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This week's topic (June 29-July 3): Your Calling
Generational Mandates
Hello church!
Understanding generations and generational mandates opens our perceptions to the work of our God in our day. Not understanding these can lead to various spiritual frustrations and obstacles never intended.
Every generation is under particular divine mandates. The fulfillment of such mandates continues the ongoing evolution of God's kingdom on earth, non-fulfillment to the kingdom's deceleration, stagnation, and redundancy.
Noah's generation was to preserve a remnant from the Flood and begin a new, post-Diluvian world (Gen 7:1). David's generation was to conquer the Gentile world militarily, establish Israel as the head of nations, and through the spoils amass wealth to finance the temple's construction in the next generation. Solomon generation was to foster peace with the previously conquered world, create international alliances that would further bless Israel, and construct a magnificent temple that would attract even Gentiles. Peter's generation was to birth the church and inaugurate the New Covenant administration. Martin Luther's generation was to exodus the church out of Romanized Christianity and return it to its basic, biblical foundation.
Noah's generation was to preserve a remnant from the Flood and begin a new, post-Diluvian world (Gen 7:1). David's generation was to conquer the Gentile world militarily, establish Israel as the head of nations, and through the spoils amass wealth to finance the temple's construction in the next generation. Solomon generation was to foster peace with the previously conquered world, create international alliances that would further bless Israel, and construct a magnificent temple that would attract even Gentiles. Peter's generation was to birth the church and inaugurate the New Covenant administration. Martin Luther's generation was to exodus the church out of Romanized Christianity and return it to its basic, biblical foundation.
If every generation is obligated to certain divine mandates, what is ours?
Mandate #1: Recentralize the Gospel
We are a generation of Christian lingo, Christian fads, Christian schools, Christian programs, Christian movements, Christian music, Christian clothing lines, Christian dating, Christian entertainment...but have we crowded out the saving gospel in the midst of our abundant Christianness? Thankfully, some have not. Tragically, some have. There's nothing wrong with societal Christianization, though our motivating center and emphatic message must remain, Repent and believe.
All of our Christianizing is worthless, a mockery of Christ, if we marginalize the desperate meaning of it all: Jesus came to seek and save what was lost (Lk 19:10). If our Christian stuff is not saving lost sinners racing to a very real lake of fire, we have merchandised holy things for common gain. Woe to us! Mandate #1 for this generation: marginalize the "Christian clutter", recentralize the pure gospel of salvation that can save sinners still under the wrath of a holy God.
All of our Christianizing is worthless, a mockery of Christ, if we marginalize the desperate meaning of it all: Jesus came to seek and save what was lost (Lk 19:10). If our Christian stuff is not saving lost sinners racing to a very real lake of fire, we have merchandised holy things for common gain. Woe to us! Mandate #1 for this generation: marginalize the "Christian clutter", recentralize the pure gospel of salvation that can save sinners still under the wrath of a holy God.
Mandate #2: Rediscover Self-death
Jesus did not point us to "self-help" or "self-improvement". He called people to exchange their life for His, their goals for His, their way of doing things for His--total self-death. Our generation is one of pop psychology, self-help, personal makeovers, and self-deifying humanistic alternatives to the crucified life. Such inferior, worldly wisdom has encroached on holy ground, challenging the church's die-to-self ideal, luring us to play the self-help game garbed in Christian lingo. Some Christian circles have minimized or abandoned the personal cross altogether.
Luke 9:23: Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Philippians 3:7,8: But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ. Galatians 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
Though self-death be true, Scripture equally celebrates God's will as good, pleasing, and perfect (Ro 12:2), a delightful inheritance (Ps 16:6), a Father joyfully giving good gifts to His children (Mt 7:11), a God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment (1Ti 6:17). However, we can never feast on this promised blessedness until we have first lost ourselves to find Him, first died to our reality to be resurrected in His (Mt 10:39). In doing so, God often returns those very things back to us that we have faithfully sacrificed to Him. On the return though, we are matured with new intentions to use that thing for His glory and purpose.
