Prophetic Declaration: Day 1

I welcome everybody to this wonderful year:
The year of astonishing surprises. 
The year of incredible enlargement. 
The year of explosive expansion. 

Those are the words the Lord used for us. I therefore believe that as many of us that have gathered here on this prophetic declaration night, right from now till the end of this month; the Lord Himself shall surprise us. The Lord himself shall visit all of us,in the mighty name of Jesus. 

Prayer
Mighty Father, we thank You. Lord Jesus, we give you praise for what you have begun to do and for what you are going to do. We thank you for gathering us together from every part of the world. 

Mighty Father, on this first night of the prophetic declaration, we gather at your feet to hear your voice, to receive impartation, power, and faith from you. We have come to gather speed to run in this year, to receive strength to walk upon the sea, to receive revelation and divine direction to navigate the journey of this year.  

So, Father, Lord Jesus, we pray that you begin to visit us tonight, speak to us, minister unto us in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Father. Lord, as I open my mouth, fill it. Put your words there for all of us, in Jesus name. Amen. Praise the Lord!

The Declaration
I welcome you to the wonder of God this year 2021.  

Last year was a great one. It was a year of serious storms all over, different types of crisis. But the Lord God in His mercy has brought us to this time, to witness this year, therefore, we come to the Lord’s presence with great joy. And therefore, the Lord is going to speak to us on this prophetic declaration night. 

Entering this year, the Lord God gave us a key passage, as promised; a covenant He made with us. We believe Him because of what He did for us in the year 2020. His word was faithful. He was faithful to us in the midst of the pandemic, in the midst of a serious crisis. He kept us by mercy. He kept us, not by our doing, and therefore we believe Him because of what He did for us in 2020. He made a promise, and He did beyond what He told us He would do. 

At the beginning of last year, the Lord spoke to us. He spoke to us about manifestation of great things, manifestation of His power, but we did not know how it was going to be. But towards the end of last year, we began to see the Lord move even in the midst of the pandemic. The Lord was faithful, He moved in the way we did not expect. He went beyond our expectations. So, we have been made to understand that the Lord God is able to fulfill everything He said He will do. Whatever He says, He will do. Whatever He has promised, He will do. He will fulfill it. We believe everything He has said to us about this year will come to pass in your life, in the mighty name of Jesus.

For example, He said in Genesis 1:9, ‘And the Lord said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear,’ and it was so.’  In verses 14 and 15, ‘Then God said, let there be light in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from night, and let them be for signs and seasons, for days and years, and let them be for light in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,’ and it was so. So, we discover that when God was creating the world, whatever He said, it was so. Then God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures, according to its kind, cattle and creeping things, beasts of the earth, each according to its kind, and it was. So, whatever the Lord says, whatever the Lord commands, it must be so. Whatever the Lord commands, it shall be so. I therefore pray, and I declare for everyone of us, everything God has said, and everything God is going to say right from tonight, concerning this year, according to the Word of God, it shall be so concerning our lives in the mighty name of Jesus. 

Everything He said to us, in this special month of prophetic declaration, for incredible enlargement, astonishing expansion, concerning our lives, marriage, home, family, ministry, shall come to pass. Everything He says, shall come to pass.  Why? Because that is His nature; when He speaks, it comes to pass. Who is it that speaks when the Lord has not commanded? Whatever the Lord commands, it comes to pass. But what man says may not come to pass. 

As we entered the year 2021, the Lord gave us two major verses for this year. He declared unto us Isaiah 54: 2-3 which says, ‘Enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; lengthen your cord and strengthen your stake. For you shall expand to the right and to the left. And your descendants shall inherit the nations and make desolate cities inhabited.’ That was the key passage that the Lord gave us. Listen, you might have been coming across this passage before, you might be familiar with this passage. It may be a common passage to you, but the Lord God is speaking it to us now.

Regardless of how many times you may have read a passage or how familiar it is to you, when God brings it out and presents it to you specifically, it means it is the word of God for you at that time. It ceases to be an everyday logos, it ceases to be just the word of God. It becomes the word from God. The Lord dipped His hand into His word, brought it out and presented it to us and said, “This is my word for you, for 2021.”

Look at verses 2 and 3 again. Verse 2 is completely different from verse 3. Verse 2 is a command. It is giving us the command of the Lord’s desire and purpose. God is telling us what to do. He is speaking instructions to us. Before He does what He is going to do, He is telling us what we must do. So, in this program, right from this night to the end of this month, the Lord shall continually give us instructions on what to do for us to enter a special phase of expansion, explosion, astonishing increase, incredible enlargement, unspeakable breakthrough. These are the things God is saying we will experience. In this regard, I am not paying attention to whatever the world is saying. I am not paying attention to whatever the world news or world powers are saying. I am paying attention to what God is saying. 

