Arise, Arise, Arise my church. Arise in my nature. For there is coming shortly an arising not of men and women, and not even of men and women who have died to selfish ambition, but there is coming an arising of my very nature upon the earth. For when my nature arises who can stand before its mighty depths. It has shifted nations and confronted the hearts of kings. My nature will contend without contending. It will cause hearts to repent without preaching. It will cause demons to flee without decree. The hiding of sin in hearts will be exposed and the freedom of my nature will cause a willingness in hearts to announce their need of me. Arise in my nature. Arise by my nature. Arise fulfilling my nature. But you say what of those who are dying to self in this hour. Are they not in a process of death that I can be seen through them? Yes, I am perfecting death, to perfect my nature. Just as my sons nature was perfected in death to manifest in life in resurrection. Don’t you know all who die in this hour will be resurrected in my nature? A power will be released through the cost of their lives that will set in motion the full manifestation of my nature upon the earth. This is what happened after my son’s death, a full manifestation then could be seen. There is coming an arising of my nature that has not been seen in this generation who cries out and longs for more than the simplicity of anointing. They are crying in their souls to be transformed and changed and to walk in what is divine and full. Don’t you hear the cry of hearts in this hour? Hearing this cry is the way into the death process. It is the doorway, it is the invitation. Without it the depths of death will not be realized or found. Who will go for me? Who will be my voice? Who will release my presence? Who will be my nature upon the earth? This is what is arising in this hour the seeds of my nature that have been nurtured in the secret place. For some they have held fast to these seeds for years. For others only a short while. But none is less or more. Don’t you know that when my nature arises that so many questions will be answered? So many concerned hearts will be met. So many things will fail in contrast to my glory. For my nature will be encompassed by my glory. This is how you will tell what is truly divine. So take heart this day that my nature is what is beginning to arise. It is truly what all seek.
Category: Culture
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The Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding … Part 3
Continuing on with the seven graces found in Isaiah 11:1-3, we now turn to what is between the book ends of the breath of God, and the breath of the awe of the Lord. We look at the spirit or, breath of wisdom. This is life experience to a degree but only a small degree. The word wisdom here actually means a skill for war and advancement. It is a word associated with spiritual battles and mobilization of others for conflicts to move the kingdom forward. It is almost like what we call an art form, of knowing how to bring people into their destiny.
The spirit of wisdom is seen in how we act out our lives before others. It is the reflection of our heart and what we truly believe. It is the place we make choices and decisions. We either believe God is victorious and can gain victory in all things or our lives will reflect the areas we don’t believe God has this power. It is also the place confidence comes from for the implementation of promises and prophetic words God has given us. We generally describe this grace this way as life experience gained to be shared with others. In reality that is what is produced after this grace has been allowed to function in a person life for a season.
Natural wisdom or intellectualism is the furthest things from the breath of God that comes from the throne in wisdom. With natural wisdom we can build anything. The tower of Babel is a good example of this as God said “Man could do anything his mind was set upon”. We also see this in the development of society, medicine, science etc. For the most part today we think people have wisdom as they have built large ministries but a good administrator can do that. How many large ministries are making a skillful advance of bringing the Kingdom of God into the earth to change the course of societies and cultures? Yet this is what Jesus did. This is what Paul and many others did.
This grace is the grace to receive the large plan of God. It is the rally call to come around and implement. Most are not willing to submit themselves to this, nor desire it and the lack of instruction from the source of change is hurting the advancement of the kingdom. Without this breath allowed functioning the body becomes disjointed. People abandon their post and lose heart in what God has promised.
The spirit of wisdom is also the place revelation comes from in a way. It is the connectedness revelation needs to be most efficient. It is the reason revelation comes and is needed. It is needed by teachers and other 5 fold ministry gifts as they must not only know the times and seasons (spirit of knowledge) but what to do in that season (Spirit of wisdom) to effectively equip the saints. It is the plan of God to be implemented upon the earth that all others things revolve around.
