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I know this word by Amber Picota will minister to many of you and you'll be moved, literally, to, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation," as Jesus commanded us to do.
I have high respect for people who are called to minister into the highways and byways and don't fit the mold of what we think much ministry should look like. I know ministers who go to uncommon places like New Age fairs, porn events, and minister right on the streets...and God is multiplying this in great numbers!
As Amber shares here:
We are seeing unlikely ministers who don't look, talk or act like professional preachers, who are literally just doing the work and sharing the Gospel in places that typical church-folk might be too scared to go. They are moving in power without a big flashy show, without any dramatic flair. They just do the stuff.
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"God is Raising Up Uncommon Leaders in Uncommon Places"
Amber Picota, Winchester, VA
All throughout the world in the Body of Christ, I am seeing something very interesting take place. I heard it in my spirit before I even began to see it transpire, but only now have I really been able to put it into words. In this season, God is promoting people into leadership in the Body of Christ that just do not fit the "churchy" ideals that we have attributed to church leaders in the past. Once upon a time, in the not so distant past, it would have been hard to picture anything other than a preacher in a nice suit, preaching behind a pulpit (or in some outdoor tent) with a mic, when picturing a church leader.
Things are shifting and changing very rapidly right now. The Body of Christ has been in a season of great shift and transition. God has been pushing unlikely and uncommon leaders to the forefront of influencing the Church.
| "The truth is that grace will meet you anywhere, in any pit of the most vile sin. " |
These are people who God Himself has promoted to a place of great influence that the religious system is often even offended by. They could be easily written off by someone with a closed mind and labeled heretics, lunatics, and zealots by the religious and legalistic. They will often challenge the status quo and they do ministry in a nontraditional way. Some are social media ministers and street ministers. Some are extremely young and some are extremely old. Some are inked and pierced up. Some are business professionals. Some are forerunners and trailblazers, doing things that have never been done before.
One thing is certain: God is promoting unlikely people into leadership positions and positions of influence within the Body of Christ.
An Indicator of What is to Come
I believe this is a strategic move by God that indicates the season that is to come. We are on the cusp of some very amazing things that are about to happen in the world. I believe there are two major "moves of God" that these "unlikely leaders" will be the forerunners of. I will share with you what God has shown me.
• Number 1:
Firstly, I believe there is a move of God that is happening far outside of the "church world". It isn't happening on Sunday mornings, nor is it even happening in a church. It's happening in bars, on the streets, in homes over dinner, and in extremely unlikely places. This is a move of God that is and will continue to bring in the Hell's angels type of people, the gang members, the drug cartels, satanists, prostitutes, junkies, and the other types of people who have been pushed away from institutionalized religion. God is using uncommon leaders to go places that many would be afraid to go to.
• Number 2:
Secondly, another move of God that I see happening is EXTREMELY INTERESTING to me and quite frankly, it was surprising to me. It was something that when God showed me what He was doing, left me shaking my head in awe for several days because quite honestly, it blew my mind.
God revealed to me that just as there is a movement happening with people who have been pushed away from the religious establishment, there is also a movement where God is sending missionaries INTO the religious and legalistic places with the Gospel of grace. They won't go in spouting doctrine (although there's nothing wrong with good doctrine). They will go in with signs, wonders, and unfathomable love, grace, forgiveness, kindness and joy.
In these religious churches, the Gospel and the love of Christ isn't being preached well. Instead of telling people that anyone can "call upon the name of the Lord," that Jesus will receive them where they're at, no matter how big of a mess they've made, they are passing off a a gospel that says a person needs to do certain things, jump through certain hoops, stop sinning, and get their life cleaned up, etc., before God will receive them. This keeps people away and from turning to God because they don't even know that God would receive them no matter what...right where they're at!
The truth is that grace will meet you anywhere, in any pit of the most vile sin. But thank You Jesus, grace will not leave you where it finds you. Grace will transform people's lives, if we'll stop packaging it with caution tape.
Are You Ready For This?!!
Are you ready though? Because the Church as you know it is changing so rapidly! I believe the Church will look drastically different in a matter of... (continue reading)
