Predictions for 2020

Many prophets are gearing up to release their message about God’s plans for the next year. On important thing is often missing from these words. They fail to distinguish between:

• God’s intentions – what he would like to do, if he could human cooperation (but often doesn’t).
• God’s plans – What he is definitely going to do, because has everything in place ready to do it.

I believe that much of what the prophets will predict falls into the first category. They describe what God wants to do. He tells his people what he would like to do in order to encourage them to get prepared and act boldly. Usually, these predictions fail, not because God has changed his mind, but because his people fail to do their part.

The other thing that is often missing from these declarations about what God wants to do is his strategy for bringing his plans about. This is important, because the people God need to know they need to do, and how they need to get prepared, in order receive the blessing that God would like to give to them.

This season, I would like to see more about God’s strategy and tactics for accomplishing his plans and less to emphasis on the outcomes. Without the former, the latter is just an intention that might never happen. Outcomes are nothing without strategies to accomplish them.