Luke 9:23: Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Philippians 3:7,8: But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ. Galatians 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
Though self-death be true, Scripture equally celebrates God's will as good, pleasing, and perfect (Ro 12:2), a delightful inheritance (Ps 16:6), a Father joyfully giving good gifts to His children (Mt 7:11), a God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment (1Ti 6:17). However, we can never feast on this promised blessedness until we have first lost ourselves to find Him, first died to our reality to be resurrected in His (Mt 10:39). In doing so, God often returns those very things back to us that we have faithfully sacrificed to Him. On the return though, we are matured with new intentions to use that thing for His glory and purpose.
Mandate #3: Reunite Spirit & Truth
Around 150AD a civil war began in Christianity--the mystics versus the intellectuals. The Montanists propagated a Christian hypermysticism fixated on ecstatic experiences, prophetic utterances, extreme fasting, grueling moralism, and other related emphases. The episcopacy countered with a Christian hyperintellectualism, restricting legitimate spiritual expressions to the sober and disciplined study of theology, regular prayer, and practical obligations to others. If we could simplify the conflict, it was the "Spirit" group versus the "Truth" group...the mystics versus the intellectuals.
The civil war continues to this very day. It continues in websites, blogs, YouTube uploads, articles, books, sermons, denominational fortresses, parking lot arguments, church splits, bitter feelings, and on and on. On one side we have the "Spirit" Christians. They emphasize the mystical side of Christian spirituality, often using mystical rhetoric along the lines of spiritual gifts, revelations, power, miracles, manifestations, experiences, encounters, visions, and so on. These Christians champion the Spirit's active and vocal presence.
On the other side we have the "Truth" Christians. They emphasize the intellectual side of Christian spirituality, often using intellectual rhetoric along the lines of orthodoxy (in a positive sense), doctrine, teaching, education, study, counseling, Christian duty, practical service, and so on. They champion Scripture's authority and sufficiency.
In the middle are the spiritually keen who have discerned the contest, and have concluded, wisely, that a child of God must come forth with both. Ecclesiastes 7:18: It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. The man who fears God will avoid all extremes. Jesus, the author of the Spirit-Truth paradigm, said true worship only happens when a person approaches the Father with both. John 4:23,24 is one of the most important statements Jesus ever made, one of the most important passages in all of Scripture. Every Christian and Christian group is situated somewhere on this Spirit-Truth spectrum.
Admitted, it is a daunting mandate, but one we can fulfill with His never-failing grace and a heavenly amount of humility. Our generation is charged with the task of ending this civil war once and for all, and reunite Spirit and Truth into that remarkable, first-century balance.
The civil war continues to this very day. It continues in websites, blogs, YouTube uploads, articles, books, sermons, denominational fortresses, parking lot arguments, church splits, bitter feelings, and on and on. On one side we have the "Spirit" Christians. They emphasize the mystical side of Christian spirituality, often using mystical rhetoric along the lines of spiritual gifts, revelations, power, miracles, manifestations, experiences, encounters, visions, and so on. These Christians champion the Spirit's active and vocal presence.
On the other side we have the "Truth" Christians. They emphasize the intellectual side of Christian spirituality, often using intellectual rhetoric along the lines of orthodoxy (in a positive sense), doctrine, teaching, education, study, counseling, Christian duty, practical service, and so on. They champion Scripture's authority and sufficiency.
In the middle are the spiritually keen who have discerned the contest, and have concluded, wisely, that a child of God must come forth with both. Ecclesiastes 7:18: It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. The man who fears God will avoid all extremes. Jesus, the author of the Spirit-Truth paradigm, said true worship only happens when a person approaches the Father with both. John 4:23,24 is one of the most important statements Jesus ever made, one of the most important passages in all of Scripture. Every Christian and Christian group is situated somewhere on this Spirit-Truth spectrum.
Admitted, it is a daunting mandate, but one we can fulfill with His never-failing grace and a heavenly amount of humility. Our generation is charged with the task of ending this civil war once and for all, and reunite Spirit and Truth into that remarkable, first-century balance.
Mandate #4: Rescue the Poor
The church is responsible for its poor--period. Not the US government and not secular social services. The church. 1John 3:17,18. Acts 2:44,45.
