to open up new realms of glory, provision, truth, and testimonies for others who will follow behind you. They will then advance farther; from your end point will come their beginning.

“Rejoice in the promise of spring, of new life and growth happening all around you, and revel in the joy of knowing that I am the Author and Founder of all these wonderful things. Go freely into 2018!”

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Notes:
1: After hearing this word, I researched the Silk Road and found that there is, at the present time, an opening of what is now being called the “Silk Road” between China and Russia, for the transmission of oil and metals back and forth. It is a natural confirmation of what is happening in the Spirit.

2: How important is recompense, or restoration, to God? When the Jewish nation abused the land by failing to observe the Sabbath for literally hundreds of years, God drove them into exile in order to give the land itself rest and restore its fertility. God cares for land, animals and most importantly, you! (See Jonah 4:11 and Leviticus 26:34-35.)

3: When you compare this vision with Isaiah 35, you see that unclean people and ravenous animals are prohibited from walking the “Highway of Holiness.” There is an unhindered freedom for God’s people and a protection from that which would draw God’s children astray (Isaiah 35:8-10)

4: There is a difference between a boundary and a limitation. God sets boundaries, but man often imposes limitations. It is not God who limits us, but our own paltry thinking! God is removing our “stinking thinking” and releasing a limitless anointing.