Acts 3:19-21: "Repent
therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of
refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus
Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the
times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all
His holy prophets since the world began.
I have been trumpeting, teaching and proclaiming this
passage of scripture for the last five years. The Spirit has been calling to a
remnant within the organized church system to awaken, repent and come out of
the existing structures in order to be prepared to enter this end-time season
where the world will see the manifest glory of God established in the true
temple of God - the body of Messiah, the Lord would see His bride made
ready for Himself, fully mature and one with Him, and the Son would have the
final harvest of the world promised Him by the Father in Psalm 2. Everything
the prophets prophesied in scripture, and every true, Spirit-born prophetic
word and promise must be fulfilled...and the time is NOW!
Many, including a small remnant-band of lovesick warriors
here in our area (East TN), have been
standing, warring, interceding, worshipping, "suffering" (if it could
be called that - maybe "momentary light afflictions") and declaring
this for YEARS. It has seemed like the promise was just a dream, but the time
of the fulfillment of that dream has arrived, and we may be, for a time, like
those who dream (Psalm 126). I declare that the "times of refreshing"
are here...NOW! I say this with all humility, but with all authority as a
servant and watchman of the Lord....
I have not had the chance to fully research the date today,
but at exactly 11:11AM this morning, while vacuuming (is that significant?) our
home and meeting place for our fellowship, the Spirit of God came upon me in a
power that I have not experienced for many years. I literally began to roar
from my gut/spirit, and began to war in tongues, non-stop for 45 minutes. All I
could do is pray and roar in tongues, and prophesy Ezekiel 37 to the
"rising remnant" in our area, state and the states surrounding Tennessee. I would roar
and pray in the Spirit, then go into prophesying, "Wind of
heaven, come and breathe upon these slain. Wind of heaven, breathe upon these
slain!" I would also be prophesying, "the times
of refreshing are now here...let Your Wind blow and let Your rains come!"
Over and over, for almost an hour before the intensity began to subside. I feel
like I've been turned inside out and recharged for whatever's coming. I say and
release these things that whoever reads and heeds this would have the same
release come to them.
"The times of refreshing" literally means
"the violent blowing of God's Wind/Spirit". Whenever I read, meditate
or pray this scripture, I always think of Keith Green's song, "Rushing
Wind":
Rushing
Wind blow through this temple,
Blowing
out the dust within,
Come
and breathe Your breath upon me,
I've
been born again.
Holy
Spirit, I surrender, take me where You want to go,
Plant
me by Your living water,
Plant
me deep so I can grow.
Jesus,
you're the One, who sets my spirit free,
Use
me Lord, glorify, Your holy name through me.
Separate
me from this world Lord.
Sanctify
my life for You.
Daily
change me to Your image,
Help
me bear good fruit.
Every
day You're drawing closer.
Trials
come to test my faith.
But
when all is said and done Lord,
You
know, it was worth the wait.
Jesus,
You're the one, who set my spirit free,
Use
me Lord, glorify, Your holy name through me.
Rushing
Wind blow through this temple,
Blowing
out the dust within,
Come
and breathe Your breath upon me,
For
I've been born again.
(Songwriters: Green, Keith Gordon / Green, Melody
Rushing Wind lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC)
To enter into this new season, we must come out
of the old one. Hebrews 10:9-10 is explicit that He will not bring
the "new" until we have left the old. The false, bankrupt harlot
system that the organized church has become cannot be salvaged. We must come
out (Rev. 18:4) and gather together to Him, for Him alone and for His purpose.
Chuck Pierce released a word in 2010 to the remnant in the state of TN that we
must come out of the "existing church structures" if we want to enter
in a place of worship and intercessory authority with the Lord that would
literally help save the nation. Unlike in the past seasons where the Lord
visited existing structures with renewal and revival (such as Toronto and
Pensacola), of which we are so unworthy, but so very thankful, He is not coming
to the existing structures anymore. He has been coming to the existing
structure of the organized church for 30 years, wooing and calling the leaders
and people to REPENTANCE, just like He, Himself did when He began His earthly
ministry (see Mark 1:14-15). John the Baptist came out of the system to call a
remnant to repentance to receive the new, completely different move that was
coming. That new thing would see the full manifestation of the glory of God in
the true temple (John 2:19-21), and the New Covenant fulfilling all of the old,
breaking into time from eternity. When the Lord, Himself was released after His
baptism and overcoming wilderness experience, He went INTO the
system to call all those who had ears to hear to come out of the system to
Himself. The "system" and its leaders wanted to kill Him because they
had their own little thing going, and they had the almost the entire nation
locked up in deception of who God was, who they were and what their purpose
was. They also had false theological concepts of what the Messiah ought to be
through centuries of deceptive teaching arising from the Babylonian Talmud's
encroachment on the kerygma of the true teaching of the scriptures. Jesus is
NOT Mr. Rogers with a beard! He did not come to "nicefy" a people
that waited around for an escape. He is not a "Dirty Harry" either,
but He just might throw over a table if you rouse His passion for His Father's
house! That which He had established to be the place that would welcome Him as
Messiah/King, rejected Him. The faithful city had become harlot (Isaiah 1). He
will not marry a harlot. Even though we've been a harlot, been living under
deception to this existing, harlot structure, we can still be His bride
(Hosea's story)! We must first come out of the harlotry, separate ourselves to
Him, for Him and His purpose alone. The times of refreshing are being loosed,
but it will be coming to those who have either heeded this call to come out and
be separate, or have "kept their garments" in the midst of the
preaching of self-pleasing and self-centeredness, ministry idolatry, political
correctness (also called harlotry), corruption, lukewarmness and out-and-out apostasy.
Something has eternally shifted today, at least in me. The
times of refreshing are here and the portal of His grace and power are opened.
Please do not miss this "kairos" moment! He's getting us ready to
move into this final "season of the restoration of all things...."
The harvest awaits! Fullness awaits! TRUE revival awaits! The Spirit is waiting
to fill His temple. The Son is waiting to be one with His bride. The Father is
waiting for the Son to be fully manifest in the many-membered body of His Son.
The time is now.
Holy Wind of heaven, Spirit of the living God, come and
breathe on these slain! Bring this body together, stand this dread army upon
its feet and breathe into us LIFE - resurrection LIFE! Let Your wind come. Let
the water of Your Spirit flow. Let Your fire fill our bellies with unquenchable
love and consuming fire against sin and evil! Let the times of refreshing be
loosed...NOW!
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