This word is submitted by Musa Opiyo (mopiyo@btinternet.com)

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                       A New Anointing And Release



John 2:10 AMP   
	And he said to him, Everyone else serves his best wine first,
	and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves that
	which is not so good, but you have kept back the good wine
	until now.

Matt 9:17 AMP    
	Neither is new wine put into old wineskins, for if it is, the
	skins burst and are torn in pieces, and the wine is spilled and
	the skins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins
	and so both are preserved.

I am releasing a new wine, a new anointing upon My people that has been 
held back for such a time as this. It is the time and the season to bring 
forth the vessels that have been tried and tested in the fire. For many of 
you, My children, you have been hard pressed, shaken together and poured 
out only to have the process repeated again. For many of you, the arrows 
of sickness and affliction have assailed your bodies continually and you 
have cried out and said "Lord where is the redemption? When will it all 
end?"  Some have had finances dry up, and you have cried out to Me and you 
have asked why it must be so.

Well I will tell you today that what I have allowed you to go through up 
till now has not been about you, but the work that I seek to do in among 
you. I have emptied you out and shaken you through in preparation for the 
new anointing I am releasing upon each of your lives. I am changing the 
way that I speak and move in this season, and you must be ready and prepared 
to adjust to these changes. You cannot remain in your comfort zones anymore. 
If you do not allow Me to do the necessary work in you, you will not be 
able to handle what I am about to release. I have saved the best for these 
coming days, and while many would feel that they have missed out on what I 
am doing, the case is simply that you are not ready to handle what I am 
pouring out.

Yet I call you today to yield your lives to Me in complete surrender and 
expect the unexpected. It is going to be a rough ride, but My hand will hold 
you steady. It is also the season of renewal, and I am bringing refreshing 
to your spirits and to your mindsets that you would affect this world for Me 
in a more effective way. Although I am moving in an unusual way in and among 
your lives, My ways do not change. You have to be still and know that I am 
God, and let My Spirit produce in you that which is fresh. The stale in your 
life cannot remain. Stale mindsets will not be effective. Be renewed by My 
word and let My Spirit bring fresh revelation.

You are stepping out of the old and into the new. Yet you must be willing 
to embrace the new work I am doing among you. You cannot remain stuck to 
something familiar and what has always seemed as comfortable. There are 
those that are content with wading in the river, yet I am looking for those 
who will totally immerse themselves in Me and let Me carry them at My pace. 
Step out and let Me carry you this season. I am calling you to the straight 
and narrow. I am calling you to walk in the unpredictable. It is 
unpredictable in that you will not know how or where I will take you, but 
as you are open and pliable to let Me make the adjustments, you will know 
that I am in control. It is not about you, but it is about the work I am 
doing in this earth through those who are willing.

Are you willing to go with My flow? Will you embrace the new? Are you 
willing to step out of the familiar and let Me lead you where your feet have 
not walked, to see what your eyes have not seen, to hear what has not been 
heard?

The choice is yours, My Beloved.