I wrote an eBook and reflected on a number of characteristics I sensed would be in play in this year we are now experiencing. Recently I've begun reading back through that word and was surprised by the connection with the season many are in, including myself.
I am working on many fronts to advance the Gospel, build ministry platforms that share the good news wide and on regional 24/7 prayer founded in service and love for the body of Christ. Reading through this section I was quickened to this....
Discernment will rise. Along with it will rise a clearer picture across a wider swath of the Church of the status quo. Visibly empty, these status quo approaches will be let go for more vital and free flowing paths to walk with the Spirit. This vital process of discernment, advance and letting go of the status quo will usher in key and powerful winds of the Holy Spirit. Fresh winds will arrive and fill up vital cups and structures that the Spirit initiated and encouraged.
Having just completed the 30 DAYS of Prayer and 24/1 - 24 hrs of continuous prayer in our city center - regional hub park - I was deeply encouraged by the increase the Holy Spirit poured out on our region. And reminded of the work the Spirit is doing in us. Strategic insight linked with wisdom and love are an amazing and powerful means of walking in the Spirit. I am hoping these writings spark some of that in our walk!
Here is a larger excerpt from a section that stuck out to me of late.
Prophetic Review 2016
Salvation's Mountain Erupting
with Open Doors,
Shifts, and Invitation
2. Expanding Kingdom Government – Riding on the Rails of Unity and Manifold Wisdom
Ministry Structures and Spirit will Align in greater detail, wisdom and Spirit Power. Chapter 2
In transition seasons, the old ways and applications of ministry lose their power. The season ahead, when walked in through the Spirit and faith filled promise, will increase in Alignment and Righteousness. There will be more direct connection to Spirit and power in the practices and structures of the Church. This will be a welcome breeze and fresh air for some Saints who have patiently endured in hope.
Discernment will rise. Along with it will rise a clearer picture across a wider swath of the Church of the status quo. Visibly empty, these status quo approaches will be let go for more vital and free flowing paths to walk with the Spirit. This vital process of discernment, advance and letting go of the status quo will usher in key and powerful winds of the Holy Spirit. Fresh winds will arrive and fill up vital cups and structures that the Spirit initiated and encouraged.
Likewise there will be a birthing of approaches, focuses, ministry structures and strategies that will directly feed and fire walking in the Spirit.
Feeding and fueling walking in the Spirit, these new ideas and approaches will not prop up religion. They will expose it. What cannot hold a living and breathing "walking in the Spirit" will become stressed and struggle. Problem. These may be things near and dear to us. The reward of free flowing Spirit power and love will outpace the sense of loss associated with the change required.
New steady streams of glory in the presence of God will open up and flow. The atmosphere is to provide for and make room for waiting on the Lord. Wisdom and insight are sure to follow and flow to those waiting for the Lord.
Continued progress will be seen in the alignment of the prophetic with the apostolic.
The foundation of the church is the apostles and prophets. (Ephesians 2:20) Though this alignment is not a dynamic working structure yet, more and more progress will be seen in its development in the next season. Along with this will come more exercise of discernment, discerning of spirit and general abilities of the church to discern the broken and empty, the unrighteous and unclean and the Voice of the Lord. Dynamic power filled ministry is required to fill the gaps.
- Wisdom will be shared from existing alignments for more rapid progress.
- Nations will align with different ministries in the Voice of the Lord and apostolic strategy. The progress of speaking into governments will grow exponentially and make way for the Gospel in previously closed doors.
- The prophetic ministry will increase in power and not decrease with apostolic alignment. Peace will be the sign of proper alignments between the apostolic and prophetic.
- There will be a final shaking for ministries unwilling to align and partner in the freedom and unity of the Spirit.
In keeping with the theme of waiting on the Lord, progressing in the mind of the Lord for building structures, is critical.
A new dynamic of the Spirit must be part of the workings or operations of any new structure.
Dynamic flexibility and determined focus are required. Walking in the Spirit needs to be part of the culture and practice of any new structure. The participation in such structures should call forth rooted established walking in the Spirit.
These new structures need to house divine assignment, the Kingdom grace bestowed on each of us in Christ's victory (Ephesians 4:7). These are living assignments from the Throne. They carry a dynamic and power that can be activated in a new wine-skin. Purposelessness and passivity are to be avoided at all costs. There is no reason to build something that does not directly connect to divine assignment or Kingdom activation. This will be a challenge to structured ministries that have lost the power of walking in the Spirit. If they have given themselves over to orchestrating performance driven strategies, a re-alignment is required.
Many things about the way we conduct church kills the flames of the Kingdom of God, the fires of walking in the Spirit.
A Top priority is discovering these limiting elements. Then letting them go. The invitation of the season is to enter into dynamic free flowing paths that call the Saints into devotion, exercising the ways of God and encountering the love of Jesus.
A key point of discernment over this process is aligning with the teachings of the Lord Jesus and the primary motivation of following, walking in the Spirit, Going, and Disciplining the nations. The direction is toward simpler and simpler expressions of the Kingdom that explode greater and greater power and moving of the Spirit of God.
The structures that are built need to support phrases like this....
- Walking in the Spirit looks like this..... and this is how you do it. Enter into this path and learn to walk in the Spirit.
- Abiding in inheritance looks like this.....and this is how you do it. Follow me as I follow Christ.
- Standing in the Armor of God and learning the art of intimate warfare looks like this.....and this is how you do it....
- Dwelling richly in the Word of Christ and being full of the Spirit looks like this....and this is how you do it.
The call of the season is to think longer term but act now. Act on ideas with solid sustainable reproducing ability.
What we grow and develop now can be part of a long term ever increasing outpouring of salvation and power in the Holy Spirit. The blessing and favor of the Lord lies ahead. We need a mindset of overcoming, boundless grace and glory. We need victory in the completed work of Jesus. We need a living and active prophetic edge to our day to day walk. We need Word of Wisdom to open up the creative reality of the Holy Spirit. Plan for and wait for such words to open up mindsets and plans.
The Spirit is calling for new cups. Cups that reverberate renewed Kingdom realities. Once the ONE CUP is established, others can be built.
We are drinking from cups the Father has emptied, So that we would be emptied and drink from the ONE CUP.
Now is the season of building. The end and the beginning will speak much more clearly of each other. The burning question will be "do you want to be part of it?" Open invitation.
Look for:
Re-ordered
Re-formed
Re- made
The call is for deeper process in the ways of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ. Capturing, processing, and stewarding rhema, has opportunity for incredible vitality and wise counsel in the season ahead. A vitality is available in the alignments Scripture. The Spirit is calling for deep wisdom and discernment in the Body of Christ. Of the unseen "we see" and of the secret place "we speak". The way it looks is like kneading dough. Many hands in prayer, process and zeal are calling forth the ways of God.
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