Compiled by Cindy Jacobs
I hope you all had a wonderful, happy new year. This is the
season where we like to share with you what God has been saying for 2018, and
I’m very excited about this year.
What I have with me is a compilation of some words that came
from the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders and the Global Prophetic
Consultation in November 2017, which people say was one of the most historic
events they have ever been to in their lives. It’s so good, and we know that
God has given us a great harvest. We had prophets from around the world sharing
together prophetically what they’re hearing for the upcoming season. There’s a
theme that developed for 2018, and this common theme is that it’s gonna be a
good year.
You know, 2017 was a very difficult time of uncertainty for
so many of us. There were terrorist acts, riots, political unrest, and
division. As we look on the world news, we have the threat of North Korea
looming over the world. We had natural disasters here in the U.S., with fires
and flooding across the nation. But, in the midst of it, I found myself
starting to feel really good, and people looked at me like, “Are you crazy? Why
are you feeling good right now?” Because I’m seeing what God is bringing.
God is doing a new thing. As you may know, as we prophesy,
we often look for a biblical connection. Why do we do this? Because the Bible
is a book of Hebrew thought. It’s not a book of Western thinking at all. So, if
we’re going to understand the Bible, we need to understand the numerology.
There are very important things that are hidden keys in scripture. People can
say, “Oh, it’s an occult thing”. No, it’s a Hebrew thing, and if we want to
understand what is written in the context of what is written, we need to look
at the keys that have been given to us.
Possessing the Gates
On the Hebrew calendar, 2018 is the year 5778 and, if we see
the pictorial emphasis from this, 5778 forms a gate. In fact, this gate can
look kind of like a bridal canopy. So, as I was asking the Lord what is going
to happen in 2018, I felt the Holy Spirit saying it’s the year to possess the
gates of your future.
This is very important. I’m going to use the text Genesis
22:17-18, “Blessing I will bless you. Multiplying I will multiply.” Whenever
the scripture reiterates something, such as “blessing I will bless you”, this
is a form of emphasis meaning it’s superlative. It’s going to be greater than
you can imagine. “Multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars in
the heaven and as the sand washes on the seashore and your descendants shall
possess the gates of their enemies, and your seed, all the nations of the earth
shall be blessed because you have obeyed my voice.” I feel those descendants
are not just our natural children, but also our spiritual children—people we
have mentored or movements that we have started.
Some of you know that I wrote a book that came out in 1991
called Possessing the Gates of the Enemy,
and I’ve just finished the 4th edition for it, which is coming out later this
year. It’s a new update with a fresh, new look at prayer and spiritual warfare.
As I was writing it, I didn’t even think about the significance of gates. But,
this year will be a time where we are going to possess these
gates—opportunities that are before us that we haven’t been able to reach
before. In other words, we’ve not been able to go through the gates of
opportunity.
It’s very interesting that this promise was given to Abraham
around 2018 BC, which was 2018 years before Christ and 2018 years after, so
it’s like a double full-circle time. We are children of Abraham, since we have
been grafted into the vine, so promises given to Abraham are promises for us.
Now, let’s talk about some ways to possess those gates.
Number one, you have to be prepared. Sometimes people just
take life day by day, like, well, whatever comes I’m going to deal with it, but
this is a year to possess your future. So, you need to look and say, “What does
God want me to accomplish this year? What is it that I am supposed to possess?
What are those things that have been dreams that you have longed to fulfill?”
It’s a time to dream again. It’s a time to sit down and say,
“Maybe we had a business failure, or maybe we had something happen to our
family, or maybe that dream didn’t come true,” but don’t give up on your dream.
Possess it. This is a special year with special promises. We need to get ready
for it, but how do we do that? One way is to surrender to God. Just surrender
everything to God.
What Gates Has Satan
Closed?
Where has Satan closed your gates? Don’t just let life pass
you by. Think about where Satan has come in to those gates. Maybe it’s been
friendship gates or family gates. Maybe there are some things that happened in
your family and they were really painful. Don’t let Satan just win. Say, “No!
