2017 IS NOT A NEW YEAR and DECEMBER IS NOT DEMONIC

By Falade Femi A.

Let me quickly remind you that whatsoever is born of the season is seasonal. You are not seasonal, therefore, your joy should not be the joy of the season. It is permanent, a product of the Holy Ghost who dwells in you. Your expectation should not be based on the season, there is more to that. If God does not buy you a car this season does it mean He is incapable? Can’t He give you a car in April? Why must it be December by force by fire? Why should you overburden yourself and be anxious because of the season, all of that are seasonal and they will vanish away in few days’ time. 

I decided not to write any article even though I was tempted to do so in this jamboree month of funny events. I am tired of many articles and posts that have created all sorts of cancerous impressions in the heart of many and sundry that they need to run all the “runs” they have not run since January in December or as they put it, before the “new year”. Many whose plans are not achievable in 12 month calendar were running to meet up in December. 

Uncountable numbers of programmes and church activities that filled the air has continue to create such impressions in the mind of innocent people that December is so dangerous or serious more than other months. This is one of the reasons for mental disorder that results in series of casualties all around December. May God have mercy on us.

I am not surprise to see many people who, because of the mental picture pasted by all these drawing closer to church and not to God because of the danger they wanted to prevent or the goodies they wanted to acquire for the season. Hello, God is not seasonal; He is the same yesterday, today and forever. The One that was, that is and that is to come. The “I am that I am”, the Beginning and the End, (Heb. 13:8, Rev. 1:8). 

According to God’s calendar, the next 365days we are about to begin is not new. From dictionary, new means something not used by anyone else previously.

A new year means a year that exists for the first time. This is not so. The years men will spent on earth till after rapture has been created by God and it has already existed before we start seeing them opening up page by page, or better put, day by day. 

In God’s calendar, the next 365 days is not a year, it is less than a second, (2Peter 3:8).

Yearly calendar is the innovation of men not of God. We create it ourselves, why should it then become a problem to us and not a medium of composure. People run around to meet up with certain demands of the “end of the year” as if they had seen the rapture. If we would be conscious of rapture this way, I tell you, His gospel would have reached the world. 

Now you see people, even those who have not being to any church before, would go to church to shout “happy new year” and go back to drink and dance that they have seen another “new year”. Some would go, crying that they could not achieve a particular thing/plan in the “last year”. The plan of God for your life is more than giving you New Year clothes and chicken. If your goal cannot be achieved in 12 month you can operate on the normal achievable period and stop seeing “demonic December”. 

This self-examination and new planning will do in December should be done- apart from December as the end of the year as we call it- every three, or six or twelve month or the duration of the goal's achievability. And, our walk with God should be checked every second, (2Cor. 13:5). 

Whether you are wished “happy New Year” or not, whether you acquire “new thing” or not, just make sure you never lose what you have- the eternal life of the Father (if you don't have one please be born again). More precious than anything is our walk with God. I have not write to stop you from going to church on the last day of the month of innocent December, but that should not be the only time you will appear before God and your motive must be cleared. Also, you can call it 2017 (or a new year [to you/men], although it is not new to God and other kingdom personalities), tag it any divine vision God gave you to pursue for the months ahead and set your achievable goals with God being the First and the Last, (Matt. 6:33). 

Finally,

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col. 2:16-17

He that has ear let him hear! (I hear!)

May you not miss your timing in Jesus name. 

Compliment of the season.

Falade Femi A.

God’s Wrestlers’ Ministries