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Crystal Wade: "Departures and Arrivals: There is Great Hope Through Transition"


Crystal Wade
Dec 10, 2016


December 10, 2016

"Departures and Arrivals: There is Great Hope Through Transition"
by Crystal Wade, Hico, Texas

From the Desk of Steve Shultz:

Steve ShultzWhen our loved ones go home to be with the Lord...it is never easy on our end. Yes, there is much mourning and grief we go through. Yet the Great Comforter is with us through it all...

On the other side of things, the loved ones who left us are in the presence of the Lord and Heaven celebrates their homecoming.

This is a very well written word by Crystal Wade about this process and about the new leaders God is calling this generation to be. Crystal shares here

The fathers and mothers learned to know their God in the place where courage and risk and faith intersect—and grew strong. Now, the sons and daughters are being called to step into this place. This is where the Body of Christ is now: in transition with new leaders (sons and daughters) arising, like Joshua, to lead. And yes, there is grief. And yes, He is with us. And yes, you and I are the very ones needed in THIS time.

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"Departures and Arrivals: There is Great Hope Through Transition"
by Crystal Wade, Hico, Texas


Departures and Arrivals

Many in the Body of Christ are experiencing grief over the loss of a father or mother—physical or spiritual. Grief hurts and it is a process with stages which takes some time to move through. Over the past few years, even with the unexpected departure of our beloved prophet of hope, Kim Clement, the Father has called many of His experienced fathers and mothers home to Heaven. Their absence is a crater—and it hurts.

Three Perspectives

How this looks to the Father (those who have gone home) and to us are three different perspectives.

The Father placed eternity in the hearts of men and so the vision they carried preceded their lives, directed their lives, and succeeds their lives. They are, in our day, what the Hall of Faith-ers in Hebrews 11 were to the people of the Bible. They were still living by faith when they died; not having received their promise on earth. Because the Father planned something greater—which could only be fulfilled by us, their successors, picking up the baton, finishing our race, and then handing off our batons.

First, from the Father's perspective, as He is a generational covenant-keeping God, their leg of the race was complete. He is, however, touched with the acute feelings of our griefs. Grief is such a heavy burden that Jesus even carried it for us, specifically, at the Cross. We do have to come to Him with our burdens of grief to receive His help there. He's ready to take them, if we will but come to Him with those loads.

There is still a physical process we have to walk through with the acute grief (the natural process is through the seasons of one year); but the load will be much lighter—and we will receive comfort in real time—as we open the door of our hearts and say, "Yes I allow You, Lord, to carry this for me."

Second, from our fathers and mothers perspective now in Heaven, they still hold the hope of their promise, which hinges on us and the next generations fulfilling our parts in the Lord.

Third, from our perspective, if we had to walk with them through the valley of the shadow of death or if their departure was abrupt, we have grief and trauma.

They Have No More Suffering

I walked with my own dad through the valley of the shadow. One day, while those past memories replayed in my mind, the Father interrupted me, saying, "It is over. He has no more suffering."   

Our memories of that time are real, but they need to be reconciled. Father has sent His angels to chauffeur our loved ones Home, and they are safe and without pain. He is sending His Word to release us of our painful memories from the valley of the shadow, or from the shock of their abrupt departure, so that we can move forward with Him.

To Honor

Some years ago, after I'd just finished a presentation honoring my husband's grandfather, I had a dream. In the dream, I saw articles inside a castle that my great-grandmother placed there. At the end of the dream, I heard the Holy Spirit say, "He (she) who honors his (her) parents and grandparents gets the generational blessing."

What good news! The action on our part of honoring the lives is the trigger that activates the generational blessing from them in the now for us. (Generational blessings are heavenly currency stored up by the faithfulness of those in our families. When they are activated in our lives (by honor), they cause a chain reaction on earth which translates to physical events, supernaturally driven, that open doors to our specific callings with greater ease (think Eliakim, Isaiah 22:22-24).

If there's a difficulty honoring due to pain of great trouble or toxicity, come honestly to the Father. The truth is—not everyone completed their purpose in their generation. And this makes it harder for the next generation. That's not our Father's plan, but it is a reality.

The highest truth here is that the Father had faith in YOU, sending you to the family that He did, with all its broken down walls and lost inheritances, because YOU and HE together are enough to accomplish your part. And it may be a lot harder than other people's situations.

Honor the Father for His eternal purpose in your family—it may be buried under toxicity, but it is there. Otherwise, you and I wouldn't exist. Families that were so completely toxic were, by the hand of the Father, removed in person and memory from the earth (think Jeroboam, 1 Kings 13:34). Every other family STILL here has hope and purpose!

With Hope

The time comes to move forward to do the work to conquer the Promised Land. The Father had already cued Moses to officially install Joshua in the office of national leader or apostle. Then, Father called Moses home.   

Father is in charge of the times—the births and deaths of His people. Father called Moses home. Moses' leg of the race was finished. It was Joshua's turn to step forward. From Joshua's perspective, he knew he was no Moses, and so he stayed there, in grief, with the people. So, Father came to him and said, "Moses is dead. Take courage and lead these people. I will be with you."

Most likely trembling, Joshua stepped forward. The Father also stepped forward, putting him in a good light in front of the people, helping Joshua with strategy and causing him to renew his confidence.

Sometimes the Moses leaders are intentional and give a ceremony; sometimes like David they need a little urging to get their Solomon successors in place, and sometimes like Elijah they just keep on going, and it's up to Elisha to follow hard. However, it is the Father who is beginning and ending lives, and initiating successors (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2). That door swings on both sides. When Father calls home a father or mother, He calls forward a son or daughter. 

The fathers and mothers learned to know their God in the place where courage and risk and faith intersect—and grew strong. Now, the sons and daughters are being called to step into this place. This is where the Body of Christ is now: in transition with new leaders (sons and daughters) arising, like Joshua, to lead. And yes, there is grief. And yes, He is with us. And yes, you and I are the very ones needed in THIS time.

Would you pray with me?

Father, thank You for the mighty, faithful fathers and mothers in Your family and ours who have chosen to lay aside their earthly rewards, harvests, and joys, to secure Heaven's for their sons and daughters.

Father we acknowledge Your love and sacrifice and theirs with deep thankfulness. The price is high. The purpose is great.

Father, we invite You to help us move through the process of our grief and reconcile. We invite You to release us from the shock and trauma down to the cellular level in our spirits, souls and bodies—and cause us to reverberate with Your peace.

Father, we ask You to cause us to recognize the extreme value of what we have received—this window of opportune time—and be unified, graced, and focused to make maximum impact in this strategic window. We give You freedom to work within us, healing the broken places, removing wrong roots, and centering us in You. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List go here.)

Crystal Wade
Hope Streams 

Email: contact@hopestreams.net
Website: www.hopestreams.net

Crystal Wade writes to throw out a lifeline of hope for people to receive connectivity to trust the Father and be internally aligned to relate to Him, and thus receive His relationship and the blessings that naturally flow from Him. She loves to discover the redemptive plan of the Father in people, places, and things. She co-authored Pure Joy and wrote Perfect Peace together with its audio album, tools for healing trust and growing the spirit. She is managing editor of HopeStreams.net. Crystal and her husband Stephen share a passion to position the next generation to be anchored in truth so they can fly in the spirit. To that end, their family launched Let's Wade In, a media outlet, which is both a community for children and teens and a tool for parents and caregivers to anchor students in truth so they can fly in the Spirit. They have three wonderful sons.

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