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God transcends time....and therein does not think, govern, or plan according to what year it is as we do. It could be said that God moves more by dispensation and season.

We know that 2007 is but a continuation of 2006 and a prelude to 2008....and yes, '07 is, in fact, a continuation of many things that the Lord spoke about, tried to do, and did in 2006.

In this season of time (this year), the transition to position continues for those who listen and hear...but not just listen and hear, but press in to Him for intimacy. The call to come into His courts is still heard and the call to press in from His outer courts into His inner courts of Presence is still timely.

This season or period of transition for His church is one in which God is stirring His people. He is stirring His body for change, alignment and clarity. It is His desire to put an end to dead works of religion---that is legalistic rule, ritualism and routine and to come alive to depth of relationship. Relationship is key in this hour. It is key for growth, maturity and position. This time is a period of 'greening' for His anointed ones---those that will---that will spend and take the time, effort and sacrifice to press in and take (even as if by violent force of spiritual will as is necessary-Matthew 11.12) the restoration of relationship He offers. Someone once said, "I would rather be green and growing than ripe and rotting." Much of God's house is rotting on the vine and is, even now, being pruned for this is a season of pruning as well as greening.

In this hour, 2007, God's people desperately need "times of refreshing"--- a fresh rain to fall upon tired lives and lifted faces---a stream in the desert and a fountain of life on parched ground. They that truly hunger and thirst will find this refreshment for it is bought by desire and without money and without price. They that seek Him will find His rest, a much needed rest from their labors, cares and hardships and will be restored to His heart---one that desires to gather the lost, comfort the brokenhearted, and heal the wounded and hurting.

Finally, '07 is a year to make your paths straight, that is, to get your house in order...let your eye become single and well-focused. For this to happen, for most people, a back to basics is in order, that is to say, a return to their first love and the simplicity of Christian life. This is necessary to come to the positioning He would have us for the greatest anointing in the history of the church and mankind---the latter rain. The latter rain awaits and is even now falling for those that will---even now---in 2007.