Growing Up in HIm

I pray that out of His glorious riches 

He may strengthen you with power 

through His Spirit in your inner being, 

so that Christ may dwell 

in your hearts through faith. 

And I pray that you may have power to grasp 

how wide and long and high and deep 

is the love of Christ, and to know this love 

that surpasses knowledge—

that you may be filled to the measure 

of all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:16-19

This is not so much a personal word as it is prophetic.

I have just had this burden about where we are in time.

With everything that just happened with the elections,

there is little doubt that we are living in serious times.

We have to know the Word and not let 

anyone or anything else call the shots.

Especially the cultural leaders

and powers ruling the culture today.

In my spirit, I believe that wherever 

we are in our walk with HIm,

He wants to strengthen us with His power

that Christ may truly dwell in our hearts by faith.

Oh that we would recognize this hour

as one in which He is preparing new wine

and creating new wineskins.

This wineskin is called 

"Christ dwells by faith"

and "His love surpasses knowledge."

He is calling forth a generation whose faith 

has created a place for Him to dwell for real.

 He is calling forth a generation of those 

who know His love to the measure they can be filled 

with the fullness of God.

There is currently a vacuum that can only be filled 

by mature sons and daughters--

the ones who know they are loved as His children, 

but recognize they can no longer stay there.

He wants us to grow up so that His power

might work in us to release this new wine.

It is not a child love focused on "He is mine."

It is a bridal love focused on "I am my Beloved's."

It's about as dark as it's been in a very long time.

Things look pretty dismal in the church today.

If we grow up as we are instructed in His Word, 

some pretty awesome wine is about to come forth.

He is longing that His glory fills the earth.

And although we get incredibly blessed

by this glory which is His goodness,

it really is all about Him getting it all back.

Jesus, help us to incarnate Your life

that we might be a witness 

and a demonstration of Your fullness.

You are longing that Your power 

would work through us.

To do that, we have to grow up 

into that measure of fullness.

I want to grasp the depth of Your love

as a full grown daughter

who wants to come alongside her Father.

That You might have Your way on this earth.

That this new wine would flow to every region.

That heaven would invade earth. 

Now to Him who is able to do 

immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, 

according to his power that is at work within us, 

to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus 

throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.