If the rest of 2020 is going to be anything like the month we have just lived through, we are definitely in for a “wild ride”. The first month of the year came in with everything (and I do mean everything), more intense: work, relationships – everything.

Of course, this makes life very exciting and decisions more critical. It is not only that life itself has become accelerated, but that our Heavenly Father is pouring out an increased anointing on His children. Therefore, all of us are somewhat discombobulated.

Truly, I know of no one going up in an anointing that is not somewhat “off balance”. Each person is headed into unfamiliar territory, therefore, we become prone to mistakes when faced with new challenges. It isn’t that we don’t want to move forward in our lives. Quite the opposite. All of us have longed to stop “marching in place”. It seems as though most of the body of Christ has been in the wilderness a very long time. But that does not mean that we will not stumble a bit when we begin to move out again. We have not worked those muscles in a long time. We have been standing in place, braced to take the blows Satan has been throwing against us.

Our leg muscles are locked to withstand the blows. But now we are hearing the command to “Move out”. The increased anointing is giving us the energy and anticipation to move forward if we are able to pick up those legs again. We are leaning forward and slowly unlocking the knees and stiffly, stumbling ahead.

BE KIND

If we realize that our brothers and sisters in Christ are experiencing the same stiffness (as we all try to heed our Father’s command to “Move out”) perhaps during our desert experience we will have grown in maturity enough to also be kind, understanding and forgiving to one another in this new, new phase of our Father’s work.

It is a brave new world we are headed into and we want to be brave, new people as we answer our Father’s call. We want Christ within us to answer that call. We want Him to be the face people see and His to be the voice they hear.

I believe the wilderness has been a good training ground. We may trip a bit in it – but I believe we really do want Christ to be all in all in our lives.

We have done a good deal of growing up in that wilderness. We may be awkward as our spirits are stirred again, but there will be less of “the pointing of the finger” and the “show business” delusion as visibly, we begin to meld into the body of Christ that Daddy wishes to see.

Help us, Daddy. We want to be “one”.