What will 2023 look like? It’s a big question especially after 2020, 2021 & this past year. I feel like every year there are numerous prophetic voices who tell us the coming year will be one of “supernatural blessing.” “A time of breakthrough!” “Double for your trouble.”
That’s great and certainly every year there is some of that. But let’s face it the last three years have been tough.
So what is the Lord saying for 2023 and how do we prepare for it?
Click here if you are interested in my two cents and a word of encouragement.
Also, if you didn’t hear the news, we had an amazing answer to prayer this past week as the Jan. 6 “bipartisan” committee formally withdrew their subpoena against President Trump and are disbanding the kangaroo court…I mean committee. Hat tip to the intercessors and thank you Jesus! As you know they have tried for a year to charge him with insurrection so he couldn’t run for office again. (That was what this was all about.)
They finally threw in the towel. It’s pretty hard to be successful, I suppose, when the person you are trying to criminalize publicly stated in his speech from the beginning to be peaceful and NOT cause problems. When that got shown in court alongside their edited propaganda message to the public…well ouch!
This week we focus on the border crisis as the numbers swell with Biden’s determination to remove Title 42. This Trump-era legislation helped immigration officers turn back at least 30% of the immigrants flooding our border.
Title 42 prevents the introduction of individuals during certain public health emergencies. The Left insists it violates federal and national law, but that is because they claim all illegals attempting to cross the border are “seeking asylum” and that Title 42 prevents them from doing so. Note, if they were truly seeking “asylum”, then why don’t they stop in safe countries closer to them along the way? But they don’t. They trek all the way to America, many given debit cards and supplies along the way, to encourage them to keep going. It’s not about “asylum” for most.
Border crossings in 2022 were around 3 million people and that was WITH Title 42 in place. If it is removed there is literally nothing left to slow the stem. Our gates are wide open. We are a country with no gates, no borders, no protection—without a miracle we will implode. As you know, that is the goal and then to force us to go under the U.N. and a one world government. The Bible prophesied that day would come—and we are there—but we also know that a huge end-time revival must first take place. That hasn’t happened yet and so that is how we continue to pray.
Father, we thank you for the answered prayer for the disbanding and defeat of the January 6 committee. May their lies be exposed and may they be held personally responsible for the frivolous spending of our tax dollars for their biased “investigation.”
There are seven things that You call an abomination: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. Those who are committed America’s demise have consistently done all seven as they work to turn us against each other. As they tried to destroy President Trump and his ability to run for office. As they continue to try to destroy America and our freedom to worship You. Lord, may the destruction they have poured out come upon them while they are unaware. Let the net that they hid, catch them. And into that very destruction they created, may they fall.
May they be turned back and humiliated who have devised evil against us. Whether that be the evil cartels, terrorists, drug and sex traffickers at our borders or those sitting in seats of authority who have abused their power and the trust of the American people. Let them be like chaff before the wind with the angel of the Lord driving them on. Let their way be dark and slippery with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
Lord you see the crisis at our borders and how the Biden administration has flung open our gates for anyone to enter. They have tied the hands of our border agents, lied about and refused to take responsibility for the crisis, put Americans in danger and forced our border states to deal financially with the mess they intentionally created as they continue to lie about it. You see the constant flood of drugs, sex trafficking, gun smuggling and terrorists entering without restriction. You see the people enticed to come who simply seek better lives, but who are now used as pawns and bussed into cities across the U.S. creating more homelessness and theft in almost every city.
How do we stop all these things Lord? In the days of Nehemiah, You provided a man who used his position and favor to rally the people and rebuild the walls. As a result, in record time the walls were rebuilt. If you could do it then, You can do it now. We plead our case before You O Lord and ask that You would provide a way—a person—to stop this insanity and restore our borders. We pray that the Biden administration’s efforts to remove Title 42 would fail along with the Left’s determination to destroy our nation. Father, we continue to cry out for revival in our land. For an outpouring of Your Spirit, for truth and justice to prevail and Your glory revealed.
You said that when the poor man cries out to You, that You will hear them. Hear us Lord and save us from all our troubles. May the angel of the Lord encamp around about us who fear You and around about our nation as we cry out to You in desperation. Rescue us O Lord for we put or trust in You.
You said You would bind up the fracture of Your people and heal the bruise You inflicted. Lord we know this nation deserves judgment, but we, Your Remnant stand on Your promise that You would recover Your people, hear our cry, deliver us from our enemies and recover us with Your hand.
We stand on Your truth and declare over 2023 that Your Word will prevail and Your glory be revealed.
Prov 6:16-19, Ps 35:8, Ps 35:4-6, Ps 34:6-7, Is 30:26, Is 11:11