New Season, New Strategies

Main points

1)      The seasons of God are upon you

2)      The strategies of God are being revealed to you

3)      The Spirit of God is speaking to you

 

A new season is upon us as we have “crossed the line into the new” following Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel.

This is a time and season where heaven will release strategies upon strategies to His people. But we must in the posture of receiving (like John).

Knowing this, our heart must be wide open.

Do not be stuck in the past that you cannot think outside the past.

God does new things in new season. So, we need to open our hearts, allow God to be God.

As in the book of Daniel, we will receive insights (not information, not inspiration, both of which you can receive from the world). Insights can only come from God; need the right posture to receive.

New season demands new strategies – pray to the Lord – grant me insights beyond insights. I know what I did in the last season. What must I do or not do in this new season – ask for insights beyond insights. Plead with the Lord for revelation.

When the Lord knows our hearts are wide open, He will give us insights beyond insights.

Insights from God are powerful, profound, permanent.

Not only are you coming out of your old season, but you are also entering into a new season.

You will hear things you’ve never heard before; see things you’ve never seen before; experience things you’ve never experienced before. But your heart must say YES!

The Spirit of God is speaking to you – this is where you make it or break it.

If you are able to receive the messages that a new season is upon you, and new strategies are being revealed to you – that can all happen only if you can hear the voice of the Spirit.

One skill that will make all the difference for you in this new season is the ability to hear the Spirit of God.

The strategies of God cannot be obtained from books or research. They come to us only through revelation (eg Daniel 12; John in Revelation) – the Word of prophecy.

For you to be able to receive, you need to hear the Spirit of God.

Throughout the Bible, we see God revealed different, unique strategies in different circumstances – God never does the same thing again and again vis-à-vis human beings who are creatures of habit.

God does not work by formulas. He works through revelation. Every season is different, every strategy is different – cannot copy and paste.

Don’t copy anything from the past. Receive something new, uniquely for you.

Every one of us has to personally position ourselves to hear from God.

If you want to succeed and soar in the years ahead, you need to receive new strategies from the Lord. The ways of the past no longer work. God has new plans, new strategies; but we need to receive that. Only the Spirit of God can deposit that into you.

**Invest your time, talent and energy in the Presence of God.

This is one investment that guarantees your return (not two-fold, 20-fold, 30-fold, but 100-fold). It will never go wrong. You will never regret.

What you receive in the presence of God is precious, powerful, profound and it has the power to permanently change everything – not just something; but everything, all things.

You alone with God. He is the Only One with the information. Go into His presence, welcome His presence, desire His presence, delight yourself in His presence, dedicate yourself in His presence (this has to be a new habit)

If you can do that, you will hear of things, you’ve never heard before. God will reveal strategies upon strategies.

Inquire of the Lord. Not just speaking to God, or asking things from Him.

Inquiring: Lord, what are Your plans for me; what’s Your destiny for me; what do You intend to do with my life; how can my life be a blessing; what do You want me to do with my life now.

When you begin to inquire of the Lord, the Lord will begin to speak to you personally, and when that happens, everything falls into place.

 

Video source:

Ibadah Minggu ONSITE | Rev. George Anadorai | Minggu, 14/04/2024 | Pkl. 09.00 WIB | GBI WTC Serpong (youtube.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Five things to cultivate before 2024

Do this in order to survive what is to come:

1) Enlarge your faith

2) Enlarge your prayer life

3) Enlarge your worship life

4) Enlarge your thanksgiving attitude

5) Enlarge your Word life

VIDEO LINK: 2023-10-29 - Glory Gathering - The 5 Things To Do Before 2024 - Terence Jedidiah Poh - YouTube

Don't just cope, be an overcomer

Salient points:

• Don't focus on the issues in the world. Focus on that “one thing” - spend time with God, and you will be refreshed. 
• God is inviting us to come and feast at His table 
• We need to engage with God through the Word - not just reading, not even just understanding, but also proclaiming, declaring back to the whole spiritual realm; declaring back to our soul.
• There is an open heaven over our lives as we seek His face.
• God is renewing our knowledge of Him, our strength/capacity, and our mind
• God doesn’t want us to just cope. He wants us to overcome. 
• God wants us to soar; to be ahead and not behind; and to gain sustainability. 

