| Tunde: The year of returns
“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
Joel 2:12 NIV
Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.
Joel 2:13 NIV
The Lord replied to them: “I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations.
Joel 2:19 NIV
“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm— my great army that I sent among you.
Joel 2:25 NIV
As I was sitting quietly I heard the Lord say Tunde. I knew this was not an english word as that is my first language. Upon further research from a dear friend I found Tunde was a Nigerian name. It can be used as a name or it can mean something or someone has returned. Most commonly a mother, or father has returned or wealth has returned.Theres a double return in 2022. There is a turning back to the Lord with a new level of loyalty and a fresh passion of love like never before. Many have been wearied by the dry seasons and have gone into a survival mode apart from God. In this season many will be returning with a fresh fire. And when they return they will experience a fresh outpouring of gods love to them.
Just like in Joel 2 the Lord says there will be a new wine, new growth and a return of what the locust stole there will be a returning to those who are just barely making it, from everything that was taken from them in the wilderness.
In 2022 there will be alignment. God has been speaking dreams and visions to people and Gods people have been obedient in preparing and building those visions. Many have gotten tired and weary because they have been building but they feel like things are moving very slowly, there have been blockages and delays but they have remained so faithful even in the face of extreme adversity.
In 2022 God is removing the blockages. Some blockages were specifically set in place because the timing was not yet there. Now the time is ripe and all obstacles shall be removed. I saw there has been limited resources for those forging on ahead in the vision of God and lack of connections or networking. In 2022 God is opening the flood gates of provison’s and connections. In the past it has felt like nothing was working. In this season of alignment, people and collaboration will seem to come out of nowhere and this will change everything.
There is more! A lot of people have felt like they were at the end of their rope and all of the strength and persistence they had in them was now gone. I saw it like when your phone has run out of battery but you are unable to plug into an outlet to charge. Some people who often go camping may have a power pack. Which is like a pre charged battery for your phone.
What this is saying is, “you have done all you can do within your own strength, now it is time to let the power pack (God) come in and be your strength where you feel weak. He is your back up and he’s got your back, trust that he is someone that you can rely on. You don’t have to do anything, in fact you’ve wearied yourself out by trying to resolve it all on your own. Now it is time to let go and trust it in the hands of the one who created it all.
2 Corinthians 12:9-11
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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