Winds of Change are already here
Earlier on this year we had a Daniel Company Meeting where the Lord spoke to us clearly about some things he was about to do. Ultimately, the crux is that there is major change coming to the body of Christ as part of the continued reformation of the Body. In this, there will be upgrades. However, there are actions for you to receive of this change.
As leaders we can no longer ignore change or we will be bypassed in the current move.
Sheets of Increase
21/2/18
As we stood in that meeting I saw a sheet coming from Heaven. It was reminiscent of the sheet that caused Peter to accept change and allow the gentiles to receive the faith without restriction. The sheet speaks to me of change.
I felt the Lord said, “See don’t blink at the scale of change. I am about to maneuverer the sheets of increase. No one will be able to escape it. Therefore warn people what they see now, will be very different from where we are going together.”
I felt there was a line in the sand. Where prior, the Holy Spirit was ok and would work with us if we did not change, he was drawing a line to say its time change. If you will change with me there will be radical increase but if you do not and try and interpret everything I am doing through your old paradigm there would be a decrease of power in it.
Note: The Church has at times been renowned for resisting change. When I say change, I do not mean that we change our theology or become like the world. I do mean in terms of our response to what the Lord is doing both in ourselves and in society at large. However, God wants the Church on the forefront of Change. Not change for change sake, but in being radical like Jesus was to the religious, to the political and even cultural norms.
Inspect Your customs.
Customs can sometimes be the enemy of change because taken into a new wineskin it will just destroy it or misinterpret it.
In April we had a meeting at Hillview with a Bethel missions team. Two of the Bethel team members had an extraordinary encounter. Mike, who was speaking explained that when he went to fly from Brisbane to Melbourne he and another team member had their baggage inspected in customs. He said, while it was annoying they still made the plane. On the plane, he had a Virgin team member come up and say “Happy birthday for tomorrow and here is a bottle of wine to celebrate.” The thing is it wasn’t his birthday which he told them, but they gave him the bottle anyway. The other team member who had been inspected had the exact same and again it wasn’t her birthday either.
We believe this to be an amazing sign. We felt the Lord was saying we are in a season where we need to be prepared to allow the Lord to inspect our customs and remove baggage. We can’t take baggage with us into a new dimension. But if we can ask the Lord to use this season to talk to us about the customs / ways we do things which we think are God, and if allow Him to remove baggage we will receive of a new wine of the Spirit and there will come a forth a new birthing for operating in the future.