Month: September 2022

Quote for the Day

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Africa in the twentieth century went from a Catholic population of 1.9 million in 1900 to 130 million in 2000, a growth rate of 6,708 percent, the most rapid expansion of Catholicism in a single continent in two thousand years of church history. Philip Jenkins

Quote for the Day

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It was precisely as Western colonialism ended that Christianity began a period of explosive growth that still continues unchecked, above all in Africa. Just since 1965, the Christian population of Africa has risen from a quarter of the continental total to about 46 percent, stunning growth for so short a period. Philip Jenkins

Lana Vawser: LONG AWAITED CHANGE!!!!

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Lana Vawser writes:

LONG AWAITED CHANGE!!!!

September 22, 2022

This morning I had a vision and I saw chains around many of God’s people’s feet. What I noticed about these chains is that they were LONG and they were were a HEAVY WEIGHT to drag around.

Instantly, I knew that they “chains” represented “areas of struggle” on multiple levels. Physical, emotional, spiritual and mental where there has been an “affliction” (google defines it as: the state of being in pain. “poor people in great affliction” synonyms:suffering, distress, pain, trouble, misery, wretchedness, hardship, misfortune, adversity, sorrow, torment, tribulation, woe, cross to bear, thorn in one’s flesh/side) of sorts that has been with them for years upon years. A weight that has been in their lives that has just refused to move. No matter what they have done, or how much they have prayed, it has felt like the chain just got ‘heavier’ instead of breaking.

Suddenly I saw the words change. They went from:

LONG, WEIGHTED, CHAINS

to

LONG AWAITED CHANGE

For many it has been a long journey, and the chains of the WAIT have been WEIGHTY in heaviness but take heart those long WEIGHTY chains are about to turn the LONG AWAITED CHANGE OF BREAKTHROUGH!!!!! Chains were breaking everywhere!!! God is breaking LONG battles with afflictions and bringing healing, restoration, freedom, provision and increase through radical breakthrough in Jesus name. No more “pauses”, no more “stops”, no more going round and round and round the same mountain, THIS is the season for breakthrough of LONG BATTLES with afflictions of many kinds as the people of God have remained positioned.

I then saw another line appear…

WEIGHTY – THE AREAS WHERE THESE CHAINS HAVE HELD YOU DOWN ARE NOW BEING TURNED AS YOU MOVE INTO BREAKTHROUGH TO YOU STEPPING FURTHER INTO “WEIGHTY” AUTHORITY TO GO OUT AND RELEASE BREAKTHROUGH AND IMPARTATIONS TO OTHERS.

The greater the WAIT, the greater the BREAKTHROUGH AND WEIGHT! Nothing is wasted. The Lord is turning it all. Not only will your breakthrough be greater than you imagined, but what will be released TO YOU and THROUGH YOU will be EXPONENTIAL.

Don’t give up! The Lord has seen those heavy chains and the weight they have placed upon you in the long long wait, but now in this season the weight of His Glory and breakthrough is going to rest upon you heavier than ever before. There will be SO MUCH breakthrough, it is just going to overflow and spill out onto people wherever you go. A new level of living in the overflow. There is a radical release of a breaker anointing being released all over the body of Christ in this season.

You are moving into greater days of AWE of His beautiful nature and wonderful works! What you are going to see Him do in and through you in these areas of long awaited breakthrough suddenly turning to long awaited change is going to leave you in a place of deeper awe of Him, which is going to raise you up onto a whole new floor and position you before many new doors.

Can you hear the chains breaking in the atmosphere? He is releasing long awaited breakthrough and change!

Reflection on Hebrews 8:7-13

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Scripture

“But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day,” says the Lord. ” I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be there God, and they will be my people.”

Observation

The first covenant with not perfect, and so the Lord brought a new covenant. He foreshadowed this through the prophets.

The new covenant would be different to the old. Instead of a written law telling people how to behave, the Lord would write his laws on their hearts and minds. He will be their God, and they will be His people.

Nobody will need to teach their neighbours or relatives, or exhort them to know the law. Everyone from the youngest to the oldest will know Him already.

Application

When we walk with the Lord, there is no reason for laws, rules and regulations. If we all love the Lord, we will all love one another.

There is a tendency in every move of the Holy Spirit to codify what is happening, so that new converts know how to honour the Lord. That is not a bad thing. The trouble is that, over time, we may start to elevate the rules above the Holy Spirit. Eventually, what started as a life-giving move of God is stifled by legalism.

God has written His laws on our hearts. If we keep desiring to please God, He will show us what is required in every situation.

Prayer

Lord, I thank you that you do not require us to learn rules and live by laws. I have a living relationship with a living God and I can trust you to lead me. Amen.