I hear a new sound coming out of the church. It’s a fresh, clean, crisp pure, exact sound like the ringing of a tiny silver bell. It’s an enchanting sound that can be discerned even in the midst of a cacophony of choas. It’s ring is a call to destiny. It’s voice ushers in Kingdom order.
We are no longer becoming, we are. This is a pivot point. We will take a sharp unexpected turn and out step the enemy. It has already begun. You have the relationship with the Lord you’ve always dreamed of. Stop pursuing it and act as though you have it now! Your presence changes spiritual atmospheres in the places you enter. Go and watch it happen. Watch the angel army that surrounds you break the powers of darkness crippling them and bringing them to their knees as you enter. You are noticing people being drawn to you even captivated when you speak from that place of Heavenly peace because their souls bear witness to the love of the Father pouring through you quenching the desperate thirst of the desolate.
God is opening up personal portals of freedom to areas where there has always been tight restriction. You’ve had to exercise great discipline and walk a fine line for many years but suddenly the path before you is wide.
Avoid Israel’s initial mistakes when they stepped into the pivot.
“But while they were gorging themselves on the meat—while it was still in their mouths—the anger of the Lord blazed against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague. So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah (which means “graves of gluttony”) because there they buried the people who had craved meat from Egypt.”
Numbers 11:33-34 NLT
What sustained them in Egypt made them sick in the shift! Don’t crave the “delicacies” of the past. Disconnect your soul from the past moves of God, the old processes and systems. What sustained you then will not hold you now. Pivot today and face forward in a new direction with your arms outreached to receive the fresh portions of this new and greater season. You will recover what was stolen from you and your ancestors but when you receive it it will be presented in a different way than what you will expect.
Avoid the trap of the old wine skin.
“Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon. And many in Israel had leprosy in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.””
Luke 4:25-27 NLT
The people who had walked with God for decades were unable to pivot and take hold of the new wineskin to experience the new moves of God. The Lord is lifting the barriers that would restrict you to the old days step forward and be open to the new.
“How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings. You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your river of delights. For you are the fountain of life, the light by which we see.”
Psalms 36:7-9 NLT
In June I watched in the Spirit as I heard the Lord say “A large sliding glass door has opened in front of you offering full access to Kingdom resources.” Today as I look I see large “Promised Land” sized fruit on the other side of that open glass door. There is an abundant bounty available to each of us.
Stand up and pretend like you are taking off an old coat and declare: “Lord I release the old wine skin”. Now pretend to put on a brand new coat, take a few steps forward, stretch out your arms in preparation to receive a heavy and vast portion of abundance and say “I take on the new wineskin and I receive all that you have for me and my family this year!”