WORD OF THE LORD FOR 2012.

17 January 2012

What is in store for us in 2012?  HARVEST!

12 represents FOUNDATION 1Cor 3-11says there is only one foundation and that is Jesus Christ.  When Peter received the revelation of who Jesus was, Jesus announced that upon this rock of revelation He would build the church.  Eph 2-20 has been given for us to copy.  Isaiah 58-12 is a rhema scripture for us today, this generation has been called to rebuild, raise up, repair and restore everything that’s needed to advance His kingdom this year.

12 represents HIS DIVINE ORDER. We see His divine order from the very beginning in creation, He has an order for everything.  He gave Moses a pattern or divine order for the tabernacle.  Also with David, on how to bring the Ark of God up to Jerusalem (1 Chron 15-13), there was even divine order on how the 12 tribes were to be positioned.  Solomon’s temple that God gave David the blueprints or divine order for, had a very detailed divine order.  Noah had to build the ark to the exact measurements according to the Lord’s divine order.  The church has divine order and He is very clear on how it’s built (Eph 2-20).  Our life must come into alignment with His divine order.  God first, then family, then job, then ministry. 2012 is a year to seek His divine order for our life, church, community, career, family, prayer life, etc.

12 represents GATE WAYS (doorways, entry points) we need to possess them and protect them, battles are always won or lost at the city gates.  This year take your position, man your battle stations, rise to a new level of authority don’t give the enemy any ground or let him in any door/gate.  12 speaks of AUTHORITY Luke 10-19 Jesus said He gave us authority and power over all the enemy, this year rise up in it and show the enemy God’s authority and power in you.

12 represents APOSTOLIC CALLING. This year we must know and move in His apostolic anointing, it’s time for us to walk in His divine timetable and not ours.  As the sons of Issachar knew stuff so must we and start moving in the signs, wonders and miracles, forcefully advancing and see the kingdoms of this world turn into the kingdoms of our Lord.

12 speaks of UNITY. Last week I was in Tsak Valley in the middle of the Papua New Guinea Highlands to dedicate and open a church for our friends and fellow C.I. Apostles Dian and Solita Warep. There were over 3000 people united together from all parts of the nation who were so hungry and thirsty for the present truth, they were like minded and like spirit and when they worshipped God it was with one voice, when we did warfare it was with one voice, everything that was done was done with one voice.  While I was up there I heard some new sounds that I’ve never heard before, they may have been singing, speaking and decreeing in another language but I heard something in the Spirit that totally blew me away.  God says where the brethren dwell in unity He commands a blessing.  Bishop Bill Hamon after coming from PNG in August said this nation had the potential to be the first ‘kingdom of God’ nation in the earth and after what I witnessed there I would totally agree.

12 represents GOVERNMENT. Isaiah 9-6,7 The government is upon His shoulders and it’s increasing towards the end not diminishing or even slowing.  This year we must rise to take our position to rule, reign and take dominion as we have been called to do so.  This year will have new responsibilities we will have to shoulder.  As a king makes a law/decree then they let it be known, so to our Lord and King has made laws and statutes and we are now ready to decree them, speak them, and declare them out.  Pray for our government that His will be done.

12 represents A NATION (12 tribes) Isaiah 66-8.  Can a nation be born in a day? Yes we’ve seen that happen with the nation of Israel!  I believe God is saying just as that happened in the natural there will be nations born again in the spirit this year.  Very interesting this year 59 nations will be holding elections, that’s a third of the world’s nations and will affect around 53 percent of the world’s population which represents over 50 percent of the world’s GDP.  Is this coincidence or is it God doing a shift in the nations of the earth getting ready to do His business?   Church, let’s look at the kairos time we’re in and not the cronos and get ready to be positioned in a new place this year.  Pray for our nation that His will be done especially with our elections coming up this year.

12 also talks of PERMANENCY and BELONGING.

This will be a year of going to NEW PLACES, places we’ve never been to before in the natural and in the spiritual.  2012 is going to be a great year, pack your bags let’s go.

Get ready for your HARVEST!

Joshua 1:11 (NKJV) "Pass through the camp and command the people, saying, 'prepare provisions for yourselves, for within three days you will cross over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.'"

In 2012 there's going to be some ‘changes in the camp’.

Can you imagine what they would have felt and how excited they would have been?  All that everyone's been talking about for over 400 yrs is about to happen within 3 days.  For 10 generations they've been waiting for what great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa was talking about.  I decree today that in 2012 you will cross over into God’s promises that He has for you to possess. 3 represents divine completion, harmony, perfection, godhead, 3rd reformation (Jesus, Martin Luther and now this present time), Jesus rose on the 3rd day, 3 talks of resurrection (to your dreams, your life, your vision and your purpose).

Joshua 1:14-15. And it came to pass, when the people MOVED OUT FROM THEIR TENTS, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;

Notice it only came to pass for them because they got out of their tents. For us to enter what God has for us this year we must step out of our comfort zone, we must break out of the old mindsets, we can’t be restricted anymore because we’ve now outgrown the place where we’ve lived.  This year is a year of forcefully advancing the Kingdom, a year of increase, a year of growth, a year of expansion, a year of new houses, lands and buildings.

 

15. And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overflowed all its banks all the time of HARVEST,).

Just before the harvest God sends the rain.  3yrs ago Queensland had drought breaking rain, we've seen deserts in the middle of Australia come to life, we've seen the five floodgates opened in our major dam Wivenhoe, and last year the Brisbane River flooded.  God sends the rain just before the harvest. C'mon!!!!!

When did God get his people to cross the Jordan?  At harvest time!!!  How awesome is our God.  The bible says there will be times we reap from what we've sowed and there will be times we reap from what others have sowed.