The spirit of understanding is different that the spirit of wisdom. As the wisdom is the plan of advancement, the spirit of understanding means to perceive and to discern by the spirit. It is the place of rightly dividing the word of truth and the intentions and motives that people display. It is the knowing in the spirit that goes beyond what you see with your natural eyes and hear with your natural ears. It is the place that true covenants are made between people, vision for others and their gifting is put in place and real community is formed with purpose. The breath of understanding is also required to lead gatherings into fullness. It is the fusing together of a people to be one heart and mind containing one passion and desire. It is the motive behind the instruction of the saints. It is to be protected and moves to hold true doctrine in place, and movesin discipline and correction when necessary. If a person lacks in any of these then the spirit of understanding is lacking. It was breathed out at Pentecost as they as a community, had discernment and covenantal purpose. It was what launched the early church to be fully dynamic. Without all these parameters in place the other breaths or graces have only a small impact. Most people right now have the spirit of the Lord, are coming into the spirit of fear of the Lord and a handful of forerunners are in the Spirit of Understanding. You see this grace requires you to stand where others will not stand. To remain standing when others abandon, and to eventually pull others up into the place you’re standing so you can move on to other assignments.
The spirit of understanding is one of the greatest advantages as it multiples the other 6 giftings. It even deepens the spirit of the Lord and the spirit of the fear of the Lord. It brings great perception to the other graces. It allows the other graces to connect to purpose and motive. It keeps hearts in check before the Lord. It reveals wrong purposes and agendas as well. Without the spirit of understanding wrong or mixed doctrine is birthed. Functions are lacking and people are not developed in gift and calling. Overall the body is fragmented.
This breath and grace of God requires us to go deeper, to the point where deep calls unto deep (extreme to extreme). This is the place we truly know the intentions of the father and we become partners in safeguarding His heart.
But this grace has an ability to connect joint to joint. What most do not understanding in all these graces is when they “move on” from a body functioning in these they are abaondoning the grace upon that group. Thus like Paul said they frustrate the grace and make it of non effect. This is why some receive from a group or body because of that grace they stepped into. They then try and find grace in other groups and it might not be active or even be released. A person should find the grace upon a group and then engage in that grace. Even if it requires them to leave soul ties and structures carrying no life to a structure that has life.
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Seven Fold Spirt or Graces … part 2
We will continue on the seven graces that Christ ministered fully in. We will now jump to the last one as without it we will never be able to move in the other five graces fully. The fear of the Lord is the other bookend that holds the rest of the graces in place. With the true spirit of the Lord on one end and the spirit of the fear of the Lord on the other end we end up with an open ended belief system. We also end up with graces trying to move in our lives but not being truly effective because the boundaries are not n place, thus God cannot allow these graces to fully flow.
Is 11 Isaiah 11:1–3 (KJV 1900) — 1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
The verse above also says God wants to bring a quick understanding of this grace. For God to add that in the description and focus upon only this one, it holds a great importance and key. The fear of the lord is not terror or dread. Nor is it even an emotional response of surprise etc. It is a holy reverence for God because of the awesomeness of seeing him for who He truly is. This ability to see comes from the depth of relationship of allowing or recognizing the spirit of the Lord is upon me. The awe of God allows us to see who we really are and what we have been redeemed from. It also brings great humility with it as well. A servant’s heart is formed by having the fear of the Lord and without this the other five graces will not really operate. This is the place obedience comes from. Not obedience by forced actions to be accepted or to feel approval, but because of heart condition and reverence. The fear of the lord is His delight says Isaiah 3:3. God does not delight in our terror of him but our respect of him. It is what brings heartfelt repentance and ongoing heart examination to see if our condition is right. Without the fear of the Lord people will live a mixed life and allow worldly things to be part of their makeup. We see much of this in Christian life as we have lost our reverence and awe of God. Proverbs also says this “Fear “will lead us to wisdom. It is not human wisdom proverbs is talking about but the grace of wisdom, the seven fold breath of wisdom.
