Many have been speaking of the shift that is taking place
in the Body of Christ. We can sense it, we can see evidence of it, but many
have not been able to really put a name to it. We know that false Christs are
here, as they have been in every age, but we also know that as they prepare
their false church, God is readying his Glorious Church, The True Bride of
Christ. This Bride comes from every tribe, tongue, ethos, and language group
but communicates one message: Jesus is Lord, The Father, Son, and Spirit, are
one, and you must repent and be born again to enter into this Kingdom not made
with hands. The Kingdom Age is here and your church-as-usual- clothes will not
fit.
Revelation 22:17
17And the
Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him
that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life
freely.
The Spirit (God in the Believer) and Bride (The Global,
Eternal Body of Christ from all Ages of Humanity) say, Come. They invite us to
the greatest party ever: The Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
A Divine Dream
Recently (January 28, 2012), I had a dream that God gave the
interpretation to. I have also shared this with other leaders who live a
credible life and can judge spiritual matters. We know in part, and we prophesy
in part. No one has the full interpretation on the Word of God but God himself.
God created the Body in such a way that we should recognize our need for each
other to really grow into the full mature Body of Christ that God intends. As I
share, I believe that this dream will confirm for some and explain for others
similar revelations about The Body of Christ:
I had a dream about a
wedding band. It had many sections to it and diamonds in each section. Then the
ring began to separate in sections, the framework begin to crumble. I thought maybe
it was a fake ring, but as it crumbled, the stones fell out. I picked it up.
The stones were real diamonds as I held them up to the light. The dream ended.
As I was in service,
worshipping the Lord (January 29, 2012), the Lord replayed the dream to me and
the Lord said, “This is what you saw;”
“The ring
represented the structure of church and the symbol of covenant. The stones were
the Body of Christ. The structure was crumbling, but the stones were real and
genuine. The stones, the living stones (THE CHURCH) were good. They needed a
new setting. I am resetting the stones. The church will go through a period of
resetting into a more fortified structure that can hold the stones. Some things
in the foundation have caused the crumbling. I am resetting the foundation so
that it holds the stones.”
I believe God is
resetting the structure, the Apostles and Prophets so that His Body may
function at full capacity. In that re-setting, God is also doing a work in how
we worship.
Whether you have sensed the shift or not, the structures that
held church together is cracking. And God intends for it to crack. He will not
put new wine into old wineskins. He told the disciples at Passover, “I will not
drink the wine again until I drink it new in heaven with you.” As he
demonstrated and showed a principle of the Kingdom at his first miracle of
turning water to wine, Jesus is reserving his best for last. He is pouring out
His best wine, The Outpour of the Holy Spirit in a Global Outpouring on the
Last Age.
Late last year, I was in prayer and was taken up into the
Spirit. I saw saints dressed in white robes. They were setting the table for
the Marriage Supper. They surrounded the table, their arms were locked around
each other and they were singing. The sound was unlike anything in earth. The
Lord was speaking but he sounded like a shofar. I could hear them singing,
Jesus is coming
Jesus is coming
Jesus is coming
Back from God
Be ready
Be ready
Jesus is coming
Back from God
It took me about an hour to really recover and come down from
that encounter. I shared this encounter at a Women’s conference in June 2011. I
can still hear them singing in my spirit. Listen, you may not believe in
encounters with God, but one thing is sure: Jesus return is imminent!
I asked the Lord about the sound I heard in heaven. He said
it was a sound from a different order, a different priesthood. He said it was
after the order of Melchisedek. It Is the Kingdom Sound. Now, if you have been
near any church or worship conference, everyone talks about the Davidic order,
the Levitical order of worship and how important it was and is. Don’t get me
wrong: this order has certainly enriched, empowered us, and served the purpose
to reveal God to us in worship, to open the heavens, but I am only relaying a
message: With the Kingdom Age there is coming, and indeed is already here, the
establishment of Sound coming from God’s prophetic men and women who are
ministers of worship, indeed we all really are called priests and kings in the
presence of the Lord. The sound that God is stirring up is not to build a fan
base but to minister to God and God alone. I asked God to further explain and
he took me to the following verses:
The
Greatness of the New Priest
20 And inasmuch as He
was not made priest without an oath 21 (for they have
become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him:
“The
Lord has sworn
And will not relent,
‘You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek’
22 by
so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.
