Published October 25, 2022 15:37
If you were able to sense the change of the Kingdom year, you would have picked up something changing around the end of September. The Kingdom year does not line up with any of man’s calendars or festivals that I know of. I sense a new call from our Father to His Family and a shift in the spiritual hunger He gives to men.
What do you think our Father has called for in this Kingdom year?
The season of this year 2022 - 2023 has a call to greater depth of sonship and action for those who are ready. Some will be left behind until they catch up.
What do you sense has happened in hunger levels?
What does that look like?
There is an increase in hunger to go deeper in relationship with Dad. Are you sensing that?
There is an increase of hunger to see more effectiveness and reality of Kingdom change, miracles and wonder than we have. Are you sensing that?
All of this is involved with call to receive personal revelation about our true Identity. Many of us have a negative spin on who we really are and our Father wants to change what we think and believe. As I hear it, our Dad has been calling for more mature action and resilience in His family as the track of man gets worse, because we are those who can bring change and reverse the downward track that our society and culture is on.
We will not engage properly with this unless we see who we are. Resilience in keeping standing against darkness, but open tenderness in our relationship with Dad. The strength to embrace this comes from seeing personally who our Father sees us to be and His place for us personally in His Kingdom and Kingdom work. It is one thing to see our legal position as the redeemed sons of God but it is another to understand what is in His heart for us personally. When you see yourself as He sees you, you will be able to stand strongly against all that comes against you and engage the graciousness to endure. This is resilience that has it roots in knowing His tender regard for each of us in a personal way.
In a broad sense, in New Zealand we are at the end of the fourth generation since moves of God in this nation in most regions brought about a heart shift to righteous and integrity living that then influenced changes to regional society and government. Spiritual legacies fade from generation to generation and mostly disappear at the fourth generation. Over this time there have been smaller waves and regional moves that opened hearts to His life changing polarising power and He wants to do it again and again. That's why He gives hunger and a call to open up to Him so He can change what we believe individually and He can open up another push.
That seems to me to be where we are in time frames. We individually and together have the ability to work from our Father’s plans to reset and transform the path of people’s lives as He directs and invites. He is ready to activate the harvesters but His Family overall is still not ready to look after those who come into the Kingdom. His call and commission to disciple has not changed (Matthew 28/Mark 16), but I believe our understanding of what discipling is needs to change from a classroom model to a personal one to one model that actually works to enable the foundations that lead to personal spiritual maturity to be quickly and well set up in an individual's life.
Our identity is built on some foundations of entry to sonship and what Jesus has done for us. That’s a bit more than what we need to just enter the Kingdom through Jesus, or “be saved” in churchy language.
Foundation
Kingdom entry > Sonship > Builds
Surrender to Jesus Empowerment Integrity
Repentance Spirit Living Faith
Baptism (water) Creed-what do you believe? Wisdom
Baptism (Holy Spirit) Kingdom Walking Stability
As we live from Jesus Life in these foundations (each of which is an article on this website), Integrity, Faith, Wisdom and Stability grows in us.
All of these feed through into establishing identity as sons (non gender). That feeds through into Standing before our Dad without falling over under pressure.
As our real identity grows with alignment and use, rewriting of heart takes place that establishes who we are in heart and we begin to carry and ooze who we really are without thinking much about it in a positional way. Jeremiah 31:31-33 (This is new covenant Living in Jesus Christ with His Life flowing from the inside of us outward.)
There is much to learn about who we are in a dynamic way and our Father’s personal growth path we are on challenges, heals, grows and expands us constantly. He shelters and comforts us a lot at first. Then as we learn to trust Him we are able to gain strength and start to learn the more robust spirit life that extends the Kingdom of God by taking more possession of the kingdom of heaven.
Our identity is firmed up on those foundations and centred in conversation with our Dad however that happens for you. There are more than 100 ways our Father can speak to us so experiment and ask Him to show you what is best for you.
Some of us need healing of wounds, damage and baggage we are carrying for that conversation to be what it should be. That’s normal and all part of the journey and it is expected by our Dad. We take damage as we live in this world just as Jesus said we would. (Matthew 5,6,7)
What are we expecting and what did we think it would look like as we bring Kingdom of God correction into the world around us every day?
Jesus told us how it is (see Matthew 5.6.7) but we feel uncomfortable because it sounds scary for one person alone. You are not alone!
When he is with you it’s different because He walks with you and He is in control expressed through you as you hold graciously who you are, which always confronts darkness with Truth.