This “breath of awe” comes down upon us and as it does so it brings a portion of heaven with it. It is like a portal placed upon our heart to treasure the eternal realm and thus we safeguard it. Without this in place we will never truly cherish the other graces as they come upon us. This second breath is the breath now coming upon the church. It is the breath that causes decisions and long term commitments to the assignments. It causes a resolve in current and future covenants. It causes a great strength to come forth upon those who breathe this breath in and allow it to come upon them. It also shifts us from having no natural fear of rejection, men opinions, and failure. It brings a convincing of complete victory and overcoming obstacles because of the awe of knowing the one who sits upon the throne. This shift allows the other graces to move freely and have their full effect as they bear down upon humanity. Faith is release through the other graces in full potential and impact. The fear of the lord is also an element that needs to be in place as it causes great faith to arise for the future and the assignments of the Lord.
There has been times the presence of the lord has visited me and great awe was upon me as I literally hid from God. Isaiah had this experience in Isaiah 6 as he sees himself as undone and a man of unclean lips. He saw that unless God determined he had come to the true point reverence for Him that he could not carry the breath God wanted to give Him. The spirit of the fear of the Lord would release the other graces for Isaiah, specifically, wisdom, understanding and might. God pronounced him clean and in that pronouncement he received the breath of those graces!
We also see Paul in his encounter on the Damascus road being confronted and having Godly fear. The outcome is God heals Paul’s physical eyes, which is a type and shadow of his spiritual sight. Paul steps into the eyes of his understanding being enlightened.
Ephesians 1:17–23 (KJV 1900) — That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
This again is not natural understanding but the spirit of understanding. The breath of understanding. Paul knew instantly the time and season of God and stepped into the functioning of those graces needed. I believe each person has certain graces assigned to them at birth to be engaged with through life. It is God’s plan of success for us.
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7 Fold Spirit or Graces …part 1
This is the beginning of a series of blogs I will be doing about the seven fold spirits around the throne. This has come out of a revelation I released at our last Awakening Fires state meeting in Iowa. The audio file is on our website at http://thebaseiowa.org
Revelation 1:4–5 (KJV 1900) — 4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Revelation 3:1 (KJV 1900) — 1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
I love how everything in heaven evolves and is in motion around the throne. The throne is the stationary place of authority, non-changing and everlasting. These seven spirits we see here are before the throne. The word “before” means to be present in his sight. It comes from 2 words meaning in a fixed position to be seen. “Spirit” in the shortest definition means breath. So it actually can mean there are 7 breaths of God in a fixed position being constantly seen and looked upon by God upon the throne! Now that’s exciting since we have been talking about the breath of God for over 2 years and who is carrying breath and who is not. Rev. 3:1 shows these breaths can be possessed and refers to Jesus possessing these. So as Jesus possessed these breaths the eye of the father was upon him! He was peering down and seeing how Jesus would steward these breaths. What would go into motion? Who would be touched? Now that is real deep. We call them the seven fold anointing of Christ found in Issiah 11:1-3. But in reality they are not truly anointings, nor are they gifting. Anointings are to meet a specific need present and are not dependent upon the state of the person moving under that anointing. Anyone can be anointed even an ass. The same with gifting. Giftings are divided to several as the spirit wills. All can prophecy and move in the gifts of the spirit. So to look at the seven spirits of Isaiah 11:1 and say they are anointngs or gifting diminishes the dynamic of what these seven breaths really mean.
When the breath of God comes it has the ability to create changes. This is not a onetime event but sets something in motion of ongoing change. In other words these seven spirits or breaths are actually seven graces of Christ (the already anointed one) the messiah (gift given) carried. It was not the fullness of an anointing or divine enablement, even though that was always present, but was an actual grace. This is not a saving grace which most of us equate grace with. It is an ability to bring shift were needed, confront what is needed and set the course for a fresh new thing. As Jesus, Paul, Peter, Timothy and others moved in these breaths and set things in motion, the eye of the father was upon them as well.
