Clear Future

Praying this morning in a McDonald's in Manchester....

Does it get much better than that?

Anyhow 

A short word came to me and for me.

But

It could be a message for someone struggling this morning. 

So

Hear this guys

Our past was wiped away. Not the lessons and memories, they are valuable, but all the sin and past mistakes.

Through the death and resurrection of the King of Kings. 

What we are left with is a clear future. The ability to start again. 

Think about the enormity of that.

Jesus overcame all our mess.

"No we are more than conquerors through him who Loved us." (Romans 8: 37)

Wow

Have a blessed day 

A word for these times.

Praying at Manchester Central Salvation Army Corps the other day.

Hey

The Lord made something clear to me that I thought was for us in this City centre Corps. 

But

I had an overwhelming sense that this is for a wider field. 

I didn't want to share it, but had to let go of that feeling and share. 

So here goes, I ask you to maybe test this word and pray about it see what the Lord says to you. 

I had just read Amos 9. Trying to get a perspective on where we are going in the SA. 

Wow

I was hit by its description of the Lord stripping things back to be able to move into a period of fantastic restoration.

Amos 9: 8-15

“Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy^(W) it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.^(X)
9 “For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain^(Y) is shaken in a sieve,^(Z)
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.^(AA)
10 All the sinners among my people
    will die by the sword,^(AB)
all those who say,
    ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’^(AC)

Israel’s Restoration

¹¹ “In that day

“I will restore David’s^(AD) fallen shelter^(AE)—
    I will repair its broken walls
    and restore its ruins^(AF)—
    and will rebuild it as it used to be,^(AG)
12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom^(AH)
    and all the nations that bear my name,^[e](AI)”
declares the Lord, who will do these things.^(AJ)

¹³ “The days are coming,”^(AK) declares the Lord,

“when the reaper^(AL) will be overtaken by the plowman^(AM)
    and the planter by the one treading^(AN) grapes.
New wine^(AO) will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,^(AP)
14     and I will bring^(AQ) my people Israel back from exile.^[f](AR)

“They will rebuild the ruined cities^(AS) and live in them.
    They will plant vineyards^(AT) and drink their wine;
    they will make gardens and eat their fruit.^(AU)
15 I will plant^(AV) Israel in their own land,^(AW)
    never again to be uprooted^(AX)
    from the land I have given them,”^(AY)

says the Lord your God.^(AZ)

^{Just as I finished reading the words of Matt Redmans famous old worship song came vividly to mind, so much so, I felt I could here angels singing it.} 

^{"When the music fades all is stripped away and I simply come."}

^{And then the Spirit of God spoke this.} 

^{"I am stripping back all that is fruitless in the Salvation Army. During these times all that will be left is that a remnant will simply come. Then the blessings will flow faster than you can keep up with. New wine will saturate you direct from things above. I dont need Mission structures or business models or worldly ways. I want you to simply come. Change comes not from shifts in practice but from a transformed heart. A heart engaged in my being.} 

^{Simply come.} 

^{Let me reshape you, mould you, restore you.} 

^{Simply come.} 

^{I am.} 

^{My spirit will cause a shift in you that will bring back the heart of the Gospel to the church. Love, peace and intense reaping.} 

^{Simply come.} 

^{Then I will see a fighting machine like at no other time in your history."} 

^{So, hey.} 

^{I'm these challenging times. Don't be fearful. Be excited. Stripping back is not an easy concept. Yet it is vital. I can see hear at Manchester the signs that God has already started this work of stripping back.} 

^And

^{I feel utterly excited to accept that an avalanche of blessing is on its way.} 

^{So bless you guys whoever reads this.} 

^{Don't be afraid if things drop off or can never come back. Things I'm our own lives in our Corps, in our churches.} 

^{Something better is coming!} 

^Amen

^{Keep safe and stay blessed.}