DELIVERED AT AGAPE CHURCH IN LOUIS TRICHARDT
22 JUNE 2007
There is a dimension of the Spirit that is breaking out right at this very moment in the heavenlies. I can see the saturation of the Holy Ghost. There are sparks flying out. There is lightning that’s breaking out. The Spirit of God is saying that this is a region; this is a region which is a hot spot of Heaven. Enemies fear this region. Enemies will fear this region. They will be afraid to enter in; They will be afraid to enter in; they will be afraid to walk into this territory because it’s gonna become God’s country. It’s gonna become God’s country; it’s gonna become God’s place; it’s gonna become a place where God is gonna dwell by His Spirit.
For the Lord will say this word to you that I’m not gonna raise men out of a religious organization, says the Lord. But I will use My Word to recreate a new generation. I will not pick them up from religious organizations; I will not pick them up from religious strongholds. But I will pick them up by My Spirit and begin to speak, and begin to transform them, says the Lord of Hosts. It is My Word that will fashion this new generation.
They will not be the product of the environment, they will be the product of religion; they will not be the product of the teachings of men, but they’ll be instructed by My Spirit. They’ll be men and women who’ll be hearkening to My voice, and their heart will be set on course to that which I’ll say. They will love the Spirit of truth and they will love the Spirit in which I will communicate with them. And they will desire to be in My presence and hear what I have to say, declares the Lord of Hosts. And that is a generation that I will shape and form.
It is not a generation of men and women who are stuck in a pharisee system, but this is a new generation, says the Lord, that will begin to give themselves completely to My Word. And My Word will fashion them, My Word will fashion their thinking patterns; My Word will begin to fashion their walk, their desires, their attitudes and their motives. Therefore do not be afraid in this hour, for I have set you aside for success. I’ve set you aside for prosperity; I’ve set you aside for destiny, says the Lord. And I’m sending forth My Word even into this region.
There will be churches out there that you will not know, but I will speak unto them and they will begin to rise. And I’ll speak to one here up on the mountain, I’ll speak to one there in the valley, I’ll speak to one across the mountains. And I’ll begin to call them, and I’ll begin to speak to them and they’ll all hear the same message, and they’ll all feel the same way, and they’ll desire to come together. And as they begin to come together there’ll be a corporate identity that I’ll begin to shape in this region, and I’ll begin to model a new thing in the midst of these people, says God.
And the world will begin to see, the world will begin to see the things that I’m doing and My house will begin to take priority in the town. Even in this hour, says the Lord, the church will become the center of development. The church, says the Lord, even at this very moment is not walking abreast with what is taking place in the environment. But I will cause an acceleration to take place. I will cause a quickening anointing to come upon you. And I will cause you to begin to rise quickly so that you can measure up yourselves and begin to get ready for the development, for I do not want My church to be left behind even as I cause My will and My plan to begin to explode in this region. I do not want you to be the last ones to know it; I do not want you to be the last ones to enter into it. I want you to be ready for such a time as this so that you may get ready for all the good things that I’m planning to do, because I will not want you to be left behind, says the Lord.
Therefore I’m sending My Word to prepare you, to guide you, to keep you, to make you sharp and accurate so that you can become the agents of change in the environment. I will want you, says God, I will want you even in this hour to hearken to the sound of My voice so that you may get yourselves ready, get your houses in order; get your men in order, get your families in order, get everyone that I’ve given to you in order, for, says God, I’ll begin to cause a new passion and desire to be birthed in your hearts so that as a church you’ll stand together in collective identity, so that you’ll not be doing your own thing, but you’ll be doing what I’ve called you to do.
There will be one command, there will be one people, there will be one passion, there will be one pursuit, says God. Let this thing be among you, says God. And even as My Word will go forth, their heart will be tender, and they will yield to what I’m about to do, for surely, says God, in a very short time, I will cause an explosion to happen in this region. I’ll cause My Spirit to begin to break out, and I’ll cause even development to speed up. I’ll begin to cause infrastructure and roads and houses and properties and developments to begin to take place everywhere, and there’ll be resources breaking out in this region.
