Death of the Old
Blessings to you Children of the Most High.
Think it not strange that some of you have been called to a place of isolation. All that you knew to be is changing all around you and you are trying to discern what is happening.
You feel you have been separated from everyone you thought you were making this journey with and quite frankly, it is a little disheartening for you. In your mind you are thinking, “I thought this was supposed to be such a glorious time for the body; Why am I going through this valley experience if this is my "now season"?”
Let me help you out. Before all can begin anew, there must be a death to the old. You have been separated unto God for a time of cleansing from your old traditions and mind sets.
Much like Saul had to go to Arabia for three years before the ministry of Paul could take off. Remember, Saul had the wrong mind set in that he had persecuted and even killed the followers of Christ. Now that he had been converted, he still needed a time of cleansing from his old mind set and traditions. God used this time to impart His ways and His will and transformed Saul into Paul.
For what lies ahead of you, you have to die to your preconceived notions of how God operates. He needs you to be in a place of total dependency on Him. The tradition of “church” has to be killed in you. Church as usual is no more. For to long we have consecrated on building churches and not on establishing the kingdom.
God Himself has separated you; stop talking about what the devil is doing in your life. He needs you to see Him in a whole new light. He is not only your savior. So many get saved and sit on the church pew year after year thinking all is well because they are saved.
God is requiring you to go forth and subdue, take dominion, establish kingdoms and reign in them but first your traditional way of thinking has to die. He has ushered you into a place where you can do nothing except He do it through you or for you and this is exactly where He wants you.
This is a time where the prophetic will be evidence as never before, but in order for this to happen, He has to know that you will make no move unless He ordains it.
Rest in Him dear ones, He has everything under control. And don't get it twisted, where you are now is not your home. It is simply a temporary dwelling place while you are being transformed by the renewing of you mind.
Great things are on the horizon, however, I must caution you here, don't get so impatient that you try and go before God to make things happen. Remember, this is a time of blindly trusting Him so that He can trust you with more.
If you are anything like me, He knows if He gives you an assignment you will carry it out with tenacity, what you need to learn is restraint. This way, when He says stay you will until He says go.
Be blessed, and know you are not alone on this journey no matter what it feels like.
Think it not strange that some of you have been called to a place of isolation. All that you knew to be is changing all around you and you are trying to discern what is happening.
You feel you have been separated from everyone you thought you were making this journey with and quite frankly, it is a little disheartening for you. In your mind you are thinking, “I thought this was supposed to be such a glorious time for the body; Why am I going through this valley experience if this is my "now season"?”
Let me help you out. Before all can begin anew, there must be a death to the old. You have been separated unto God for a time of cleansing from your old traditions and mind sets.
Much like Saul had to go to Arabia for three years before the ministry of Paul could take off. Remember, Saul had the wrong mind set in that he had persecuted and even killed the followers of Christ. Now that he had been converted, he still needed a time of cleansing from his old mind set and traditions. God used this time to impart His ways and His will and transformed Saul into Paul.
For what lies ahead of you, you have to die to your preconceived notions of how God operates. He needs you to be in a place of total dependency on Him. The tradition of “church” has to be killed in you. Church as usual is no more. For to long we have consecrated on building churches and not on establishing the kingdom.
God Himself has separated you; stop talking about what the devil is doing in your life. He needs you to see Him in a whole new light. He is not only your savior. So many get saved and sit on the church pew year after year thinking all is well because they are saved.
God is requiring you to go forth and subdue, take dominion, establish kingdoms and reign in them but first your traditional way of thinking has to die. He has ushered you into a place where you can do nothing except He do it through you or for you and this is exactly where He wants you.
This is a time where the prophetic will be evidence as never before, but in order for this to happen, He has to know that you will make no move unless He ordains it.
Rest in Him dear ones, He has everything under control. And don't get it twisted, where you are now is not your home. It is simply a temporary dwelling place while you are being transformed by the renewing of you mind.
Great things are on the horizon, however, I must caution you here, don't get so impatient that you try and go before God to make things happen. Remember, this is a time of blindly trusting Him so that He can trust you with more.
If you are anything like me, He knows if He gives you an assignment you will carry it out with tenacity, what you need to learn is restraint. This way, when He says stay you will until He says go.
Be blessed, and know you are not alone on this journey no matter what it feels like.
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Comment by Don Dudley on January 7, 2009 at 3:58pm
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When a word from God is confirmed in a unlikely place you know it is God speaking to you. What you wrote in March 2008 I am just reading in Jan 2009. Second time today I looked at a message talking about Paul in Arabia and the reason why. In the Kingdom there is know coincidences. My sister you do not know this minister to me, but what I do know, you have "choose to be chosen" end time warrior.
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