Double Weddings!

"Job 22:28 says, 'You will decree a thing and it will be established for you; and light will shine on your ways.' As Believers, it is our mandate to see the heart of God, and then to decree His justice and His goodness on a hurting, dying world."   Bobby Conner

Happy New Year!  

Have you ever heard this time of year called the January Blahs?  Who wants to start a new year in blah?  For me it is the January AHHHs!  I am excited and expectant for the new year, and I feel this way every January.  But this January - 2013 is especially exciting because I am in between two breakthrough weddings, of people who have been praying with 1 + 1 = One!  

Tierra and Kevin, married January 12, 2013 

Megan and William, will be married January 19, 2013 (more about them next week!)  

Since I was born on a 13th, the number is particularly meaningful to me, but it is usually associated with bad luck.  Not so when you are walking with God!  Nothing about Him is bad, and He is not about luck.  A few years ago while researching the number 13, I found a source who said that 13 is the number of DOUBLE BLESSINGS!  (click here for more on that biblical number source),  and this first month of 2013, back to back weddings, is evidence of Double Blessings of love and marriage.  

Every year as I cross into the new year, I listen and watch to see what the people of God are saying about the year ahead.  I think you all will be encouraged by this word from Joan Hunter:  

“This year is going to be better than the former – like as in 12 cookies, we get a baker's dozen (13) – He is throwing in some extra for us. More than enough. Abundantly, above all that we could ask, dream or imagine. (That is a lot in my book!)

Let's look at what God says about the number 13. The best example is 1 Corinthians 13 – that is the chapter on love. God is going to pour out His love on us in 2013. This is going to be a year of restoration. Restoring us to our first love of Him first, then others. He is going to restore families, estranged children, lost children and relatives. This is a time of them coming into the Kingdom faster than we could ever fathom.

This is a year of those who have prayed for God to send a mate – this is the year of that prayer being answered.” 

Let’s shake off the dust of past disappointments, and the long wait-times some of us have been experiencing.  Be expectant!  And I believe that as we pray and declare, with our focus on the God of the impossible, many of us will meet our Kingdom Marriage partner THIS YEAR!  

Precious Lord, we declare as Mary did that NOTHING is impossible with You, God.  Nothing.  We choose to agree with the words spoken by Your people, that 

• 2013 is the year of Double Blessings!! 
• 2013 is the year of love and restoration
• 2013 is the year that those of us who have been praying for a Kingdom Marriage partner will see the fulfillment of the desires of our hearts!  

We declare (Isaiah 61:7), “Instead of our [former] shame we shall have a twofold recompense; instead of dishonor and reproach [God’s people] shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in our land WE shall possess double [what we had forfeited]; everlasting joy shall be ours.”

Thank you Lord for double weddings this first month of 2013, as a sign of your double blessings, double restoration, and double honor to replace all shame and disgrace.  Lord God, BLESS the two marriages, exceedingly abundantly above all they can ask or think (Ephesians 3:20), and give them a double portion of Your gift of romance and love.  

“Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick...

But when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life!”  (Proverbs 13:12, The Message and The Amplified versions.)  

Thank you LORD for the end of hope deferred, and the fulfillment of the desires of our hearts in 2013!  

AMEN!  

Expecting to be amazed ~

Barbara