God took the month of January to expand our souls for greater increase in territory and an acceleration of our destiny this year! He did this through increasing our identity in Him as He expanded our spirit, our soul, our temple and our capacity. Now as God expanded us in our souls, we will now step into a larger sphere of influence, greater regions and territories. In 2021, we will have tremendous growth as we step into this expanse. 

3 John 1:2 says “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” As our soul grows in capacity our territory of influence grows.

January is a spiritual foundation month. It’s a time we positioned ourselves properly for the year ahead. I know you were already praying and fasting, but have you also taken the time to give? Proverbs 3:9-10 says, “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.”  Lay the right foundation for yourself, because I see in the spirit financial provision is coming to the faithful.

Jesus is the firstfruit of many brothers. We are the “many brothers,” and we put Him first by setting time to pray, fast, give and consecrate ourselves unto to Him. You see, when you make yourself holy, everything you touch shall be holy. “For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches” (Romans 11:16). 

Greater territories are coming to you in 2021 as you purify and consecrate yourself, as you continue in a deep abiding relationship with the Lord. Your expansion shall be great! Allow the Lord to continue to minister to you about your upcoming transitions to greater increase and multiplication. Set your foundation on God, for He is the Master Builder. He is preparing your temple, correcting, aligning and repositioning things in your life for a season of victory! 

God is building divine relationships and making new alignments so that acceleration can take place and you can enter the new territories He has for you in 2021. I see streams that will quickly bring you to your purpose and destiny. Are you ready for what is coming? 

Every blessing I have ever received is because I practiced giving God my first fruits (praying, fasting and financial giving) at the beginning of each year. You have to have your heart right, you have to be consecrated in prayer and fasting, you have to offer the Lord your heart and your financial first fruits, to remain in the right place. These acts lead to a strong and correctly laid foundation. Will you build a strong foundation? Remember, when the root is holy, the branches are holy. When the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy (Romans 11:16). 

God wants our first of everything, and everything else grows from that point. When we see and understand this, we come to know that God is building a foundation in us. Are you sensing that God wants to start establishing new relationships for you? Know this! The Lord is giving you a divine set up. Just begin to move into those places.

Acceleration is coming. God has strong relationships that will help establish your destiny. As God properly positions you, you will begin to see a major acceleration. God is connecting you with people, divine alignments, and giving you new territories. The Lord showed me that many of these new alignments aren’t temporary; they are structured, permanent alignments from Him. Some of these will come in 2021 and carry you almost to the end of the decade. 

New territories are before you. God is setting you up for new things! You will be able to advance in the giftings that He has given you. You are set up to complete the project for every Kingdom assignment that God has given you and each mantle that you are carrying for Him.

We are called to serve God and be faithful in all things. In Luke 6:47-49 Jesus says, “Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Acceleration is yours in 2021! God is setting you straight for 2021. He is giving you a new and fresh vision and a strategy for this year and beyond. I declare over you that you are blessed to be a blessing. You continue to bless Him with your increase, and He will continue to give you more. You are trustworthy. You are honest. You are loyal. You are positioning yourself in great character to carry the capacity. Great things are coming to you. God is going to take you to the next level!

Join your faith with Him in February. If you have not started consecrating yourself with praying, fasting and giving, then start now. It is never too late to connect with God in our hearts. Let Him align everything – spirit, soul and body. When you position yourself to live an overcoming life with Him, you are set on the right course. God needs you on His team. He needs you to be strong. Your transition begins today. 

This month of December is the 12th month on the Gregorian calendar. The number 12 is the number of government. It is also the 9th month of the ecclesiastical calendar year and the 3rd month of the civil calendar year on the Hebrew calendar. The number 9 means finality. Number 3 means resurrection, wholeness, and completeness, and 9 + 3 = 12. As you can see there is a finality to God’s work in this month of December.

Prophetically, you are going to see some governmental shifting in both the Kingdom and in earth realms this month. The kingdom changes will come as we see new apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers and evangelists answering the call of God on their lives and beginning to step out in unprecedented faith to minister the gospel. You will see the new apostles and prophets God is raising up to be bold leaders with kingdom authority who will call for their congregations to be set in alignment with Kingdom mandates.

In Matthew 4:17 (KJV) the word says, “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

What time was that? It was the time when John the Baptist was put in prison. That was a time of pending death for John, but Jesus arrives and says these very words. 

