How to Get God’s People into the Right Place

You know, I am amazed at the Lord’s fight to secure His church and to fulfill His word. Curiously, very few ministers I talk to today realize that beyond our earthly ministries the Lord has an entire kingdom to run. He listens to prayers every day and searches the world to find humans, ideally genuine Christians; that He can rely on to be His answer to those prayers. His obstacle stems from far too much mysticism and magic that has upstaged His pristine mysteries and His Spirit’s potent manifestations. Many Christians cannot tell the difference between the two. Add to this the ongoing ministry rival turf wars snarling up His plans and agenda, it is a wonder the Lord gets anything He envisioned done on earth in any generation. But miraculously, He does. This talk is meant to be what I hope is an eye opener. Paul asked God to open His people’s eyes of understanding back then; I think today that prayer is as fresh as ever.. If the Lord is going to launch His new move before what is coming down on the planet and the church hits, His people’s eyes truly must be opened and their understanding enlightened, beginning with the fact that Christianity was not made for the Christian but for its God. That is a debate I am sure I will not avoid in the future, but it is true nonetheless.

So what are we talking about here? We are talking about God’s people getting in their right places so they can get out of His way. We are talking about the new move the Lord wants despite His people’s persistent revival of the old. We are talking about apostles first learning who and what they are and taking their place to lead it all. For these things to happen God needs the right people in the right place, with the right attitude for the right reasons. And, the time is now. I would love to talk with some of you apostles and prophets about this in-depth because I believe we are poised to see this thing take off. Perhaps, God will arrange a way for us to do that in the very near future

So Here is What It Takes
To launch what He plans and forestall what is coming, God needs those who know and care about what He is doing in His kingdom and church in the eras to come, who are not so obsessed with what He has done that they forestall what He needs to do. Interestingly, many people think they have made this transition already, but most are self-deceived because they do not know what it looks like outside of their own views. They are at a loss on how it translates into action. God on the other hand, has many weighty things pressing down on Him in His effort to save His church and maintain its freedoms in a rapidly darkening world. He has millions of souls begging Him to intervene in world affairs every day. Agonized believers plead with Him who are bearing the brunt of the darkness’ campaign to rid the world of Jesus Christ and His church. What many modern Christians do not understand is that God has to answer their prayers with people, ideally with the people that populate His kingdom of light and oversee His church in the world. That would include you and me. But, if we fail to get in place, the Lord is forced to let those cries ringing in His ears daily go unheeded and the suffering that initiated them to continue. Where God is concerned, more than our ministries are at stake. His word is on the line. He is as obliged to those who have wrestled long and hard with the darkness as He is to His promises made to an indolent church that is blind too to see His big picture. All of these are why He has determined to shift His body from the old to the new.

However, a new move requires more than agreement, it requires an overhaul. Its requirements have more to do with God’s resources and provisions, called in theological parlance His economies and dispensations, than with the masses. When the Lord ends a movement, He withdraws, as human institutions do, His forces and resources. The spiritual beings assigned to it are called home or reassigned and the provisions and powers they brought with them taken from the agents and representatives of the old and given to the new. Here is what happened with David and Saul. When Saul’s day was over, everything the Most High had released to his monarchy shifted to David’s in heaven and on earth. David’s Psalms clearly show that he understood this. The entirety of the nation’s substance, wealth and yes problems and issues, were all transferred to David upon his replacing Saul. The same is true with Moses whose material and spiritual supplies likewise shifted to Joshua as seen by the angel (captain of the Lord’s hosts) that appeared to him in Joshua chapter 5. All of this is to say that more that observation, recognition, or agreement go into being ready to move on with God. Using the wilderness settlements of ancient Israel in scripture as a model; today’s new moves must follow suit. There must be a significant dismantling of the old that brought us to this place. What was good should be taken with us and resettled with either new materials or structures. Or, it should be shifted to a new spiritual as well as natural location in heaven and on earth. Naturally, the old guard cannot shift the Lord’s kingdom to the new, however discomfiting this reality may be. Those that cannot make the move must be replaced with new voices, faces, passions, and zeal.  New anointing, appointments, and institutions mark a new era in God. The old guard typically has neither reason nor incentive to disrupt their comfortable success to comply with what He needs. A new guard in contrast starts out with God’s heart and less external influences to threaten His impending change. They are more unencumbered than the old who may have many fidelity and financial strongholds to contend with that can prevent them from transitioning without great cost and loss. These are why He must raise up new people to ignite His new moves: only a few are bold enough to sever the ties with the old that bind them to it.

In the case of the move to apostleship from evangelicalism and charismata, the demands are no less stringent. New move change agents are going to have to make up their minds to surrender all and take up fully the new. They are going to have to uproot and preempt much of what they relied on to in the past. New move change agents will have to depose everything that bars their entry into the new, beginning with their own hearts. They are going to have to be willing to bid a fond but necessary farewell to old familiarities, sentiments, and covenants. This is hard and when explored in the light of family, friends, opportunities, and advantages, it can be intimidating and overwhelming. That is why so many people are tempted let the Lord just pass on by them as He did when He in the gospels called other apostles to join His campaign on earth.

Truly in these last days His words in response to their reactions to Him ring true, “Many are called, but few are chosen.” Let us keep this in mind as we explore the heart and agenda of God during this very pivotal time in kingdom history. Millions of souls today will soon be faced with a once in a lifetime date with destiny, I pray we all choose wisely and do not renege on our word once we learn the true cost of what we chose to let go to follow Him.

God bless you,

Dr. Paula Price