Post by Sunnysnet on Jan 28, 2004 6:48:53 GMT -5
Dearest Friends in Jesus,
(Some parts of this word may seem a bit disjointed. That's because I began to write it several
days ago, and then was quickened with some little anointed inserts I felt led to put into it. As I re-read, I felt I was NOT to "edit" to make it flow better according to my natural mind, but to allow the Spirit to quicken the different parts in your own spiritual thinker so you can take away from it what is for you personally to receive from it.....This is long, so you may wish to read part of it, and then come back to it at another time.
Love in Jesus, Clo )
The foundations for this word began to be laid in my spirit about 12 years ago. I was in a church where from all appearances God was moving. Souls were getting saved. People were getting healed and delivered. The cream of the crop of nationally and internationally known ministry came through that place full of the anointing and power of God. They preached with authority. They "read people's mail." They encouraged the present vision of that church with powerful prophetic unction. What a glorious atmosphere to be in.......Right??
So.......what was wrong with ME?
I felt bored. Yawn. Been there, done that. Been to this same old party many times. I hated the attitude I was feeling within myself, and really sought the Lord to sweeten me up a bit because there was absolutely no legitimate reason to feel the way I was feeling, and there was nothing going on there to find fault with or criticize. It was genuinely a sweet-spirited and "humble" church staff. They were a "big" church. But they did not have that offensive and arrogant "spirit of bigness" that often goes with the territory.
And then one night, the Spirit woke me up suddenly, and spoke these words into my being: "The Changing of the Guard." I know others have addressed this subject, and because I am way behind on my reading of internet prophecies, I'm afraid I've missed what has been said on the subject. If I'm in agreement with them, that's probably the witness of the Spirit. If I am in disagreement with them, it's either purely coincidental, or one of us has it wrong, and we will have to pray for more wisdom and discernment.
Maybe I needed to get this word 12 years ago so God could prepare me for what is going to happen, and the changes that will take place in the operation of the Spirit through my own life because I am deeply entrenched in a spiritual heritage that has truly been my joy and gladness for many years, and so God had to do a bit more to pry me loose from things and ways I so dearly love in the spirit, and that have served me well.
And beloved, let me say here that in the move of God, there will be variables, but there is one thing that's CONSTANT.
The variables will have to do with what God chooses to manifest in way of His gifts and power. Perhaps it's a move where there is an emphasis on getting the baptism in the Holy Ghost, and healing and deliverance. Or perhaps it's a move where prophetic fire and the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the atmosphere is so strong it makes your hair stand on end. Or perhaps it's a very joyful laughing and dancing move where people are literally drunk on the new wine of the kingdom for hours on end, or dancing before the Lord with all power and might even as David danced. Or maybe a combination of all of the above.
Being raised in a home where the move of God was always greatly appreciated, I have seen this CONSTANT in each situation: The presence of the Lord Jesus Christ is consistently the SAME, and the overriding element to every true move of God IS the awesome manifestation of His glory. His glory is more riveting than the prophecies, the healings, the preaching, the deliverances and baptisms.
What is the glory of God? It is nothing less than the aura of the Lord Jesus Christ eminating forth from His very person showing up in a space because HE IS PRESENT!! When you are upstairs in your bedroom, and one of your children comes in the front door, you may not see them. You may not hear them. But you sense another presence in your home. By their footsteps, it won't take you very long to discern who that person is.
For several weeks now as I'm praying, especially late at night, my hands have been getting exceptionally dry. As a rule, I would want to smear on the hand-lotion, but God checked me. He told me He was allowing my hands to dry out completely until I was literally miserably uncomfortable with them because He wanted me to rub them together until they were filled with fresh oil.
So, as I have been walking and praying I would be rubbing my hands together, and a bit of moisture would return so that they would feel okay, and I would not need to run for the hand lotion.
He made it real to me that I was experiencing a prophetic demonstration. He is showing me that the old way of doing things, and the old order of manifestations regarding healings and miracles is passing, and will even be passing in a way that at times is going to make us miserably uncomfortable because we want to continue to cling to the old, and the familiar. But, something very fresh and new is coming on the scene.
