Wednesday, March 7, 2007

"A NOW WORD--IT'S TIME FOR THE PROPHETIC TO BE EARTHED AND THE

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Ryan Wyatt: "A NOW WORD--IT'S TIME FOR THE PROPHETIC TO BE EARTHED AND THE
KINGDOM OF GOD ESTABLISHED"

"Prophetic promises have been released for hundreds of years about a
generation of overcomers...who would stand up as spiritual warriors to
advance the Kingdom of God around the world, and reap a mass end-time
harvest of souls."

I am writing to you to share what I believe is a "NOW" word for every
believer individually, but also the Church worldwide. I believe we stand
right now on the brink of the greatest Kingdom Era that the Church has ever
seen. I do not believe that we are heading into another movement or revival.
To be quite honest, I am not interested in Revival at all. Revivals are
great, but they come and go. We can look back at history and see how God
sovereignly visited areas of the world, and great, awesome things took
place. However, today, most of those hotspots of revival are more dead than
they were before revival came. I'm not interested in a "seasonal" revival,
but rather, I'm interested in a sustained habitation of the Glory of God on
the earth and it's called, "The Kingdom!"

WE ARE NOT HEADING INTO ANOTHER MOVEMENT

Let me explain. Jesus never came to establish another world religion or
start a movement that would sweep the earth. Jesus came to the earth to
re-establish the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth. Jesus came to re-connect
earth with Heaven and establish a sustained presence and atmosphere of the
government of Heaven on the earth.

The sad thing is that not too long after Jesus arose from the dead, man took
the things of Heaven and locked them up in a box only to release the things
that fit their man-made religion of Christianity. Jesus came to give us
Heaven on earth and man turned around and boxed it all up into a nice, tidy
religion that lacks the power of Heaven to truly transform our world. Ever
since the dark ages, God has been restoring Truth to the Church in order to
get us back to the place of fullness where we can actually rule and reign in
the world rather than be dominated by the very things we are to have victory
over.

We have had whole decades in the 1900's that were devoted to the restoration
of the Ephesians 4:11, five-fold ministry gifts of apostle, prophet,
evangelist, pastor, and teacher. All of this has been so that the saints can
be equipped and reconnected with the Head in Heaven. When the Church
reconnects with the Head in Heaven (Jesus Christ), then there will be an
unhindered release of Heaven on earth. I believe we are entering into the
time where we won't just see Heaven touch earth in seasonal revivals that
come and go, but rather a time where the saints of God manifest a continuous
expression of Kingdom Glory and Power. The continuous, sustained expression
of the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth is the only thing that will truly
establish and advance the government of God in our lives and regions.

What I'm speaking about is going from wilderness wanderings where the
Israelites were sustained by visitations of the Glory, to actually stepping
into the promise land and "establishing" the Glory on the earth where it
will abide and advance the Kingdom of Heaven.

THE FULLNESS OF TIME AND A PROPHETIC SIGN

I believe we are at a fullness of time juncture. Since Jesus walked the
earth, God has been restoring Truth to the Body of Christ, and prophetic
promises have been released for hundreds of years about a generation of
overcomers like Joshua, who would stand up as spiritual warriors to advance
the Kingdom of God around the world, and reap a mass end-time harvest of
souls. Now is the time for these prophetic promises to be "earthed" and
established.

Modern day Jerusalem is a prophetic sign for us. This coming June will mark
the 40-year anniversary of Jerusalem's independence and return to the Jews.
Bob Jones has told me many times that "Israel" is not God's time clock, but
rather--it's Jerusalem. The 40-year mark is very significant in Biblical
terms. For 40 years, the Israelites wandered the wilderness. In those 40
years, they were repeatedly told and reminded of the prophecies and promises
of God about entering into a land of their own where they could settle down
and be established. They were told that this promise land was a land of milk
and honey and abundant fruitfulness. They were told that this land was full
of enemies, but if they would stay humble and submitted to God, He would go
before them as their King and destroy every enemy that reared its head. The
promise land was where Israel was destined to rule and reign and establish
themselves as God's nation. They were to become a hub of God's Glory for all
the nations to see. At the 40-year mark, they were to enter in and "possess"
the land.

TIME FOR THE PROPHETIC TO BE "EARTHED" AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD ESTABLISHED

Prophetically speaking for us, the promise land represents stepping across
the threshold of "hearing" prophetic words, and then promises put into a
place and time where they are actually fulfilled and lived out, or "earthed"
as I like to say. Stepping into the promise land represents going from
occasional manifestations of Glory, to actually establishing Strongholds of
God where His Glory can abide in a place of habitation. Stepping into the
promise land represents not just fighting little skirmishes just to stay
alive, but actually ruling and reigning in a constant battle to not just win
the battle, but to actually take ground from the enemy, maintain the
victory, and establish a stronghold of the Kingdom of Heaven in that place.

I believe that this prophetic season of Jerusalem's 40-year Independence
Anniversary is not only a sign to the Church, but is a threshold that we are
crossing that will literally change the face of the Church forever.

CROSSING THE SPIRIT RIVER INTO A NEW PARADIGM

"The spirit of the warrior is coming...we are the generation that will
become bold as lions and take this world for God!"