While some Christian leaders are buying their fourth, two million dollar house, some under their care can't even pay their medical bill. While some churches are fundraising to build their next ecclesiastical Eiffel Tower, some of their very members are sleeping on a cold floor with an empty fridge. Tell me brothers and sisters, how can we bask in our unnecessary opulence when our own people are suffering lack? Which is more important, lives that are magnificent or buildings that are magnificent? How about selling that $10,000 Rolex and giving the money to the single mother raising three kids who barely has a working car to get to work! We should be horrified by the opulence, greed, and materialism that has infected parts of Christianity.
When the great apostle Paul met the great apostle Peter and the others for the first time, did they tell him to squeeze every drachma and denarius out of God's flock, buy three or four beach houses on the Mediterranean next to Ceasar, three or four luxury Roman ships for his ministry team, and a fleet of fifty of Rome's finest horses for ground transportation? Here's what Peter said, Galatians 2:10: All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. What has happened to us I cry.
Is it a sin to have ministerial facilities? Of course not. Is it a sin to have nice things in moderation? Not at all. As long as primary New Testament financial obligations are met first. In the majority of cases I have witnessed, a few bucks are thrown at the poor while the multi-million dollar building campaign goes on. An occasional check is sent to an orphanage somewhere in Romania while more and more luxuries are accumulated almost indiscriminately. Saints, our generation is mandated by Heaven to remove this materialistic curse from God's people and return to the biblical operations of prioritizing, educating, and rescuing our poor.
While some Christian leaders are buying their fourth, two million dollar house, some under their care can't even pay their medical bill. While some churches are fundraising to build their next ecclesiastical Eiffel Tower, some of their very members are sleeping on a cold floor with an empty fridge. Tell me brothers and sisters, how can we bask in our unnecessary opulence when our own people are suffering lack? Which is more important, lives that are magnificent or buildings that are magnificent? How about selling that $10,000 Rolex and giving the money to the single mother raising three kids who barely has a working car to get to work! We should be horrified by the opulence, greed, and materialism that has infected parts of Christianity.
When the great apostle Paul met the great apostle Peter and the others for the first time, did they tell him to squeeze every drachma and denarius out of God's flock, buy three or four beach houses on the Mediterranean next to Ceasar, three or four luxury Roman ships for his ministry team, and a fleet of fifty of Rome's finest horses for ground transportation? Here's what Peter said, Galatians 2:10: All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. What has happened to us I cry.
Is it a sin to have ministerial facilities? Of course not. Is it a sin to have nice things in moderation? Not at all. As long as primary New Testament financial obligations are met first. In the majority of cases I have witnessed, a few bucks are thrown at the poor while the multi-million dollar building campaign goes on. An occasional check is sent to an orphanage somewhere in Romania while more and more luxuries are accumulated almost indiscriminately. Saints, our generation is mandated by Heaven to remove this materialistic curse from God's people and return to the biblical operations of prioritizing, educating, and rescuing our poor.
Mandate #5: Reestablish House Churches
The early church did not use house churches for a lack of money or buildings. Remember, several early Christians were very wealthy (1Ti 6:17,18) and some had positions of societal influence (Mk 15:43, Ac 17:4,12). At any time they could have rented or bought or built a church building. At times, the church did use public facilities as a meeting place, such as the lecture hall of Tyrannus (Ac 19:9) or the temple courts (Ac 2:46, 3:1). The early church used house churches because it is the one location that exerts the greatest influence over us. In a literal sense, home is where the heart is.
Why have we venerated the church building as a Christian temple, pedestaled with Mosaic terminology like "the sanctuary" and "the altar" and "the house of the Lord"? Because it is easier to manage and control. It makes Christian consolidarity structural, associated with the building, geographical, associated with a specific location, and clerical, associated with a priest-like pastor who is perceived as the high priest of the building (some pastors even live with the building, in parsonages or apartments on site).
When a congregation meets often in home groups, true spiritual consolidarity becomes critical. The consolidarity is intangible, invisible, and cannot be faked. More leaders are needed to facilitate and shepherd, making leadership development essential, not optional. With house churches, the structural hangup is minimized by the multiplicity of structures (houses), the geographical hangup is minimized by the multiplicity of sites (various neighborhoods), and the clerical hangup is minimized by the multiplicity of shepherds.
