Word of the Lord for 2007

What Follows is the vision and word of God for 2007. I have spent the Month of December waiting and writing what He told me. This is condensed from 35 pages. There was repetition. I have transcribed it exactly as I was given it without editing. I have found that nuance of Prophecy is better that way. I have faith in this word. God’s concern is the Body of Christ, It’s Jesus Bride. So much of the word for this coming year concerns her. There are some other things. At the end of this prophecy is a dire warning I hope I have misheard on. God does not want us to live in a Spirit of Fear but of Faith love and a Sound Mind. But I must give it as I heard it.


Natural Disasters
2007 started off with warm weather. Predictors say it will be warm the rest of the year. As a poke in the ribs to worldly prognosticators, it will be very cold in latter part January and early February. This will cause people to puzzle. There will be a late spring as a result. The words, “How could it have started out so nice and turned so cold”. There is a prophetic meaning in all this.

Big Rain
There will continue to be a great deal of rain in spring again around North America. Floods. This too is a prophetic sign of the latter rain. We will at the same time see an outpouring of the rain of God. At the same time, very dry areas are evidence of God starving people out.

Health
Seeds of research sown years ago will begin to ripen.
Breakthroughs are on the horizon for Alzheimer’s, Diabetes, Certain Cancers, Diminishing of Heart Diseases, even Aids. Medical Science will find new, unusual, and unique ways not predicted to deal with all sorts of ailments. The role of Faith will be included in some research.

God puts one up and takes one down
The death of the Turkman President dictator recently is a harbinger of the changing of the Guard. Even though lesser powers will attempt to take their place, those who have for years depended on oppression to hold the place of leadership will be deposed by an all powerful God.

Democracy in certain instances will fail as a second rate governmental system, autocracy will succeed for a while and then fail as Castro is, God’s original plan was for him to be king. This repeated platform of failed leadership models globally is setting the stage for the antichrist.

Longing for the former things
Uncertainty will cause a new wave of nostalgia in the land. While many have worshipped at the altar of gadgetry, the bankruptcy of this worship will become apparent. People will start to try to take back their lives from this oppression. This won’t mean retro, but talk of what we have lost and how far we have slumped as a culture will become part of the national language. This will not be the thing that brings revival; this is a symptom of discontent.

The Price of Peace will be paid
There will be a newsflash that War is Hell. Yes it is, but peace under oppression is hell too.

The War in the Mid-East’s purposes will be discovered and reluctantly accepted by most of the population of the USA. The calls to withdraw from Iraq will silence as the evidence comes forth.

The USA is on a watershed course, we either will suffer permanent defeat at the hands of our enemies and encourage others to attack us with our cowardice and vulnerability or we will stand, perhaps change tactics, but with renewed understanding continue to fight against those who would kill and destroy us.

Islam is being revealed for it’s empty theology when radicalized, the price of compromise will be come clear, the true enemy and his demonic backer will be revealed.

Religion Fails
People in the world will be less tolerant of the façade of religion. Things will have to be real or fail. Expectations of MORE will drive man to either fall away or enter into revival. The ripples of the Ted Haggard and other similar disasters will continue in those who call themselves Christian. The “Franchise System” (do what others do, or spend a lot of money on it to plant a Church) will fail. It failed long ago, it’s just that no one knew yet.

US Economy Weaker
The Economy in the USA will be softer than thought at the beginning of the year. As I write this there is significant optimism. The inverse of last year will exist. Downward pressures because of external circumstances with occasional run-ups of the market. The deal the USA made with outside forces like China will come home to roost. The true cost of globalism will be felt in the economy, agriculture and dollar weakness. The props are being kicked out. Man’s trust in economics will be tested. Everything we trust in will be tested. Most will fail other than Jesus. Our faith in a Tired Old Bull called the stock market is as useless as the tired old bull called Baal.

God will cause the price of trusting in man to be shown by the impact of globalism felt in currency devaluation, Ag Supports withdrawn, Metal Markets in disarray, Stock markets inverted from 2006.

At the same time, the price of Oil and Gasoline will continue to fall in real dollars and not the inflated value of the oil versus the deflated value of the Dollar. It will be less by over 15% a year from today.

