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For the next several weeks, I am going to break down portions of the Prophetic Word for 2020 I released at the end of December at our church and which I posted here on the blog on January 2, 2020.

If you haven’t had the opportunity to read it, you can find it by clicking here. Or on the image below.

Run with the Horses

After the service ended a young woman approached me and asked in earnest. “Pastor Debbie, why in the world would I want to run with the horses?”

I looked at her and knew she was simply asking an innocent enough question. She wasn’t mocking me or rejecting the word I had shared.  She truly didn’t comprehend why she or anyone for that matter needed to run with the horses.

Jeremiah 12:5 says:

If you have raced with men on foot
    and they have worn you out,
    how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble in safe country,
    how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?

Jeremiah was going through a tough time. He was calling out to God for relief and a reprieve. However, God’s response was not what Jeremiah expected, nor is it what we might expect or want if we find ourselves in the same position.

Jeremiah was an obedient servant and prophet for the Lord. He loved God and was really struggling. Jeremiah cries out to God in the first four verses of chapter 12. God’s response: “If you think this is bad, then how do you expect to handle things when it gets really tough?”

Sometimes, God’s response is: If you think this is bad, then how do you expect to handle things when it gets really tough?

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I know shocker, right? C’mon God!  Jeremiah is a faithful servant and he needs some encouragement and positive reinforcement. But NO.  Instead God gives him some straight talk.  Not exactly the pep talk and relief Jeremiah was hoping for, but sometimes God’s response to our prayers are not always easy to handle, but they are always truthful and for our good.

As I was meditating on this particular verse, it struck me that God isn’t just telling Jeremiah to knock it off and to stop complaining. God is actually getting Jeremiah to switch his focus and He (God) is preparing him for the tougher road ahead and what’s to come.

God is telling Jeremiah, “I know you want it easy, and you want immediately relief but I am building strength and stamina in you so you can not just run the race in front of you with endurance, but so that you can far exceed what you think is humanly impossible.”

Modern day lingo might be something like this: “Stop having a pity party and asking for life to be easy. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps, trust Me (God), move forward and keep your eyes focused on Me (God). Things in the days and years ahead are going to be a lot tougher than this and I (God) need you to pull yourself together because I have big plans for you. (Jer. 29:11) Plans where you will compete and run with strength and endurance (Hebrews 12:1-3) that far exceed the plans or things that are right in front of you now. C’mon. Get up, get going, and trust Me (God).

How does this relate to us right now?

How does this relate to 2020 and the decade to come?

A Portion of the word I released for 2020 says this:

Healing & Endurance

This is a year for us, the church, to run with the horses. (Jer. 12:5) It’s a season of healing and endurance a season of preparation and expansion. Don’t go around the mountain any longer, it’s time to go North. (Duet 2:3) No more excuses, delays or holding onto the hurts of the past. No more complaining, deflecting or hiding. It’s a season of acceptance, forgiveness and moving forward. God is calling us, the church, to run the race before us with power, endurance and expansion in our lives.  It’s time to let go and release the wounds of the past and walk in the fullness of ALL God has for us.

Right now, amidst the current climate and situations around the world, we are calling out to God for relief. I do believe He is answering us, and we are coming out the other side. However, this is just a preparation season for us. A season for us to hit the divine reset button, to get our priorities right, and our focus off the worldly things and back onto God and His Kingdom priorities. As the time of our Saviors return gets closer and closer, things in the world will get harder and harder. Scripture tells us that we won’t know the time and season of His return, but we can sure know the signs of the times. He said we will have wars and rumors of wars. (Matthew 24)

This is a time to dig deep and prepare to run the race of endurance God has set out for each one of us.

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We need to take this time when we and the rest of the world are not living life as usual to seek God and receive the healing that is needed. This is a time to go deep!  We need to dig deep and prepare to run the race of endurance God has set out for each one of us. However, we have to prepare ourselves to do so.

Running with the horses will look different for each one of us. For me, it’s starting a new project with a friend, starting to write another book, and preparing for times of speaking and ministry that I know are ahead.

What does “Running with the Horses” look like for you?  

What does “Running with the Horses” look like for you?

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Mission Possible is about being Under Cover Agents (of change and encouragement) & is one way for us, the church, as individual people to #BeTheGift others need.

