The Lord says, “What sounded like the howling of wolves was actually the howling of the wind of the Spirit.” It looked and felt like it was wolves that were hounding you to cause destruction, but actually it’s the wind of the Spirit simply moving the branches of the trees. There’s a lot of obedience being learned right now but it’s being learned through suffering – through your own suffering, through the suffering of others, through difficulties that are being faced. This is because God is not actually primarily interested in how big you are, He’s just interested in how obedient you are. God didn’t say, “If you get big I’ll bless you.” He said, “If you’re willing and you’re obedient and you’ve put those two ingredients in place, you will eat of the best of the land.” So, I want you to be encouraged because even though it did sound like the wolves were hounding it was actually the wind blowing in the tops of the mulberry trees because God is on the move. He’s not stopped moving and this is not a thing of opposition, it’s a thing of building, a thing of help. But it is still developing you. So if you will be willing and obedient, you’ll eat the best of the land.

The Spirit of the Lord says, “A week has passed. There was a time prior to this season that I established an open heaven and I established a gate. Miracles began to move in this house. There was a word that came into a deep understanding of the heart that said that you are a body and not a building.” The Lord says, “Then I caused there to be a shaking. And in the shaking it seemed like there was a taking. But you crossed over and you came to another side. As this week has ended, now a new season is beginning,” says the Lord. “The gate is true and the gate is sure and the gate is open and the gate is filled with authority and the gate is filled with destiny.” The Lord says, “In this time and in this season you’re going to understand with new clarity the power of My name. For My character, My nature, My way, My power and My authority will be the decree in your mouth.”

“You shall be known as the family of God. You shall be understood with that which is both life-giver and life-protector. The legislation of heaven shall come forth and righteous decrees will be made. For in a previous season when I declared that you would cross over and when I declared that you were a body and not a building there was a measure that went out from you and accused you of choosing a building over a body. I have tested you with buildings and I have tested you with regions and I have tested you with lands that you would come to the place that you would understand. The season of miracles that you saw in a glimpse, you shall see with a great torrent. You shall see the glory of My name come in practical ways and in impractical ways. For this is not merely a season of blessing, this is a season of destiny. You shall understand the words of rebuilding. You shall understand the words of raising up. You shall understand the words that cause things to be sent forth as cities are rebuilt and generations are established and released.”

“You have come through a week and you have come to a conclusion. From this place of rest this church, this called out legislative body, shall understand the best. The best shall bring forth righteous decrees for the rest that are yet to be added to this place. I have not called you just to be a habitation. I’ve called you to be a life-giving habitation that brings forth a holy generation that causes there to be an influence into the nation and into the nations. So know this, this day I have declared My word of authority; and I’ve declared that confidence will be restored in a new way. I’ve declared that your foreheads shall not flinch – your foreheads will carry the thoughts that declare My character, My nature, My way, My power and My authority. Your hand shall reach out and your hand shall bring to life that which appears to be dead because of the word that I’ve said,” says the spirit of the Lord.

12-14-08 – Tracy LaBrie

Last week I got a money bag in my hand. This morning I ended up with bags of money in my arms. It’s inheritance – it’s not just me, it’s everybody in here had bags of inheritance. It’s not just money, it just happened to be bags of…. It’s everything we need – it’s everything you need for the kingdom of God. The inheritance isn’t for you, it’s for the world. When you go out, you’re going to lay hands – and you’re going to lay hands in a new way and things are going to come off of you in a new way because the inheritance of God is now on the church. It’s not coming but it’s now on the church. You’re going to see it in a new way this year because He’s not just expanding, He’s infilling. The family tree is growing. The family tree is expanding. It’s getting wider. It’s getting longer. The branches are moving out. The leaves are getting bigger. You’re going to see those that have been mothered begin to mother. You’re going to see those that have been fathered begin to father. Those that have been disciple are going to begin to disciple.

The Lord says, “There’s an expansion – but not just an expansion, a new growing. Almost a new tree is going to be birthed out of the old tree. There’s going to be a new thing happen that you’ve never seen happen before. Men who have been in My face and in My heart that have been over hundreds are now going to be over thousands.” Pastor Ted and David, you two were the point of this. I saw you two and what you are involved in…He says, “You’re going to now have a greater responsibility because your sons are now going to become fathers and your daughters are now going to become mothers and the  in a greater way. It’s not going to be a work it’s just going to be a supernatural thing because I am expanding My kingdom. I’m expanding My kingdom. It’s the inheritance that’s going to be released in the earth to the people who need it.”

