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		<title>TIMES AND SEASONS 2023</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>As Christians, our focus is on the times and seasons of God. We want to know what he is doing in the world. We want to line up with his plans as he unfolds them in 2023. Pray into the points below that resonate with you</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://colindye.com/2023/02/08/times-and-seasons-2023/">TIMES AND SEASONS 2023</a> appeared first on <a href="https://colindye.com">Colin Dye</a>.</p>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p style="text-align: center;">Chaos and Confusion</p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><b>As Christians, our focus is on the times and seasons of God. We want to know what he is doing in the world. We want to line up with his plans as he unfolds them in 2023. Pray into the points below that resonate with you.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">God is shaking the nations so that his kingdom will manifest. Godâ€™s kingdom cannot be shaken. It is our one stability in an unstable world. The forces of Chaos will not overcome Godâ€™s people (See Hebrews 12:25-29).Â </span></p>
<p><b>During these troubled times, we can overcome anxiety and the fear of lack by focusing on the kingdom of God and his righteousness.Â </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Align yourself with the things that cannot be shaken. See Matthew 6:33-34</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 34 &#8220;Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.Â  ESV</span></i></p>
<p><b>We overcome the powers of chaos, disorder and confusion by holding firm to the kingdom.Â </b></p>
<p><b>GROWING CHAOS AND CONFUSION</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The â€˜spirit of chaosâ€™ will continue to assert itself in 2023. Every realm will be affected. Pray about the prophetic pointers below. Intercession can moderate both their severity and outcomes.Â </span></p>
<p><strong><i>Spiritual Realm</i></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Â <br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">On-going spiritual rebellion and opposition to the purposes of God (and his kingdom) will have on-going effects on the earth. We will see new and continued attempts to bring about the overall plan of the enemy in our times:Â </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Destruction</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Devastation</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Control</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deception</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spiritual blindness</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Falling away of the faithful</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attacks upon churches (leaders and members)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Significant ministries being targeted.Â </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Demonically-inspired and supercharged attacks coming through the usual temptations of money, sex and power will be even more intense and pervasive in the coming days. Hold fast to the Lord.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our adversary is spawning division, false doctrine, false spiritual manifestations, and compromise. Collaborators with the powers of darkness operate through false wisdom. This wisdom is earthly, unspiritual (soulish) and demonic . See James 3:13-18, which shows that jealousy and selfish ambition bring disorder and every evil practice. Christians leaders must be vigilant.</span></p>
<p><strong><i>Physical Realm</i>Â <br /></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">The effects on the planet of spiritual and human rebellion will continue to be seen and will increase:Â </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earthquakes</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Famine</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Floods</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pestilence</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disease</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Draughts</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extreme weather</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Storms (disrupting shipping and sinking some vessels)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extra-terrestrial events in our solar system causing anomalies in telecommunications.</span></li>
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<p><strong><i>Political Realm</i>Â <br /></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Political, economic, transportation and trading systems will be shaken. Food supply chains will be broken and reshaped according to changing political priorities. More control by governments over their peoples. More extreme and widespread persecution of Christians. New political and religious alignments will be formed which will reshape the geopolitical and geospiritual contours of the world. Wars and threats of wars will continue.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attempts to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian war will be made during 2023, but a lasting solution will be elusive. The conflict will begin to draw other nations into alignment with Russia in a solidifying East/West axis involving China, Iran, and possibly India, some Latin American and Eastern European nations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There will be a sudden and dramatic rise and fall of political leaders across the globe. Entire political systems will be shaken globally and nationally.</span></p></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><b>THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH</b></p></div>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">â€œMay your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heavenâ€</span></p></div>
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		<title>The Beginning of Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Wisdom truly begins with fearing the Lord. When you understand who God is ? that he is the creator and sovereign ruler of all things, then you be ready to respect him fully. &#160; &#160; There can be no greater wisdom than lining up with the ultimate reality of the universe. Without this holy regard [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>Wisdom truly begins with fearing the Lord. When you understand who God is ? that he is the creator and sovereign ruler of all things, then you be ready to respect him fully.</h4>