Notes from Ps Lew Lee Choo’s sermon on Aug 6, 2023 (SIBKL) [TITLE: Urgency of the Times "Come"] - launch of 40-day fast and prayer (NECF)

What is the Lord saying to us in this season amid the many uncertainties and chaos in the country and the world?

The word is “come”.

Let these 40-days be a season of “rest”.

In this season, God is truly asking us to come and abide in Him, to dwell in Him, not just to go in and out, but to learn to commune with him, to learn to fix our eyes on Him. And as we do that, God is going to bring rest. 

Luke 14:16-21 [AMPC]

16 But Jesus said to him, A man was once giving a great supper and invited many;

17 And at the hour for the supper he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, Come, for all is now ready.

18 But they all alike began to make excuses and to beg off. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of land, and I have to go out and see it; I beg you, have me excused.

19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine and put my approval on them; I beg you, have me excused.

20 And another said, I have married a wife, and because of this I am unable to come.

21 So the servant came and reported these [answers] to his master. Then the master of the house said in wrath to his servant, Go quickly into the great streets and the small streets of the city and bring in here the poor and the disabled and the blind and the lame.

 

The Lord has prepared a banquet for us; all we need to do is to “come”, as everything is ready for us.

In the urgency of the times, don't focus on the issues in the world. Focus on that “one thing” - spend time with God. 

The Lord says, “Come and feast at My table”. 

He has spread a table before us in the presence of our enemies (challenges, health problems, family problems, economic problems, political problems).

God has set a feast before us - and He wants to invite us to come to Him so that He can anoint our head with oil, and make our cup overflow.

There are three things about rest. How can we enter into that rest? What is God inviting us to in these 40 days?

Come and be…

1. Refreshed

2. Be rooted

3. Be renewed

God is the Fountain of Living Water. The Word of God is the Word of life.

When the Living Word is inside us, the life of God comes into us. The reason why we are not experiencing the Refreshing Spring is because we do not know how to engage with God through the Word.

We need to engage with God through the Word - not just reading, not even just understanding, but also proclaiming, declaring back to the whole spiritual realm; declaring back to our soul.

It's our soul that must be refreshed; our mind being refreshed is not good enough. This is because our soul is the will, the spirit, the emotions and the whole being of us. Internalise the Word, till it becomes flesh in us.

The more you repeat something, the more power it has over you.

So, as you read, proclaim, repeat, internalise it.

Personalise Psalm 23 (as a example):

Oh Lord God, You are my Shepherd. You are mine, oh Lord God. 

I will never lack anything - I will not lack guidance, help, wisdom, finance, love.

And Lord God, You are always leading me into quiet waters. 

Even though my soul is so disturbed, You're refreshing me, Lord. You're refreshing me today.

Oh Lord God, I will never be dry, and Lord, it is so wonderful You are helping me to make the right decisions, not just for my sake, but for your own name’s sake.

It's 100% I know that the decision I have to make today will be the right decision.

And even though I may go through valleys of darkness, I believe and I know, I know that You are with me.

Your rod of correction will correct me and Your staff will comfort me and not only that, oh Lord God, You are so good, You are going to prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemy (my enemies of confusion, fear, interpersonal relationships, problems with my family).

Right in the middle of that, Lord, You're going to spread a feast for me, giving me understanding.

Oh Lord God, You're going to anoint my head with oil - I will have fresh anointing. I'll be able to overflow, oh Lord God, that even when my friends come and ask me to pray for them, I will have a word for them. 

Lord, I want to overflow. Thank you so much, Lord.

Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever, amen.

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Many people need us to overflow. That is why you must be nourished. You cannot give what you do not have; you cannot give what you do not have. If you did not receive from the Lord the peace, love and joy, you cannot give peace, love and joy.

Revelation 4:1 [AMPC]

We need to engage with God through the Word - not just reading, not even just understanding, but also proclaiming, declaring back to the whole spiritual realm; declaring back to our soul.

