A Word For 2011 - It’s Time To ‘Hang Out Your Shingle!’

To ‘hang out your shingle’ means to begin working as a professional from your own office. A shingle is a small sign board that you put out to the public so that they can see it and know what you are available to do.

It’s Time To Allow Yourself And Your Gift To Be Made Known. Matthew 25:26

Concerning the servant who buried his gift or talent in the ground. Matthew 25:26 (Message Bible) “The master was furious. That’s a terrible way to live! It’s criminal to live cautiously like that! The least you could have done would have been to invest the sum with the bankers, where at least I would have gotten a little interest. Take it and give it to the one who risked the most. And get rid of this ‘play-it-safe’ who won’t go out on a limb. Throw him out into utter darkness!”

I sense the Lord saying, “It’s time to allow yourself to be made known and come forth with the gifts and the talents that I have deposited inside of you for such a time as this. I have need of you. Your gifts are not for yourself, they are for others.” Don’t be so humble that you think if you put yourself out there and let yourself be known for what God has put in you that that would be prideful. That is nothing by false humility! Romans 12:13 says, “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought.” The downside of this verse is that often too many of us think of ourselves too lowly than we ought to think.

Remember we are in Christ and Christ is in us. We are not lifting up ourselves but we are lifting Him up so He can draw all men unto Himself. When we hide our gifts and talents we often hide or bury ourselves with them. 2 Timothy 1:6 “Neglect not the gift that is in you.” I believe Paul was saying to Timothy, “Stir up your gift and make it available to others.”

2011- Many Will Discover Businesses And Entrepreneurships Being Birthed In Their own Homes!

The gift of ‘helps’ is always having the desire and ability to help others. I believe if we have the desire God will see to it that the ability will be there. I believe the gift of ‘helps’ of just wanting to help people will be the womb where creativity and revelation will conceive to birth many businesses and services that have been unheard of until now.
 
Go Out On A Limb And ‘Hang Your Shingle Out’ There….Out On A Limb Is Where The Fruit Grows!

Many who lost their jobs thinking they couldn’t exist without it will find themselves self employed and working for a King! When Jesus said, “I must be about My father’s business,’ I believe He was referring to meeting the practical needs of people as well as their spiritual needs. All work, whatever we think is secular or spiritual is the same to the Lord. It is all His business.

Go ahead. Hang out your shingle! 

Blessings,

Bill Yount

Prayers And Priorities Will Change In 2011



Bill & Dagmar Yount and Family

 Priorities seem to change almost daily in my life the older I get. I think the older we get the more we realize what really is important in the light of eternity. My priorities have now come to a screeching halt. I just can't seem to get my wife, children and grandchildren off of my mind and my love is ever increasing for them. Oh, yes, I love God, but my family is now running in second place behind Him and my ministry is now last. Don't tell God this, but I wish I could retire and just love my family until I meet Jesus face to face. Of course I will still minister with my calling but I have to tell you how my prayers and priorities are changing in my life and how they are changing me. Before you think I am gone a little crazy, I need to tell you that I believe this gut feeling I have is from God Himself for this coming year and maybe for eternity.

Bringing Home The Gold In 2011

I sense the Lord saying, "It's time to call forth some of my most powerful intercessors on earth to release My power in unprecedented ways that have not yet been seen - the prayer power of agreement between a husband and wife. Could it be that when Jesus spoke of His house becoming a house of prayer that He was referring to your house and mine, right where we live. I believe He was speaking to the very core of His church - husbands and wives who were destined to show forth His love and glory to a lost world.

In the Spirit I saw valleys of decisions coming towards our nation, our families, and communities. These decisions that needed to be made soon would affect not only our own lives but the lives of generations to come. I then saw the enemy releasing friction between husbands and wives because of these landmark decisions. He feared and knew that their coming together in agreeing prayer would dethrone the influence of his kingdom from their lives, families and nation.

Family Altars Of Prayer Will Be Erected In 2011

Ezra in the time of trouble seemed to focus on the welfare of the families of Israel that would ultimately be the deliverance for his nation. If God could save a family, the family could save a nation! Ezra built an altar at the river of Ahava.