So far we have had Eight Missions:  You can click on each day below to see the corresponding video.  Even those these days are past, you can still join in and participate.

Day 1: Find Your Voice in the Psalms and use YouVersion Bible App to post a picture with a scripture on your social media platform and write what this verse speaks to you and why you were posting the verse.

Day 2: PopCorn Word Activation and the Mission Target::front line workers. We choose a word from a list and wrote an encourage word and sent it to a nurse, doctor, policeman, fireman, or grocery store worker that we knew.

Day 3: Words of Affirmation and Encouragement. Mission Target:: Pastors and Spiritual Leaders

Day 4: Mission: A picture is worth 1,000 Words Activation Mission Target: Everyone on social media plus one

Day 5: Freedom Friday Edition: “Items from a bag Activation”Mission Target: Your Choice

Day 6: “Choose a Word” Activation  Mission Target: All Your Social Media Friends & Followers

Day 7: Write a Prayer  of Encouragement (from page 92 of the Gift a Prophetic Encouragement Book)Mission Target: Widows, Widowers, & Singles

Day 8:Written Word of Encouragement (from page 112 in Releasing God’s Heart Workbook) Mission Target: Hairdressers, Estheticians, Beauticians, Make-up Artists (basically anyone in the beauty industry).

Join the #MissionPossible movement to change the world one word at a time.

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Let’s be the church on assignment, an army of ordinary people rising up to release His love and heart to a world in desperate need. #missionpossible

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Let’s be the church on assignment – It’s time to arise and awaken. God is calling an army of ordinary people to rise up and release His love and heart to a world in desperate need. So, let’s partner with Him and step out to be agents of change!

Be a positive force in the world today and participate in #MissionPossible

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Maybe,  as we stop, pray, and hear what God would have us do, we will be able to intentionally spread the Love of Jesus in practical simple ways.  Then maybe, just maybe, we will encourage and build others up.

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing (1 Thessalonians 5:11)

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Debbie Kitterman is a natural born encourager who is on fire for God. She is passionate about equipping individuals, so they can go deeper in the relationship with God, reach their God-potential and claim their Kingdom inheritance. Debbie is a wife, mother, author, pastor, speaker and the founder of “Dare 2 Hear,” a ministry that trains individuals to hear the voice of God. She travels to churches internationally and is the founder and teacher of d2htraining.com, an online course designed to equip the believer in releasing God’s heart. Her writing and teachings inspire faith and build bridges for people to believe and expect the impossible. She is also an ordained Foursquare pastor, currently serving with her husband, John, as senior pastor of Restoration Church in Lacey, Washington. Learn more at: www.debbiekitterman.com

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YouVersion 7-Day Devotional

I am blessed and honored to have a 7-day devotional on the YouVersion Bible App. YAY!!! It is a great way to kick start the 7- days before my on-line Bible Study starts next week. I would be so blessed if you would check it out and share it with your friends. You can find it here: Be The Gift Someone Needs Today!

Have you had the opportunity to read my new book  “The Gift of Prophetic Encouragement: Hearing the Words of God for others.” ?  This book is about learning to hear the voice of God in our own life so we can respond to those God bumps and little nudges He gives us on a daily basis.    God is calling us to be agents of encouragement and to be the gift the worlds needs today.

We live in a time, where those around us are in desperate need of a real encounter with Jesus and in need of encouragement. We are called to encourage one another daily (Hebrews 3:13), and to build each other up (1 Thessalonians 5:11).  My book will teach you how to step out and do just that.

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We all have the opportunity to #BeTheGift of encouragement others need today.

Do you wonder if God still speaks today?  Do you wonder if He would ever speak to you personally?  Do you long to hear the voice of God in your life?

Have your read other books on hearing from God, but long for hands on practical application? or are you looking for ways to  move you forward  hearing from God?

If you answered YES to any of those questions, then I have exactly what you need.  I now have an online e-course designed to equip you in understanding that God still speaks today, and He longs to speak directly to you, through His word, and others.  He longs to encourage you, strengthen you and comfort you.  The training on this site, is fully based on Scripture, and taken from my training manual Releasing God’s heart through Hearing His Voice. 

God is speaking, Can you Hear Him?

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