HE HASN'T FORGOTTEN THE "OLD" WINESKINS
Here is what I believe the Lord showed me a few days ago...I thought I should pass it on....
A Word through Ahimelech 'Alec' Downward
Vernon, B.C., Canada
Ahimelech's e-mail: alec_downward@telus.net
BOW DOWN TO HIM
As I was praying and thinking about all of the new things that God is going to do in the coming months the Spirit came on me, and I was 'forced' into a bowing position. I could not stand upright under the power!
EVERY KNEE WILL BOW
Then I believe the Lord spoke to me, saying 'Yes, I'm going to do lots of new things, and it will be beyond your wildest dreams ! But to enter in you must be humble and your heart must be yielded to Me. Only those who 'bow down' will be able to enter in to what is 'coming'. The Lord then reminded me of the verse 'Every tongue in heaven and earth will declare His glory, and every knee will bow at His throne'. I always used to think that was about the principalities and powers, the enemies of God, who would be forced to bow the knee to Him. However the Lord showed me His heart, and how this is a verse for us, His people and how He longs for a people who will be the first to bow the knee to Him out of devotion to Him. This is the worship he longs for, and it is these people who will be able to enter in to what is coming.
OIL ON THE OLD WINESKINS
As I was in the 'bowed' position that I couldn't get out of, I started thinking of the new things that were coming again, and the Lord started speaking to me again. I was thinking about how a lot of the'old' things would have to be swept away to make way for the new, when the Lord told me this isn't the way it will be. He said that He is not just coming to do the 'new' but He is also coming to 're-new' and to breathe life into many things that have seemed to be dormant and even 'dead' for a long time. He said He will put 'oil on the old wineskins' too.
THE ELDERLY WILL EXPERIENCE HIS POWER
He is about to move upon the elderly in 'tremendous' power...I was thinking that the Lord meant mostly institutions and traditions when He talked about the 'old wineskins', but once more the Lord spoke to me. He said 'It's not just the traditions and institutions. No. I'm coming to the elderly in my family, and I'm going to come upon them in tremendous power. "The second glory of this house WILL be greater than the first !" That's the way I do things'. He went on to say that there is no 'retirement' in His Kingdom, but we are called on from 'glory to glory' and that for the elderly things will be 'new every morning', talking of the refreshing and the 'youthfulness' that is coming. He kept on saying 'There is no retirement in My kingdom, there is only re-firement in My house'.
THE POWER AND THE GLORY---FROM THE HEAD DOWN
He went on to say that it's not just His glory that He is going to release on the elderly in these days. He is coming in amazing power, the likes of which has not been seen in a lifetime. He said that there will be healings, words of knowledge and prophetic power, miracles and signs, and that there will be evangelistic release too, bringing many elderly into the kingdom. 'It's not just a young man's gospel', He said ! There will be a great impartation of power from the elderly to the youth, as well as to the other generations in the church. It will be like the blessings that the patriarchs passed onto
their families. So these 'spiritual patriarchs' will be used to send 'the oil from the head down' to us all, as God restores the elderly to their rightful place as family heads in His house.
THE VERY OLD AND THE VERY YOUNG
He said that He is coming to the very old and also to the very young. He wasn't talking about just the youth, but very young children (5 years or so, maybe even younger). He said the two generations will move in power together, especially in the miraculous, and that the other generations would then also be 'hit' by what will come. He said this will be a 'shock' to many, just like a static electricity spark, so when the young and the old move together the 'sparks will fly and ignite the rest of us'. Come, Lord Jesus, come !
Ahimelech "Alec" Downward
18 February 2000.