Patriotism without Nationalism
Americans will become more keenly aware of the beauty of this country, more aware of the rarity of it’s goodness, what it means prophetically, not in a nationalistic way, but in a treasuring of what it is and who we are because it will become apparent we could lose it.

God’s Mandate in Ministry to Veterans
God is calling the Church to be instrumental in ministry to veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars. He is calling them to be proactive to minister Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually, Financially, to the Family, and in Healing. God wants to demonstrate his Glory by showing himself mighty among those returned and wounded. This is a time and a place for the Church to be the Church. Those Churches heeding this call will be multiplied. This is on the mind of God right now and the job to date is largely undone. These are the widows, orphans and wounded along the road of our lives. Will we be a good Samaritan as the Body of Christ? That’s the question God is asking.

Politics
Man is looking for a strong and pure voice to emerge in leadership. Republican or Democrat. That voice will call but right now I see no one who God’s hand is on today in any political party.

The danger in seeking a “Man” is we could get one who is not God’s Man. God is reminding us that we are cursed if we put our faith in a man or a woman if it should be Hillary Clinton.

Lame Duck President and Lame Duck Congress
What will happen in 2007 with the Lame Ducks? I don’t see anything of consequence. There will be hue and cries about the war. There will be no account passage of bills like the minimum wage. People will get up and take bows. But, nothing much will happen. Perhaps this congressional majority is a demonstration of what vacuous leadership exists on both sides of the aisle.

The Middle East
2006 was a watershed year. I hear stability. It was a prophetic act that Saddam was executed just before the New Year. It was prophetic that the election took place just after the start of 2006. That the constitution was enacted by mid 2006. Iraq is slowly becoming a country. 3000 deaths are a prophetic indicator of turn.

Iran will become less of a threat.

Afghanistan will remain in sectarian turmoil but stable.

Israel will be threatened on all sides but untouched by more than a few crazy people.

The revelation of Islam as a divided house and as a birthplace of evil will cause many to re-evaluate Islam as a religion of Peace, even those in the faith. God will not allow this false religion to prosper at the expense of his kingdom. He has and will continue to bring judgment and expose it for what it really is, empty religion and not the relationship he desires to have with those that believe.

RELEVANCE
The word for the Church of Jesus is Relevance
Relevance and tradition will be at odds. The very things that make Christianity more real to those seeking Jesus will be masked by those things that are “as we have always done them”.

True Relevance will only come by a sovereign move of God. Manmade programs will fail. There will be some hoping to pour that new wine back into those old wineskins who will fight it against the move of God. So, the new wine will find its place outside of the wineskins of tradition.

Relevance will be won or lost on the battlefields of Worship and the Word. Real worship and a genuine word from God will be received and celebrated. Those who compromise will be discarded. The bar has been raised. God is calling his church to being real in people’s lives. Without that genuine move outside of tradition and ceremony there will be dissolution of the Churches who do not connect. This will manifest by an acceleration of church closings nationwide. It appears as if God is about to clean house. He wants to release revival but will only allow it to be planted in good soil. There needs to be a breaking up of the fallow ground. That means a lot of hardened clods will be destroyed to plant the new.

God appears to no longer accept what was good enough in 2006.

Churches Close Faster
God is not discouraged; things are working together for the called for their good. There are things that grieve him deeply. That which carries his name must of necessity go thru further deep purging, cleansing and without that those places must be destroyed to be rebuilt. The good soil God needs to do what he will do next isn’t in the Church bearing his name right now. It’s a painful truth but there will be an acceleration of the closing of institutional churches in America. Nothing that doesn’t move according to the life of the Spirit of God will die. How far will God take this? I have no vision but it’s further than anyone imagines.


God has Raised the Bar
The raised bar means:
That to hear from God requires his church to block out worldly influences
The higher the bar, the higher the call.
The more opposition you sense to this raised bar in your life, the higher the call on you is and the more God will move thru you.
All moves of God are opposed by the status quo and it always looks prudent and reasonable to oppose them.

ENCOURAGEMENT NEEDED
The power of Words to be builders up and tear down agents damaging people’s souls will become a theme of the Spirit in 2007. Particularly as it has to do with parents and children. The words Emotional Wellness stand out as a buzzword for this move. The Spirit says this is important.

