This is a “now” word to the Body of Christ calling us to work together with all the generations to reach this world for Jesus Christ. We are in a new season now. We all need to cooperate together with what God is doing. Israel was called to go possess the land of promise, but because of their unbelief they were consigned to walk around in circles in the wilderness until they died. But after 40 years, a new generation was raised up to fulfill the plan of God. Today, a new generation is arising to go possess the land. But they need the older generation to give the big picture perspective, to provide leadership, and to cause them to possess the land.

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NOTES: Navigating Generational Transitions

M.T. A big picture perspective, cooperation between the generations, and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit are essential to accomplish the will of God in the earth today.

Deuteronomy—repeat, second gving of the law. (reminder). 5th and final book of Moses. A book of transition.

Deut 1:6-8 you have dwelt long enough in this mountain.

Duet 1: 19-39 you murmurred in your tents.

Duet 2:3 you have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward.

Word from the Lord at For His Glory Church:

There are places you have not gone yet in my Spirit. You have been traipsing around in the same places over and over again. It’s time ot move into new places in the Spirit. It’s a new day. But it will take more consecration to move into the new diminsions of my Spirit. You will need to set yourself apart unto me more than you have before. So set yourself apart unto me, by prayer and fasting and obedience. and I will bring you into the new places, says the Lord. But as you are obedient to walk in my Spirit you will experience Me in ways that you have not before. And there will be an expression that will come forth from that into your outward life. You will see the miracles, signs and wonders that you have desired. Even as Jesus said that He did what He saw His Father was doing, you will see things in the secret place and they will be expressed in your lives and your ministry.

Deut 3:21-28—Joshua will cause them to inherit the land.

1. Older Generation—believed the lie and spent the rest of the their lives walking around in circles in the wilderness waiting to die.
2. Moses—understood Israel’s destiny and cooperated with it. He passed on the baton, but was not able to enter into the promised land. 
3. Joshua & Caleb—Joshua was the transitional leader who led the next Generation into the Promised land. Caleb was still carrying the spirit of conquest. But they were not able to fulfill their destiny without the next generation.
4. Next Generation—had the energy to fulfill the mission, but needed leadership and the wisdom and perspective of the previous generation to accomplish their task.

We need to find our position among these groups. What will it be?

THE ROLE OF THE GENERATIONS IN THE PLAN OF GOD

“I have been young, and [now] am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.” (Psalm 37:25 NKJV)

“Now also when [I am] old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to [this] generation, Your power to everyone [who] is to come.” (Psalm 71:18 NKJV)

“One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.” (Psalm 145:4 NKJV)

“Your faithfulness [endures] to all generations; You established the earth, and it abides.” (Psalm 119:90 NKJV)

“For the LORD [is] good; His mercy [is] everlasting, And His truth [endures] to all generations.” (Psalm 100:5 NKJV)

WE NEED THE NEXT GENERATION AND THEY NEED US

”For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations, if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you, that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few [words] — in regard to which ye are able, reading [it], to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit — that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news, of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power; to me — the less than the least of all the saints — was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news — the untraceable riches of the Christ, and to cause all to see what [is] the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ, that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly [places], through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,” (Ephesians 3:1-10 YLT)

“And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.” (Hebrews 11:39-40 NKJV)

We may think, these young whippersnappers don’t know anything, but we need the revelation that they are bringing, and they need us.

Church tells members over 60 to worship elsewhere, but they want them to help maintain the building and grounds while they are make the transtion to the new youthful culture.

https://www.christianheadlines.com/blog/church-tells-members-over-60-to-worship-elsewhere-to-make-room-for-new-young-people.html

Then we have the opposite problem, where young people are not welcome.

The church I mentioned last week in Tolna, ND, babies to people in their 90s, celebrates the generatons. In their worship they have hymns and choruses. There is a respect for the older generation and the younger. 

WE MUST BE WILLING TO LET OF THE OLD TO POSSESS THE NEW

Israel kept wanting to go back to Egypt. 

Acts 10:9-24 God had to suspend Peter’s senses to change his thinking. He was locked into his cultural mindset and could not transtion to a mentality for people that were different from himself. 

Remember, Jesus had already commanded them to take the Gospel to the world.

Consider, how important this vision was to the plans and purposes of God. Paul’s revelation would never had been accepted without this event. The mentality of the leaders in the church at Jerusalem was transformed and they were able to transiiton into a new season of ministry. 

As a result of this vision, new relationships were established which literally changed the face of Christianity and turned the world upside down. 

If we can just get out of our little box of narrow thinking and get ahold of what the Spirit of God is saying, we can change the world, in Jesus name. Jesus has the answer for us! And for this ministry! We can touch the world!

“Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.” (Psalm 32:9 KJV)

Its’ a new season. Walk in it!