“Don’t fear lack. Don’t fear lack. Do not fear lack, but trust in Me. Everything you need is going to be supplied to you. Everything we need to expand the kingdom is going to be supplied. So reach out and ask. Reach out and ask. Walk. Walk. Walk. You’re no longer standing in My footsteps and on My feet but now I’m trusting you to go forward, to walk and to blaze new paths, and to go into areas that you have not been in yet. Greater, greater, greater tree. It’s a greater tree – I see this big oak tree expanding even more.

Pastor Ted J. Hanson

I hear the Lord saying, “This is a season where I am going to give things. I am giving that inheritance that I have even now spoken of. I am giving it out. I am asking you,” says the Lord. “Will you receive what I give or will you expect Me to lay it upon you? I am not desiring to set an inheritance in a dormant place. I am desiring to give out to that which is receiving. I desire to give out to that which is believing.” The Lord says, “In this season I am going to extend My arm – not an arm of strength, but an arm of goodness – an arm of provision – an arm of supply – an arm of vision – an arm of restoration – an arm that tells the story of My glory. As I extend forth My hand, as I extend forth My arm, as I reach forth with the weight that I carry, will you receive the weight that can be received? Will you take hold of that which comes in the bags of the treasures of life? Will you receive the responsibility that comes with it?”

“When you receive what I give and you walk away,” the Lord says, “you walk with footsteps that lead to a new day. If you receive what I have given then you cannot just live as those who have been forgiven, because if you receive what I have given then you must go forth with what you have taken from Me. For what you have taken is the treasure that I have placed within your responsibility. You will be known as a people of destiny. You will be known as people who bring forth that which leads to longevity. For a generational blessing is in this moment and in this time,” says the Spirit of the Lord.   

12-27-08 pm - Bill Johnson

The Lord says, “Many of you have walked through situations and circumstances in this past season that have been very difficult – and it’s caused you to go numb. Part of that numbness is that you’ve lost a sensitivity to the spirit of God.”  As much as you’re singing “You’re my everything…” you’re singing it with you head but you can’t get there with your heart. The Lord says, “In this weekend I’m causing you live for Me again in a fresh way. I’m going to cause that numbness that’s been on your life” (some of you it’s been an escape just to survive). The Lord says that He’s taking you out of survival mode and He’s putting you in a place to live passionately for Him in this new season.

He was just saying to let go of some things as we pass over this timeline, and the Lord says that part of that to let go of is that spiritual numbness and the emotional numbness. The Lord says, “I want to restore that place of walking with Me, abiding in Me, drawing near to Me. I’m changing patterns in your life. Some of you have lived in patterns for 15 to 20 to 30 years, but in this season I’m changing the pattern for you.” He’s breaking it off of this church. He’s breaking it off of this region. He’s breaking it off our nation. But it takes people like us who are forerunners to say, “Let it begin. Let it begin in me. Let true revival begin right here, right now…”

PastorTed J. Hanson 

It’s impossible for us to receive the things the Lord has to give if we’re not willing for the atmosphere of our present condition to change to match as it is being given. So right now as you’ve come and you’ve opened up your heart to let that dullness be stripped away, let go of everything, everything, let go of every earthly thing and expect the supernatural to bring that which will spring from you heart. The Lord says, “There’s a new passion. There’s a new desire. There’s a brand new fire. There’s a brand new outlook. But it’s simple.” And I hear the Lord saying, “When all is stripped away will you love Me? When all is stripped away will you love Me? Will you simply love Me? And if you will simply love Me, if you will simply come as you are,” the Lord says, “I will reveal myself as I am. For I have come in this season to cause the place that you are to match the place that I am. I will bring a new passion and a new desire. I will cause a new glory to come in you as a heaven’s fire.” 

12-28-08 am - Prophet Bill Johnson  

He said last night and I’m just reminded of it – I’m included in this by the way. He says, “You’ve gone through things and you’ve been numbed by circumstances of ’08 – maybe ’07, ’08. Even though it was supposed to be great and go through the gate and all of those “g” things, all the things that line up. There’s been a numbness that has overcome you and it’s tried to dull your sensitivity to the things of God… “This weekend, I’m breaking it off of you.” But the way you break it off is you step into His presence. You become childlike…don’t wait until something happens, engage the Holy Spirit…abandon your heart in Him and watch that Novocain the enemy’s tried to put on you, wear off. It’s important that we get it off because these next 12-14 months are critical.

