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BY TERRI SAVELLE FOY
2014
THE YEAR OF GREATER
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES
THROUGH PRAYER BY CAROLYN SAVELLE
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Never stop celebrating what I’ve already done Now expect Me to do the greater and it will come 2014 will be known as the year of the greater! I’m ready saith the Lord to do a new thing The likes of which you’ve never seen My glory shall come in such a way That you’ll stand in awe and begin to say My God, my God, I never knew That I would get to see this side of You Such splendor, such power
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and No wonder the earth will bow down to You The prophets said these things would come to pass And now they’re here— at last, at last The greater glory they spoke about We’re in it now— let’s shout, let’s shout A new wave of His glory is what shall be seen For this is His plan for 2014 Our God is taking us to a brand new place And soon we’ll see Him face to face
In October last year, the Holy Spirit spoke a resonating word to my spirit. The word was this: “Never stop celebrating what I’ve already done. Now, expect Me to do the greater, and it will come.” I was both excited and filled with great expectation as He revealed to me that God has something special in store as 2014 will be known as “The Year of the Greater.” I believe the Holy Spirit spoke this prophetic word to the Body of Christ to prepare us to get into a position of expectation to receive an unusual manifestation of God’s blessings in this new year. We must challenge ourselves to lay hold of this promise and do exactly what He said: Expect it, and it will come! In life, I have learned that I get everything that I expect. So when God says to expect something, I immediately align my thinking with His Word and wait for it to come to pass.
God always wants to do greater things in our lives. It is the nature of God to bring increase to His people. His desire is to take us to higher levels. As I have meditated on this prophetic word for 2014, it has become doubtless in my mind that this is what God wants to do for us. In scripture, God confirms this in Psalm 115:14 which says, “The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children” (KJV). God wants to bring increase into our lives. He wants to bring greater good to us and the lives of those around us. The word increase means to grow or to become greater. This involves not only gaining a greater revelation of the nature and power of God but being empowered to prosper in all that we do and possess as the direct blessing from the Father. Let’s look at an example of this in the story of Isaac’s life. Genesis 26:12-14 says, “Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year [a] hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: For he had possession of flocks… and great store of servants…” (KJV). Isaac was blessed by God in all his works and possessions. Scripture says he became great—moved forward, grew, and possessed. This is what happens when you are in the greater—you
progress; you grow; and you accumulate. In other words, when you enter into the realm of the greater, God adds to you. Jesus told us that the number one requirement for experiencing addition in our lives is to “…seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33, NKJV). The most important thing is to seek first the will of God, His ways, and the things He is asking us to do. Never seek increase first; always seek first the God who is able to increase. Developing a close relationship with God through daily time with Him in prayer, praise, and worship; studying His word; obeying His voice; and serving others is how you seek God first. Seeking God’s kingdom first is losing ourselves in obedience to what He desires. It’s pouring ourselves out in service to Him in whatever way He desires. It’s being the witness that He has called us to be in this world, not only through our words, but also through our actions. These are the essential things to keep in mind as you expect the greater in your life.
God wants us to increase. The Bible speaks of increase in the time of Joseph. As Joseph grew in power as a leader in Egypt, Genesis 47:27 says, “…Israel dwelt in the land… and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly” (NKJV). The word exceedingly means without limits. Like Joseph and the children of Israel, God wants us to grow beyond the limits of our circumstances to live in a prosperous place. It is unnatural for God’s people not to increase. If you are truly God’s child you are blessed, and if you are blessed, then you are empowered to prosper. In a time when the ancient world was experiencing drought and instability, the children of Israel grew prosperous. They became stable when they entered their season of greater blessing. You and I will also grow as we experience our new season of greater blessing.
To grow is to be fruitfully stable. That’s good news for times like these, isn’t it? Fruitful stability is God’s desire for His people. Even more, He desires for us to flourish abundantly in unpredictable times. Though it’s obvious in scripture that this is how God wants us to live, we have a responsibility too. Our part is to receive the prophetic word, believe it, and confess it by faith. Second Chronicles 20:20 says, “…believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper” (NKJV). God wants us to fully embrace His word for this year. Keep it in your thoughts. Keep it in your mouth. Hold fast to it in your heart, and don’t diminish it through doubt and disobedience. The increase I enjoy in my life has been so I can sow more than ever. There’s nothing more fulfilling than that. In the same way, I encourage you to always stay committed to increase your sowing when God brings increase to you. The increase and prosperity of God always has a purpose. God has a plan, and His plan always goes beyond us and our desires. God’s purpose is to touch our hearts to sow for the building of His kingdom.
