You heard me right ...
This year is a "brand new beginning" ... for you!   

Starting Off Right ...
The Bible teaches us about "seed time and harvest.  If you've grown up around farmers, you also know that there are key principles that govern the crop results you desire.  There are principles of the "seed" that you sow, and principles of the growth of that seed, that are constantly at work. 

In Mark 11:23 tells us that if we would but "believe" in our hearts that what we "say" will come to pass, we can have whatever we say!  In verse 24 it reads, "Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them." 

How many of you understand the principle of "sowing" and "reaping" again?  How many of you know how a seed works?  When we "speak" into the Earth, the life of God that is within us goes forth and begins to produce what we have spoken.  We must "believe" with our hearts.  Your mind is going to give you some fits from time-to-time, but believe in your heart.  Have patience, and speak your faith every time the thing which you have prayed for comes to mind.  Eventually, the doubt and unbelief will have to get out of the way!  Confess it, and you establish it.  The power in your confession is the watering of that seed ... the nurturing that will help it to become established and produce the harvest you confess. 

With that in mind, take this year in-hand, and write down the things you want to see come to pass this year.  Make plans, and set things into motion.  Confess over them, and "believe"!  And like the seed that sends it's tap root deep down into the soil, your seed - the thing you have prayed over and spoken into existence - will form a root system.  As the root system begins to grow and develop, it will spread out throughout the soil underground to give the plant a stable, consistent resource in the washing of the water of the Word of God.  And as you confess over it, it will grow and grow and grow.  It has to store up it's energy because it's biggest feat is yet to come - bursting forth into the Earth-realm, and producing the harvest for which you have prayed! 

The seed's biggest event is it's "birth"!  You see, it has to store up energy and develop a "support system" beneath the soil so that one day, at the proper time, it will fight it's way to the surface, and be "born" into this atmosphere!  It must "burst forth" through the soil and enter into the atmosphere where it is to live and survive!  At that point, what was once sown into the soil is now visible and apparently "here" ... to grow, to produce, and to provide that which it is designed to provide! 

The same goes for things that you pray over, or things that you "speak" into existence ... you have to "believe" that they already exist, even though you cannot see them.  You have to have "patience" to wait and "trust" that the seed you have sown will DO what it was created to "do"!  And you have to "confess" over them ... speak as though what you have prayed has already happened. 

But when we speak contrary to our faith, or when we doubt, or begin to grow impatient and insist on "seeing" what we should be "believing", we often kill off the very thing we wanted to grow.  So, if you want to "bring in your harvest", you have to "have faith" ... and "patience"!  Wait.  Yes, "wait" ... and allow the faith of God to produce in your life, what you have "expected". 

Now get your pen and paper, or your notebook computer, or your iPad, and get busy writing down the things you want to happen for you ... THIS YEAR.  Speak them into existence!  Sow them with the Word of God, and "believe".  

Remember this:  "The vision is for the appointed time ... though it may tarry, wait for it!  For it will surely come... without delay." 
(Habakuk 2:3)  Your prayer, and the things which you set into motion on this day, "will come" ... if you believe! 

Make me proud!

- pastor rich -



Remember what God says: 
"For I know the plans I have for you", says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."      [Jeremiah 29:11 - TLB] 



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WORD CHURCH
15612 Poynette Place
Austin, TX 78717-5351 

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by Pastor Rich Allcorn
Contact me at: pastors@wordchurch.info
or call the church office at: (512) 782-9775