Deanna Russell

God showed me there’s been this noise all year (prophesied by Pastor Ted Jan ’08: a noise but the sound of the Lord would come through) but in the midst of that the sound of the Lord wants to come forth. I believe that’s you moving out of the noise and into the presence of God this morning that God might do exactly what He says He’s going to do.

Prophet Bill Johnson

The Lord says, “Today, right now I’m breaking patterns. I’m changing the pattern. I’m breaking old patterns off of your life as you open up your heart to Me.” The Lord says, “You will leave some things behind – even in this very moment and you will begin to reap great victory in your life. But I’m changing My pattern of working with you. I’m calling you to a greater intimacy. This church is about to soar. You’re going to expand your tent stakes. There are new businesses, strategies and anointings being released on you even now. Allow Me to break those old patterns in the way that you’ve operated in your own thinking. I’m renewing your mind. I’m releasing fresh passion within your heart. You will truly fulfill what you just sang (). You will live from your heart and I will lead and direct you through vision and the sound of My voice. This will be a leap year in the spirit for you. You will not enter into the new year the way that you’re exiting this year. There is an exit strategy that will break the patterns off of your life so that you can embrace the new move of My spirit.”

The Lord says, “You will see families come into divine alignment. You will know, you will know in ’09, you will know individually and corporately, your kingdom purpose,” says the Lord. “And you will expand on the left and on the right.”

The Lord says, “Some of you, your ears have gone dull to hearing My voice.  Some of you have even hardened your heart because of circumstances and situations. But today I’m here with My Father’s love, to sweep you off of your feet. To cause you to rest in Me. To cause you to know that I love you, and My love for you is unfathomable in your thinking and it’s unconditional. All you have to do is receive. Those old patterns fear, abandonment, rejection, fame will be swept away and you will be free in Me.”

Janet Robinson

One of the specific patterns that the Lord showed me during worship was – and this is how He showed me: when we were singing, “I don’t want to talk about You like You’re not in the room…” His eyes were right in front of me as the Lion of Judah. And I thought about being married and how do we become intimate – it’s by one sharing more of himself and one sharing more of herself and there has to be more and more and more sharing of who we are. You know, I think as Christians we are asking God to share more of who He is with us but we’re shy, we’re scared, we’re religious, we’re shut down from sharing more of who we are with Him. I feel like one of the blocks that God wants to take away from us today if we will is our resistance to sharing our heart with Him. I think sometimes the disappointments, our anger and those feelings that we don’t know what to do with, are the things that are blocked from giving our hearts to Him. If we can’t give God our heart honestly then we are holding back the treasures that He has to share right back with us. As we go on with worship, pour out your heart to Him, honestly. Let it pour out like water, like the Psalm says. Pour out your heart to Him. He will pour back in but don’t hold back from Him.

So God, would break off the pattern of the shyness of Your Bride? The worry that we have that if we tell You how we really feel we will be unacceptable to You – God, would You break that pattern off of our hearts and allow Your unconditional love to find us where we are.

Prophet Bill Johnson - 12/28/2008

…that’s what He was saying to us during worship; He says there are areas of your life that you struggle to break the pattern that you haven’t been able to change and I am breaking the pattern for you today. …He is changing the pattern of how you are perceived in this city. I am talking about these guys right here (Pastors Ted & Bonnie). He is changing your pattern of how you are perceived in the city. Favor is coming on you. A convergence of favor…

2009:  Give Me My Mountain

I’m changing the pattern. You are entering into a change in season and I am changing my patterns and revealing new levels of faith and keys of revelation that will bring you to a place of great fulfillment in your life. Now is the time to look in your own life for patterns that have been hindering you from forward progress and achieving all I have for you. I am releasing a greater measure of grace and mercy that will enable you to change these patterns.

Pray, ask and receive My mercy and grace as I will empower you to change and move with Me. You will continue to see new signs in the heavens and the earth that will confirm the new things I am doing. In the next twelve months you will begin to see a culmination of things I birthed and released over the past twenty years!

