New Year's Day 2011

The following is a list of this year’s 2011 New Years Day experiences.

Increased understanding of existing issues

·         I had a picture of drops of water on an apple.  As I looked through the drops of water everything I was looking at was greatly magnified as though I were looking through a microscope.  I felt the Lord was saying that as his presence touches existing issues and situations in our lives, he would greatly magnify details and bring revelation in such a way that we would gain a fresh and more detailed perspective. 

The practical call through this word is to seek the presence of God that he might come and touch all that we have and the result will be a greater understanding and appreciation for what God is doing.

Seeking new things in God

·         I heard a closed, limited and religious mindset say, “God doesn’t change.”  Then I heard the Holy Spirit say, “We can experience something new in the nature and character of God everyday as he is infinite; our lives and teaching should reflect this.”

The religious mindset was using the idea that God is the same, yesterday, today and forever as a basis for not continuing to learn and grow in the things of God.  This mindset was satisfied with existing teachings and ways of doing things.  When the spirit of God spoke, it was with joy and life that it communicated the reality that our Creator is so infinitely big and good that our lives and teaching should grow and reflect the limitless, fresh and creative nature of an awesome God. 

Pursue and expect to experience God in new, fresh and creative ways this year! 

Reorganization will stop the thief

·         The Holy Spirit reminded me of a dream I had the previous night.  In the dream our church had a large storehouse and would in the future have a much greater one, but we were still working through how best to organize and make available to the members of the church that are not on staff, the existing resources and opportunities to serve.  During the mess and confusion of this process, one of the resources that would take us to new places in the future was not brought under the covering of our storehouse and was thus stolen from our parking lot.  A couple of our more strategic people saw the thief in action and called it to our attention.  I felt the Lord say it is very important to know when a thief is stealing from you.

The reorganization of existing resources and volunteer opportunities was vitally important as current members of the church were increasingly discouraged at not knowing where to access particular resources as well as how to participate in serving in venues that they were passionate about.  

This year we should seek the Lord concerning the reorganization of existing resources and opportunities.  We can also expect the Lord to highlight a particular ministry/resource to be brought under the covering of the church, so that it's not stolen from us.

Fresh Wisdom

·         I heard the Lord say we need fresh wisdom to be people of action whose fruit remains.

Wisdom, the practical application of a matter, is faith in action.  It's the details of walking things out.  What we have done in the past is not sufficient to facilitate the fruit God desires to give us in the future.  Therefore, we need fresh deposits, strategies, ways of doing things so that we might be a people who are not just a people of action, but we are a people of impact whose fruit remains.

This year, take the time to ask, wait for and receive deposits, strategies, fresh ways of doing things so that you might bear fruit that remains in every good work.  God desires to impart to us the details!

World Events

·         Lastly, in a predictive dream, I saw what appeared to be a very unusual bank robbery taking place in which one or more of the robbers were young.  In that dream I also saw a number of other masked men lined up that were going to be robbing places throughout the year. 

I felt the Lord was saying through this dream that we will see something unusual and different in regards to robberies this year.  


Each year I have found that I typically receive one or more, “predictive” type dreams of this sort each year and I have seen the dreams play out in the world in various ways.   I believe the reason why God shares these types of dreams is simply to communicate that nothing catches him by surprise, that he is God, that he is sovereign and that he knows all things.