Distinctive Features of the Finishing Generation (3rd point)

3. They are prepared for the future
We must begin to see that we are being prepared and fashioned for the future. Example: Joseph. He was being prepared for the future.

You are the only One who knows what the future holds. You will be the only One who will fashion this future company of Sons of God(we) with the right ingredients to be the prevailing force in the future.

You are taking Your time to fashioned the Sons of God with great care as You know they would be brutally tested against the worst environment possible. That's why a "have a good heart" is not enough to see us through for all that we are going to encounter in the future.

1 Tim 4:1-3
"But the spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth."

2 Tim 3:1-5
"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."


I look at Joseph, I begin to see that how You take him through the time of fashioning just so that you could change his nature so that he could be the finest material that would stand the test of time. You placed him there to not only give future to the many people in Egypt and globally but JOSEPH is the very FUTURE!

Just like when Jesus said, "I AM the way, the truth and the life". It's in HIM, we find the way, the truth and life. It's in HIM that we too become the "WAY, TRUTH and LIFE" to many other people.

Joseph is the FUTURE as one cannot give anyone any future if HE himself is not it. You actually took the time to fashioned and PUT FUTURE in him. Future is in us that's why You are taking the time to put in all the right ingredients so that we can be released in the right time and be the prevailing force and make the very future as how we see it within us.

How can we be so caught up in pursuit with the things of the world when we are already carrying the FUTURE in us! We should be outworking the future as how God has revealed to us.

Romans 8:19
"For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God."
"All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children."

Papa JD says in his book, "we have not seen a generation like this before. These men and women of the Spirit will cause the minds of men to marvel by their future manifestation as they display the wisdom and the maturity(meaning "stature": my addition) of the Son of God in their lives. This generation is hidden in the hollow of His hand. They are in the womb of the dawn, being prepared in God."

Papa JD says in his book, "A new day is dawning. we will not be facing a new day without having prevailed in the God encounter available for us. Our names and nature must be changed so that we can be sufficient to face tomorrow and all it will bring."

The portion in red, gave me this thought: Our names is changed to Sons of God and as our spirit is recreated and take on the nature of Christ, then we can be sufficient to face tomorrow and all it will bring because we are an exact representation of HIM as He has said, "He is the same Yesterday, Today and Forevermore". I can face tomorrow because I am in HIM.

*All these can never happen if we do not have an ENCOUNTER with the God of the future Himself! Just like Jacob, we must encounter and prevailed with God. For it is because Jacob prevailed that he was transformed into Israel, a prince of God. His name was changed and nature was changed in that one encounter.
It's only when one is the son of the KING then only one can be a PRINCE! His name was changed to being a "son" of God(the KING of KINGS) and now his nature was not his own but "God's nature".
HIS HEART IS CIRCUMCISED AND HIS NAME IS CHANGED SO THAT IT WOULD BE IN ALIGNMENT WITH HIS ASSIGNMENT!
Jacob having that encounter and prevailed that he can be sufficient to face tomorrow and all it will bring

Gen 32:26
"Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." But he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me.'"

Just like this song lyrics:-

Closer and closer and closer to You
You are the one I intensely pursue
Closer and closer and closer to You
My soul follows hard after You

Chorus
Jesus, Lover of my soul
Let me see You as You are
Position me to prevail
So I won’t let You go
Until You change my name and my heart

Jesus, Lover of my soul
Let me see You as You are
I give myself no rest Until I encounter Your very presence
And You change my name and my heart

No wonder all of creation waits with eager longing for the Sons of God....
I AM THE FUTURE as I carry the FUTURE!!

Distinctive Features of the Finishing Generation (2nd point)

2. They have the power to execute His Word
It's because we are representing You and operating as how Christ is that why we could bring the word of God into fulfillment.

Just like Christ, all that's been spoken about Him is fulfilled in Him. This very Finishing Generation which consists of you and I, all that's spoken about us will be fulfilled in us.

Because we carry the stature of God and are operating from that dimension therefore we can begin to carry that proceeding word inside our hearts and fulfill it and bring it into the full manifestation here on this earth. Christ was operating on Your authority that why when He spoke the elements of the earth responded to Him just like how it would respond to You.

John 1:14: "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."

It's just like Christ, as he was representing the Father, He too carried the same capacity as You did. You have the capacity to call forth things and speak it into fulfillment.

The centurion understand where Christ was operating from that's why he told Christ to speak just "a word" as he recognized that Christ carried the capacity and authority. The centurion knew that all he needed was to have Christ speak a word and it's done.

The execution of God's word is not upon our own faith but upon Your faith as we are to operate from there. Knowing that You have spoken therefore You would also perform it.
Rom 4:20-21 "He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was able to perform."

Mark 11:22 " And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God."
In the original Greek version it read as thus:"Have faith in the FAITH OF GOD"
That's why it's His faith that count and produces results. It's His faith that has the cutting edge!

In Hebrews 11 t says "without faith we cannot please God".
Which faith? It's His faith dwelling in us by the Holy Spirit's indwelling as our natural faith cannot please Him because it failed to save us.
We are saved by "faith" not natural human faith but the faith that God has mercifully bestowed unto us.

That why we are able to mix the word with faith and bring it into reality because we are that very generation that is operating from Your very faith and stature.

As every of Your word carries Your spirit(nature) and life therefore we are to be careful in what we are listening to as that will form the nature in our lives.

Mark 4: 24 "And He was saying to them, 'Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will measured to you; and more will be given you besides.' "

How we listen will determine how deep it will go into our hearts
Luke 8:18" "So take care how you listen; for whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him."

Who we listen to will determine the direction in our lives.
Gen 3:11 "And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

Jesus warned that we must be sure who is the one who leads us in the last days because it will determined where we would finally arrive!

That's why we, have the power to prevail and bring the words written about us into a reality.

Note:
1. There are excerpts from Dr. Jonathan David's book.
2. There are excerpts/thoughts from Ps. Mike Maimele. thank you!! :D