If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7.14
Look ye among the nations and be amazed for I will do something in your days that even if it were told you, you will NOT believe it. Habakkuk 1.5
Something has been happening somewhere in the world that defies our understanding and we ask ourselves what is it that God is trying to say?
According to The Sentinel Group there are currently over 1000 cities, regions and even nations undergoing a process of transformation, at the same time the Earth and all of creation is travailing.
Nature is creating havoc around the world, the strongest winter and summer seasons in history, the most powerful tornadoes, Hurricanes, Typhoons, Tsunamis, floods, fires and Earthquakes. Literally millions of victims as all of creation appears to be going through a birthing process. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. Romans 8.22
We must go to a season of forgiveness in order to be healed as a nation that requires the forgiving not because it is merited BUT because it will help to help us.
The Bible declares that THE LAND will vomit its inhabitants. Can the Land be rejecting those that ARE SUPPOSED to be the stewards of it? Man brought curse into the Land, The blood in the land cried out to God. Creation has been corrupted, cursed and defiled (contaminada) and it appears that it is now vomiting its inhabitants.
The term transformation is one of the most popular terms today round the world. Although we may not all agree on the exact definition we can agree that there is a cry for change. And not only humanity but CREATION is going through a birthing process. Can the land be rejecting those that are supposed to be its stewards?
Do not be conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds that you may prove what is the good, acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12.2
“Comfort, O comfort My people,” says your God.
2 “Speak [a]kindly to Jerusalem;
And call out to her, that her [b]warfare has ended,
That her [c]iniquity has been removed,
That she has received of the LORD’S hand
Double for all her sins.”
3 A voice [d]is calling,
“Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness;
Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.
4 “Let every valley be lifted up,
And every mountain and hill be made low;
And let the rough ground become a plain,
And the rugged terrain a broad valley;
5 [e]Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed,
And all flesh will see it together;
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” Isaiah 40.1-5
Get yourself up on a high mountain,
O Zion, bearer of good news,
Lift up your voice mightily,
O Jerusalem, bearer of good news;
Lift it up, do not fear.
Say to the cities of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
10 Behold, the Lord [i]GOD will come with might,
With His arm ruling for Him.
Behold, His reward is with Him
and His recompense before Him. Isaiah 40 9-10
Jesus instructed us to pray for the KINGDOM OF GOD to come to earth so that God’s will would be carried out on Earth as it is in Heaven. Is he going to do it because we ask? I believe the Kingdom WILL come when the Church rises up to exercise the divine authority that it was bestowed for that very purpose. To subdue the Kingdoms of this world into the Lordship of the Creator. For by Him and For Him were ALL things created that are in heaven, on earth and under the earth.
There are three things that man was created for. God created order and established laws of nature to maintain the order. He sustains all things by HIS Word. Man was created in God’s image and likeness.
1. He created us to rule and have dominion. He gave him authority to rule over God’s creation. To abide in Him in order to operate in divine wisdom.
2. To be fruitful and multiply. All provision necessary for the task was made available and provided for
3. To live in the image of God. In the likeness of God. His thinking, his desires, would be similar to God’s.
Man becomes a slave and a servant of him he obeys, man disobeyed God and obeyed Satan so he became his slave. BUT the CHURCH we are told has been redeemed into the image of Christ, and Christ is the expressed image of the father. We are partakers of the divine nature and we are complete in Him. We are called to bring radical changes, transformation
So that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. 11 according with the [a]eternal purpose which He [b]carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, Ephesians 3.10-11
The Church is the PLETHORA of Him who fills all in all. Ephesians 1.23
If we submit to the nature of God, if we surrender totally to Him in a desperate cry for change, if he can rule in our hearts than we can rule in HIS world. In all the past revivals man was crying out in desperation for the Lord and for HIS presence. They either cried out of CRISIS and the Desperation of pain and grief OR for the HUNGER for His presence.
People have cried out and prayed and are wearied because the issue is not to ASK in PRAYER but to Declare God’s will and exercise the divine authority that we have been given. Whatsoever you shall decree it shall so be established.
By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,
But by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down. Proverbs 11.11
We have been called to grow out of childhood into sonship. I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 1John 2.14
The kingdom of darkness is pressing in to establish an order of evil disorder. We are called to press in to establish a divine order.
When you are desperate you come to a place where you cry out, Lord! Whatever it takes. Ask of me and I will give you the nations for an inheritance and the ends of the world for your possession Psalm 2.8
And seek the peace of the city where I have sent you, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace. Jeremiah 29.7
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29.11-13
There is a SHAKING going on, Haggai 2.3-8 is a living reality for TODAY. Can we hear the VOICE of Heaven? Can we hear what the Spirit is saying?
‘Who is left among you who saw this [a]temple in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it not [b]seem to you like nothing [c]in comparison? 4 But now [d]take courage, Zerubbabel,’ declares the LORD, ‘take courage also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all you people of the land take courage,’ declares the LORD, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ declares the LORD of hosts. 5 ‘As for the [e]promise which I [f]made you when you came out of Egypt, [g]My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!’ 6 For thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Once more [h]in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land. 7 I will shake all the nations; and [i]they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD of hosts. 8 ‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the LORD of hosts. Haggai 2.3-8
The Key to reaching a community is the Church. If we dare to acknowledge the problems it has we can begin the process of repentance and the initial step for Community Transformation in what George Otis Jr. would call INFORMED INTERCESSION
Our communities are waiting for healing and redemption of the land. God is going to use ordinary people to do extra ordinary things.
The Key to reaching a community is the Church. If we dare to acknowledge the problems it has we can begin the process of repentance and the initial step for Community Transformation.
The Lord changed us so that we can become agents of Change, He transformed us to become instruments of Transformation, He gave us grace so that we can be givers of grace and He gave us his glory so that we can manifest His glory.