I prophesy, though some have felt death the past few months, Jesus says that His Kingdom is at hand. We must remember we are  the body of Christ called to be sent ones who bring the good news of Jesus in times of trials and pending death. It is only the gospel of the good news carried by those of us, who are His apostolic church, that will set into place the broken places of the kingdom.

Ephesians 4:10-16 (KJV) says, “ ( He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.”

He that died, buried, resurrected and ascended has given leaders a mandate to, “perfect the saints.” This word perfecting is the Greek word katartismos which means to repair or adjust, to frame or mend, to prepare and restore. 

The apostles, prophets and five-fold ministry leaders are called to get the body of Christ into a place of alignment with the Head of His church, Jesus Christ. We are called to speak to the dry bones that bring about the flesh and tendons and call for the breath of the Holy Spirit to come. 

We are called to proclaim as Ezekiel 37 :10-14(KJV) says, “So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.  And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.”

The people had been saying in Ezekiel 37 :11 (NIV), “Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.” This was the mantra of the people. This sounds a bit like today.  So, this means the apostolic and prophetic church leaders need to remind the body of Christ where they are out of alignment due to lack of faith, and have them prophesy to the dry bones of the church and say, “We are not dried up, we have not lost hope, and we are not cut off.” 

God is on His throne and He has not left us. When the body is out of alignment or katartismos,  the job of church leadership is to give it a good chiropractic realignment with the word of God, and say, “Our God has not abandoned us. He is with us. He loves us. He wants us to prophesy to these dry places AND begin to live.” 

Yes, live this December! In this month of government your prayers are so very important. Your prayers are the four winds of north, south, east and west upon the USA and abroad. 

God told prophet Ezekiel in 37:9-10 (NIV) , “Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.”  So, I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.’”

 Let us the church of Jesus Christ be the vast army come to life – speaking only life!

Festival of Dedication

On December 10 at sundown through December 18 at sundown, we enter the season of Hanukkah or Festival of Dedication or Lights on the Hebrew calendar. Jesus Himself was in Solomon’s Colonnade during this time according to John 10:22-23 (NIV) which  reads, “Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,  and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.” 

This is a time where the Jewish people remember a family called the Maccabees who found one vial oil  that was left after the defilement of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes, a Syrian ruler who had tried to force the Jews to abandon their laws.  He put pigs on the altar and turned it to the worship of Zeus. Then, the Maccabees, led by Matthias and his five sons fought back and one of his sons Judas cleansed and rededicated the temple. The story goes that when the priests went into the light the menorah there was only enough oil for one day of burning, but when they used it, miraculously it burned for 8 days. Eight is a spiritual number for new beginnings. 

This is a time remembered on the Hebrew Calendar where no matter what pain comes against the temple there is a miracle waiting to happen and a cleansing and rededication ready to abound. No matter how the world may be trying to put out your light, do not let it! A new beginning is awaiting us.

For those who believe in Jesus and are part of His body, we have Jesus who is the miracle oil in the temple, making every day new. He is light of the world inside us, His temple,  and inside His church body as a whole. We must only dedicate our worship to Him and our spirits will burn bright and we will come alive. 

No matter what voices are trying to defile your temple or the church of Jesus Christ as a whole,  we must stand up and let the light of the world be seen. 

The prophet Isaiah tells us that the government is on Jesus’ shoulders: “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be on His shoulders: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6). 

John 1:1-5 (NIV) says, “ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

During this time, we remember when His light shines,  the darkness of the world will not overcome it. 

We remember the story of the Festival of Lights and how the small vile of oil that was found in the Temple after its destruction burned for 8 days. Keep your light burning bright and your temple pure and holy, undefiled before the Father. Confess your sins quickly, as this keeps the devil from getting a foothold in your life. The joy of the Lord is your strength and it’s the season for you to experience this joy!

If you are in a place of desperation or discouragement, speak life and love over yourself. Prophesy to your dry bones as you have not lost hope, you are not cut off , and if you speak your bones will come alive. When you do this, you will begin to operate from the position of knowing the power of the Father of Lights Himself. 

Proverbs 17:22 (KJV) says, “ A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” 

This is my challenge for you today: live your life to the fullest! Laugh this holiday season- be merry. Then your  light will shine so bright that demonic forces will flee. Angelic hosts will come and join you. Amazing! If the church is to be strong and healthy for 2021, we must get our bones in alignment and strong with a merry heart. 

