2016 --- Year of Recompense???
Dear Ones,
Good morning! It's a glorious sunshiny Sunday… January 03, 2016!
How did you spend your New Year’s Eve? What are you envisioning for 2016? Two questions we all think about… one way or
another!
Years ago, I inquired of some very good
friends, “What do you do on New Year’s Eve?”
They gave a quick glance at one another and then quietly spoke, “We don’t
go anywhere. We spend the time in prayer and seeking GOD’s will for the coming
year.”
What a wonderful tradition! I decided then and there, I would do the
same. I cannot think of a better way to
bring in the New Year than with GOD’s blessings! So now, that has become my tradition…spending New Year's Eve at
home seeking the LORD's guidance for the coming New Year!
Reading through my journal entries of past
years, I can see now how GOD has worked in my life through this time I have set
aside for HIM each year. Sometimes GOD has given me a complete sentence to ponder for the future...
but mostly just a word or two, sometimes He has given me a Bible verse location or a partial verse or phrase…meaning
it was up to me to “search it out”! Always, GOD has given me a "word" in due season. It is written :
Matthew 6:33 Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
At the beginning, I was just seeking a
prophetic word for my life and my families.
But, as the years have gone by, I could see that "Word" could
also be applied to the body of Christ as well.
Usually about the time I think of writing Christmas cards, I start
wondering what the “Word” will be for the coming year. The past several years,
God has given me a "Word" before I even began to seek Him concerning
the coming year!
I was lying in bed on December 26, 2015 at
12:59 AM...just thinking about the recent family Christmas...the things of the
past year. It occurred to me, …..I had not even thought about asking GOD for a "Word", nor had He given
me one for the coming year!
It was at that moment I clearly heard the Holy Spirit ask me,
"What did Elisha do?"
When GOD asks me a question, I pay attention because I know He wants
to reveal something to me! I understood
I was to do a search on the life and ministry of Elisha. ... To seek out the
WORD so that I would find the "word for 2016". I think it is
"Healing and Restoration" for my families and also for the body of
Christ, both Jew and Gentile.
However, as I sat down to write in my journal for the first entry of 2016; @ 8:38 AM, Saturday, January 2, 2016....
I found myself writing across the top of the page …. 2016-Year of recompense.
Recompense….what exactly does that mean?
However, as I sat down to write in my journal for the first entry of 2016; @ 8:38 AM, Saturday, January 2, 2016....
I found myself writing across the top of the page …. 2016-Year of recompense.
Recompense….what exactly does that mean?
The first verse that came to mind was…”render
her double for her inequity is great ..
Revelation 18:6 (English Revised Version)
“Render unto her even as she rendered, and double unto her
the double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle unto
her double.”
The second one was a little more comforting:
Ruth 2:12 (King James Version)
The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given
thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
There are more writings/verses on the
"rendering of vengeance than good towards men on earth ... I am thinking
that it will probably be both... Healing and restoration of the body of
Christ...bringing the family of GOD together & also wicked men getting
their reward for the evil they have done ... Each man in their own time...
In the late 1990's, my Bible Study ladies & I sponsored a 3-day seminar on Prophecy at Penalosa. The speakers, "Mike and Kay McQuiddy", were from Colorado Springs, wealthy business people who found Jesus ...following their fall from wealth. Anyway, he spoke of a time soon coming which would truly be, "The best of times and the worst of times at the same time." This was my introduction into eschatology. Mike spoke of a man whom he believed to be a great man of GOD, Henry Gruver. Henry calls this season of time, "the multiplication factor";... Whatever is in a person will be multiplied ... The glorious church doing signs and wonders…. and the great powers of darkness of the evil forces coming together for the time of the end ....known as The Great Tribulation, or as the scripture says... "The time of Jacob's trouble."
The times we live in today are surely the last minutes of the end times spoken of in the Holy Scriptures. Never before have we had the wisdom and technology to understand the prophetic events spoken about in the Bible. We do now understand these events ……as they come to pass before our very eyes in the headlines of the news! Truly we hear the news speak of wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes in many places, sink holes…erratic weather, persecution, beheadings… evil men working their evil deeds without fear of recompense from the people.
In the late 1990's, my Bible Study ladies & I sponsored a 3-day seminar on Prophecy at Penalosa. The speakers, "Mike and Kay McQuiddy", were from Colorado Springs, wealthy business people who found Jesus ...following their fall from wealth. Anyway, he spoke of a time soon coming which would truly be, "The best of times and the worst of times at the same time." This was my introduction into eschatology. Mike spoke of a man whom he believed to be a great man of GOD, Henry Gruver. Henry calls this season of time, "the multiplication factor";... Whatever is in a person will be multiplied ... The glorious church doing signs and wonders…. and the great powers of darkness of the evil forces coming together for the time of the end ....known as The Great Tribulation, or as the scripture says... "The time of Jacob's trouble."
The times we live in today are surely the last minutes of the end times spoken of in the Holy Scriptures. Never before have we had the wisdom and technology to understand the prophetic events spoken about in the Bible. We do now understand these events ……as they come to pass before our very eyes in the headlines of the news! Truly we hear the news speak of wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes in many places, sink holes…erratic weather, persecution, beheadings… evil men working their evil deeds without fear of recompense from the people.
Yet, millions of people world-wide are giving their hearts to Jesus! Some from the Middle East even saying that Jesus appeared to them in a vision! Even more astonishing is this except from the internet:
“More than 25 prominent rabbis from Israel and abroad recently issued a statement calling for a renewed look at Jesus, Christians and the New Testament faith. Quoting from their own sages, these outstanding Orthodox rabbis are not ashamed to exalt the name of Jesus, welcoming the carpenter from Nazareth back into the Jewish fold."..........................."And there is more. “After nearly two millennia of mutual hostility and alienation, we Orthodox Rabbis who lead communities, institutions and seminaries in Israel, the United States and Europe… seek to do the will of our Father in Heaven by accepting the hand offered to us by our Christian brothers and sisters,”
(Above Paragraph is Quoted from a posted internet article from “Israel Today”: Orthodox Rabbis Bring Jesus Home for Christmas - Thursday, December 24, 2015 | David Lazarus)
Yes, it is the time of Joel chapter 2:
Joel 2:28 KingJames
Version (KJV)
28 And it shall come to
pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young
men shall see visions:
We do indeed serve an AWESOME GOD!
May the Blessings of the LORD GOD of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob be upon you and overcome you in 2016!
Peace …Shalom ,
Karen