Once again, is it wrong to have a church building or ministerial facility? No; let's not go beyond Scripture. It is our generational mandate, though, to decentralize church life away from the "Christian temple", taking kingdom realities to the setting where they are needed most--the home.
Why have we venerated the church building as a Christian temple, pedestaled with Mosaic terminology like "the sanctuary" and "the altar" and "the house of the Lord"? Because it is easier to manage and control. It makes Christian consolidarity structural, associated with the building, geographical, associated with a specific location, and clerical, associated with a priest-like pastor who is perceived as the high priest of the building (some pastors even live with the building, in parsonages or apartments on site).
When a congregation meets often in home groups, true spiritual consolidarity becomes critical. The consolidarity is intangible, invisible, and cannot be faked. More leaders are needed to facilitate and shepherd, making leadership development essential, not optional. With house churches, the structural hangup is minimized by the multiplicity of structures (houses), the geographical hangup is minimized by the multiplicity of sites (various neighborhoods), and the clerical hangup is minimized by the multiplicity of shepherds.
Once again, is it wrong to have a church building or ministerial facility? No; let's not go beyond Scripture. It is our generational mandate, though, to decentralize church life away from the "Christian temple", taking kingdom realities to the setting where they are needed most--the home.
Mandate #6: Reconcile the Various "Moves" with Broader Christianity for Corporate Maturation
God moves and initiates movements in His church to produce corporate maturation. To supply a missing or struggling element of the church, an element necessary to progress the church to greater maturity (1Th 3:10, Ro 1:11). All genuine moves of God are motivated by this purpose in Ephesians 4:12,13: ...so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
If the human stewards of a divine move do not fully embrace and enforce this intention, sadly, the move eventually dissipates. God then schedules another move, in another season, with the same intention. This cycle will repeat itself until the move has been successfully integrated into the true, cross-denominational church, and a new level of corporate maturity has been reached. For example, the Protestant Reformation brought about a tremendous move of the Spirit concerning salvation by grace through faith alone. We have not seen any more significant moves along these lines because the corporate church, for the most part, is established and mature in this area.
If the human stewards of a divine move do not fully embrace and enforce this intention, sadly, the move eventually dissipates. God then schedules another move, in another season, with the same intention. This cycle will repeat itself until the move has been successfully integrated into the true, cross-denominational church, and a new level of corporate maturity has been reached. For example, the Protestant Reformation brought about a tremendous move of the Spirit concerning salvation by grace through faith alone. We have not seen any more significant moves along these lines because the corporate church, for the most part, is established and mature in this area.
Every move of God, then, must be successfully reconciled with the broader church for corporate maturation. If not, we will abdicate this particular generational mandate and its reward to the next generation, and the Day of God will not be hastened, but further delayed (2Pet 3:12).
5 Months of Demarcation & Dispossession
The Previous Five-month Season: Repositioning
On God's calendar, November through March marked a five-month season of major repositioning (www.jdmprophecy.com/juniorsprophecies.htm for complete word). These repositionings were greater and more consequential than the typical adjustments we constantly undergo as growing Christians. These repositionings were in different areas for different people, and some were graced to reposition in several areas. To those who were perceptive and faithful, you likely find yourself today in a much different position, situation, and condition you were in before November. Now we have entered a new five-month season on God's calendar, spanning April through August.
The New Five-month Season: Demarcation & Dispossession
The five-month season we have just entered is one of demarcation and dispossession. However you reacted to your divinely-scheduled repositionings from November to March will determine your privileges and advancements, or penalties and losses, from April to August.
Five Months of Demarcation
Demarcation is a fascinating thing. Generally, it means "the setting of a boundary, border, or limit." (Hence the term demarcation line.) Specifically, it can apply to literally anything.
Demarcation 101 All of life includes boundaries, borders, and limits. The waters of the earth have a boundary, a limit they cannot cross, lest they swamp terra firma (Ps 104:9, Pr 8:29, Jer 5:22). In fact, all of nature has God-set boundaries (Ps 74:16,17, Job 26:10). Nations distinguish, protect, and expand themselves through demarcation lines, better known as borders (Deu 32:8, Isa 10:13, Nah 3:13,14). Governmental laws are simply the behavioral limits of a people group; strong cultures are both fair and just with such limits (Pr 8:15,16), while decadent states are not (28:12,28). Individuals who live balanced lives have learned to set limits on personal desires, opinions, and behaviors; those who live erratically and extreme have not. Wholesome relationships have certain boundaries the involved persons cannot cross; relational dysfunction does not. It is easy to see that demarcation--the setting of boundaries, borders, or limits--is a comprehensive phenomenon and necessity in the created order.
