A Year of Possessing and Possessions
Once again, there is an urgency in the Spirit to get this word out, because it is such a prophetic year that everything that we are seeing is in confirmation of what we received on New Years. The number 10 is a number of testing, similar to the journey in the wilderness that Israel was on. The number 11 is a transition number moving us from 10 (the test) to 12 (the number of divine order). It is a time of crossing over into our inheritance.
3:11:
Just as the Israelites were on a journey to take them to the place of crossing over, so we have been on a journey of prophetic understanding. Our journey began on April 19 when I was in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was awakened at 3:11 am to hear the words, “Release the warrior spirit”. I got up out of bed and went to the window facing the harbour and simply said, “I release the warrior spirit”. When I got up that morning, the Lord led me to I Samuel 3:11 “Behold I am about to do a thing in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears it tingle”. Interestingly enough, April 19, 2010 was Israel’s Birthday! Just as Israel is a warrior nation, so we are called to war this year.
Since then 3:11 has become very significant. This last November, Dan attended a prophetic harp school in Jerusalem and as part of the course, Michael Moon had planned to have all 12 harpists go to the 12 gates of Jerusalem and release the sound of the harp into the atmosphere and out of the 12 gates. The interesting thing was that they were only able to man 11 gates then, they all moved to the 12th Gate, the Eastern Gate. 11 moving to 12. We also discovered that they were at those gates on 3:11 in the Biblical calendar. So at precisely 11 o’clock on 3:11, they released the sounds of the harps and pulled the nations of the world through the time gate into what we believe to be the beginning of a world-wide awakening.
The continuation of this prophetic word is that we need to watch Israel this year. There is something very significant that is going to come out of there that will make your ears tingle.
Also watch for 3:11’s to pop up that will be significant. One of the words that came forth for this year that this will be a year of a greater understanding of the Trinity. (to understand God as fire, light and love).
Shatter:
A key word that came to us this year was “Shatter”. Chuck Pierce prophesied that we should watch the places where glass was shattering. Since then, we have had some extremely significant things happen about glass shattering. Shortly after we released this, Donna, one of the Tent members was sitting in her living room with her husband, and all of a sudden they heard glass shattering in the kitchen. There, all by itself, a glass vase that almost looked like a wine glass shattered all by itself into many pieces with no one touching it. She brought it the next Sunday to the Tent in a T-shirt of the Tent of David and we had it there at the front of the sanctuary on New Years eve. When our son looked at it, he said “This looks like the broken wine glass that is smashed at the end of a Jewish wedding”.
The next shattering occurred in Jerusalem when Dan was at the harp course where a glass shattered on the stairs at exactly 3:11. It spoke to me of Jacob’s ladder and an open heaven being created. Then, when the harpists went to the gates to play, as Dan and another harpist were walking to the Eastern Gate to join the others following their assignment at their gate, a car quickly drove by them and the window of the car completely shattered into thousands of pieces.
Then, on New Years eve, I was preparing to bring a picture that Cathy had given us for Christmas of a lighthouse that had gates with Isaiah 62:11 on it. As I passed by the picture it fell over and the glass in the picture completely shattered! I was so shaken by it that I had to lie down. There was a supernatural speaking about that glass shattering over the contents of the picture. Isaiah 62:10 begins with “Pass through, Pass through the gates!”.
Then today, we were watching a short Chuck Pierce clip and there was a lady that had been in China that was given a boxed gift of the 5 gods of Mammon in the Chinese culture. When she went to the Post Office to pick it up, the glass in the box had completely shattered!! Mammon is the principality over finances. More on this later.
This year will also be a shattering of many things including the church. We heard the word “Pure” and “Purity” over and over. A pure word will come, pure actions, pure motives.
Possessing the Gates and the New Gate:
Bob Jones prophesied this year that what was prophesied in 2008 would come to fullness in 2011. We took this seriously and looked up our prophetic word for 2008. We also were sent Bill Hamon’s word for 2008. The two words were strikingly similar. Both had an emphasis on possessing the gates and coming into the new. So what we did on New Years eve is we brought a Chupah that we had made for the Feast of Tabernacles and used it as a canopy to represent the new gate. We had people come up and put a prayer shawl over their head and declare the destiny words they had over their lives in 2008 and beyond. We then had them put them on a piece of paper and we put them in the golden bowl that Dan took to Israel with him. At the end of the evening, we poured out the paper on to the ground declaring that the bowl had been filled and it was time to have it poured out. We had also brought a wine glass wrapped in a white towel and after pouring out the bowl, we had Dan shatter the wine glass signifying completion. It was very powerful.
Also in 2008, our friends, Alex and Rosetta Florence had a word “7 plus 1” for that year. In 2008 we had taken our first trip to Israel as the Tent of David. We were surprised with the realization that we were 7 plus 1 there (7 from the Tent and Hilda Chen). As the 7 plus 1 we walked through the New Gate in Jerusalem to declare the coming in of the New. This year, we had Hilda with us for New Years, so we had the 7 plus 1 prophetically go through the New Gate that we had set up declaring that He was making all things new.
When we woke up on New Years morning, we were all stunned when it began to rain and the snow began to melt away. Under the snow was beautiful green grass. Grass at this time of the year should be brown!! Even the wild flowers that I had planted last fall on the hill leading down to the river at our house were coming up in beautiful green leaves! The new had begun. We kept saying that it felt like March instead of January. (3/11)
A key word for this year is Possess. This is a warfare year. We must go in and possess. It is not enough to hear a word, but we must seize the word and go in and take it. It was interesting that on New Years eve, our hockey team in Ottawa was playing. It was so profound because they were behind 3-0 and then they came back and at precisely 1:11 to go, the Captain, number 11 scored the tying goal to make it 3-3. (3:11) But in overtime, they didn’t go in to possess and they lost the game. This is a year when we must possess!! We must cross over and go in!! One of the words that we received was Victory in Jesus. The captain will take us to the point of victory, but we must go in to take it. The promise is that if we engage the enemy, we will take the spoil.
