Receive Power
12:00 Wednesday 11 January 2012
And so it’s 2012! What awaits us in the year ahead I wonder?
For me personally 2011 seemed like quite a fight. I didn’t see it coming, and I didn’t do so well on some days, but it feels like God has led me every step of the way, and now I’m standing on the other side. So what do I see? (I hear you ask!)
2012 is a year to Receive Power (sounds like a good name for a conference!). God is going to break out afresh and demonstrate his power in and through hungry people, people who know that there is more, and are willing to press in for it. Stories of revival are dim and distant in the UK, almost out of living memory, and God wants to change that this year. The church has grown tired of the word ‘revival’ because it hasn’t been seen for so long. But that’s exactly the environment to which it has been birthed again and again, and usually it’s the young people who usher it in. The year ahead will see young people catalysed in the things of revival, reminded that there is more and that we can’t settle for what we see today. Tomorrow is brighter, and we’ll see solid evidence of that in 2012, leading into much greater things in the next few years.
I truly believe there is a fresh wind blowing. A corner has been turned. Those who are ready to follow, wherever He calls, will become significant shapers in the UK over the next five years. It’s like God is ready to place His favour on people, and will establish His ways in and through them. It won’t all be easy, but it will be absolutely incredible to watch!
I pray that you will know His presence this year, and that you will be fully prepared to ‘Receive Power’ from God. He is willing, able and ready to pour it out. Are you ready to Receive?