This is a great time to start speaking life, speaking blessings, and speaking what God is speaking.
Luke 1:8-20 – 8 Once when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, 9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 10 And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside. 11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. 12 When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. 13 But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. 14 He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born. 16 He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” 18 Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.” 19 The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. 20 And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”This is a great season to start saying what you want.
This is a great time to start speaking life, speaking blessings, and speaking what God is speaking.
The Lord is asking us to stop hiding in the church and be the Church
Church in Greek ekklesia, where the word is a compound of two segments: “ek”, a preposition meaning “out of”, and a verb, “kaleo”, signifying “to call” – together, literally, “to call out”.
We are called out to call out, to speak up, to declare, to decree, to say what’s to happen and not to happen and the angles we have charge over will go and do. Jesus sitting on the right hand of the Lord waiting and listening to bring the prayers of called out to God to answer.
Yet we cower back. We become silent, afraid that what we say may actually come to pass and we will have to be responsible for the blessing.
Can you imagine God’s people being afraid to speak and make their world in six days, make their world look like they want it to be and then rest on the seventh?
When we won’t speak life or declare God’s word over our lives we ultimately tell Him we don’t believe His word is the Truth.
Don’t be like Zechariah and cower in fear. Say what God has said so that you can see it come to pass!