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YES...AMEN...THIS IS THAT....
Act 2:15-21 "For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But
this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will
pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved".
The wineskin represents a "confining structure that allows movement, but still maintains containment". The Wineskin that is being formed NOW will probably look totally different than the one we knew in the 20th century. My wife & I (having been Ordained in the ministry for over 23 years), have seen God bring MUCH change in "the way things were" in that time. We MUST be prepared to accept the coming changes & HUMBLE ourselves so we can stay in a place that TRULY honors the Lord. Unlike the Pharisees of Jesus' day & the Early Church, TODAY's Leaders of God's People will have to have a changed way of thinking (I believe the Bible calls this "Repentance"). And this brings us back to:
2Ch 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land".
The thing about this scripture that most MISS, is the word "wicked". All will say: "I am not wicked!!!...not me!!!...no...you are looking at the wrong person! BUT , when God opens OUR eyes to the TRUE meaning of WICKED, we will take our place in His Kingdom & His will WILL be done. The word "wicked" means: TO BE WRONG.......... (OOPS)....well....I guess that DOES include ALL of us, doesn't it!!! Our way, doesn't make it the "right way", does it? If God wants to do something His way...who are we to stand in His way?
The forming of this New Wineskin will undoubtedly be a difficult time for some. Because there are "those" that have a problem with
holding the glass by the bowl instead of the stem when the wine is poured out (I love the analogy that David used below). Wine must be kept at a consistent temperature to avoid decay. When MAN "handles" or affects the wine that is "pouring"...it changes the "temperature" of the wine & also leaves the FINGERPRINTS of the flesh on the glass, which obstructs a clear view of what God is wanting to do. And I am convinced that THIS VERY THING is what has kept God from "pouring out of His Spirit"
in the measure that He has desired to do for SO LONG a time...until NOW. Pride just can't seem to keep it's hands off...OOPS...did I say pride?...we just don't seem able to let God do exactly what He wants, the way He wants & when He wants...we just HAVE to keep things under control.
But, that is NOT how it was on the day of Pentecost...NO!...there was NO control...there was only anticipation & fervent desire to receive what the Father promised to give. They had NO idea what to even expect. They had NO idea what God was about to do. AND they had NO scriptures to "back -up" what they were about to "experience".
They just embraced the move of God....AND IT CAME...
HE HAD HIS WAY....AND THE CHURCH WAS BORN THAT DAY..and it was born IN POWER!!!!!
Just as God's people in THAT day had to let go of the "old wineskin"
they were accustomed to, we as God's people MUST allow God to bring forth the New Wine of THIS day in a NEW Wineskin. THIS NEW WINESKIN WILL ACCOMPLISH something that NO previous Wineskin COULD....God will "pour out of His Spirit
upon all flesh" as we allow Him to do things
His way. The Church is now poised to take the world. No other time in history, has the Church been in such a prepared, available & passionately HUNGRY state!
Isa 9:6-7 "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and
the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever.
The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this".
Did you get that??? The GOVERNMENT shall be upon HIS shoulder. He is the HEAD...the Shoulder represents where the Head CONNECTS to the Body...it is HIS Shoulder (not ours). In other words...HIS Shoulder OBEYS HIS Head...(this paints a picture...).
A head that has no control over it's body, is called CRIPPLED or an
INVALID. Invalid means: Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury, but more importantly, it means: Having no cogency or legal force. As long as the Body doesn't receive "nerve impulses" from the head, it can do nothing but lay there. As long as the Church resists obeying the will of our Lord, we will have NO legal force against the powers of darkness.
Luke 13:32 "And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox,
Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected".
Prophetically speaking, we ARE NOW in the THIRD day (2008). His Church will NOW be perfected as 3rd day saints. It is time for the Lord's Church to RISE UP & BE ALL that He has called us to be. It is time that we listen & receive HIS marching orders...it is time that we be led by His Spirit instead of religious structures of control (ie: pride of man)...it is time that we embrace the coming move of God. It is time that we ARISE to the occasion!
This is the time of revival that we have all been praying for a LONG time...yes, this is that!!!!
Pastors Mark & Julie Moore
REVIVAL-FIRE CHURCH
Rio Grande Valley, TX
www.revivalfirechurch.net "Did not our heart BURN within us, when He talked with us on the way and while He opened to us the scriptures?" (Lk 24:32)
"I am come to send FIRE on the earth; and what will I, if it be already KINDLED" (Lk. 12:49)
"Who makes His angels spirits and His ministers a FLAME OF FIRE" (Heb. 1:7) David Webb wrote:
******* REVIVAL FIRE!!! ******* The revival fire emails have brought much joy, as I have read of the outpouring that so many are experiencing. I love that sense that things are out of control and yet at the same time the King is reigning… Please pray that some of this hit's Thessaloniki, Greece where the Lord has called us!
Please bear with me if I share some things the Lord has been saying, I believe it's in the flow…
Two weeks ago we celebrated the home coming of our grand daughter Jemimah. Our daughter & son-in-law had been given two bottles of a newly produced wine by the daughter of a National wine producer. It was delicious! As I took the wine the Lord spoke to me and said that New Wine is about to be poured and it needs a New wineskin. Not a modified or patched old wineskin but something completely new! He called to me and said "Let's do church in a New Way".
The Lord then said some interesting things: We are church not the event… Expect Jesus to show up… Encourage diversity… Every part of the body will need to play a part…
I suggest you read John 2:1-9. Part of verse 9 says "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now." And Matthew 9:16 says "No one puts a piece of un-shrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. 17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."
The New Wine is The Holy Spirit poured out, he transforms the very substance of the believer as he enters our lives and it is He who comes out, when you are poured out.
This New Wine we tasted: The Aroma was strong… The Texture was full bodied… The taste was rich… The colour was amazing. This describes our life in the multi-dimensional Body of Christ. This is not consumer church, this is the body of Christ made wonderfully alive by tasting new wine… It's Life!
The Wineskin.
The New Wine lives, so it must have a suitable container or the wine is lost… New wine is alive and like a baby in the womb it moves…. New wine needs a flexible wineskin... The wineskin is not an image we are familiar with in the age of mass production, but the originally wine was fermented in a container made from the skin of an animal. The flexibility would lessen with age, and whilst it could be lubricated with oil, eventually the skin would dry and become hard, consequently it would split when filled with new wine. Hence the importance of the wineskin as facilitates the movement.
So, the container had to be flexible or the wine would is lost, the wineskin had a limited lifespan. I believe the church of the 20th century must make way for the church of the 21st century. Much of what my generation have considered new is not new anymore, we have to make room for the best wine to be poured out and remember the best came last. In the present age the values of the Kingdom must remain but the wineskin must change so that a new generation can be brought in.
Pouring the Wine.
I checked out some wine tasting websites. I read that when you pour wine into a glass you should hold the stem of the glass not the bowl. This is so that you don't affect the wine with the heat of your hands on the glass. How this speaks to the church. Too many have left their mark upon the wine because they have held it wrongly, it's time to take hold in the correct way and realise this is God's church not ours...
In a new day you do things in a new way.
So, I encourage you … TASTE & SEE!
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David Webb
PO Box 4169, Perea, 57019 Thessaloniki
Greece
www.fromj2i.net
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