Anyone can be anointed. Anyone can have a gift flow through them. Both are generally towards individuals. What I am talking about is a grace that for the corporate body! Paul said in Eph 3:1 He had been given a dispensation of grace or a stewardship of grace. If he is talking about salvation grace then Paul would be determining who would be saved. Paul was talking about how he released and stewarded the graces upon his life. Grace is the expression of your relationship with God. Actually grace is also the pathway of how holiness is expressed to others. Holiness is not expressed through gifts or anoitnings. When holiness is sustained in lives then we begin to see the fullness of grace or one of the seven fold breaths of God begin to be truly established. The deepest relationship is a relationship of holiness, —- the foundation the essence of God, by holiness — the function of Gods 7 graces, in holiness — the state of existence created by 7 graces.
Is 11 Isaiah 11:1–3 (KJV 1900) — 1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
For the most part much of the church is in the first breath or the place of the spirit of the Lord is upon me. This breath or grace is the place of salvation and deliverance. It is the place the gifts of the spirit begins to flow. What is happening in this grace is the Lordship of Christ is being developed in an individual. This is the place the realities of what we call Biblical world view principles are formed. There are 4 principles that set the course for our belief system that all things flow form. Knowing God as creator, He is Lord of that creation, He is sovereign and He is providential. This is a grace that shifts us into a true understanding that we are eternal beings with eternal purposes to be exercised by our lives. Without this first grace developed we will lack community and connectedness with a body of believes. We will break covenant with those we walk with. We will abandon the promises given us and settled for typical Christian lifestyle. We will not have our sets to be used by God. But if we truly embrace this breath to come into our lives it will touch every hidden corner and just like a wind can get into every crevasses of our heart. This grace settles identity. This is the place we see ourselves as a gift to others and that God has anointed us to be that gift. It settles not just who we are but what our primary assignments are. This grace gives us access not just for forgiveness, the beginning stages, but to be holy, the finished stages. It is a grace that gives us the greatest advantage point. It is a partnership that is covenantal with the Lord and others. When Jesus stood in Luke 4:18 and declared the spirit of the Lord was upon him he stated that God had consumed him in this breath and grace. He knew His assignment. He knew his purpose. His identity was settled. Eternity was bearing down upon him. He and the Lord (Jehovah the all existing one) were in a total partnership. That he was his representative upon the earth. This first grace and the last the fear of the Lord are key to unlocking the remaining. Without alpha and omega we will never see the others. Next time we will continue with the other spirits and see how they work and what is released.
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Comparison of Congregation Verses Apostolic Center
This was such good teaching I decidedd to post my notes from listeing to it. May we all gain understanding.
Comparisons of
Congregation Church to Apostolic Center
By Peter Wagner Sept 2012
The Apostolic reformation is now growing faster than the world population. This movement actually started in Africa around 1900 as churches moved from denominational oversight to independent African Churches. Current Apostolic Kingdom Centers are moving to the forefront to become places of regional impact. Denominational structures are territorial. Apostolic Centers are regional. Apostolic Centers are hubs for other like faith churches and ministries. All things in the following charts are not black and white but are Peter Wagner’s observations of ideals and patterns that have emerged.
Congregation (typical church)
Apostolic Center (Ecclesia)
Name
Reflects inward dynamic
Reflects outward dynamic
Government
Pastor – cares for needs
Apostle – mobilizes people
Elders supervise the pastor
Final authority a group
Elders support the Apostle
Final authority – Apostle
Little authority designated to people
Large amounts of authority designated to people.
Staff
Pastors and teachers
Apostle Prophet Pastors teachers evangelist
Pastor Employee
Apostle lifetime leader
Leadership style is conformity
Leadership style is creativity
Rules/ followers
Expression/ risk takers
Tries to not make mistakes
Plans for mistakes
Mono Task
Multitask
One speaker
Many speakers
Focus
On the congregation
On the kingdom
Self and the structure
People connected with the kingdom
Self centered = small vision
Kingdom centered = large vision
One mountain forming culture – religious
All 7 mountains forming culture
Pastor supports the church
Center supports the Apostle
Operation
All social expectations must be meet, worship, prayer, care, etc. This comes natural.
All social expectations must be meet, worship, prayer, care, etc. This must be worked at.
