"2020 - Our Best Year Yet" by Nancy Dufresne

Many times, God will speak to a pastor about the new year, letting them know what to expect and what He wants them to emphasize for that year. God tells us what to say, for it shows us what He is OFFERING us in the new year, then as we put those words in our mouth, He can bring it to pass, for what God says calls for our faith if it is to come to pass.

     At our staff Christmas party, the anointing of God fell on me and God said to me, “2020 will be your best year yet!”

     God gives a congregation something to say and believe for about the new year so that they will move forward in UNITY, for unity is imperative for God’s best to flow.

God said to me that 2020 will be our best year yet!

     There have been many wonderful things that God has done for us in years past, and we are grateful for it all, but God always has more, and He always has something better. We never reach the end of all of God’s best – there’s always more!

     God has so much for us that as we read the New Testament, it would seem as though the men who wrote it had difficulty finding words that fully and adequately express what our boundless resources are in Christ. 

     When the Word speaks of what belongs to us in Christ, what God has provided for us, and the greatness that awaits us, we can notice in the Bible the many “UN’s.” The Bible authors used words like: unsearchable, unspeakable, unfathomable, untraceable, undiscoverable.

     Why do they use such words? Because human words cannot very easily express how rich we are in Christ.

     An astronaut said that when they are so far above the earth, they can hardly describe it in words we are used to because the view is so different than what we are used to seeing – it’s so much higher and so much above the daily view.

     Let’s look at Romans 11:33. “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how UNSEARCHABLE are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” The Amplified translation reads, “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How UNFATHOMABLE (inscrutable, unsearchable) are His judgments (His decisions)! And how UNTRACEABLE (mysterious, UNDISCOVERABLE) are His ways (His methods, His paths)!”

     There’s always more to God and how He moves and works. We have never seen all of His ways. We will never reach the end of His genius and ability. No matter all that we find and learn in our search, there’s always more to search out – we will never reach the end of our search with Him. And just think – that Greater One is in us!

     Let’s look at Ephesians 3:8 that reads, “...the UNSEARCHABLE riches of Christ.” The Amplified says, “...the unending (boundless, fathomless, incalculable, and exhaustless) riches of Christ [wealth which no human being could have searched out].”

     We will never reach the end of what has been made available to us in Christ – there’s always more! We must never think we have arrived or that we have it all – we must never settle or quit reaching.

     Second Corinthians 9:15 reads, “Thanks be unto God for his UNSPEAKABLE gift.” The Amplified translation says, “Now thanks be to God for His Gift, [precious] beyond telling [His indescribable, inexpressible, free Gift]!”

     “Unspeakable” means not being able to express with words.

     Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 12:2-4, “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard UNSPEAKABLE words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.” The Amplified version of verse 4 reads, “Was caught up into paradise, and he heard utterances beyond the power of man to put into words, which man is not permitted to utter.”

     First Peter 1:8 says, “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy UNSPEAKABLE and full of glory.” The Amplified says, “...you believe in Him and exult and thrill with inexpressible and glorious (triumphant, heavenly) joy.”

     Although that which belongs to us in Christ may be difficult to express, it doesn’t have to be difficult to receive. His riches are ours – they are available for those who will cash the check. Nothing limits the supply from God except our capacity to take it.

     Although this will be our best year yet, the best won’t end with this year – there will always be more.

     With all the great things God has in store for us this year and in the coming years, the best is yet to be – for after our years on the earth, Heaven holds more of God’s greatness for us. First Corinthians 2:9-12 in the Amplified translation tells us, “...as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]. Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man’s scrutiny]. For what person perceives (knows and understands) what passes through a man’s thoughts except the man’s own spirit within him? Just so no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit [that belongs to] the world, but the [Holy] Spirit Who is from God, [given to us] that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the gifts [of divine favor and blessing so freely and lavishly] bestowed on us by God.”

     The only way we can come to know what God has made ours is by the Holy Spirit – He is the One who reveals it to us.