It is urgent that you make this change/transition prior to entering the next decade as the next decade will see a beginning of a harvest of nations for My kingdom. You will see signs of this change taking place in your life in practical ways. Look for new creative ways for divine increase in your life. That is business, government, education, every mountain. Look for new creative ways of release. Are you ready for that? I will bring a release of things in your life that you have waited years to see fulfilled (even back twenty years). I am releasing a fresh mantle of prophetic ministry that will cause those who hunger for Me to see and hear Me in a new, fresh way.

Ted this is a key thing. The Lord is saying to go look at the last twenty-year pattern of your life as it affects in the region of the Northwest -your calling. And watch, there are some things that were released and birthed that you haven’t seen the total fulfillment of. It is coming now in the next twelve months. Go back to 1988 and look forward from that time that I began to birth a release of the prophetic in a dimension in the earth; and look at what I was saying in 88, 89, 90, and 91 – look for things that haven’t been fulfilled to come into fulfillment. Watch for that in your life and the life of Abundant Life Church.

There is a greater governmental anointing upon the office of prophet to set order in this season.

The Lord showed me Jeremiah Chapter One, and He saws this is the new anointing I am empowering Pastor Ted.

Jeremiah 1:9 & 10 Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: ” Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, (as you go watch for a new mantle - Pastor Ted) over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.”

I had a vision of Ted. I saw him with one of those old timey mail bags. The kind that goes over your shoulder and it hangs on your side, and it has a flap. He was delivering mail on foot. He was walking along and takes out a letter and he hands it to an individual, he takes some and he delivers it to an address – and some others - it was people and places (both). But the Lord said there were four different regions he was doing it in.  When He thinks regions don’t think Northwest – this is global. I saw him on beaches doing this. He was in a tropical environment. He was in different climates and he was distributing letters. A mailman delivering mail, spoken and written prophetic decrees to several different places around the world, including several different people groups (People in churches, people in higher authority, diplomats, government people).

And I heard the Lord say this (to Pastor Ted), “I am putting a new anointing on you,  I’ve called you to another continent. There is something new God is going to open up to you. It could go back twenty years even to find it. It could be stirring in your heart recently. Back in the late 80‘s early 90’s is when it was birthed. If you will go back and look at that you will see what is happening today and the relevance of it and how to apply it. That’s that 20-year period, it is very important for you. He says, I’m going to send you to that and It’s a new international thrust for Abundant Life and of House of Bread. He says that in that place you are still going to be a part of RIM, but this isn’t because of RIM this is to expand RIM.

A new continent will be influenced from this place and the Lord is saying that He is reforming RIM, adding forms and structure to prepare for increase. That’s a word for the guys, the five of you. The new international thrust will be in unrelated to RIM. This new continent thing, this new thing that God is doing with the mailman - it is a level of impact of declaring some things a written decree that transforms.

And then the Lord says this to Abundant Life:

“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes; For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.” (Isaiah 54:2,3)

I felt like the inheritance that God has for here is the folks that are in the home base here, the family of believers of Abundant Life. Each of you needs to expand the vision God has given you in this season.

He says this, “I am putting you in a place to take risks that will bring great success, but you won’t have the success without taking the risks to fail in order to succeed.” So in economic times that most people are downsizing, the Lord is saying to Abundant Life.  “I want you to expand your influence.” I feel like He is going to birth new businesses, He’s gong to birth new ministry things, but not in an old pattern. Not in an old pattern, but in a ‘take back the mountain’ pattern. So all of a sudden where you have had the Daycare, you might have a Christian school… There might be some businesses that are associated as subsidiaries of Abundant Life. The Lord is saying this, “don’t go by the old pattern there is a new pattern, but it is time to expand your tent stakes and strengthen your chords.”

God has for you, that have ears to hear - that will take your mountain, great increase for you. This is an analogy, not necessarily literally - when everyone else is getting out of the stock markets that is the time to buy, because all of a sudden in seven or eight months because you bought at the right time you will double your income. You will double your inheritance because you invested at the right time, and there will be great dividends for you (I’m just using that as an example). He will allow you as you look to your mountain and you break patterns in your life, He will allow the fellowship to leap forward in 09. It is going to be a watershed year. You will look back at this, as much as 08 has been so turbulent and will go down as one of the most turbulent years in history fifty years from now, because of all the things that have happened... 09 will go down for Abundant Life as one of the greatest years in the history of this church and ministry and impact, because as you line up with what God is saying it is preparing for you for the next twenty years of ministry to transform the Northwest and nations. That’s what this inheritance is about, but you have to let the pattern be changed. We don’t just add on to the structure, we reform the things that we are doing.

