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!