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Spiritual Shift

Our God never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Yet everything He created changes constantly. Our generation is entering a new season as God moves His people from one intensity level to another and from one level of effectiveness to another. God is shifting things, and He wants to shift you. He wants to move you into a new dimension of spiritual reality. 

In the 400 years between the Old and New Testaments, during what is known as the “intertestamental period,” it might seem that God was absent or silent. But He was certainly working. God initiated a significant shift on the earth, in His work, and people’s lives. 

The Old Testament closes with the Lord’s promise through Malachi that He will send Elijah, and that Elijah would turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the hearts of children to their parents (Malachi 4:5–6). If this did not happen, the earth would be cursed with a curse, and if it did happen, the earth would be blessed with a blessing.

In the New Testament we find a person who has come in the spirit of Elijah (Luke 1:17). He is John the Baptist, who was preparing the way for the Lord. God used the years between Malachi and Matthew in a significant way. The Gospels demonstrate a supernatural, dramatic, and amazing spiritual shift. People would go from barrenness to fruitfulness, from one system to another system, from the old covenant to the new covenant. Many people would call this a paradigm shift—an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about, or doing something, is replaced by a new and different way. 

The world has seen many paradigm shifts over the last few generations, including shifts in science, education, politics, technology, and global connectivity, among others. There will be another major spiritual shift in the earth, and Christians are going to be part of it. 

God wants to shift today’s generation into a new spiritual dynamic. He wants to shift us from fear to confidence, from confusion to peace, from bondage to freedom, from pain to power, from pride to humility, from an impoverished mindset to a realization of our authority in Jesus Christ, and from thinking of ourselves as victims to knowing we are victors in Christ. God wants to shift us from our addictions to His anointing, from our depression to His delight, from our selfishness to a spirit of servanthood, from the natural to the supernatural, and He wants to shift today’s church from death to revival. 

Pray: Lord, initiate the shift into what you have for us in the days ahead.