Kathi Pelton: "God is Striking the Match of Revival"

For a number of years now God has been speaking to His people out of Isaiah 43:19, "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."

The threshold into a new thing, more often than not, is much longer than we expect. It involves preparation, purification, and perseverance to fully move into the new. The new thing begins in individual hearts that willingly go through reformation and transformation. Then those lives spill out; the overflow causing a corporate remnant to carry the same heart of unity and agreement.

When this happens, the sounds we hear begin to change to a new sound that has never been heard before. The desires of His yielded ones change and align with the desires of the Lord; their language changes, releasing words that shift atmospheres and invite others in. Hearts change! The change of heart is a softening, a surrender, and a purification from flesh to spirit.

Embracing the New Thing Without Being Held Back by the Old Things

The past few years have been a time of preparation individually and corporately so that we may know how to embrace the new thing without being held back by old things. The old isn't necessarily negative, but it can be destructive if brought into the new. Just as a single, old piece of fruit will spoil an entire basket of newly harvested fruit, or mixing old wine into the new will spoil the whole batch, so it is with the "new thing" that the Lord is doing. We need to lay down our agendas and good ideas based on what has worked before, and humbly and courageously follow the leading of the Holy Spirit into a way we have not been before (Joshua 3:4). We must be taught how to walk in the new way and keep it pure.

I believe that 2019 will begin to open up the direction to walk in a new way. It will not be the fullness, but rather the beginning. It will be a year of revelation and instruction that brings about the manifestation of a "new move" that has never been seen before. It will be like the lighting of a match that sets seasoned wood aflame. It will catch fire and spread upon all that it touches that has been "seasoned" through the time of preparation. It will touch drought-filled lives that thirst for what is real and pure, causing them to burn with holy fire.

I hear the words in my spirit from Isaiah 30:21, "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, 'This is the way; walk in it.'"

This Is the Way, Walk in It

God is bringing wisdom, blueprints and instructions of how to walk in the new way. As doors open and the "seasoned ones" who have been set aflame move through those doors, they will understand how to walk in a new way that keeps the way pure. Do not fear or be dismayed by the natural conditions of your city, state, or nation; do not be troubled by your current life situations because God is about to strike the enemy down and will strike the match of revival that brings forth great victories.

Striking the Matches of New Beginnings

December is a striking of the matches of new beginnings. Just as we've now entered into the Hanukkah season where eight matches are struck over eight nights (eight is the number of new beginnings), this month will usher us into a time of great light in the midst of darkness and the restoration of the temple. This will be a time of taking back lands and the things that were stolen. It will be a time of revival fire and abundant rain.

"Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." (Hosea 6:3)

"Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for He hath given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month." (Joel 2:23) (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)

Revival fires and the latter rain are coming upon us!

Kathi Pelton
Inscribe Ministries
Email: jkpelton@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.inscribeministries.com

Jeffrey and Kathi Pelton live in the greater Portland, Oregon area. Jeffrey is a writer, teacher and book editor. Kathi is an author and prophetic voice to the Church. They walk with nations and individuals to see God's original intent fulfilled. Their ministry, Inscribe Ministries, was founded upon the verse from Habakkuk 2:2 that says, "Then the LORD answered me and said: 'Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.'"

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