Let me share one other thing the Holy Spirit brought to my attention regarding this being the Year of the Greater. The last time that Oral and Evelyn Roberts were at our home, he said to me that the Lord told him, “Oral, if you think you saw miracles under the big tent, well, you haven’t seen anything yet. They are coming back big time!” I really believe in 2014, we will enter into a new wave of anointing for miracles. God’s mission is to increase the miraculous in a way never seen or experienced before for His glory and for our good. Haggai 2:9 confirms the move of God for our time saying, “‘The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts” (KJV). The glory in this passage represents the manifest presence of God. God is cluing us in on the fact that His presence will increase. In Haggai’s day the glory of God would, at times, come upon everyone in the house of worship. I’ve witnessed this in my own life and ministry. When God’s manifest presence came, people were healed and delivered. Hebrews 3:6 describes “…Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end” (NKJV). As believers, followers, servants, and friends of Christ, God yearns to
express His manifest glory in a greater way in and through our lives—for we are the representative body and house of His dear Son called for this season. I stand as a prophetic voice to say over this new season, “A new wave of God’s glory will be seen in 2014!” We are dawning the year of greater works. Let us be diligent in our request for it, believe it, and receive it by faith. Finally, don’t forget to thank God. Remember it is God who is truly great and performs all great works. Psalm 48:1 reminds us that “great is the Lord and greatly to be praised…” (KJV). As I was reading this, it rose in my heart that when I praise Him greatly, it’s like sowing seed, and my harvest will be great. I challenge you to practice praising God in your life every day. Praise Him joyfully, often, and extravagantly for who He is and His faithful promises to us. Sow the seed of praise to see God’s greater manifested in your life, because the greater is coming!
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IN A PROPHETIC WORD, THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID THAT 2014 WOULD BE KNOWN AS THE YEAR OF THE GREATER. IN THIS TIMELY MESSAGE SERIES, JERRY SAVELLE TEACHES HOW WE CAN BIBLICALLY POSITION OURSELVES TO RECEIVE THE GREATER INCREASE, GREATER MIRACLES, AND GREATER GLORY GOD HAS IN STORE FOR US IN 2014. AS YOU LISTEN, YOU’LL DISCOVER: HOW THE GLORY OF GOD IS COMING IN GREATER MANIFESTATION, WHY WE SHOULD “PRESS IN”, THE NEED TO WELCOME AND HONOR GOD’S PRESENCE, THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAVAILING PRAYER, AND MUCH MORE.
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It is not uncommon for people who hear me speak for the first time to be surprised by my soft, “child-like” voice. I was recently in Austin, Texas speaking at a conference and the woman driving me to the hotel afterwards said to me, “I think I know why you sound like a kid.” Well, I was pretty interested because I have wondered that my whole life! She said, “Every time you speak, you are speaking to the child inside of us that stopped dreaming.”
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I meet so many people that are settling for far less than what they should, and what God desires for them. It doesn’t have to be that way. I have discovered one of the main reasons people don’t reach their full potential is that they have never given themselves permission to dream for the impossible. God said in Genesis concerning the people at the Tower of Babel that nothing they imagined to do will be impossible for them (Genesis 11:6). That is why one of my responsibilities is to encourage and teach people how to dream big and accomplish their goals. There are three powerful keys that I have applied in my life that have produced successful results that I want to share with you. I like to call them the three bones of success!
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1. BARE BONES What are the basic, bare bones ingredients needed for dreams to become reality? What are the common essential elements in successful people’s lives that propels them to accomplishing their goals? Many people miss the truth that success is something you attract by the person you become. In other words, if you want more, you must become more. One success coach said, “If you don’t have much, you probably haven’t become much.” Ouch! So many people ask me, “How has your life changed so drastically in such a short time?” The answer, “I changed my daily routine.” I started with the bare bones. I asked myself, “What can I do today that will change my life?” It sounds simple, but honestly, it started one morning with one CD. I made the choice to invest in changing myself. At that time, my life was a mess. I was frustrated, my marriage was falling apart, and year after year nothing in my life was changing. Things had to change...I had to change! I finally got fed up and made the commitment to listen to a faith-building message each day for 21 days. I got a CD from one of my favorite preachers, put it in the CD
2. WISH BONE You have got to have a vision for your life. Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no vision people perish.” I looked up the word perish and it means die. I looked up the word die and in the original Greek it means die! Nothing makes me more mad than seeing people just existing. Especially when I think about how our lives here on earth are but a vapor (James 4:14). There is no time to waste. We are not here just to take up space, we are here to do something. Mark Twain said, “I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.” Why is it that children can dream all day long but as adults we stop dreaming? Give a blank sheet of paper to a child and ask them what they want for Christmas and they will fill the entire page in mere minutes! But if you give a blank sheet of paper to most adults and ask them to write some dreams and goals, they will sit and stare at the page. Napoleon Hill was hired by Andrew Carnegie to interview 500 millionaires to find the formula that made them so
successful. It took 30 years to compile the data and write the book. He interviewed Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, John Wannamaker, Charles Schwabb, Etc… What did they have in common? Clearly, defined, written goals. Successful people have a vision, write it clearly, and keep it before their eyes. People are constantly moving towards the dominating images they keep before their eyes. Joel Osteen tells the story of when his dad, John, had open heart surgery and was in the hospital. He asked Joel to bring him his tennis shoes and set them right beside the bed because that was his vision that he would be out of the hospital jogging again. He lived another 12 years after that surgery. People will never leave where they are if they never see where they could be. Instead of looking at what is...bills and debt, overweight body, dirty house...we must get a picture of what could be. We must surround ourselves with vision.
