Word of the Year 2025
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Word of the Year 2025

Mercy Culture Church | Senior Lead Pastor Landon Schott

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Job 1:6-12
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6 One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
7 “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
9 Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
10 Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
11 But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
12 “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
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The Word of the Year for 2025 is Radical Love!
3 Main Factors That Affect Your Spiritual Growth
1. Daily Encounter
2. Be planted in church
3. Steward your spiritual growth

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Circular definitions are designed to confuse you long enough to deceive you!
Question: What is Love?
’ahăbâ- romantic love, familial love, and the love between friends.
phileo- love of friendship, affection, feeling or impulse.
agape- love of esteem regard, a sacrificial love, perfect love; or love of choice.
Phileo is the lesser love of feeling and Agape the greater love of choice.

Agape chooses to love when Phileo doesn’t feel like it!
Matthew 26:39
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39 Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
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John 21:15-17
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15 When they had finished eating, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love Me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus replied, “Feed My lambs.”
16 Jesus asked a second time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus told him, “Shepherd My sheep.”
17 Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you love Me?” “Lord, You know all things,” he replied. “You know I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.
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Relationship With God.

Caution: It can't be real/true love if God’s not in it!
Psalm 136:1-3
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1 Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods. His loving devotion endures forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His loving devotion endures forever.
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Psalm 86:15
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15 But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
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Beloved is what God calls those He loves!
Matthew 3:17
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17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
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1 John 3:2
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2 Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
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John 13:23
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23 One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at His side.
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Practical Advice: Spend this year learning, reading, and highlighting verses on love.
God is love
1 John 4:7-8
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7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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God is love, but love is not God!

If you don’t know God’s radical love, you can be deceived by a radicalized love!
God loves people.
John 3:16
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16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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God's love is POWERFUL
Romans 8:37-39
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37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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1 Corinthians 13:4-8
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4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
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1 Corinthians 13:13
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13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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Practical Advice: Memorize the Love chapter (1 Corinthians 13).
Love is the “first” fruit of the Spirit
Galatians 5:22-23
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22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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We’re commanded to love people/ “neighbor”
John 15:12
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12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
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John 13:34-35
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34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
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Galatians 5:14
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14 The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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The Bible teaches that our love should be on display
Ephesians 5:1-2
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1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
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Colossians 3:14
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14 And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
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Husbands should be leading in love
Ephesians 5:25-28
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25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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The Bible teaches that love disciplines
Proverbs 3:12
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12 for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
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Love defeats a spirit of fear!
1 John 4:18
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18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.
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CAUTION: A quick sign you are not abiding in the love of God is fear!
Love removes offenses
Proverbs 17:9
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9 Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
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Love is connected to forgiveness
1 Peter 4:8
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8 Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
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Love is connected to truth
1 John 3:18
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18 Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
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Love is God fighting for you

Romans 8:28
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28 And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
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Love our enemies

Matthew 5:43-44
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43 You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’
44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
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Question: Who do you hate?
The Bible teaches to not love money
Matthew 6:24
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24 No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
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1 Timothy 6:10
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10 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
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The Bible teaches to not love the world
1 John 2:15
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15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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Those that love God, obey God
John 14:15
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15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
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John 14:21
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21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
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Matthew 22:37-38
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37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
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Mark 12:30-31
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30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
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Deuteronomy 6:4-5
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4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.
5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
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4 Ways To Love God

1. Loving God with all your heart = God is first!
Matthew 15:8
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8 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
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Question: Is God really first in my life?
2. Loving God with your soul = a Kingdom perspective
Matthew 16:24
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24 Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
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3. Loving God with your mind = you know why you love God!
4. Loving God with your strength = I love God with all my resources!
Question: What makes love radical?

Love Is radical when there's no reason for it!
Job 1:1
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1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
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Job 1:3
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3 and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
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Job 1:5
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5 And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
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Job 1:7-8
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7 “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
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Revelation 12:10
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10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God.
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Luke 22:31
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31 Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
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Job 1:9-10
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9 Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
10 Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
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THE FEAR OF THE LORD - Holy Reverence, Deep Love/Honor For Him.
Question: Why do you love God?
2 Corinthians 2:11
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11 in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
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Job 1:11
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11 But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
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Job 1:20-22
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20 Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
21 saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
22 In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.
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Job 2:4-5
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4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
5 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
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Job 2:9
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9 Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
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Job 1:9
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9 Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
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Radical Love is when you love God for no reason!
Radical Love is when you love like Jesus!
Romans 5:8
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8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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Radical Love can reach anyone!
Job 42:10
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10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
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Job 42:12
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12 So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
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Job 42:16-17
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16 After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
17 And so Job died, old and full of years.
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2025 is the Year of Radical Love

This year you will be radically loved by God and radically love like God!

This is the year you love God like He loves you… FOR NO REASON!

This year you will love God GREATER than you have ever loved Him before!

