2011 - The Time of Our Arising
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- Created on November 01, 2011
Dear Ones,
Where does the time go? The holiday season is almost upon us. Christmas music is being heard in the stores and customers are being urged to begin checking items off of their lists. While I love Christmas, everything in me wants to say, Hold on! I am not ready for this. And besides, it can’t possibly be true that another year has almost come to an end. I will say it again….Where does the time go?
While the holidays can be a busy time, it is also the season that reminds the world again of the awesome news that Heaven was announcing to earth!
I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.
Heaven was coming to earth! The Word was becoming flesh and would dwell in our midst. The world would be forever altered with the birth of a Savior. Christ the Lord was making His humble entrance into the world. Now, all people would have opportunity to know Him…if only they could hear the good tidings of great joy that He came to bring to all.That was over 2000 years ago. Today, the world’s population is some 7 billion people, with a Christian population of over 2 billion. With 1.5 billion Islamists, 1.1 billion Secularists, 900 million Hindu’s, 400 million Buddhists and many other religions, there are still large segments of the global population that have not heard the good tidings.
Aglow International – 45 Years of Ministry
John Dawson, President of Youth with a Mission recently stated, Never has Aglow seemed more relevant.
How true that statement is. Aglow has been on a journey of transformation these past few years. We aren’t the same ministry we were in the early days of our inception. Times have changed and God has been preparing Aglow for these times in which we live. With a current outreach into nearly 170 nations, touching the lives of 17 million people annually, He has positioned us and prepared us. He has purposed us to make an even greater impact on increased numbers of lives as we boldly share His good tidings to all people. It is a part of our identity and our inheritance.
New life has been forming over this ministry. Something of the Spirit has been stirring up our depths with a greater desire to move into a deeper level of relationship with God and to be a greater expression of His life, His goodness, and His love to the world around us.
At our recent Worldwide Conference in Houston, Texas, Chuck Pierce said, This is one of the most significant meetings we have ever had in Aglow. God wrote the Word around a harvest calendar, not a Roman calendar. We are being recycled back into a harvest anointing that we will see in every nation. We need to develop a mind for the future and see the future as linked with expectation.
Dr. Pierce went on to say, Aglow will be used this year to establish the House of the Lord from nation to nation. The House of the Lord is forming in a way we have never seen before.
Identity is about Living in Your Inheritance
The words of our conference speakers, and many other prophetic words that have been spoken over Aglow in recent years, refer not only to God’s intentionality towards this ministry, but of our identity, our destiny, and our inheritance. Prophetic words are God’s way of telling us how He views us and connects us with our next stage of identity. We have become pregnant with promise. He is giving a new horizon for the journey we are on.
I love this statement from Graham Cooke’s book, Prophetic Wisdom. God supplying all your needs is the baseline of faith. But there is a bigger, bolder place than that which He wants to release to us. It is a place which is tied to our identity. His sons and daughters live in a place above need. They live in their inheritance. We are to come to a place in His Spirit where our identity releases our provision. We are to ask from our inheritance, not from our need.
We are not people of the recession. Our lives are not based upon the economies of the world. We are people of the Kingdom, citizens of heaven, with an inheritance that is outrageous, exhilarating and awesome.
An Offering of Worship, Thanksgiving & Rejoicing
We have heard the summons; THIS IS THE TIME OF YOUR ARISING!
I believe that God has made His destiny for Aglow very clear. We know our identity and we know we have an inheritance to walk in.
Will you please join me in this time of our arising by giving a year-end gift towards the goal of establishing the House of the Lord from nation to nation? We have several donors who have agreed to rise with us and are encouraging us through their generous, early gifts. You may give now electronically on our secure donation page at www.myaglow.org/netcommunity/JaneLetter11/11 , or send your gift to Aglow International, P.O. Box 1749, Edmonds, WA 98020. Be sure to note, Jane Letter 11/11 on your check.
I am asking boldly from our place of inheritance.
I am asking in line with our destiny.
I am asking with our future in mind.
I am asking FROM the future.
As Dr. Pierce told us, We need to develop a mind for the future and to see that the future is linked with our expectations. We are being recycled back into a harvest anointing that we will begin to see in every nation. You will establish the House of the Lord from nation to nation.
Rejoicing,
Jane Hansen Hoyt
President/CEO
Aglow International
(425) 775-7282
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