It is the end of another year, a season of much excitement and joy. There is much for which we can express our gratitude and thanksgiving and surely testify of God’s grace and love upon our lives. We have seen miracles and the unseen realm has manifested in the visible realm!
I write this letter to thank you as a man and woman of God in His calling upon your lives. I also have the desire to think with you about 2011, in essence a new season and an escalation of God’s prophetic word upon this earth, a continuation of the “harvest of souls” like never before. When we think of the evolution that is taking place in the world’s technology, then the Church will have to enter in and seek God’s face for the supernatural dimension of His Kingdom. We will have to caution ourselves not to fall into humanistic efforts that will dilute the face of God into mysticisms. We can also not continue to be captured by mindsets that weaken the Church, just because we are afraid to migrate to places that we have never been before. It is a season where God is raising up leaders that are prepared to break loose from traditional thoughts about church, geared to gain new understanding about the world that we are living in! “You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” NIV 2Cor 3:3
We need to renew our perspective about evangelism. Evangelism is not only to bring the Gospel to the unsaved but also to convert those with old mindsets to new Kingdom perspectives. We will have to broaden our perspectives so that we are able to discover the powerful Christ in us! The Church needs to present the Christ accurately to the world: The Christ’s Kingdom and so also ours, is above the technologies of this world and will never be touched by the philosophy of mankind.
Strategically we need to put our focus on our young people and their desire for purity and understanding of the Christ! As fathers, we will have to enter into the promise, leaving our fears for failure and the unknown and be prepared to seek for the hidden treasures that have been hidden for us and not from us! It is like gold nuggets that are only available to those who are prepared to seek for it. It is a pleasure to the Father when we discover these treasures that He hid for us! He said to them, "Therefore every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old." NIV Matthew 13:52
Without these treasures we will not be able to lead our sons and daughters into their destiny. God’s grace is upon our young people; His Spirit is at work all over South Africa, so let us arise to the occasion by allowing God to configure our hearts towards His heart. There is a weightiness of His Glory that we need to usher in. Let us be strong and bold enough to bear it. Imagine multitudes of young people influenced by the power of the Holy Spirit!
Life is all about choices. My view is that our Father in Heaven has created us with free will so that we can choose to love him. This way He know we love him out of free will and not because we have no other choice.
ReplyDeleteIt is our choice to mix our believe with faith and experience how God will take us to places where we have never been before in the spirit.
IF YOU HANDS ARE NOT DOING WHAT YOU MOUTH IS SAYING IT IS NOT REAL.
Danie, you mentioned the word, technology. The past years I focused a lot on getting aboard the newest technologies to teach. I trained myself in powerpoint presentations as to make the teachings more interresting. However the past months I experienced discomfort about it in my spirit.
ReplyDeleteI feel now that I just want to use my voice, eyes, body, arms and movement to touch lives. I want to connect with people by using my voice, eyes, body etc. Powerpoint can be too "busy" to connect to people. The old fashioned way of physical connection is getting more and more value for me.
Technology is wonderfull but it can be too distracting too. Nothing can replace direct connection through a voice filled with authority and eyes of love and compassion. No powerpoint can equal that.
I migrated to Powerpoint teachings, but now I want to migrate back to the natural tools (voice, eyes etc)that God has given me!!!
I agree with what you are saying. Yes, The Holy Spirit is also ready to renew the hearts and minds of young and old so that we will experience the Father for who He is. I AM. Especially those who have been led by their personal preferences and traditions. Masses of people who have been religeous for many years will in the months coming, be borne again. With the the renewed spirit man taking over from, leading them in the will of the Father. Frik
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