2012

This is the season of leadership, of overturning and of new governments. If you get an opportunity to lead, take it! Take the word into your heart, align yourself and you will slip slide into promotions. He is waiting for you. It's not, "when is He going to do something?" It's "when are you going do something?"

This is the season of responsibility. Be the light in the darkness. Don't just overthrow, occupy. Don't just complain, occupy. If you're not willing to occupy then don't complain. If you overthrow it, you own it so you better rule it. Don't just protest, take responsibility.

If you want revival you better be ready to get down and dirty. This is going to be a year of agony in your heart. Agony is the window to your anointing. When you agonize it gives you a glimpse of His heart. It is time for hope. Have hope for all the things you've been agonizing about. In the time when you shouldn't have hope, have hope. He's been working, you don't see it, but He's been working in your life. The enemy will distract you so you don't hope and you'll miss out but He wants partnership. Don't fall into this trap.

This is the time to sleep during the chaos and rest in His presence. This is the time to rest more than ever because you will need an upgrade in your relationship with Him since you will have an upgrade in responsibility.

Pressure is good, it causes us to go deeper into His presence. The government is on His shoulders, not ours. Just obey, when you disobey you are carrying your own burden. The only person who can give you peace is the wonderful counselor. If you don't upgrade your relationship or rest, you'll pop yourself out of your destiny. If you are exhausted physically or spiritually you will quit or you will downscale. This is not a time to shrink back.

There will be opposition. You will face disappointment. This is good because it reveals the true sources of your trust - that you were trusting in someone or something. You can never be disappointed if you trust in Him. Disappointment is an opportunity for humbling, for you to move higher.

What you are overwhelmed by will determine the source of your path. Be overwhelmed by what He has in store for you. Do you just want to watch? Or do you want to be in it? Choose to participate and have assembly in your life. You have to listen to His counsel. Do not negate the word of the cross in your life. Seek wisdom above all earthly treasures. He is ready to drop on you and download the strategies of heaven onto you. The people who are looking for wisdom will catch it.

You were born to lead, to influence; not to follow. This is not a democracy but a theocracy. Give to the season what belongs to the season. Don't fall into the greatest temptation of independence, the temptation to come out of alignment. The season where the greatest temptation to come out of alignment is the season of success. The greater the success, the greater the desire for independence.

We need to be a separate nation, set apart. We need to be an example. Don't be gray. Be the light and people will come to your light.  He wants you to govern yourself. Influence not by force, but by freedom.

I'm excited for 2012. I'm ready to pick up my forgotten, neglected passions and focus on responsibility. I'm excited to see what has been planned ahead of me. This is just the beginning.