“Then David asked the Lord, “Should I chase the people who took our families? Will I catch them?” The Lord answered, “Chase them. You will catch them, and you will succeed in saving your families.”
God has equipped us, taken us through the war zone to fight and overtake our enemies over the past three days. Today is the final day of our prayers/fasting, we are standing in the victory in Christ to declare restoration over everything that had been stolen over the years. 1 John 5:4 – “For everyone having been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory having overcome the world: our faith.” As overcomers we have the right to walk and live in victory every day. Jesus defeated satan on the cross and we have to stand on that freedom we have in him and ask the Lord to restore onto us what the enemy stole. Psalm 14:7 “Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!”
Even though we may have suffered, it time to wipe your dust and arise by grace and receive the word of the grace of restoration. 1 Peter 5:10 “And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you”.
Declare this word over your life today and always: “1 The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” 2 The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.” Psalm 110:1-2
When the thief comes he steals, kills, and destroys. Begin to command the thief to give back what he stole from you (List them). Anything that the devil has kill and destroyed, begin to declare life over it now. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness”. John 10:10
When the Lord says go after your enemies, he knows that he is about to take from your enemies what they stole and return to you everything that was counted lost: Declare over your life, family, ministry, finances, children, job, spiritual life etc, new wine and oil, restoration of what had been lost. “24The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. 25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust— My great army that I sent against you. 26You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame” Joel 2: 24-26. “ But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, ’declares the Lord, ‘because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares” Jeremiah 30:17
Pray that any power or thing or person who has made you bleed, It’s a new day, bleeding must come to an end. “And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her hemorrhage stopped.” Luke 8:43-44
Stand on this same anointing and grace (Romans 8:11” 11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you” ) and call out with a loud voice everything the enemy has killed in your life, ministry, family, call it out from any demonic palace. “42I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them”. John 11:42-44
Declare to any Assyria what the Lord is saying here (demonic power, rulers’ principalities, witches, wizards, satanic agents etc shall enter your life, family, marriage, children, destiny, job, ministry etc. They will not come near your tent or shoot any arrow or build a wall to block you this year from your blessings in any form or shape: “31For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this. 32So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it. 33He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.” 2 Kings 19:32
As the plan of the enemies of the Jews were overturned, this is our portion in 2022. Declare this and turn this word into prayers: “1On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them. 2In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples” Esther 9:1-2
Pray that God will send forth ministering angels in into any potential wars that the enemy is planning against you: “And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.” Acts 12:11
“And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.” Zechariah 10:6
The Holy Spirit will accomplish this word of God in our lives this year, so arise and declare it: 1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, 2to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, 3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified. 4They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. 5Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers. 6But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riche. 7Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs. 8For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them” Isaiah 61: 1-8
As intercessors, tap into this grace that rewards after you have spent time praying for others like Job did for his friends: “10After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions. 11All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring” Job 42:10-11
Even if the enemy thinks he can padlock you in the place of physical or spiritual poverty, the Lord says not again. Pray that this year the God of restoration is taking you from those ashes of poverty into the place of the King. “He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's, and upon them He has set the world.” 1 Samuel 2:8
“1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty “5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. Psalm 91:1,5-8
Give God thanks for the great things he has done, is doing and will do for you this year: “11You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, 12that my heart may sing Your praises and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks forever” Paslm30:11-12
Thank the Lord for rest as it comes your way this year: Esther 9:22 “as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor”.