Things get very sticky, though, when we go a step further: Who is the "demarcator" and who is the "demarcated"? A world of difference exists between the one authorized to set boundaries and the one subjected to boundaries set. Think about it, which would you rather be, the pencil or the paper? God wills for His people to be the pencil of a ready Writer (Ps 45:1), drawing demarcation lines of divine order in every situation.
Jewish demarcation Scripture shows demarcation is fundamentally a Jewish blessing. 1Chronicles 4:10(NASB): Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my border...And God granted him what he requested. Isaiah 26:15: You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; you have enlarged the nation...you have extended all the borders of the land. Isaiah 49:8: ...I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign desolate inheritances. Isaiah 54:2: Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. Micah 7:11,12: The day for building your walls will come, the day for extending your boundaries. In that day people will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
As long as Israel listened to Jehovah, He promised to grace her and her individuals with a demarcating authority, or the ability to determine one's own borders, and even those of others (as opposed to others having this power over them, as in Judges 15:11 and John 11:48). Because Christians are nourished by the Jewish root (Ro 11:17,18, Gal 3:14), demarcation is a blessing available to the faithful ingrafted branches today (Ro 11:17-21).
Five months of demarcation (April-August) Those who were perceptive and faithful to last season's repositioning requirements will be rewarded in this five-month season with demarcation blessings, in one or more of the following areas.
Personal demarcation If this is you, this means you will establish certain boundaries, borders, and limits for yourself (instead of someone setting these for you). You have shown the Lord you can be trusted with degrees of independence, and therefore, certain desires of yours will be granted, and, you will manage these personal privileges and freedoms with divine endorsement. David spoke of the pleasantness of personal demarcation (Ps 16:6), and Jabez prayed intensely for it (1Chr 4:9,10).
Relational demarcation If this is you, this means you will set boundaries, borders, and limits in certain relationships you are in. You have shown the Lord you can be trusted with other people's feelings and well-being, and therefore, certain stressful relationships you've been in will begin to "tip" in your favor. You will be graced with the Spirit's power to better define and demarcate those relationships according to wholesomeness and divine order. Little by little the house of David gained relational demarcation over the house of Saul (2Sam 3:1).
Social demarcation If this is you, this means you will set the boundaries, borders, and limits in certain social circles you frequent. You have shown the Lord you can be trusted with groups of people, that you are both fair and just. Therefore, social favor and magnetism will be given you to better define and demarcate one or more of these groups. Joseph was given social demarcation in Pharaoh's circle (Ps 105:21,22).
Vocational demarcation If this is you, this means you will set certain boundaries, borders, and limits in a work setting. You have shown the Lord you can be trusted with work-related responsibilities, and therefore, you will be given either influence or position to better define and demarcate a work environment, your present one or a new and better one. Joseph was given vocational demarcation in Potiphar's house (Gen 39:4-6) and in prison (v21-23), as was David in Saul's army (1Sam 18:5,12,13).
Financial demarcation If this is you, this means you will set the boundaries, borders, and limits of financial traffic. You will dictate where money/resources will and will not go, and how much. You will be augmented financially, and better able to allocate, manage, and demarcate your own resources.
Rejoice and be glad! Your faithful repositioning last season has resulted in demarcating privileges this season.
Demarcation 101 All of life includes boundaries, borders, and limits. The waters of the earth have a boundary, a limit they cannot cross, lest they swamp terra firma (Ps 104:9, Pr 8:29, Jer 5:22). In fact, all of nature has God-set boundaries (Ps 74:16,17, Job 26:10). Nations distinguish, protect, and expand themselves through demarcation lines, better known as borders (Deu 32:8, Isa 10:13, Nah 3:13,14). Governmental laws are simply the behavioral limits of a people group; strong cultures are both fair and just with such limits (Pr 8:15,16), while decadent states are not (28:12,28). Individuals who live balanced lives have learned to set limits on personal desires, opinions, and behaviors; those who live erratically and extreme have not. Wholesome relationships have certain boundaries the involved persons cannot cross; relational dysfunction does not. It is easy to see that demarcation--the setting of boundaries, borders, or limits--is a comprehensive phenomenon and necessity in the created order.