3. BACK BONE Many people think that I just write my dreams and they all just simply come to pass. That is so far from the truth. Nothing worthwhile in life just falls in your lap. I have had to fight for every vision and goal that I have had. Ecclesiastes 5:3 in the Amplified Bible says, ‘For a dream comes with much business and painful effort...” We don’t like that side of dreams. But when it looks like it will never happen, we have to keep trusting God and fighting for our dreams. Thomas Edison said, “Most of life’s failures are those who didn’t realize how close they were to success when they gave up!” My dad is known as the “no quit” preacher. I remember years ago when I was going through a hard time and felt like quitting. I went over to my mom and dad’s house and said to them, “I can’t take it any more, I just feel like quitting.” Dad looked at me and said, “You are not going to quit. Savelles are not quitters! You are going to get through this. Quitting is not in your blood!” I just stood there and he asked, “What are you thinking?” I said, “I think I’m adopted.” I had to learn to fight for my dreams. You have to realize that
God has a great plan for your life but you also have a spiritual enemy whose goal is to kill, steal, and destroy (John 10:10). Successful people understand that dreams don’t come to pass on their own, we have to fight for them. Each day we have to choose to keep moving forward. Each day we have to choose to not be distracted or discouraged when things don’t seem like they will work out. We have to choose to not feel sorry for ourselves and get busy dreaming. Choose today to fight for the vision God has given you! Choose to wake up each day expecting it to be better than the day before. Choose to make the most of the time God has given you on this earth to do something that matters. Successful people make sure they cover the bare bones, use their wish bone, and grow a back bone!
Each day we have to choose to keep moving forward. Each day we have to choose to not be distracted or discouraged when things don’t seem like they will work out. We have to choose to not feel sorry for ourselves and get busy dreaming. Choose today to fight for the vision God has given you! Choose to wake up each day expecting it to be better than the day before. Choose to make the most of the time God has given you on this earth to do something that matters.
SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE MAKE SURE THEY COVER THE BARE BONES, USE THEIR WISH BONE, AND GROW A BACK BONE! TAP HERE TO ADD THIS APP
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Vision 101 is a 12-month program designed to instill habits that will cause you to achieve success and fulfill your purpose. You will receive a CD teaching and a companion workbook each month on a different topic for one year. As you listen and read, you will receive clear and simple direction to apply. You will see results!
Thirty-five years ago, Dr. Jerry Savelle landed in Kenya, East Africa to answer the call of God to teach the uncompromised Word of faith, truth and freedom to a nation God was calling to be His own. Brother Jerry preached in several crusades where he delivered God’s message of salvation, but he soon noticed that the same people were coming forward to receive Jesus night after night. That was when he realized that Africa’s greatest need was to receive teaching on the basic biblical truths, so that once they had received Jesus they could lead productive, stable Christian lives.
Because of his commitment to teach the God’s Word, Jerry Savelle has truly been a father to many in Kenya. It was in recognition of the apostolic call on his life to Africa that Pastor Carla Porter, pastor of Victory Faith Church in Nairobi welcomed Brother Jerry back to Kenya in November to recognize and honor him for the tremendous impact he has had on many African nations.
God placed an anointing of apostolic impartation that flowed in a tremendous way through Brother Jerry during the conference. God’s anointing on his life, and his generosity of spirit, blessed us all as the Holy Spirit used him to distribute gifts and graces. Much spiritual strength was imparted, as we could sense limitations being removed by the power of God.
