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Fresh Visitations and New Openness 

When God is initiating a significant spiritual shift, several things happen, including FRESH VISITATIONS. In Luke 1, God visits His people in new ways. He visits Zechariah, a priest who was at the temple; an angel appears to tell Zechariah that he and his barren wife will have a baby in their old age, and they are to name their child “John.” This was a unique visitation from Gabriel the angel. That same angel visits Mary, a virgin in Nazareth and tells her she is going to bear the son of the living God. When God is getting ready to move in a new way, He visits us in fresh ways and changes our lives. 

When God is at work, something supernatural starts to happen, something that upends the natural order of things. God was on the move in Luke, Matthew, Mark, and John. Nowadays God can use things like a traffic jam to shift our future. The more drastic the shift, the more radical the visitation. For some of us, maybe even you, God has already begun stirring up our lives; we are going to experience supernatural visitation, words of knowledge, and things are going to line up. 

A NEW OPENNESS happens in our lives when God shifts them. When Zechariah has an encounter with the angel at the temple, Gabriel tells him he is going to have a child and that he is going to name him John. Then Zechariah asks, “How do I know that this will happen?” Because he did not believe Gabriel right away, the angel lets him know he will not speak until his son is born. Zechariah is mute for the nine months Elizabeth is pregnant. Eight days after the baby was born, when they were going to circumcise and name the baby, Zechariah recovers his voice. He praises the new things God was doing, and names the baby John.

We need to pray for older generations to be open and to recognize, bless, and accept what God is doing in the newer generations so they might keep their voices and praise God. 

God is going to shift us into a new dimension. We need a shift; we need a fresh visitation. We cannot live on yesterday’s visitation! We must understand that God wants to move us now, and that we need His fresh visitation and a new openness in our lives.