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Day 39 of "40 Days for 40 Years" 1 Day to Go
By Shawn Bolz
We are in a season of massive change in the Spirit, and many are being relocated or properly placed into the destiny that generations of Christians have prayed into! This means we are going to be the fulfillment of much prayer. There has never been such a great invitation on a single generation!
In January this year, I had an angelic visitation in which an angel came to me who looked differently than anyone I had ever seen. He looked like he had the ability to perform any type of miracle, sign and wonder, power manifestation that could be imagined. I don't know how to explain this, but he actually wore garments that made him look like a miracle worker. His whole being exuded raw power. It would have intimidated me if He didn't have so much kindness in His eyes. He asked, "Do you want to do the greater works?" (John 14:12).
At once, everything inside me cried out, "Yes!"
"Then you need the greater love," he replied.
Jesus actually heard the Father's voice; He was filled with desires that came only from Heaven. When He promised us that we would do greater works than He ever did, He was establishing something that God wants our whole generation to understand. For us to do the greater works, we are going to receive a greater capacity to hear the Father's voice and to do what He is doing, and we need to live out of that greater love. I came to realize that Jesus, as a human here on earth, had an incredible relationship with the Father, but we have even better access to a relationship with the Father because of the Cross.
"God's Summer of Love" is a re-awakening of the culture of love. Most people, even in the Church, can't relate to this, but God is bringing a culture of affection and love that will change those touched by it. I believe that during this summer, people will be in a Heavenly atmosphere that infuses them with an impartation of love!
I've talked to people that were there in San Francisco in 1967 at the first "Summer of Love." They said the conditions were miserable but that it was a mesmerizing experience. The music would start and something inside them would stir...
During this time, a subculture of people were so different (and even sometimes offensive) to society that the news media couldn't help but report about them. They were seen in almost every home in the nation because of the fascination with their dress, hair, behavior, music, art and the message that all of these were imparting into the culture. What if a generation of people began to embrace the greater love in such a way that it could be seen in their dress, music, art, and the very atmosphere in which they were living their lives? What would happen if that culture was the very essence of God's love manifest? Would we again see a subculture hit mainstream in America?
Part of what made that first "Summer of Love" so powerful was that people had a sense of love and community and were experiencing what it was like to be part of a family even though it was distorted. The family structure in America at that time was so controlling and harsh that you couldn't tell people your problems; everything had to look good. There was a whole broken generation under a spirit of control. Suddenly young people cried out, "We're tired of faking it...we're tired of unreality. We're gonna go away to get freedom."
It was a cry of revolution, and instead of answering it, the Church ignored it and pretended that it didn't exist. We're in another day where a whole generation is saying, "I want something that is so new, so different that I never look like what was before." That's not rebellion; that's revolution. Though the original Summer of Love was birthed out of a spirit of rebellion with some revolution in it, what if God was imparting His heart into a generation who had a heart for revolution without rebellion in it—a generation that began to say, "Thank you for paying a price, but we want the 'new' that God wants to give us. We don't want to do things the way they have been done. We don't want to look the same. We want to learn from what was before us, but we don't want to repeat it!" This could be the generation most abandoned to God if we just respond to it.
I believe "God's Summer of Love" is happening because we're in a season of an unprecedented harvest of prodigals...those who've left the Church and those who've never been saved. When they come in, we must embrace them and be authentic with them. The last thing they need is another dose of religion. What they're hungry to see is the reality of Love in our lives, and that it's possible to be in relationship with our Father in a way that's deeper than anything they ever dreamed of.
It's not about the greater works; it's about the greater love. Will you take on the greater love so you can do the greater works?
Director, Expression 58
Email: office@expression58.org
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