As we continue to pray, and to serve the purposes of God in places like Thailand, and the nations surrounding it, I cannot help but think that this is the time for us to press in even further, and believe the promise of a brighter future that is about to unfold. And that can recognize it when it comes.
Confirming with other like minded ministries who are working there – like us, we are all sensing that things are beginning to shift in our direction for a mighty out pouring of His Spirt for a greater harvest to be reached. The Lord is not slow concerning His promise II Peter 3:9, and that He is not willing that any would perish.
Standing before us is a new generation like none that we have ever seen! And it is happening everywhere we go. North to South, East to West – God is getting ready to do something ‘BIG’ and we all have a part it what is coming, and now is!
Here’s how:
In the narrative with the woman at the well in John chapter 4, Jesus talked about a time or a day that is was “coming” and “now is”. He spoke of something that was “Future Present”. It was “coming” – future promise and “now is” – present promise fulfilled. This was a ‘location shift’ – not in the mountain nor in Jerusalem, people shall worship the Father, but to ‘a person shift’ – a universal access to the Father, ‘in spirit and in truth’ – by relationship: the results of the new birth, (John 3:3) as it relates to God: for God is Spirit (John 4:23, 24) and a ‘time shift’ from an hour that was ‘coming’ – Future, to ‘now is’ – Present.
As Jesus stood before her as the Messiah she knew was coming, He declared the fulfillment that what she was waiting for is now here. She knew that Messiah was coming and when He arrived, He would tell her everything about her life.
How many of us find ourselves in the midst of things that were prophesied beforehand, or things that we heard from the Lord that He was going to do, and when it comes, we fail to see it? However, when we do notice it when it is happening, let us go after it with all of our hearts and enter into the fulfillment that what was promised has finally come. The Lord is bringing His promise of a brighter future to pass!
~ Dan Ecker
