A NEW FUTURE IN THE MAKING There is a call from the Lord to Possess the land, and the Time is Now! We have said that the manna season is over, and that we are in a new land with a new FUTURE in the making. New circumstances and conditions are evident in the new situation, on both an individual level, implementing your personal calling, but also on a corporate level, as a servant army supporting a wounded world with the love of Christ. One dimension of this is to identify the personal and collective Jericho´s of our time! We have to advance through Godly strategy and wisdom, by His grace!
We in the ICCC International Board are convinced that our calling to business and the working life has great significance now, and that the timing to take new steps in possessing the land couldn’t be better! The Lord says to us through Ezekiel 12:28: “None of My words will be postponed any more, but the word which I speak will be done!”
In Deuteronomy 11:11-12 we read: “but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.”
We also would like to welcome you to Athens and Greece! A very special place! Central to the ongoing European financial crisis, but also a birthplace of other things impacting us every day such as our thinking, culture and faith… Greece is strongly linked to modern philosophy, including Hellenism, syncretism and secular humanism. In many ways this manifests as the modern tree of knowledge. This thinking has really been, and still is, a type of “mental Jericho” for the Church. This is a BIG contrast to the Tree of Life, and God’s Wisdom - our focus!
”For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God! Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
We are also very much aware of a fundamental conflict between the sons of Zion and the sons of Greece – see Zechariah 9:9-13. In these verses, we actually also find the donkey, the picture of the working life...speaking about freedom-… Let us be clear - we are NOT going to Greece to ”dig up the demons of Greece!” We are coming to Athens in obedience to God, for proclamation, praising and worshiping the Lord of Lords; to stand in the GAP for the business and working life, and not least including Greece. We come to proclaim a new freedom and a new walk by faith - manifesting the Kingdom of God in our time! This means God’s YES to wisdom, the working life, our calling to possess the land, and to the nation of Greece!
Let us also finally understand that the Lord will keep His promises. In Joshua 23:14 we read
Welcome to the International Conference and IGM 2014, and Welcome to the new Land, and a new Future!
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