Many times, God will speak to a pastor about the new year, letting them know what to expect and what He wants them to emphasize for that year. God tells us what to say, for it shows us what He is OFFERING us in the new year, then as we put those words in our mouth, He can bring it to pass, for what God says calls for our faith if it is to come to pass.
At our staff Christmas party, the anointing of God fell on me and God said to me, “2020 will be your best year yet!”
God gives a congregation something to say and believe for about the new year so that they will move forward in UNITY, for unity is imperative for God’s best to flow.
God said to me that 2020 will be our best year yet!
There have been many wonderful things that God has done for us in years past, and we are grateful for it all, but God always has more, and He always has something better. We never reach the end of all of God’s best – there’s always more!
God has so much for us that as we read the New Testament, it would seem as though the men who wrote it had difficulty finding words that fully and adequately express what our boundless resources are in Christ.
When the Word speaks of what belongs to us in Christ, what God has provided for us, and the greatness that awaits us, we can notice in the Bible the many “UN’s.” The Bible authors used words like: unsearchable, unspeakable, unfathomable, untraceable, undiscoverable.
Why do they use such words? Because human words cannot very easily express how rich we are in Christ.
An astronaut said that when they are so far above the earth, they can hardly describe it in words we are used to because the view is so different than what we are used to seeing – it’s so much higher and so much above the daily view.
Let’s look at Romans 11:33. “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how UNSEARCHABLE are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” The Amplified translation reads, “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How UNFATHOMABLE (inscrutable, unsearchable) are His judgments (His decisions)! And how UNTRACEABLE (mysterious, UNDISCOVERABLE) are His ways (His methods, His paths)!”
There’s always more to God and how He moves and works. We have never seen all of His ways. We will never reach the end of His genius and ability. No matter all that we find and learn in our search, there’s always more to search out – we will never reach the end of our search with Him. And just think – that Greater One is in us!
Let’s look at Ephesians 3:8 that reads, “...the UNSEARCHABLE riches of Christ.” The Amplified says, “...the unending (boundless, fathomless, incalculable, and exhaustless) riches of Christ [wealth which no human being could have searched out].”
We will never reach the end of what has been made available to us in Christ – there’s always more! We must never think we have arrived or that we have it all – we must never settle or quit reaching.
Second Corinthians 9:15 reads, “Thanks be unto God for his UNSPEAKABLE gift.” The Amplified translation says, “Now thanks be to God for His Gift, [precious] beyond telling [His indescribable, inexpressible, free Gift]!”
“Unspeakable” means not being able to express with words.
Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 12:2-4, “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard UNSPEAKABLE words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.” The Amplified version of verse 4 reads, “Was caught up into paradise, and he heard utterances beyond the power of man to put into words, which man is not permitted to utter.”
First Peter 1:8 says, “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy UNSPEAKABLE and full of glory.” The Amplified says, “...you believe in Him and exult and thrill with inexpressible and glorious (triumphant, heavenly) joy.”
Although that which belongs to us in Christ may be difficult to express, it doesn’t have to be difficult to receive. His riches are ours – they are available for those who will cash the check. Nothing limits the supply from God except our capacity to take it.
Although this will be our best year yet, the best won’t end with this year – there will always be more.
With all the great things God has in store for us this year and in the coming years, the best is yet to be – for after our years on the earth, Heaven holds more of God’s greatness for us. First Corinthians 2:9-12 in the Amplified translation tells us, “...as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]. Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man’s scrutiny]. For what person perceives (knows and understands) what passes through a man’s thoughts except the man’s own spirit within him? Just so no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit [that belongs to] the world, but the [Holy] Spirit Who is from God, [given to us] that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the gifts [of divine favor and blessing so freely and lavishly] bestowed on us by God.”
The only way we can come to know what God has made ours is by the Holy Spirit – He is the One who reveals it to us.
There’s always more for us, so let’s declare it often – 2020 will be our best year yet!
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