Ezra 8:21,31 "Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of Him a right way for us, and for our little ones and for all our substance. 31. Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go onto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and of such as lay in wait by the way."
I believe the mounting troubled times are about to drastically turn our hearts toward God and a whole lot more towards our families. Troubled times and economic problems often separate marriages and families but I see that God is going to use them now to bring marriages and families closer together. Families will once again pull together through prayer to get through tough times as we look to the Lord to deliver our families and nation from the hand of the enemy. I will never forget seven years ago when I laid in the emergency room with an attack against my heart. Our family experienced an explosion of love for each other that we had never had before. It will be proven once again that true ministry will come forth out of our family relationships. Not that our relationships are always perfect in our families but because God knows we are esteeming them above our ambitions for ministry outside the home.

Did You Ever Wonder Why Jesus Performed His First Miracle On Earth At A Wedding Feast? Perhaps He Knew That Was Where It Would Be Needed The Most.

Did you know that when God brought you and your spouse together that He knew that you would need a miracle? In fact if you don't need one in your marriage there is possibly something wrong. Couples in the Bible who had the greatest destiny seemed to face the greatest impossibilities in their marriages. Abraham and Sarah couldn't conceive and became unfulfilled. They both through painful experiences learned that they needed more than each other and another third party ( Hagar ) to have their fulfillment in life.

Zachariah and Elizabeth also discovered a barren place in their marriage. Zachariah was serving as a priest in the temple and had the greatest experience of his life. An angel gave him a word about his destiny of having John the Baptist as a son. Then in Luke 1:23 "As soon as the days of his administration ( duties in the temple ) were accomplished, he departed to HIS OWN HOUSE." Then his wife, Elizabeth, who was barren conceived. I believe us men today in the temple or ministry are being called by God to return to our own houses, to our own perhaps 'spiritual' barren wives. Not until we men of God learn and experience spiritual intimacy with our wives, so they can spiritually conceive, can we as couples fulfill God's purposes for marriage and His kingdom in bringing forth a Godly seed that will shake the foundations of the nations!

Your Seed Will Speak With The Enemy In The Gate This Coming Year! Genesis 22:17

Genesis 22:17 ( Message Bible ) “Your descendants will defeat their enemies.”

The enemy is about to hear from our children and grandchildren beginning this coming year. Watch and expect the passion for Christ to run wild like a raging fire inside of them. The Lord has placed them in strategic locations in the earth and even in some unusual places where we might think they shouldn’t be. Even in prisons, homeless on the streets, or wherever they are being held in satan’s grip, they have now been divinely positioned to become a firebrand in God’s hand to ignite and explode like dynamite inside the camp of the enemy! This is why the enemy forever has fought against marriages. He feared concerning the Godly seed that was about to come upon the earth to do him in!

In 2011 - They'll Be Less Of 'Me, Myself And I' In Our Prayers!

I believe this coming year we will see more of Malachi's fulfillment as 'the hearts of the fathers are turning to their children and the hearts of children are turning to their fathers.' I believe we as men of God will find ourselves praying for our families more than anything else. Love will find its way home beginning 2011. A song by Tracey Adkins titled "That's all I ask for anymore" seems prophetic to me for us men of God at this time in history.

"But when I bow my head tonight, there'll be no 'me, myself and I'. Just watch my wife and kids please Lord. That's all I ask for anymore."

"Let them outlive me by a hundred years. Let their laughter dry up all their tears, let them love and be loved back like I have been."

In 2011 - God's Love Will Hit And Explode In The Bulls Eye Of A Nation - Our Families!

I sense a releasing of 'household salvation' angels setting up camp round about our dwelling places to deliver whole families. I believe before Jesus returns that we will experience an unprecedented outpouring of household salvation upon the earth. Get ready to bring home the gold!

Dear Friends,

Your prayers and love have blessed our family in every area. There are times in my ministry travels that I actually feel your prayers. Without you we would never make it through these challenging times. But God has surrounded us with a great cloud of witnesses which you are a part of. Thank you for being family to us. We pray your whole household will experience God’s presence and know His great love that casts out all fear.

We love you all,

Bill and Dagmar Yount & family

A Bowl Of Healing In Heaven Is About To Tip Over…Your Next Prayer Could Tip It!

I saw a "Bowl of Healing" teetering as angels of healing were proposing a toast to one another for Divine health coming upon the earth! They were toasting with the scripture 3 John 1:2 that says, "Beloved, I wish above all things that you would prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers!"

