This is submitted by Bob Hazlett (Rhazlett66@aol.com)

The Third Day Power
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A DAY OF REPRODUCTION (Genesis 1)

"The land produced vegetation, plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds...and there was evening and there was morning the third day" (Gen. 1:12,13)

God says: "I am about to end the barrenness in your life. I have placed within you seed that not only produces life, but reproduces. The power of multiplication is coming on you and what I have planted in you will begin to spring up in the lives of others also. As a sign to you I will open the barren wombs of many of women, my maid servants. As I have in the past with my prophets Samuel and John the baptist I will open barren wombs. This is a signal that I am bringing a new level of Apostolic purity to my Church. For those prophets born from barren wombs prepared the way for the King. My apostles will rise with a kingly anointing of humility and boldness, as warriors and servants, with purity and power! The power they carry will be reproduced in many."

A DAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (Exodus 19 &20)

Exod 19:11,16
11 and be ready by the third day, because on that day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.
Exod 20:18-20
18 When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die." Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning."

God says, "I will continue the shaking that I have begun. And it will even increase. For those of you that have submitted to my discipline you will enter into the cloud of my glory. This year will be a year of protection and provision, for you have allowed me to remove the things that could be shaken. For those who have not allowed me to discipline, the cloud of glory will seem like a consuming fire. The heat is going to be turned up this year. As a sign to you there will be pockets of intense heat waves and drought in this coming year. I will continue to discipline my church until she reflects the glory of my Son. I am coming in judgement, because as with my people Israel I desire to bring you into covenant and blessing. Embrace my discipline and you will enjoy the blessings of the covenant. Reject my discipline and you will know wrath of judgement, and you will be subject to curses that I do not desire for you."

A DAY OF REQUESTS GRANTED

Esther 5:1-3
1 On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.
2 When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
3 Then the king asked, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given you." (NIV)

God says, "This is a day of my favor for my bride. You have been faithful in little and I will give you much. It is my pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
Ask! Seek! Knock! You have not because you ask not. I desire to bless you physically and spiritually. You need only ask. I sense you have been content to be part of the kingdom, just to live in the palace, but I am calling you to the inner courts. There you will find greater intimacy, greater health, greater release of finances, a greater measure of the miraculous. Why is it so hard for you to believe I desire to give you these things. I want to be extravagant in all that I do for you, there is no limit to what I can do if you only ask and believe. Take off the robes of mourning. Put on your royal robes! I am holding out my septer to you. Ask what you will. It is my GOOD pleasure to give you the Kingdom!"

A DAY OF RESTORATION AND REVIVAL

Hosea 6:1-3
1 "Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.
2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
3 Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth."

God says, "For those who have submitted to my discipline this is a day of restoration." I heard the word "HARVEST". "Yes I have sent the former rains to soften the hard ground, now I am sending the Latter rains that will prepare the harvest." For the church of America I saw the Lord take off his belt of truth and discipline the area known as the "Bible belt". There will be a shaking that will take place there. Truth will revealed, hidden things will come to light, sin will be exposed in leadership, and God will be feared. The church will rise in greater purity. I also saw clouds gathering in the North West and the North East. The Lord says "these are the clouds of my latter rains. For the hard soil in the Northwest and the Northeast has begun to soften as a result of the early rains I have sent. Now I am preparing to send the latter rains to prepare for revival and the harvest."
The Northwest and the Northeast will experience a greater outpouring this year. In these areas you will see outbreaks of revival, miraculous signs and wonders, and the enemy will be dispossessed. But the Lord says, "do not only focus on the outpouring of rain, but look to my fields they are white as unto harvest!" Rejoice for the day of Revival is coming to you!

A DAY OF REJOICING!!!

John 2:1-10
1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,
2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine."
4 "Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied. "My time has not yet come."
5 His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
7 Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim.
8 Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet." They did so,
9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
10 and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now." (NIV)

God says, "REJOICE!!! I am moving you into a time of greater Joy than even before. You have tasted of my wine but I save the best for last! This day will be one that will surpass all others. The key to experiencing this great joy is found in the words, "do whatever he tells you." Obedience brings great joy, disobedience brings sadness. Rejoice! For the wedding celebration is under way." The Lord showed me that this year there will be a release of great excitement and expectation that the wedding is nearing. There will be increased revelation and understanding of the second coming of Christ and it will not be tainted with the fear mongering of the past. God does not want His people to fear what will be the greatest moment of triumph for the church. God will raise up teachers and prophets who will proclaim with clarity the day of His coming. This will cause the church to celebrate and with great joy. It will also cause many to RUN from the darkness into the LIGHT. The second coming of Christ is going to be restored to it's proper place in the gospel message and the Bride will call out in unison with the Spirit, "COME LORD JESUS, EVEN SO COME!!!"

A DAY OF RESURRECTION

Gen 22:4-5 & 9-14
4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
5 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you."
9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! "Here I am," he replied.
12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. To this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."

Luke 9:22-24
22 And he said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life."
23 Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.

God says, "This day is the day of resurrection! I have seen your unfilled hopes, your unrealized dreams, I have seen your expectation for the future that has not yet appeared and I say to you that THIS is the day of Resurrection. For many of you have laid you hopes, dreams and expectations before me and said, take them lord I only want you. And to you I say I am the provider. I will give back to you what you have sacrificed and more." I heard the words, "it's time to pass the baton". The result of the shaking that will take place this year will be a passing of the baton of commissioning and empowering. Just as Abraham's obedience caused the covenant to pass from him to the next generation. This year a new generation will emerge. A generation in which the word of the lord is not rare. A generation in which His deed are remembered. A generation in which His name is revered. A generation through which his holiness is displayed. A generation through which His power is manifest. A generation that sees the dead raised to life! We will see generational reconciliation take place. For this generation will honor those who have gone before, and will nuture those who are coming behind. Because God will place a father's heart in them.

-- Bob Hazlett