Fellowship groups
Ecclesia, legislative body
Profile
More passive and peaceful, weaker
More aggressive and stronger
Prayer
Petition, self needs
Decreeing and Kingdom needs
Avoid demonic confrontation
Creates demonic confrontation
Worship
Intimacy, bedroom type, loveaholics
Throne room, productive, workaholics
Planned out, love songs
Free flowing Throne room songs
Feminine
Masculine
Revelation
Interpret the written word
Written word and prophecy
Money
Maintenance decided by committee
Advancement decided by apostle
Training
Saints trained to fit into program
Saints trained to find destiny
Jobs assigned by gift
Gift creates opportunity
Joining
By people you meet
By common vision
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Seed or Heart of Awakening?
Today the Lord was speaking to me and said, “Do you have the seeds of awakening within you?” I thought on this for a few minutes but did not respond. Internally I could say yes. The seeds are definitely there. The word has been awakened to me, even for years. I have seen and experience Gods spirit and presence in very tangible ways. I even wear a ring with a drop of oil in it that came down from heaven in a meeting. Surely the seeds are there.
Then the Lord asked “Or do you have the heart of awakening?” I pondered this question. Much like many God asked in times past. The Lord then said to me “many can have the seeds of awakening. These are the ones who plant the concepts, the desires for, and the expectations that moves faith. Many can carry the seeds but can they carry the heart of awakening?”
As I pondered this I came to these conclusions. The heart of awakening is the burning passion and even burden that cannot live without it. It is carrying something that brings life to the seeds planted. The heart of awakening has the life flow within it. It has the seed, the watering and the knowing how to step aside as only God can bring the increase. Many that have the seeds might try and birth forth only what God can truly bring to life. But for those who have the heart of awakening they are being seed planters in this hour, waiting for hearts as fertile soil to allow the seeds to take hold. The real call for those who have the heart of awakening is to water the seeds that awakening would spring forth in the earth.
The Lord then spoke to me and said “You have the heart of awakening inside you. The heart of awakening is formed as many seeds of awakening have been planted. These seeds have taken over not just a part of your heart but your whole heart. In this hour the internal struggle is you have been a seed planter and this has been your first season. Your second season will be your heart releasing awakening. The transition is moving from releasing seed to releasing water, the flow of the spirit. Awakening is not just seeds, but spiritual life flow. Many are thinking the seeds is the awakening. The awakening will come from the seeds. It will not look like the seed. It will spring forth but take different shape. Even as it appears it will not yet be seen what it shall truly look like. Is this not how my heart is? You know it but its appearing on the earth is different than expected.”
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Culture is defined by the adoption of values and beliefs!
“US culture has been defined by less than 500 intellectual cultural philosophers who influence 7 gates and supporting networks since our birth as a nation.” – Randall Collins, a sociologist and author of Discovery of Society
Culture is defined by the adoption of values and beliefs. These values are accepted or rejected by who resolves the problems and issues of the day. The greater the problem resolved the greater the influence a person gains. We must learn how to reframe the debate! It is not about donkey and elephant, it’s about lion and lamb. No political candidate will EVER resolve the current problems.
With a national debt that would require $180,000 per individual to retire the debt of 16 trillion, and total debt obligation of 202 trillion, do you honestly think any person, any candidate has the wisdom to make any difference. There is only one who can shift all things and the economic woes of America will disappear when awakening occurs. Entitlement mentality will go, an industrial revolution will occur as witty inventions are formed at alarming speeds. A shift of values will shift culture. Abortions will end, poverty will be met with. Crime will drop and loss of property will stop through natural disasters as God’s blessing will rest upon a nation once again.
The political divide that has occurred in the body of Christ over this election is appalling to say the least and damaging to the unsaved to say the most. I have seen so many take a political stance with more passion than they have for their Lord and savior and the only one true answer. How foolish we appear in the eyes of God. How soulish we have become for our comfort. The world is looking to us and they see us once again divided at times. We should be crying out from mercy from above and a move of God. All things we are upset with in this hour are because of lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life. All things we need fixing is because of an unwillingness to live a disciplined life. As I just heard this week “Awakening is intentional and not something we wait for” It comes when we start doing what God requires of us. Instead of say if God tells me to fast, to pray, etc, we align with His word and do what he has said. He said WHEN you fast and pray, when ….. then God will react and move. We become the portal though which heaven can move through.