God is saying this. We have twelve months to get this stuff fixed. Twelve months to get every bit of hell out of you that has been in you.  Anything in your soul that is stopping you, any bit of fear, anything that’s holding you back from being all in. Some of us have such a fear of success, or a fear of the future, or a fear of failure; it actually stops us from succeeding. Do you hear what I am saying? And in 09 He is breaking that stuff off of you. But you must always remember one thing about Abundant Life. You are a forerunning church. You are here to forerun for the nations. You are here to forerun for the Northwest.

Read the rest of Jeremiah, Chapter One. Right after He says “I’ve put you here to root out to pluck out”, He speaks to the North. “All you inhabitants of the North, I want you to come into alignment, because judgment is coming. I am judging the North and the only way you make it through judgment is you’re in right alignment. You are going to go through the judgment.”

You’re not oblivious to the judgment because you are a Christian. You’re just covered by the blood that gets you through the judgment. That is called repentance. That is why you are in the Northwest. That is why many of you have been through hell. Because the enemy is after one thing; to seal your inheritance. To stop you from having a full impact on other’s lives that God intended you to have. Are you hearing this today?

In part of the movie Gladiator when they were in the coliseum they locked shields and hunkered down and waited for the command “AS ONE”. “AS ONE’!

God is saying that for Abundant Life – it is “AS ONE” in 09!

In the movie Gladiator they locked their shields together. As we lock shields together we have a multiplication of influence. We multiply our spheres of influence. There will be a multiplication of influence. A multiplication that “AS ONE” we will be victorious, that “AS ONE’ we will accomplish our kingdom purpose in 09.

…In 09 the pattern will be broken of the past that has tried to delay us personally, our families, and corporately form all that You have (for us)

…I prophetically decree over this family that this is a time of new things coming in, expanding our tent stakes, taking risks in you, reaching for our future, dreaming big… - AS ONE!

He is promoting the two of you. Phil and Deanna; He’s promoting you, He’s promoting He is promoting you. He has caused a level of apostolic grace and authority to come over your life to walk in a new dimension of spiritual authority. As leaders in this house, leaders in the kingdom He says, It is bigger than this house.  He says, “Daughter you haven’s dreamed big enough yet. You have to dream bigger.” And He says, “Son you have a heart after my own heart.” And you are examples of others that are going to immerge. There’s twelve other couples that are going to immerge just like you have in this house.

12-28-08 pm - Prophet Bill Johnson

He says, “One of the patterns that I’m breaking off your life right now is a pattern of counterfeit affection. You’ve settled for less of My love than I have for you to receive. You’ve settled for counterfeit affections. Tonight it’s all about genuine affection from Me.” Tonight He wants to break that pattern off of us. The Lord says, “I want it broken off of your life before the next two days go by so that you don’t carry that into ’09.” No more settling for counterfeit affection – whether it’s something that comes from ministry, or an escape or a pacifier in your life or some sin pattern in your life. The pattern that He’s breaking is no more settling for counterfeit affection when we can have genuine affection.

Pastor Ted J. Hanson  (song)

Yvonne Cornmesser

On the way over here I had this open eyed vision: I was driving down the freeway and there is this semi-truck in front of me - physical it wasn’t, but spiritually the back doors of it were opening and closing. It kept doing it – doors opening and closing. I’m seeing this and at first I’m like whoa! Because I’m driving and I’m thinking it is going to hit my car. Then I look at and I realize that the doors are shut, but I kept seeing them do this. I feel like it represented provision and that it was being released.

Peggy Stewart

I woke up knowing that I had a dream, but there were no details, but I knew that the dream had been disturbing and that the atmosphere in my room had that same disturbing quality. And I heard the Lord say: “Blessing is more profound than warfare”, and began to actually bless my property and went out from there and out from there and out from there. And I knew that I had gone back to sleep and I had the same dream only the blessing went into the dream and it changed the whole atmosphere of the dream.

