This latest article from from Lyn Packer goes right along with many prophetic words we have received in this season of the Lord. Yes, God is calling us to step out in faith as never before...AND that's going to take radical obedience on our part.
After all, we are believing for the greatest harvest of souls we've seen yet in our generation. Lyn offers us this bold statement as we step out:
May you be empowered as you read this fresh article as you step out and into a new journey as the Lord leads. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
A Time of New Commitment
I recently stood on the top of Mt. Nebo in Jordan, where Moses stood overlooking the Promise Land. It was here that God spoke to him and told him that he would not be entering the Promised Land because of his disobedience. As I stood there, I felt the presence of the Lord come over me as He began to speak to me about His children. He shared with me that, like Moses, many of His people have not seen the fulfillment of the things that He promised them because of disobedience. For some people, the choices they made have meant that they could not enter into the fullness of His promises to them, and in other cases it has meant that the promises were aborted before they entered into them at all.
| "He will fight with us and for us, He will work alongside us, and will do what we cannot." |
While this was a heavy word, it was not all that the Lord revealed. What He shared next brought me much hope for the Church. He told with me that He is about to bring the Church into a time of "radical harvest" and that this harvest would need "radical faith" and "radical obedience." He reframed my understanding of what obedience meant as He shared with me His heart to see His children receive all that He has promised them.
God is calling us all up into a new time of commitment, a time where we weigh the cost and make a choice to obey in order to enter the promises. This commitment is not based on having no choice, but on having a choice, and willingly choosing submission to His will, His heart's desires, because of love.
Reframing Our Understanding of Obedience
The word "obey" has a connotation of command with it, yet in the New Covenant God does not command us as servants; He asks us to willingly partner with Him, and gives us assignments as sons. We are called in Him to be ministers of the New Covenant.
"And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." (2 Cor. 3:4-6)
The word "ministers," here, means: one who is sent on an errand, a waiter, minister, one who serves, teacher or pastor. This ministry is a willing, serving role where we give of ourselves freely to Him and to others because we have freely received (Matt. 10:8). (Photo via Unsplash)
As sons and daughters we have choices, and our choices have consequences. These are not the same as the consequences a servant faces, whose choice is to obey or disobey a direct order from their master. Their lives are lived and choices made, because they understand that they are under the command of their master.
As New-Covenant Believers we obey and cooperate not because we have to, as a servant does, but because in doing so we give the Lord a gift of our love, honor and trust as sons and daughters. Our obedience is a willing submission of our desires to His—an act of love within family.
We hear His heart and desires in the assignments He sets before us and we come into agreement with what He wants to do. In doing so, we willingly submit our desires to His and obey. We obey and cooperate, not because we have to, but because we understand that in doing so we give Him a gift by our obedience. We say "yes" willingly, because we know by experience that He is faithful and trustworthy.
| "God is calling us all up into a new time of commitment" |
He knows best. He is full of wisdom, He sees all possibilities and makes provision for them; He is the greatest strategist of all. He will never ask us to do something that we cannot do with His miraculous help and provision. He knows that we can indeed do all things through Him who strengthens us (Phil. 4:13). We know that when we cooperate with Him, He unleashes a torrent of Spirit resources from the throne of Heaven to get the job done.
Have Faith, Be Strong and Courageous!
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