So, Happy New Year!
What do you think this year is going to hold for you?
I've got some good news for you today.
Hi, my name is Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word, and I know there's a tendency
in the Body of Christ in the month of January to begin to seek the Lord and see what is
the Holy Spirit saying for the year.
My family, we have a tradition of generally fasting over a series of days in the month
of January and kind of journaling and writing down what we're hearing from the Lord.
But sometimes God in His goodness and grace will give me something ahead of time.
My pattern of hearing from the Lord is around the 4th of July, not in January.
I hear around the new year for the school year, which is generally at the end of June,
school is completely shut down, and we start the new year, the 1st of July.
So that's kind of my season of hearing.
But the Lord, the Wednesday night before Christmas, I had a dream, and it was a significant dream.
I woke up at 4.41 a.m., and I'm laying half-awake, half-asleep, and I see a woman intercessor,
and she is rocking in a chair back and forth.
I can't tell if her hair is blonde or white because there's a beautiful warm light behind
her and she's just like this and praying in the Spirit.
And I'm watching this, and then I see above her head the number 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5.
And I didn't know what to do with it.
Okay, so what do you do when you get something, and you feel it's significant, but you don't
understand it?
Have you ever had a dream like that?
I think most of us have.
The good news is we can journal, and we can write things down, and we can wait to find
out where is that in Scripture, or how is that in the Word, or where do we find that.
And sometimes you'll find out, well, that was just something I ate before I went to
bed last night.
Or sometimes you will get something from the Holy Spirit in that I'm half awake, I'm half
of sleep state, which is where I hear from Him a lot, and I'll find some meaning in it.
So I've waited almost two weeks to share it because I kind of wanted to study it out.
I wasn't sure, and I took the step of sharing the dream with a trusted friend and with my
husband, and I'm saying, okay, this is what I'm getting.
I'm not sure what it means.
And then the next thing, after I wrote it down, and I dated it, and I began to put it
together, I thought, well, this is really good.
This is really encouraging.
And maybe somebody out there would just be encouraged by what I'm getting from the dream.
Okay?
I want to open up today with a really beautiful Scripture from the book of Psalms.
This is Psalms 139, and it's from an unusual translation.
It's from the Passion Translation, and this Scripture was shared Sunday by a pastor here
in Broken Arrow, but I want to share it with you.
It's verses 1 through 6 in Psalms 139, God, investigate my life.
Get all the facts firsthand.
Now, this is the Passion Translation, okay?
I am an open book to you.
Even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get back.
I'm never out of your sight.
You know everything I'm going to say, even before I start the first sentence.
I look behind me, and you're there, and then up ahead, you're there too.
Your reassuring presence coming and going.
This is too much and too wonderful.
I can't take it all in.
You know, God was in our season in 2019, 20, and 2021.
He was in our past.
He's watched us, our family, our communities, our nation go through everything that they've
been through, and He's been faithful, and He's walked us through it all.
We're now in a different season.
It's 2023.
Things have begun to shift.
Things have begun to be uncovered.
We're learning things.
We didn't know before, we knew by the Spirit,
but now they're being exposed in our nation especially,
and this is not a bad thing.
See, God knows it all.
Isn't it reassuring to know that he's in your past,
even those seasons of screwing up,
even those seasons of flesh and will and sin?
He knows it all, and he's faithful to forgive.
He knows your future, he knows where you're going.
He knows what you're gonna say when you're gonna say it.
He's already in your thoughts, he's in your heart,
he's in your spirit, and he wants to lead you
and guide you in this next season.
So back to my vision, why do I think I had that?
Well, number one, I connect to intercession
and to prayers and to worship.
Prayer and praise, they are one, they are connected.
Pray your songs and sing your prayers.
They're interconnected.
Worship leaders, it's like when you lead worship,
you're singing prayers, you're singing scripture,
you're singing thoughts that come from God.
And we're gonna need to pray in this next season.
And what's cool is I love numbers and I love Bible study,
but I was kinda like, God, why am I seeing five?
And then why am I seeing five over and over and over
and over and over again?