In these 40 days, there is an open heaven (over our home, church and ourselves).

But it cannot be opened (for you), if you don't want to spend time with God.

Revelation 3:20 [AMPC]

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me.

God is saying if any man hears my voice and opens that door there will be an open heaven.

God wants us to be rooted in His glory and in His love.

Songs of Solomon 2:4 [AMPC]

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love [for love waved as a protecting and comforting banner over my head when I was near him]

Ephesians 3:17-19 [AMPC]

17 May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,

18 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];

19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!

The purpose of these 40 days is not only to refresh us, but also to root us, ground us to make sure when the next storm/challenge comes, we will not be defeated, we will not be blown away.

He wants us to be so grounded and that's why he's brought us into this great feast so that His banner over me is love.

Isaiah 40:28-31

28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint or grow weary; there is no searching of His understanding.

29 He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound].

30 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and [selected] young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted;

31 But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired.

Before He can renew us, He must make sure that we totally believe that He loves us. 

You will never allow someone to correct you, if you don't trust that that person is loving you.

Being rooted in God's love, being rooted in the glory of God is essential before He can renew us.

God’s understanding of us is greater than our understanding of ourselves.

He knows what is the key that will open the door that the jigsaw puzzle can come together.

He wants to renew our understanding and perspective of life.

God is renewing… 

Our knowledge of Him. Start fasting and spend time with the Lord. 

Our strength (inner strength/capacity). God needs to increase our capacity not just to cope but to overcome. 

Our mind so that we have God’s perspectives of things

God is saying to us - I don't want you just to cope. I want you to overcome. 

As we cling to the Lord, as we spend time with the Lord, we will soar with wings as eagles.

As we spend time with the Lord, as we are rooted in His love, rooted in His glory, as we refresh ourselves, as we read the Bible, as we allow Him to renew us, our minds, our thinking, our perspective change; we begin to have a God’s perspective.

Soaring is about advantage. Running is being ahead. Walking and not fainting, is about sustainability. Fly high, last long.

Proclaim: I will soar. I will have an advantage. I will run, I will be ahead not behind; I will walk, I will not faint because I have sustainability. 

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Heavenly Father,

The longing of Your heart is that we'll be able to soar higher, run faster, walk longer. The desire of heart is that we be strengthened in our inner man - not just to cope, but to be an overcomer.

Lord, we want to thank You.

Today, I declare I will be an overcomer, not just a survivor because the Lord Who is within me is greater than he that is in the world. 

And because You are more than a Conqueror, I will be more than a conqueror.

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VIDEO LINK: [SERMON] Urgency of the Times "Come" - Pr Lew Lee Choo // 6 Aug 2023 - YouTube

Expect the second half of 2023 to be great and exciting

Salient points:

• God can resurrect the dead things in our lives. We are living in resurrection season.
• We need to change our mindset to be aligned with the Lord.
• Live a life set apart for the Lord. And expect Him to guide us always and prepare the way for the journey ahead.
• A shift has taken place in the spiritual realm. His Kingdom will expand.
• Revival is here. Breakthroughs and miracles are coming.

Notes/exhortation from Workplace Ministry meeting on June 22, 2023

Dead things will come alive. We are living in a season of resurrection.

As a church, we are entering a new frontier, into unchartered territories.

As such, we need to stir up ourselves to take hold of God.

We need to consecrate ourselves, by setting ourselves apart. 

We need to learn how to honour God; and cultivate the fear of the Lord.

Approach Him with a sense of awesomeness - not a lackadaisical attitude.

Isaiah 58:11-12

The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones;

You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.

The second half of 2023 is going to be interesting and exciting. Expect it to be so!

And be it according to your faith.

If you are a child of God, you can expect to be guided by God continually; and always. (v 11)

Enter the next six months believing that the Spirit of God is preparing a way for you. On your end, you need to change your mindset to be aligned with the Lord.

There’s a shift that’s happening in the spiritual realm. Times of refreshing and renewal are here. But they always begin with a change in our own inner being. 

Before God changes the external, our inner being has to be changed. We need to shift our mindset and bring our thoughts into obedience to Jesus Christ.

