REPAIR THE BREACH
- Christina McDowell
- Apr 8, 2023
- 8 min read
(Preface to the following word: When Tribal is mentioned, the Lord is referring to the family groups, community groups, likeness groups, niche communities etc within the body of the church. These can be large or small of any expression. They are the groups of people individuals most identify with relationally where they would say these are my people or my tribe of shared values, interests, gifting's, experiences etc. These tribes are generally good because everyone needs a place of belonging, fellowship, growth etc. They become unhealthy where they only become insular, stagnant and territorial.)
REPAIR THE BREACH - word of the Lord March 2023
The Spirit of the Lord says: You are emerging into your place now prophets, and now I call you to help INITIATE the repair of the relational breaches between the prophets, between the five fold, between the tribal church for the sake of those to come, for the sake of My people that you are called to serve and for your own sake. No longer can I allow your relational breaches stand in the way of what I Am doing in the earth at this time. For what I Am asking of you is too crucial for My people to be able to walk in it.
As covenant keepers, you should be the ones who love My people the deepest and most extravagantly, caring about their ultimate wellbeing. But you see too many flaws, allow suspicion, distrust, frustration and being too easily agitated, though you yourselves are agitations to the body, to carry you away into disconnection patterns and mindsets of isolation even within the midst of peoples. The accuser whispering lies about belonging and acceptance, that there is no place where you can fully be you and others can also fully be themselves. You are revelatory wells, but if your wells are broken and leaking from past damage, and if your well’s are not accessible to people, then how will they come to drink from you? Will you really deny the thirsty?
How can I entrust the responsibilities within the calling I have called you into, if I cannot entrust fully My people to you. You stand in a doorway in the spirit and a pivotal time in the natural right now, where I Am asking if you will cross over, again, into a place of stewarding My heart and responsibility in repairing the breaches that others may come through into their place.
The breach in this nation, NZ, between the prophets, and across the five fold must be relationally repaired if the nation is to break forth and breakthrough into a time of national restorative grace and not repeat cycles of abandonment. There is a limited time to partner with Me in the initial work, so don’t delay your repairs where you can make them, where I give you responsibility, where it is personal. If you are not willing to do the work at repairing your own breaches of relationship with other emerging, yet to emerge prophets and established prophets firstly, then secondly with the other apostles, teachers, shepherds and evangelists, then you could play part in them being unable to emerge from the fray, be stunted in their emerging, and not be able to enter into the fullness of their callings. There is a very real potential disqualification for others and for self, if you are not willing to run towards repair and relational health.You do not want to be the reason another is calling capped because your wounds were still untended, because you could not sit together at My table in the spirit. You are of the same family, the same kind, there is space and a seat for you all with Me in My Kingdom. No more musical chairs. Pull the chair out and invite, urge, others to take their seat , their place I have prepared for them, just as others have for you. They need you to help them to receive My invitation. Don’t drag them, simply show them how I see them. Give them the value I Am asking for, as I have given you. I ask a challenging thing of you now, but I would not ask if I didn’t provide the way, if I didn’t believe you were capable. Do not fear or anticipate discord, it’s not as difficult as you imagine when you let go of pride and come humbly and honestly.
I Am offering you all a brand new perspective, one full of hope and potential for the future of the nations if you will walk the way of humility, interdependence and displays of love. I need to know I can entrust My children into your hands, they are so precious to Me and have experienced pain, just as you have also. I want healing and repair for you all. If you will seek repair, if you will repair the breaches before you, you will become a revelatory rich nation NZ, otherwise the prophetic voices will again retreat into obscurity.
Release My hidden prophets from their caves, call them into the full light of day. Expose the wounds of the past season in the light that healing balm may be applied. This is the emerging prophet generation that I have called to attend to prophetic damages where wisdom lacked, where relational trust lacked, and now distrust of My Spirit and My prophets dwell. Do the work of repairs, because I love My church, love My church too. Abolish the lie from My people that prophets and revelation equate to damages and independence. You will rid the lie by BECOMING the truth. You must go before by living it out.