     There’s always more for us, so let’s declare it often – 2020 will be our best year yet!

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"2019: It's a New Day!" by Nancy Dufresne

With every incoming new year, God gives me a word for that year. He does this so we will know what to emphasize for the year – it gives direction to our faith. For faith to work, we must have the leading of the Spirit, so by giving us this word, our faith has the leading it needs.

God said the following to me about 2019:

2019 is A New Day! A new day of stepping into places in the Spirit that will bring us into a greater flow. 

2019 will bring a fresh momentum that hits a stride – hitting a stride in the Spirit realm, in healing, in the gifts of healing. 

Ministers will be making strides in the gifts of the Spirit. More skill and more operation of them.

God had said to me about 2018 that it would be a year of Divine Acceleration. Acceleration means that we are increasing our pace toward a direction. Acceleration is not the arrival, but it’s increasing the pace toward where we are headed. 

Think of acceleration in regards to driving. Whenever getting on a freeway, we must first have the necessary time and space to accelerate the vehicle so that we can merge onto the freeway going full speed. To not be at full speed when entering is dangerous for ourselves and others. That’s why entrance ramps are connected to the freeways – to give us time and space to accelerate so we can enter the freeway at full speed. 

That’s what 2018 was for us – time and space for us to have divine acceleration so that we can merge into the flow of God going full speed. With that in mind, let’s look again at what God said about 2019. 

“2019 is A New Day!” A new day requires and calls for a new way of thinking and speaking. Think of when God delivered the Hebrews out of Egypt. He brought them out of slavery with mighty signs, wonders, and miracles so that He could bring them into their own land to worship and serve Him. After having been in slavery for 400 years, it was a new day for them! However, they carried their old way of thinking with them when they left Egypt. They continually referred to going back. Although they were no longer slaves to men, because they didn’t change their thinking and their speaking to reflect their freedom, they lived as slaves to fear and unbelief. Because they didn’t take on a new way of thinking and live by faith, that first generation that was delivered out of Egypt never arrived at the land God had for them (except for Joshua and Caleb). A new day requires a new way of thinking if we are to enter into all that the new day offers us. This can only be done as we feed on God’s Word and be doers of that Word, renewing our minds. We must believe and confess that it shall not be as it has been; we are not repeating and being held by the difficulties, failures, and wrong thinking of the past – it is a new day!

“2019 is A New Day! A new day of stepping into places in the Spirit that will bring us into a greater flow.” The greater flow is what we have been accelerating toward. “It’s a new day of stepping into places in the Spirit....” Stepping into further or higher places is where the greater flow is. We move further into the Spirit as we take time to speak much in other tongues.

“2019 will bring a fresh momentum that hits a stride....” Hitting a stride means hitting a steady pace, meaning we are past the point of stopping and starting, lunging ahead, and then falling behind. Our steps and progress will be even and steady. “...Hitting a stride in the Spirit realm, in healing, in the gifts of healing.” The stride we hit will be emphasized and evident in the Spirit realm, in the flow of healing, and in the operation of the gifts of healing.

“Ministers will be making strides in the gifts of the Spirit. More skill and more operation of them.” My husband said by the Spirit that in the Last Days Revival all nine gifts of the Spirit would be operating at 100% of their full potential power; therefore, as ministers, we must grow in skill with the gifts of the Spirit if they are to operate at 100% of their full potential power. As we grow in skill, we will see a greater operation of these gifts.

As one minister stated, “Words equal work.” When we receive a word from the Lord, that word won’t come to pass automatically. We must release our faith toward that word and also do our part so that what God said to us can come to pass.

With that in mind, what is the work we must do toward this word God has given for 2019? 

1) We must add our faith to what God said by daily declaring what He said about
                             2019.

2) Feed on the Word and act on it – a new day calls for new way of thinking.

3) Speak much in other tongues – this is how we are able to move further in the
                            Spirit realm.

4) Become skillful with healing and with your giftings – study the Word and
                            other men of God who were skillful in these flows and practice them.