Things get very sticky, though, when we go a step further: Who is the "demarcator" and who is the "demarcated"? A world of difference exists between the one authorized to set boundaries and the one subjected to boundaries set. Think about it, which would you rather be, the pencil or the paper? God wills for His people to be the pencil of a ready Writer (Ps 45:1), drawing demarcation lines of divine order in every situation.
Jewish demarcation Scripture shows demarcation is fundamentally a Jewish blessing. 1Chronicles 4:10(NASB): Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my border...And God granted him what he requested. Isaiah 26:15: You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; you have enlarged the nation...you have extended all the borders of the land. Isaiah 49:8: ...I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign desolate inheritances. Isaiah 54:2: Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. Micah 7:11,12: The day for building your walls will come, the day for extending your boundaries. In that day people will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
As long as Israel listened to Jehovah, He promised to grace her and her individuals with a demarcating authority, or the ability to determine one's own borders, and even those of others (as opposed to others having this power over them, as in Judges 15:11 and John 11:48). Because Christians are nourished by the Jewish root (Ro 11:17,18, Gal 3:14), demarcation is a blessing available to the faithful ingrafted branches today (Ro 11:17-21).
Five months of demarcation (April-August) Those who were perceptive and faithful to last season's repositioning requirements will be rewarded in this five-month season with demarcation blessings, in one or more of the following areas.
Personal demarcation If this is you, this means you will establish certain boundaries, borders, and limits for yourself (instead of someone setting these for you). You have shown the Lord you can be trusted with degrees of independence, and therefore, certain desires of yours will be granted, and, you will manage these personal privileges and freedoms with divine endorsement. David spoke of the pleasantness of personal demarcation (Ps 16:6), and Jabez prayed intensely for it (1Chr 4:9,10).
Relational demarcation If this is you, this means you will set boundaries, borders, and limits in certain relationships you are in. You have shown the Lord you can be trusted with other people's feelings and well-being, and therefore, certain stressful relationships you've been in will begin to "tip" in your favor. You will be graced with the Spirit's power to better define and demarcate those relationships according to wholesomeness and divine order. Little by little the house of David gained relational demarcation over the house of Saul (2Sam 3:1).
Social demarcation If this is you, this means you will set the boundaries, borders, and limits in certain social circles you frequent. You have shown the Lord you can be trusted with groups of people, that you are both fair and just. Therefore, social favor and magnetism will be given you to better define and demarcate one or more of these groups. Joseph was given social demarcation in Pharaoh's circle (Ps 105:21,22).
Vocational demarcation If this is you, this means you will set certain boundaries, borders, and limits in a work setting. You have shown the Lord you can be trusted with work-related responsibilities, and therefore, you will be given either influence or position to better define and demarcate a work environment, your present one or a new and better one. Joseph was given vocational demarcation in Potiphar's house (Gen 39:4-6) and in prison (v21-23), as was David in Saul's army (1Sam 18:5,12,13).
Financial demarcation If this is you, this means you will set the boundaries, borders, and limits of financial traffic. You will dictate where money/resources will and will not go, and how much. You will be augmented financially, and better able to allocate, manage, and demarcate your own resources.
Rejoice and be glad! Your faithful repositioning last season has resulted in demarcating privileges this season.
Five Months of Dispossession
Dispossession means "the removal of something from someone else to possess as one's own". It means to take away and strip from, usually by ousting the possessor. Stealing would be doing this illegitimately and illegally, but dispossessing would be doing this legitimately and legally, although to the disapproval of some or many.
Dispossession is an aggressive concept, but very biblical and kingdom-minded. Proverbs 2:21,22: For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it. Luke 8:18: ...Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him. Matthew 25:28,29: Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten talents. For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
Dispossession throughout Scriptural history Dispossession has been a highly coveted ability since the Fall. As war ensued between the seed of God and the seed of Satan, possession and dispossession became an increasingly critical chess match. People and spirits conflicted over the occupation of four values on earth: (1) persons, (2) positions, (3) possessions, and (4) power.