The "rubbing together" of the hands is speaking of how deliverance, healing, miracles is going to come through relationship and trust in the body of Christ that literally brings healing........and that the "one man show" for the miraculous is passing as God's order. It had it's day, but the Lord is telling me personally NOT to look to such a thing, and to allow it to completely pass from whatever I desire in the way of manifestation from God. Will it be done away with all-together?? No.......because the Lord in
His mercy sees people who are in need of deliverance, healing, etc. who in their immaturity will only relate to such manifestations, and therefore there will be a little "residue" left of the old. However, for those who have "ears to hear" the way the most purely exalts the Lord Jesus Christ as the center of attention in His Church and no man , is God's best.
In God's New Day, the way that most PURELY EXALTS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, is God's best and what is truly on the "cutting edge" of revelation for His Church!!
I have had two little incidences recently that I feel bear some witness to this. One was when I was in a little home- meeting where I was ministering, and there was a gal there who reeked of the need for deliverance. She was recently divorced, and her little children had been given to the husband because she was so messed up. My initial reaction was to want to lay hands on her, and rebuke the devil that was keeping her life bound to a pattern that was continually messing up her life. I felt I had discernment
that she had a spirit on her that invited abuse and mistreatment, and that root thing needed to be dealt with before her life would ever truly get any better. I was sitting there envisioning myself giving that demon tormenting that poor young woman the tongue-lashing of his life.
And then the Spirit spoke to me to go and hug her, and pray for her quietly. So, I obeyed the Lord, and went over and very tightly hugged her and prayed for her softly in her ear, and she melted against me and cried and cried and cried like a baby. SHE got the love and attention she needed, and I could literally feel the wind being knocked out of the devil's sails. Something was broken in the spirit, and when we were through, her countenance was so clear and filled with light. Something had definitely LEFT that girl!! Now, had I originally done what my previous experiences would tell me to do, I would have gotten lots of attention for being so powerful and dynamic in the spirit, and the whole thing would have been more about the "ministry show" then
ministering TO HER. I am feeling strongly that God is getting tired of ministry being more about the performance than about HIS very own direct involvement and connection with HIS people. The New Guard protects RELATIONSHIP more than it protects any ministry-driven IMAGE.
(Continued in next post
(Some parts of this word may seem a bit disjointed. That's because I began to write it several
days ago, and then was quickened with some little anointed inserts I felt led to put into it. As I re-read, I felt I was NOT to "edit" to make it flow better according to my natural mind, but to allow the Spirit to quicken the different parts in your own spiritual thinker so you can take away from it what is for you personally to receive from it.....This is long, so you may wish to read part of it, and then come back to it at another time.
Love in Jesus, Clo )
The foundations for this word began to be laid in my spirit about 12 years ago. I was in a church where from all appearances God was moving. Souls were getting saved. People were getting healed and delivered. The cream of the crop of nationally and internationally known ministry came through that place full of the anointing and power of God. They preached with authority. They "read people's mail." They encouraged the present vision of that church with powerful prophetic unction. What a glorious atmosphere to be in.......Right??
So.......what was wrong with ME?
I felt bored. Yawn. Been there, done that. Been to this same old party many times. I hated the attitude I was feeling within myself, and really sought the Lord to sweeten me up a bit because there was absolutely no legitimate reason to feel the way I was feeling, and there was nothing going on there to find fault with or criticize. It was genuinely a sweet-spirited and "humble" church staff. They were a "big" church. But they did not have that offensive and arrogant "spirit of bigness" that often goes with the territory.
And then one night, the Spirit woke me up suddenly, and spoke these words into my being: "The Changing of the Guard." I know others have addressed this subject, and because I am way behind on my reading of internet prophecies, I'm afraid I've missed what has been said on the subject. If I'm in agreement with them, that's probably the witness of the Spirit. If I am in disagreement with them, it's either purely coincidental, or one of us has it wrong, and we will have to pray for more wisdom and discernment.
Maybe I needed to get this word 12 years ago so God could prepare me for what is going to happen, and the changes that will take place in the operation of the Spirit through my own life because I am deeply entrenched in a spiritual heritage that has truly been my joy and gladness for many years, and so God had to do a bit more to pry me loose from things and ways I so dearly love in the spirit, and that have served me well.