So when you don't know what to do with something,
you need to just begin the process of studying it out,
which is what I've done.
And so here's some meanings that come from the number five.
Are you ready?
This means, the number symbolizes God's grace and goodness
and favor towards humans.
Isn't that good?
It's mentioned 118 times in scripture.
Five is the number of grace and multiplied by itself,
which is five times five is 25.
It's grace upon grace.
Ooh, I like that.
John 1 16 says, the 10 commandments contain two sets
of five commandments.
The first five commandments are related to our treatment
and our relationship with God.
And one is concerned with our relationship
with other human beings, okay?
The appearances of number five,
there are different types of offerings that can be given.
There's the burn offering, there's the sin offering,
there's a trespass offering, there's the grain offering,
there's a peace offering.
Isn't that beautiful?
The book of Psalms is divided into five sections.
Wow, I like that.
What else?
Well, there's also different seasons in the Bible
that we go through that are connected to the number five.
I'm not gonna go through some of those,
but do you know that there's five books of the law?
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
It's our foundation, is the Pentateuch.
There were five substances that were in the anointing oil
that were used in the temple.
There's myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, cashew,
and I've missed one, myrrh, okay.
That's five of those ingredients there,
and it was given by design.
If you study out the tabernacle,
the tabernacle, and you look at the frame
that goes all the way around the tabernacle,
there's five pillars and five posts
that hold up the walls that enable them,
and the length of that is five cubits.
God prepares a place for us to worship,
and he knows that we're going to need his grace
and his goodness and his mercy to follow us
in every single season.
Now, I don't know about you.
I'm back to the number five in my dream here.
I have a tendency to listen too much to the news,
and it can get really depressing,
and I do think that in many ways,
this is going to be a year of challenge
and change and difficulty.
Challenge, change, difficulty,
but I've got a promise here,
and I'm receiving this word from the Lord today
that if I will be faithful to stand and pray,
if I will speak the word over my family,
if I will stand in the gap and intercede,
and here's another thing you've got to understand
about prophecy.
There are prophecies that are conditional.
That means we have to do our part
for God to do his part, okay?
So is it going to happen?
happen if you don't do your part no but if you will do your part and you will be
faithful to what he has given you then in this next season he will bless you
and carry you and there will be multiplied grace upon multiplied grace
now that isn't that's not a license to go sin and do whatever I want to do no
what does that mean that means that even if everything around me is a little
chaotic and crazy even if maybe the economy isn't greater or maybe you know
I've got overwhelming things I'm being asked to do or if there just seems to be
an abundance of challenge that in this season if I will seek him first in the
kingdom of God and his righteousness then all of these things will be added
unto me why because he's good and he's faithful that means Leanne no matter
what you're going through you know when you have five five five five it's like
Leanne I'm trying to drive home a point to you my grace is enough my grace is
enough my strength is enough my presence is enough you're going to make it you
can do it in this next season you know we were all born to live in this time in
human history God knew when you were going to be born you're not an accident
you're here by divine appointment you were born for such a time as this even
if you were born into a family with great difficulty and great adversity
especially like my husband's family it's okay God will take all of that
difficulty and he will use it for good for the kingdom if you will allow him to
and that grace and that favor oh honey it flows into your family it flows into
your children and into your grandchildren intercessors this is going
to be your finest hour stand strong and speak the word of God stand in the gap
speak with authority pray I know for me this is a call back to prayer I need to
go back to what I know to do I have a very high-pressure stressful life but
I'm telling you when God kicks in and helps me I can do just about anything
it's like there's an anointing of ease that comes it's like the oil of the Holy
Spirit just takes out all that friction you know and all of a sudden I'm
hyperproductive and I can do this and I can do this and I can get that done and
I have this appointment I see that person I fix this issue when I don't
have that grace operating in my life it's just friction difficulty pressure
it's not fun the word for me for 2023 is grace upon grace the number five he is
good and it and for me it's really a call back for intercession so how does
this fit with the body of Christ well I think God is calling all of us to a
season of consecration and intercession I hope you'll join me we're praying this
year for the direction for restoring word thank you for liking and subscribing
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