Dear Partner,
In the summer
of 1998, Missy and I were at church when a woman stood up, went to my
pastor, George Pearsons, and asked permission to prophesy. She called
me out and said, “Thus saith the Lord, ‘I’m going to turn you inside
out. I’m going to turn you upside down, and thrust you into your
destiny’ (future).”
Do you know what? Over the next several years, He did just that. It was both scary and exciting. It was like “I flipped.”
From
that day, God started rearranging my inner world. He began changing my
circumstances and situations. Everything—and I mean everything—flipped.
“Flip” is our summer destination!
You
see, I believe God is flipping you out—He’s flipping your
circumstances—and the summer of ’09 will be known for that. You’ll no
longer be on bottom, but you’ll be the one who comes out on top. You’ll
no longer be the tail, but the head.1
He’s
flipping the situations of all the partners of BelieversWay. He’s
arranging them to benefit you. He daily loads us with benefits. Psalm
68:19 says, “Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation!”
These benefits take you…
…from losing to winning
…from coming in last to being first
…from decrease to abundance
So are you ready to flip out?
It’s
like the Book of Acts Church, where in one day, God flipped it. And
everything that has happened to the church in the last 1900 years has
fallen short of what God did in that church—in one day. Since then,
each move of God has been followed one after another to restore what
was stolen and lost.
We
still haven’t arrived to that standard—the bar was set so high—but not
even that church fulfilled God’s purpose for His people. That privilege
has been reserved for us, for those who have been chosen to run the
last leg of the race. It’s our future. Like our forefathers, who ran
forward and never looked back, what we think of as a normal Christian
experience does not hold a candle to what God is about to reveal.
Flip…
In
the past decade, since God started flipping me, there is nothing that
has remained the same—and the best is yet to come. Everything that we
know about church life will be flipped, God will touch it within the
next few years, and the church will look much differently than it does
today!
Start
looking for all the things at your local campus that will be flipped
this summer. Start looking for ways your own life can be flipped. Look
forward to that hot summer day, when you take your kids down to the
local community pool—and instead of going for your usual dignified
dive—the one everyone expects you to do—
Go ahead—
You can do it…
Do a flip!
I dare you, and remember this is what God is doing in you!
Flip ’09!
1 Deuteronomy 28:13
Posted on
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
by Scott Johnson