A Strategic Mandate

A STRATEGIC MANDATE

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“Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7, BSB)

“Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 11:1, NIV)

In 2015 the Spirit revealed to me that I would have an ‘Out of Egypt’ deliverance from the spiritual journey I had encountered for a strategic end time prophetic healing call. As I prepared for Passover 2020 into Pentecost/Shavuot, I was instructed to put out a “Come With Me’ Invitation to whoever would follow my example as I follow Gods leading for this end time. As I came to the end of Pentecost/Shavuot’s 50-day countdown, I was endued with a New Pentecost overflow of empowerment. It was then that I began to receive forcibly a spirit-shift in the focus of the invitation. John 7:37 became the focus, integral to the invitation. “On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. (38) Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:37-38 ESV).

Jesus’ invitation at the yearly Feast of Tabernacle would be the purpose of the rallying call to the ‘Come With Me’ Invitation that was given to me around the time of Passover week 2020. The same plea of Jesus our Healer is being given today, a shofar blast of the scripture. A wake-up call is being sounded to the current Body of Christ, who like the festival worshippers are spiritually rooted in religious practices. The call is to bring the Body of Christ out of religion into a fresh dynamic relationship with the Spirit that has been sidelined in the throes of church life. I was further spirit-compelled to put out a ‘Come With Me’ Prayer Plan. This second Prayer Plan invites seekers to collectively go through the month of Elul (August/September) with me for contrition and consecration, as led in my spirit. Further, in obedience I outlined the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah 2021, leading into Yom Kippor, a High Holy Day of Atonement. This day is a 25 hour time of awe and repentance in fasting, a personal sacrifice made by fire, (to burn the flesh). The Prayer Plan concludes with going through Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacle. (early October)

Sukkot is the highlight of this period of personal dedication in prayer. Sukkot is the yearly Feast of Tabernacle that Jesus attended on that great and final day of the festival in Jerusalem. Today, His invitation is to the thirsty longing world to ’Come and Drink of Me’. It is an invitation for mankind’s spiritual thirst to be quenched from the scorching, perishing heat of the evil day and to be vivified and made whole. Please DO NOT resist this call to where the Spirit is leading. There has been a strategic shift in the spirit realm. It has come about to accommodate the move of God to usher in the 7-fold healing mantle. The intervening years have proved that there has been no place in the current Body of Christ for its reception. The same ancient scornful spirits working in the time of Jesus, to hinder the healing of the sick and needy has raised its ugly head in the Body of Christ. The continuity of organised church life is akin to a ‘Carry-On’ script of yearly rituals and convocations as undertaken by the festival worshippers at the Feast. Globally in the Body of Christ it has been a case of business as usual.

Take note, the call to the ‘Come With Me’ invitation has come at a time of organisational disruption and chaos to global church life because of an indiscriminate virus plaguing the nations. The Spirit would have you intelligently discern the season of a denominational pause, at a spiritual crossroad. This move of the Spirit is a strategic one with a collective approach to change and the ushering in of a New Order. From hereon, the journey to culminating the final chapter of the 7-Church Age will be Spirit led under strategic leadership. Do not ask me! Ask in penitent searching in the Spirit and hear from God. A great demand will be made on everyone to align with the Spirit requiring departure from organisational dependency. It would be a road of abnormal resistance to breakthrough that would prepare me with this dimension of confidence to trust my spirit to hear the voice of God. To step out on a global platform, fearless, undeterred, fiercely loyal to being Spirit-led and uncompromising in the Word to bring truth is a Spirit-urge move. It took great faith, learning with the Spirit of wisdom, understanding, revelation, discernment and possessing an unfailing trust in the Lord.

The importance of this season for the next move of God cannot be overstated. I underscore emphatically that this ‘Come With Me’ Invitation is Spirit led. This Invitation is the vehicle to usher in the healing flow into the nations. God has watched over every detail of the strategic preparations I have made. He is watching over the night of departure out of Egypt. We are leaving behind a global place of death, fear, plague and structural destruction. We are about to see the epic influx of the rejects, homeless and wayfarers of our society making their way to the kingdom of God. Muslims and those from other religious folds who desire to drink of the Living Water will be led by the Spirit to make their way into the refined, purged and streamlined fitly framed Body of CHRIST. “Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.” (Psalms 110:3, KJB).

A unified collective approach to transition from one state to another requires strategic mandate for leadership to culminate the final work of the 7-Church periods. God chose Moses to lead the Israelites through the wilderness rather than by a straightforward route. God’s ways are not always understood by man but they are perfect to accomplish His plans. The Rapture-preparing Body of Christ will be minding the same things of God, orchestrated by the Spirit through God’s chosen servant. It is a strategic paradigm shift in thinking, understanding and intended to breakdown our unique and perfectly formed mental processes of our church cultures, It would not be God if the New Order was without creativity, differentiations and diversity.

“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” (Ezekiel 29:21, BSB). The glory of this latter house will be visible to a disbelieving world. The people will know that the Eternal Holy One is with us. “Those who fight against the LORD will be shattered. He thunders against them from heaven; the LORD judges throughout the earth. He gives power to his king; he increases the strength of his anointed one.” (1 Samuel 2:10, NLT). It is thought that this psalm relates to the time when the Ark of the Covenant was being escorted to Jerusalem from the house of Obed-Edom, who was chosen to look after the tabernacle after it was taken by the marauding Philistines. On reaching Jerusalem, King David set about overseeing the reinstating of the Ark, into its rightful place. This ‘kiaros’ moment is the season of reinstating our purposes to the call to service. Not as we have known, become accustomed to or become familiar with. Rather, by letting go of all our predispositions to religious works to totally, unashamedly surrendering at the feet of our Lord. To give ourselves over to His leading.

The beautiful robe of a priest is a mantle that can only be worn when attested with spiritual testings, consecration, holiness and the disciplines as exemplified by our Lord, the Great High Priest. In the day of His power we see the release of the abundance of anointing bestowed upon His soldiers of the faith. The ‘called’ ones, arrayed in His beauty. The nations will desire to be a part of this glorious festal throng. “How great is the goodness you have stored up for those who fear you. You lavish it on those who come to you for protection, blessing them beforethe watching world. (Psalms 31:19, NLT)

GWENDOLYN SMITH : #NEWPENTECOST : 24TH SEPTEMBER 2020