Friday, January 20, 2012

Mobile, AL...God's City for 2012

There is only one place in America that experiences the phenomenon called "Jubilee." It is an occurrence where, due to the incoming tide lines,the oxygen content in the water of Mobile Bay becomes depleted to the point that the fish and marine life LITERALLY jump out of the water on to the shore in search of oxygen. It happens several times a year here in Mobile Bay. You can literally pick up the fish, shrimp and crab right off of the shore. Jubilee in this phenomenon only occurs in one other city in the earth...Beijing, China. Mobile Bay has (7)seven major water ways that empty into the Gulf of Mexico through Mobile Bay. The number seven is a significant number with God.  The Hebrew calendar had the number "7" as the Sabbath. Every seven days was a Sabbath to the Lord. Every seventh year was a Jubilee to the Lord. Every seven times seven years, or (49), was a generational Jubilee. The 50th year was a jubilee to the people of Israel. Pentecost happened on the 50th day after the resurrection of Jesus when the Holy Spirit fell in the upper room. What does this all mean? Look at this in Leviticus 25:8-15, Isaiah 6:1-41 and Luke 4:17-19.

Mobile is called the City of Jubilee. It is also called the Bay of the Holy Spirit. Why is that significant? It is because this will be the seventh (7th) year of ministry for the City Church of Mobile. Our seventh year will be a season of Jubilee in the Bay of the Holy Spirit or (50th) or Jubilee for this region. Because "a name frames a region", the name, "Bay of the Holy Spirit," declares a 50th or a Jubilee in the Spirit of God. That is what the Spainard's felt when they first arrived here centuries ago and declared that the presence of God is so strong in this region it must be the "Bay of the Holy Spirit." That is why I say that Mobile IS God's city for 2012. It is Jubilee in the natural in our bay (literally), it is Jubilee at the City Church and we are in the City of Jubilee and the Bay of the Holy Spirit. The name Bay of the Holy Spirit or (50th) representing Pentecost or Holy Spirit power declares Jubilee just by its name! Do you agree? Pray for Mobile!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

2012...A Year of Jubilee

Prognosticators have for the past years forecast that 2012 would be the end of the world. Many have focused on the prophesies of The Mayans calendar or Nostradamus and his global conflicts that will usher in a new world order in political posturing. What will 2012 really prove out to be? War or a season of Jubilee? Every seven years, the Israelite's were to set aside a time for "Jubilee". Debts were retired,  lands were restored, and the Lord would allow people the ability for sight, hearing and the favor of the Lord. (Leviticus 25, Isaiah 61 and Luke 4) At the City Church of Mobile, we begin our 7th year of ministry in February of 2012. We are declaring that the prophesies of the above mentioned scriptures will be fulfilled in a season of Jubilee here in Mobile, Alabama and in all that concerns us, our people and our city. What about you? Will you build your 2012 on the forecast of the secular agenda or on the promises of the word of God? I see seasonal change for the church. Here is why! It is just like our Lord of grace and mercy, to prepare a church in a season of doom and gloom to be a bright and shining light that will in that same season prosper, grow and increase in their influence domestically and around the world! I believe this IS a season of Jubilee and that you will see 2012 to be a great year of the FAVOR our our Lord on His people and in His church.