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New Wineskin In Sacramento
October 8, 2003
How do you possibly describe what God is doing at Gloryland Revival Center in Sacramento California? Are there accurate words to explain lives beginning transformed instantly and people being set free of bondages? (Some even activated into end time ministries all in one evening.)
The power and glory of God is so real that oftentimes during a service we all stop and just avail ourselves to Him. Pastor John Lucas just keeps saying WOW!
THE SACRAMENTO GATE
Tonight will be our third night of what has been perhaps the most powerful move of the Lord many have ever witnessed in this area. The Lord told me last night that an astounding thing has begun at Gloryland. The pastor told me later that a man recently came from Oklahoma to minister and said that this church was a gate church for Sacramento. Whatever is released in a gate church goes into the city. Let it be so Lord!
Whatever is happening, we are experiencing a life-changing move of God. The church is almost packed each night as a team of different ministers comes to help with all those needing prayer.
RELEASE OF END-TIME PURPOSE
I don't know if I have ever seen so many activations of people into long-awaited ministries. There seems to be a release of purpose in these meetings. People are describing hindering spirits being broken off their lives and then feeling the love and passion for God explode. Later in the night, God gives them revelation about what He has called them to do with very specific instructions.
The Lord told me He was releasing an apostolic spirit in Sacramento. If that challenges your theology then welcome to the club! Mine has been challenged and changed too. It should be, because God is doing a new thing on the face of the earth. We don't understand that the apostolic gifting is so valuable to the church because it is the anointing to release vision and purpose into lives.
GOD'S GLORY IS THE LITMUS
This morning the Lord showed me He is birthing the new wineskin. The glory of the Lord is the litmus test for the process. The glory of God is not available to us if God is not in control. Just like miners used to place a cage of canaries in a mine to let them know when the air was bad, so the glory lets us know we are on track because God must be in control.
We see this from scripture as many like David took matters into their own hands and saw the glory depart from them. Remember Nadab and Abihu died from offering profane fire (Lev. 10:1), taking matters into their own hands. If we want the glory in our lives and churches God must be in control. For an idolatrous people desensitized to the leading of the Holy Spirit, this is hard.
Now, please don't become offended. If you need proof, go to a third world nation and observe their sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.
BIRTH OF THE NEW WINESKIN
The glory brings such intimacy into our lives that I often refer to the glory as the realm of divine relationship. If the glory comes into a service then God is in control, plain and simple. So if we keep the glory on our lives and ministry times we know God is leading us into the new and not the old.
With God's glory allowing us to be more sensitive to the Holy Spirit, God will create the new wineskin. In Acts 15:16 we are told He will rebuild the new tabernacle -- not man, but God himself. You, my dear friends, are the temple of the Holy Spirit and God is building you up to become the habitations of His glory -- a place where the glory and presence of God reside and the mission of God is released.
BEING SHAPED FOR THE HARVEST
This morning I saw thousands of potters' wheels all across the world. They represented every believer. On each wheel was a beautiful vase being shaped and fashioned into a beautiful creation. Each one was exquisite and unique.
God is doing such a new thing that unless we are intimate and listening to the leading of Him we will interfere with the process of this creation. The apostolic spirit or anointing will bring new vision and authority to the Church to allow it to bring in the last days harvest.
I believe it has begun in Sacramento and central California.
Our last meetings will be this Sat. through Monday night at a building across from the college in Turlock, CA called The Net at 7PM each night. If you can make it, you can expect to enter a level a reality of God that we call the realm of His glory.
Blessings
Stephen Gray
IXOY3@aol.com
Location: Sacremento, CA, United States
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