And beloved, let me say here that in the move of God, there will be variables, but there is one thing that's CONSTANT.
The variables will have to do with what God chooses to manifest in way of His gifts and power. Perhaps it's a move where there is an emphasis on getting the baptism in the Holy Ghost, and healing and deliverance. Or perhaps it's a move where prophetic fire and the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the atmosphere is so strong it makes your hair stand on end. Or perhaps it's a very joyful laughing and dancing move where people are literally drunk on the new wine of the kingdom for hours on end, or dancing before the Lord with all power and might even as David danced. Or maybe a combination of all of the above.
Being raised in a home where the move of God was always greatly appreciated, I have seen this CONSTANT in each situation: The presence of the Lord Jesus Christ is consistently the SAME, and the overriding element to every true move of God IS the awesome manifestation of His glory. His glory is more riveting than the prophecies, the healings, the preaching, the deliverances and baptisms.
What is the glory of God? It is nothing less than the aura of the Lord Jesus Christ eminating forth from His very person showing up in a space because HE IS PRESENT!! When you are upstairs in your bedroom, and one of your children comes in the front door, you may not see them. You may not hear them. But you sense another presence in your home. By their footsteps, it won't take you very long to discern who that person is.
For several weeks now as I'm praying, especially late at night, my hands have been getting exceptionally dry. As a rule, I would want to smear on the hand-lotion, but God checked me. He told me He was allowing my hands to dry out completely until I was literally miserably uncomfortable with them because He wanted me to rub them together until they were filled with fresh oil.
So, as I have been walking and praying I would be rubbing my hands together, and a bit of moisture would return so that they would feel okay, and I would not need to run for the hand lotion.
He made it real to me that I was experiencing a prophetic demonstration. He is showing me that the old way of doing things, and the old order of manifestations regarding healings and miracles is passing, and will even be passing in a way that at times is going to make us miserably uncomfortable because we want to continue to cling to the old, and the familiar. But, something very fresh and new is coming on the scene.
The "rubbing together" of the hands is speaking of how deliverance, healing, miracles is going to come through relationship and trust in the body of Christ that literally brings healing........and that the "one man show" for the miraculous is passing as God's order. It had it's day, but the Lord is telling me personally NOT to look to such a thing, and to allow it to completely pass from whatever I desire in the way of manifestation from God. Will it be done away with all-together?? No.......because the Lord in
His mercy sees people who are in need of deliverance, healing, etc. who in their immaturity will only relate to such manifestations, and therefore there will be a little "residue" left of the old. However, for those who have "ears to hear" the way the most purely exalts the Lord Jesus Christ as the center of attention in His Church and no man , is God's best.
In God's New Day, the way that most PURELY EXALTS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, is God's best and what is truly on the "cutting edge" of revelation for His Church!!
I have had two little incidences recently that I feel bear some witness to this. One was when I was in a little home- meeting where I was ministering, and there was a gal there who reeked of the need for deliverance. She was recently divorced, and her little children had been given to the husband because she was so messed up. My initial reaction was to want to lay hands on her, and rebuke the devil that was keeping her life bound to a pattern that was continually messing up her life. I felt I had discernment
that she had a spirit on her that invited abuse and mistreatment, and that root thing needed to be dealt with before her life would ever truly get any better. I was sitting there envisioning myself giving that demon tormenting that poor young woman the tongue-lashing of his life.
And then the Spirit spoke to me to go and hug her, and pray for her quietly. So, I obeyed the Lord, and went over and very tightly hugged her and prayed for her softly in her ear, and she melted against me and cried and cried and cried like a baby. SHE got the love and attention she needed, and I could literally feel the wind being knocked out of the devil's sails. Something was broken in the spirit, and when we were through, her countenance was so clear and filled with light. Something had definitely LEFT that girl!! Now, had I originally done what my previous experiences would tell me to do, I would have gotten lots of attention for being so powerful and dynamic in the spirit, and the whole thing would have been more about the "ministry show" then
ministering TO HER. I am feeling strongly that God is getting tired of ministry being more about the performance than about HIS very own direct involvement and connection with HIS people. The New Guard protects RELATIONSHIP more than it protects any ministry-driven IMAGE.
(Continued in next post
