Each year we gather a few prophetic and
intercessory people to pray into and hear what the Holy Spirit is saying as we
move into the next year. Some of what He
says is just for local ministry in our area, some for our international
ministry, and some is for anyone with ears to hear. Today I will share with you
one of three overarching prophetic impressions given by the Holy Spirit that have
application beyond our local church.
First, we perceive that 2015 is a Year
of Ingathering. To ‘ingather’ is to bring in, to harvest, to
reap from the seed sown. To ingather is the Hebrew word ‘aciyph’ meaning to gather in the crops.
The Old Covenant Festival of Ingathering was one of the festivals that God required
of Israel. It occurred at the end of the growing season with the last harvest
of the year. This was later called the Festival of Tabernacles and today is
celebrated by Jewish people as Sukkot. “Three
times a year you are to celebrate a festival to Me… Celebrate the Feast of
Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the
fields.” (Ex. 23:14, 16b) It was a celebration of the fruit of laboring in
the fields and to remember God’s
provision while in the wilderness.
My prophetic
sense is that this has international significance, but it is especially
important for the USA. God is gathering a remnant people in America; the
passionate, purposeful, awakened in the church to fulfill a Kingdom purpose in
the land. It also speaks to a harvest of
evangelism. This is something every ministry leader passionately desires. In
America many of us have felt like we are in a cultural and spiritual
wilderness. Yet God has provided sustenance and blessing in it. But we, yes
those in leadership, must be stirred up and ignited so that we can convey the
intensity and urgency of the day and the hour. It will be critical for
leadership in the American church to move into this word. We must motivate and mobilize the people in
this season.
Are you
stirred up and ignited, intensely engaged for what is coming? Are you ready to
motivate and mobilize? Something is stirring for 2015!
2 comments:
We are seeing God stirring in a local church here in Canada; Sagamok Country Church. Pastor Andre Levesque is equipping and mobilizing the saints in the highways and byways, streets and alleys; to bring God's people into the Kingdom. We, too, are sensing the urgency.
Praise God for stirring a remnant!
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