This will be the year of bloody battles. The sword of the Lord is being drawn to sever and cut away things that have had a grip on the lives of God’s people to frustrate their purpose and prevent progress. We will say goodbye to many things of the past as the Spirit of God resets us into new beginnings. Loses will yield us gains as we die to our flesh to receive a release of greater power and abundant living. I heard the Spirit of God say, “If we do not die to our fleshly appetites in this hour, those very things will be what the enemy uses to kill us.”