Keep your spirit uplifted. God is doing mighty things in the earth right now. Do not let your faith wane. Press forward.  You are the one God is calling to change your environment. He wants you to have joy. He wants you to obtain an overwhelming sense of His love for you. Seek Him and receive who He is. No matter what you are going through, take an action step of faith. Get that tree up; get those lights and garland out! Decorate your house! Light candles, and don’t let anything stop you from bringing forth this Christmas season! When you act in faith and do these things,  then your  light will shine so bright that the Holy Spirt will rule and reign in your home and you will have angelic visitations. Angels are drawn to the light because they live around the throne of God which is full of light, so when you light your home, they will come and fellowship with you. They will surround you with the joy of the Lord! Speak life and the Word of God and the angels will respond to the Word. 

It’s going to be a great December! Start celebrating Jesus, then you will attract everything that you really want to see happen in your life. God is full of joy and full of light. He is on His throne with a colored rainbow and lapis lazuli above Him. His eyes are flames of fire, His feet are bronze, and glory-fire is all around Him. God is the light and lives in the light. You can have this in your temple too,  and the angels will come and join you!  Live by faith and all fear will flee!

Let me pray for you: Father, pour out the oil from heaven upon my friend today. Help them to feel Your love and connection with You. Uplift their spirit. Help them to learn to light their own flame and speak in tongues. Lord, strengthen them to speak life to themselves, their family, home, city, state, and nation. Father, I thank You that they will speak global glory, and the glory of the Lord will fill their heart and home. Thank You for leading them to rededicate their temple. May they be a huge light in the darkness that attracts others to You. Help them to lead others to know You Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Open their eyes to see all kinds of angels – seraphim, cherubim- the angels of fire. Help us create an environment where the Holy Spirit can rule and reign in Jesus’ name, amen.

Blessings from heaven are yours. Go and rejoice. It’s a season of rejoicing! Share this with a friend and get happy!  

This past week the Lord gave me a dream where I was receiving favor every day. I knew this was a word for His people.  This is a time on the Hebrew calendar for favor to flow in the earth. There is a portal in heaven open now until July 9 at sundown, which is the 17th day of Tammuz.  Now until then, God will pour out his favor immeasurably upon His people for advancement of the Kingdom. This is not unusual as when God wants things done in the earth He will pour forth His favor. Why? Because the favor of God opens doors that no man can open himself. We know favor opened doors for many  including Esther, David, Moses, Joseph, Daniel, and even our Lord and Savior, Jesus. 

As the people of God, we need favor active in our lives because favor divinely connects us to right relationships in season to accomplish God’s purposes. Our God never sleeps and He is always working. We are called to join Him in His work. We as the people of God must let favor run its course. 

So why favor in Tammuz? The Hebrew calendar month of Tammuz begins Sunday June 21 at sundown. This is the month in which the Israelites made the golden calf out of the wealth spoiled from the Egyptians. God had given them favor with the Egyptians and they took the spoils to travel with them as provision on their journey to the promised land. While Moses was on Mt. Sinai receiving the Law, the impatient Israelites determined to make a golden calf out of the wealth given them. When Moses arrived, he saw the camp in chaos and sin destroying God’s people. God was angry with the way His people had now taken His blessing and began to worship it. The word says in Exodus 32:7-10 (NIV) that, 

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” ‘I have seen these people,’ the Lord said to Moses, ‘and they are a stiff-necked people.  Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.’”

Take a look at how God feels in this passage. He is broken because He brought the people out of Egypt and now they are giving worship to wealth that was given to them by God. They have abandoned a heart for God and instead turned to a false image. Then God tells Moses that, “ I will make you into a great nation.” 

Moses has favor with the Lord. What does Moses do with this favor? He takes it to save a nation. The word says in Exodus 32:11-14 (NIV),

“But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?  Why should the Egyptians say, “It was with evil intent that He brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.  Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.” Then the Lord relented and did not bring on His people the disaster He had threatened.”

This word “favor” in the NIV translation, is the word “besought” in the KJV translation,  which is the Hebrew word chalah, which means, as one who entreated the Lord, or was even grieved. Favor can be so intense on our lives that we struggle stepping out to activate it even for God’s purposes. This is why faith is needed to activate favor.

Therefore, with the favor Moses had with God, he dialogued with God on this matter. Moses spoke back to God the very words that God Himself had spoken about His people, which of course were full of blessing and favor. The outcome was that God relented and did not bring disaster. There was still a consequence that day in that a remnant was called aside and had to make a difficult decision to kill those who worshipped the idols. As difficult as this was, the remnant remained and sought to move forward (Exodus 23:27-29).

