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Topic: Jane Hamon: Year of Beauty From Ashes
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Julie Gilbert
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...the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for
you because the Lord your God loves you. Deuteronomy
23:5-6
Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a
sudden good break can turn life around. Proverbs 13:12
(MSG)
A Turn Around Year!
As I fasted and prayed the first week of the year, I
really felt the Lord say, "This will be a turn-around
year for My people. Breakthroughs, miracles, advancement,
prosperity, opportunities, will all come into fruition as
people shake off the difficulties and discouragement of
the past years and arise in faith to see the promises of
God come alive even in the midst of an adverse spiritual
climate in the earth. I am turning that which has been
sent against you for evil to begin to work for your
good."
There is no doubt that the last several years have been
times of great challenge for individuals, for the Church,
and for nations – especially America. We are living in
times of great shaking, which will produce great
reformation for the Kingdom of God. I have often reminded
our congregation that there is no victory without a
battle, and that in order to be an overcomer one must
first have something to overcome.
This will be a year of tremendous turn-around for those
who are aligning themselves to the purposes of God and
who are obeying His voice.
It is a year where God will give us beauty for our ashes,
the oil of joy for our grief and mourning, and the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness (see Isaiah
61:3).
This will be a time when those spiritual forces and
circumstances, which have tried to rise against us to
bring us under a curse, will instead be turned to a
blessing for us.
I call Heaven and earth as witnesses today against you,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your
descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your
God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling
to Him, for He is your life and the length of your
days... Deuteronomy 30:19-20
Vision of the Piñata
On the last Sunday of 2012, during a worship service at
Vision Church, I saw a vision of a heavenly piñata being
broken open and spilling out the blessings from on high.
Having attended our grandsons' birthday parties a few
weeks earlier where a piñata was broken open, I
understood the significance of what I was seeing.
At a party, a piñata is suspended on a string and pulled
up and down while a blindfolded guest takes a stick of
some sort and tries to hit it hard enough to break it
open. The person operating the string will often pull the
piñata up and down to avoid it being hit. Eventually,
several partygoers, though blindfolded, connect enough
times and the piñata bursts open, spilling candy and
small toys on the ground, precipitating a scramble of the
children to gather up the spoils.
I felt the Lord say this: "The enemy has tried his best
to discourage My people by constantly pulling blessings
from within their reach, making them feel their warfare
and spiritual disciplines are futile to obtain the
promised blessings. But," the Lord says, "I am taking the
blindfolds off My people in this next season and they
will hit the mark and release the blessings from Heaven.
I have put weapons in their hands that will break things
open: praise, prayer, obedience, decreeing My Word...all
these things that will cause that which has seemed out of
reach to now rain down in abundance upon My people. This
will be a time of gathering up the spoils for those who
are positioned. These are spoils of miracles and
blessings as well as an outpouring unlike earth has ever
seen before."
I believe this year will be a year of outpouring and
blessings as God's Word acts like a hammer that breaks
the rock into pieces (see Jeremiah 23:29).
This will be a year of great contrast and distinction
between the righteous and unrighteous. We are certainly
living in times when we are seeing this contrast played
out all around us in the earth. We are in a time when
darkness will get much darker, and light will get
brighter in contrast. We will see more instability
governmentally, economically, and socially, but at the
same time we will see the people of God arise in great
glory, strength, wisdom, and power. I really felt God say
things will get worse in this nation and in the nations,
but that He certainly isn't done contending over America
and neither should we be.
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of
the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall
cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the
Lord will arise upon you and His glory will be seen upon
you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to
the brightness of your rising. Isaiah 60:1-3
1. Turning Robbery Into Recovery
The first mention of the number thirteen in Scripture
speaks of a rebellion which occurred. In Genesis 14:4, we
are told in the 13th year of the reign of Chedorlaomer,
an idolatrous pagan king who was oppressing the people of
the region, the kings under his wicked rulership said,
"Enough is enough." They rose up against Chedorlaomer,
but because of his superior military strength he crushed
their rebellion, emptying their lands of the spoils of
war, punishing them for trying to be free. One taken
captive was Abraham's nephew Lot and his house. Abraham
mobilized 318 trained, skilled men of his household and
this small band of mighty men overthrew the empire of
Chedorlaomer and took back all that was stolen, and then
some!
The enemy has tried to bring people into captivity, and
often in the process of appropriating our freedom that
Jesus gave His life for, we find the enemy rising up
against us with even greater power than before, trying to
keep us captive. This is a year for us to rise up as
mighty men, to break out of the oppression and captivity
of the enemy, declare "enough is enough," and to take
back all that has been stolen in this last season.
