I’ve been contemplating where we are because what used to satisfy, satisfies no longer. What used feel right, now makes me feel like I want to fall asleep in boredom. I feel like there’s been a shaking and the things that remain of old are dangling - being held by man’s traditions stuck by old glue to the way it has always been done. But the wine in this old wineskin has had its day and all that remains is sour to the taste. Many have no idea the new wine has arrived and they are content to drink from the old not even knowing that there is something else available so much more sweet. It has never been a matter of Him not wanting to give the new wine - but He has been waiting for the new wineskins to prepare themselves for what will be poured in. We can cry out for His glory to come until we’re blue in the face. But until the wineskin is prepared, there is no new wine. But for those that been pulled away by the chords of love that have wrapped them in a death grip where everything else has died and love has not only become first - but only love has remained, the new wine exists in the hearts of these. And everyday that the Body continues to sit and drink from the old wineskin these souls mourn within themselves because they have feasted at the table where the new wine has been served and there’s no going back to the sour residue of what man can produce. How long will the children of God linger holding on to the old day. When will they realize the new day has dawned? For in the shaking, everything must be surrendered. As long as we hold onto anything of the old we will be trading the silence and awe for empty words. We talk too much. We think we have something important to say. And while our words may be important, if we would only be still and be quiet a realization would happen without words that goes past the mind into the realm of reverential fear as the consuming fire of God comes to consume His house. We have to get out of the way. For our God is a holy, consuming fire. There is not a sermon or a teaching or song or prophetic word in this new wineskin of His glory. It is all eyes on the Lord. It is every eye on the Lord. It is He speaks and nations tremble. It is He thunders and we fall down as dead. This is the glory of the Lord. There’s no stage in His glory. There’s no leader in His glory. There’s no microphones in His glory. There is reverential awe alone. There is One King. There is One Focus. There is One voice. This is the new wine. A level man has never seen nor dreamed of. Why do we keep tarrying with our worship sets and three points. It is meaningless compared to the glory that is to be revealed. His glory is coming to fill the earth - our response is full surrender. Laying down our agendas and ways of doing things. Laying down titles. Laying giftings. Laying down. Laying down. Laying down. Laying down. Laying down. This is the only place to be, for the King of Glory will have no rival. We do not tell Him what to do. We bow. We tremble. We adore. And we are consumed. Our place is as flat as we can get on the floor. This is the new wine.
