Finish Pt 1

Luke 14:28-30

For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it –  29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,  30 saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'

2 Tim 4:7.  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Today is 12/1/13

Significance of Numbers

1 – Possibilities

3 – Excellence

4 – New Dimensions

7 – Completion (full, satisfied, enough)

8 – New Beginnings (first of a new series)

12 – Governmental order & structural order

            Sons / tribes of Israel

            Temple, Heaven

            Apostles

            Months of the year

The reason we repeat cycles & don’t breaking through

            We don’t govern our year – we don’t complete all 12 months of the year

The world convinces us that we must have something

Gen 3:6.  So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

It’s going to make us look good, feel good, or make people look up to us

The world offers us False Joy

In exchange the world’s systems takes months from us

Never finish 12 months – we come to the end of the year, but it was not complete

            Loose focused on our goals & objectives

We start the New Year in lack

• ·         No energy to serve the Lord
• ·         Nothing to give to the Lord
• ·         No seed for the New Season

We need to Finish this year 

            Govern the full 12 months

                        Renew our New Year’s resolutions today

Need seed for next year

Prophesy to you about next year – 2014

How many children did Jacob have?  13.  12 + 1 Dinah

• 12 tribes, which represents government
• 12 Apostles

13 represents the gateway from one dimension to another

            Goes in and out of the world

Jesus (13^th) came to open new dimensions & possibilities of abundance

Gen 28:12.  Then [Jacob] dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

John 1:51.  And He said to [Nathanael], "Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." 

Next year a gateway is opening to new dimensions & possibilities of abundance

            Lunar calendar – 13 New Moons in 2014 – 13 months

What we’re doing in completing this year is not just for this year

But for the possibilities and promise of next year

Focus on temporary Pleasure, not the Promise – causes us to spill the seed

• ·         Gen 38:8-9

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.  9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

2014 will build on what already start and finish in 2013

We cannot start the New Year doing things we should have finished

But, if we ‘bear down’ and finish this year, God will give us the authority to say…

Sun stand still – need more time to finish something (Josh 10:12-14)

Rev 12:1-6

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5 She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

Woman w/ crown of 12 stars, and womb ready to deliver – 13

• ·        Targeted by the great dragon
• ·        Went into the desert – a place prepared by God

1. Protection
2. Separation from the world’s system
3. Retraining – renewing the mind

We’re at the gateway of the experience of a new dimension

            The enemy is right there to abort it

                        Leaving us to repeat the cycle

It’s going to be a fight to be victorious

            It requires discipline, persistence & focus

Joshua marched around Jericho 13x

          12 + 1