"And be renewed in the spirit of your mind."

                                                                 Ephesians 4:23

       During the spring of 2012, I went through a three week period where I dreamed what I was to preach before each service. The Lord visited me in my night season and taught me things that I hadn't quite put together concerning some things he had already spoken to me about six months prior to these unusual encounters. In all the years of being in ministry (this year will be thirty-five to be exact), this has only happened on occasion, and never three weekends in a row. It was quite an awesome experience, to say the least. Part of what came about, as a result of these visitations, was a new understanding concerning a liberty to move in the things of God.

       To start with, let me take you back to what initiated this whole process. In November 2011, I was seeking the Lord about what to minister to our church. In my season of meditation, I heard in my spirit the word "Change." Immediately I grabbed a hold of it, and starting seeking the Lord to make clear what kind of change he was referring to. Suddenly, he spoke up in me and said, "A shift is coming...a change will take place. There is some turning that is about to happen, and it is going to affect everything, not only in the natural but also in the spiritual." I knew what was coming was going to be a prophetic change that would usher the Church into a new dimension of ministry.

"To prove the good, the acceptable, and perfect will of God requires both an exploration and excavation. You must seek to find and you must dig to uncover the hidden mysteries of the kingdom of God."

       Later on in the spring, just before these dreams started occurring, I was sitting in our Bible School listening to one of our instructors teach when I heard these words by the Holy Ghost: "There is a liberty to move." I wrote those words down. Just as I finished writing, more began to come. This is what I heard: "There is so much that I want to do, things I want to impart, things I want to see stirred up that has already been imparted, but things have been confined because of man's thinking. His mind has stood in the way of much of what I want to see done. But there is a liberty coming. It is all part of the shift..." (Note: I realized right then that he was speaking to me about the prophetic change that he told me was going to occur). He went on to say, "There is a new mind that will lift you out of the mind of man, into the mind of the Spirit. When this is accomplished, then a new liberty to move will come. Right now things are wanting, because the mind is restricting the flow. It may not be a conscious thing, but it is still restricting the flow. You have to draw back from the natural tendencies to think like a man and start thinking like a God-man, and then will come the liberty, and then will come the release of things that are wanting." When I heard that I determined in my heart that I was going to do whatever it took to change my thinking. Over these past nine months some incredible revelation has come that has helped me see why we must address issues concerning our mind, and why it is so necessary that we be renewed in the "spirit" of our minds.