BOLD BEGINNINGS!
Happy New Year! Welcome to July 2024, the year of "bold beginnings".
In the welcome letter, I mentioned that 2024 started in 2023 which explains why the year may have had a dull undertone to it. Regardless, we are in the part of 2024 where 2024 begins.
This is a call to take a retreat, fellowship and sit with God asking for specific guidance and instructions for the various (quarters, months, weeks, days, hours and seconds) left in 2024. You can read Modus Operandi to help you posture properly to operate from a place a rest.
Isaiah 43:19 is your scripture for this month and word for the second half of the year.
Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
"A new thing".
I strongly know and discern that we are in a season of global shaking, pivots, appointments and announcements. In the coming months we will see God announce believers and watch people rise from nothing to places and positions of power and influences.
The next half of this year will be largely defined by wisdom. Uncommon wisdom! I don't have the words to explain it but it will be so glaring that years from now the impartation of wisdom gotten from 2024 will speak continually in the lives of the recipients. My prayer is that you will receive this impartation.
In my previous letter, I spoke about the price for Wisdom somewhere at the end so you can read it here in-case you missed it.
"There are many foolish people that think they are wise and a few wise people that still think that they are foolish."
If you have never understood the story of the virgins the next three months will explain it to you and by the fourth quarter of this year you will be able to tell if you are among the five wise or five unwise.
I will highlight some of the steps that have been highlighted in my spirit to maximize the season of bold beginnings.
1. Pivot: Since I spoke about pivoting a lot in the first quarter of the year I wanted to avoid this topic but it is coming strongly and to a select few. In the body we can recognize waiting and pruning season but most times we fail to discern a promotion and move. In this season promotions are largely disguised as vomit and discomfort. When you overstay your welcome in the system it pushes you out or vomits you because it no longer has the ability to contain the overflow that you produce. It is scary to be where you have not been before but God has prepared you for what he has prepared for you for discern and prayerfully leap or move!
2. Expand your power circle: I can write an entire letter on this. Those small moments where you have the opportunity to pitch yourself please use them I must also note that this is different from Lobbying or the sales and marketing strategy of lying. Stop networking below your level and intentionally network upwards. They are humans! you are a human! if they can create or achieve all that, so can you! stop telling yourself you are unworthy! Pray and open your mouth to speak God says "I will fill it up!" with the right words, right body language and adequate response even beyond your scope of study, experience, vocabulary, exposure or reasoning.
3. Tell your story: Speak up! Your experiences are not for you but for those you will help. Share your story and be authentic about it. If there is anything that sells stories it is authenticity not copying another person’s brand or trying to be someone else. Forget about the audience and tell your story, the right audience will come. God is using stories to create new beginnings. This reminds me of the story of NAAMAN he had leprosy and was doing the same thing 6 times yet it didn't yield any result but it did at the 7th dip because it was backed by a word (utterance)! So go and dip!
4. Ocuupy: This is the word that came to me. In this context I am reminded of the words of DDK "You can not lead an Industry whose inner workings you do not understand" I like to say "to change a system you need to understand it and sometimes the only way to understand a system is to become a part of it". God is moving people into new terrains to teach them and expose some inner workings I pray that you discern and heed. Daniel was in Babylon for some years before the writing on the wall and before the king needed him. What do you think he was doing before limelight? How do you think he understood government to serve 5 different Governments.
5. Buy Jars: In the previous letter, I spoke about this from a wisdom perspective today I will speak about it from a capacity perspective. Do you remember the story of Elisha and the jar of oils (2 Kings chapter 4)
2 Kings 4:3
3 Then he said, “Go around and get jars from all your neighbors. Get empty jars, many of them. 4 Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour the oil into all these jars, and set aside each one that is full.” 5 So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They took the jars to her, and she poured. 6 When the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another jar.” And he said to her, “There is not one jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing. 7 She came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go and sell the oil and pay what you owe. You and your sons can live on the rest.”
There are two stories of oil and jars, the story of Elijah and that of Elisha. Today I will focus on that of Elisha. Get jars can mean a number of things in this context, have faith, build capacity, pivot, make room, and trust God. From the following verses, we can see a clear series of instructions and if we decide to do a comparative study of the two stories we will see a lot more (hopefully we can do this as a later time). The message here is, to make room for what is coming and the size of room you make will determine the capacity of what you carry and how long it lasts.
