There are the ones who take the Lord seriously enough to put aside their
own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, and yes, even their own
life, in order to follow Him as He commands. These are a new nation not
formed by physical descendants, but of those born of the Spirit. And these
are qualified because they respect every word of God. It is absolutely
essential that God has a nation prepared that could inherit the kingdom. It
has to be a nation bonded together with a deeper commitment than mere
family ties or blood relations. Being part of that nation is what being a chosen
people is all about this very day. Do not be puzzled about this notion of a holy
nation. Do not regard the biblical passages as merely symbolic. God has
placed you as a light for the nations, that you should bring salvation to the
end of the earth. God has a new covenant Israel united together by the Holy
Spirit. Hear the biblical reference…who is this writing to?
James 1:1
I Peter 2:9, 10
The bible is addressing a newly-formed people who were once not a people.
Something is changing in their life to warrant them being called a people, for
if they remain in their same old houses, working for the things of the world,
and only believed in Jesus, they would still be not a people. They would still
remain integrated into society as so-called christians are today. The
appointed time has come. No longer strangers, no longer rootless, a nation
is being gathered. No longer separated, no longer alienated. This is not just
some denominational titled group. This is a people actually dwelling together
in unity, so as to be a light to the nations, though living in every geographical
area on earth. Mark this as your learning…God has a unique people typed
as being scattered for purpose. These answered the call for who is on the
Lord’s side. God makes distinctions and divides and separates and elevates.
These are so exceptional that the Lord is their inheritance.
Numbers 35:1-8
Deuteronomy 18:1, 2
God is shifting us into positions for the promise that we’ve been praying for.
Sometimes a God shift looks like chaos. We will understand why we have to
go through what we’re going through. Wave after wave of tests will make us
feel like we’re being tossed from a cliff. In order for God to shift us “into”
position, He has to shift us “out of” conditions that prevent our shift. God is
putting exclamation points where we had question marks. God is closing
wrong doors to wrong plans, wrong relationships, wrong decisions, and even
some wrong places that have taken us on a detour from His plans. Put this
in your spirit…you know it’s a God shift because the Holy Spirit has been
whispering to you. Situations that would have made you break, are giving
you peace. You’re saying, “Yes God.” We should pray for the wisdom to keep
our shift on the divine low. What God is now positioning us for, requires
silence as we walk around the walls that need to fall. All drama in our lives is
to be put in timeout. Detach from relationships that God has shown you are
not validated by truth and faith. Cease allowing temporary emotions to make
permanent decisions. God sees the work you put in your faith and the faith
you put in His word. He sees the prayers and the hopes that you’ve been
watering with tears. We need to be true with ourselves. Because even in
the “wildernesses of our lives;” where we are, is “determined by God.” And
in His “governing sovereignty,” there’s a divine shift,” for our life is ready to
take place. In other words, this “spiritual shift” that must happen, must
extend beyond the good words we speak in order for us to receive
the permanency of God’s eternal promises.
We must cease complaining, disobedience, murmuring, and sinning. We
must move from complacency to spiritual contentment. This spiritual shift
advances our character, our conduct, to show as polar stars in the celestial
journey of inheritance. Because God is entirely consistent in His holiness,
His every change of mind is entirely consistent with His character. His
holiness nor His character cannot waver one iota. So, His treatment of us is
in response to our choices. The shift that we are to undergo is supported by
the truth of our obedience. This means divine qualitative and quantitative
empowered changes, consistent with the will of God. All that we do must give
way in the name of Jesus. Prayer is the platform for this sustainable
empowerment. Our every endeavor will dwell in the word of God. We will
teach and admonish one another with grace in our hearts. Nothing we do will
cause God to be stranded. God has given us the free will to make our choice
for life. We will be engraced like no other. New encounters, new revelations,
better understanding, increase of wisdom, outstanding testimonies, will yoke
our lives to the solitary family of God. All things are determined by the
counsel of God and still we are granted the power to participate by choice to
shift our destiny.
God’s time is moving forward and there are some who did not recognize the
time of their visitation. God’s time is the right time, right now, and they missed
it. Remember when God said “let there be light”, there was light. What means
He, when He says, “cease from sin”, “be ye perfect”, “love one another”? We
need to understand the timing that God ordains for our lives. The purpose
for study, is God wanting us to understand and recognize the spiritual shifts
in our lives, marked by a deeper understanding of the grace of God and the
cross of Christ. If reformation is about anything, it is about getting back to
what Jesus died for, and being true to the apostolic mission that carries it on.
So, while some focus on still trying to predict every facet of the end times or
redefining what grace and the cross means, those who are truly
reformational will be about the Father’s business of advancing the good
news, making disciples, and bringing transformation to cities and nations in
the process.
