The fight the pioneers are feeling in this hour is the unusual but necessary DETOUR and pull away from the ministry machine and it’s hamster-wheel of religious activity and career Christianity that wars against the flow of the Spirit and the fresh move emerging right now. This is our test.
Will we stay on the crest of the wave or will we appease the masses and try to keep up with joneses of a bygone era of the church?
Will we stay stuck in the cycles of performance and working to uphold reputation or will we sit at the feet of Jesus and hear the fresh off the press messages of the hour even when we look foolish and it makes us look irrelevant?
The discontent many are feeling is God tugging on our hearts to take us out of the tiring rat-race and into the fresh new day and brand new path with Him. You feel it.. the stirring is deep. The war and opposition has never been greater but you know you must break away from the expected path to break new ground.
Author: Nate Johnston
Nate and his wife Christy host online courses to train, equip and empower people as they walk through deep inner healing, identity issues. They release regular encouragement and prophetic words to the body of Christ through social media and create simple, bible-based books and resources to help edify and empower the body of Christ to walk in their full authority and identity as Sons and Daughters of the King.
Be cautious of this viewpoint, it could be a temptation. While there is definitely a spiritless “career Christianity”, there is also a form of temptation that is used by the other side to tear effective Christians away from God and the things that work, like prayer, fasting, going to church and reading the Bible during a dry spell.
I once heard that if the evil one isn’t tempting you to take a step back from the practice of your religious faith, it’s because he doesn’t need to. You’re not a threat.
Off topic: A warning while I slept last night. What appears to be the Bubonic Plague is coming back. Angry red buboe pustules breaking out on my upper left thigh. People please repent, if you haven’t already, and start walking with Jesus. Another pestilence is coming and it is virulent and deleterious this time.
Use your authority in the name and by the blood of Jesus and stop it in its tracks. No reason to fear here!
Thanks for this heads-up, yesterday I discovered a small red pustule on my knee itching a little and thought it was very strange. Have never had any similar rash before like that all of a sudden. I will pray.
New things, new things, New Things!!!
Three times I was told that by the prophet and I have patiently waited, like the farmer waiting for the spring crops to mature (all the while) receiving the early rains (reign) and the latter rain (reign)
This IS THE TIME. Today is the day of salvation and we are being sent out to seek those last few ones who, being shaken awake, are being snatched from the fire 🔥
Pray and Stand! (and) Having done all to stand, STAND THEREFORE , having put on the full armor of God…
“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,…”. (Ephesians 6:14-16)
Isaiah 42:9 – Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Isaiah 48:6 – Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.