2016 “The Year of the Tent Peg”

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church, Deoborah, Gentiles, Hebrew Year, Jael, Jews, Supernatural, Tent Peg

The Hebrew Year 5776 is called Ayin Av or the year of the tent peg. Isaiah 54 and Judges 4-5 are the chapters that best explain the year we are in as the body of Christ. It is a year of the supernatural. (For more information on this, look up John Benefiel at cotr.tv and his series on The Hebrew Year 5776).

On Christmas Eve (December 24, 2015), my truck broke down on the side of the road, at first I thought I ran out of gas, so was laughing, singing, celebrating that after 32 years of driving, I ran out of gas for the first time in my life, it was a funny thought to me. While waiting for someone to bring me a gas can and help me go on my way, I was pacing the side of this busy street, singing and praying in tongues, celebrating the Lord despite the circumstances. While singing, praying and pacing, I looked down and there was a grey bag of tent pegs. I knew we were in the year of the tent peg, so I picked up this treasure and put it in my truck until I could get home. After some angelic helpers, a tow truck and an $800 fuel pump repair, it was not that I ran out of gas after all, so my record still stands for this not happening to me.

Once home, I laid my tattered grey bag on the bed and took out the tent pegs, that I knew immediately were a prophetic sign of the year we are in. In this bag, there were 11 tent pegs, as I prayed into the number of tent pegs and the significance of them, the Lord spoke to me and said, 11 tent pegs means the word of God is our plumb line. I was shouting, but as the days have gone by, I have had other revelations about these tent pegs and while on the phone, standing outside, telling someone about the tent pegs, I look down and there were 2 more tent pegs. I am dancing, shouting, celebrating, knowing the Lord is giving me a supernatural prophetic symbol of the year we are in, but what is He saying, is it just for me or for the body of Christ? As I have prayed, inquired and sought the Lord about these 13 tent pegs, this is what He has shown me.

The Hebrew year 5776, the year of the tent peg, it is a leap year, this means that there will be one extra month added to the Hebrew calendar, so there are actually 13 months in this Hebrew year 5776. So, the 13 tent pegs are a confirmation that they are for the year 5776, the Ayin Av year, the year of the tent peg. As I studied Isaiah 54 and Judges 4-5 along with their significance for this year, this is what I believe the Lord is saying about this year…This will be a year to sing, because many things are about to happen!

Isaiah 54 happenings this year:   1. Those who have been angry with you for years will forgive you. (v.7-8)

2. There is no need to fear for you will not experience humiliation from them again. (v.4)
3. Shame and sorrow are over. (v.4) The winter has past. (Song of Solomon 2:11-14)
4. Those who have been in the wilderness and have felt fruitless are going to produce like never before. (v.1)

Because all these things are going to happen, this is what you need to do: 1. Align with the Av (tent peg/plumb line/word of God) (Amos 7:7-8)

2. Open wide your heart (make room for people, withhold nothing, speak boldly) (v.2) (2 Corinthians 6:11-13)
3. Strengthen Your Identity (grow firm, become powerful, establish firmly, be fierce) (v.3)

It is time to sing, it is time to shout, it is time to raise a joyful song, for we are about to see an increase of the kingdom of God advancing on the earth. The glory of God is coming in a tsunami of glory and no man or woman will be able to take credit for it. The I Am God is going to do it, He has set the appointed time for this glory to come and we are alive to see it. Be ready to become so supernaturally natural that you are naturally supernatural, for it is the year of the tent peg. Deborah’s and Jael’s are going to arise and bring victory for the body of Christ, by driving the word of God into the mindsets that have hindered the people of God. Leaders are going to become ones that train, equip and deploy, not limit, organize or bring order to the glory of God. The plumb line has been dropped, the Lord has already decided this time before it existed, 5776, 2016, the year of the tent peg

Abraham’s Understanding of Faith

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Abraham, Believe, Christianity, faith, Growth, maturity, Sarah, Supernatural

 Romans 4:20-21 says, “He didn’t doubt God’s promise out of a lack of faith. Instead, giving honor to God [for the promise], he became strong because of faith 21 and was absolutely confident that God would do what he promised.”

Abraham is fondly known to many religions around the world as the Father of Faith. Preachers around the world have shared on the subject of faith, for it is the foundation stone on which the church is built. Many have presented impeccable theological understandings about faith; while others have used some of the most creative means to describe faith. So, with so many great teachings on the subject, it is somewhat intimidating to put out in print, yet another explanation of such a tried, tested and time rich topic. Yet, the depths of this subject are as deep and wide as God, Himself, so there may be no end to the talking points related to this subject, therefore, the decision to bring one more swing at the subject prevailed.

Two primary points jumped out of this text in Romans 4, which is what compelled me to write my perspective on Abraham’s understanding of faith. This is not an exhaustive list, it is just an addition to the wealth of information of the subject. Faith has 2 primary components to it, one faith believes and two faith produces.

1. Faith believes in the face of the facts.

   The fact is Abraham was 99 years old when the angel of the Lord told him, he was going to have a son. Now I know some people think 99 years old was not actually 99 years old back then since they lived so long, but the days of man’s life was cut to 70 after the flood and Abraham was born after the flood, so 99 years old then is the same as 99 years old now. 99 years old, my grandma is 99 years old, she can barely make it, with her walker from the couch to the kitchen table to eat lunch, the dude was 99 years old. This is the fact. Romans 4:19 says, He did not weaken in faith when he considered the impotence of this own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.” Not only was Abraham impotent, 99 years old, nearly dead, Sarah was 87 years old and had been barren all her life. The facts were almost comical, no wonder Sarah laughed!

When we look at the facts of our situation, whatever it may be, in light of the facts of Abraham and Sarah’s situation, it really puts in perspective, that if they could believe God for the miracle of a child who came from Sarah’s 87 year old body, how much more can we believe God for that job, that spouse, that baby, that breakthrough. It is an insult to talk to God about our problems without faith, when Abraham and Sarah had plenty of factual reasons to debate with God about this promise He was giving to them.

2. Faith produces.

    Faith produces everything we need in order to get the promise God has spoken to us. Faith produces strength, Abraham and Sarah needed supernatural strength to come together as husband and wife, so they could produce what they believed God was promising them. This was no an intellectual ascent they were making, this took some physical activity. They experienced the strength that faith produces.

     Faith produces empowerment for success. God released a supernatural empowerment that opened Sarah’s womb, he released the empowerment that both Abraham and Sarah needed in order to produce a child. God is in the empowerment business. We quit so easily we do not recognize or tap into God’s empowerment, because when our strength runs out we quit, but there is a whole other level of strength that comes if we don’t quit to early. God loves to empower us for success, but it takes faith to keep going, when you want to quit, in order to step into the empowerment that comes through faith.

Faith believes in the face of the facts, faith produces strength, faith produces empowerment and as we praise and glorify God, the result will be full satisfaction and assurance of God’s ability to do what He said He would do. Abraham and Sarah have experienced a faith that produces, because they believed. Abraham understands faith and he wants us to understand it as well, but it takes us doing something that we do not think we can do, until you step out, you will not see the power of God at work in your faith.