Good morning, good day everyone. Today is day 19 and it is called
Friends During Transition and Change. Restful one in the name of Jesus of
Nazareth, listen with your spirit to the Word of God for you. Other Benjamites and
some men of Judah also came to David in his stronghold. David went out to meet
them and said to them, if you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready to
have you unite with me. But if you've come to betray me and my to betray me to
my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our fathers see
it and judge you. Then the Spirit came upon Amassi, chief of the thirty, and he
said, we are yours, O David. We are with you, O son of Jesse. Success, success to
you and success to those who help you, for your God will help you. So David
received them and made them leaders of his raiding bands. First Chronicles 12
16 through 18. God had established Saul as king over Israel, but God later
determined to end his reign. David was chosen, appointed, anointed, loved by God,
but he was not yet king because Saul was still on the throne. Saul knew that God
had chosen David to be his next king, that the favor of God had departed from
him and was resting on David, and Saul bitterly resented God's changing the
structure. One of the most difficult changes is from God's order to God's new
order. God chose and anointed Saul for that reason. God's order for a time, but
that time passed. God had a new order, a dynasty headed by King David. For the new
order to be put in place, the old order had to be removed. In the
transition, there was a lot of pain and turmoil. Saul was trying to kill the
appointed king of the new order. Into this time of crisis and human resistance
to the divine new order, God brought men to David to be at peace with him, support
him, encourage him, stand alongside him as he moved through the tumultuous passage
from God's order to God's new order. Some of these men were Benjamites from the
same tribe as Saul. They should have been loyal to Saul, yet they were men of
vision and conviction who set aside the human loyalties of tribe and saw the
benefits of the new order clearly. Men of Judah did not side with David
initially, but they began to see that God's new order was resting with him.
They chose to leave their homes, the security of their cities, the favor of
the king of the old order. They came to the desert to experience privation, need,
hardship, instability, transition, hatred by the old order. It greatly encouraged
David to have these men to come to him during the time of transition. Many came
to him after the new order was established, but men of faith and
courage came to him during the time of transition from God's older order to
God's new order. God used these men in later years to be the leaders of Israel.
David, his mighty men, established authority and dominion over all of Israel
after he became king. Restful one, you are living in a time when change from God's
old order to God's new order is happening at a faster pace than ever before. More
new things are being brought into the stream of world history than at any
other time. There will be many changes and you will be a part, will be part of
God's new order. You may be resented by God's older order, renounced and
criticized. These things are inevitable. God did not protect David from those
things, but he gave David peace during the transition by bringing to him men to
walk alongside him. I bless you, restful one, with being in strong, rich, life-giving
relationship with men and women who believe in God's new order, who
understand that you are a part of God's new order. I bless you with men and women
of faith coming alongside you, committed to you personally for those
days and times when God calls you to lead out in the transition from his old
order to his new order. I bless you with having God's appointed leaders of his
new order who walk beside you in unity in that difficult transition. I bless you
life-giving blessing to those people during the transition,
mentoring those who have the faith to see that you are part of God's new order.
When God's new order is established, you will have many standing with you,
partnering with you. I bless you with a strong personal and
corporate sense of his presence as his signature on your
calling. I bless you in the name of Jesus of
Nazareth, who himself led out in the transition
between God's old order and God's new order.
Wow.
What an amazing, amazing blessing.
What an amazing, amazing blessing, Lord.
It's a joke to say,
I remember somebody saying that there was a joke
to say, you know, like, oh, I, I foresee
in prophetic services, like there, there's someone here that has back pain.
It's like a softball, you know, that doesn't take any prophetic giftings
per se, but it's a, it's also similar in the same
way to say, like, I perceive that you're in a time of transition.
It seems like we're always in some aspect of our life,
always in change and transition. Now, there are times of greater transition,
massive transition, or where everything around us seems to be
in flux, and then there are times when it's just like certain aspects of our
lives are as multifaceted beings, certain aspects
are changing. As Graham Cooke used to say, like, you
know, Lord, you're, you're, you're always the same, but
you're always doing things differently. Like he, the God himself never changes,
but he's always changing the way he does things.
As we transition, even out of one year into a new year, from one season to a new
season, I foresee that we're in transitional time
in history, that there is something fundamental
about God having a timing on this season, on this
era, on this place in history, like none other, that there are aspects
of himself and revelations and even things that have
been held up that are to be released in this time,
but there's something massive in the transition of what's
getting ready to be released upon the earth, and we can
feel it, kind of like what they describe as birth pains. Of course, I have no idea
what birth pains are like, but it's described in scripture as like
birth pains, that there are these birth pains before
the birth actually happens, that discomfort starts
well before the actual birth, that there's a birthing that is getting
ready to take place, but in these transitional times,
especially when people, and I believe that the people here
as pioneers or forerunners, are going through transition ahead of
the larger transition that's going to be released upon the earth
in the body of Christ, that in that aspect,
that there is a mass transition taking place.
As a matter of fact, I believe that there are some that they're going to see
that there's almost a perfect storm of transitional chaos,
for lack of better term, that has been orchestrated by God to
take them to the place and the point where they were so desperate that they
landed themselves, seemingly out of desperation, when it was
really by God's design, into a place where they had to get a
hold of this thing called rest.
I pray, Lord God, as this articulated, that you would bring people,
even if it's just for the time of transition.
There are people whose lives I've been in, there was,
it seemed like, and I have them for my own life, that it seemed like
I, by their recollection, I seem to always show up
during a time of transition.
We could go years without seeing one another, hearing one another,
but there's something, a word, or whatever, that'll come in a time when
they're in massive transition. There are some people where it's a
place. But Lord, I pray that we can be those
transitional people, that we can come and see the new order
that is getting ready to come, that is resting upon people, that we
have the courage, the grace, to be able to not cut
relationships.
Relationship and not to get over the new trend and the new fad but to really see the anointing of God that rests upon the
son of man
They can see your kingdom come they can see the new order being established and that Lord that there be that same thing
Where you give eyes to see of those people that are around us and that we haven't even met yet
They can see God's kingdom the new order resting upon us
And that Lord even I believe it's really important for some people here that people would see more clearly
That new order on us on them
For us to be able to be shaken rattled out of our comfort place of comfort into the place of reality to go back to Gideon
To have those Gideon moments
He had no clue that he was going to become the next judge of Israel
There is nothing in his life, his circumstances, his family of origin or even he is a human being or his belief system
That had any clue but yet it was God's plan and it came to pass
I pray Lord for a boldness and a confidence for that to be a recognized and to be given hope into each of us
That this can be true even if we don't have the foresight to know it much less believe it
And that Lord that there would be people in our lives that come even strangers
To speak forth in a word in a time of transition and a time where it's life-giving
To speak forth something that you're trying to birth in our heart that we are not sure if it's from you or not
And that Lord in the cutaway all the distracting voices as my dad said would say call it the cutaway the noise
To really be able to hear you
I thank you Lord for those people that are in transition and those people that are called to walk with us through the transition
And I pray Lord for all of us
It's like the discussion about the term who has your back came from Roman soldiers that learned
That the back was a very exposed thing that they would often times fight back to back
And saying who has your back
Or that we can't see at all ourselves
That's why we have other people that can see into our blind spots
That Lord that there be those people and that we can be there for others to see what they cannot see
Not just in weakness not just in vulnerability but also the aspects of who they are
That they seem to be missing and that we seem to be missing
Lord we bless you and we love you in Jesus name