“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,”
We feel to be in a space where God is pausing while we as church take ownership of what He is asking and wanting us to do.
When church gets it right we will impact family, cultures and nations who have become fearful as they see everything around them failing and spiralling into crisis.
There is a requirement for parts of the building to be tied together to renovate what has or is falling apart.
The whole needs restoration to a beauty and purpose fullness that may be updated and contemporary for modern lifestyle and living preferences but which still has the elements of period elegance.
We witness the principle, in the natural, in programs of designing new spaces in prebuilt homes.
Foundational the sand and cement basic structure cannot be separated because as the water has been added to the two parts it has become a changed strength on which to build.
In this age those components are needed to be the joint prophetic. Those who spiritually see and hear what is in Gods heart as He moves on.
Also the apostolic those with maturity and wisdom who take the word and see how it can be implemented into the solutions that are being discerned.
It is interesting to me that many of the wise apostles we knew and trusted like Colin Urquhart have now died and the rising new ones have much in common but we can observe they already have a different angle as they come out of the shadows of the old ones ready for this new phase.
We experience an in-between time a pause to reframe.
God is raising a body with answers and power, to turn around difficult times and self motivated deluded people and systems, that the world will recognise and look towards.
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.”
Correction, righteousness and purity is the only antidote to what has escalated. That which has been got away with but is foolishness in the past, will not be rewarded with success in the present.
“Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
Whilst we celebrate those we have known to be successful in ministry in the past we see it has changed for our next generation where their dynamics will come from the power and strength of relationships, collaborative and unified strength the pause is to establish what has previously not been modelled.
To not move forward, however, would be to get stuck and become powerless instead of powerful.
One horse power pulling a plough had success for its function in its time but two horses pulling have more than twice the power it is as if there were three and experiments show that the more familiar multiple horses get with each other it ramps up to even more power as they protect and cover each others weaknesses and cash in on each other’s strengths.
The model example of the shared relationship and function of all the parts of the body operating as one and not in competition for importance.
Defence and offence has no place.
Nor where correction is read as rejection instead of an advantageous tying together.
Relationship is required to allow each strength to flourish and bounce off and complement each other to get closer to the truth of ultimately all being one together.
Shepherd, teacher, evangelist, prophet and apostle.
The illustration shows us standing as pillars and boulders together strengthened by each other to form a powerful body emanating light that pushes back the darkness.
Three Scriptures that come to mind:
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,”. 2 Timothy 3:16 ESV
“Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.” 2 Timothy 3:12-13 ESV
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.” 2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV
The song God Is On The Move. 7eventh Time Down
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