Prophetic Word for 2014

"No one pours new wine into old wine skins, if he does the new wine will be spilled and the skins destroyed."  Luke 5:37

It is a New Year filled with prophetic hope and promise. God's Kingdom is always advancing, His revelation increasing, "of the  increase of His government and of peace there will be no end."  Isaiah 9:7

It is time for His church to fully embrace the reality of His nature. He is a God of victory, momentum, increase and hope. The Father has given Jesus "all authority in heaven and on earth"; that means that the devil and the world have none.
Matthew 28:19

Late in 2013 the Holy Spirit began to speak to me about new wine and new wine skins. Jesus' teaching on new wine is found in 3 of the gospels and I was as familiar with these passages as most Christians are, but I knew that the Holy Spirit was challenging me to receive fresh insight. The Holy Spirit asked me a question, "How new does the wine skin need to be in order for it to hold the new wine of My Spirit?" The answer was obvious, "Every bit of it Lord."

I believe that 2014 will be a year when much new wine is being poured forth across our planet and it is imperative that His church change its skin. God is patient and He is always wooing us to greater openness to His Spirit but I have a very strong sense that a season is coming, and is now, when God will pour forth a new wine of His Spirit with such intensity that some skins will burst.

Over the past several years the church has experienced an amazing invitation from God to recognize and embrace the dynamic supernatural power of His Spirit. The form and nature of this invitation has often been handled in messy ways by some of the Father's children, but it is incumbent upon the church to recognize when a genuine move of God is at work despite how some people respond to it. There has never been an authentic move of God in church history that has not come along with a bit of mishandling in the flesh.

Sometimes we read the words of Jesus as suggestions and implications rather than statements of fact. I think Jesus was speaking with authority and truth when He said: "No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is good enough.' " (Luke 5:39) Surely it will seem to some that the way that the church has done business since the last great move of God is 'good enough'. Some will point to the wonderful things that God has done through the church over the past 50 years and claim their rightful reward to rest on that laurel, the Lord has indeed done incredible things through the many churches that were established in past revivals. 

However, Jesus emphatically said, "New wine must be poured into new wine skins."
Luke 5:38

The preparation of new wine skins begins with every individual. It's important for every leader in the church to lead the way, but the Holy Spirit is pressing upon my heart a very intense awareness that no matter how prepared a leader or his church is the new wine is being poured forth and it is up to each individual Christian to change his/her skin. 

I am grateful for God's grace and unconditional love. His mercy and love is beyond all comprehension, but He loves all of mankind with such an amazing intensity that He gave His only begotten Son, "that whosoever believes on Him will not perish but have everlasting life!"

The Father loves each of us unconditionally but His eye is upon all the nations of the earth. As a father I love all my children with an equal and unconditional love but sometimes I have had to make a decision that caused one or more of my kids to resist the change. When they were little they resisted with a bit of kicking and screaming. 

Just Sayin'

In His radical grace,
     Ray 
Radical Gospel Monday Night Continues! 
January 20th, 2014 @ 7pm in the upper-room of the Open Door Church in Petaluma.

Radical Gospel ministries has a class on the supernatural gifts and ministry of the Holy Spirit.* The class will be focused on instruction and impartation in the prophetic and healing gifts of the Spirit. Our emphasis is always on equipping and training individuals to be supernatural ministers of the amazing authority that God delegated to His people.

As always, Radical Gospel's assignment is mandated to equip every saint from any church in our region in the supernatural. Thus this class is open to any believer who desires to increase in their gifts and be used of the Lord in the astonishing revival that is taking place on the planet.

The time is NOW, don't miss this opportunity to be built up and strengthened in the complete access that YOU have to the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. Classes will contain very practical stretching and use of gifts in a safe environment. We expect to learn by making mistakes as well as success. This is a chance to develop your own new wine skin and be ready to receive the new wine that is being poured forth by the Spirit of the Lord.

Ray LeBlond is the primary instructor of this class; we intend to bring in guest speakers who are walking in signs and wonders. Exposure to the ordinary people who God uses in the supernatural is as important to building faith as is our own hunger to move in the gifts.

Radical Gospel Ministries exist as an independent ministry. This class is not underwritten by any individual church**. We are making this class available at no cost because we believe  that our reward is in seeing Christians come alive in their gifts, callings and destiny! The time is now for the destiny on Sonoma County  to come to its fulness! The saints of God must be equipped!

An offering will be taken each night to give an opportunity for anyone to support the ministry as they can afford it.

*(The class is scheduled for 6-10 weeks but will remain open-ended as the Spirit leads). The class is open, you do not need to attend each class nor have started at the beginning.
**(Radical Gospel Ministries is grateful to the Open Door Church in Petaluma for hosting this class).