Satan, you can’t win. You can’t have my family.” It’s time to stand and declare
and decree.
As we sought direction together for the year, we kept
hearing that “Glory” is going to be a significant word in 2018. There are going
to be so many incredible miracles that God is going to show us. Habakkuk 2:14
says that the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as
the waters cover the sea. God is going to show himself as the great God, the
glorious God.
We are to live from the glory down, not from the problems of
our life up. In other words, if we’re seated with Him in Heavenly places, and
He’s a glorious God, He has all the solutions. He has all the answers. He has
everything you need. So, when you’re looking at a situation, don’t look at what
the current situation says. Don’t look at the problems of it. Seek God from the
Heavenly, being seated with him in Heavenly places. Ask him to give solutions
and bring those solutions down into the problem. God is full of wisdom. He’s a
kingdom administrator. He knows how to do everything.2
I can’t tell you how many times I could not figure out what
to do until I finally just calmed myself inside and said, “God, you know what
to do”, and all of the sudden, I had the solution. It was like I suddenly
realized that I was seated with him, talking to the Lord and He gave me the
solution. I knew what to do, and I brought that into the current situation. You
can do this when you need wisdom with your children, wisdom with
teenagers—praise God that’s a very interesting time of life, isn’t it—or
whatever it is. If you’re married, you might need wisdom regarding your spouse.
There are gates that Satan wants to shut—gates of
relationship, gates that will slam in your face—and Satan will say to you,
“You’re never going to have a good relationship with your family. You’re not
going to have good times. The things that have happened have caused irreparable
damage.” No, that is not true, because it’s not God’s will, and God created
your family. He meant it to be good. Don’t give up your battle. Now, maybe it
won’t come about in 2018, but don’t give up the battle. God will turn it. Begin
to shift to fully embrace the truth that God is calling you to be an overcomer.
I challenge you to take this truth and run with it.
A Season of
Suddenlies and Acceleration
God is moving us into a season where He just does something
suddenly for us. Like, one day everything’s terrible, and the next day you’re
just shocked that everybody loves each other. It’s as if nothing bad ever
happened, and you’re just kind of looking around, and you’re going, “Wow.
Yesterday we were all at each other’s throats, and today it’s like it never
happened.” You know, God can do that.
Salvation came to the Earth suddenly when Jesus was born,
and you know that Moses came as a liberator seemingly suddenly after all those
years of captivity. God spoke after hundreds of years of being silent. The
suddenlies will come in your life, and that should give you hope in the midst
of all your problems that suddenlies are coming.
Another word that was corporately given across the board was
acceleration. This is a time when your wealth will accelerate. Blessings will
accelerate. Prosperity will accelerate. You need to believe for it. The Bible
says the word did not profit them not being mixed with faith.
You need to believe God that He’s going to give you that
prosperity, that He’s going to give you blessing, and you know you say, “Well,
what if I believe and nothing happens?” If you don’t believe, I can assure you
nothing will happen. Whenever God says ‘I will’, that’s a powerful promise, and
multiplying ‘I will multiply you’. So, let’s believe for acceleration,
suddenlies, and for God to multiply you suddenly.
God is going to give business opportunities to many people.
Maybe you are in poverty right now, or maybe you’re not able to make your
bills, but God will download something to you that you’re good at. You’re not
going to have to work harder, but you’ll work smarter, and it’s going to bring
you the funds you need. You’re going to be able to do what your main thing is,
and these other things will not take you over, but yet it’s going to give you
the income you need.
Suddenly, that gate of favor is going to open up for you,
and that gate of honor. Where there’s been dishonor, there will be honor.
Somebody was telling me how Billy Graham used to be dishonored in the city of
Charlotte, North Carolina, and now there is a highway or a freeway named after
him there. That can happen. You can outlast your enemies. You can live longer,
do better. Keep your heart right, and one day honor will come into the place of
dishonor.
These are all very significant things. God is saying
something to us.
A Moral Reformation
God is exposing immorality. There is going to be a moral
reformation, and this is going to happen in Hollywood. Many, many people in
Hollywood are going to understand that biblical values are important. I see
many, many in Hollywood being interested in what we call good moral
programming, and I’m just thankful for the people in Hollywood. You know, we
always diss them, but they work so hard, and I just want to put in a good word
for them right now.