Immediately after Genesis 3, the two kingdoms began staking their claims. The satanic kingdom prevailed for a time, possessing an overwhelming share of these values and creating an unimaginable global debasement (Gen 6). After divine judgment via the flood, Nimrod sought to reassert the dominance of the evil kingdom, building Babel, Babylon, and Nineveh (Gen 10,11). Shortly afterwards, though, God's timing and move had come. He called Abraham and his descendants into a covenant with Himself that included the promise of possession, more appropriately, dispossession (Gen 12:1-3, 13:14-17, 15:12-21, 17:1-22). Thus, from Abraham/Israel to the church, God's people have warred with some success for the possession of people, positions, possessions, and power (Isa 49:24,25)--yet without the indwelling Spirit, but by the political sword (Ps 149).
With the completed atonement of Christ and the birth of the Spirit-filled church, God's dispossessing initiative has taken on new substance and success. No longer is dispossession by the sword, but by the power of Spirit and truth working internally and invisibly (Lk 17:20,21, Jn 4:23). This is far superior cosmic weaponry than Old Testament militancy, which can only produce embittered compliance at best. Isaiah, Micah, and Hosea foresaw a globally victorious last-days church (Isa 2:2, Mic 4:1, Hos 3:5), and this means a church that has understood and actualized her dispossessional calling.
From demarcation to dispossession Dispossession flows from demarcation, as Isaiah 54:2,3 show: Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes [demarcation]. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities [dispossession].
Dispossession is the next logical progression after demarcation, as Isaiah comments to Israel. One authorized to establish boundaries, borders, and limits in a certain setting will naturally be authorized to dispossess, possess, and occupy the elements within that same setting.
Five months of dispossession (April-August) Those who were perceptive and faithful to last season's repositioning requirements will be rewarded in this five-month season with dispossessing advancements, in one or more of the following areas.
Persons If this is you, this means the Spirit will remove certain persons from a present relationship or circumstance, and relocate them into your care. This can be tough meat for some Christians to digest, but it is a biblical reality. All of Saul's wives and personnel were handed over to David for his faithfulness (2Sam 12:8). When he was unfaithful, though, the very same thing was done to him (v11,12; Deu 28:30-32, Isa 39:7). Elijah dispossessed Shaphat of Elisha (1Ki 19:19-21), and Saul dispossessed David's family of him (1Sam 16:21,22). Jesus said the faithful would possess the people of "ten cities" (Lk 19:17) and "five cities" (v19). God desires to dispossess the unfaithful of those in their care and transfer them to those who are pleasing to Him.
Positions If this is you, this means the Spirit will oust certain persons from their high place, and, the high place will be granted to you. This pertains mainly to vocational and structural settings where position matters. The promise to both Israel and the Gentile branches is, "So your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread upon their high places" (Deu 33:29 NASB), and, "I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob" (Isa 58:14). On the other hand, because of Israel's failure to bear kingdom fruit, the Gentile church has temporarily dispossessed her of God's kingdom expression on earth (Mt 21:43).
Possessions If this is you, this means the Spirit will somehow transfer tangible resources, goods, and monies over to you. The wealth of all nations is promised to Israel (Isa 60:5-9), and the wealth of the wicked promised to the righteous (Ecc 2:26). This is not that greedy, materialistic, self-consumed, hyper-prosperity message. It is simply biblical truth in prophetic season. On the other hand, unfaithfulness in God's people leads to being dispossessed of possessions (Isa 39:6).
Power If this is you, this means the Spirit will sway certain "power struggles" in your favor. Power struggles can happen in any area of life, but are often most frustrating and stressful in relationships. When spiritually-emotionally unsound people have the upper hand in a relationship, the result is a demonized cycle of volatility, extremes, and childishness. When the Spirit-led mature have the upper hand, the relationship can be gently shepherded into divine order--green pastures and still waters. In this season, many faithful will dispossess the dysfunctional of their relational monopoly.
