Here’s To Your Growth In 2014

May the Lord make the coming year, the people, circumstances and time of it, a fertile ground for your purpose and destiny to grow in.  May you grow beyond all the bounds of what you have been told you would never be and never accomplish.  May you outgrow the small view and reputation that family, acquaintances and culture have believed they had every right to keep you in.  May you sprout out on every branch and may every bloom become valuable fruit.  May you labor under and rejoice and revel in awesome, excruciating growing pains that bring you to the height of your Lord’s expectations for you in this year.  No more withering, no more stunted growth but God-enabled enlargement, production, extension, multiplication and proliferation be unto you for the glory and the Name’s sake of our LORD JESUS CHRIST and His fame in the earth.

And. . . may you declare each point of this declaration until it is a part of you and the doubts in you are crushed beneath the weight of these God-inducing possibilities. 

* * * “God sent me to announce the year of his grace—a celebration of God’s destruction of our enemies—and to comfort all who mourn,  To care for the needs of all who mourn in Zion, give them bouquets of roses instead of ashes,  Messages of joy instead of news of doom, a praising heart instead of a languid spirit.  RENAME THEM ‘OAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS‘ PLANTED BY GOD TO DISPLAY HIS GLORY.” (Isa.61:2-3, Msg)