TT’s Theme for 2022 is….

Before I receive a theme for the year, I intentionally stop listening to other voices….voices that influence….online sermons, etc. I only wanna hear His voice. I even tried to ask the Lord 12/19/21 what He had for the new year and I heard “Not now.” All in His timing. First, we needed to reflect and then today He assured me that the theme would be something He has been talking to me about for years.

This year’s focus is to be:

Wide Awake

Definitions I found online for “Wide Awake” are fully awake with eyes wide open, able to think clearly, and react quickly. Alert. Watchful. Keen. Observant.

The Lord has been speaking end time language to me since 2020. Things like “stay awake” from Matthew 24:42 and really thinking about eternity and the second Coming of Christ. My filter has been “Will I stand before Him unashamed?” Will what I am doing now effect eternity?

In 2020, I could tell Christians were getting deceived and confused. The obvious in Christianity was getting twisted and I committed to reading through the whole Bible that year. (I have read through the Bible maybe 18-20 times but knew that year it was EXTRA important to keep my mind renewed on the daily.) I didn’t care if I was reading about bars overlaid with gold or Hezekiah or whatever. I just need the true narrative in my head.

That year I also fasted social media. In the Bible, it talks about letting the land lie fallow in the 7th year for healthier crops. It’s about trust because you eat for three years what the 6th year harvest brought in. In the 8th year, you are still eating the old crops….which for me was 2021. I remember leaving Georgia in July 21′ and as I crossed the GA/NC line the song sang “New Adventures in Your Presence.”

In the 9th year, you eat from the new harvest that comes in. For TT, that means being with Fire and Fragrance with Youth With a Mission (YWAM) but more important than that…just being with Jesus in the 9th year.

2022, is my “9th year”….it’s the year of the harvest and my name, Teresa, also means harvest. In the Bible, in Greek the word for harvest is θερίζω pronounced  therizó.

I have butterflies in my stomach this morning as I think of all God could have this year. Literal excitement that is affecting me physically. What will the harvest look like? It will be richer and healthier as I trusted the Lord to let the land lie fallow, plant a new crop and now will watch for fruit that LASTS to come in.

Key Verse for 2021: Matthew 24:42

“Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.”

Plan for Bible reading: I will read through the Bible Chronologically for the first time.(thank you Bill and Laura Jenkins for the Bible) As I read I will specifically be reading through the filter of what it means to be awake and how to stay awake.

Key chapters I listened to this morning are Matthew 24-26 which is what He has been constantly reminding me of the last two years. Things that stuck out are:

• See to it to that no one leads you astray.
• Many false prophets….
• One who endures to the end will be saved
• STAY AWAKE
• Be ready
• Who is the faithful and wise servant?
• Oil ready
• Five talents…well done good and faithful servant
• Separate one from another (day of judgment….my first dream of Jesus was about this day that will happen in the future when He separates the sheep from the goats)
• I was sick and you visited Me. “Jesus, when did we see you sick?” (don’t miss Him)
• Whatever you did to the least of these, you did to Me. ~Jesus
• Woman who knew what was up, poured out something costly for Jesus
• You gotta eat the body and drink the blood
• The inner circle, close, ride-or-die disciples couldn’t stay awake at the critical hour
• Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. ~Jesus
• Judas had a crowd with him to kill Jesus.
• All the disciples fled. Peter, who said he would never deny, denied.

There are deceptive lullabies that lure us in and deceive us in this world, much like the serpent did with Eve, in the Garden…like I read this morning. We must be awake and recall what God said….and not waver when the world or satan tell us another story.

So for 2022, I am more alert than ever. This is my focus. This is my goal. And I will teach others how to be awake in the critical hour it is. I want the Bride prepared for His return. I want oil in lamps. The truth understood and proclaimed. And for all that I encounter to GET READY. He’s coming at an hour we do not know.

But you gotta be ready. Eyes wide open. Wide awake. 2022.