One of the key words that came forth said that this was the year of Jacob. Jacob wrestled with the angel until the break of day. Part of the word was this:
“Just as I touched Jacob’s hip socket and caused him to limp says the Lord, so I am about to touch some of your hips to cause you to walk a different way. For you have seen My kingdom plan and purpose one ways says the Lord, but in 2011 I will cause a new revelatory realm to be imparted to you to expand your faith level and mindset to birth nation changing cultures to see My Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven. The advancement of my Kingdom says the Lord waits in the balance for My sons and daughter that will passionately push it in the direction I want it to go.”
This is the year of Samson. The enemy will want to cut off your locks to make you like everyone else. He took out his ability to see. That is what the enemy wants to do with you. He wants to make us see like everyone else. But this is a year to see the way God sees. In the shattering of the pillars of Dagon’s temple caused the strength of Samson to be revealed. Yeshua’s strength was poured in the weakness of human flesh and he became once again a champion. This is the year of the champions with God vision to come forth!
There will be many attempts to distract us from this, but the Word of the Lord is to stay focussed in 2011 and keep your eyes on what He has called you to do. We must position ourselves by standing directly in His Divine Presence. If we do this, all distractions will fade in His light.
This is the year of the power of the decree:
What you say this year is what you will get. This is a year of extreme obedience. We must do and say only what the Father is doing and saying. This is the year of the Dominion of Canada. Speak this over our nation. He WILL have Dominion this year from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.
Isaiah 51: 15, 16: For I am the Lord you God, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar (the Lord of Hosts is His name). I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of my Hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion ‘You are my people’.
The Tide has turned and is coming in like the Bay of Fundy Tidal bore. This year, the battle will be won at the Gates.
This is the year of Destiny. This is the year to fully commit to the plan that has been ordained for each one “from the womb”. The word is near you, even in your mouth but you have not had the courage to prophesy it. Now is the time to declare the thing and it shall be done unto you! There are Esthers who hold destiny in their hands this year but they need to come forth to proclaim it.
This is the year of Simeons. (Luke 2: 25-32) He had a promise, he stood on this promise, and despite what seemed an unending delay, he saw the salvation of Israel come forth exactly according to the Word of God. This is the year of the actuality of our dreams. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord; plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a hope and a future”
This is the year of abundance:
Just as the glass was shattered over the gods of Mammon, so the way has been made to go in to possess in the area of finances. Joseph was the 11th son. This is a Joseph year.
There will be blessing in the tithe this year. Those who have been faithful in the Ten and have been battering the gates of financial breakthrough will see those gates shattered this year and move into release.
This is a year for businessmen to move in God’s wisdom, knowledge and creativity. Those who carry the seal of God on their hearts will receive the double portion of that which Jacob received just as his son Joseph did. There are new business ideas, practices and inventions that are being released in the Spirit realm for those who will come before Him and lay everything at His feet and submit to doing it God’s way.
This is the year of Portals of Glory:
Every year at New Years we try to give a small gift that speaks prophetically of the coming year. This year we gave a beautiful bookmark called “Eternity”. On this bookmark was a picture of two birds sitting in a tree. The interesting thing about this was that Martha from the Tent had a heavenly experience just a couple of days before where there were many birds around her. The birds in her experience were exactly like the birds in the picture. Birds speak of Heavenly Messengers. Get ready for heavenly portals to open up this year.
This is the Year of Rebecca’s Tent:
When the theme of the Jewish wedding began to unfold with the Chupah and the breaking of the wine glass, I thought that I would look up the meaning of the breaking of the wine glass in Jewish weddings. What I learned was so amazing. In Jewish lore, the elements of the wedding began with Isaac and Rebecca. Isaac is the 11th from Shem after the flood. The main elements are the Chupah, the veiling of the Bride and the breaking of the wine glass. Genesis tells us that Isaac took Rebecca into his mother Sarah’s tent and married her.
I remember when we were fixing the Chupah for the New Year’s watch that I was trying to put bridal veil over the canopy. Nothing seemed quite right until I kept the veil along the top with an opening in the middle. When I stepped back to look at it, it appeared to me like we were going under a cloud when we went into the Chupah. Also the opening in the middle was like an open heaven.
This is how God puts things together. Without knowing this, we had everyone go under the Chupah, put a prayer shawl over their heads (the veiling of the bride)to declare their destiny and then we broke the wine glass at the end!!
The blessing of Rebecca was that her descendents were going to possess the gates of their enemies!.
Finally, I read that the Jews believe that Rebecca inherited the blessing of Sarah’s tent:
· There would be light there from Shabbat to Shabbat (we light the menorah at the Tent from Shabbat to Shabbat)
· There would be blessing in her dough (abundance)
· There would be a cloud of His presence over her tent!
There is about to be poured out the blessing of Rebecca’s Tent for those who are willing to possess it this year. We are going to live in light. We are about to experience a release of abundance and all of this in the cloud of His presence. What a year!!
The tide has turned. The wave of His Spirit has been released. We are passing through the Gates and we will war until we possess.
Many, many blessings for 2011.
Tent of David Ministries
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