a fresh breeze blowing
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A Fresh Breeze is Blowing
(adapted from New Wine Skins)
By Nate Krupp, Preparing The Way, Publishers, Salem, OR, USA

A fresh breeze is blowing. In this hour, God is calling and leading His
Church back to the humility, simplicity, and mutuality of the Early
Church as seen in the New Testament. He is saying, 'For 1,700
years you have done it your way. Now you are going to do it My
way.' We are now in the midst of the early days of a sovereign, very
radical, new move of God that will result in true, New Testament
Christianity and the final fulfillment of the Great Commission. This
new move of God is characterized by thefollowing:

1. From serving God to knowing God.

Most of us have known about and served God for years. Now He is
calling us to truly and deeply know Him and supremely love Him and
Him alone. True fruit will be produced naturally as we intimately
know and love Him.

2. From a Gospel of "easy-believism" to the Gospel of the
Kingdom.

In the 1960's people were encouraged to "accept Christ." This often
resulted in shallow conversions, people who were not truly
converted.Today, God is calling His servants to preach "the Gospel
of the Kingdom" which requires us to call men to repent (turn from
sin) and to make Jesus their Lord or King, the Sovereign ruler of
their lives.

3. From the efforts of man to the works of God.

The days of putting out a sign, starting some programs, and
conducting services to do God's work are over! We must learn to
"do God's work in God's way." We need to wait upon Him; learn to
know His voice; get our direction from Him alone; and obey promptly
and totally. We must pay the price for revival. We must give
ourselves to united, intensive, extraordinary prayer and warfare. We
need to believe God to confirm His Word with signs and wonders.
We need to implore God to teachus to do His work His way - and be
ready to make drastic changes as He does just that. Then the fruit
will be produced by Him - and He will get all of the glory.

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