<p><div id="attachment_1924" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1924" class="size-full wp-image-1924" title="The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom, proverbs 9-10" src="https://i0.wp.com/colindye.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Fear-of-the-Lord-is-the-beginning-of-all-wisdom-proverbs-9-10.jpg?resize=450%2C367&#038;ssl=1" alt="The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom, proverbs 9-10" width="450" height="367" /><p id="caption-attachment-1924" class="wp-caption-text">The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom, proverbs 9-10</p></div><br />
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There can be no greater wisdom than lining up with the ultimate reality of the universe. Without this holy regard to who God is and his claims over your life you will always tend in the direction of self and the mere opinions of this world. But the fear of the Lord is concerned with more than a mere moral code or philosophical principle. It has to do with personal and intimate knowledge of God who not only commands respect, but rewards all those who truly follow him with the fullness of his life.</p>
<h5>Key Thought</h5>
<p>Those who scoff at the fear of the Lord will miss out on everything he has but those who surrender to it will be rewarded with all that God is as the author and sustainer of life.</p>
<h5>Prayer</h5>
<p>Lord, I surrender to your holy fear in my life today. I want all that you are and all that you have for me. Please help me learn your wisdom and your way for me today.</p>
<h5>Discipleship Steps</h5>
<p>The centre of control and the fountain of wisdom do not lie within us, that is, in ourselves. Instead Jesus Christ, as the Lord of all, is the one who directs and controls. But this control does not operate independently of our will and our choices. If we recognise that we will begin to understand, not only the fear of the Lord, but also the wisdom that flows from it. Knowing that the Lord will not manipulate or dominate us, we yield to him freely and willingly.</p>
<h5>Read: Proverbs 9:10-12</h5>
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		<title>The Fear of the Lord is Clean</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Big debates often rage about the relationship between the fear of the Lord and New Testament believers. &#160; We are told that the concept belongs only to Old Testament times when the people did not know the intimacy and love made available to us in Christ. But this is not the case. Although we do [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>Big debates often rage about the relationship between the fear of the Lord and New Testament believers.</h4>
<p><div id="attachment_1906" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1906" class="size-large wp-image-1906" title="The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom" src="https://i0.wp.com/colindye.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Fear-of-the-Lord-is-the-beginning-of-all-wisdom-1024x576.jpg?resize=450%2C250&#038;ssl=1" alt="The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom" width="450" height="250" /><p id="caption-attachment-1906" class="wp-caption-text">The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom</p></div><br />
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We are told that the concept belongs only to Old Testament times when the people did not know the intimacy and love made available to us in Christ. But this is not the case. Although we do have a greater appreciation of God?s love as Jesus has revealed it to us, this should intensify our fear of the Lord and not diminish it. Our verse today shows that because we do have these great promises of our heavenly Father?s love and acceptance we should all the more cleanse ourselves from the things that displease the Lord and have a holy regard for him in every detail of our lives.</p>
<h5>Key Thought</h5>
<p>The fear of the Lord will lead you to cleanse your life from all that displeases him. The greater the sense of intimacy you have with the Lord, the greater will be your intolerance of sin in your life.</p>
<h5>Prayer</h5>
<p>Dear Lord, thank you that you are my Father and that you hold me close to you. Help me to turn away from the things that offend you and that keep me from enjoying closeness with you.</p>
<h5>Discipleship Steps</h5>
<p>The fear of the Lord extends to every area of your life ? private as well as public. Many times we will behave one way when others are watching us but another way entirely when we are alone or when we think no-one is watching. That is not the fear of the Lord which calls for consistency in all things. God?s eyes are on us all the time and if we disregard this fact, then we show we are more afraid of being embarrassed before men than are of offending the Lord.</p>
<h5>Read: 2 Corinthians 7:1</h5>
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		<title>No Fear!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Intimacy with God brings a sense of security and protection. It also brings you a sense of freedom, as you know God will deliver you from every evil and take you out of harms way. &#160; &#160; He will rescue you from fear ? both of the unknown and unpredictable terrors of the night as [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>Intimacy with God brings a sense of security and protection. It also brings you a sense of freedom, as you know God will deliver you from every evil and take you out of harms way.</h4>
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He will rescue you from fear ? both of the unknown and unpredictable terrors of the night as well as the more obvious things that would strike you in broad daylight. Round-the-clock security and protection is your inheritance as you seek the Lord with all of your heart. This protection will keep you steady when all around you are falling. Don?t let the enemy intimidate you with his threats of destruction. The Lord is your refuge.</p>
<h5>Key Thought</h5>
<p>You can enjoy security, safety and the protection of the Lord because you have made Him your refuge. This is the basis of your no-fear attitude to the world. The Lord?s presence covers and protects you at all times ? day or night</p>
<h5>Prayer</h5>
<p>Lord, I choose to trust you today and make you my refuge. I will not be afraid but praise you because you are with me both in the difficult times and in the times of peace.</p>
<h5>Discipleship Steps</h5>
<p>Making God your refuge is a deliberate choice. It also must become a chosen life-style controlling your actions and behaviour. A disciple of Christ bases his or her attitudes on the knowledge of God?s presence and protection in all things. They do not run here and there looking for relief or comfort in times of trial or difficulty. If the Lord is your refuge, then you go to Him and place your confidence in the Rock, Christ Jesus. Re-affirm your confidence and quite trust in Him today.</p>
<h5>Read: Psalm 91:3-8</h5>
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