From bretwade at globalimpactinc.org Tue Aug 16 23:10:05 2005 From: bretwade at globalimpactinc.org (Bret A. Wade) Date: Tue Aug 16 23:10:14 2005 Subject: [TIMES & SEASONS] Stepping Stones In Transition Message-ID: <002d01c5a2d9$2b560db0$6501a8c0@BRET> Dear Friend, Greetings in Christ Jesus! I offer this timely article for your enjoyment from our archives. Miracles & Favor! Bret Wade ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STEPPING STONES IN TRANSITION by Bret A. Wade These are great times of transition in the Body of Christ! There are major things happening that we have prayer for and prophesied over the years. These are exciting times, but they are also stressful times. The old wine skin is not able to take us where God is heading with the Church. We are making a paradigm shift to a new wine skin. It's a new model that is forming. We have waited on it with expectancy! How we respond in this "now" prophetic season will determine our effectiveness in the future. This is a time where there is major rearranging happening. Those who were not considered capable for the task at hand are surfacing as qualified and being strategically placed by the Spirit of the Lord. They are the hidden company of believers that have been waiting in the wings. What has qualified them? Their faith, patience and the process of God have qualified them. Though others would disdain them for how they would do things, they are the cream of the crop. They are Joshuas with a heart to possess and divide an inheritance to the people of God. If you are one who is in this hidden company, I am writing this to you as one modern day Joshua to another. While in the process of transition, there are some stepping stones to follow that I have found to be trustworthy. They will keep you from being hindered in forward progress. The enemy would like nothing better than to distract you to cause you to lose your direction during times of transition. If he can keep you from advancing, he can keep you from getting into position to displace him. DRAW CLOSER TO GOD We must all make a choice when arising into that which God has prepared for us. It involves either following the direction that God has placed in our heart or giving into the desires of others. Draw closer to the Lord. Be a worshipper of God. There will be a rock solid assurance in your heart when you do this. It will come down to "but one thing I do" Phillipians 3:13. You must have a determination to press forward before setting out to do so. FOCUS It is vital that you get yourself focused and keep yourself from all distractions that would pull at you. Remind yourself that leaders never lose their focus. Someone will be following even though you may not consider yourself a leader. Lead yourself well and others will follow in your steps. If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:1-2 In transition, things change rapidly. Be careful what you get involved with at this time. Don't make long-term obligations without absolutely knowing that it is God's direction for you at this time. If in doubt, back up and pray until you know. Romans 8:6 says "to be spiritually minded is life and peace". God's direction will bring peace. Everything the enemy will send your way right now is intended to pull you off course. Choose your battles wisely. Move forward and maintain course in spite of conflicting opinion and who chooses to stay behind. KEEP PEACE Maintain and keep peace at all costs. Understand that often the enemy will use those around you. Do not burn bridges. You will just have to go back and rebuild. Your effectiveness in the future will be determined by how you respond now. It will either be with a forgiving attitude or bitterness. Beware of anger and bitterness. It will set you back in your forward progress. Bitterness is an indicator of pride yet to be dealt with. Repent now. Bitterness will only fuel an unruly tongue. Watch that little member! Pass up opportunities to give a piece of your mind! Only say what is needed, do not try and justify your direction or come against another's. It takes a response of humility to agree quickly with your adversary at your expense. Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled. Hebrews 12:14-15 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. Matthew 5:23-25 Do not choose sides on issues. Try and resolve issues if possible but not at the cost of relationships. In times of transition, it is difficult to resolve issues because change is likely being resisted. If it is justice that is sought after, you must discern the condition and intent of your heart. What spirit are you operating out of? Can this wait? If you can wait, attitudes will often change. You can differ, but do it in love. It is very easy to see hypocrisy in others. We must repent for the hypocrisy that we see rather than attacking our brothers and sisters in Christ. Stay in a repentant state before God. Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with a willing spirit. Psalm 51:10-12 GET YOUR HEALING Before entering into that new thing that the Lord has for you, get healed and delivered of the past. Whatever it takes! Don't let past hindrances become present hesitations. Enter into the new with wholeness! There is something about being free that causes a refreshing for possessing the next thing ahead of you! If you'll do these things, you'll come through much easier. Follow the Lord and possess! Until we meet again, we are... Reaching For Heaven & Touching The Nations, Bret A. Wade ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PERSONAL ITINERARY ~ http://www.bretwade.com/itinerary.htm Bret ministers regularly at Global Impact Church when not itinerating. October 20th - 22nd ~ Heart Land Gathering of 5-Fold Leaders, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Christ The King CitiChurch, Conveners: Apostle Tammy Chism & Apostle Joshua Fowler GLOBAL IMPACT UPCOMING EVENTS ~ http://www.globalimpactchurch.com September 1st - 3rd ~ Arts Afire, Weekend Arts Intensive October 1st & 2nd ~ Apostle Richard & Barbara Wright, Eagles Wings International From bretwade at globalimpactinc.org Sun Aug 28 22:58:17 2005 From: bretwade at globalimpactinc.org (Bret A. Wade) Date: Sun Aug 28 22:58:26 2005 Subject: [TIMES & SEASONS] Come to the Next Level Message-ID: <001201c5ac45$82848150$6501a8c0@BRET> Dear Friend, Greetings in Christ! This prophetic word comes from our archives. I believe it truly fits where the Body of Christ is at this time. Miracles & Favor!, Bret A. Wade www.bretwade.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Come to the Next Level There's a stirring within My body, says the Lord. It is by My hand that the stirring comes. For many this hour would say it's a time of rest. But I tell you it's a time of war. Many would tell you that it's a time to sit back. But I tell you it's high time now that you begin to awake and begin to arise. For now your salvation is clearer and stronger and even closer than ever before. For the Lord says, in the hour many would sit back and they would say, "we would have it this way and we would have it that", for their own comfort and their own desires. But I'm challenging every member of My body to come to a new level in Me. I ask you this day, will you go to that next level? Will you choose to walk with Me? Truly, I bring change and I will change things in ways that they've not been understood in the past. But I will change it according to the pattern of that which I desire. You've heard it said that I'm changing the model...the paradigm. I've shifted things and I've set a new standard for that which I would have in this hour. Will you come to that standard and allow Me to cause you to go and do those things that I've asked you to do - that I've called you to do? For you thought in your minds that it would be this way and it would be that. But it's not the way that you've conceived it. It's not the way that you thought in your mind. But it's the way that I have in My heart, says the Lord. For I know the plans that I have for you, to give you a future and a hope and not to cause harm. But to even bring you into that place that I desire for you to go, there is much change that is needed. There is no way that you can do it with your own arm. There is no way that you can do it with your own methods or your own ideas. It's only by My Spirit. Where you would find there to be rubbing against one another and even rubbing against the ideas of one another, do you not know that this is not the hand of your enemy, but this is the hand of My Spirit. For the Lord says, I will cause those amongst you, even to provoke one another unto righteousness. Do you not know that I will cause a stirring in your hearts and a stirring in your midst. Do you not know that I can not take you to that next level until I cause you to be uncomfortable with where your at. This is not an hour of comfort. This is not an hour of pacifying. This is not an hour of petting things and allowing them to remain where they are. This is an hour of jostling. This is an hour of shaking. This is an hour of changing. This is an hour of challenging. I challenge you this day, let me do those things in you that I said that I want to do through you, says the Lord. Because if I can't do them in you, I can not do them through you. I'll even give you the ability and the anointing and the desire to go into the fire and to be tested by My Spirit. Do you not know that I even walked through the flames, says the Lord. Do you not know that I have even prepared the path for you. Go into that narrow place and allow me to enlarge you on the inside. You have to be enlarged on the inside, before you can be allowed to be enlarged on the outside. Allow Me to do those things and you'll not regret it. You'll not hold back and you'll see My glory...those things that you desire...My glory...My glory. The shaking must come first, says the Lord. The shaking must come first before you see My hand. Do you not know that when My church said, "Lord, behold their threatenings", that I shook the whole place. But as I shook the whole place, I filled them with all boldness and they proclaimed My Word. Then they saw My Spirit like never before. It's a time to arise and say, "Behold, Lord, we stir our hearts, even as you stir us! We go forward in you and we chose to go to this next level with you." As you do, I'll carry you there by My Spirit. It will not be the difficult thing that you thought it would be, because I'm not difficult, says the Lord. 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