BEHOLD I WILL DO A NEW THING

The first Word & Fire (midweek evening) service of 2025, held under the year's opening theme "Behold I will do a new thing". It opened with a long stretch of praise and worship ("We will sing hallelujah", "Everything is working out for my good this year", "Congratulations and jubilation, celebration in 2025", "When Jesus is on the throne", "We move in 2025"), with the congregation greeting one another "Happy New Year, welcome to church".

The prayer segment was built on Isaiah 43:19. The church prayed for an open heart, a new heart and a new spirit for the new thing God is doing, a "new wineskin for the new wine", and declared "I enter my new, I leave the old behind." Fire prayers followed against "destroyers and spoilers at the door of my new" (the effectual door with many adversaries), against powers that keep a person in the old when God has announced the new, and against an appetite for the old (old wine, sleep, sin, old relationships). The church arose "in the order of Joshua" to march around and bring down every wall of Jericho, "in the order of David" bearing the anointing for the new, "in the order of Elizabeth and the naming of John" so that the new would not carry the old name, and "in the order of Elisha" to see, carry and use the mantle. The day's cry ran through the whole service: "My new shall not carry the old name. Not so! 2025, not so!" He then released a prophetic list over the year: multiples, higher ground, laughter, celebration, alignment, open heavens, capacity, visibility, settlement, favour, breaking forth, family good news, establishment, consolidation, open doors.

The message came from Luke 1:57-75, the birth and naming of John the Baptist. Pastor Jerry first went back to Luke 1:13-20: when Zachariah doubted Gabriel's word, the angel made him dumb until the promise was fulfilled. That silence was not a punishment but a guideline for how to function in 2025: heaven will not let you talk yourself out of your promise. Zachariah's mouth opened the moment he wrote what God had said ("His name is John"), and once he was in alignment God trusted him to prophesy about the coming of Jesus, speaking "ahead" of what had not yet happened. Faith comes by hearing, but faith is selective in what it hears and is not ruled by the senses or by emotion. If you do not know what to say that agrees with God, keep quiet, or release a scripture.

He then presented Elizabeth as the resilient woman. In a culture where women had no voice, God's word became her voice, and she answered the whole community that wanted to repeat the old cycle with "Not so, he shall be called John." But "not so" is not enough: you must also know the name. Complete warfare is not only rejecting what is wrong but declaring God's mandate over it; positive confession only motivates, the Word changes situations. The neighbours marvelled because nobody in the kindred had that name: people who calculated your 2025 from your 2024 will be shocked, because you are showing up with a new name, and you will not stop where your father stopped.

The service closed with offerings, tithes and partnership, announcements for the grand finale on Friday, the Sunday anointing service and the fast starting Monday, a decree of early miracles and "less than 24-hour turnarounds" for the rest of the week, a Psalm 91 declaration with hands lifted, and the worship song "Everything is working out for my good this year".

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Theme and timing

• Word & Fire Service, Thursday 2 January 2025, under the theme "Behold I will do a new thing".
• The morning NSPPD altar this week is "And the Lord said yes, I am in my new"; Friday 3 January is its grand finale.
• He said January will carry a lot of prophetic actions.

Grand finale (Friday 3 January)

• Named operations: "Operation call it into action", "Operation on the wings of eagles" (wording uncertain), "Operation new season mantle", "Operation descend the times" (wording uncertain). The service begins with the prophetic actions.
• Bring: your plans, projects and desires written down for 2025, your instrument of worship, and your mantle.

Sunday anointing service (5 January)

• Sunday is "Behold I will do a new thing", an anointing service, in all four Sunday services; the first Sunday of 2025.

Fast

• The church fast begins on Monday (6 January). Eat until Sunday.
• He declared the "I can't do it / I am always losing strength / I have never done it before" spirit cancelled, and the pattern of starting "6 to 1" and only later graduating to "6 to 6" cast out with last year.
• The church gathers every day at 5:30 (pm) to close the fast; brethren from elsewhere are joining the fast.

Conferences

• 7 February 2025: NSPPD Nigeria prayer conference.
• Immediately after it: the Zambia prayer conference.

Offering

• Offerings, tithes and partnership to Streams of Joy, raised and prayed over before giving.

Prophetic declarations over 2025

• "This is the year of your multiples, higher ground, laughter, celebration, congratulation, alignment, open heavens, capacity, visibility, settlement, favour, breaking forth, breaking out, family good news, establishment, consolidation, open doors."
• "By the 31st of December 2025 you will not say this year was an empty year": he said he put his calling on the line for it, and that it will end in tears of joy.
• "The rest of the week will come with early miracles; January is already blessed"; a "less than 24-hour turnaround" for those with the loudest amen.
• "You will never answer the name your father answered; what killed your father will not kill you; negative patterns will not be repeated."

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1. God is interested in times and seasons, and a season is preceded by a word. There is no happenstance for a man of the spirit, only ordained outcome; what you say while the year is still "in the womb" shapes it.
2. Zachariah's silence was a guideline, not a punishment: heaven will not let you use your mouth to circumvent what God is doing. When he wrote what God said, his mouth opened, and alignment brought a greater assignment: he prophesied the coming of Jesus before it happened.
3. Faith uses the senses as messengers but is not ruled by them; it is selective in what it hears. The realm of the spirit is not emotional, and feelings do not excuse wrong words.
4. You carry more than Gabriel: if a ministering spirit can say "I stand in the presence of God", the heir of salvation, whose body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, can say "I am the presence of the Lord."
5. Rejecting the negative is not enough. Elizabeth knew not only "not Zachariah" but "John". Complete warfare declares God's mandate over the wrong; "I will not have an accident" is not scripture. Positive confession motivates; the Word changes situations.
6. Every good thought is God speaking, because the devil cannot do good, and God never reveals with fear. Receive it, pray in tongues over it, and more direction follows.
7. You are showing up with a new name that shocks those who calculated your 2025 from your 2024; your life will not follow the sequence of worldly wisdom.

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Today / this season

• Open heart, mouth, ears and eyes for the new; receive a new heart and a new spirit, and cast away every old wineskin and appetite for the old.
• This year, if it does not align with what God said, keep quiet. If you do not know what to say, release a scripture, even while crying.
• Do not pray in "newspaper language": let the word of Christ dwell in you richly and know where your declarations are in the Bible.
• Do not argue with the devil about "Zachariah"; declare the name, what God said about you.
• When God drops something in your spirit during the fast, pray in tongues over it and keep it; do not end a fasting day without receiving something new.
• Shout "Not so" over every month from January to December, over your children, health, finances and ministry.
• Give offerings, tithes and partnership; share with a neighbour what blessed you.

Tomorrow / upcoming

• Friday 3 January grand finale: bring your written 2025 plans, projects and desires, your instrument of worship and your mantle.
• Sunday 5 January: anointing service, "Behold I will do a new thing", in all four services.
• From Monday 6 January: join the fast and gather daily at 5:30 to close it.
• 7 February: NSPPD Nigeria prayer conference, followed by the Zambia prayer conference.

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