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Posted: 2004-06-24

The Spirit of God Shall Establish Incredible Connections
Between People of One Mind and One Heart

2001-11-18

from:

Bill and Marsha Burns

 

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     As we press into His glory, where we live, move and abide in a place of oneness with God, there comes revelation from the Father to His children.  It is inevitable that those who hunger and who seek Him desperately will hear His voice under an open heaven.  This is available to all who seek Him for those who seek Him in purity of heart and desperation of soul, shall surely find Him and be found by Him.  Prophetic declarations and proclamations will flow with ease from His glory for He longs to speak to and through His children.

     This morning as I sought His face, I heard these words:  "I am establishing Cornelius connections."   This word is based upon Acts 10 - the connection between Peter and Cornelius.  In the coming year, God will do what has been impossible for man. Man has sought to network in His own wisdom and in His own way.  Man has sought to establish platforms based upon His need for self-recognition and personal advancement.  Man is attempting to build what God has not ordained and God will have none of it.

     There are divine connections being made by the Spirit, in the Spirit, for His glory.  It is within this flow established in the heavenly realm first before it is manifested in the natural, that the Spirit of God shall establish incredible connections between people of one mind and one heart to advance the Kingdom of God.  "Look no further in your own wisdom, for I shall connect people for My plans and My purposes in these days and in this hour.  What I join together, no man shall put asunder."

     God is raising up apostles for this very hour.  No one will be able to deny this.  But where are they?  Hidden in caves, lost in obscurity, and on rooftops, like Peter in Acts 10!  They are in a myriad of places, waiting to be pulled forth into the strategies of their God, willing, broken, and obedient to advance the Kingdom through no self-effort, no self-promotion, and no control or manipulation, but a pure heart seeking their God.

     God will send those like Cornelius to many apostolic leaders.  They will not have to seek for places to go to minister to God's people for His ministering angels, sent to those who will inherit salvation, are already at work in the heavenly realm setting up divine connections.  They shall appear to those like Cornelius, crying out, in many different places throughout the world, with divine strategy and directions.

     Acts 5:3-8 About the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, "Cornelius!"  And when he observed him, he was afraid, and said, "What is it, lord?" So he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God." Now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon, whose surname is Peter. "He is lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea. He will tell you what you must do." And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier from among those who waited on him continually. So when he had explained all these things to them, he sent them to Joppa."

     The apostolic will be linked supernaturally with those of one heart, like-minded, one in the Spirit before they will be linked with them in the natural.  It is essential to understand this for God's strategy.  Divine connections are supernaturally established before they manifest in the natural.

     Obedience, such as was in the heart of both Peter and Cornelius, (even with some reluctance at first), will bypass and disregard man's traditions, seeking to obey God at no cost to their own reputation or honor.  This will, indeed, bear much fruit for the Kingdom of God.

    So to those who are trying to work a kingdom system in their own wisdom and using secular methods, calling themselves apostles and prophets, beware for God will not be mocked.  He is requiring absolute surrender in this hour to His plans and His purposes to advance and build His kingdom in glory in these days.  This will only be accomplished by His Spirit, for the flesh profits nothing.  Much can be said but I recommend that you read Acts 10 thoroughly, asking God to reveal Himself to you, for in this chapter there resides a prototype of Apostolic Strategy.

     Rest in your God. Take comfort in the fact that no matter where you are, God will surely find you and set you forth into an 'undiscovered country'.  He will send you to a people hungry for Him, waiting for an impartation of power and passion. Do you want to be sent by God or sent by man? The choice is yours, but choose carefully, for your destiny hangs in the balance.
 


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