I’m inviting you into the responsibility of the mantle of relational repair. Will you choose to wear relational responsibility, to be marked and known by it? I will not force you to clothe yourself in it, but then what are you wearing? The nakedness of the garden Adam and Eve experienced exposed their relational disconnection. But I clothed their nakedness, their exposure. Without relational responsibility you will feel the nakedness of isolation and disconnect because I house Myself inside My people, and now ask them to cover each other's exposure by wrapping garments of dignity around them. You become another’s wrap-around covering, and I Am in the centre of you both. What then will you cover others in? It’s time to be honest prophets about the relational conditions of your lives if you are to be transformative in this hour and not end up back in isolation and grumbling that there is no place for your words to land. If you desire for your words to seed into good soil, then you need to prepare the conditions of the soil to receive the seed first. Acknowledge where the ground is hard because of where you have not watered. See where the weeds have sprouted up because of prophetic and relational distrust, even by those caused by others, and do the work WITH them to pull up the weeds. Don’t expect them to always be able to do that alone.
When you begin to wear the responsibility of relationship as your mantle, you will begin to win the war of divisive tribal warfare and territorialism, -first in the spirit, then in the natural, - by cultivating a relational reshaping that reflects the nature of My Kingdom. The territorial spirit in the land that divides people tribally against one another seeks to keep division inside My church. As you individually and corporately come out of active partnership and agreement with this spirit by moving into repairing the breaches, you will be disempowering and displacing the territorial spirit from its lodgings and its hold from tribal community spaces and hearts. As you do it will have societal overflow. It will begin to lose its grip over the gang culture in the nation as the truth of belonging begins to flow. At every turn make it your mission to throw down the lie of estrangement and alienation. Invite My Spirit of belonging, become a place of belonging, out of exile and a return to home for all who would seek.
You are all so diverse, yet more alike than you would like to admit. Prophets you still don’t yet fully dwell in the revelation of your need for one another, in the ONENESS I have spoken of. Yet you will know it as you become it. The past three years I have tested My bride in this. I desired you to come away with Me for a time yes, but I also revealed just how easily your heart could disengage from the value of others. There is yet to come a time when I will test this again to see who has truly leaned into one another, it will be greater than the first testing. You are going to really need one another in the days ahead. You will be windbreakers in the storm for one another. Use the time you have now wisely, that you may still be found standing and not adrift and I will cause you to become surgical level prophets of precision.
There’s an opportunity before you Pacific Rim nations, to become a revelatory well, but one that is first refined by fire before the eruption of revelatory grace is outpoured. Contend for the visitations of My glory upon the First Nations people of the Pacific Rim, for I will call them into a place of travail in and by My Spirit as wayfarers and forebearers of the coming seasons. They will be out of step with the season at hand, rejoicing when there is national trial, and weeping when there is blessing. For their travail will be an ushering for the following seasons of time for their nations.
Repair the breaches
Personal - foundations, wounds, walls, armour, wells.
Relational - personal relational breakdowns where Lord would highlight.
Corporate Church - bridge between people groups, five fold.
To restore the breach personal humility and repentance is key. (Prov 18:12, 20:3, 21:21,22:4, Matt 3:8)
Personal Application:
Honestly identify areas of repair needed to be made personally where your breaches need repair. (foundations, wounds, walls, armour, wells)
Identify where the Lord wants you to make personal relational breach repairs. Particularly with others who are likely called as prophets, then those of apostles, evangelists, shepherds, teachers. Actively pursue repair where there is willingness. Repair doesn’t mean there needs to be the same degree of relationship there once was. But also maybe there will be an increase of relationship for some where it was shallow end before.
Territorial spirits are all about “who has the power”, this is why we must let go of control and offence, and embrace humility, shared grace, belonging, right identity and authority and responsibility - and primarily by His Spirit “not by might nor by power…”
Ask the Lord to show you where there is a relational responsibility of repair on a larger scale within a body of people.
HOW:
Where INVITED to, sit with those who do not understand, need more clarity or are just hesitant. Then ASK these types of questions. It’s partnership, it’s relational.
What has been your personal experience with the prophets, prophetic ministry/people etc?
What has your communities experience with the same been?
Are there areas that have been damaged (how and why) and what has this shut down or opened up? Are there wounds that need healing?
Is there any way that I can offer help to heal and repair any of this space?
What are some of the obstacles you perceive?
What areas would you like to see growth?
Is there any way that I am able to offer help to build greater trust?
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