In the fall of 2012, I saw a vision of a boxing ring with
two evil opponents dancing around looking for someone to
contend with. One was named The Destroyer, the other was
named The Devourer. But no one was opposing them. Then I
understood why. I saw on the back of each of their robes
the words "This Is Just Life." People believed that all
the robbery and difficulty they were encountering was
"just life" rather than fighting to take back what was
being stolen. It might be wise to inventory what the
enemy has robbed from each of us in this past season,
then contend and demand a double payment in return.
Exodus 22:7 says a thief, when he is caught, must pay
back double. It's time to contend!
2. Turning Barrenness Into Blossoming
As I set my heart to hear what God is saying to His
Church as we began the year of 2013, I had several
visions which all had a theme of dry, desolate, desperate
situations turning around. I saw a desert that was hot
and dry begin to receive great amounts of rain from
heaven. As the dry ground received the rain, seeds which
had been lying dormant for years suddenly began to spring
forth and bloom. Where there was previously no point in
sowing in that desolate land, the rain transformed it to
become a place of great fruitfulness and blessing. This
brought to mind Isaiah 35, which speaks of the desert
blossoming, the dry land becoming a pool and springs of
water, blind eyes being opened, deaf ears being
unstopped, the lame walking, and the redeemed of the Lord
singing and rejoicing
at the transformation taking place all around them. What
caused this turn-around? The outpouring of rain from
Heaven!
In 1910, in the Pentecostal outpouring at Azusa Street,
William Seymour prophesied that in 100 years there would
be a release of God's Shekinah Glory that would be more
powerful and farther reaching than what occurred at Azusa
Street. In 1913, in the Stone Church Revival in Chicago,
Maria Woodworth-Etter echoed this prophetic word when she
declared, "We are not yet up to the fullness of the
Former Rain and that when the Latter Rain comes, it will
far exceed anything we have seen!" It is now that time,
and these dormant prophetic promises are coming alive to
produce unprecedented harvest for the Kingdom of God.
The Word dormant means that which has been asleep or
inactive. God wants to bring an awakening to His Church
as never before! He also wants to awaken gifts and
callings within each of us that have been lying dormant.
He is waking up prophetic promises which have thus far
been inactive. It is a year to see things blossom and
come to pass. It is a year of fulfilled promises!
Genesis 17 tells us of the circumcision of Ishmael at the
age of 13. But there is a far greater story here that
speaks of a time of fulfillment of promise. When Ishmael
was born, Abraham was 86 years old. At age 99, God came
to Abraham again, 13 years later, to let him know that
Ishmael was not the fulfillment of the promise. But even
though Abraham was willing to settle for a substitute
fulfillment, the God of covenant would fulfill His Word
His Way. This was the time God revealed Himself as the
God of Covenant to Abraham and instituted the sign of the
covenant, which was circumcision. That was the year God
supernaturally broke the spirit of barrenness off Sarah's
womb, and Isaac (laughter) came forth a year later when
Abraham was 100 years old.
Joseph received promises from God in two dreams. As
powerful as this revelation was, Joseph spent the next 13
years living the exact opposite of what he had been
promised...betrayal, slavery, false accusation,
abandonment, imprisonment... But because Joseph
positioned his heart to believe God and to continue to
stand on His promises, after 13 years of seeming failure,
God used every bit of suffering he endured to catapult
him into fulfillment.
This is a time when God is honoring prophetic promises He
has made to us, which we may not even be contending for
anymore. Either we have forgotten these precious promises
or, perhaps, we had a form of fulfillment that was less
than what God intended and we have settled for less than
the best. God wants to fulfill His whole promise to us
and break the spirit of barrenness off our lives so we
can produce all God has called us to walk in.
3. A Year To Turn Frustration Into Finishing
The Church is currently in a season of contending against
the Prince of Persia. This was the ruling spirit in place
during the return from exile from Babylonian captivity
(see Daniel 10). It was also the spirit in place over the
land of Israel during the
reformation/restoration/rebuilding of all that had been
destroyed during those 70 years away. It was a spirit
that brought hindrance, delay, and frustration in the
midst of the reformation period. The Books of Ezra,
Nehemiah, Esther, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi and Daniel
were written during this civil government rule. Ezra
deals with the rebuilding of the temple (the Church),
while Nehemiah deals with the rebuilding of the city.
