[TIMES & SEASONS] Come to the Next Level

[Bret A. Wade]

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 

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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.