Tracy LaBrie

2009 is going to be a year of suddenlies, but not just suddenlies individually but there is going to be suddenlies for Abundant Life. There is going to be huge suddenlies in the realm of reproductive systems, reproductive organs, and reproduction of many things. It is not a reproducing of a thing that is to make the same over and over and over again. It is a reproducing for expansion. It is a reproducing that is going to come in and expand the body; it is going to expand the family. That reproduction is for the family. It is to expand the family and it’s to expand the inheritance. Because the inheritance is what I am delivering, says the Lord. I am bringing the expansion of inheritance, not just family, but of inheritance. For you haven’t even seen the inheritance but I am going to bring an expansion of inheritance along with the inheritance. So when you see the fullness thereof you will see the fullness thereof. For there is a suddenly that is going to expand and there is a reproduction of it that is going to hit you in 2009 that you have never experienced before, that the church has never seen before. For you are forerunners and you are not forerunners just for this region but you are forerunners this nation and you are forerunners for the world and the nations around the world and for the people around the world. And there is going to be an expansion of reproduction that is going to hit you, not for growth but an expansion for My kingdom, says the Lord. For there is new things coming in, new fathers coming in, new sons coming in, new discipleship coming in, new ideas coming in, new businesses coming in, for there is reproduction in all areas. I am going to bless you in all areas. You will not see the fullness of it in 2009 but you are going to begin to see the reproduction of it in 2009. So get ready because here it comes, here it comes, Get ready to receive it.

Pastor Ted Hanson

And I here the Lord saying that reproduction will not be a work, but that reproduction will be germination. Because there is going to be that which is of like heart and like mind, that which comes from like spirit and like expression. And as it comes forth it is going to come in a multiplication to expand further and expand out. To expand in impact and to expand in power - to expand in influence. But it is going to come as an easy thing - that which springs forth. For the suddenlies will not be by the efforts of the flesh, but the suddenlies will be by the efforts that I have put forth to bring forth an explosion of life as all of a sudden what has been believed for comes together because there has been a coming together of that which has been believed for. As that comes forth there is going to be a quickening of the testimony that I have desired to release. But it is going to be a thing of the Spirit and not a thing of the flesh, a thing of fruitfulness and not a thing of works. And then from that there is going to come a great testimony of the exploits and of the power and the ability to bring forth even a performance of that which needs to operate at a high value and a high rate for the purpose for which I sent it.

Zee Ellyson

I was stuck today by a verse in Job that says, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see You.” I feel that this coming year there is going to be such a greater expansion of our ability to communicate face to face and on a personal level with the Lord. …This is going to be a year where people are going to say, “I have heard about You, I have heard about You, but now I see You face to face. And I know so much more about You.” Even in our personal lives our own depth of relationship with the Lord is going to increase in such a greater way that we are going to feel even like Job has said, “I have heard about You, I have heard about You, but now I see You face to face.” There is going to be such an opening of the eyes of our hearts and deepening of the cry from our beings to be even as the song says, “I don’t want to talk about you like your are not in the room. I just want to sing right to you, I want to sing right to your face.”

Jonathan Hanson

There is going to be a grace for communicating, whereas you have been telling something to someone for years and this year they are going to say, “Oh, I get it!”  I sense that is a positive and a negative as well in that there is going to be a power for persuasion. There is going to be a grace for persuasion, to let people see what you are trying to get them to see. You are trying to get people to feel how blessed the abundant life is, you are trying to get people know how blessed this place is and they’re going to feel it. In the negative mode it will also cause a problem because there is also a grace of persuasion to be able to persuade people. There is a grace this year to be able to get people to finally be able to see what you have been talking about and that you’ll have to see it as well.

Tracy LaBrie

Be prepared to do different things this year, many different things this year. There are a few people who are gong to do many different things for income, but God spoke of risk. We need to be prepared to do many different things for whatever we need to do. Different things financial wise, money wise, investment wise, risk wise, we are going to have the ability and capability to be able take that risk and to step out and do many different things this year. There is a blessing on it. God is blessing that this year to take that risk and to step out and do many different things, Not just one, but look for many different things that you can do. Diversify yourself. Diversity and diversify yourself.