Be prepared for what God is going to do. Expect the blessings of God for the second half to exceed that you have experienced in the first half.

Go into the second half with the assurance that God is always with you. We need to host the presence of God in our lives.

The sun-scorched land will have to give way to a well-watered garden. 

Declare no more dryness and sun-scorched land (spiritual life, health, finances, career)!

God is calling dead things to come alive. (v12)

God wants to rebuild ancient ruins (our heritage); bringing back the fundamentals or foundations that we have forgotten.

We need to rebuild our altars.

We need to believe something extraordinary will happen. In fact, change has already taken place.

Declare it is a new beginning; God will reset our lives to bring renewal, and put us on a path that is so amazing that it will astound us.

God is an amazing God.

Claim the provision of God; and prepare our hearts for what’s ahead.

Allow faith to arise as we are entering a new beginning with a new flow and new anointing in the second half of 2023.

He is the Lord.

The blessings of God are without sorrow.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2

“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God

The blessings of God will not only come, but they will overtake you.

Look for the miracles of God. God performs miracles not to prove to us that He is God. But it is to strengthen our faith through the manifestation of the glory of God and the signs and wonders.

When we walk right with God, signs and wonders will follow us.

Acknowledge the Holy Spirit for He will bring us into the fulfillment of His plan for our lives.

We’re carriers of the presence of the Holy Spirit.

He comes to indwell us.

Being filled with the Holy Spirit is to be empowered to expand the Kingdom of God.

Let’s pray the second half of 2023 will be more fruitful and abundant. 

It’s harvest time. The rain of the Holy Spirit is pouring now. 

We are to receive the anointing and power of God.

We are living in extraordinary times, exciting times. 

And those who know their God will do great exploits.

Breakthroughs and miracles are coming.

Revival is coming. Hallelujah. Amen.

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Embrace the Kingdom mindset, live in 'Now Faith'

Salient points:

• We need to have a Kingdom mindset, and operate as who we really are - Sons and Daughters of the Living God
• Revival is here already - don't say it is coming, or that it will come someday. Declare it is here NOW
• Through the power of the Holy Spirit, the people of God can pioneer new things
• The next three months (from June 2023) will be months of great anointing
• There's going to be a supernatural reset towards greater glory for the people of God in this new era

Notes from Pastor Tim Sheets’ sharing at Oasis Church (June 4, 2023) 

There’s a call for us to live with a Kingdom of Christ mindset, that is, being very bold and filled with confidence in Christ.

We must exemplify Christ and live out who we really are as Sons and Daughters of God.

God is now taking many of us through a journey to learn how we live as an heir, and be who God has called us to be - as Sons and Daughters of God.

We have to embrace that Kingdom mindset as we have now moved into a Great Awakening and Reformation era.

The third Great Awakening has now begun. Revival will flow through the land and the world, and nations will be discipled.

The Holy Spirit said, “Don't say it's coming; don't say someday it is going to happen. Say now, now, now”. 

He needs the remnant to live in the “Now Faith”.

“I need my remnant, My Ecclesia, to think with “Now Faith”; not just hope that Awakening is going to happen someday. Not just hope that it comes in the future. Declare “now”.

Faith is a “now thing”. Declare faith now to the promise of God, now to the promise of healing.

Bring Awakening and Revival into the “now”. 

Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified Bible)

Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses]. 

We must think as stewards of Awakening and Reformation. We must think and we must act as though we are now in charge and are authorized managers of Awakening and Reformation.

We cannot continue to think the same thoughts we had in the Charismatic Movement era. 

For this new era, we must renew our mind according to what the Holy Spirit is now saying to the church.

Isaiah 43:2 (Amplified)

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.

What is God saying: When you're in rough waters, you will not go down. When you're between a rock and a hard place, it won't be a dead end. Someone has got to go into that wilderness and believe they're not going down.

God doesn't place a call upon us to go down, to lose between a rock and a hard place. He calls those who will receive His power to go in and make their stand; and when they skip to the river, they cross the river. When they come to the fire, they march through it and they are not burned. When the arrow is shot, the shield of faith comes up and stops it. Someone's gotta do it God's way.