The greater the problem resolved the greater the influence. Body of Christ we are not having influence because we are not bringing answers to the table. We must both value and believe we have answers. We must not just give lip service and some well thought out dissertation from the tree of knowledge, like we are hearing now. We must be willing to put action to words which requires the tree of life. Amazing how many are voicing so many things politically but no real action. I don’t know if they are trying to convince masses without deeds, or trying to convince themselves the compromises they must make are justified.
The same things needing answered in the government is needed in the church. Leaders with integrity and wisdom. Structure. Disciplined lifestyle etc. We have the greatest of all answer to touch all things. The one for the longing of the soul. The one who will fill every need, every desire and bring peace in the midst of storms, acceptance in rejection and friendship in loneliness. Let us vote for kingdom principles. Let us vote for the greatest place heaven can have a chance of flowing through! Let us also realize the spiritual government of our Lord and creator, the one we say we have our rights truly from, supersedes any man made government that has evolved. Seek the Kingdom first and all these things will be added to you!
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Common, Unclean, Dishonoring
Hebrews 12:14 —14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Today we have so many topics we hear preached on but one, holiness. We just did a weekend in this area and for many it was an eye opener. We are just not as holy as we think we are. The Bible says to follow holiness which without no man will see God. A current generation is desiring to see God. The word “See” means with the actual eye. It is the word we get optometrist from. And following means to purse, run after, to press into.
For the most part we view holiness by definition. Holy means to be set part, consecrated etc. It is a process we enter into at salvation. But holiness means the process has come to a point of existence or is completed. The main reason we seem to be stuck in consecration or sanctification is because we remain at the cross instead of desiring to go to the throne. The cross is more than salvation and freedom from sin. If that was the totality of what it represents then we are hopeless indeed. The cross is the beginning of living a holy life to become holiness before God. The cross focuses on us and the throne on Him. For the most part we want to continue in sin or in what we know to be unclean or profane, knowing there is a provision of forgiveness, mercy and grace. The cross starts a process of becoming clean before God. As were the throne is a present tense cleansed.
So the question is why are we not moving from cross to throne, from a process of being holy to a process of holiness. There e is a very simple reason. When we see holy and holiness in scripture we also see other words along side, unclean and profane. We immediately jump to the simple conclusion we know what is unclean, or profane and thus we know what holiness is. It is the opposites of these. But the definition of these words carries far more weight. You see what has happened is we have taken holy things and polluted them. We have made holy things common and thus made them unholy. We do not have reference for God, His spirit, His word, His worship, His leaders etc. We have grown accustomed to things and we no longer hold them as valuable. The words unclean also means to take away honor were honor was once given. It means to take away the purity of something and make it COMMMON!
Even the cross has become common place. Salvation has become simple and all-inclusive instead of exclusive. We have 2 main types of meetings as believers, cross and spirit. Cross being son, self and overcoming problems and sin. Spirit being gifts, manifestations and teaching. We do not have “Father God” type meetings. (Fathers loves – Toronto is cross meetings) I am talking about the holiness of God, awe-struck, sovereign presence, breath of God type meetings. We love to hang in cross and spirit meetings because nothing is really required out of us. We don’t have to live a disciplined life to participate. But Father meetings requires only the holy approach. We have seen revivals and moves of God around the cross and spirit but not fully around the Father. The awakening that is coming will encompass all three and bring the fullness of Holiness.