I saw many souls prospering because of drawing near to the Lord as they were fighting the good fight of faith for their healing! On the Father's heart was not only healing but Divine Health!

Our Prayers Of Faith Are Never In Vain

Have you ever prayed for someone to be healed, but they died? We all have. But did you know that your prayer of faith for that person was not in vain, and that God still honors it? Neither is that person's death in vain.

I Saw Tears Being Collected in a Bottle in Heaven...and "Unanswered" Prayers for the Sick Down Here Were Being Collected in a Bowl Up There.

I saw that our tears over our loved ones (who we had believed and prayed for to be healed but were not healed) were not shed in vain. I saw these many tears being collected in a bottle in heaven for a purpose. Our seemingly "unanswered prayers" of faith for the sick who had not received their healing were also being collected in a huge bowl in heaven. I had a knowing that our tears and unanswered prayers down here were working for us a "far more exceeding weight of glory!" I saw this huge bowl in heaven that was filling up to the top, and it was about to tip over to pour out upon the earth the greatest outpouring of healing that this world has ever known!

Your Next Prayer of Faith For the Sick Could be the One That Tips the Bowl Over--Never Stop Praying and Believing!

I sense many who have been given the gift of healing have been stopped by the enemy because they have not seen the results of their prayers of faith. You may say, "Bill, I have been prophesied to lay hands on the sick, but I have prayed for ten people who weren't healed!" Listen carefully. "You need to go find number eleven, and lay hands on them, and pray the prayer of faith, and believe God again.

God is the healer, not us! We are called to believe God's word as long as we have breath! Remember, we are believers not doubters! Even IF your next prayer of faith for the sick goes "unanswered", it could be the very prayer to tip over that bowl of healing in Heaven! Never stop praying and believing! Your prayers are never in vain!

You may say, "Bill, I have been believing God for my healing for fifteen years and still no victory!" Listen carefully. "It would be foolish for you to quit now. You have fifteen years of faith invested in your healing, and you are closer now to your healing than when you first believed!"

John G. Lake Had a Gift of Healing that is Still Healing People Around the World Through Healing Rooms

John G. Lake came from a large family of sixteen members. Seven of his family's loved ones were killed by an epidemic disease. All of this death in his family actually burned a desire inside of him to lay hold of the power of God and discover the key to healing that is still touching the world today. The death all around him could have caused him to quit believing in healing. Instead, the deaths were like gasoline being thrown on fire--they inflamed him to press in until he got the key of healing for the nations!

I read that John G. Lake was in a foreign country where a plague had broken out, and everyone around him was dying but him. They put John G. Lake's hand under a microscope and dropped a touch of this plague on his hand. As this plague touched his skin, they watched the plague die! Let the deaths around us spur us on to press in until we get what Jesus died to give us, because "by His stripes we were healed!"

Why some people die without being healed, only God knows. For sure, if they know Jesus or are small children then they are present with the Lord, totally healed forever! And we will see them again.

In this Bowl of Healing, I Saw an Anointing that Would Release Resurrection Power Upon the Earth!

This bowl that was about to tip over had Resurrection Life in it! I saw a key roll out of this bowl that would unlock the jaws of death and cancel funerals! I heard a strong angel in the heavenlies proclaiming, "They found it! They found the key to the miraculous! They didn't quit but persevered in the 'prayer of faith' beating all the odds against terminal sicknesses, diseases, and infirmities!"

I Think I Have Discovered What the Prayer of Faith Is...It Is When You Pray For Someone Else, When You Feel Like You Need Prayer Yourself!

I have prayed for the sick. When I had no feeling whatsoever while praying, I have seen more people healed. I think the real prayer of faith for the sick is when you don't even feel like praying, but you just do it anyway because Jesus said to. I am learning it's not the prayer of feeling that saves the sick, but it is the prayer of faith! There are divine times when we will be moved with compassion and strongly sense the Lord's presence as we pray. There are also times we are called to pray by faith, not by feeling. You have heard the saying..."When it's hard to pray, pray the hardest!"

Remember, you have healing in your hands because the Healer lives in you!

"Let's tip the bowl over!"

Blessings,

Bill Yount