During the celebration, hearts were stirred during the opening night of the conference as Brother Jerry read Romans 1:11to the congregation: “For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established.” Opening his message with this scriptural expression of his great love for the Africans, he allowed God to use him powerfully to minister for three days about God’s plan of provision for our lives to be radically changed.
It was with great honor on the 24th of November to celebrate Jerry Savelle’s 35 years of ministry in Africa. The celebration included testimonies by people whose lives have been blessed and significantly changed throughout the years of sitting under his ministry. Also, noted were the many who have been saved, taught, instructed, healed, and totally transformed because of the gift of revelation God has imparted through Jerry Savelle Ministries.
Heritage was a prominent word during the conference as Brother Jerry spoke about the lineage of faith that he walks in because of the lives of Oral Roberts, Kenneth E. Hagin, and Kenneth Copeland. He encouraged us all when he decreed that we also walk in that same heritage of favor and blessing that he walks in through the divine connections of faith.
It was with a spirit of gratitude that the ministry and work of Jerry Savelle was honored along with his faithfulness and perseverance in obeying God’s call for his life in the continent of Africa.
How To Change Your Circumstances Through Prayer By Carolyn Savelle
Prayer is powerful tool for living the victorious Christian life. The apostle Paul advises the church in Thessalonica to “pray without ceasing” (I Thessalonians 5:17, NKJV). Jesus even, before he is arrested and crucified on the cross, asked Peter in the Garden of Gethsemane, “Could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation” (Matthew 26:40-41, NKJV). But what makes prayer so essential to the life of believers? What should we pray, and how can prayer alter the circumstances in our lives? I believe there are two answers to this question. One is that Jesus called us to pray. He exemplifies our best example of how to live the Christian life here on earth, and the Bible often talks of him going off to seek the Father in prayer (see Luke 5:16). Jesus stole away and practiced a daily ritual of quiet time away with the Father in prayer, and so should we. It is through praying to the Father that Jesus found power to do miracles for those He encountered. It is through prayer that Jesus attained the grace to fulfill His call to surrender His life on the cross for the redemption of the human race and gain victory over sin. So prayer was a first priority for the Savior in effectively fulfilling His purpose here on earth. Even now as He sits on the right hand of the Father
in the heavenly realm, the Bible says Jesus is making intercession for us (see Romans 8:34). So if Jesus prays to intervene on our behalf, we should follow suit. The second reason I believe we should pray is simply because it works. All through the Bible and the history of the Christian church, when God’s people cried out to Him, turned their faces in prayer to Him, interceded on the behalf of others in supplication to Him, or called out to Him in faith, the Father was faithful to answer at the voice of His people (see Jeremiah 29:1213). Prayer is our way of touching God in our time of need and getting an answer that comes directly from Him. In the Amplified Bible, James 5:16 says, “The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].” Whatever we have need of, it is through the pipeline of prayer that we attain answers to those needs. I like to think of prayer this way: It is the most effective and powerful form of intimacy in the spirit realm. It touches everything in the natural and in the spirit. It is the intermingling of the Spirit of God and His will with the heart of man, his everyday life, and his destiny. Prayer creates such an interwoven bond between God
and the hearts of His sons and daughters that when we make a request to Him, it is no longer our will but our Father’s heart that we begin to pray through. In the prayer of the righteous, submitted, born-again believer, it is no longer us asking but God asking through us for our benefit and for His glory. God already knows what we need (see Matthew 6:8), He just needs our partnership to see the answer brought to fruition. You may be thinking, If it is God praying through us on our behalf, and He already knows what we need before we pray, why is it so important to that we practice the act of prayer to see change in our lives. There are a several reasons for this. First, since God gave us free will when He created man, prayer is a way demonstrating submission of our will to His divine authority and lordship. By design, God created man to make our own choices, so when we pray we are saying to God that we choose to submit to the wisdom of His guidance in our lives, because He always knows what is best for us and how to best resolve the circumstances in our lives. Another reason is found in Genesis 1:26, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image… let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth…’” (NKJV).
