New Beginnings by Tage and Dana Mathisen

New Beginnings 

Tage and Dana Mathisen

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Have you asked the Lord lately: "What is going on Lord?" "What are you doing?"

 

Or have you asked Him for clarity and order since there seems to be such disorder, almost chaotic.

 

Well, I have a word for you that is a NOW WORD for this season.

 

We are in September, the ninth month and my wife Dana has said that it is time to birth. In this time of the birthing of God`s purpose it has seemed like we have lost direction or focus. When a woman gives birth she must stay focused. We are also in "The Hebrew Month of Elul: The King is in the Field!"  This is the month when we press forward from the narrow place to commune with the King! In the narrow place we have shouted grace, grace to the mountains. And by His grace we have prevailed.

 

I told someone today that it seems like we have been more in heaven before His throne in prayer and worship than we have been on earth. We have been contending through declarations and prophetic utterance that He shall come forth through His people now. We have asked Him to birth that which is promised in His word. Too see that the Lord shall be Lord of all and rule and reign in and through us. That we have laid our lives down so His can be raised and enthroned in fullness.

 

Number 8 and Where We are Today

 

Today the number 8 has come to us so many times in ways only God can give it, so we knew that it was Him speaking to us about where we are right now.

 

The Lord is giving revelation of how His resurrection power shall come upon His body and how this shall be a new beginning.

 

The Dry Bones Live

 

Like in Ezekiel 37 we can read:

 

The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry. 3 And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"

 

So I answered, "O Lord God, You know."

 

4 Again He said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: "Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. 6 I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.'"

 

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.

 

9 Also He said to me, Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.  10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.

 

Sh'moneh in Hebrew, from the root shah'meyn "to make fat" or "to cover with fat" which means to super-abound - I had a vision after I read this scripture and I saw the fatness that came upon the body of Christ as it is being joined together.

 

As Elijah performed 8 miracles it speaks to us about the ministry that is about to come on the sceen through this. It will be a ministry of the powers of the age to come. Malachi 4:5 "Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. 6 He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse."

 

Acts 3:19-21 Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; 20 and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you, 21 whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

 

The Jew and the Gentile

 

The Lord has purposed that both Jew and gentile shall become one in Christ Jesus. By His grace and His Spirit that shall become a reality like we read in Ezekiel 37. When the prophet prophesied that the breath of God should come from the four winds and fill them with His breath so they could live and stand up on their feet and be an exceedingly great army. The bones were scattered in the valley but by His word they all came into their right place and when all came together they were resurrected to become an army for Him.

 

This joining to become one new man will lead us back to the resurrection power of Christ Jesus.

 

Ephesians 2:11-21 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision," which is performed in the flesh by human hands - 12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, 15 by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near; 18 for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

 

Jewish boys were to be circumcised on the 8th day. The number 8 symbolizes circumcision of the heart through Christ and the receiving of the Holy Spirit. Romans 2:28-29 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.

 

Colossians 2:11-13 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, Those in Christ are becoming a new creation, with godly character being created by the power of God's Spirit.

 

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

 

The New Day

 

Surely we are in the crossing point in time where we step into the third day, the age of the Kingdom, the transition from Pentecost to Tabernacles. After the 7 days of the Feast of Tabernacles there is an 8th day, called the Last Great Day.

 

2 Peter 2:8-9 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

 

Jesus showed himself alive EIGHT times after his resurrection from the dead. His first appearance alive was to Mary Magdalene (Mark 16:9 - 11). He then showed himself to two disciples traveling to Emmaus (Luke 24). Next, he appeared to all the disciples except Thomas (John 20:19 - 24) then a week later to all them when Thomas was present (John 20:26 - 29). According to the apostle Paul, Christ also was seen by 500 believers at one time (1Corinthians 15:4 - 7). Jesus also met his disciples at the appointed place in Galilee (Matthew 28:16-17) and on Galilee's shores (John 21:1 - 24). His final meeting was on the Mount of Olives, where he gave his followers instructions before ascending to heaven (Acts 1).

 

God saved eight people on the ark in order to have a new beginning for mankind after the flood. Since the meaning of four is derived from God's creation of everything, 8 (4 + 4) pictures the new creation after the flood.

 

From Suffering to Glory

 

Romans 8:18-19 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.

 

Let us all welcome and expect what the Lord is about to do on earth. As we worship and praise Him and have longed to become like Him, He shall make all things new.

 

As the Spirit of the Lord will blow upon us to emerge into One New Man in Christ, let us all arise as an exceedingly great army for Him.

 

"May His kingdom come, may His will be done on earth as it is in heaven!"

 

Much love and grace.

 

Tage and Dana Mathisen

www.1soul1nation.com

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