The Lord is speaking to us, and I am imploring you brothers, do not let the world, the storms, the crisis that is going on in the world, suppress the declaration of God’s words in your life. Do not let what is happening in the world, the crisis of the world, take away the reality of the Scriptures or the reality of the declaration from your sight. 

The Word of God stands Supreme. It is by that Word the whole world, the heavens and all of creation are formed. That Word is coming to you. It says enlarge the place of your tents and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwelling, to lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. Do you know what that means? It is like saying prepare the ground, I want to move. It is like saying, clear the storehouse, I want to fill the place. It is like saying strengthen your legs, stand by to run. It is like saying strengthen yourself to move. When the scripture says enlarge the place of your habitation, stretch out of the curtains of your dwelling, it is a command. So, strengthen your cord, enlarge your dwelling place, clear the storehouse, get set for expansion, get ready for increase. Do you now see that God is speaking from another dimension, completely different from what is going on in the world? 

The whole world is saying that things are going upside down, that there is no hope. Things are happening. People are falling by the left and falling by the right; people are dying left and right. I look at the news. This evening, they calculated the number of deaths within a year through the COVID globally. Over 1.8 million have died worldwide, another approximately 84 million positive cases. 

Now, that is the report of the world. What God is saying to you is: my children, enlarge the place of your tent, I want to move. Expand yourself, I want to move. Clear your storehouse, I want to fill it. Stretch out the curtain of your dwelling. The capacity you have presently is not enough for Me to move. Get set to run. Strengthen your legs to move, lengthen your faith, let the cord of your faith be lengthened. The faith you carried before is too small for Me. Whatever you think you have done before cannot be compared to what I am about to do. That is, the stakes that hold the tent, hit them hard, let them go down, let them be strong, that no wind will be able to move them.  Let your faith increase. Whatever you think you have done for the Lord before, get ready to do more. Whatever exploits you think you have done before; they are not comparable to what the Lord wants to do now. Whatever speed you think you have gone at before, get ready to move faster than before. Strengthen your determination. 

What does 1 Corinthians 15: 58 say? ‘…Beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.’ Strengthen your stakes means be steadfast. My beloved brethren, be steadfast. This is the time to strengthen your stakes. If you want to experience incredible expansion, then your stakes must be strong. You must not be a type of person that is moveable with the news of the world, thereby moving your faith. Occurrences of the world must not move your faith. What the Lord asks you to do, your faith must not shake from it. Be steadfast in your vision. Do not be the type of person who starts a thing but does not go far with it and drops it. Do not be the type of person that will not be reliable in the hands of God. There are some people who cannot hold the vision for long. They start, but after some time they don’t see improvement or results, they drop it. 

Let your heart be larger than before. Get set to accommodate what the Lord wants to do because so many things the Lord wants to do is going to beat your imagination. So many things the Lord is going to do will be incredible. At this endtime, the move of God is going to be very fast. God is about to start reaching out to people and using people that we never thought He could use to fulfill His mind, His purpose, and His plan. This is the time that Jesus Christ said, the first shall become last, and last shall become first. That is, you will see unexpected people who will do mighty exploits for God and you will see people who have been in God before getting weary. 

I pray that you will finish strong. You will finish well. You will not be weary. This is a time to lengthen your cord, to strengthen your stakes, your determination.  Do not let unemployment shake you; do not let unemployment change your conviction in Christ. You have been doing the work of God for long, but you do not see results. Because you do not see results, does not mean that God does not see results. There are several results you do not see physically that are behind the scenes. That you do not see results does not mean you are not working. The Lord is honoring and rewarding your labor of love. So many times, you may not see success, but it is the labor behind the work that God is looking at. 

For several years Joseph did not see the results of the visions God gave him! God said his family would bow down to him. But immediately after that, he did not see anything. For many years, he did not see it. Instead, his brothers captured him, threw him into a pit and then dragged him out of the pit, and sold him as a slave. Physically, he did not see it, but you know that spiritually speaking he was moving closer to the throne. Behind the scenes, spiritually, invisibly, he was moving closer to the throne. So, when you are laboring, while you are working and you don’t see results, please be steadfast. Be consistent in the vision that God has given to you. Consistency is the key.

Be consistent. There are several of us who cannot hold a vision for a long time. Many dabble into several types of visions and have dropped it because they did not see results.

Being steadfast means being consistent. When the Lord gives you a vision, an assignment, it does not mean that there is not going to be a storm, a problem, inside that vision.  Even when Jesus Christ was born into the world, there was a crisis at his coming. Because he was born as a baby, several other babies back then were in crisis, many died.

