JUBILEE🎉

Today is my 50th birthday…

I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited for a birthday

Leviticus 25:10 – “Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.”

In 50 years of life, I have definitely felt great anticipation over certain dates, like graduations, our wedding, and the births of our children.

I’m sure you can relate.

But this is a different kind of excitement. It feels personal, but it also feels BIGGER than that!

I keep asking friends, who have already turned 50; “Is it weird that I’m so excited?”

This morning, I woke up with a prompting from Holy Spirit, to dig into the meaning of JUBILEE.

Boom! 💥

This is deeper than my newly earned wrinkles, wider than my new waist line and more abundant than the candles on the cake. 😉 It’s richer than the icing of gray hairs and wisdom I’ve gained up until now.

“You shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you…”

—Leviticus 25:10

In the Bible, there’s a time and season for everything. I’m here to encourage all of us that I believe it’s TIME for Jubilee!

This Jubilee year is holy invitation into something beautiful for those of us who belong to God. It’s a year of favor, freedom, restoration, and divine rest.

Let’s dig a little deeper… 🤓

The Hebrew word for Jubilee is “yovel”, which refers to a ram’s horn—this was a trumpet that would sound throughout the land declaring liberty.

Stop. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and listen.

Jubilee has a sound.

Can you hear it?

Here’s a song that might help…

https://youtu.be/17IVivK_C9U?si=Hhj6wlgeKFuHXREP

I believe he is always inviting us to pay attention; To listen to what a new season sounds like.

I don’t always do that. But this year,

the sounds have been more like alarms (or trumpets) that are a bit easier to catch —

when I’m paying attention. 😉

Still, I didn’t quite know what it all meant.

I was seeing double 7’s everywhere! The grocery bill would be $77, the temperature, the speed my hubby was driving 🫣, a football jersey. It was highlighted, but I kept asking the Lord to reveal what he wanted me to know.

Then I found out that Jubilee occurred every 50th year, after seven cycles of seven years (49 years).

In addition, I was dreaming wildly and waking up with songs playing in my spirit. Certain words would JUMP off of the pages of scripture, like hot bread, fresh out of the oven. Words like ‘LISTEN’ and ‘NEW’ and ‘RESTORE’.

I felt the shift and wondered if we were entering into something like a divine reset?

A new dawn.

A fulfillment of promises.

Restoration.

Redemption.

There are some really incredible things that stand out to me, Biblically-speaking, about Jubilee. I did a little search. Here’s what popped up — with some of my journal thoughts after each prompt.

Perhaps you can grab a journal and sit with the Lord on these things. Take your time.

JUBILEE SIGNIFIES

1. Freedom for Slaves

All Israelite slaves were to be set free.

It was a reset from bondage—physically and economically.

✍🏻 📖 🙏How cool is that?!!!

This got me thinking; “are there any ‘slave-mindsets’ that I’ve been living in and need to repent of and renounce?”

(ie: Here are a few I’ve believed: “My worth is in my work, I’m never going to be free, life feels hopeless, I’m alone, unloved, not enough and carrying the weight of the world”).

Another question : “Am I in bondage to anything in this world, besides being a willing bond-servant of Christ”? He will show us when we ask.

2. Return of Land

Land that had been sold due to poverty or debt was to be returned to its original family. This ensured that no family would permanently lose their inheritance.

✍🏻 📖🙏Whoa! This is the best news. Jubilee reminds us that we get to take back territory! We get to reclaim everything the enemy has stolen from us! No matter what family we come from, the debts of our fathers, our own mess…

if it is part of our inheritance in Christ, we get to reclaim it!

Ask the Lord “what has been stolen from me?” (Years, identity, health, peace, joy…) . What would you like me to reclaim in this season?

Reminds me of this song:

https://youtu.be/xhr6REYguCU?si=H8BhmxqQV2JofQB4

The woman who touched the fringe of Jesus’ robe (Matthew 9) had her health stolen. In addition; she lost community, finances, and hope.

Just ONE touch from Jesus brought FREEDOM in every way- she experienced JUBILEE

Unclean —-> Clean (artist unknown)

3. No Sowing or Reaping

Just like the sabbatical year (every 7th year), the land was to rest. No planting or harvesting—people were to live off what God provided.

