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As the year is preparing to manifest or to show up, package it with what you want to see in the year. Frame it with the word of God. Declare that it is your year of favour, breakthrough, divine health and wealth, growth in your spheres of influence

God spoke and it came into being, you too as you speak it will come into being; Psalms 82:6 “You are gods, and all of you children of the most high”, Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits

2.     .    Secondly praying before you get to the year allows you to deal with family patterns which are set to manifest in the coming year.  If you have done a study of your family pattern (I suggest you do so) and see that certain events occur in certain months, or after a number of years and the coming year happens to be the Nth year. Then this is the time to speak and deal with the family pattern in your life before it manifests 

Family patterns can be deaths in your family, marriage failures and divorce, sickness and illness, poverty cycles by loss of incomes, court cases, wrong investments etc. If the coming year is the Nth year or a certain month in the year is the Nth month when such events are likely to occur, then you should:  

a.       Engage in spiritual warfare, cancelling the handwriting of written ordinances that are standing against you and your family (Colossians 2:15).
b.      Conduct a courtroom session for you and your family pleading for mercy and the intervention of God so that his mercy may prevail over every judgment set to be executed against you and your family in the coming year.  In a nutshell you go before God the judge, bring detailed r
c.       Repentance over every sin, iniquity, transgression that would cause the face of God to turn away from you;   petition for a verdict of mercy instead of judgment. ( read Hebrew 11:22-25, Daniel 7: 9-10, Zechariah 3)
d.      Saturate your environment and especially the suspect months, and year with the word of God.  God watches over his word to perform it, it does not go back to him void(Isaiah 55:11)

3.       Thirdly praying before you get to the year allows you to become your own prophet as you declare and decree about your life. Job 29:22  You shall decree a word and it shall be established for you.  When a prophet of God prophecies over your life they are speaking from either the word of God by revelation that is a Rhema word to you to, or they are speaking from an insight into your books as the Lord has written them (Psalm 139:16, Hebrews 10:7 ). 

You may not have the luxury of having a prophet of God prophesy over your life, or he may not have the time to specifically speak and prophesy over your life in a detailed manner as you would like.  Notwithstanding that, the word of God is powerful, it is alive, it must come to pass, it releases Angels, anointing, mantles, help for you.  You have all the time to speak over your own life, your children, your spouse.  Speak the word of God and declare what the word of God says over your life, family, destiny, ministry, Nation,.  

As you pray over the incoming year, ask God to give you revelation over who you are so that you can speak it into your atmosphere.

When the Lord brings you into contact with a Man or Woman of God to speak over your life they will affirm what you have been speaking, their voice will add to what you have been praying and declaring. 

Fourthly Praying before you get to the year gives you sufficient time to speak over the gates of every month of the coming year before it shows up.  Station the word of God over every gate that you will encounter as you walk through the year.  Gates that you will encounter include: