Prophetic Words
"The other night I had a dream that it was a normal Sunday in church and I was walking into the auditorium to find my seat, however wherever I tried to sit, there was already someone sitting there, so I looked for another seat, again there were coats and bags on the chair indicating that someone was sitting there. This happened several times and I began to panic a little thinking oh no where am I going to sit. Then in my dream I thought, "Ah...the front row, there is always space there" but it was completely full. The church was packed. Then I thought "I know I'll sit on those random old chairs at the back that no one sits on" (these don't exist in our church by the way!!). But still there was someone's stuff already on the chairs, I began to get really annoyed that there was nowhere for me to sit, so I moved someone else's stuff so that I could sit down! Then I sat down and someone from the front row, a woman - I think she was oriental - got up to talk and started talking in a foreign language....then I woke up!!!!
"My first thought on waking was, 'Ah, wow, the church is gonna grow and we're gonna be packed....great!' But I felt that there was more in it than that and asked God what it was all about. I thought about it a lot, and it didn't really seem to make much sense but the thing that stuck out most in my dream, because it was out of character for me, was my reaction and attitude when I couldn't find anywhere to sit. First of all I was taken aback....there was someone in my seat; then I was continually surprised by the fact that all the chairs were taken; then I began to get annoyed.
"I thought to myself that this is not right. We shouldn't be surprised that the seats are full, we should be ready and expectant. And we shouldn't be annoyed - I really felt that this had something to do with us coming out of out comfort zone because in my dream I felt very uncomfortable and awkward sitting in a different seat with different people. We are so comfortable to come to church on a Sunday and do the normal thing, but we need to be prepared to move out of our own comfort areas ... whatever that may be for each person. It's not about just sitting in a different seat but doing things differently, seeing from a different perspective, stepping out in boldness etc.
"The other part I feel is significant is the lady talking in a foreign language, although I still don't really know what that was about, other than wanting to have services in different languages!"
(Gill Smith - March 2011)
Heartbeat of Heaven
The whole of heaven is pulsating with a new rhythm – the rhythm of the heartbeat of Jesus. It's a contagious rhythm. As you lift up your heart in worship, you will catch the rhythm of heaven, it will pulsate through your body. You will catch the heartbeat of Jesus. You will know His love for you, you will know His love for the church, and you will know His love for every person you meet. This knowing is the intuitive kind. You have had head knowledge, this is heart knowledge. The very heart of God, connecting with the heart of man to bring transformation.
As you catch this new rhythm, you will flow with it, you will flow in it and it will flow out of you. Other people will catch the same rhythm. The rhythm of the heartbeat of God is invading the earth like never before this year. Listen out for the rhythm in pop music.
The year of celebration
2011 is a year of seeing the manifest blessing of God. It will be a year of celebration because at last, My children will understand who they are, they will be fully yoked with Me and we will flow together. We will have so much fun as I show them My glory and see the lost literally run into the house of God because they have seen that I am a good Father, they have seen that I am a loving Father, they have seen that I am a safe Father that can be fully trusted and whose word is 100% true and reliable.
It is the year of the fatherless generation coming home to their Father. No more will people talk of there being a fatherless generation because all will know me from the least to the greatest! As people rediscover Me as their Father, as people discover My love, as people come to My Son and become part of My family, I will restore the family unit in the natural. Marriage will once again be treated with reverence, with weight and with excitement.
True love is coming to this nation. Britain will be the new romantic nation. London will be the new Paris. People from all over the world will come to find romance and they will find the One who created romance!
The hearts of the fathers will be turned to the sons and the hearts of the sons to the fathers. England's men are coming home. I will teach them how to love. I will teach them how to play with their kids. I will transform them into role models that will lead and transform the next generation. No longer will men hide away or run away, but men will stand strong, steadfast. They will not be afraid of the financial situation, they will not be ashamed but they will stand in My love and in My provision. And the pressure will be off because those men who stand in me – I will provide for their families. The days of two jobs, stress and family division are over.
(Hannah Hall - January 2011)
Psalm 65:11-13
You crown the year with Your goodness,
And Your paths drip with abundance (fatness).
They drop on the pastures of the wilderness.
And the little hills rejoice on every side.
The pastures are clothed with flocks;
The valleys also are covered with grain;
They shout for joy, they also sing.
These verses are preceded by "The river of God is full of water". We should expect an outpouring of the Holy Spirit this year. He has prepared the way and made the land fertile for growth. The Lord has gone ahead into 2011 and has made it good. The year is already crowned with victory.
The Lord has driven His chariots through 2011, dropping His abundance/His fatness as He goes. When we walk in His ways we will be mightily blessed. Jesus is the Way. The fat represents the best of everything of God. As we keep our eyes on Jesus we will walk in the abundance of all that He is and all that He has.
If you feel you are in the wilderness right now, feeling dry and fruitless and abandoned, feeling like you're going round in circles and getting nowhere, you are going to feel the oil of God's anointing pouring into your life and you are going to bloom and flourish and shine for Him.
Perhaps you feel you are a little hill, you feel insignificant, unimportant, you feel like you are always in the way – more of a hindrance than a help. As you look to Jesus and follow in his paths you will realise your worth in our Lord Jesus. You will sing out the Lord's goodness and beauty and faithfulness, and songs of praise will bubble up from within. Then others will hear and take notice, and you will help others climb up higher to see Jesus for themselves.
The pasture is where the sheep are fed and watered. There will be many people coming into the churches. Those who have wandered away from the Lord will come back to church, and those who have never known Jesus will accept Him as their Saviour.... because the Lord has sown His grain, His word in the valleys, in the places where people are feeling furthest away from God. And whatever the Lord sows, multiplies a hundredfold and produces fruitfulness.
2011 will be a year of transformation. As we keep our eyes on Jesus He will transform us from the inside out. 2 Cor 3:18 says, "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding (as in a mirror) the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."
Our part is simply to follow Jesus, and He will do the rest.
(Clare Berry - January 2011)
"I had a word for this church. The first picture I saw was this mighty eagle and God reminded me of when Noah was on the ark and he kept sending out a dove to see if there was land yet. This eagle had a twig in its beak and on the one side were olive leaves. I felt God say that's the anointing – my anointing I'm carrying with, my anointing I'm bringing afresh.
On the other side of the branch were cherries and that was a word-play as I felt that God said: "You are cherished my child – you are cherished Forest Town Church'. And it is a mighty eagle that is bringing this forth.
The eagle was heading towards land and we can be encouraged - Forest Town Church we have reached land and it is beautiful and it is prosperous and it reminded me of a blanket – it is warm, it is safe, it speaks of home, life and warmth and I felt God say that I am bringing you to a land that is prosperous. And I saw seven sheaves of wheat and felt God say: 'That which my waters have washed away I will restore seven-fold over'."
(Deona Watson - November 2010)
We've also created slideshows of some prophetic words given in the past by different members of the church in the past. We hope these encourage you and give you a sense of where we are going and the wonderful things God is doing among us!
Unravelling
Pictures for FTC by Ligia Anderson (April 2010)
The Unknown Way
Prophecy by Christine Larkin
Walls
Prophecy by Ed Jeannot
Horn of Anointing
Prophecy by James Davis
Long Before you were Born
Prophecy by Helen Rist