But I do not want you to become lost in the environment, for all these things are being done so that I can pave a highway from here into many other parts of Africa, for a highway from here into the regions beyond and the regions around. Therefore get ready, says the Lord, get ready with tools. Go up to the mountains, collect timber; go up to the mountains, get silver and gold; go up to the mountains, prepare yourselves, says the Lord, for it is time to rebuild the house of the Lord.
Even in this region, says God,
(you know I sense in the spirit the Lord is saying)
that it’s time to rebuild the church. I’ll move the church out of the Dark Ages. Stop building the church according to the patterns of the Dark Ages. Go back to the patterns of the New Testament. Go back to apostolic patterns and start building the church according to apostolic pattern. For surely, says God, I have raised the church in Ephesus, I raised the church in Corinth, I raised the church at Philippi, I raised the church at Thessalonica. But I showed the world what churches can be, then I removed it from planet Earth. For I wanted you to see the pattern, and I didn’t want the generation then at that time and that hour to realize everything that I had planned.
But now I will cause those churches to rise one more time. I’ll cause My church to rise one more time, because I’ve shown the pattern already with the churches that I raised in the first hundred years, says God. But now in the last years and the last lap I will cause the true church to rise in full measure and in full power. I have shown you the first pattern, but now I will begin to show you the purpose for that church, and I will cause the pattern to become realized. Even in this generation a church will emerge like the one that arose in the days of Peter, James and John. The apostles were there at that time. Even so, says God, as I raise up the prophets and apostles in this hour, I’ll cause the church to emerge one more time, as it were, out from nothing, out from nowhere. But from the spirit world, says God, a church will emerge and the chapters of Acts will continue, says God.
The chapters of Acts will begin to continue; the church of the book of Acts will leap out one more time, and you’ll see its manifestation, its power and its victory, its strength, its truth; even in this hour its people will begin to break out, and you’ll see the church emerge one more time. Therefore do not be afraid, for I have not forsaken My church, but it has been removed and hidden until now, says God. I’ve kept it away from men so that men will not destroy it; I’ve kept it away from men so that men will not confuse it; I’ve kept it away from men so that man will not propagate it as his house.
But now I’ll bring back My house, and I’ll rebuild My house and cause My house to rise one more time. As the Lord rebuilds the house, the city will be taken. As the Lord will begin to rebuild the house the watchmen will not be in vain, the gatekeepers will not be in vain, and the things will begin to happen. Therefore do not fear, says the Lord, for that which I’ve hidden until now I will reveal it one more time. I will reveal My Spirit, I will reveal My presence, I will reveal My house – the habitation, the house of which you are, says God. And this is what I will begin to bring forth in this hour.
Be not afraid anymore, for that which I have spoken in the days of the book of Acts, I will now reveal it one more time and I will cause it to take shape, and take form, and it will be the church of the future. It will be the church that’ll finish the task, it will be the church that will accomplish all that I’ve begun with my apostles in the days of the book of Acts. So it shall be in this day that all that I’ve planned will be accomplished. Therefore be enrolled with heaven, says God, to become part of the church of the firstborn; be enrolled with heaven; get connected to what I’m doing in heaven. Get connected to what is coming from heaven so that you are totally enrolled with what I’m doing in the spirit world, so that you can become part of what I am establishing here in this physical world.
And surely the world has been waiting for the sons of God to be made manifest. Surely this is the hour in which all these things will begin to happen. So look up, says God. Look up, says God. For this is the season and the time when the things will begin to explode. Do not just say in your heart, ‘I know something is gonna happen’. This is what will happen, says the Lord. Do not say in your heart, ‘I feel something is about to happen’. Know in your spirit that this is what I will do even in your midst, says God.