When you study the Book of Ezra, you see the process of
what happens after Cyrus comes into power. He released a
decree which freed the captives, released wealth and
weapons, and authorized the Jews to return and build. But
I also clearly saw that two other kings came along to try
to undo all Cyrus accomplished. This threw the rebuilding
into 16 years of delay. These two kings actually wrote
counter-decrees that negated the decrees of Cyrus. The
first king was Ahasuerus, whose name means "I will keep
you poor and silent," and the second was Artaxerxes,
whose name means "Restrainer and Maintainer." Both of
these forces have been at work to hinder the reformation
momentum and keep people self-focused and discouraged.
Ezra 4:4-5 says, "Then the people of the land tried to
discourage the people of Judah. They troubled them in
building, and hired counselors against them to frustrate
their purpose all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even
until the reign of Darius king of Persia."
What broke the spirit of delay and hindrance? What bound
the Prince of Persia from withholding resources? The
prophets began to prophesy! When they did, the people
were mobilized, they shook off the discouragement of the
last season, and the power of Cyrus's decree trumpeted
what the other decrees proclaimed. We must understand
that when God issues a decree, the enemy always issues a
counter-decree to hinder and delay. We must decree what
God has said, then we will see an even greater miracle!
In Ezra, the subsequent kings added strength to Cyrus's
decree. They added greater wealth transfer, greater
authority in the land, and an acceleration of completion.
Ezra 6:14 So the elders of the Jews built, and they
prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet
and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and
finished it, according to the commandment of the God of
Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius,
and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
When the people heard the voice of the prophets and were
mobilized, they went from fatalism and frustration to
finishing!
One other significant example of this finishing anointing
is seen in the fact that it took Solomon 13 long years to
finish his palace. After this point he entered a season
of rapidly building a number of other structures. I
believe this signifies that as we press through to see
certain things finished in this year, it will result in a
shifting of gears into a season of acceleration for God's
reformation process.
4. A Year To Turn Around From Battling To Survive To
Battling To Possess & A Year For Victory Against
Incredible Odds
We all know that Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40
years until an unbelieving generation died off. For 40
years Joshua and Caleb battled to survive. But at an
appointed time they were to come out of a survival,
maintaining mode and shift into battling, possessing, and
advancing.
Joshua was the appointed leader of this possessing
campaign. He led the nation in supernatural victories
against the enemies in Canaan. His victories began by
defeating Jericho by the strategies of the Lord. To do
this he had to actually pick a fight with an enemy that
seemed impossible to overcome. But God gave him
strategies for victory against impossible odds. This
strategy involved marching around Jericho once a day for
six days, then seven times on the seventh day, blowing
the trumpets. On the seventh time around, on the seventh
day, this was actually the 13th time they encompassed the
city. On this 13th time around they blew the trumpets and
shouted and the mighty walls of Jericho fell down flat!
This was the first of many great victories in the
conquest of Canaan. This was completely impossible in the
natural, but when Joshua and the armies of Israel
fulfilled their obedience, God was standing ready to
avenge them of their enemies. Walls of impossibility fell
down flat! This signaled a new era of possessing the
gates of their enemies.
We are now in the same season, but it will require us to
shift out of a survival mentality into a mentality of
overthrowing and possessing. We will see this application
in the spiritual realm first...then we will see it
manifested in overthrowing mindsets, philosophies, world
views and unrighteous systems.
Esther's Revolution
In the Book of Esther, during a season of reformation in
Israel, Esther had been chosen to be queen within the
ruling Persian empire. God positioned her, not just for
personal favor, but for preservation, legislation, and
retaliation against the enemy. In the story, Haman
manipulated the king to sign a decree for the
extermination of the hated Jews. This slaughter was to
take place on the 13th day of the month of Adar. But when
the king heard Esther's plea regarding her people, the
king instructed her to write a new decree in the king's
name and seal it with his signet ring.
So Esther and Mordecai did not just nullify the attack of
the enemy but rather wrote a new decree authorizing the
Jews to rise up and destroy those who would have tried to
destroy them. On that day, Haman's ten sons were killed
and 75,000 that tried to kill the Jews were instead
destroyed themselves. This ushered in a new time of favor
in the land, even under Persian rule. This also marked a
new feast day for the people of God....Purim. This was a
time they celebrated.
...as the days on which the Jews had rest from their
enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy
for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they
should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending
presents to one another and gifts to the poor. Esther
9:22
This year we need to be so filled with faith that the
enemy will be forced to back off his strategies of
destruction, knowing that his curses are being turned
back on his own head. It is a year of turn around and
gaining ground for God's Kingdom sake.