After the Reformation, there was a counter reformation, where
a lot of the work that had been done was undone. It was a very dark time. Well,
the Lord spoke to us that if we are attentive, there will not be another
counter reformation. If we don’t evangelize the Millennials with a biblical
worldview, if we don’t speak to their hearts, in a decade, we’re going to see
all that we have gained in this time of going into the seven spheres, or
mountains of authority, start to be undone again. We want to reach the
Millennials. We want to listen to the Millennials, and God is going to anoint
people to do this and pray. It’s time to pray for the Millennials, and I prayed
about that, too.
There’s a Revival coming—a revival of a magnitude worldwide
that we cannot imagine. There’s a reformation coming, and I want to say something
about that. We are in the midst of the Great Awakening now. The Great Awakening
worldwide has begun. It’s not going to begin. It has begun, and it’s going to
begin in different stages. We have seen great revivals come before, the Welsh
Revival, different Revivals, but they didn’t last. However, we know with this
reformation, there’s going to be a marriage between evangelism and reformation,
and we’re going to see nations changed. We’re in the process.
The Isaiah 19 Highway
Another word that God gave us is about the Isaiah 19
highway. You may not be familiar with that, but it’s talked about in Isaiah,
the 19th chapter, that there’s a highway of holiness that will be built from
Egypt to Assyria to Israel. What is going on right now in Iran and the unrest
there, what happened recently, there was such a reformation of Saudi Arabia.
God is preparing a highway.
God is preparing a way for nation after nation after nation
to be touched through religious freedom with his power, and there’s going to be
a connection that will happen even with Israel. Sometimes people say, “Well
that could never happen.” It’s going to happen, because the Bible says that it
will happen.
The Great Transfer of
Wealth
Another thing that God spoke to us about is a transfer of
wealth. This will happen in more of a season than a one-year time frame, but we
see the beginnings where believers are going to open their eyes and they’re
going to see opportunities for wealth. They’re going to know how to go through
the gates, how to go through the doors of opportunity.
There will be great financial blessings start to come to the
U.S. Things are already beginning to turn around. God also showed me that for
all the Middle East there are going to be blessings come for the believers
there too, because what God is doing is all part of this Isaiah 19 highway.
I remember when we met with the Apostolic Council of
Prophetic Elders, God spoke to us a number of years ago that the EU would
fragment, and it has happened. We know there was Brexit. The Lord also showed
us that the dollar would remain in a stable place for investing when things
were shaky. This was around 5 years ago, and many people are saying it was
going to crash and it’s going to go down. Well, the stock market is going up
and up and up.
There will be some course corrections, but I do not at this
time see a major crash, where it’s going to completely plummet, as long as we
continue on the current path. But, if there’s compromise, it will go down, and
you will see this directly correlating with what’s happening with our
connection with Israel.
I also want to mention the Middle East. The Middle East is
very important, as is China. Asia’s a very huge part, and the Chinese people in
particular, but all of the Asians with this Isaiah 19 highway. Look to1 numbers
of people going to Egypt. Numbers and numbers of Christians will start going to
Egypt to pray, because this move of God, it’s happening now. It’s not something
just beginning. It’s been happening, but we’re going to see it’s going to be on
a greater and greater scale.
Africa is going to experience an explosion of God’s power,
but the nations are going to be transformed, as well. At the meeting of
prophets we had recently, we had prophets from all over the world pray
together, and we were decreeing that the evil dictator Mugabe of Zimbabwe was
going to come down immediately. At the exact moment that we were taking
authority over the spirit that had held Zimbabwe bound by this dictator, the
tanks were rolling into Harare. We have to keep praying that it doesn’t go back
into the same way. We have great authority through the name of Jesus, and God
has been speaking to us that we are going to go through gates of authority.
It’s time for the Daniels in Babylon to arise.
