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And They Loved Not Their Lives

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As we have witnessed panic and distress during this global pandemic, I posed the question to a group of people on one of my social media platforms, “Shouldn’t we be asking why so many born-again people fear dying?”

There were some interesting comments but one stood out to me from a lady who said she wasn’t afraid of dying, she just didn’t want the enemy to take her out before her appointed time. Here was my response to her legitimate concern:

“I have an assurance that I will not die before my appointed time only because I am abiding in Him and He is abiding in me (John 15:7). The devil has no authority over my life for Jesus has the keys to death, hell and the grave, and I am His. While some say, ‘Well, we’ve all got to die of something’ …referring to sickness, disease or even accidents and persecutions, I have made so many declarations about my graduation to Heaven, I am fully convinced no matter how I depart this earth it will not be prematurely. The enemy holds no power over me and if I am in Jesus, he cannot mandate how or when I depart for Heaven.”

The Spirit of the Lord is moving many of us into a new place of faith, faith that literally usurps the fear of death over the believer and his physical body. This paradigm shift is bringing us into a new level of boldness that will enable many to accept the assignment of martyrdom if that is what is written in our heavenly Story. The Book of Revelation speaks to those who who have not loved their lives even unto death (Revelation 12:11); these are the ones who face the Dragon and overcome him by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.

If we are loving not our lives even unto death, then we are actually in obedience to His Word and therefore not missing our destiny and not really dying prematurely if we are taken during a moment of spiritual upheaval. If we are following Him in word and deed and hearing and obeying His leading, we are truly in His divine will, whether we depart this world under peace or under persecution. Our mandate is to trust Him and obey.

No matter the present condition of the world or the conditions yet to come, be encouraged; God is still on the Throne and He is mighty to save. Remember, he who loses his life for Jesus and the message of the Cross will find it (Matthew 10:39). Our trust is in God’s love for us and we know His love never fails (Psalm 136; 1 Corinthians 13:8).

The just shall live by faith (Hebrews 10:38; Habakkuk 2:4). Be the one who trusts in God.

2020 – “The Year of Release”

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He is High and Lifted up; by His grace we sit in Heavenly places with Him (Ephesians 2:6). He has called us to speak LIFE into the atmosphere. We crush the darkness with our authority using the Word of God as our weapon. We bash the enemy with the sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17) and the word of our testimony (Revelation 12:11). We can do ALL things through Christ who gives us strength (Philippians 4:13) and in the Name of Jesus we have power over ALL the power of the enemy (Luke 10:19).

In 2020 we are going to plow through the assignments of the enemy and set the captives free. We will not be stopped from our mission; we will not be hedged in by darkness; we will not falter in our faith; we will overtake principalities and powers by standing on the Word. We will not be moved from our positions of authority. The Lord is saying, “Release”.

2020 — this is the “Year of Release”. Release from debt, release from bondage, release from fear, release from strongholds, release from witchcraft, release from negativity, release from chains of darkness, release from poverty and lack, release from anything and everything that has tried to stifle your destiny or remove you from your post in the spirit.

Release will come in waves of deliverance, with back to back victories and manifestations of divine power. On the upside, release will come into your gates; there will be releases from Heaven that will fill your treasure boxes in both the spiritual realm and the natural. What looked like a shadow of things to come will now manifest and overflow as release fills your dwellings in the physical and in the natural as well as in the spiritual. There will be a release of liberty, a release of finances, a release of gifting’s; a release of power and divine encounters will be released upon the earth, such as have never been seen before this time. Family members will have divine encounters, judges will be filled with the glory of God and lay people in government will begin to shift legislation to support doctrines of wisdom that edify the plans and purposes of God. More federal judges will be released from their positions in office and new judges with the fire and faith of God will be released to establish order according to God’s plans and purposes.

Releasing the Glory! Releasing the Just! Releasing the Holy! Releasing the Faithful! Releasing the promises that many have been waiting to see fulfilled for many, many years. 2020 is marked to be a jubilee of sorts where divine and powerful release is coming to the earth and especially for those who LOVE and FOLLOW Him. So receive the release, the release from old things that have kept you bound and in a state of stagnation; receive the release of new things that will establish you and set you on a course to the divine. Release your faith, it has to obey you; release your sound; it has to comply; release the Word, it has to manifest the will of God; and be released to shift atmospheres and change the course of the assignment you have been called to fulfill, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Be released!