23 Also
there were many priests, because they
were prevented by death from continuing. 24 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable
priesthood. 25 Therefore He is also able to save to the
uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
26 For
such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher
than the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, as those high
priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the
people’s, for this He did once for all
when He offered up Himself. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of
the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been
perfected forever.
Here are
some things God told me about why worship will change, and why it will begin
here:
Jesus’
priesthood is not patterned after the Levitical, but after Melchisedek
But this
leads to a WHY? Why is it NOT patterned after the Levitical order or the pattern
David set up?
David’s
pattern was a foreshadowing of heaven’s pattern. He instituted a pattern of
night and day worship where those minstrels and singers were to worship the
Lord by course. Even in this, they worshipped by shifts. In heaven we won’t need
to worship by shifts. We will worship forever without tire, weariness, or other
things our flesh is subject to.
So, why IS
Jesus’ priesthood not of the old pattern? Here are some reasons taken directly
from scripture:
·
His
priesthood is eternal
·
His
priesthood is incorruptible
·
His
priesthood is unchangeable
·
His
priesthood is undefiled
·
His
priesthood is separate from sinners
·
His
priesthood is higher than the heavens
·
His
priesthood operates on a single acceptable eternal sacrifice
·
His
priesthood is not weak through fleshly operation
·
He
has been perfected forever
So, the Lord had to break it down for me. If we worship from
the Levitical, what we offer God can never meet the above. As the Holy Spirit
shifts us and allows us to put our ear to heaven, when we sing what heaven is
singing and play what heaven is playing, rather than writing and singing and
playing out of the soulish realm, we enter into worship that is eternal,
incorruptible, unchangeable, undefiled, separate from the sin nature, and we
step into the presence of Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek. Our worship allows the place where we sit (in
heavenly places) to begin to interact and encounter this earthly realm and
things begin to visibly shift in the natural.
You may ask, does that mean the Levitical pattern that David
set is wrong or is no more? I would not say it is either. I would say that God
is releasing us to worship Jesus in a better covenant. I look at what has
happened to the Levites. The commercialization and merchandising of music
ministry into Gospel industry has done what was only inevitable: corrupted what
should be for Christ alone. No, not everyone has let stardom go to their head,
but the fame and fanfare and attention that was once God’s is now for
distribution sadly in too many instances. But God is raising up kings, priests,
prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, apostles, who are after the heart of
God, a band that knows if they have Won Christ, and no Grammy, yet have his
attention, it is enough. I won’t point to any one group of people that are
operating in this flow, because I am not trying to point out or give credit to
any particular movement, but it is happening. People are hungry for God. They
are desperate to get in His face to see
themselves in His eyes; to be a part of the worship happening in heaven. To
experience their heavenly seat while completing the assignment God has given
them in this earth.
As a songwriter, psalmist, and minstrel when God calls on me,
I want to offer up to God that which is eternal. I want to sing His heart back
to Him, nothing less. It means I must be willing to shift in my thinking to
pursue His mind. I encourage you to read and reflect over the verses above. Ask
yourself, If the Levitical model ended with Christ, why are we so bent on
remaining there? Ask God to take your worship life and show you what rituals
you’ve instituted for the sake of ritual. Ask God to allow you to hear what
they are singing in heaven. You won’t be the same. Here is the picture of
heaven’s worship:
Revelations 4:8-11
8And the four beasts had each of them six wings
about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God
Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
9And when those beasts give glory and honour
and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
10The four and twenty elders fall down before
him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and
cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and
honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they
are and were created.
Day & Night
worship, falling down is a good thing, your crown of achievement is thrown at
his feet, and you know your purpose: to bring pleasure to God forever. This, my
friends is the Kingdom AGE! Let’s go up together!
