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2022

By j jones
 2022 - Obedience, authority and power. 

 When Jesus returns for His bride, it isn't going to be a rescue mission!  He's coming for a Bride whom He can be joined with - an equal yoking. A healthy, vibrant, righteous bride without spot, wrinkle or blemish. 

The Bride is set apart, just as the Groom is. Holy, powerful, passionate, humble, obedient to the Father, standing in the authority given to her. 
The church here in Wales, is kind, loving and welcoming. But she has allowed compromise to seep in, replacing holiness with conformity, power with achievement,  authority with complacency, obedience with reasoning and persecution with comfort. 
The Holy Spirit is coming to breath new life in to the body of Christ. His holiness has already started stripping away and burning the rags that we've clothed ourselves in. Have you felt it?

2022 is a year of choosing. The Holy Spirit will no longer settle for visiting rights, a ten minute slot on a Sunday. He wants all of His Church and He wants all of you. Your spirit, soul, body, imagination, thoughts and actions. He wants to fill you with the same power that He filled Jesus and the early Church. But first He must empty you. Cross contamination is not an option and neither is lukewarm. God is a jealous God and He will no longer share. 

Will you yield to the Spirit of God this year as He passes with the invitation? Will you eagerly desire the gifts of the Spirit? The gifts that He gave to equip the church for His purpose. Will you ask expectantly for the gifts of healing, and prophecy and discernment and speaking in tongues?  Will you seek the wisdom and revelation of how and when to use the gifts? Will you take steps forward in faith, evicting  unbelief? Will you make space for His fruit to grow in you? Will you make hearing and seeing what the Father is doing your priority? Will you allow the world to see God's Glory shine upon your face? Will you turn your eyes once more to gaze in awe at the One who loves you? Will you take up your cross?

The Spirit of the Lord says He will not be delayed and He will not be pacified.
As a prophetic sign, this will be a year of "then suddenly,... " It will be a time of acceleration where things that normally take years to achieve will happen quicker. New ideas and languages will be easier to learn. Inheritances that have been held up or lost will be completed. 

There is a cost and the authorities and powers of the world will retaliate. But when the Church demonstrates, as Jesus did, the Kingdom of God in love, obedience, power and authority there will be a harvest bigger than we can imagine. 

What will you choose this year? Will you hold on to your life and all the comforts it has to offer or will you lay down your rights, to be a servant of the Spirit of the Lord?


Isaiah 55:6
Seek the Lord while you can find him.
    Call on him now while he is near.

Isaiah 61:10
2 Corinthians 6:14
1 Corinthians 1:5
Deuteronomy 30:19
Matthew 10:39
Ephesians 5:27

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