In the wilderness, Israel lived and operated in a certain way. It was a
wandering lifestyle that God had put them into "for a season of time" and
they had grown accustomed to that way of living. Israel was in a time where
they were on their way to being restored and established, but not quite
there yet. Israel responded in a very negative way. They developed a "victim
mentality" and constantly grumbled about their state of being. They had sunk
into just a maintenance mentality, trying to stay alive, rather than a
"victory mentality" of ruling and reigning.

They seemed to believe that when they entered their promised land, all the
fighting would cease and all their worries would disappear. The problem is
that Israel had no idea who they were. They had no idea that they were the
weapon in God's Hands that would establish the Rule of God in the earth. I
believe the modern day Church is in much of this same place. Many believers
today live with a victim and maintenance mentality. They get born again and
live the rest of their life just trying to be good and do good, and they
look forward to the day when they cross that spirit river called Jordan and
live happily ever after in Heaven.

The whole mentality of the Church is about to drastically change. As we
cross this threshold in God's time clock, the Church is going to realize
that we have not just been put on this earth to be saved then sit around
just trying to stay alive, and then one day die and pass over into Glory.
The Spirit and Anointing of THE OVERCOMER, Jesus Christ, is coming into the
Body of Christ and the Church is going to realize that Heaven is not for
when we die, but it's for this life, right now, on this earth. And not only
will we realize this, but also that it's the responsibility of the Church
to be the gateway where Heaven touches earth. We are to be the instruments
that not only bring Heaven to earth but also establish and advance the
Kingdom of Heaven on this earth.

The spirit of the warrior is coming upon the Church. Many believe that when
you press into your promise land that all the warfare will cease. This is
not true! It's when we press into the promise land of God's Glory that the
warfare goes to a whole new level. The warfare in the promise land is
CONSTANT. And we are the generation that can handle it! We are the
generation that will become bold as lions and take this world for God!
However, it will require a dramatic shift in our wineskin of life and
ministry.

THE CLASH OF WINESKINS

I believe that the numerous wineskins of ministry models and structures are
already starting to clash like never before. The truth is that if the Church
continues on the way it has, then the Church will "never" fulfill her
destiny in God. I love pastors and I respect them in their gift, but they
cannot be expected to wear the hat of the entire five-fold ministry. I'm
going to make a very bold statement, but I think many of you will agree:
"Churches run by pastors will never fulfill the high and lofty mandate of
the Church."

You see, the five-fold ministry are gifts given directly from Jesus Christ
to the Church. When Jesus walked the earth, He was all of them in one. He
was the Apostle, the Prophet, the Evangelist, the Pastor, and Teacher. After
raising from the dead, Jesus basically took the mantle upon His life and
divided it in five pieces and gave it to certain people within the Body of
Christ. No one person can fulfill all of these ministry gifts. The five-fold
ministry, according to Ephesians 4:11, are called to equip the saints for
the work of ministry. The five-fold ministry is called to under-gird, raise
up, and release the saints to do the work of establishing and expanding the
Kingdom of God on this earth as the Body of Jesus.

One ministry gift can never be expected to do all of this. The Church has
become accustomed to churches run by pastors, and the clash of the wineskins
comes when God releases all of the five-fold to function as a team in
raising up an army of warriors to advance the Kingdom. Expect this truth and
transition to cause much chaos and division in the Church, but remember that
God always establishes His government in order to bring order in the midst
of chaos.

REGIONAL HABITATIONS BEING ESTABLISHED

"God is raising up bases to steward a sustained atmosphere of the Glory of
God."

I believe that one of the major focuses and strategies of God in this season
is to establish strong apostolic regional bases in every region of the
world. In fact, I believe that the only way we are going to establish and
advance the Kingdom of God is by seeing the prophetic "earthed" out in
regional bases where the saints are not just "trained" to do the stuff, but
are actually "doing" the stuff.

When I say apostolic regional bases, I am not talking about conference
centers. I have news for you, conferences alone will "never" build the
Kingdom of God. Conferences are good tools to gather a region, but they will
never go deep enough to raise up and train an army.

I believe that God is blurring the lines between para-church and local
church. The Greek word for Church simply means the "called-out ones." I love
the "local church" and believe that the Church is God's Body on this earth
and God's agent to expand the Kingdom of God. However, I believe that the
local church needs to recover the Ephesians 4:11 mandate to equip the saints
for the work of ministry. In functionality, these bases will serve as a home
church for many, but they will be built on the foundation of being an
Ephesians 4:11 equipping base.

God is raising up these bases to steward a sustained atmosphere of the Glory
of God. These bases will serve as a place where the prophetic can be
"earthed." In John 1:14, the "Word," or the prophetic, became flesh, or
became earthed, and dwelt among us and we beheld His Glory. Jesus was a
living, breathing, habitation of God. Everywhere He went, the Kingdom of
Heaven came with Him. These bases will serve as "little Romes" or little
"Garden of Edens" where the prophetic is earthed and digested by the saints
of God and then manifested through their everyday lives with grace and
power!

It is truly time for the saints of God to rise up, grow into maturity, and
take whole regions for the Glory of God!



Ryan Wyatt

Abiding Glory Ministries

http://www.abidingglory.com

Email: info@abidingglory.com

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