David Wagner 8/31/2014 First Service
I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying that as I bring you into this next season and the final quarter of this year, know that I am not winding things down, but I’m winding things up. There is an acceleration toward the finish line that I’m bringing you into says the Lord. For the season of expansion, acceleration, and increase is coming upon you.
While everything seems to be shaking and being shaken on the national and international scenes, know this, I am still on the throne and I am in charge. Know this says the Lord, my strong right hand is about to be extended and seen upon you like never before. For this is a season of great harvest – it is a season of great impact – it is a season of awakening.
I heard the Lord say Get ready. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. I saw a pillar of smoke and a pillar of fire over Grace Center. I believe what is getting ready to happen and shift over the next couple months is that God is bringing you from transition to position. I feel like there is a place where God is beginning to not only prop you up, but lunge you forward into destiny like never before. There is a sustained move of the Spirit that is coming to this house – and through this house - that will not be contained within the walls of this house. It will begin to spill into the streets, into the community and into the schools and the universities of not only the city but also the region.
I heard the Lord say this is the season of historical and monumental proportions. I believe what the Lord is about to do has never been seen before. What I feel is that where God has moved many of you in this place today is the edge. He has moved many of you to the edge. He has put you on the cusp of destiny and purpose. I feel like there is a wind of purpose that is coming right now into this room.
I heard the Lord say He is releasing the wind of purpose for those who are in between assignments. I feel like some of you are in that place. You’ve been in the place of waiting. The Lord would say to you today, do not be weary in well doing. Do not be weary in the waiting. For in due season you will reap if you faint not. What I really believe is this – God is getting ready to induce the labor. I feel like many of you are overdue, but God is now bringing you into a new season.
I heard these words during worship this morning – He is releasing new vision for old dreams.(2x) I feel like there is something that is getting ready to bubble up and rise up on the inside like never before. I believe this is a time where the Lord is about to release not only a great harvest to us, but I also believe He is releasing the anointing of the harvest reaper upon you. I had this dream about 4 am this morning. In my dream, I saw a glass wall and there were people trying to get in and people trying to get out. I said, Lord, what is that a picture of. The Lord said, I am not only releasing the harvest, but I am releasing the harvesters. I believe there is an anointing right now coming on many of you in this place to be a harvester – to see a harvest of souls like you’ve never seen before. To see a harvest of the resources of God like you’ve never seen before.
So Lord, I thank You right now for pouring out on Grace Center today and in this next season. Thank You for the new era that has begun. Thank You right now for the open heavens and the open doors. Thank You right now for new wells of provision and new wells of resources that You are opening up in this season.
In Jesus name - Amen
How many people believe the word of the Lord? If I were you I’d get excited because He’s not just saying something into the atmosphere, but He’s saying something directly to you. It’s not going to just take one of us. I love pulpit ministry. It’s what I do, but I believe this next wave of the Spirit of God – this next thing that God is doing in the earth - is going to be through the hands of the people of God - That you would just think you are ordinary, but God sees you as extraordinary. God is not looking for the well able. He’s looking for the available. He uses the unlikely. He uses the uncommon. David, Samuel, Moses - Everybody throughout Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, they were unlikely candidates who somehow God got ahold of and said, they may be unlikely, they may not even be well trained, but they are available. I believe this - That God is getting ready to do a work in and through the Kingdom of God and through this region like never before because, it’s going to take a multitude to reach the multitudes. I believe the Lord wants to expand your vision to start seeing the multitudes.
I was excited when I woke up this morning; I was like David – I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord - because I believe God in this season is pulling off the veil – It’s kind of like covering a great sculpture or great painting until the day of the unveiling. I believe God has kept you for many years as a hidden secret. You have been a hidden treasure that God is getting ready to unveil. I believe people are getting ready to converge in this place like never before.
As I was fishing with my son, and watching the waves not too long ago, the Lord spoke these words to me. Some people ride waves and other people start waves. Do you want to be a wave rider or a wave starter? I believe this, that sometimes Grace Center has had the privilege and the great honor of riding some waves. There’s been waves of Toronto, Pensacola, Lakeland, and even things God has done in this region and in this house. I believe that the greatest waves that are about to be started, are to be started out of this place like never before.
