What a great day! Today, Tuesday, October 5th at sundown starts the new Hebrew month, Cheshvan. This celebration of Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan goes until sundown on Thursday, October 7th.

The Lord showed me a picture of what Cheshvan is going to bring forth in the earth this year. It will be a month of multiplication!

I saw God fishing. He had bait on His fishing rod, and He was casting it out. He was releasing it to catch many fish. Then the Lord spoke to me and said, “I am going fishing, and I am going to be casting My fishing rod and hook. I am putting it out there just as I am sending you.” See, God is releasing you, sending you out as bait to bring great amounts of people (fish) into His Kingdom. He is not only using me – but you too! He wants to see a great multiplication happen this month.

God gave me a scripture to share with you. It’s found in Hebrew 6:13-14, “For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”

God’s promise to Abraham was to make His descendants many on the earth. Just the same is His promise for the church today. God is getting ready to bring increase! Remember He is using you to go out and bring a lot of people back to the Lord. YOU are a part of His bait for this multiplication.

On the 17th of Cheshvan we remember how the great flood came upon the earth during the days of Noah. There are no festivals this month, but it’s a time of completion. It is also a time during which we remember that King Solomon finished the work on the Temple.

God is getting you SET UP for a release and a restart. He is restarting things.

Take time today to look at your life and do an assessment. What is God restarting in your life?

Yes, I know that you went through a time of crushing, but now He is going to restart some of the things that He gave you before the crushing took place. It’s a restart and a release. God is going to birth new things in dead places.

God is repositioning you to go out and expand and gather fish! I hear Him saying, “I’m going to restart some things. I’m going to start sending people out. I’m going to send them forth. I’m going to use them to pull in a great supply of fish, a great supply of movement, a great supply of multiplication. Be fruitful and multiply!” 

Share this with a friend who needs to understand the multiplication that is upon their life today!

We have now begun the Feast of Tabernacles. It comes in the autumn after the start of the Hebrew New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the Day of Atonement. It’s also known as the Feast of Booths, the Feast of Sukkot and the Feast of Ingathering.

The Feast of Tabernacles is a very special celebration. In Exodus 34:22-24 we read, “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year. Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel.  I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.”

Here we see the Lord’s specific instructions on how the Israelites are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks and Feast of Tabernacles and how three times a year their men were to appear before the Lord God of Israel.

For you, it is also very important to the Lord that you come to Him during this time. It is important that you present an offering to Him and bring Him a blessing. Most of all, He wants you to give your heart and recognize that He is Jehovah Jireh, your Provider. In this way you will give Him honor, glory and praise.

This feast is also a joyful time of celebration. It’s a time to have a festival in your heart as much as physically around you. Let’s read Deuteronomy 16:13-15. It says, “Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.”

Jesus Christ makes your joy complete! When you confess Him as Lord and Savior, you know that the One who sprinkled His blood on the mercy seat provides for you. It is then that your joy is complete!

I want you to know this and to be encouraged during this season. The Lord is properly positioning you to step into this season full of joy. It truly is an exciting time!

Did you know that the Jewish people make something called a “sukkot” as a way of remembering their history during the Feast of Tabernacles? It has at least three walls and is framed with wood and canvas, then on top is cut branches and leaves for a roof that they could see out of. This “sukkot,” or booth, helps them remember their ancestors’ 40 years in the wilderness of Sinai and how isolated they were from the rest of the world. It also reminds them how the presence of God dwelt in their midst, how He covered them daily with His cloud, and how at night He warmed them with His fiery presence. Wow! Amazing! God is so good! Their clothes didn’t even wear out, and no matter what they faced or if they felt vulnerable, they were covered!

Even in times that you feel vulnerable or weak, know that the Lord will come and bless you with His overwhelming presence. He tabernacles among you.

Jesus is the Word and in John  1:14 (TLV) we read, “And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. We looked upon His glory, the glory of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Your Heavenly Father loves you greatly! He wants you to recognize that this is your season of joy and blessing. When you believe Him to be your Provider in all things, He is able to come in and properly position you and enlarge your territory! As He stretches and advances you, know that He is your provider. The joy of the Lord is your strength!

Purpose in your heart to bless the Lord by giving an offering to your favorite ministry, your church or whatever you feel called to do in honor of the Lord.

Share this with a friend today. Remind them that the Lord is their Provider in all things!

Guess what’s here: Rosh Hashanah! It began yesterday, Sept 6th, at sundown. That means today, Sept 7th, starts the first whole day of this brand-new Hebrew year, 5782! Happy New Year!

What do these numbers 5, 7, 8, and 2 stand for? They stand for grace, perfection, new beginnings, and double portion. Double glory is coming this year! Yes, this is the year in which you’re going to see double glory come into the earth.

Habakkuk 2:14 says, “The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” That word “knowledge” is broken down to the Hebrew word yada. Yada actually means “detection, recognition and observation.” You can see, recognize or observe things through a variety of senses.

When the earth is filled, it’s going to be filled with fullness and knowledge of the glory of the Lord. The knowledge, as in perceiving with our senses the glory, is also known as the kabowd. Kabowd is the weighty and powerful presence of God. This powerful presence is a result of Him being our Kinsman Redeemer.

