Text by Brandon Muk
During the first Zone service of the year, Pastor Benjamin did a detailed look at the message for the year by Pastor Prince—a year of His crowned goodness, taken from Psalm 65:11 which says that, “You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance.”
“Goodness” in Hebrew means “good in the widest sense”, while “abundance” means “to anoint”. Pastor Benjamin proclaimed that God was going to stretch our year to the widest sense, filling it with His goodness! Also, God was going to anoint our path and anoint us in special ways, such as new anointings and giftings, like we’ve never imagined before, all for His glory!
I began seeing how God’s prophetic word for the year is so encouraging and exciting. As the verse says “Your paths drip with abundance”, the reference to God’s paths shows how they are paths He has walked on before. This means that He has gone before us in 2011 and assures us that our year is crowned and surrounded with His goodness and abundance!
Praise God that this promise is neither conditional nor requires our self-effort. No, God’s work is complete and finished for the year. We do not have to earn or work for our good year ahead. All God is telling us is to hop onto His path and follow Him, for He has gone before us and said it is good!
John 19:1–3 tell us how Jesus had a crown of thorns, put on His head by the Roman soldiers, which He bore at Calvary. This means that today, we don’t have a crown of thorns, but a crown of God’s goodness surrounding us! Jesus bore humiliation and shame on the cross, redeeming us completely from it, so that we can fully receive the royalty and priesthood God has crowned us to enjoy the goodness and abundance of 2011!
Today, let us boldly claim all that God has in store for us this year. Let us stay close to our Daddy and follow Him on His paths, walking the road dripping with abundance and crowned with goodness!