I saw the Lord penning a heart around you today. There’s a tsunami wave coming from the heart of God that’s going to sweep through the region and nation like never before.
If I were going to create the next Christian bumper sticker it would be “shift happens”, because God is shifting us into position. He’s bringing us into an alignment.
I believe what is happening right now in this season … When they started talking about Heaven Declares, something started stirring on the inside of me. Why? Because I believe it’s more than a conference. It’s a release. I believe the countdown has begun, and God is moving you into something like never before....
Timing and positioning are everything in this next season of Grace Center and of your life....
For some of you, God is coming prophetically, and grabbing you by the ear right now. Some of you need to revisit your words and go back to that moment where that Scripture began to light up on the inside of you. He wants to activate something in you. Therefore do not cast away your confidence which has great reward. He is always a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. Can I tell you something right now? There is divine destiny in the room. Do you know what I’ve discovered? It’s not my job to determine my destiny, but it’s my privilege to discover it. And some of us are trying to determine what we’re going to do instead of going on this journey of discovering what God has called us to do. Isn’t that amazing! He’s already determined, and in it He is longsuffering. It doesn’t mean He suffers long, but here’s what it means. He’ll do whatever it takes. He’ll tarry as long as it takes for you to step into it and cross over. He’s not the God of wishful thinking
He’s not dangling a prophetic carrot over us saying maybe one day you can become this Grace Center. Maybe one day you can do this. But He’s saying listen! This can be accomplished in your life time. I have this prophetic question for you right now – What can happen in your life time? What do you want to see happen in your lifetime? What do you want to see God do at Grace Center? What do you want to see God do in Franklin and Middle TN and America and the nations of the earth?
We are on a road of discovery. I want you to know that this is going to be a season where God is about to bring us into the greatest season the earth and the church has ever seen. I believe right now there is something that is about to be unveiled. He’s about to move us into that place of being completely positioned. Some of you right now, the word that is ringing and resonating on the inside of you is that there is new vision for old dreams. You did not miss your day of visitation! (2x)
The eyes of the Lord are fixed upon you right now. Let me finish this - Verse 37 –
“For yet a little while, And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
38 Now thejust shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.” 39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
I woke up this morning and the Lord said I am putting you amongst a people who are not of those who shrink back. The Lord is not slack concerning his promises. You are not a people who are shrinking back. I know 1000s of people that are trying to talk themselves out of the promises of God. I am helping a young man who got a prophetic word when he was 19 that he would pastor. He yelled, I know it’s true - I’ve heard it all my life, but it’s not what I want! – He wanted to go do the Wall Street thing and he did. Ten years later, after picking up the pieces, he is pastoring. Often we hear a word and think it’s not what I want. Can I tell you something? I didn’t choose this for me; it chose me. God chose me for this; God chose you for something amazing. It has everything to do with identity and destiny. Here’s what I heard the Lord say, these next few months, September, October, November and December are destiny defining moments for Grace Center and for you. He’s about to fill this place with destiny defining moments. Things that won’t just define your destiny, but that could define the destiny of a city – a local church with global impact.
I saw a harvest coming to this church right here in America. How many know it’s a scriptural principle that you reap what you sow. I don’t know of any other local church in America right now that sows more than here. It may not be in the dollar amounts, but it’s what you sow out of your hearts, what you give when you hear a need. You say I’m going to meet that. There are angels of generosity that are stirred up so that you can not only meet the needs of others, but God will meet the needs of you. I want you to know that everything that God calls you to is paid in full.(2x) It comes fully furnished.
This is what I heard the Lord say He’s not just going to give you dreams, but He’s going to give you dreams about him. He’s going to give you God dreams in the moment. There’s a word that I believe is going to be a theme that’s going to be resounding over the next 18 months in this place - Transformation – transforming the culture, transforming the society. There’s an anointing coming upon you. This is what I heard the Lord say you are well able to carry it out.
