What does 2010 hold for you?

What does 2010 hold for you?
by Sam Livingston

We have known for years that numbers are special to God. They are all through his divine plan for this world and the New Jerusalem to come. Some of the numbers that we can identify within the Bible are 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 24 and 50 to list a few. We walk in the blessing of God based partly through numbers.

The number 10 represents the perfection of divine order. When we look at the year 2010, we need to understand its significance and what it means to us. Every year, every decade, and every century marks something significant to God. Numerically 0-10 represents every numeric value in the English number system. So then when we get to 10 we have covered all the numeric symbols that would be used. It is important that the people of God take this year seriously and walk in the blessings of God with great expectations.

We can literally go through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and find God using the number 10 as a variable in his blessing formulas. Let’s take a few minutes and go through the Bible.

Genesis 5:14
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

Genesis 8:5
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus 26:1
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.

Exodus 34:28
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Joshua 24:29
And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

1 Samuel 21:11
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

2 Kings 20:10
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

Psalm 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

The above are just a few scriptural references for the record. As you can see, the number 10 plays an important role in biblical history.

Cain, Joseph and Joshua received their years of living plus ten. It was the tenth month that water finally receded enough for land to appear again after the flood in Noah’s time. God gave Ten Commandments to Moses that we still honor today. The tabernacle of God was surrounded by ten curtains. The Holy Ghost fell upon those in the upper room ten days after Jesus ascended back to glory. In Malachi chapter 3 we find that if we follow the principle of tithing God will opens windows of blessing for us. What is tithing a tenth of what we earn.

This is the year for divine perfection in your ministry, finances and life in general. Just like the receding of the waters believe God for the pulling down of strongholds, debt payoffs and cancellations so that you can tread above waters again. God wants to make a profound statement through you and in you that will be everlasting from generation to generations. God caused fire to fall down from heaven ten times. (Gen19:24, Lev 9:24, Lev 10:2, Num 11:1, Num 16:35, 1Kings 18:38, 2 Kings 1:10, 2 Kings 1:12, 1 Chron 21:26, 2 Chron 7:1) each time was a statement to prove to the opposition that he is God alone. God wants to burn some things off of you and from around you that your adversaries will know once and for all that you serve a true and living God.

Beloved this tenth year in 2000 is the completion and promotion for all of the saints who have been going through hell. Lift up your heads oh ye gates and the king of Glory shall come in! This is your year to be blessed tremendously above all that you can ask or think!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pastor Sam Livingston is a seasoned pastor, lecturer, teacher and Author of “The Essentials of Fellowship”. He is married to Meraldine Hicks Livingston and blessed to have two children, Sammy K Livingston Jr. and Candace I Livingston. Pastor Livingston is a graduate of NC A&T State University; B.S., Webster University; Business Administration, MA and he is a student at Luther Rice Seminary’s Master of Divinity program. Total Package Ministry airs via television bi-weekly throughout Coastal South Carolina. He thanks God for the opportunity to carry the healing ministry to a hurting nation.