The same thing applied to Moses’ birth because he was born for the deliverance of Israel. So many times, when the Lord gives you a vision and you continue to go into that vision, there will be crisis or problems. Be consistent! That is the key. Nothing is big enough to take your vision or your ministry away from your hands. Nothing should be big enough to make you doubt.  When you get to do the instruction above, then you will be fit for the next move. That is it. The promises of the covenant that God has given to us this year are conditional. 

So, when you fulfill that instruction, that condition in verse 2, God says in verse 3, ‘for you shall break forth to the right and to the left.’ Wow, that is where God spoke to us about incredible enlargement! Not that we shall move right or left; but we shall break forth. Forceful enlargement, forceful expansion. 

Let me give you an instance, last year the Lord did some incredible things for us. In our schools, Mount Zion Institute, we had been praying for long, for more room. We wanted increased lecture rooms. The refresher class had been crowded, and the basic certificate class had been crowding themselves into the main hall to take classes. Suddenly, last year, within a short time during the pandemic, the Lord built three large lecture rooms. We were happy! ‘Rehoboth’, God has enlarged us, God has increased us! Do you know what God did? He brought crowds. We had the largest turnout of students. The classes were filled, and then there was no space again. Then I began to think of expansion, forceful expansion. That is what is called breaking forth. The Lord brought crowds. There was no room again. 

So, God is saying He is about to do a massive thing that will cause us to break forth to the left and to the right. That is what is called incredible expansion, increase, enlargement. How many of us are getting ready for that? 

There is an anointing for expansion, that is what God is saying. Everything God is saying is completely different from what is going on in the world because we’re talking about a different Kingdom entirely. When there was a crisis in Egypt, God was doing something different in Goshen. When the Israelites were in the wilderness, God made the provision completely different. He gave them a massive umbrella – like a massive cloud. The cloud was following them for 40 years, providing a massive umbrella for them in the hot sun of the wilderness, so they were not hurt by the sun. At night, He transformed to a pillar of fire to give them warmth. 

The atmosphere of God is completely different from the atmosphere of the world. Do not dwell on the crisis in the world today, the new variants of COVID. Let your heart come into the Word of God. Purify yourself in the Word of God. Be healed by the power of the Word of God and you will live in Goshen, in the midst of Egypt. 

So, the Lord is saying we are anointed for expansion this year. There is a massive move of the Holy Spirit coming up this year for certain children of God, for you and for me. And in the move of God, that is already settled in Heaven, you will break forth to the left and to the right in your ministry, in your family, in your homes, in your marriage, in your academics, in your profession, in your career. There shall be an increase of knowledge, revelation, new ideas. Wherever you are, there shall be expansion of God’s power in your life. Your ministry shall expand, you will not lack, you will not beg, there will be open heavens for you. In the midst of the pandemic, the Lord is going to give an astonishing increase. The Lord is going to move in an astonishing way. That is what God says. 

There shall be a monumental flood of ministerial expansion which started last year. For example, Zoom existed before COVID, but it was not so rampant, it was not so popular. It was not so known until the pandemic came and then the Word of God expanded; the preaching of the gospel increased. There were several people preaching from their bedrooms, reaching out to the entire world. God is saying, there shall be multiples of that this year. A volcanic eruption of enlargement; an avalanche of colossal grace shall be released upon His children who key into His mighty move, who are strong and steadfast, who are not moved by the pandemic, who are not moved by the crisis, who are standing still, their hearts fixed. It is a moment of divine visitation from heaven, a moment of manifestation of astounding favor and mercy. 

Therefore, finally, here is the first instruction for you to fit into this covenant, this prophetic proclamation. It is in Isaiah 54:4. ‘Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed, for you will not be put to shame.’ Can you see that this is an instruction? It is a command saying, ‘Do not fear’ for you will not be ashamed. The crisis will not swallow you. Storms around will not overwhelm you. 

Are you in debt? You will not be put to shame. I am a living witness of how God settles debt overnight. So, there is no debt God cannot settle. Hallelujah! No, there is no one He cannot touch. No problem is bigger than God. Be focused, be fixed. Fix your heart on the Lord. The hand of the Lord will keep you, in the mighty name of Jesus.

I therefore pray for you tonight. That you shall experience the monumental flood of ministerial expansion. Your home shall experience the monumental flood of His grace. You shall experience the avalanche of His mighty grace; grace to move, to walk in this year without sinking. You will walk upon the storm and will not sink.

I declare over you today that you shall be partaking of this moment of divine visitation from heaven, in the name of Jesus. You will be steadfast. You will not be moved. You will not be disgraced. You will not be confused, in the mighty name of Jesus. It shall be well with you. The hand of the Lord shall keep you. The power of the Lord shall sustain you. The Holy Spirit shall surround you. The glory of the Lord shall cover you throughout this year. You will not take part in crises. You will not be victims of evil, in the mighty name of Jesus. You shall make room for the move of God. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

January 2, 2021