Because God has legally bound Himself from sole authority and chose to give us dominion on the earth, He cannot do anything unless someone asks Him. Therefore, in order to see true change in your circumstances, God has created a system where you must ask in order to receive. By definition, to ask is to make a request or solicitation, to submit a need or desire, or to invite. In Matthew 7:7-8, Jesus says, “Ask, and it will be given to you... For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened” (NKJV). So submitting our requests to God is essential to see change in our lives. We even see this rule of asking practiced by Jesus in Psalms 2:8, “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me… Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession” (NKJV). Even Jesus who was the representative of the Father in the flesh, and called Immanuel, “God with us” (see Matthew 1:23), was not exempt from this law of spiritual activation to receive through prayer. Throughout the Bible we see other examples of this rule of asking in the lives of great men of God. If the
Jewish people were to be delivered under Daniel, he had to intercede for it. If the nations were to be converted by Paul, he had to pray without ceasing. Finally, prayer and the rule of asking is potent in its power to change things in our lives. Practicing prayer allows us to attain things by the Spirit of God that seem impossible to access. As mentioned, since it is God who prays through the believer by His Spirit, we have a certain command in prayer that is actually a weapon in the kingdom of God against any interference from Satan. Prayer is like a missile that penetrates the air of the spirit. It hits its target every time when we pray God’s will and His words. Prayer is so powerful that we never have to say there is nothing that can be done about a situation. Prayer goes beyond the limits of the seen realm to hit the catalyst of the things we are truly battling in the unseen realm (see Ephesians 6:12). So let’s put our battle clothes on through the spirit of prayer. By faith, let’s partner with God in heavenly realms, and let Him use us as His mouth pieces to shift things on earth. Let’s speak the promises of God back to Him. Let’s rid ourselves of the mentality of the day that says, “Que sera sera (‘Whatever will be, will be!’),” and begin to see change in our lives and the world through our declaration of scripture and requests in prayer. Let’s stay in our prayer closets, not leaving until we’ve heard from God. Let’s stand and cry out to God. Ask Him to move and cause there to be a hunger in our hearts to see a permanent change.
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Pastor Harold Nichols was not only a man of God but a “great man of God,” and all who knew him well would no less agree. First Samuel 9:6 comes to my mind when I think of Brother Nichols, “Behold… there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable man…” (KJV).
When I think of an “honorable” man, I think of one who is:
1) TRUTHFUL, HONEST, FULL OF INTEGRITY AND OF IMPECCABLE CHARACTER. 2) SUBMITTED TO GOD’S WORD AS THE MORAL STANDARD FOR CONDUCT AND BEHAVIOR AND ENDEAVORS TO LIVE BY THAT STANDARD EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE. 3) RESPECTABLE, TRUSTWORTHY AND OF A GOOD REPUTATION. All who knew Brother Nichols would certainly agree that he was all of these. He, in my opinion, was like a modern day Daniel of whom the Bible says, “…an excellent spirit was in him…he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him” (Daniel 6:3-4, KJV). There are not many people that you can say these things about in the world today, but you certainly could about him. Knowing him for 43 years, I often said, “The world would be a better place, if there were more men like Harold Nichols.”
Brother Nichols was loyal to God, his wife of 70 years, his children, his church, his friends, his co-laborers in ministry, to me, my family and my ministry. He faithfully served as one of my Board of Directors for nearly 35 years. His loyalty was not only something he believed in, he practiced it and lived it every day of his life. I will always remember Brother Nichols for his joy. He was, indeed, a man of joy. Often, when I came around to see him, he would be singing or humming a song. He loved worshipping God and never ceased to be thankful to God for all that He had done in his life.
The last time he ministered at our church, Heritage of Faith, everyone got a big laugh when he told us the story of he and his wife’s holding hands. He and Lou had held hands everywhere they went from the very beginning of their marriage. He said that in the beginning, holding hands was out of their love for each other, and even though they were still in love, they grew to hold hands as a way to “to hold each other up!” One of the greatest lessons he taught me was to love people. Even if they sometimes were “unlovely,” he always tried to see their best side and only talked about their good traits. He saw potential in people when others didn’t. He truly reflected the love of Christ. I often told him that he was one of my heroes and affectionately said to him, “When I grow up, I want to be just like you.” I am deeply honored for having the privilege to have known such a noble man of the faith. Brother Nichols, like the Apostle Paul, fought a good fight, finished his course and kept the faith. There is laid up for him a crown of righteousness for his faithful service to the Lord all these years.
I don’t know how heaven could get any brighter, but I think it did the moment Harold Nichols arrived. We will miss him greatly, but as Paul once said, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21, KJV). Being with Christ is the ultimate victory. And knowing Brother Nichols, he is now sharing sermon notes with the Lord and enjoying the victory he lived so diligently in faith to receive. A few weeks before his passing he said, “I’ve been working on a new sermon, but my voice needs to get stronger, so I can preach it.” I responded, “Well, I can hear you just fine. Go ahead! Preach it to me.” Without hesitation, he did. He called it “Anchored in Jesus”. What an honor to have the privilege to hear his last sermon here on earth. I will always be grateful to the Lord for placing Harold Nichols in my life and will never forget the impartation he made in me. Brother Nichols, we love you; we salute you; and we look forward to seeing you again in heaven!
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