God is doing a New Thing!

We know that the binding tie of the Bible is Jesus Himself – as writers have spoken over the ages – and one of the messages that prevail throughout the Old Testament, is that the physical world tried to reach the spiritual through works; whereas, the New Testament is about the spiritual world trying to reach through to the physical through faith.  We, as physical beings, must get out of the way of God as He creates in us even the desire to seek Him, let alone the faith to even believe in Him.  Our spirit-man must rise up and become as one with the Father, as Jesus was one with the Father (John 17).  As that faith grows, the desire grows, and thus the work He has set aside for us to do from the foundations of the world, can then flow out of us.  God’s blessings flow through us first, then out to the people.   We get the first dose of grace, mercy, and blessings, but we have to be willing vessels – willing to be broken and crushed, then remolded into God’s image – then give it away!

In reading though Joshua 7, we find that even a little ‘sin in the camp’ (v11) will bring down the wrath of God, as well as bring us down to where our hands are tied and we fall under the enemy’s hand.  We, as God’s body – the Church – we MUST come to Him in humility and as willing vessels to do to us as He wishes.  Our hearts must (v5)  ‘melt and become like water’ in His presence if we want Him to deliver us from our enemies (spiritual warfare).  We have been given ALL AUTHORITY over demons and devils, but we cannot act upon that when we have ‘sin in the camp’.  That includes the religious spirit, the witchcraft spirit (yes, it has infiltrated the body!), the spirits of fear and intimidation that keeps us cowered (apathy), the spirit of division (denominational walls), and that of murder (1 John 2:9, 11, 3:15, 4:20 - he who does not speak the truth of Jesus, hates his brother – we doom him to hell if we do not share the life that is found in Christ) that has prevailed in body for far too long!  This must be purged out.  Just as water flows and has the power to move buildings and mountains, so too must the Spirit of God flow through us to wash out all that is unclean.  As we are washed clean, then the Fire of God can come in (vs 22-26) and ‘lick up the water’(1 Kings 18:38), consume, burn off the chaff; thereby, making us the perfect Bride of Christ He is coming for very soon.

Just as God set up the 5-fold ministry within the body (Eph. 4:11 - apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers), so too has the enemy set up its 5-fold counterfit in every body of believers, in every city, every nation.    As we read through Joshua 10, we find that there were 5 kings in the valley – they have to be destroyed in order to fulfill the call God has on our lives.

God is moving in and through His people today, but not in the same old ways – God is doing a new thing!  We have to be ‘new wine skins filled with new wine’ – it isn’t ‘church as usual’.  Just because God moved in us 30-years ago (or whenever) and caused nations to tremble, doesn’t mean we do things the same way.  We have to be open to this new move of God that will bring on the greatest harvest known to man-kind.