Daniel captured Babylon, instead of Babylon capturing
Daniel. God allowed Daniel to be captured, but then he became head of all the
soothsayers. The Lord showed us that, as prophets, we are going to go into
many, many doors and places in secular society, governmental places, where
there’ll be those that are psychics there, but God is going to give us words
that outshine them all through signs, and wonders, and miracles. We see this in
the case of Moses and the Pharaoh with the serpents and the rod that Moses
threw down.
We prophesied a lot about North Korea, that they are going
to have a suddenly, where God is going to deal with Kim Jong-un. In fact, the
word was, “I’m dealing with the evil dictators of the world, and these evil
dictators are going to shake.” Maduro’s gonna shake. He’s gonna come down, and
some of the others. We’re seeing Iran shaking right now. We saw what happened
with Zimbabwe. We’re going to see it with Kim Jong-un. There’s going to be some
turmoil, but Kim Jong-un is going to come down. God is hardening his heart like
Pharaoh’s heart. He’s not going to allow Kim Jong-un to stay in that position.
He’s not going to allow compromise to come. Something is going to dramatically
happen, because his time for being a dictator is over, unless he turns his
heart to the Lord.
Kim Jong-un, if you’re reading this somehow, turn your heart
to the Lord Jesus. There are people praying for you, and if you will completely
change, God is going to help you on a path that will not be destructive. So,
you can choose, Kim Jong-un. You choose who you’ll serve. If you serve God, and
if you change your ways, God will protect you. He will protect North Korea in a
unique way and make peace with South Korea. However, if you continue on your
path, it will lead to your destruction, and the sad thing about that is your
destruction will lead to the path to hell. So, I just pray that somehow God
will get that message to Kim Jong-un, because God cares about him. He doesn’t
want that anyone should perish.
One of the words the Lord gave us is the word amplification.
God wants to amplify your voice, and then it’s going to be a wave that’s going
to be love-motivated. God is going to give us that love motivation, and we’re
gonna prophesy in a new way. We’re gonna prophesy innovative strategies.
Now, not all of these will really touch everyone’s heart as
I’m sharing this, but take notes and go over it again, because there will be
parts of this that will stand out for you, and you’ll say, “This is my part.
This is what I need.” It’s a lot of information, but go over it again and
again, and believe it, declare and decree it.
So, this is the beginning of strength coming. There’s
humiliation that has happened to some of the body of Christ. Maybe it happened
to you on your job or maybe you’ve been persecuted in another way. Maybe you’re
a student and it happened at school. Listen, God is going to cause you to
shine. He’s going to take you to the top of the heap. He’s going to show you
what to do to be the best of the best. There are spiritual confrontations
coming, but God is going to anoint the business leaders. God is going to anoint
those who, like Nehemiah, will be able to build walls of culture and change
things in every way.
Prayers and
Declarations
So, Father, I pray for those who will possess the gates of
their future. Father, I pray that there will be strategies, and that there will
be a new levels of intimacy. Father, I pray for those who have felt
overwhelmed.
The Lord says, “Don’t be overwhelmed. Calm your spirit. Calm
your spirit. Be still and know that I am God, and as you just take time in
stillness just abiding with the Lord, just be still.”
You’ve asked Him so many questions. Now let Him talk back to
you. Give time for the Lord to speak to you as well as you speak to him. God
will show you which are your gates.
So, Father, I pray for those doors of opportunity. Father, I
thank you, Lord, that you’re going to give innovation, strategies,
acceleration, suddenlies, favor, and honor in the name of Jesus.
Let’s go through the gate of 2018. Let’s possess the gates
of our future. Let’s do it with excitement, joy, and happiness. It’s going to
be a great year. Now just go do it!
With Anticipation,
Cindy Jacobs
Generals International
Comment: You'll notice that we have posted remarkably few "2018 prophecies" this year. It was our conclusion that these are less valuable than they have been in previous years, and many people are offering their own prophetic words for the coming year.
In a real way, this is good: the saints are learning to hear God for themselves. I encourage you: hear God for yourself for 2018.
Having said that, this word stood out: the source is credible, we have a track record with this prophetic council, and they both offer specific words and present specific application.
