I know some people have gotten upset at times about how I have spoken so much on "rest" this past year and have taken it as I was saying to stop serving or building or running your race for the Kingdom. But that is not what it meant. It was because this is what the Father had put in my spirit so strongly. Not just for myself due to the season I was walking in at the time but because the WHOLE body of Christ needed to hear it. Rest is not laziness. Rest is not unproductive. (It can be if your mindset and heart is not in the right place) Rest is Holy.
But the church itself has replaced intimacy with performance. God has wanted the church to slow down long enough to hear what it is He has been trying to say for preperation for what is ahead. Not just slow down but quit focusing on keeping the same traditions, the programs, the same events year after year. Even continuing some ministries that He is no longer a part of. He has wanted the body to linger in His presence. We have got to quit trying to put Him in this box. This next move will have nothing to do with anything man can produce. No amount of booking events, worshippers, speakers, etc is going to produce the revival man has been looking for. Holy Spirit Himself will move on those who have lingered and soaked in His presence. Sat at His feet. Broke bread together (communion), and have kept their gaze upon Him and nothing or no one else. The hungry and the humble. I will say this until I die.... what man builds will crumble but what God builds will last for eternity. And there are too many trying to build their own towers.
God is shifting and sifting the church. I know some think I'm crazy and I know for a fact many have gotten offended and upset with me lol but it's ok. I will always speak what the Lord wants me to speak. Even when it's hard for even myself to hear. You know why I share these things? Because He wakes me up with repeated dreams and confirmations. My spirit gets so burdened with it until I release it. I feel His heart for His church. I love Him with all my heart and I will continue to choose Him over man even if I stand alone. He's had to purge and sift me of a lot this past year. And He is doing the same with others. It's why many of you have had a rough year this past year. He is preparing you.
Let the old die. Bury it. So you can step into the new. Old wine skins CAN NOT hold the New Wine! And He is pouring it out right now. You know what the new thing is? It's not really new. But He's bringing us back to the Acts church. He's restoring us back to what the church was supposed to be in the very beginning. But it will be even more powerful.
Take this in love. Evaluate. Surrender. Let God be God. Lose the fear of man. Come out of agreement with everything you came into agreement within this past season and be open to the new thing God is wanting to build. It won't look like it did in the previous seasons and if it does than you've missed what He has been trying to speak to you.
Father give us eyes to see and ears to hear in Jesus name! Amen.
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