Sermon – new year message

I’m pressing on the upward way,
New heights I’m gaining every day;
Still praying as I onward bound,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”

Chorus:
Lord, lift me up, and let me stand
By faith on Canaan’s tableland;
A higher plane than I have found,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.

My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where these abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.

I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.

I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till rest I’ve found,
“Lord, lead me on to higher ground”

Let me give you the vision of what the ideal 2021 will be so that it will be the picture of what to expect no matter what the enemy tries.

Deuteronomy 11:10-16

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

Deuteronomy 14:1,2

Definition of “Sevenfold”

The word “sevenfold” carries the number 7. The number 7 appears very frequently in the Bible and the word “sevenfold” appears 6 times in the Bible.

The word “sevenfold” like the number 7 represents FULL, COMPLETE, PERFECT.

So when the Bible talks about “sevenfold payback”, it is referring to a FULL, COMPLETE AND PERFECT PAYBACK/COMPENSATION.

Joel 2:25

All the years…..up to 7 years back……God says He will give to us the last 7 years misses, near-successes, disappointments, losses, demotions, health challenges, failures, financial challenges and debts etc…..as 7-fold recoveries and restoration.

How did He point this out to me?

Proverbs 6:30, 31

There are many things that are stolen from us as believers in Jesus Christ, many times without us even knowing it. The Bible tells us that the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy but Jesus has come that we might receive life and more abundantly (John 10:10).

Sometimes the thief comes to steal our joy, peace, health, finances, relationships and so forth. Sometimes, you may have dreams of losing things and it manifests in the natural realm. The question then is, how do we get those things back?

It is by DEMAND and DECREES.

Thou shall DECREE a thing and IT SHALL be established – Job 22:28

Year 2020 stole from us.

Stole our freedom, stole lives, stole blessings, stole jobs, stole peace, stole marriages, stole businesses and careers, academics, stole cars and houses…..all that ought to come to us in 2020 but which were denied us were stolen by 2020,

So, 2020 is a thief that was caught and it must repay 7-fold to each of us what it has stolen.

Begin to demand now from 2020 what it stole.

7-fold recoveries and restoration of freedom, lives, blessings, jobs, peace, marriages, businesses and careers,
academics, cars and houses etc…

Let us look at another wonderful scripture that promises  us 7-fold restoration.

Psalm 79: 12…. Return sevenfold into the laps of our neighbours the taunts which they have taunted you O God.

Lets look at the message translation.

May I show you more scriptures that you all will use to ride upon the year 2021 in bliss and in pageantry for seven-fold restoration?

Genesis 4:15 – no matter your misconducts as a child of God, your Cain is not in the hands of your enemies. Whoever tries it will receive seven-fold punishment from God.

Decree for Seven-Fold Restoration

“Heavenly Father, show me where the thief has tried to rob from my life. Right now I pray blessing, love, well-being, protection, and provision upon every person that has hurt me. I choose to walk in love. I speak blessing over them and forgive them, in Jesus name. I release them into Your hands. I command everything that the thief has taken to be restored in Jesus name.  I command the thief to repay seven times what he stole. In Jesus name, I command every fine to be paid and I empty the storehouse of the thief! I command the thief to restore seven times everything that he has ever taken from me, in Jesus name. Amen.”

As I round up listen to this:

Passivity regarding the promises of the Word of God will leave God’s intended blessing resting upon the pages of the Bible and will cause us to move into the place of self-preservation, trying desperately to do our best in life to just get by. And unfortunately, the result of this on-going passivity will generally cause one to go from crisis to crisis, never quite understanding why, and with the victory always just beyond our grasp.

But those who come to the realization that the promises are genuine and pertinent for us today, will wrap their arms of faith around them and pull them off of the pages of the Bible, refusing to let them go, until all things become just as the Word declares them to be. They refuse to take the devil’s “these are not for you” as an answer, and adopt an “I will not be denied” attitude. They are convinced that if they see it written within the Word of God, then those promises belong to them! I call this tenacious and aggressive stand of determination – bulldog faith.

These are the people I see over and over getting results

May God give us great results in 2021 and beyond.