A Comeback Year!
by Jane Hamon
You crown the Year with Your goodness, And your paths drip with abundance. Psalms 65:11
Each year I, like many other prophetic people, take time to listen to the Voice of God specifically to hear what His heart is for a new year, or a new season. I believe the purpose of this is to gain an understanding of God's heart and purpose so that we can properly position ourselves in prayer and in perspective, standing ready to work with Him to bring the Kingdom of God to earth. In this Hebrew year 5777, it is a year of covenant blessing, a year of contending for favor and a year of new spiritual wells of refreshing springing forth. The symbol for 7 in Hebrew resembles a sword, or a vav (that which connects heaven and earth) with a crown on top of it. This is a crowned Year of God's goodness....our paths will drip with abundance!
I hear the Lord decreeing that 2017 will be an incredible Comeback Year! "Comeback" is actually a single word meaning "A regaining of success, fame, health, prosperity, etc.; recovery; to return to a former good position or condition after a loss; the act of making up a deficit as in a contest or game; to become fashionable again; a spirited, clever reply". It is a hopeful word which carries the connotation of a resurgence of good times, revival and times of victory. A Comeback story is one in which someone succeeds against impossible odds, often through overcoming a time of struggle. It is the 'come from behind' story that has everyone cheering. It is the person who has failed time and again finally triumphing and attaining success. It is the underdog, who may have suffered horrible losses and heartbreaking defeat, who through sheer determination rises above every barrier and obstacle to obtain the prize. It is going from a position of being broken down to a position of breaking through! This is a year to see setbacks turn into comebacks!
The number 17 is tied throughout scripture to victory, overcoming the enemy and yes, spectacular comebacks. As the Lord spoke about a Comeback Year in 2017 I looked at biblical stories which are full of people who seemed to have everything going against them, defeat, failure, sin.... only to find they were the Comeback Kids of the day. Moses was a murderer and a fugitive who became a deliverer and was known as a friend of God. Joseph was the dreamer, forgotten in prison in a foreign land who became the prime minister of the greatest empire of the day. David was an adulterer and a murderer who became the greatest king Israel ever knew and whose legacy is that he was a man after God's own heart. Job lost everything, through no fault of his own, yet God restored double of ALL that was lost. The Temple was destroyed but then rebuilt again twice the size with Babylonian money! Peter denied Christ three times but was used by God to preach to win 3000 souls on the day of Pentecost. Jesus....the greatest comeback story of them all......was beaten, crucified and killed, yet conquered death, hell and the grave and came back to life and is now seated with honor at the right hand of God! Wow! With those great examples of comebacks we should all be excited about what is ahead! It's a year to celebrate 500 years of Reformation....the comeback of the power and authority of the church. It's a time for continued and intensified Divine Reversals, which the specific emphasis this year of seeing some things turned upside down (which we will see actually means right side up.). It's a time to see every curse reversed, the plans of the enemy upset and dead dry bones coming back to life!
We will see a comeback in our nation, in our economy and of the voice the church has to impact culture and shape the world. This year the authority of the prophetic Voice of God will make a comeback to challenge us all to rise to new demonstrations of miracles and the supernatural and to occupy new places of authority.
A Comeback Year is here!