Someone's got to believe greater is He that is in me than he that's in the world. 

Someone's got to believe if God is before them, who's going to be a success against them - can government, education, media, religion? 

The people of God can, through the Might and the Power of the Living God, pioneer new history. 

Somebody's gotta believe they are pioneers of history. They're history makers. God is wanting us to pioneer some things so others can follow. 

Being pioneers is an identity. It doesn’t mean we're better than anybody.

God wants us to pioneer some things for others to follow.

He wants us to help pioneer the third Great Awakening. We have to think that way now.

Sure, that can at times be difficult. 

But God desires revival in the land; and someone's got to run with it. 

Prophetic Word:

I'll use you to open new territory. 

I'll use you to lead the way for the coming generation now.

I'll use you to change your nation. 

I'll use you to build the altars.

I'll use you to build Ecclesia hubs in demon territories.

I'll use you to build bridges. 

I'll use you to tear down barriers of walls. 

I'll use you to build laws. 

I'll use you to build strategies.

I'll use you to build families that have been destroyed. 

I'll use you to rebuild walls that have fallen. 

I'll use you to establish New Kingdom extensions, New Glory highways.

I will now deal with the oppressors of my people.

I will move swiftly and with jealous aggression with My first responders.

I've heard their cries and will break the hold of the taskmasters’ rule for them.

Though they bow their necks in stubborn resistance, I will lead them with nose rings to their place of destruction like oxen to the slaughter. 

I will pull them to stalls of disgrace. 

The commanding influence of the oppressor's curse will break from the hearts of my people. 

The disheartening crack of the taskmasters’ whip will no longer be heard by my sons and daughters.

They will not carry the burden of their oppressors.

They will not toil for their enemies’ gain. They will not work as slaves of cultural brutality. 

They will not glean empty fields because they worship Me. They will own the fields where they glean. 

The breaking sound heard by My triumphant remnant will be the cracking sound of their oppressor's authority shattering. 

The words of their Pharaoh will be as chaff in the winds as my angels scatter their defiance. Michael and his Chariots of Fire have received their orders. Gabriel has communicated strategies through all Angel Armies. Breakthrough angels are now activated. 

Pharaoh will not have the final word. I will have the final word.

Ecclesia, contend in faith as the Lord hardens the heart of our enemies. That's what He did to Pharaoh - He kept hardening his heart. He will harden the hearts of our enemies for devastating defeat.

Set your heart on what the Lord says. Set your minds on “Now Faith”, expecting to live in promised places. 

Move forward towards new times and seasons that the Lord has prepared for you. 

Move forward into Reformation. Move forward into positions of authority.

Prophecy:

I have ordained for you to move forward into Harvest. 

I have ripened it for you to move forward against giant strongholds for I am uprooting, tearing down and planting new just as My prophets have said. 

Move forward, pioneers, through dark wilderness. Emblaze the way for families to follow.

Move forward, pioneers, and be pathfinders to milk and honey. 

Open trails to new levels of glory. Respond to Me and reset history.

Know, says the Lord, that the next three months will be months of great anointing to bring Reformation rapidly here. 

The seeds of faith planted by My people and their decrees of faith will accelerate to fullness, producing the fruit of the seed that was sown and My people will enter new times with lives having been reset.

Prophecy:

Yes, says the Lord, I am resetting lives. I am resetting personal history and regional, national history.

My world changers are now being called to mobilize. My promises are growing to fullness.

Enjoy the times before you in the new era.

Rejoice in the reset I have planned, now unfolding.

Embrace new freedom now. Embrace your new history now. Enjoy the reset of who you really are.

Embrace new history.

He promises the next three months your faith, your decrees, your prayers are going to bring you into a supernatural reset.

Supernaturally, a shift is coming into the mindset of the people of God. A resetting of thinking

to begin to think in ways they have never thought or have drifted from them.

In this new era, things are going to reset for you. 

Our reset has already begun. It's coming. It's coming to us spiritually, it's coming to us emotionally, it's coming to our churches.

VIDEO LINK: The Heart of Pioneers | Tim Sheets - YouTube

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