You will love God, His word, His people and His house (the Church) greater!

“MORE RADICAL”
This Church becomes more radical in our faith More radical in our relationship with God.

Your relationship with God is PUBLIC!
Matthew 10:32
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32 Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
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I saw your boldness take form.

Boldness became focused, and it pleased the Lord!

I saw radical healings meeting you in the place of radical love and radical faith!

I saw you like Peter stepping out in faith to meet Jesus. (Matthew 14)

“Don’t love Me for healings but love Me and watch Me heal!”
This is a season of REQUIRED FRUIT!
It’s a Luke 13 Year
The Parable Of The Barren Fig Tree

The Master is coming expecting to find fruit.
The Master is coming for His fruit in his people and His church!

He’s requiring spiritual fruit
He’s requiring forgiveness
He’s requiring a sabbath’s rest!

It’s a Matthew 3:8 Year
A year of repentance
You will bear fruit by keeping with repentance!

You will see beautiful “Godly sorrow” this year.

“WE’RE TAKING CHURCH TO THEM!”

The GIFTS of the Spirit will be in operation… The gifts of the Spirit are coming ALIVE in those with the fruit of the Spirit!

This is a year of salvation!

His fruit will be a harvest of salvation!

Your fruit of the Spirit and radical love in every day life will lead people to SALVATION.
Season of the storehouse
3 John 1:2
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2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
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As your soul prospers so will your life

Like Joseph And the 7 years of prosperity in Egypt, There will be a season of prosperity for God’s people to STORE UP.

It’s prosperity with purpose!

Your prosperity is NOT FOR YOU! You are the steward. Your ability to steward what is His will determine the more God entrusts you with!

Like In Matthew 25: God IS ENTRUSTING Good Stewards with MORE this year!
PROPHETIC WARNING: We are in the season of the accuser of the brethren.
Revelation 12:10
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10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God.
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The accuser is not hiding but the church can't see him!

He comes to sow “weeds/tares among the wheat”

Matthew 13:24-30
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24 Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
25 But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
26 When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
27 The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
28 ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
29 ‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
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The Enemy is doing this!

In a season of necessary exposing of the unrighteousness the enemy is trying to get the righteous with the unrighteous!

The accuser of the brethren is when the church partners with a spirit of the world they call “CANCEL CULTURE”.

That’s why God has raised up a mercy culture to triumph over a judgment culture!

This is a James 2:13 year.
James 2:13
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13 For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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The good news is Jesus has been praying for you!
Luke 22:31-32
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31 Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
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When you are accused, “BE STILL and know that I’m God!” (Psalm 46:10)
Spiritual Warfare

“Participate”.This year there will be assignments that require your participation!

Be On The Offensive!

There will be opportunities to get distracted but like David keep your eyes on the Lord & keep giants in their proper place.

“Unholy alliances WILL BE BROKEN!”

I saw partnership the people of God had with principalities BROKEN!
When Heather Smashed The Altar Of Ishtar In DC- SOMETHING WAS SHAKEN UP IN THE SPIRIT REALM.

I saw partnerships with Ishtar’s perversion- BROKEN!

I saw partnerships with Fear- BROKEN!

I saw partnerships with Mammon- BROKEN!

I heard someone say- “I CANT DO IT! I'VE ALREADY TRIED AND TRIED!”

This year the Holy Spirit HELPS YOU! Helps you do what you haven’t be able to do, what you can’t do… But the Helper is HERE!!
Shame and Glory

This is a year of deliverance! The deliverance of SHAME!

I heard the voice of Jesus say over you, “I’m praying for you!”

I saw the Lord personally breaking off hardened pieces of shame off you, off your family, off your legacy!

He’s trading SHAME for GLORY!

It’s a year of My glory!

You will find yourself continually in My glory!

MC Worship: You will write songs of MY GLORY!

I saw angels crashing our worship parties!

I asked to meet Gabriel last year and this year WE WILL BEGIN TO HAVE ANGELIC VISITATIONS!

This will be a Hebrews 13:2 year.
Hebrews 13:2
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2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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“I’m answering prayers. The prayers of my FRIENDS!”

This year YOU WILL hear God more clearly than you ever have in your life!

Its easy to hear God in His presence!

A secret to His beautiful glory…

God loves to be loved…
Proverbs 8:17
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17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
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When you love on Him, He will love on you back.
Prayer of Radical Love

Father, I really do love You. I call You Holy, You call me Beloved! Thank You for loving me. Today I love on You. Would You love on me? Your love is perfect. I want to love like You! Help me love my neighbor and my enemy. Teach me how to war in love. I pray the love of God casts out all fear. Shame, go! Glory of God come fill me. Holy Spirit help me to love what You love and hate what You hate. I choose to obey You today! Lord, I love You with all of my heart, soul, mind and strength.  I pray today to encounter Your radical love! Amen.
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