"GREAT OPPOSITION FROM THE ENEMY IS CREATING THE ATMOSPHERE FOR GREAT MIRACLES!" by Bill C. Yount theshofarhasblown@... www.billyount.com Two weeks ago I called Dick's Sporting Goods, and when they answered the phone, they put me on hold. While I was on hold, I heard this CD playing tracks of the Greatest Moments in Sports History. I was so captivated by these awesome plays and victories that I called back later and said, "Could you put me on hold? I don't want to talk to anyone; I just wanted to listen to those greatest moments in sports." As I was hearing these greatest moments, the Holy Spirit fell down on this CD, and it was as though I began to hear, in the Spirit, the greatest moments that were about to take place upon the earth beginning this coming year!! One of the plays I heard on the CD I remembered hearing and watching myself on television. Years ago, the Pittsburgh Steelers were losing in the Super Bowl with just seconds left of the game; Terry Bradshaw threw a long pass downfield to Franc O'Harris and the ball was seemingly lost in the scurry of the opposing team members all around him who were trying to intercept the pass. But then the announcer suddenly starts shouting, "Out of nowhere, Franc O'Harris has just caught the football with 5 seconds left in the game and he is on his way into the end zone for the winning touchdown!" The announcer shouts, as the crowd goes wild, "Do you believe in miracles?" LISTEN CAREFULLY -- "YOU NEED TO SURROUND YOURSELF THIS COMING YEAR WITH 4 OR 5 PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THAT 'ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD!!'" The Holy Spirit spoke through that CD and said, "This is the kind of events coming, this year, in our lives in the Spirit! We are about to witness and experience our greatest moments of victory of our whole lives!" Then it dawned on me . . . why and what caused these greatest moments of sports to take place? It was because these moments were surrounded by great opposition from the opposing teams! "GREAT OPPOSITION ALWAYS CREATES THE ATMOSPHERE FOR GREAT MIRACLES!" This coming year it may look, at times, like the cards are all stacked against you and you are outnumbered like Jehoshaphat's army . . . appearing as though there is no way you could ever win. But the battle is not your battle . . . it's God's Battle! Know that this battle is already fixed in Heaven before it even starts on earth. "IT'S A FIXED FIGHT FOR YOU! YOU WILL BE GIVEN A HEAVENLY EDGE THIS COMING YEAR TO OVERCOME AND SEE VICTORY AND MIRACLES IN YOUR LIFE!" "Many will be inducted into Heaven's Hall of Faith and Fame this coming year! Hebrews 11 is still being written!" This is so very important this coming year: "CONTEND FOR THE FAITH THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS!" The Saints of old just didn't walk the walk, they also talked the talk! Scripture says, "I believed therefore I have spoken!" "THE WORD OF GOD SPOKEN TO YOU MUST BE SPOKEN THROUGH YOU!" Saints of old called those things that were not as though they were! This coming year you need to call those things that are not as though they already were! This really pleases the Lord as we not only walk by faith but we talk by faith! BRING YOUR MOUTH INTO AGREEMENT WITH GOD'S WORD THIS YEAR . . . BECAUSE WHAT YOU DON'T SAY CAN HURT YOU. Here is an example: The widow woman whose son died: She laid his dead body on the prophet's bed and started for the prophet's house. She didn't even tell her husband what was going on, and when he asked why she was heading for the prophet's house, she said, "IT SHALL BE WELL!" 2 Kings 4:25, 26 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold yonder is that Shunammite woman. Run now, I pray thee, to meet her and say to her, 'Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with thy child?' And she answered, 'It is well!'" Her child was raised from the dead. She was calling those things that were not as though they already were! "RIGHT NOW I WANT YOU TO SAY THESE WORDS AND KEEP THEM IN YOUR MOUTH AND HEART FOR THIS COMING YEAR: 'IT IS WELL WITH MY HUSBAND! IT IS WELL WITH MY WIFE!...IT IS WELL WITH MY CHILD!'" The Lord says, "Put Me in remembrance of what I have said to you. Say it. Talk it. Remember the little shepherd boy who spoke some words to a champion warrior, Goliath, and I stepped in and made him [David] the champion." We overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. If you want to please God, start calling those things that are not as though they were! That's what causes God to get excited to move for us! Without faith it is impossible to please Him! Abraham believed God, and every time he introduced himself as "Abraham," he was saying, before he even had a son, "I am the Father of many nations!" In Mark 7:25, Jesus tells the Syrophenician woman that she cannot eat of the children's bread. She says something that changes His mind. She says: "Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs." Jesus stops and says to her in verse 29 of Mark 7: "For this thy saying, go thy way, the devil just left your daughter." For this thy saying!!!! I believe our words attract the very things which we say! We prophesy all the time just by the words that we speak!! Let's begin to prophesy this New Year in by calling those things that are not as though they already were!! by Bill Yount www.billyount.com theshofarhasblown@... 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