Did you know that you are a glory carrier? Christ in you is the hope of glory. God is setting you up. In 2 Kings chapter 2, we find that Elisha received the double portion of the Spirit of the Lord. He received it when he could see what was happening to Elijah in the sprit realms – when he saw the chariot taking Elijah to heaven. Spiritual discernment is when you are tapping into the realms of the supernatural and have the ability to understand it.

God is preparing the people of God to walk in His glory. Never more than today have we needed it! We need the purification and glory to come and break every demonic stronghold in our lives.

We have also just stepped into the Days of Awe, a time of fasting,  prayer, repentance and cleansing. This period goes from Rosh Hashanah to Sept 15th, Yom Kippur. Did you know Yom Kippur is the Highest Holy Day of the year?  It’s the Day of Atonement during which we remember that Jesus went up and sprinkled His blood on the heavenly mercy seat inside the Tabernacle. This sacrificial act of love made you holy and righteous before Him.

I hope you will take time to celebrate the Jewish feasts over the next 3 weeks. The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) is happening right now. The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) and The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) will happen before the end of this month. During this time there is great rejoicing, fasting, prayer and giving. It’s also a time of celebration as we come into a deeper knowledge that God is taking care of us in all things.

I encourage you to take time today to remember what Jesus Christ has done for you!!  Share this message with a friend and celebrate together!

Every  year my husband and I practice the Feasts of the Lord, His appointed times and season,  and we always respond to God’s mandate in Deuteronomy  16:16 (KJV) which reads:

“Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.”

When we bless the Lord in faithfulness by following His commands, He gives to us so much more than we can ever imagine. He doubles our sowing into blessings for the kingdom! If you want to bless the Lord this month and help us support the outreaches of Candice Smithyman Ministries and Dream Mentors International we would be so blessed!

As we prepare our hearts for the coming of the Lord, we need to understand some principles for end-time revival.

Revival First Starts with Prayer

“If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Now Mine eyes shall be open, and Mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.” (2 Chronicles 7:14-15, KJV)

Angels respond to the prayers of the Ekklesia, the Church of God that has governmental authority from God on the earth. When we pray, Heaven moves and angels of fire are dispatched from the throne room of God. The angels receive the prayers of the people and help to distribute the answers from Heaven back to the earth in the form of fire. These, I believe, are seraphim at work.

Revival comes when the fire of God comes to purify His people, who are ready to live as God has always desired them to live. He comes to bring purity and holiness to the earth. He comes to clean it up. We first cry out in repentance and humility asking God to deal with us.

“When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.” (Revelation 8:1-5)

“However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the Gospel of God? And, ‘If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?’ So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.” (1 Peter 4:16-19)

We must be willing to let God deal with us. Purity, holiness, and righteousness are character traits of God, and the seraphim and cherubim carry these attributes from His throne to purify His world as He sees fit. In all miracles and healings there is an element of fire that comes forth through His Word. The angels are present when these things happen. Where He is, angels are. They reside with Him. They carry His fire, glory, love, justice, peace, protection, provision, restoration, purification, holiness, and righteousness. They are an extension of Him.

God is doing amazing things! You just passed August 8th, which is the month and day of new beginnings!

I know you’ve been through tremendous pressures, trials, temptations, difficult circumstances and economic struggles the last year and half, and it’s been a hard transitional period. But as you’ve been stepping more into your Christ-identity over this past season, the Lord has been preparing you for the release of double glory!

2 Kings 2:9 says, “And it came to pass, when they had gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, ‘Ask what I shall do for thee, before I am taken away from thee.’ And Elisha said, ‘I pray thee let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.’ And he said, ‘Thou hast asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.’”

Here we read that Elisha asked the prophet Elijah for a double portion of the Spirit, in reference to his mantle. The Lord opened Elisha’s eyes and he witnessed Elijah go up to heaven. The word “see” is the word for vision. Elisha saw visions, chariots, horsemen. He watched the mantle fall. As soon as it fell, a double portion of that mantle glory fell upon Elisha. Powerful!

Double is what’s coming! This is a prophetic word for you right now. God is positioning you in relation to your promotion. You need to take this time to seek God and ask Him to show you things in the supernatural realm. When you ask for the glory of the Lord to be released and for amazing things to happen, you must have eyes to see into the supernatural and have these visions released to you! That only happens by preparing your heart, understanding and keeping your identity in Him and seeking His face. 

Did you know that this season is actually called Teshuvah? Teshuvah is a time of prayer, fasting, repentance and preparing our hearts for the new year 5782. Remember, whenever there has been a crushing or pulverization, His glory comes in! Praise God! He is doing a work to raise you up and promote you. God is getting ready to move in a mighty way and bring His double glory!

At Rosh Hashanah, Sept 6th, you will be stepping into the tremendous things God has for you. I’m so excited! God is properly positioning you with a knew mantle and has a big year instore for you!

Let me break down the year 5782 for you. 5 is the year of grace; 7 is the year of perfection; 8 is the year of new beginnings; and 2 means double. The Lord showed me that double glory is coming upon you in 5782!

This is news worth sharing with a friend who needs to be encouraged today! Look forward to Rosh Hashanah and the new year 5782 together! God has mighty things in store for you then!