Some of you feel you’ve been in this tug of war – some of you feel like you’ve been pulled back, pulled back, pulled back - like a rubber bad ready to snap. I saw an arrow in the bow of the Lord being drawn back toward his eye. God has not been pulling you back, but He’s been drawing you back, because He’s about to aim you right at the target. You’re about to fly baby fly. I’m telling you right now, what you felt was warfare was really just a stretching. I said these words to Pastor Jeff in the car - God is going to take you from warfare to wonder. Some of you’ve been in intense warfare, but you’re about to go from warfare to wonder....
I really believe this right now - Every dream has its death before it has its day. (2x) You know what I think – For Abraham - he left everything he knew – Lord, it doesn’t look like the promise – Moses gets a great word - plagues come, trials come – It doesn’t look like the promise – David gets a word, and lions and tigers, and bears and giants show up, and it doesn’t look like the promise.
I’m here to tell you that there are some of you that feel like you are holding on by a thread. I saw something beautiful just open up in the room. I saw the heart of God and I saw all of these strings coming all over this auditorium this morning. I saw a string being put in everybody’s hand, and I heard the Lord say He is releasing the heartstrings of Heaven. I feel like you can grab a hold if you feel like you are hanging on by a thread, but I’m telling you right now you’re hanging on by the heartstring of Heaven. There’s a healing of hope in this room this morning. Jesus has come to heal the hope of many.
One of the first words I ever gave this place is what I declare every time I walk in - I’m not just entering Grace Center, but I’m entering an epicenter of hope and healing for the nations. There are times where it looks like it’s tested, and there are times where it looks like, how’s that going to happen and all of those things. But I’m telling you right now that God is removing every excuse and He’s removing every, and, if, or but. Some of you are trying to talk yourself out of the promise, but I’m telling you right now God is closing the door to talk you out. There’s only one way; you are going forward.
Some of you right now – that arrow - He’s about to aim you, to launch you like never before. I’m talking to you right now - I believe right now in this moment He’s about to saturate this place with his glory and goodness. We’ve come to the end of our time, But if I’m talking to you and you say David, I feel like my dream has died and my promises are not coming to pass, I don’t even know what to do anymore – But, I’m going to step into it. I’m not going to quit. I’m going to press on. I’ve got good news for you. He didn’t bring you all this way to let you fall down, quit, or turn around. It’s time to press in. It’s time to move forward. It’s time to watch him do what He said He would do.
Choose to believe this morning that it’s time to dream. I heard the Lord say I dare you to dream again. When it seemed like Joseph’s dream was dead, he dreamed another dream. When everyone came against him, he dreamed another dream. I saw the Lord just writing with his finger over many of your lives today – the dream lives. You’re right, everything that can be shaken is being shaken but not for the process of shaking, but so that the unshakeable things can remain. Every dream has its death before it has its day. I just heard the Lord say happy birthday – because there is a birthday for your dreams. There is a finish line to your faith. If I’m talking to you right now, I want you to stand to your feet. I believe right now that there is a divine alignment for the assignment of God over this house.
Holy Spirit I thank You that in this next season the people of God at Grace Center are going to feel like they are dreaming - Psalm 126 says we are like those who dreamed. And they said among the nations, the Lord’s been good to us. We declare – Yes! The Lord has been good to us and we are glad. What you sowed in tears is reaped with joy. The reapers are about to overtake the sowers, so before the seed even hits the ground there’s going to be a harvest to gather up. Right now I break off the weariness. I break off the summer slumber. Lord, right now I thank You we are not just going to, and going through, but we are breaking through and we’re breaking out. I thank You right now for the outflowing and inflowing of the Holy Spirit in this room. I speak life to every dream and hope to every defeated place. I declare that Jehovah Nissi is inthis room. I declare victory to every defeated place.
I thank You that You are who You say You are, and do exactly what you said that You would do. I thank You that You turning things around and You are putting everything on track and it’s not just the 8 track, but the fast track. Lord, right now I thank You for the grace to get through the processes so we can grab a hold of the promises. Right now in this place, I release the healing of hope and I release breakthrough among your people. Right now some of you are feeling a shift – something is changing on the inside. Some of you need to revisit your prophetic words. You need to revisit your dreams. There is new vision for old dreams. There’s a fresh word for the old word. Some of you are going to go back and listen, and hear things you didn’t even hear the first 7 times. Lord, right now I thank You for opening the Heavens and opening the doors in this place.
In Jesus name - Amen