How can we know for sure we have this great favor on our life? Because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross. He took our sin. Yes, even the sin of our worshipping false gods and other things and nailed us to the cross with Him, and then buried us, and resurrected us as new creatures in Him.  We are a remnant for His glory.

In Romans 6:3-7 (NIV) the Apostle Paul tells us, “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we will certainly also be united with Him in a resurrection like His. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—  because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.”

So, because of Jesus you have been set free from sin and resurrected to a new life, and that life is one of carrying the favor of God. You received favor that you would not die in your sin and now use that favor to show the love of God to others. 

The favor on Moses’ life was given to him by God Himself and was the catalyst to save the people of God. Favor on your life is a powerful tool to change the world. Some of you have favor with kings, presidents, governors, statesmen, politicians, teachers, business men and women, leaders of organizations, etc. Allow God to use the favor He has given you for divine purpose.

This month God will overshadow you with overwhelming favor so that you can accomplish His purpose on the earth. Don’t shrink back but take the favor given you and press forward in faith to bless the Lord and bring about peace and reconciliation to those who need it most. Use the favor on your life to crush injustice and evil and speak life into those who need it. This favor will open doors for you that will save nations just as it did for Queen Esther when she was used of God to save the Jews from annihilation. God wants to use you in a mighty way and He needs you to believe in the favor on your life because of what Jesus did, and also the favor in this month of Tammuz to press forward.

I challenge you today to look to the heavens and step out in favor every day by faith, with the confidence that God has indeed given you this favor through your resurrection in Jesus. You may be chosen to save a nation, but you will never know, unless you apply faith to the favor you have in Him! 

The first day of Iyar, the second month on the Hebrew calendar was Thursday April 23 at sundown. It was in this month that the Israelites after being released from Egypt, and having passed through the Red Sea they began to journey into the wilderness. Here they began to see and understand that God is their Healer and Provider. God was trying to change their mindset from that of a slave in Egypt to a child of God positioned for His promises to them.

Exodus 16:1 (NIV) reads, “The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.”

Then Exodus 16 :2-5 (NIV) says, “In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.  The Israelites said to them, ‘If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.’ Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.  On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.’”

The Israelites tested the character and nature of God and His goodness by entering that season murmuring and complaining and disobeying God. They took more manna then they were supposed to and did not respect His Sabbath rest. Yet, even though the Israelites murmured in the desert and disobeyed Him, God still showed them His goodness and provided for them.

The same has been true for some of us. As we entered into 2020, we were hit with the Coronavirus pandemic, its effects on our economy, social distancing, and more. All of this has been difficult to adjust to and feels a lot like slavery. Some believers have gotten discouraged and not watched their words, as they have grumbled and complained against God. But I have good news: Jesus has taken us away from slavery and positioned us for promise and hope!

Stay encouraged. Your Heavenly Father loves you so much. The bitterness that you have been experiencing is about to turn sweet just as it did for the Israelites in Exodus chapter 15, when Moses threw the wood into the bitter water at Marah and they were able to drink. Our God provides even at our worst times . Do not worry about provision. He is not going to leave you destitute. I am reminded of God’s love for His people as I continue to read Exodus chapters 16-18. God was trying to show the Israelites who He is, His beauty, His goodness that He is our healer and provider. I feel His heart pains of wanting His people to know how much He loves them and is caring for them. He knows that when we go through difficulties we can easily join forces with the enemy by doubting Him. We turn from faith to fear that God will not provide for us. We need to repent of our ways — repent of fear over the virus and what we’ve allowed into our hearts and minds.

When we repent, fear gets nailed to the cross and we are resurrected in faith. Stay in the place of faith. It is here that you will receive the joy of the Lord and all the provision you need. We have to remember that the devil is a liar and that our Father is good and loves us. God frees us from all doubts and fears. Learn to live in that place of freedom.

A few other points I want to share with you about the Month of Iyar:

1. It’s a fresh month in which God says He is the Healer and Our Provider.
2. It’s a month of radiance and blossoms, a time to remember the new.
3. It’s a time to remember that Jesus met with His disciples for 50 days before He ascended and gave us the Holy Spirit.

4. It is a time of preparation before the Feast of Shavout or Pentecost when we remember how the power of the Holy Spirit came up on those in the upper room in Acts chapter 2 and we His people began to receive His power from heaven.