A guide for your retreat!
Last year, I attended a conference and as you can imagine, I went hungry for specific things and with a posture to receive. During the conference, I received a word for the third quarter of 2024, so I sat down to journal. As wrote in my journal, I received a word for the four quarters of the year 2024. This formed the design of my vision board. Before the start of every month, I went to talk to God seeking wisdom and insight for the new month. I have seen shege this year but the insights and wisdom I have gotten have made things better. This is why it is easy for me to send you a letter that is timely, precise, instructive and spirit-backed.
The gifts of the spirit are not for a select few and God wants to be thoroughly involved in the remaining days of this year. As you plan, retreat and fellowship, ask for nations, territories and sectors, lay your ambition aside and ask God for his assignment for you. Convert his assignment to your own life's ambition and the results will shock you. It will be a long, fast, short eventful 6 months so put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
There is someone reading this you are trusting God for something and you have been waiting on God for it on your knees. Do you remember Hezekiah's prayer. You need to pray that prayer. You have helped someone in the area that you need help in but you have forgotten so remind God and I know he will show up.
God is giving you speed! He is restoring years that have been lost and stolen and I hear a second chance for a specific set of people. Wisdom to discern and act accordingly is made available In Jesus Name.
"Till the ground because Gold will be found in them". This is a word for someone and I strongly believe that we are in a season where wealth is subtly distributed to believer. For this person God has given you a specific instruction before and when he gave you that instruction he told you the reward will be gold or previous solid minerals. This is a call to return to that specific instruction.
I will end on this note, "Ideologies unite and disunite". Everyone has an agenda. May you have eyes that see and an understanding heart to discern when seemingly non-Christian agendas are pushed in the media to fight against them.
"You can not win people that are not afraid" May fear not be weaponized to make us loose our calling or to make a wrong decision. May the absence of fear in the eyes of our enemies not inspire us to drop the truth and follow false gods.
I pray for you that the peace of God that passes all understanding is given to you. I pray for wisdom from above that is first pure, easy to entreat and comes from God himself. I pray that you become a walking carrier and dispenser of the Glory of God. I pray for strength to do, to act, I pray for an impartation of the doers anointing for anyone finding it difficult to make the right steps. I pray for strength for those embarking big, heavy and seemingly difficult projects. I pray for discernment to identify the right tribe needed to get the work done and I pray for resources. I pray that the glory of God will be seen in the work that you do and his angels will envelop round about you like a cloak.
I pray that the Lord fights for you and gives you victory on every side. I pray for preservation for you and yours. You are kept in the remaining days of 2024, you are kept in the "ember" months, you are kept from shaking’s, natural disasters, wars, rumors of wars and slavery. I pray that you will not knowingly or carelessly sell what is yours.
I pray that you discern a field and buy it. I pray that you discern the heart of the Father and act appropriately. I pray that you do not sell your lands and birthrights. I pray for uncommon boldness to do, act and call out mediocrity without fear and repercussion. I pray for a bridled tongue. I pray for humility as rewards and appointments come. I pray that more of Christ will be seen in us.
I pray that nations, sectors, territories and industry open to you, physically and spiritually you step into them and take what is yours. I pray for Godly homes and the peace of God in homes with troubles. I pray for wisdom to raise Godly children and discern spouses.
I declare order in government institutions!
I declare order in your life!
I declare order in your family!
I declare order in your going out and coming in!
I declare order in Nigeria and Africa!
I declare that in the second half of 2024 the gospel prevails!
I declare that the Lord fights for you and you will hold your peace!
I declare healing and health!
I declare sight for all that require and desire it!
By the end of 2024 we will be able say nothing was lost, nothing was missing, God preserved! Faithful is he who has called us who also will do it!
For anyone seeking clarity may the plans of God to give you a future and a hope rest mighty and greatly in your heart and subconscious.
May the Lord do a new thing and give you a new song to sing this 2024.
Happy New Year!
Stay prayed up and discerning till I write to you next!
D Oracle!