An Excerpt from a word:
Mega Trends for the New Millennium, Rick Joyner

......In preparation for these great events, the church is about to go through a
metamorphosis. She is going to change from a worm into a butterfly. A
caterpillar in confined to the earth, and its path must conform to the
contour of the earth. Likewise, for nearly two thousand years the church has
often conformed more to the ways of the world than to the ways of the
Spirit. Soon the church will go through a change so dramatic that it will
seem to emerge as an entirely different creature. It will be like another
birth. This time we will have wings to soar high above the ways of the
world.

Possibly the greatest struggle that a butterfly will ever experience is
freeing itself from the cocoon where the great transformation has taken
place. However, if it were not for the strengthening of the butterfly that
takes place during this struggle, it would never be able to flap its great
wings and fly. Not only does the church have a transformation to undergo,
but it must then prevail through the struggle of freeing itself from the
place of the transformation.

The church has been bound by forces that have greatly inhibited her from
becoming all that she was created to be. Evil religious spirits have become
substitutes for the Holy Spirit. Control spirits have dominated and crushed
creativity. The basic nature of God and those who have His Spirit is
creativity. Political spirits have caused the church to cower under the fear
of man so tightly binding the church, that both the devil and the world are
convinced that she will never be anything but a worm. However, even under
this extreme pressure, a transformation is taking place on the inside of
this worm. Even though she is still imprisoned, wings are growing! There is
about to be a jailbreak!

The church is about to bust out of the prison that the devil and the world
have tried to keep her in. The church is about to come forth both beautiful
and strong. And she will be able to fly! The sky will be her home, and the
wind of the Spirit will be her guide.

When this new church emerges, she will be so different from what is now
perceived to be the church, that the whole world will not even recognize
that there was ever a connection between the two. As the new creation church
begins to soar, the old forms will become filled with every evil thing. The
corruption of the old will be total, and it will no longer be possible for
the righteous to stay in the old.

The Spiritual Civil War

Years ago I was shown that a spiritual civil war was coming upon the church.
This was a war of brothers fighting brothers. This great conflict was fought
over spiritual issues that reflected the natural ones that the American
Civil War was fought over, such as the "plantation mentality" of some church
leaders, slavery versus freedom, union versus rebellion, etc. This war is
approaching, and preliminary skirmishes are now breaking out. Even so, there
are things that we can do that will greatly lessen both the scope and
endurance of this conflict, just as the American Civil War could have been
greatly shortened by strong, decisive leadership in the beginning. We must
pray that the Lord raises up strong decisive leadership so that truth can
prevail quickly. This war is coming, but it does not have to be a long,
drawn out affair such as the American Civil War.

The Power Of Creation

The power of creativity is going to be released through the church so that
even the world's greatest inventors, artists and visionaries stand and
marvel at the church. Christians, who know the Creator should be the most
creative people on the face of the earth. We have a well of living water in
us that can never be exhausted. However, it is a river, not a lake. A river
is always flowing, going somewhere. True Christianity is the most exciting,
invigorating life that can be experienced, and that river is about to become
an irresistible force. If we are going to work with Lord through these
times, we must break free from the shackles and fears that pressure
believers into conformity. This is one of the most devastating strongholds
that have exalted themselves against the true knowledge of God.

For example, when the Lord Jesus performed miracles, it seems that He never
did them the same way twice. One of the reasons why the church has had only
sporadic power for healing has been our tendency to depend on methods and
formulas more than on the Holy Spirit. If the Lord heals one way, we usually
try to duplicate the way, such as praying the same prayers, doing it in the
same setting, even getting the same people together to pray rather than
looking to the Healer. It is obviously the very nature of the Lord to be
creative. He is even creative in the way that He heals.

Using formulas and patterns is actually a form of witchcraft, which is
counterfeit spiritual authority. There is a true authority about to be
released in the church that will release a level of creativity in believers
that is literally unprecedented in human history. This will actually release
such faith in the church that powerful miracles will be the result.

The common denominator of the great heroes of faith listed in Hebrews 11 is
that they all did something that no one had ever done before. To press
beyond the present limits of thought or action is a demonstration of great
faith. That is why Abraham, who is called "the father of faith," was
compelled to leave behind all that he had known to seek God in unknown
regions. True faith still requires a walk far beyond our comfort zones. When
we do this, we are no longer putting our trust in our environment, or in
other people, but in God.

It is in this way that a great people are about to emerge from the present
forms of church that have been built upon the ways of men, and they will
risk everything to seek that which God is building. This will threaten the
forces of status quo, the powers that are now oppressing the saints, and
will be the fundamental cause of the coming spiritual civil war. However, a
true union of the church is not possible until the forces of spiritual
slavery are defeated and all people are set free to follow the Lord in their
own quest.

This is not the license to depart from sound doctrine, or to rebel against
God's established authorities. However, there is about to be a clear
distinction between those who have received their authority from above, and
those who have promoted themselves, or been promoted by institutions. The
latter authorities will be increasingly revealed as operating in the
control, political and religious spirits. This is Satan's "cord of three
strands" that he has used to bind the church. That cord will soon be broken,
and the true liberty of the Spirit released in the world, and the church
which will fall into increasing tyranny and bondage to evil. "Where the
Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty" (II Corinthians 3:17).

True faith is also true liberty. The freedom of faith is about to be
released. As stated, this will also result in unprecedented miracles. Just
as the Spirit moved upon that which was "formless and void" (Genesis 1:2) in
the beginning, and brought forth such a glorious creation, the Spirit will
move through believers to bring forth glorious new creations even out of the
greatest chaos. The Holy Spirit is not intimidated by chaos, and neither
must we be. Rather we must see chaos as opportunities for the Holy Spirit to
work. It will be in the most desperate situations that His greatest works
will be revealed. The truth must be sown deep within us to see meltdowns of
authority and civil order as an opportunity to see His great work.

From a Prophecy given by Rick Joyner "MEGA-TRENDS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM"

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