2006 Will Be The Year Of The Kingdom.
(January 23, 2006)As I was praying about and planing for this new year of 2006, I thought about what is written in Luke 4:18-19: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me...to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
In the Swedish translation it reads, to preach a year of grace from the Lord.
The Greek text says to preach the year of Κυριου Δεκτον, the Lord's favor and acceptance.
Romans 4:16 reads, “Therefore, it is by faith that it might be by grace." Faith does not work without grace and grace does not work without faith.
When the Lord favors what we are doing He will bless it. Or we could say that when we do what He shows us, it is already blessed by Him. Jesus our example, said that He only did what he saw the Father do (John 5:19-21). He walked in the blessings of the Kingdom.
So what will we see during 2006 ?
1.The birth pains will continue and the Glory will grow stronger.
2.Greater signs and wonders than ever before (John 14:12).
3.What we have sown we will reap (Galatians 6:7). Even the good seeds!
4.The whole creation groans and travails in pain (natural disasters) (Romans 8:22).
5.These are the birth pains that will lead to a manifestation of the sons of God (Romans 8:19).
6.Jesus, the firstborn among many brethren (Romans 8:29).
7.These birth pains are leading to the coming of His Kingdom (Matthew 24:8, Mark 13:8).
Before I mention any other prophetic word for 2006 I believe that the Spirit of God is encouraging us to fully step into the grace of God, and come boldly to the throne of Grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in the time (2006) of need (Hebrews 4:16).
The Lord says that outside of His redeeming grace there will be greater needs in the world during 2006, with more natural disasters than in 2005.
But in the grace of God, the Lord has said about 2006 that it will be a year of unspeakable glory (Kenneth E. Hagin), the year of the glory (Kenneth Copeland), the year of total fulfillment (Keith Buttler). This will happen in the grace of God if we believe it and receive it !
The Lord gave me this word that the Gospel of the Kingdom, or the Kingdom NOW message, is the next great revelation to the Church.
This is a prophetic word from my heart to your heart!
But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthews 6:33). What does it mean to be seeking the Kingdom? Is it going to church and to doing good works? It is more, much more!
Christianity is not a religion but a relationship!
So before we can truly seek the Kingdom we must establish in our understanding that Jesus is not talking about religion, or a religious system, but about God’s plan and answer to all human needs.
One year ago during a campaign in Latin America when I was resting in the hotel between meetings, the Lord Jesus came to me in a vision and spoke to me. He told me that there would be a restoration of this truth of the Kingdom, and that He would restore His Church to a position of dominion.
I can now see it beginning to happen, all over the world. Praise God!
The Lord blessed me with another vision of two parallel worlds that were going on at the same time.
It was like a screen divided into an upper and a lower part. The upper part was a heavenly place full of light with angels and people interacting in peace and harmony. The lower place was on earth, full of darkness, suffering, and disharmony. Between the two worlds was a barrier.
In the next scene the barrier was gone and there were two parallel worlds where all actions in heaven were done on the earth and manifested as works of God. Our lives and actions were hidden in Jesus and done by Jesus in heaven as we did them on earth in His name.
Thank you Lord ! Let thy Kingdom come and thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
The Christian people have been too passive and too timid for too long. God called us to be the head and not the tail. We are called to rule for God in the earth! In Romans 4:17 the Spirit tells us through Paul to reign in life as kings by one Jesus Christ (Jesus is the King of kings), and not to be ruled by ungodly people that have no knowledge of the King or His Kingdom, and who are therefore unable to bring glory to God or real solutions to humanities needs and problems.
Instead the Church has allowed itself to be ruled by laws that are against God’s Word and has therefore become weak and irrelevant in the eyes of the world.
God wants to invade every arena of the human existence with His love, His joy, and His peace. The mission of AUI is to do it in the arts.
This can only happen through His ambassadors and kings, the ambassadors of the Kingdom of heaven (2 Corinthians 5:20) manifesting the Love of the Father for all of mankind.
For too long the believers in the artistic field have operated in the world system instead of the Kingdom system. May God help us all to change this! After all, God is the source of all real artistry, both popular and classical.
God has called us to be in the world but not of the world. We are to do what the members of the nation of Islam are doing, but for the Kingdom of God. They come to nations refusing to assimilate but rather wanting the inhabitants of that nation they come to, to adjust to their way of thinking and doing things. We are called to do the same but in God’s love. Instead of adjusting to the ways of the world (Satan’s system) we are to demonstrate and manifest the Kingdom of heaven in the earth.
Let us look and see what the original greek text is telling us about our calling in the Kingdom. But God has called us all to announce the: ευαγγελιον της βασιλειας εν ολη τη οικουμενη (Good message of the Kingdom in all the world) εις μαρτυριον παοσιν τοις εθνεσιν (as testimony (witnesses, martyrs) to all the ethnic groups, cultures and nations) (Matthew 24:14).
Or as Jesus put it in Matthews 4:17: Μετανοιτε ηγγικεν γαρ η βασιλεια των ουπανων (Repent for is near (is) the Kingdom of the heavens).
The Kingdom of heaven is near, it is in us right now (Luke 17:21). Our salvation, our health, our provision are already in us. Our calling, purpose, and mission are all in us right now, through faith in the blood of Jesus. “For we are dead and our life is hid with Christ in God.” (Colossians 3:3)
Let us act during 2006 like this Word was for us !
Roger Wågsjö