PRAISE Him! Praise is a weapon that will break strongholds in your life! It will position you and change your mindset from fear to living by faith. Turn your back on the lies of the enemy, his manipulations and fear of the virus. You cannot stay paralyzed in this season. You’ve got to begin to get yourself up, move forward, and walk in the plan and purpose of God for your life. It’s a mighty month and we’re going to see blessings in it, but first we have to believe Him by faith.

Let me pray for you: Father, I thank you for my friend. I ask you right now to fill them with faith in the mighty name of Jesus. Raise them up so that they know and understand that even if they have questioned You in the past, You will show Your goodness to them. I thank You that You are reigning down provision on their lives. I declare that they will receive that provision, the sweet water, meat and blessings that is coming. Empower them to stand in faith against the enemy. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

God has been speaking to me for weeks about the fact that this a promotion time. I struggled with this prophetic word because let’s face it when you look for an earthly perspective what we are facing as a nation and internationally is tough times. As many of you know I have been writing for years on the value of the prophetic truths hidden in the Hebrew calendar and how God speaks prophetically to us as a people of God in times and seasons through it. No matter what we may be facing in our lives the word of God, the Torah, and the Hebrew Calendar remain the same. They are long standing truth direct from God that cannot be shaken. We know the power of the word of God and the testimonies of the lives of those written within the Torah writings and the Bible who were changed when they obeyed the word of the Lord first and not their circumstances. When we look at our current world and the loss and pain we have experienced worldwide from the coronavirus we are in a place of lack and fear, but this is not God’s truth and not His perspective. We must stand on God’s truth that never changes especially in the worst of times.

As the month of Nisan on the Hebrew Calendar is fast approaching on Wednesday March 25 at sundown, the Lord has been showing me the power of His words to Moses in Exodus 12 as we read what God speaks to him about what is upon God’s people and how they should respond in light of the news that an angel of death is coming to overthrow the Egyptian gods and ultimately release God’s people from bondage and move the Israelites into the promised land in Canaan.

We as a people are called to live by faith and faith alone. We are called to stand firm in the faith and not be defeated. These are words we minister to ourselves daily as we speak God’s words of life and remember the life of Jesus our Messiah as He walked the earth.

As all of us have been feeling intense spiritual warfare manifesting biologically, psychologically, socially, and economically. Many have chosen to look at their surroundings instead of God Himself. We have been given an amazing picture of truth in our very last month of the year on the Hebrew calendar called Adar. In this very month we read of the plagues that were sent to release God’s people from bondage. In Exodus 11 we read of the final plague that was to come by the angel of death.  In Exodus 11:9 (NASB), “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders will be multiplied in the land of Egypt.’” So, we see that God has this great plan to release His people by doing signs and wonders that will cause them to know only God could’ve released them from this bondage.

Then when we continue on to Exodus 12 we read that God puts emphasis on the new month coming for His people and the new strategy they would need to implement to survive what was coming ahead as God delivers them from bondage, protects them and carries them to the promised land. In Exodus 12:2-3 (NASB) God says, “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.  Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household.’”

God is sharing to Moses that in this month of Nisan deliverance will come to my people and I will set them free not only from death, but they will take silver and gold from the Egyptians, their very own enemy. He says in Exodus 12: 5 -7 (NASB), “Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.  Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.”

Then He says in Exodus 12:13-14 (NASB), “The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. ‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.’”

This memorial that happens every year at this time in the month of Nisan is Pesach or Passover. This is a month where we even as God’s elect remember that the angel of death passed over us.  We know Jesus as Messiah, His blood is our sacrifice for sin and sets us up to enter the promise to come of a hope, future and a destiny with Him now in the present and in heaven forever. Passover also happens in a month God calls a first month and the first thing is always very important to God. He is bringing them out into a new season at the very beginning of His year. He is doing the same for us.

Jesus Himself celebrated Passover as we read in Luke 22:7-8 (NASB), “Then came the first day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, ‘Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it.’”  Then after Passover supper with his disciples Jesus became the sacrificial lamb of God who died for the sins of the world, just as John the Baptist prophesized in John 1:29.

The Hebrew calendar is powerful in that is a lunar calendar and starts on the first month God called it into being when He spoke to Moses and said, “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.” (Exodus 12:2) Our Gregorian calendar is solar and is based on man’s calendar set up through Julius Caesar and a later edict by Emperor Constantine at Council of Nicea in 325 AD.  When we look at our calendar right now and the trials we are facing internationally as humanity we can see that God is doing the same thing today as was done years before.

