A CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

for Detours to Destiny: Pits, Pens, Caves, & Dens by Evangelist Dee Cooper-Durden

A PROPHETIC WORD

In 2005 the Lord is bringing his people out from the teenage years, and entering into the years of reigning, where we will be become Kings and Queens, walking in the authority we have been so destined to walk in. "Tots to teens, Kings to Queens".

How will we walk into our destiny? How will the believers learn their authority in 2005? It’s simple, they will learn to love. These three things remain, faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love. 2005 will be a year that our generation, the body of Christ will enter into a deep intimacy with the Lord. I’m not talking about an intimacy of 10 minutes in the morning praying and reading the word and saying "wow that is dedication God, you must now know I truly love you". What we have never understood but this year will, is that intimacy takes sacrifice, intimacy hurts, what was the cross all about? Intimacy. It’s a passionate intimacy. Why do you think Solomon warns us three times in the book of the Song of Songs "Oh, let me warn you, sisters in Jerusalem, by the gazelles, yes, by all the wild deer:

Don't excite love, don't stir it up, until the time is ripe--and you're ready.". There’s a reason why 15 year olds don’t get married, because that kind of sacrifice is too much for them. They are awakening intimacy before it is ready. In 2005 the people of God are going to come into a place of intimacy that has never been imagined before, along with this intimacy will come authority, with authority the signs and wonders, the supernatural realm.

I Corinthians 13:11

James Dickson

Rain Ministries

eastgaterain@hotmail.com

12/31/04