From Ravens to Camels - Shifting From Surviving to Thriving

 This is your time to shift from "Ravens to Camels":

God is shifting his people from surviving to thriving.  

A ‘Raven' situation is looking for a one-time miracle that reminds you that you are still in famine.   Example: as Elijah the prophet experienced at the brook Kerith and with the widow of Zarephath during the famine of 3 years he had decreed by the Word of the Lord.   Ravens brought him bread and meat each morning and evening and he drank from the brook.   Eventually, that provision dried up and the Lord directed Him to Zarephath to a widow (someone not of Israel-God's covenant people) through whom He also provided bread miraculously, both for Elijah and the widow and her son, for the rest of the famine.

A ‘Camel' situation is looking for a long-term solution for you and those around you where we learn to draw from "the Bank of Heaven", God's riches in glory provided for us in Christ, through which He supernaturally supplies every need we face.    A 'Camel' situation is a long-term solution because camels move together in long caravans through desert places; BUT!   those camel caravans are always loaded down with an abundance of varied items, foods, goods, valuable treasures and gifts that stretch throughout the long caravan.  

God our Father is offering 'camel' solutions that will take us into provision that is ongoing, developing, increasing, abundant and full of variety and which stretches out long-term across any and every desert time or survival mentality that surrounds us.    God is asking each of us as His children to look at what He has placed in us and to ask Him how to practically begin to develop, explore, step out in faith and attempt to use the various gifts He has created us with.    Other items in the 'caravan' may be relationships, connections, experiences, ideas (flowing by inspiration from the Mind of Christ in us) and the experiences and discoveries others have made in similar situations.

Listen for God's voice in all the areas of interaction, communication and interest He brings across your path...you just might be staring a camel in the eye that is loaded

A Presence in the World

“It can only be that God begins in a small way at one single place in the world. There must be a place in the world – visible, tangible – where the salvation of the world can begin; that is, where the world becomes what it is supposed to be according to God’s plan. Beginning at that place, the new thing can spread abroad, but not through persuasion, not through indoctrination, not through violence. Everyone must have the opportunity to ‘come and see’. All must have a chance to behold and test this new thing. Then, if they want to, they can allow themselves to be drawn into the history of salvation that God is creating. Only in that way can their freedom be preserved. What drives them to the new thing cannot be force, not even moral pressure, but only the fascination of a world that is changed.” Gerhard Lothenk.

A Major Shift and Acceleration

There is a major SHIFT and acceleration happening in the hearts of many across the globe and among every expression of Christ's followers. There is a greater convergence happening in a fresh way than what we have understood in our journey to this point...the convergence between Heaven and earth, the blurring of the boundaries, of entering beyond the veil into the Most Holy Place through the new and Living Way! 

There is a Door standing open in Heaven and an invitation to "Come up here and I will show you things...". I believe we are beginning to see the fulfillment of what many have discussed and agreed on about Christianity in the west in the 21st century surviving and thriving only if all followers of Jesus SHIFT into becoming mystics - those who through desperate spiritual hunger, desire and faith can engage with and encounter the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the unseen realms of the Kingdom of Heaven and there be taught how to shape nations and see a major global harvest movement of the Spirit that will bring transformation. Isaiah 2, Micah 4 and Acts 2! Much love!!!

Heaven Rules!

In the book of Daniel, the prophet and seer contained in the Scriptures, there is recorded the account of him being called before king Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, to interpret a dream and vision of the night that had terrified the king. As you'll remember, the dream had to do with pride and human kingdoms not acknowledging Heaven's rule over the affairs of men.

It was decreed that the king would lose his sanity and his kingly rule until he realized and acknowledged that "Heaven rules - the King of Heaven rules - over all human kingdoms and He gives them to whom He will."  The Apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians mentions in the second chapter that the "wisdom of this world is foolishness to God" and that "if the rulers of this age had realized the truth of who Jesus was, they would never have crucified the King of Glory".  

It seems more and more clearly in our day that the rulers of this age have, as King Nebuchadnezzar in his time, lost their sanity and have made a basic travesty of their kingly - or, political - rule in the name of pride, power and position.  The global fragmentation of the world's peoples through the rhetorical agendas being proclaimed over media airwaves, print and internet have become an increasingly threatening form of insanity which lulls the world to sleep or angers those who feel powerless to do anything about it while deeper and darker forces exert their numbing influences on the thinking of the "teeming masses".

The King of Heaven, the great Creator, Ruler and Sustainer of all life revealed in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, has also begun to exert His own divine and heavenly influences among the nations in hearts that are crying out for MORE of His reality to be made manifest in the ordinary affairs of everyday people and increasingly desperate conditions.  There are those who, like Daniel of old, are being taught and shown the unseen realities of another realm from which Jesus Christ descended into our humanity by means of conception and birth through the womb of a Virgin.  These men and women are mostly unknown to the "rulers and powers of this age", but are most well-known in the courts of Heaven.  Learning through prayer, deep hunger and desire and faith based in the revelation of the interaction of Heaven and earth found in Scripture, these "weak and foolish" ones are the very ones that the Spirit of God seems to be training with wisdom from the courts of Heaven to make a transforming difference in the affairs of earth in our time.

May we learn that foundational and critical lesson in our own lives, nations and times and agree in a humble and cooperative spirit, for our times are crying out for men and women with true wisdom like Daniel...not the worldly and prideful pseudo-wisdom of the rulers of this age!