God is bringing His Church to a new season of victory, and with this new season will come a new brand of leader. Old ways will prove fruitless. The Father is looking for new wine skins to put new wine in. The new wine is the wine of obedience to the voice of God. Zeal, passion and good ideas will no longer carry the Church and those who try to please God in their own strength will find themselves to be unfruitful.
God is looking for a people who follow him and are sensitive to his Spirit. He is looking for leaders who heed his voice and fear God more than men. Many leaders who do not learn to follow the lead of the Spirit will have their authority taken from them, and many others will be lifted up who follow the Spirit. The traditions of men and the ideas of men will not be tolerated. Consider the words of Jesus:
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God is working to purge the fear of men out of us and fill us with the fear of God. The fear of God does not mean we are afraid of God, but that we have a holy reverence that is from God and that we care more about what he thinks than what people think.
God is not interested in how big of a sacrifice we can make or how much of an outward show we can put on, he is interested in our hearts. He is looking for a people who lay their lives in his hands and tear their hearts before him. What pleases him is when we allow him into the deep places of our hearts. What pleases Him is when we follow what he is doing. The reason rebellion is like witchcraft is because witchcraft is ritual without relationship. God desires relationship and any religion not based on relationship is as good as witchcraft.
God is searching the earth for those like David to lead his people- people after his heart. David was a man who searched for God’s plan and purpose.
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In your writing: ".....He[God]is looking for a people who lay their lives in his hands and tear their hearts before him. What pleases him is when we allow him into the deep places of our hearts.....",
I am sensing that this is a restoring process of weeping and mourning a long held loss of relationship with God for both his Spirit and I as a wickest sinner.
We have a choice to let God shine His light into our hearts. We tend to resist this because it reveals what is in our hearts, but unless we allow Him in we cannot change. As we understand His love we realize we can trust Him. God wants to fill us with the wisdom love and power of heaven, but first we must open our hearts.
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