Pastor Ted Hanson

I hear the Lord saying He is going to challenge us to lay hold of some practical things that would not be normal to our culture or our patterns, even some things that we have thought to be foolish or a sign of weakness. And what I saw in a picture was an umbrella. Something that is not common to someone in the Northwest is to take an umbrella in the rain. It is almost like there is a stronghold of stubbornness to say it is not normal to take an umbrella because we put up with the rain here. And I here the Lord saying that you are going to lay hold of things that are as simple as umbrellas that will allow you to be in one environment with a different experience than you have ever had before. You will come through that environment looking differently than you have ever looked before. Instead of standing in the rain, a simple thing in your hand will cause you to appear dry in a wet season. It will cause you to be comfortable in an uncomfortable situation. The Lord says it is going to be very practical and very real but is also gong to challenge you to be willing and to respond to take hold of some practical things that you may not have taken hold of before. And the Lord says, “Don’t confuse the things that you would deem to be valuable by tradition with the things that you would deem to be valuable by the stubbornness of your own heart.” And the Lord says, “Let the willingness of My Spirit be the salve to your heart to bring forth a willingness to respond with your hand to take hold of that that you think you understand but you don’t really comprehend the fullness of what I want to bring.” For the Lord says, “I am going to bring a dynamic that is great from something that is small and from something that is small there is going to come forth a dynamic that is profound.” And so the Lord says, “this is a season where simple adjustments and simple responses are gong to bring forth new results and new testimonies. And although it appears that the environment around you is not changing the whole environment because of you is changing and it is because it is your responses to the simple things that I have put before your hand.”

Jim Zornes

I saw this very strongly, that on the cross there was salvation, and the kingdom, and the marriage. We’ve embraced salvation and we’ve gone from the place of salvation to walking into the gate of the kingdom. But as we walked into the gate of the kingdom and experience the kingdom dynamics and the kingdom will, there is still something missing because there is a marriage that needs to take place inside the church. We’ve been married spiritually, but we have not been married in our souls and we have not been married in the body. As the word’s gone forth of becoming sprit, soul, and body - as we become that spirit soul and body it’s a releasing of the things that we see spiritually from a marriage standpoint of the blessing and the kingdom coming - we can embrace it in our souls.  As we allow our souls to open up to the Groom and His expression of what that looks like, He is going to woo our hearts and our souls. But He is going to also sing love songs to our souls. As we begin to open up our souls we are going to see the spots and the blemishes; there’s a spot there and a blemish there, and there is a spot there and a blemish there, but He doesn’t see those. But as we open up our soul and allow Him to touch our soul in a way that only He can only touch because He is going to sing that love song. He is going to sing that encouraging word that is going to re-change, reposition our thinking. The way we used to do things, where before the hindrances in our souls that kept us from being who we are, it is going to all of a sudden change as those things that were once spots are made pure. It is because we have allowed Him to be married to our souls. As we have been married to Him in our souls it will affect our bodies. Even in the natural in our body, I see people that have weight issues losing weight. It is not because there is something striving, it is just happening because there has been a change in the soul. Because there is a linking between the soul and the spirit and the soul and the body and there is a marriage that a three chord strand going from spirit, soul, and to body back to the body, soul, and spirit. As we embrace that in that marriage and the whole concept of marriage not just form a spiritual standpoint spark plugs are going to go off. It is going to be like a spark plug and people’s lives that are going to be changed. Awake and Arise and the process of that healing process, I see a coming of Awake and Arise and Alive and Well that people are going to receive an instant switch as they open their soul and their bodies to allow God to do what He wants to do. It is simply as I am opening my soul to Him.

Ben Ramsdale

Areas that we have been tolerating something the way we think it should be there is suddenly going to be a moment of realization where we are going to go to really believing what we have been acting out. I see that in the area of finance, where a lot have people have been saying they live in the kingdom we don’t live in the earth but it has just kind of being something they have been saying to themselves. It has not really been dropped into where they can experience that. But I really feel that God opening a grace now where we can move into a place where we have credit. We’ve got credit from God so we can say this is what it means to live in the kingdom. We not just willing, we’re not just tolerating it and pretending we are there, we are really living there.

Also where we haven’t had other people, where there have been people in the church and in our family but we haven’t been quite in tune to them, suddenly we are going to get it. There is going to be a tuning. It is like God is tuning guitar where He is getting all the strings tuned together. It is a grace for revelation where suddenly, “now I get it”.

Jonathan Hanson

This is going to be a year of people releasing (letting go of) judgments. Because they release judgments they will see things they have never seen before. Because of this things will happen quick.

Ruth Bergman

I keep seeing this drawstring bag and God has been putting into this blessings that he has given to each one of us and things that take them for granted which are really blessings to have and we have just kind of dropped them in the bag and we have left them there. And God says this is the year you are going to take out. And as you take out of that bag the blessings that I have given you, you are gong to give them away. And the more you give away the more I am going to bless you.  And it is going to change, there is going to be a greater grace for blessing others - which will bring people into the kingdom- which will expand my work in this part of the country and it will expand.