Every year before Nisan there is always a war for destiny. There is always a spiritual war in people’s lives and a time of great turmoil in the earth and the hearts of men, as God calls us to repent and remember He is God. God is sovereign over the earth and calendar and wants repentance from His people at this time. He always calls for us to take a look at our hearts this time of year before we celebrate Resurrection Sunday on April 12.

Every year God says I am going to promote you and bring you into a new promise for the year. A new time of positional increase and promotion. God’s voice does not change even though we are faced with a crisis such as the coronavirus. We need to still see the truth in God’s word and His calendar at this time. There is a war in many areas of our lives, the breakdown of our biology, psychology, sociology and economy is only one aspect. If this worldwide turmoil of the coronavirus was not going on, still everyone would be in a spiritual war right now for one reason or another, personally, professionally, it does not matter, it would have come because promotion cannot come without it. It is true on the calendar every year as we enter our promise land in Christ by faith always at Passover and the celebration of Resurrection Sunday, there will be enemy warfare before the promise comes. The resurrection is our promise for today and for eternity. This was true for Jesus when He was taken away to the cross and suffered at the hands of men was crucified, died, buried and then on the 3^rd day resurrected. There was a war with Satan that Jesus paid the price to bring us into freedom from captivity. How do we think it will be different for us?

We must get our heads in the right place and maintain our position in Christ seated with Him in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6). Regardless of the fear and turmoil we must press ahead as the Hebrew calendar says we will be celebrating our promotion time in the spirit realm. This is a gift from God Himself that we died with Christ, buried with Him and resurrected in Him (Romans 6) Therefore begin to wash in that truth as you face your trial. I realize people are losing jobs, loved ones are sick, we are fighting for our lives, but the Israelites were doing this too during the time of Exodus. They did not know whether or not they would survive what God was asking them to which was to trust Him in the plagues and leave Egypt and then be faced with the Red Sea ahead and a miraculous crossing over. Yet, they did it. God covered them, protected them and took them through it and it was all to promote them and reveal the goodness of God.

No matter the pain in your life right now be it a lost loved one, lost job, lost income, overwhelming fear, anxiety, worry, depression or sickness, or any other calamity. Remember Jesus is our Messiah and He came that we might be resurrected in Him and live with freedom in our hearts and minds. Give Him honor and glory as you go through the warfare for your promotion. You are ultimately fighting the enemy to get you to the other side. Anytime there is a promotion there must be a war. You must pass through something so you get to where God has called you.  This will be over soon as I believe that Passover is a crossing over point and we will see the transfer of wealth and the promise come to pass.

In Ephesians 5: 15-17 (NIV) the word says, “Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish but understand what the Lord’s will is.” The word opportunity in this passage is the Greek word kairos. This is our kairos moment our season and appointed time to stand in faith and see the deliverance of the Lord for our destiny. In the Ephesians 5:16 (KJV) the word says, “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” This word time is the same word kairos.  Jesus is redeeming our time lost or the opportunities that have been canceled or shut down due to this coronavirus, as He paid the ransom for our kairos moment, we must stand and remember Him and we will see the deliverance of the Lord.

So how do we handle things if we are fighting an invisible enemy that slows us down in progress and movement?

One thing we can do while we wait is to sow. In Genesis 26:12, we read of Isaac who sowed in the famine and in the same year received a 100-fold blessing. The word in Genesis 26:18, also says he dug the wells of deep from Abraham that were blocked up by the enemy and reopened them.  Let us do the same. Let us begin to sow and dig deep wells of faith and relationship with God through repentance and seeking Him in reflection as we approach Resurrection Sunday and watch Him be who He is on His calendar which is the God of healing, Jehovah Rophe, and God our provider, Jehovah Jireh. God is giving fresh creative ideas from heaven, grab a hold of them and run with them during this slow time. Get yourself strong in faith for the new that is coming so you will be ready to run the race once this global slow-down is over.

Hebrews 10:19-23 (NIV) says, “Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,  by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,  and since we have a great priest over the house of God,  let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”

By faith, respond with an action to sow and dig during this season and watch God by faith redeem us as this is Hiskairos moment and our kairos moment in Him, the appointed season on the calendar to expect warfare before the promotion. The righteous ones live by faith and they do not shrink back (Hebrews 10:38). We the people of His kingdom will not shrink back but press forward until the promises of God come to pass.