Year 2025 was a year of turmoil. Year 2026, the Lord tells me, will be a year of great blessing – not for all, for sure, but for those who love Him. I asked Him to bless me in 2026, and He immediately began the year blessing me tremendously. I didn’t expect the enormity or nature of it, yet why not?
The Year 2026, a Year of Great Blessing
On Wednesday evening of December 31st, 2025, as I was retiring, I began, without planning to review my past going back to my childhood of losses, particularly those suffered by thieves, slick salesmen, many not so slick but tricky, cheats, liars, deceivers, and those charging unfairly high prices or buying what I was selling at prices I didn’t appreciate.
I included everything – houses, cars, stocks, garage sale goods, whether buying or selling, sales, and negotiations of many sorts. None of this included missed opportunities, which could change the picture substantially, but no matter – those didn’t bother me so much.
Understand, the Lord has recently healed me of my money problem through the Bennett Blessing. So, my review was no longer one of sadness and sorrow or grief. This review came quite unexpectedly. I wasn’t even thinking of a year-end review of anything, but there it was.
Then, also without premeditation or planning, I was finding myself comparing my “losses,” real or imagined, specifically calculated and remembered or estimated, with my “wins,” gains, gifts, successes, benefits not earned or deserved, every sort of blessing or advantage received that I could conceive or recall in my entire life.
It was soon evident that during most of my life, I had been saddened, grieved, and lost in my losses, majoring on the minors and minoring on the majors. When I began to recall what I possessed, aside from non-financial possessions and blessings, which were worth so much more, I quickly perceived that the Lord had kept His promise. In the early ‘80s, when I was realizing and sorrowing over my lifetime losses as a fool, He encouraged me, saying, “Replenish, replenish, I will replenish.”
The restoration would take some time, with further losses and such grievances, but His Word to me would eventually be fulfilled. I also realized that He spoke the word “replenish” three times with purpose. It wasn’t a casual choice of expression but a very meaningful one, not loose words of drama, but solid words of passion. Though I had no idea what The Lord meant, I realized only recently that He was speaking not only of restoring or repaying, but of multiplying back my losses many times over. I had no idea.
As I reviewed my financial blessings, I saw that the Lord had restored many times more than I had lost. Now, with the spiritual, inner healing, I was able to focus on my gains and appreciate them and not grieve over the “half-empty” cup. I perceive that my cup runs over.
These thoughts so happened to be in the last hours of 2025. It’s a timely closing of a year and a transition to what now follows.
I don’t know when I began the next thought, in a prayer request I had never considered making in my 50 years of Christian life. Did I dare? Would it be presumptuous and selfish of me, even “unchristian?”
The next morning, which happened to be January 1, 2026, of course, I asked the Lord to bless me.
“God, can I ask You to bless me? Dare I ask? Would it be wrong of me? But, Lord, I do feel like I could ask this of You.” I did feel I could. I also thought I would ask this in Marilyn’s presence, and I did.
This happened to be the day we made our weekly visit to the farm. On the way there, we wondered if we could find a similar event in the Scriptures where someone asked God to bless them. The case in 1 Chronicles 4:9,10 came to me when Jabez prayed and asked God to bless him. We couldn’t think of another case.
“Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, ‘Because I bore him in pain.’ Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, ‘Oh that You would bless me and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm so that it might not hurt me!’ And God granted what he asked” (1 Chronicles 4:9-10 Revised Standard Version).
At the farm, Martin thought of when Jacob wrestled with the angel of God, insisting that he wouldn’t let the man/angel go until he had first blessed him. I didn’t feel like this second example was quite the same as mine, but those were the only two examples we could think of.
Lord, I believed that You would grant me my request, and that those with me would be partakers of the blessing together, and not only with us, but many others.
At the start of each year, I’ve had a prophetic Word for us. At the beginning of 2025, I had not recorded a prophetic Word in this journal; however, Marilyn recalled my prophesying that 2025 would be a year of great turmoil. And wasn’t it? Yes, and how – all over the world, the Middle East, Gaza, President Trump’s inauguration, and Canada’s great destruction by Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney, and the Liberal government. It’s been grievous.
This time, I’m expecting a year of great blessings; blessings upon blessings.
So, what is the first thing we receive in the news? The people of Persian Iran, after half a century, were finally succeeding in throwing off the yoke of Shia Islamic tyranny. They were being set free.
I had waited and prayed for this day for them, and for the entire defeat and destruction of the mullahs and Ayatollah Ali Khomeini. How much I had insisted that the head of the snake of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Iranian Shi’ite proxies would be cut off. Ali Khomeini must be eliminated. Finally, it has come, and the crown prince Reza Pahlavi is being declared King of Iran/Persia, restored to succeed his late father’s throne.
Then, it occurred to me: Is this now the Father’s blessing I asked for? Surely! A major prayer answered. Would it stop there? I was assured it wouldn’t.
Friday, January 2, 2026.
The next day, we heard the news that the US attacked Venezuela and captured criminal drug kingpin Nicolas Madura and his wife in Caracas. All in 2 hours! Swift and hard.
The attack came exactly 36 years after Panama’s drug dealer Manuel Noriega was seized on January 3, 1990.
Communist Madura had ruled the drug trade of fentanyl and other drugs in this hemisphere, in cooperation with China, Iran, Russia, and Cuba. This was the merciless tyrant of Venezuela who greatly tormented his people, destroying their once prosperous country and starving the people to death.
I wept with joy over the news of Tehran and Venezuela, both peoples of which were weeping for joy, cheering, singing, dancing, celebrating, and demonstrating in the streets in hundreds of thousands.
It isn’t done yet; there will be great conflict; however, their time of deliverance has come. Even now, the US has repossessed Venezuela and warned Colombia and Mexico to fall in line, or they’re next.
God is blessing me, without delay, right on the heels of His promise. I tell you this not to boast, although I don’t care if I am boasting, but my boast is in the Lord, and I declare His great blessing on me. I shout out His Faithfulness, His Might, Glory, Goodness, and Justice. He answers; He answers in His Mighty Way. This is my God, my God and yours, Who does great things, honoring those who honor Him. I want you to know that. Have patience and faith.
Sabbath, January 3, 2026.
More good news! Martin called to inform us that things got straightened out with the Tezons, who had ten years of disharmony and trials, and this also was in these first 3 days of 2026. After all, aren’t we talking “Blessings [Bennett] HQ?” 😊 (You’ll all know more of this shortly.)
I believe the blessings will continue to flow constantly and abundantly. The topper might be a Free Alberta, which is inevitable, but as a crowning event, I don’t know. It’s looking good and likely. Now, I recall the words of Malachi:
Malachi 3:10 Complete Jewish Bible
Bring the whole tenth into the storehouse,
So that there will be food in My house,
And put Me to the test,”
says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
“See if I won’t open for you
The floodgates of Heaven
And pour out for you a blessing
Far beyond your needs.
People have been sending offerings very generously and regularly. I marvel at it. How can, why should, this be?! But it is. Then, I ask, as we’ve often asked in the past many decades of our walk with the Lord, especially in our beginning years, “Lord, this money is adding up again. What is it for this time? What will we need it for?” And always, it wasn’t long before we would know and proceed to spend it.
Blessings! Marilyn remarked that I wouldn’t be able to keep a record of all the blessings occurring. It’s hard to imagine, but you know what? I’m beginning to believe it. END
The Bennett Paper still to come. It’s a doozy; you’ll see.
Victor