Pastor Ted you will be going, you will be going to another nation and it is across the water. And you are going to take people with you, there is gong to be a team that goes with you – not necessarily the first trip but you will take teams. I see a team of five people going with you.

Tracy LaBrie

There is a breaking of complacency in our body. The attitude of saying ‘I am ok with where I am at”, there is a breaking of that. This is a year where each of us will want to bless others. There is a breaking of a tolerance for complacency. There is no tolerance for complacency in Abundant Life, but there is an “as one” attitude that is going to rise up for blessing others and to be a blessing to others. This is not just to the church but also to the community, to neighbors, to family members, and to one another.

Jonathan Hanson

This is a year of first time people giving things for the first time. This is a year where people are gong to give even though it seem like it doesn’t make any sense because it looks impossible. They will give because they see the principles that God has put in the earth and because they believe that God is gong to take care of them. There will be a joy and an excitement for giving as never before, as one. It will be everybody doing things together. It will be exciting to give together. It will be a new crave to give to people and God is going to bless that.

Jim Zornes

As we become one we are going to be a body that will not let go of one another. We will care for the one to our right and our left. We will lock arms and we will not let go even though the cost is great. We will pay the price for the relationship because we care for the one to the right and to the left. We will be willing to do whatever it takes to repairer of the breach and to help others remain true to the church atmosphere.

Emilyanne Zornes

The locking of our arms together is a commitment and the motion is forward. It is an offensive motion to go forward together. The strength comes when we move forward together in one accord. It is moving out of the circle of surviving to a total commitment to one another moving forward together to attack the enemy.

Pastor Ted Hanson

The phrase keeps coming to me, “godliness with contentment is great gain”.

Often we think that contentment is not doing anything, but it is not contentment that is great gain - it is “godliness with contentment is great gain”. Godliness is to continually expand. It is God to continually expand. It is God to continually give. It is God to continually grow. So, godliness with contentment is great gain and contentment is to find peace in the presence of God in any condition you are at but never being satisfied to stay there. There is something that God is bringing an adjustment in because in some of the things that we have come through there has been a discontentment and a frustration to want to go to where we are gong but the real key is we are never going to get to where we are going unless we embrace godliness with great contentment. That we are willing to find God in every moment of where we are at and to live in that moment to the fullest, but we are not content to stay were we are at. That is godliness. Godliness is to continually grow. Godliness is to continually spring forth, but contentment is to live in every moment that we find ourselves.

God is saying I want you to revisit that place where you understand that godliness with content is great gain. And there has been a cloud that has come over the church to say that I have to choose either contentment or I shout out from discontentment to declare that I want godliness. God is saying I want those two things to be together. That there is not an anger or a frustration or a shouting from discontentment, but there is a contentment and then a shout of godliness to say we want more. Not because we are dissatisfied with what we have, but because we know that it is godliness to grow from where we are. Although we can find great joy and great life to live in the world that we live in, we have decided that godliness says that the world we live in is not big enough. So godliness with contentment is great gain.

I believe we are in a season where God wants to reveal to us how much He loves us. But we must understand that in godliness with contentment there is great gain. It is not ungodliness and discontentment nor is it godliness and discontentment, nor is it just be content and don’t move. It is godliness and contentment is great gain. And some of the things that have frustrated us and the anger that we have had toward God and the anger that we have had toward circumstance and the anger we have had toward situations is going to be gone because we embrace who we are. We are children of God. We have the ability to be content in discontent situations. We have the ability to be godly and grow beyond the limitations.

Zee Ellyson

I keep hearing the words vindicate and validate. This year we are gong to see in our body and our community – God is going to bring a vindication in situations and the live of people. He is going to vindicate them and then He is going to bring a validation that they are who He says they and it is as He says it to be.

Yvonne Cornmesser

During Sunday night worship God took me to heaven and when I got there He said, “You always go to the same places. Don’t you want to go somewhere new”. So I said, “Yes, let’s go somewhere new.” So He took me to these new places. It was so much fun and there was so much joy! I feel that it is part of changing the patterns, even the patterns in our spiritual life. God wants more. He wants us to be willing to go to new places in the spirit.

I declare that the year of 2009 is a year of expansion and it is a year of going new places, and doing new things - not only in the physical realm but in the spiritual realm as well.

Jonathan Hanson

I really sense that God is going to reward risk, that first time things are going to be rewarded.

Ruth Bergman

God says, “This is year of great leaping in faith.”