THE SHIFT
As things change and shift quickly in the “Normal” church it will look negative to many. It is exactly as God intends it to be. Those who understand the times and seasons will embrace the move, those who are blinded by tradition or fear will resent and reject the move. These are new beginnings, confirmation of the touch of God and the completion process of his purposes.

The Nativity as a Prophetic Movie
Shepherds (many) and Wise Men (few) came to worship. Paul said not many wise or influential come. It’s the same today, but the Shepherds were wise and the Wise Men were humble at the presence of God. Seeking God makes us even at the cross and at the manger. This equality of God’s grace will become more apparent in 2007.

The Spirit of Offense will Intensify
Trouble is going to come to try to offend leadership in the body of Christ. Those who are called to higher authority will be attacked by higher demonic authority. You will overcome if you don’t fear. The more opposition you receive the higher the calling is on you and the higher the calling is on you the more opposition you will receive. If you can understand this, take authority over it and walk on the water above it. Be very careful to avoid taking any offense in these days. Only be offended by the Devil and his minions. That which offends the mind reveals the heart.

New efforts are being made at installing a new level of Phariseism in the body of Christ. This is happening as a response to the sovereign moves of God to attempt to control what God is doing. If God has called you God wants you to know that you should:
Let no one judge you nor should you expect confirmation of the call on your life. It is not of man but of God. Walk it out with confidence and boldness. It is your divine destiny to be an instrument of God.

All Hidden Things to be Revealed
Purity will be revealed in hearts in the house of God. What we think of as purity will be revealed in the light of the Revelation of Jesus as so many filthy rags and unclean. This is not to condemn but to help us walk in light of eternity that everything will be revealed, shouted from the rooftops that we thought was hidden. A new level of understanding the completely different nature of the spirit man in us from who we thought he was as he was connected to Jesus will motivate us to leave behind lesser pleasures than the fullness of Jesus in our lives.

Division and False Unity
Accusations of being divisive will be leveled at people walking in newness by those who are unwilling or unable to enter in because of ties with the world and tradition. The call for unity tied to tradition will go unanswered by those who hear the voice of the Spirit of God. They will be seen as not being “Team Players”. Jesus wasn’t much a team player. Upsetters of man’s tradition is the call.

The ears of many will be stopped up by the Devil. As God moves in new ways in changing the face of Christianity in one generation those stuck in old ways will not hear the voice of God. Even if Paul the Apostle were to return from the grave and write them a direct epistle they would not accept it because they didn’t invent, generate or create it in their fellowship. The not invented here mentality will be a major hindrance to the Church of Jesus particularly in Chicagoland. Jesus sending his Spirit has heard too often, “No thanks, we have our own”. They do, it’s just not God’s Spirit. Learn to hear what the Spirit says. First, the Church must develop ears to hear.

The Holy Spirit will release Christians who desire to be used into roles they reach for. He is looking for vessels to use. You can occupy those roles by the Holy Spirit.

The gifts of the Spirit will more and more be recognized as operating best when they flow in the anointing of God that comes thru an infilling overflow of the Spirit of God. The ability to operate and minister without that unction and simply from skill or ability will be neutered as the bar is raised.

Church and Change are alike only in the first two letters. They seem to start out the same but they drift into meaningless dissonance quickly. Trying to make a Change Church to the Culture and keep Church without Change is an anti-maxium. The move of God that is coming will require the slaughter of many sacred cows.

Nothing will be the same in 2007 spiritually. The new normal will be a higher level of the Glory of God outpoured in your life.

Disruption Seen
There appears on the horizon in the Spirit a major disruption. This will be in the first quarter of the year. I don’t have a sense it will be terror attacks. I do have an impression it will be natural. Geotectonic in nature. While many will see this as a source of great terror and interpreted by the world as a horrible event, it will cause a correspondent release of God’s Glory on the earth. That is you. It will be the Body of Christ’s finest hour.

There is deep darkness in this vision. The end of February to April something happens. It will cause many to lose heart, even in the Church. I don't know if I have a sense that this is a tragedy concerning mass death. It is a threat. It may be a revelation. Something happens and it's big.

There will appear to be a long shadow on the horizon this year, but those who see the light and not the shadow will overcome and stand firm. Many hearts will fail for fear. There will be an acceleration of fear and a deepening of faith. Fear Fails - Faith Firms.

Evenso, Come Lord Jesus.