We have entered into a new season. God is bringing change in the New Testament Church. This is a day of new beginnings. Early this year I spoke to you about the first four months of this year and told you that I believed we would be fully in the new season in the fourth month of the year, April. This is a month of change. If we don’t go through the doors that are opening this month and embrace the relationships that God is bringing into our lives, then we may very well miss our opportunity to make the necessary shifts and changes that will enable us to move forward in the harvest that God has appointed for us to reach.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 teaches that the Lord works and moves in seasons of time. To understand what He is doing you must understand the present season that we are in. What is God doing in this present season? He is rearranging things in our lives so that we can be positioned for our harvest. The farmer understands the different seasons. There is a season to sow, a season of cultivation, and a season to harvest what has been sowed. God is trying to prepare us for harvest. This new season is a season to enter into our inheritance and to receive a harvest off what has been sown in the past seasons.
During this time of tranisition you will experience opposition. This opposition will come in the following four ways:
1) Confusion – Remember God is not the author of confusion. Confusion is normal during times of change. Many times it is difficult to embrace all that God is doing in our lives. Don't be overwhelmed by the changes that God is bringing. Pray for the peace of God to flood your being.
2) Fear – the enemy will use fear in the form of intimidation. 2 Timothy 1:7 - “For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but power, love, and a sound mind.” Intimidation is one of Satan's favorite weapons to use against us.
3) Adversity – Satan is our adversary – seeking whom he may devour.
4) Misunderstanding – Don’t allow the enemy to rob you of valuable relationships through petty misunderstandings. Prayerfully watch over your relationships during this transitional time.
To move into a new place or thing that God has for us, we must allow our minds to embrace new ways, and new methods. If we are not careful we can relinquish the new and return to the old. There are several things that we must relinquish if we are going to enter into what God has for us:
1.) Mindsets that are rooted in a past season. Things that keep us tied to some event in the past. We must be willing to relinquish those things that hinder us from embracing the new things that God is doing.
2) We must be willing to let go of old relationships that were meant for a past season. Everybody is not going with you into the new place that God has for you. Ask God to identify those seasonal relationships and to bring you into the new relationships that He has appointed for you.
These are excititing days for the Body of Christ. Abraham saw our day and rejoiced in it. My prayer is that you will embrace all that God longs to do in your life and ministry. May He give you grace to let go of the old things that have hindered you in the past, and may He give you wisdom to embrace the new things that He is doing.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 teaches that the Lord works and moves in seasons of time. To understand what He is doing you must understand the present season that we are in. What is God doing in this present season? He is rearranging things in our lives so that we can be positioned for our harvest. The farmer understands the different seasons. There is a season to sow, a season of cultivation, and a season to harvest what has been sowed. God is trying to prepare us for harvest. This new season is a season to enter into our inheritance and to receive a harvest off what has been sown in the past seasons.
During this time of tranisition you will experience opposition. This opposition will come in the following four ways:
1) Confusion – Remember God is not the author of confusion. Confusion is normal during times of change. Many times it is difficult to embrace all that God is doing in our lives. Don't be overwhelmed by the changes that God is bringing. Pray for the peace of God to flood your being.
2) Fear – the enemy will use fear in the form of intimidation. 2 Timothy 1:7 - “For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but power, love, and a sound mind.” Intimidation is one of Satan's favorite weapons to use against us.
3) Adversity – Satan is our adversary – seeking whom he may devour.
4) Misunderstanding – Don’t allow the enemy to rob you of valuable relationships through petty misunderstandings. Prayerfully watch over your relationships during this transitional time.
To move into a new place or thing that God has for us, we must allow our minds to embrace new ways, and new methods. If we are not careful we can relinquish the new and return to the old. There are several things that we must relinquish if we are going to enter into what God has for us:
1.) Mindsets that are rooted in a past season. Things that keep us tied to some event in the past. We must be willing to relinquish those things that hinder us from embracing the new things that God is doing.
2) We must be willing to let go of old relationships that were meant for a past season. Everybody is not going with you into the new place that God has for you. Ask God to identify those seasonal relationships and to bring you into the new relationships that He has appointed for you.
These are excititing days for the Body of Christ. Abraham saw our day and rejoiced in it. My prayer is that you will embrace all that God longs to do in your life and ministry. May He give you grace to let go of the old things that have hindered you in the past, and may He give you wisdom to embrace the new things that He is doing.
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