We were recently given a holiday in Melbourne by good friends of ours where we could stay at their house in Toorak while they were away for their holidays.  This suburb is in a very elite upper class area and the last place I would look for fruit trees, but this house had many and they were fully laden, so much so the branches were straining, bowed down with the amount of fruit.  I believe this is a sign for us this year that our harvest will be an abundant yield and also we ourselves will be abundantly fruitful for the Lord.  So I picked the fruit straight from the tree and let me tell you they were the best tasting nectarines and apricots I've ever tasted.  The Lord said that this is our SEASON OF HARVEST but He also showed me if it's NOT harvested it will either rot on the tree, or drop onto the ground uneaten, or the birds and possums will come and eat them.  If we don’t know what season we’re in then we’ll miss our harvest.  What a waste of time, money, effort and fruit just because we didn’t know God’s time and season.

 

When we were in America in November last year the harvest in the region we were in was more than the previous years so all we saw were new silos everywhere.  We must build new silos, new storehouses and collect as many jars and dig as many ditches as we can for the harvest is abundant.  God is letting us know and preparing us through the mouths of the prophets.  Amos 3-7.  Listen, abundance makes a sound.  Elijah heard that sound, it was the sound of abundance.  He heard it before it was released in the natural.  There is an urgency today to hear Gods voice.

Luke 9-35 "This is my beloved son, HEAR HIM." This is God’s command for us today that we HEAR HIM!  He’s preparing us and getting us ready for what’s ahead.  There was an urgency that came from Elijah when he told his servant to go and warn Ahab because once you see it in the natural it’s going to be too late, you’ve missed your opportunity.  If you will allow God to position you this year you will be at the right place at the right time.  As I’m writing this it’s pouring rain outside, the forecasters have said there will be localized flooding today.

Thank you Lord for your SIGNS to us this year.

 

RAIN PRECEDES THE HARVEST.

In Deuteronomy 11:10-14 the Lord says “the land you are about to possess is nothing like what you’ve come from”.  The word ‘possess’ means to drive out, to cast out, church it’s time to take by force what the Lord has promised to us by driving out whatever and whoever is on our property.  This year were coming out of a place of bondage into a place of freedom, from a place where we had nothing and owned nothing to a place that’s our own, a land that’s our own.  We now have ownership, it’s all ours.  What we’re coming into is more than we could think or imagine, He says “it’s not like your little veggie patch you used to weed back in Egypt, I have a place for you that will exceed your wildest dreams.  It’s a land that has many hills and valleys and this place drinks the pure rain water from heaven, it’s your promised land”.  The Lord says He PERSONALLY takes care of it and His eyes are continually on it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

 

Make 2012 a year in which we earnestly obey His commands, to love and serve Him with ALL our heart and soul.  If we can do this our God says He will personally take care of us and give us an abundance of rain and it will be sign to us before OUR harvest.  And the harvest will be in many areas; souls, breakthroughs, destiny, right relationships, favour, dreams, multiple streams of income, your fruitfulness, etc.

 

YOUR FIELDS ARE READY FOR HARVESTING NOW.

John 4:35-38 (AMP)

35. Do you not say, It is still four months until harvest time comes? Look! I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields and see how they are already white for harvesting.

36.  Already the reaper is getting his wages he who does the cutting now has his reward, for he is gathering fruit (crop) unto life eternal, so that he who does the planting and he who does the reaping may rejoice together.

37.  For in this the saying holds true, One sows and another reaps.

38.  I sent you to reap a crop for which you have not toiled. Other men have labored and you have stepped in to reap the results of their work.

Wow that's different to what's been going on previously because it's usually been the other way round others have got what we've toiled hard for.

Where are the workers? Harvest is the busiest time of the year its hard work, we have a relatively short time frame to reap our harvest then it's finished till the next season. In the natural its 2-3 weeks tops but not this year, because in 2012 we are going to have an unusually long extended SEASON OF HARVEST.

Amos 9:13 (NIV)

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills,

We’re still going to be harvesting when it’s time to plow and plant for next season! God is speaking of restoration in these last days (in 2012) that is going to blow our minds, there will be unusual out of season signs, wonders, and miracles. Our harvest this year is going to be huge!

 

RESTORATION BEGINS WITH RAIN.

Joel 2:23-26 (NKJV)

23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you- The former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

24 The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.        THAT’S YOUR HARVEST!!!

25 " So I will restore to you THE YEARS that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

26 You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and My people shall never be put to shame.

 

While I was in PNG Apostle Dian was telling me of the above average rainfall they’ve had and the forecast was for more heavy out of season rain which really excited me because the Lord is bringing restoration to this great nation.

 

GOD IS POURING OUT HIS SPIRIT.

Just as in Acts 2:14-21 God is POURING out His Spirit it’s not a drip or a trickle He is pouring it out upon us this year. In 2010 Julie and I were impressed by the Spirit to pray in tongues nonstop for two hours then into 2011 He told us to do it for twenty four hours now in 2012 I believe many others are going to get a witness in the Spirit to do their twenty four hours to see a shift come, to see realignment, to have prayers quickened by the Spirit and to be edified in this year. I believe as you do this you will get a strategy a divine order on how to do it, as we did 12 hours each, one hour on and one hour off that’s 2 x 12 which is a doubly strong foundation and unity.  God is releasing new weapons of warfare for the battles we are facing today, this year.

 

We are living in exciting times where God is strategically positioning individual Christians like never before into the Ministry realm, the Marketplace realm and the Government realm to unite as a powerful team. The 21st Century will be one of the most important chapters in the history of the church and the South Pacific region will play a vital part in influencing the world. Lets move forward together in serving the most amazing cause on Planet Earth.

Greg and Julie Bailey
Directors of CIANZ