The most defining thing of why we no longer see holiness, is things that should be holy are treated as common. We believe meetings and gatherings will just be “common” so we don’t attend. We believe there is no value in attending, or if we do go we don’t really participate whole heartedly. Our conversations are unholy in Gatherings as we talk not about kingdom but what is common. Our actions, our thoughts, drift into worldly things Even that which should be holy we treat as common, such as communion, preaching, worship. When we look upon the world we have no standard of holiness, so we view the world differently and define what is unclean not by Biblical terminology but by cultural acceptable terminology. As Leonard Ravenhill put it, “it is no longer adultery, it is having an affair. It is no longer fornication; it is sex outside of marriage. We have taken the sting out of sin”. Sin has become to familiar with and common as well. We no longer call things in the world unholy or unclean. We open the door to all to come and join in with a meeting that is supposed to be Holy and we wonder why God is not showing up.
We need to search our hearts and see the places we have made God common. Where have we not showed honor and thus allowed unholiness or that which is unclean to come in. Leaders preach a message on holiness and see what God will do as you restore things back to being uncommon and clean again.
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Culture War
We all see the culture war occurring in front of us daily. We hear reports, have discussions and form our opinions how to resolve things. Many Christians fight for cultural preferences as if they are heaven or hell, or eternal issues. Then when we bring forth things of the kingdom we don’t fight for these or absolute truth with the same passion and we wonder why the church is losing the culture war. We are not only not relevant, but have allowed the culture around us, by our own voice, to be most relevant .
As Children of God we are not fighting for political gains, cultural influences or even to change culture. We are to be children first of a spiritual political group call the Ecclessia of the Kingdom. We are to be part of an economic group called the Blessed of God. Philippians says our conversation is in Heaven. The word conversation means business, conduct, administration, and employment. We are to be concerned about the economy of God, which is the spiritual well being of Gods Kingdom on the earth and how it influences the hearts of men. We are to bring the influences of the Kingdom of God and allow truth to influence first the culture of the individual heart, to the point of it bringing cultural change because of the internal kingdom shifts within those hearts. We can easily see this pattern in scripture as people abandoned idols, changed religious practices and changed their values, and what they spent their lives on as truth prevailed in their hearts and caused cultural shifts in their lives. When enough of the masses shifted individually we then saw a cultural shift within a nation. This is a spirtual awakening and not convincing words of mans wisdom. This pattern is in scripture and in human history.
The real war is not about political or economic agendas. The real war of culture right now is if the Kingdom of God will hold influence in the earth and if the souls of men will be influenced by it. It is a war between good and evil. Between darkness and light. It is a war between the tree of knowledge and the tree of life. A war between the breath of God or the breath of man. It is a war of what our focus is, what is temporal and passing or what is eternal and everlasting.
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Culture War
We all see the culture war occurring in front of us daily. We hear reports, have discussions and form our opinions how to resolve things. Many Christians fight for cultural preferences as if they are heaven or hell, or eternal issues. Then when we bring forth things of the kingdom we don’t fight for these or absolute truth with the same passion and we wonder why the church is losing the culture war. We are not only not relevant, but have allowed the culture around us, by our own voice, to be most relevant .
As Children of God we are not fighting for political gains, cultural influences or even to change culture. We are to be children first of a spiritual political group call the Ecclessia of the Kingdom. We are to be part of an economic group called the Blessed of God. Philippians says our conversation is in Heaven. The word conversation means business, conduct, administration, and employment. We are to be concerned about the economy of God, which is the spiritual well being of Gods Kingdom on the earth and how it influences the hearts of men. We are to bring the influences of the Kingdom of God and allow truth to influence first the culture of the individual heart, to the point of it bringing cultural change because of the internal kingdom shifts within those hearts. We can easily see this pattern in scripture as people abandoned idols, changed religious practices and changed their values, and what they spent their lives on as truth prevailed in their hearts and caused cultural shifts in their lives. When enough of the masses shifted individually we then saw a cultural shift within a nation. This is a spirtual awakening and not convincing words of mans wisdom. This pattern is in scripture and in human history.
The real war is not about political or economic agendas. The real war of culture right now is if the Kingdom of God will hold influence in the earth and if the souls of men will be influenced by it. It is a war between good and evil. Between darkness and light. It is a war between the tree of knowledge and the tree of life. A war between the breath of God or the breath of man. It is a war of waht our focus is, what is temporal and passing or what is eternal and everlasting.