Dispossession throughout Scriptural history Dispossession has been a highly coveted ability since the Fall. As war ensued between the seed of God and the seed of Satan, possession and dispossession became an increasingly critical chess match. People and spirits conflicted over the occupation of four values on earth: (1) persons, (2) positions, (3) possessions, and (4) power.
Immediately after Genesis 3, the two kingdoms began staking their claims. The satanic kingdom prevailed for a time, possessing an overwhelming share of these values and creating an unimaginable global debasement (Gen 6). After divine judgment via the flood, Nimrod sought to reassert the dominance of the evil kingdom, building Babel, Babylon, and Nineveh (Gen 10,11). Shortly afterwards, though, God's timing and move had come. He called Abraham and his descendants into a covenant with Himself that included the promise of possession, more appropriately, dispossession (Gen 12:1-3, 13:14-17, 15:12-21, 17:1-22). Thus, from Abraham/Israel to the church, God's people have warred with some success for the possession of people, positions, possessions, and power (Isa 49:24,25)--yet without the indwelling Spirit, but by the political sword (Ps 149).
With the completed atonement of Christ and the birth of the Spirit-filled church, God's dispossessing initiative has taken on new substance and success. No longer is dispossession by the sword, but by the power of Spirit and truth working internally and invisibly (Lk 17:20,21, Jn 4:23). This is far superior cosmic weaponry than Old Testament militancy, which can only produce embittered compliance at best. Isaiah, Micah, and Hosea foresaw a globally victorious last-days church (Isa 2:2, Mic 4:1, Hos 3:5), and this means a church that has understood and actualized her dispossessional calling.
From demarcation to dispossession Dispossession flows from demarcation, as Isaiah 54:2,3 show: Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes [demarcation]. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities [dispossession].
Dispossession is the next logical progression after demarcation, as Isaiah comments to Israel. One authorized to establish boundaries, borders, and limits in a certain setting will naturally be authorized to dispossess, possess, and occupy the elements within that same setting.
Five months of dispossession (April-August) Those who were perceptive and faithful to last season's repositioning requirements will be rewarded in this five-month season with dispossessing advancements, in one or more of the following areas.
Persons If this is you, this means the Spirit will remove certain persons from a present relationship or circumstance, and relocate them into your care. This can be tough meat for some Christians to digest, but it is a biblical reality. All of Saul's wives and personnel were handed over to David for his faithfulness (2Sam 12:8). When he was unfaithful, though, the very same thing was done to him (v11,12; Deu 28:30-32, Isa 39:7). Elijah dispossessed Shaphat of Elisha (1Ki 19:19-21), and Saul dispossessed David's family of him (1Sam 16:21,22). Jesus said the faithful would possess the people of "ten cities" (Lk 19:17) and "five cities" (v19). God desires to dispossess the unfaithful of those in their care and transfer them to those who are pleasing to Him.
Positions If this is you, this means the Spirit will oust certain persons from their high place, and, the high place will be granted to you. This pertains mainly to vocational and structural settings where position matters. The promise to both Israel and the Gentile branches is, "So your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread upon their high places" (Deu 33:29 NASB), and, "I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob" (Isa 58:14). On the other hand, because of Israel's failure to bear kingdom fruit, the Gentile church has temporarily dispossessed her of God's kingdom expression on earth (Mt 21:43).
Possessions If this is you, this means the Spirit will somehow transfer tangible resources, goods, and monies over to you. The wealth of all nations is promised to Israel (Isa 60:5-9), and the wealth of the wicked promised to the righteous (Ecc 2:26). This is not that greedy, materialistic, self-consumed, hyper-prosperity message. It is simply biblical truth in prophetic season. On the other hand, unfaithfulness in God's people leads to being dispossessed of possessions (Isa 39:6).
Power If this is you, this means the Spirit will sway certain "power struggles" in your favor. Power struggles can happen in any area of life, but are often most frustrating and stressful in relationships. When spiritually-emotionally unsound people have the upper hand in a relationship, the result is a demonized cycle of volatility, extremes, and childishness. When the Spirit-led mature have the upper hand, the relationship can be gently shepherded into divine order--green pastures and still waters. In this season, many faithful will dispossess the dysfunctional of their relational monopoly.
To the faithfully repositioned...advance, demarcate, and dispossess!