I’m touring a great bit today, and listening to the goals, visions and sermons of all types of individuals. Typically I discover a treasure that looks as if it should be shared. That is a type of. Rev. Girlie Guyong-Bangunan of Encounter Church (Mega-Manila Convention, Philippines) provided an exhortation (I’d name it prophetic) on the second day of the GMC Mega Manila Annual Convention that spoke deeply to the necessity for letting God do a brand new factor amongst us. Her discuss was entitled, “Turning Over the Tables of the Previous Wineskin and Constructing One thing New.” I share it along with her permission, as I sense it’s a good phrase for the entire Church.
“I’m doing one thing model new, one thing unprecedented. Even now it sprouts and grows and matures. Don’t you understand it? I’ll make a means within the wilderness and rivers within the desert.” — Isaiah 43:19 TPT
Beloved leaders, simply as Jesus boldly turned over the tables within the temple to revive its true goal, God is looking us on this season to courageously overturn outdated methods, mindsets, and strategies that now not serve his current functions. This isn’t a time of light transition, however of holy disruption led by the Holy Spirit.
Precept: God usually vegetation a divine discontent in our hearts earlier than a serious shift.
What labored yesterday will not be what He’s calling us to at the moment. Embrace the holy rigidity of change. When Jesus overturned the tables, He wasn’t being damaging. He was making area for one thing extra genuine and pure. God usually disturbs the acquainted to ascertain the extraordinary. We should be prepared to empty ourselves of outdated paradigms and preconceptions. God typically makes use of holy disruption to interrupt us free from snug patterns that restrict His work. Our willingness to unlearn is as vital as our eagerness to be taught.
Precept: Like Nehemiah, typically we should tear down earlier than we are able to rebuild.
This requires each knowledge and braveness to let go of acquainted constructions which have outlived their goal. Like Jesus who challenged the established order, we’re known as to steer with daring imaginative and prescient and Spirit-led innovation, even when it means stepping out of snug traditions. The Holy Spirit is all the time shifting, all the time creating, all the time innovating. We should be prepared to stretch, develop, and adapt our strategies whereas preserving our mission pure. We can’t comprise the contemporary transfer of God’s Spirit in outdated, inflexible constructions.
Precept: Recent strikes of God require contemporary containers.
We should stay versatile, teachable, and adaptable to comprise the brand new issues He desires to pour out. New wine requires versatile containers. Our management frameworks should be adaptable sufficient to accommodate contemporary strikes of the Spirit whereas sustaining biblical integrity. In constructing one thing new, God invitations us to co-create with Him. This isn’t about particular person brilliance however collective obedience and unified imaginative and prescient. Every chief brings distinctive items to the desk of transformation. Constructing new wineskins requires unity in goal and imaginative and prescient. Just like the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s partitions, it takes all fingers on deck, every individual doing their half whereas staying linked to the larger image.
Take a second to mirror: What tables in your management should be turned over to make room for God’s new wine?
He’s calling us at the moment to look at our management constructions, strategies, and mindsets. The Lord is highlighting that this can be a season of holy disruption –- not for destruction’s sake, however for divine redevelopment. Like new wine that wants contemporary wineskins, God is getting ready us for a contemporary outpouring that can not be contained in outdated methods and outdated paradigms.
“Beloved, I’m doing a brand new factor in your midst. Don’t be afraid to let go of the outdated methods when I’m main you into new ones. What I’m constructing by means of you may be stronger, extra impactful, and extra Spirit-led than earlier than. Don’t concern the shaking. What I’m about to do is bigger than what has been. As you courageously associate with Me on this season of transformation, I gives you knowledge to construct, grace to steer, and supernatural provision for the brand new wine I’m pouring out. Belief Me within the disruption. I’m making all issues new.”
Are you a prophetic voice however really feel shut down, muzzled, wounded, or disabled after a few years strolling by means of the church system or the charismatic jungle? Or possibly you don’t simply really feel disabled however you’re feeling afraid of stepping out in a time the place the present prophetic tradition is being shaken together with the compromised church? Be finished with faux superstar prophets giving the prophetic calling a foul title, when the actual ones have been dragged by means of the mud. We’re finished with counterfeits, present offs, illusionists, and sideshow performers when the church wants the real-deal voices to come up. God is elevating voices on this hour who aren’t led by ache, ego, or ambition, however by fireplace, purity, and love. In case your spirit is burning as you learn this, you already know, that is for you!
Prayer: Father, give us the braveness to show over tables that want turning, the knowledge to discern what must go, and the religion to construct new wineskins for Your new wine, to construct in response to Your blueprint. Allow us to not cling to the acquainted when You’re calling us to the extraordinary. In Jesus’ title, Amen.
— Rev. Girlie Guyong-Bangunan, Pastor
Encounter Church (Mega Manila Convention, Philippines)
