From the desk of Steve Shultz:
John Belt is an incredible worship leader, and he is gifted to release the presence and the glory of God as he worships, preaches and also as he writes his articles...as this one below.
This article is so good, you'll want to read it several times over and allow the Lord to minister to you as He takes us into an exciting new season.
John Belt shares here:
We are in a new season where God is giving upgrades and new equipment that will take some learning to get used to and will require us to run the race at a faster pace. As we seek the Lord, God is going to be giving an increase in ability that will have different ways of doing things as we accelerate forward in His purposes and plans.
More prophetic voices are saying we are in a great day of acceleration...I pray this word helps prepare you as God shifts things swiftly for His saints! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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"A New Season of Glory and Higher Places"
John Belt, Cincinnati, OH
It's A New Season!
In the past month before the Jewish new year up to Yom Kippur, there were some intense battles going on in the spirit realm. Many felt personal turmoil, then just a general spiritual resistance to their lives. Since then, there has been a crossing over into a new place of blessing, rest and peace. There was a definite bending of the bow and release of God's arrow that had taken out much resistance. Many felt like they were the bow being bent! God shot His arrow through them. The week after Yom Kippur, I heard the Lord say, "We've passed through the fire and have come out pure as gold."
Isaiah 43:1-3, "But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: 'Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.'"
The was a clear time of specific testing up to the time of Yom Kippur, where God's people had the opportunity to fall upon the rock of Jesus, allowing Him to do a work in their hearts. God says, "You are Mine!" He wants us to know that He is with us in the most difficult of times. He will never leave us of forsake us, but is with us in all places wherever we go.
Psalm 91:11, "For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways."
| "We are in a new season where God is giving upgrades and new equipment..." |
I like to say that God has the very best insurance plan. He loves us so much. He sees our faithfulness when we are pursuing His heart with full intention to stay on His path. His promise is to give His angels charge over you to keep you in all of "your ways". That is a great deal! He did not say in all of "His ways" but ours, because He is not expecting perfection but faithfulness on our part. Even when our path does not look perfect He can make your plan B into a plan A.
There is still breakthrough, double blessing and overflow to occur, even through to the end of December. Keep seeking the Lord. He is the Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him! Pursue and overtake!
Let Love Push You Up Higher
1 Corinthians 13:1-8, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."
In our relationships, we have to learn to let the ones that are more difficult push us into a higher place. We must let love push us higher. Every challenge is an opportunity to either step up or step down. You can take the high road or the low road. Make your challenges a stepping stone to come up higher with the Lord. When difficult times come they can either drive us into the Lord or away from the Lord, but it is our choice. All you have to do is "lean into the Lord" and access His grace to help you overcome. There is no greater reward you can have than to stand before Jesus and hear Him say... (continue reading)
