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New also means that God will do a new act in your midst. Something that you haven’t seen before. He will demonstrate himself. Where you have longed to see him do something, he will do it! Like Exodus where the Red Sea opened. Jesus did new act after new act after new act.
It also means new relationships. It means seeing something you have had in the past multiplying into 7-fold -- new relationships. It means not only gaining new relationships with God but a new relationship with each other. It means a new identity begins to happen.
Remember, He said to Jacob, “Fear not, Jacob. You worm. You will be a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.” Isn’t that something -- He changed him in a day to something that would overtake mountains. So, God is saying, ”Don’t judge yourself on your past and what you have seen.” God can ignite that in a matter of seconds and move you into a new identity in this State, that can cause things to begin to happen in this State, that can stun the entire nation.
I was leaving yesterday to go home from Colorado. I went through security and all of the bells and whistles went off. They said, “We don’t know why; but, you can’t use this bag on your next trip.”
I was all set to come here today. I thought, God, you are orchestrating my path to change bags before I go to ND. I had to use my wife’s bag. I unpacked everything and cleaned off everything. I also had to change my shaving kit. And, when I went to get my new shaving kit, here inside of it, was a new wineskin. And, all of sudden, actually the Spirit of God came all over my bedroom. And He said, “I sent you through that so that you would be sure to declare my Word to this State when you get there.”
God said, “I have a new wineskin that I am forming and you are going to take it and impart it in that State. He said I have been holding it for a time such as this. It has been there for quite a while.”
The Lord says, “It is time for the people in ND to know that they are becoming a new wineskin.” He said, “You will bring the wineskin and you will present the wineskin and you will declare from this time forward, a structure that is new. Something that is fresh. Something that is of greater quality than has been seen before in this Nation will begin to form in ND. That I will begin to do a work in the church in ND that is going to be one that will model to this entire Nation.”
North Dakota is becoming a new wineskin. Look at Matt. 9:14-17 .
There is something new and fresh in this State that the Lord wants to liberate for all of us. It’s on you! “No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on a new garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
That’s an important phrase. I want to preserve everything because this is a different place. Still virginal in its aspect and identity. I want to preserve what has gone before, but the only way I can present what has gone before (or watch after) in the history of the spiritual life of this State, is to do something new now, and if you allow me to do something new now, what has gone before will synergize with it and then you will move forward and unlock the treasure that is in this State for this hour.
The Lord wanted to be sure that you see yourself for what you are.
What they did with a new wineskin would be to hang it in smoke for several years. In other words, the smoke would begin to bring it into the character that was necessary -- the presence. Smoke is equivalent to “presence” in the Word of God. They would also soak it in water. Soaking is necessary. And, they would rub it with oil.
The Lord says, “I am about to do all three. There will be smoke in your midst. There will be water that begins to come forth. A soaking type presence of refreshing that will rest on you. Then, there will the oil of my anointing that will rise up in this State will be fresh. It will unlock revelation of how Church is to be in the days ahead.”
“Now, hear me very, very carefully. Territorially. What is in this State will begin to be addressed, just as I addressed the seven churches in the region when I raised Paul up. I will do something in this State that represents the territorial wineskin that I am attempting to present to my people. I will require from ND a connection and a relationship that represents what the Spirit is saying to the church in the entire territory.