5. A Year To Turn Famine Into Fruitfulness
Interestingly, there are 13 famines mentioned in
Scripture. This will be a year when God will
supernaturally give strategies to His people as to how
they are to respond to famine. We are in a season of
spiritual famine but also a time when many are
experiencing economic famine as well. Abraham and the
widow of Zarephath were both strategically repositioned
during a time of famine without losing out on their
inheritance. The widow of Zarephath and Isaac both sowed
strategic seeds in times of famine that released a
supernatural harvest for their land and their house.
Isaac sowed in the land in the time of famine and reaped
a hundredfold in the same year. The man began to prosper,
he continued prospering until he became very
prosperous...and the Philistines envied him. Genesis
26:12-14
A Year of Double Fruitfulness – The Joseph Factor
Do you realize there were actually 13 tribes in Israel?
There were the original 12 sons of Jacob, one of which
was Joseph who was carried away into Egyptian captivity.
Joseph, whose name means "increase," actually prospered,
and caused Egypt to prosper in the time of famine. During
this time, as the right hand man to the Pharaoh of Egypt,
Joseph married an Egyptian woman and bore two sons while
in Egypt. Egypt is a symbol of the world. These children,
birthed at what was a seemingly inopportune time in
captivity in the world, became his double portion of his
father's inheritance. After being restored to his family,
Jacob adopted Joseph's sons as his own and instead of
giving Joseph his single inheritance, he gave each of his
sons an inheritance, resulting in a double portion for
Joseph.
The first son was Manasseh, whose name means "God has
made me forget all my trouble and all of my father's
household." Ephraim...who would be considered the 13th
born to the lineage of Jacob...his name means "Double
fruitfulness" because Joseph said, "God has caused me to
be fruitful in the land of my affliction." When Jacob was
asked to lay hands on Manasseh and Ephraim, Joseph
positioned his hands so that his right hand of blessing
would rest on Manasseh as the older of the two, but Jacob
crossed his arms over and gave the firstborn blessing,
which is a double portion, to Ephraim.
For 13 years Joseph suffered, but at the end of that time
he was promoted and stepped into the blessings of the
Lord. This is a year to forget your troubles from the
last season and embrace the fact that God can cause you
to be fruitful even in the land of affliction.
It is time for the Double Portion blessing of
fruitfulness on our lives. As we choose the life of God's
Spirit we will see every curse turned to a blessing; and
all that the enemy meant for our evil, God will see to it
that it produces that which is good! Happy 2013!
Jane Hamon
Vision Church @ Christian International
Email: click here
Website: visionchurchci.org
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Julie thank you for posting this. It reminded me of a dream I had where a lady was giving me what looked like a voucher. It was written out to me and it said "beauty for ashes". There's been such a praise in my spirit these past few weeks and I believe wholeheartedly that walls will start coming down as we go forth in praise. A a few years back we sang a song called Walls of Babylon are coming down. Then I didn't have a clear understanding of what we were actually singing but I understand it today. One day I was reminded of when the Israelites were getting ready to go to war and they asked the Lord who should go first and God said send Judah first (Judges 20:18). Why Judah first? Because praise always preceeds victory. When we praise God first victory is sure to follow. We oftentimes get this confused and don't praise God until we see victory but we should be able to go on and praise Him believing we're already victorious. It's time for the radical praisers to come forth.
Psalm 100
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
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you are welcome... Praise arises and God's enemies
scatter.... I have found that making a gratitude list is
awesome therapy for getting me into praise.... writing out
every single thing I am grateful for incites praise to God
when otherwise, I would be wallowing in self-pity and poor
me... there is NO poor us!
We are sons of the Most High God ... we are wired for
victory and praise is what paves the way!!!
Great things are upon us!!
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Hey Julie,
Can I have your email address? Mine is quo23@yahoo.com
Thanks
Quo
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Thanks Jules ,,,YEAH GOD!!! TY JESUS!!! YES & AMEN-receiving every morsel of this good food -WOW! But this table is full of the best/going for double portion-absolutely, you betcha I am,,,i like to sing this one to the devil, "Letting God arise and the enemy is PLUNDERED"! You like??? Gonna munch on this for days! \o/\o/\o/ GLORY TO GOD!!! love you ALL,,, prayin', praisin, givin' thanks, rejoicin'. dancin'
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I likey :) plunder the enemy's camp!!! yes!!!
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