PARADIGM SHIFTS
for the 21st Century
By Jim W. Goll
May, 2000
http://www.ministrytothenations.org/

As we approach the threshold of a new millennium, there will be a lot of shifting taking place in the church and the world. It is the time of completing unfinished business, a time of cleansing, and a time to get prepared for a spiritual churchquake to transpire in the life of what some prophetic voices call the Third Day Church. With this view in mind,let me present some bullets on Paradigm Shifts for the 21st Century.

APOSTOLIC MANDATE
An Apostolic Relational Mandate will be released emphasizing networking versus vertical authority structures. This fresh emphasis on cross-pollination will replace much of the inbred church associations, which are strife ridden by the spirit of competition and control.

While in worship I was given the following phases: When the Apostolic is Made Personal (AMP) there will be Mighty authority in the Prophetic (MAP) in that day. The Lord will amplify His voice in those relational renewal centers and the Holy Spirit will put them on His map.)

CONFRONTING THE POLITICAL SPIRIT

Confrontation shall come with the political spirit as a post sectarian era begins to be ushered in. Even as the prophetic movement exposed and confronted the religious spirit in the church, so an apostolic movement of grace will expose and lay an axe at the historical root of the political spirit in the church.

The restoration of David's Tabernacle as prophesied in Amos 9:12 and Acts 15: 16 - 18 shall come forth resulting in authentic 24 hour Houses of Prayer and Praise, Worship and Intercession sprinkled across the nations. New creative songs and sounds shall emerge as it was with the radical ministry of William and Catherine Booth's Salvation Army Bands. Praise once again, will not be confined to the four walls of the church, but will spill out into the open-air arena.

CEASING CESSATIONALISM

In the church world, there will be a continued theological shift away from the false theory of cessationism (spiritual gifts passed away with the closing of the cannon of scriptures and/or the second generation apostles of the early church.) In other words, cessationism is going to cease!

A new signs and wonders movement is emerging. Healing Rooms and Centers will be instituted in many cities devoted to praying for the sick and casting of evil spirits (Lk 10). Parades of people healed of various diseases will once again occur as in the days of life of John G. Lake in the 1920's.

STADIUMS FILLING

This move of God will be so powerful that the church will gather in stadiums to worship - both the collective church in given regions as well as some local congregations will grow so large that they will fill stadiums for their celebration worship services.

There will be a great move of the Holy Spirit among women. Many women will be released into the five-fold ministry and they will be used in the worldwide revival, which is coming, and upon us. Ultimately, the issue will not primarily be doctrinal - it will be one of necessity due to the volume of need for laborers for the Harvest. The coming period could easily be termed the Decade of Women Preachers.

THE SECRET PLACE

A renewed Quietist Movement will emerge as believers in Christ find the Secret Place of the Most High to truly be their dwelling place (PS 91). A fresh revelation of intimacy with God, communion with their lover/husbandman and master will come forth. A generation of Mary of Bethany s will arise and gladly waste their life on the Lord!

A fresh Holiness Movement will spring up in the church worldwide. Its emphasis shall be one of the Father s mercy mixed with an authentic spirit of conviction of sin (John 16:) causing many to repent and their stained garments to be experientially cleansed by the power and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

THE POOR

The Body of Christ will awaken to her call and responsibility to reach and lift up the poor and oppressed as stated in Isaiah 58: 7-12. Finances will be released to care for the widow and the orphan as declared in James 1:27. Chains of orphanages will come forth as the church awakens from her self-centered lifestyles and hilarious, joyful giving is restored.

TRANSFER OF WEALTH

We will see tremendous transfers of wealth into the Kingdom of God through the ministry of market place apostles and prophets. Those with anointing for business, administration and creativity shall be blessed - not resisted - by the church. The wall between clergy and laity; secular market place and spiritual ministry shall come down.

EXTRAVAGANT YOUTH MOVEMENT

An extravagant Youth Movement is coming to the global body of Christ that will rock the nations. Public events will be led by youth to pray and fast for revival which will spread rapidly around the nations. This will be a trans-generational anointing where the hearts of the fathers are turned to the children and the hearts of the children to the Father (Mal.4:5,6). Such events as THE CALL in Washington D.C. this September 2, 2000 shall ripple across the nations.

IDENTIFICATIONAL REPENTANCE

A wave of Identificational Repentance will overwhelm a remnant of the gentile church causing her to repent of her historical wrongs against the Jewish people. In response to this, a revelation of the sabbath rest shall be released from the throne of grace that will be non-legalistic and result in healing to many.

HARVEST AMONG THE JEWISH PEOPLE

There will be a great harvest amongst the Jewish people which will escalate this decade. This will particularly affect the Russian Jews around the world. There will be what some missiologists term a People Movement among them. There will also be a parallel persecution of the Jews in the land of the north and potentially other lands that could occur.

It is the devil's strategy to precipitate another type of holocaust - but God will raise up trumpeters like Mordacai who shall prepare the corporate Esther (the church) for such a time as this. Radical prayer will open a window of escape for those Jewish people who feel called to leave and a hedge of protection to those who are temporarily called to stay (Jer.16:14-16).

CONVERGENCE OF THE AGES

A convergence of the ages shall come upon us. The anointing of the Pentecostal Fire, the Healing and Deliverance Crusades, the Latter Rain Presence, the Evangelical Burden for the Lost, the Charismatic Giftings, the Third Wave Credibility, the Revelation of the Prophetic Movement and the relational networking of the Apostolic Reformation shall all merge together into a tidal wave that will eclipse the impact of reformation of 500 years ago and create what could be called The Great Revolution.

The Lord will give the church an opportunity to re-write her stained and spotted history. Radical deeds of identificational repentance, acts of mercy to the poor and the oppressed, presence and power encounters to the sick and the demonized, warrior praise and intercession arising over cities will mount as a Revolution comes upon the global body of Christ and creating a great societal awakening! If history books are written of the years that lie ahead, they might be termed 'The Days of His Glorious Presence'.


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