There is this spiritual whispering being heard by God’s people who have ears
to hear. Spiritual shifting is the preparation, the acceleration, and the
expectation for the divine alignment for the harvesting of souls. We must be
in the right place to receive the scheduled outpour from God of the latter rain.
When we pray, when we petition God, we by faith know that He hears us.
That’s well and good. But do we remain for a time in prayerful mode to hear
what God says if He chooses to answer right away? And if we don’t get an
answer quickly, do we just forget the prayer? God’s answer may not be
audible. He speaks in different ways. Listen for the still small voice. Listen
with expectation. Discern situations brought to you.
The last day true faithful people of God are appointed for not only the
movement of the Holy Spirit, but also the moment of the Holy Spirit. In these
maturing sons and daughters, there is an intricate work of “overcoming”,
being released in them to bring forth the manifestation of true kingdom life,
power, and love, into the darkness that is covering the earth. The Holy Spirit
is revealing in us now, that the reality of Jesus’ return is at hand. This spiritual
shift is like God saying, “let there be light”. The Lord is making this changing
work available now to those who will hear what the Spirit of God is speaking
presently. Let none tell you that you cannot be like Christ. His mind is the
truth pattern proposed for our imitation. It is a mind that understands God’s
purposes. The mind of Christ stands in sharp contrast to the wisdom of man.
The mind of Christ involves wisdom from God, once hidden but now
revealed. The mind of Christ is given to believers through the Spirit of God.
The mind of Christ cannot be understood by those without the Spirit. The
mind of Christ gives believers discernment in spiritual matters. These build
their faith through the study of every truth in the word of God, to know the
deep things of God. They do not conform to the traditional assigning of the
word as does the world.
What in essence does spiritual shift mean? Spiritual shift is about the quality
or state of being one. What that means is that as Christ is in us, we are all
connected. Spiritual connection is our ability to intuitively understand
something that impacts our soul and gives meaning to our lives by having a
relationship to and with the Creator. There is a constant sense of
communication with spirits together. You begin to show up in the same
places. You are extremely secure in the truth. Your gratitude for prayer
reflects your recognition of just who God is. And the more like Jesus God
conforms you. It is here where the truest self is created. It is this work of God
that opens our minds to enable us to respond in a godly way - that is, by faith
- to the manifestation of Himself through His Word. It is God giving us His
wisdom to see as He sees.
We now begin to righteously connect with others who are assigned. Truth is
a crucial part of strong relationships based in faith. And the only way to
ensure what is the truth is to find truth in every word of God. The fact that a
great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. Too many
are satisfied with where they are and do not hunger for truth. Why? Because
they don’t like the taste of it. Let none erode your faith in the word of God.
We must refuse to disarm any part of truth. Once truth is removed or ignored,
separation results. To be in Christ, we must not only know the truth, we must
love the truth. Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding,
disbelief or ignorance. Relations will fall away as spiritual awareness shifts
connections, but you will recognize friends on the spirit and the soul level.
And there will be no gaps. Spiritual shift will keep happening to you in one
way or another on the spiritual journey, because truth and light are the
reasoned reality of the revelation of Jesus Christ. Truth and light remove the
shadow of ourselves. We navigate this journey by taking full accountability
of our every thought, word, and deed. We have deeper reflection with God
that aligns us to our higher selves. We work toward suffering into wisdom
and peace as we will encounter portals of grief. Yet, made able to live in the
present moment with the hope in our tomorrow.
Spiritual shift is one of the glorious things about God's secret purpose, which
is the restoring of the life of God to the spirit of man. It encourages us to be
sovereign and whole within, no longer deferring to other people's opinions,
ideas, and untruths. We willingly choose to choose, only in alignment with
God’s own personal truth, rather than the truths of our culture, families,
friends, and religion. We willingly choose to choose, based on our aligning
with Christ, in our highest knowing of the highest truth rendering the highest
consequence. We begin to realize a self that is different from who we thought
we were and what we thought we were. Our spiritual awareness is now found
in the utilization of the known truths of God. We reason with every revelation.