✍🏻 📖 🙏REST is God’s idea.

God modeled rest on the 7th day of creation and teaches us the power of allowing land to rest every 7 years.

This is a clue: we were never created to ALWAYS be producing.

Deep breath. Isn’t that a light and easy yoke?

We can ask Him if there’s an area of our lives where we chosen striving over abiding.

“All work, no play” is man’s system, not God’s rhythm.

There’s a time and season for sowing and harvesting - but Jubilee is an invitation to trust God to provide abundantly and restore the years, while we simply ABIDE in Him. In the Kingdom, we get to RECEIVE before we DO anything!

4. Debt Forgiveness

While not explicitly stated in Leviticus 25, the Jubilee year extended the spirit of economic mercy and justice, consistent with the release of debts mentioned in Deuteronomy 15.

Jubilee points prophetically in every way to Jesus. ☺️ ✝️🩸⛓️‍💥🙌

In Luke 4:18–21, Jesus reads from Isaiah 61 and declares:

“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to being Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free and that the TIME of the Lord’s favor has come.”

✍🏻📖🙏Jesus Himself is our Jubilee,

bringing deliverance, freedom, RESToration, and redemption to all who believe in Him.

Have I been looking to something or someone else to be my source of deliverance, restoration, freedom, etc…?

Finally,

Yesterday was Pentecost Sunday. 🔥

Pentecost is Greek for “Fiftieth”!

(50 days after Passover, Pentecost is celebrated - marking the Acts 2 outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon believers).

✍🏻📖🙏Have you been in a season of waiting on a promise?

Me, too. And I’m beginning to see fulfillment of many prayers, this year. Could it be, jubilee?

Waiting on God is never wasted. It’s in those seasons that he prepares us for the magnitude of what’s coming.

This doesn’t mean we will never struggle or suffer. It means that he has purpose and preparation in it.

The Holy Spirit is our greatest GIFT from Jesus —He rests on our weakness —and ushers in supernatural strength, comfort, peace, joy. He emboldens us to live in the grace of the NEW, abundant life promised in Christ. We become the carriers of the JUBILEE anointing of Jesus to a world that desperately needs FREEDOM, RESTORATION, REDEMPTION and a spiritual inheritance from Him.

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Friend, I believe we have a divine invitation right now into the type of CONSECRATION and PROCLAMATION that Leviticus 25 mentions.

‘Consecrate’ means to set apart or to declare something as sacred or having divine purpose.

‘Proclaim’ means to publicly declare or announce something with emphasis.

I would love to pray with you.

And, I always love to hear from you, so please feel free to respond to this blog with requests, thoughts or scriptures that come to mind.

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Father, in the name of Jesus, we come before you in gratitude and praise. Thank you for teaching us about your times and seasons and perfect RHYTHMS. Thank you for highlighting JUBILEE!

For my 50th birthday, I ask for a fresh outpouring of your Holy Spirit to fall on each reader right now.

For those who believe and call on your name, Jesus , I ask that you would flood us with your presence and release us from every false mindset, every word curse, weight, or wound we’ve carried that is not of you. We ask for forgiveness for holding on to what does not belong to us. We consecrate this holy reset to you. Release us to walk in the liberty and inheritance you purchased for us.

Remind us today that we do not have to prove anything. We are not behind. We are not late. Let striving cease, in your name, Jesus. We declare that our fruitfulness in this season comes not from effort but from abiding.

Thank you for rest and restoration. We believe that you are returning what the enemy tried to steal—joy, identity, peace, purpose… we are reclaiming what’s ours, not because we’ve earned it, but because you are always GOOD.

We love you, Lord.

May this year be marked by your presence and the sounds of JUBILEE. Even in the valleys, we know you are good. We will testify of your goodness and we will echo your voice. We will trust your timing and proclaim your promises (even when we don’t yet see them). Help us to live in a way that honors you and releases others from the grip of anything but your hem.

In Jesus name I pray,

amen.

Happy Jubilee, friend. God is not done writing your story. In fact, He may just be turning the page to the most beautiful chapter yet.

Much Love,

🩵🙏

Amy