The Church has been on this earth for two-thousand years and for most of that time, we never truly knew who we were in Christ. In these last days, the Holy Spirit has begun revealing Jesus to us ins such a way that the Church is coming into the glory of God's family. We never dared believe that we were anything more than "forgiven sinners." We read God's Word and continue seeing ourselves other than the way God sees us. We read the Word like we are "still just sinners." We rarely read God's Word as the "Redeemed of the Lord," but like those waiting to be redeemed still.
When I was a sinner, I found out how to be saved by reading God's Word. After I was saved, I found out that I was no longer a sinner, but I was a son of God. And, as a son of God, everything I read in the Word took on a whole new light. When the Word said that I was a "new creation," I simply believed what it said. If I am a new creation, then everything I used to be was gone and I was now in right standing with my Heavenly Father by the Sacrifice of Jesus.
For me to say that "I am still a sinner," is to imply to God that the Blood of Jesus wasn't enough to cleanse me. This is prideful to God. We've had it backwards for years concerning the meaning of pride and humility. Humbling ourselves under God's Mighty hand means that no matter how you feel or what you think, if God says you're righteous through Jesus, then true humility will bow to God's way. Pride says though, that you're still unrighteous.
If we're truly born again, then we are born of the same Seed or Word that Jesus was born of. The same seed will always produce the same result. You can never plant an acorn and get and apple tree. If Jesus is the Word (and you know He is), then when we were born again by the Word, that Seed still produced sons and daughters unto God.
We have God's Own attributes and His DNA flowing in us. It's not for when we get to heaven. The very same Holy Spirit Who lived in Jesus lives in every born again believer on earth. The Holy Spirit is waiting for us to acknowledge His presence in us and allow Him guide and empower us in these last times.
We have arrived at the time of our Lord's returning. The time of the harvest is at hand. The Church is faced with a ministry we have never been faced with before. We are now the very laborers who will reap the harvest that will fill the Father's house. To accomplish this, we must allow the Holy Spirit to live by God's grace in our lives like never before.
It's only through the Holy Spirit that we can achiever the signs and wonders the world needs to see to desperately in these last days. We've had many revivals throughout the years, but none can rival the move of what the Holy Spirit is about to do in our day. Those who will allow the Holy Spirit to do what He needs to do in this time, will step into the supernatural anointing of the last days work of harvest.
Even Jesus didn't get everyone to believe what He said, so He proved it by His works. We've believed that we only needed to preach the Word and the people would believe. Jesus said to, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature; those that believe would be saved, those that did not would be damned (and these signs would follow those who believed)," in Mark 16. We are the generation that will have these "signs" manifested to the world. I don't have to tell you that sin is abounding throughout our nation and the world in these last days. Don't get your eyes fixed on the sin, but get your eyes fixed on God's grace. The Word says that, "Where iniquity does abound, the grace of God does much more abound." More sin, more grace.
The Lord showed me a vision of these last days. He was still sowing the Word by hand. He had a leather pouch hung by a strap around His shoulder and was "broadcasting" seed by hand. I watched as He moved through the field sowing and He showed me the horizon where hundreds of bright red combines were stacked stories high and hundreds of feet wide. They were all lined in a row and ready to reap the harvest. We've been sowing for a long time in this last days ministry. Many of the Seed of His Word has laid dormant, but His Word is "Incorruptible Seed" and still lives where we have sown it. When it all begins to "ripen" into live, then we will have a quick harvest. Amos 9:13 (Amplified) says, "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt (that is, everything heretofore barren and unfruitful shall overflow with spiritual blessing)."
This is the day for the manifestation of God's Spirit on this earth. We've entered into a time of demonstration of the Holy Spirit will happen like never before. Those who will yield themselves to His leading and will listen to His Voice will author the "Last Chapter" of the Book of Acts. The things we witnessed in the Book of Acts are only the beginning for the Church. "The glory of the latter house will be greater than the former house."
We're not leaving here with a whimper, but with a shout of glory! As Jesus prepares to "catch up" His Church, it will be with great power and with signs and wonders. Everyone will be able to see His glory as the Church is empower by His Holy Spirit. Many signs, wonders, healing and miracles will be an invitation for all people (from the least to the greatest) to see His glory. The time is now for the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit to be poured out on this planet like never before.
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