The Holy Spirit reveals to ourselves what could have been known before this
moment, that we might find the comfort with the truth that we are 100%
potentially perfect in Christ. We are upleveling to knowing and being with the
existence of the Divine. We are chosen individuals who have experiences of
divinity, of sacredness, of the presence of God within all existence. As
participants in spiritual foundations, as well as some of us who are mavericks
in our own exploration of the big Truths, we ourselves have either directly
experienced the truth that everything is sacred and divine, or we are growing
ourselves toward that knowing. Faith is the practice in which we grow our
capacity to be with what is unknown, yet at the same time is known within
every one of us. Faith is here, because I believe it is at the core of the practice
of letting go of what no longer is in alignment with our highest knowing, and
our highest good. It is a necessary practice in order for the spiritual shift to
occur. I pray that each of us has this testimony…it has taken me pretty much
my whole life to come to the direct experience of myself as an aspect of the
divine as Christ is bringing me to God. God is love and that says, God dwells
in me, as me, as I am in Christ. We have practiced faith for years to come to
God, to know of Him through the reasoning He Himself offers continually to
those who want to be without sin. It has taken me decades to own for myself,
that we are continually awakening to the truths of our sacredness and our
union with all. And this testimony is found in my faith in the faith of Jesus.
Through our lifetimes, each of us, through every event we experience, grows
our ability to know ourselves more fully when we measure each moment of
each event with the truth and the faith of Jesus. Each moment is a
revelation…an ah-ha moment, an experience to realize that we are on the
path to the righteousness of God in Christ. In essence, in this final time, God
makes us the bridges on the path that allow for the integration of what is to
be known and proclaimed as the opportunity for eternal life. God’s grace
toward us is so sufficient that it is all part and parcel to the knowing of who
we are! It is all one extraordinary practice of waking up to our all-ness!!!
This is our deepening in our conversion. This spiritual shift is so profound
that it is a decisive break with every pattern of sin and the world and
embraces new life in Christ by faith. It involves many changes in a person. It
involves a change of mind, which is a spiritual approach unto the mind of
Christ; and a change of a higher recognition of God, a critical view of self, a
capstone discernment of sin, and a willingness to follow Christ. It involves a
change of affections, and a sorrow for sin committed against a holy and just
God. It involves a change of will, which is a deliberately, determined, decided,
and chosen volitional change, an intentional turning away from sin and a
turning to God through Christ to seek forgiveness. The entire person; mind,
affections, and will, is radically, completely, and fully changed in conversion.
God’s sovereign activity by the Holy Spirit in the soul causes us to embrace
the cross in its whole purpose to bring men and women into a right and
reconciled relationship with God. This matters! Now there comes the
anointing of the Holy Spirit that we might know all things…all things
concerning Christ. We are secured in his interest. Our hearts and minds are
enlightened and strengthened for understanding. We are true to Christ. We
know that in Christ there is no possibility of blending the truth with error. God
purposes in us a conscience of conviction.
We know we’re being called to something more significant and expanded. A
profound transformation readying for a spiritual shift on a sacred journey. We
are threads in the hand of God weaving us into the cloth that is the robe of
righteousness. We are as one…together in Christ. We are coming into the
stature of Christ and in this last day we are also susceptible to feeling more
of the world’s darkness too. There will be winters in our life - hibernation and
death. We will welcome the spring for growth, for rebirth. We will experience
the sun of summer to bring the light of truth to others. And we will embrace
the autumn of harvest in preparation for the coming of our Jesus. Everything
is happening in divine order and right on time. The rest of the sabbath is
intuitive to us in our devotion to God. It is woven into the fabric of our being
to remind us that we are image-bearers of God, called to emulate the pattern
He established for us at creation: to live within a rhythm of work and rest, to
be after His likeness. We come to hear clearly that still small voice that
speaks the power of truth. We come to better understand the meaningful
purpose that the spiritual shift holds in our lives. This is the real calling to us.
We begin to live by the unifying, creative truth within us. We set our every
intention to honor God. We give authority to the expansive will of God to take
full control of our lives. We let the authentic word of God resolve all
dissonance between how we live our lives, and the core truth found in every
word of God. By truth we free ourselves to be deeply connected to God in
Christ. By this we are led to trust Him, to follow Him, and to get out of the
way. We say “no” to the coercions of the world. We seek that which accords
with God as divine principle; that which is, has been, and ever will be; that
which eternally is. The verities that truth abides in fullness, at the very core of
our being when found in Christ. What we are to be is but the unveiling of
what was determined. We are placed on the straight and narrow path along
which the Spirit directs, and as we are in Christ, proves so smooth and safe
that we refuse to allow ourselves to be misled by habit into trusting sense
perception. God is a special, personal Father to all His children. God's
thought projecting into our mind, builds spiritual consciousness like that of
Jesus. The Spirit of truth watches every detail of our life. When we ask and
by affirmation proclaim its presence, it moves us to the spiritual shift. God
has made us for something more, and His truth has given us the way to real
freedom. Now, with a quiet mind and deep breath, we answer the call of God
to come to be higher in Christ.
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