Change is the essential process of all existence.

We’ve just entered the third month of 2012 and already the dividing line is being drawn. I am referring to the insights we received for 2012 “When 2012 comes to conclusion you will find two camps in Christendom, one group will be business as usual and the other will enter into a new domain in Christ and experience the reality of 2 Corinthians 5:17 (Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new).” It is as if this is literally unfolding before our eyes. Here at the Rainbow Centre we are seeing people pressing in into a greater reality in Christ Jesus and are experiencing an exciting new life where all things are becoming new and at the same time we see people that are living their Christianity in the business as usual mode.

There is a great danger in living in the business as usual mode; a place where routine is the way. We find ourselves doing all the right things on the outside (or at least we think so) yet the internal reality is diminishing. (2 Timothy 3:5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.)

The season that we are in demands us all to see what we cannot see, to hear what we cannot hear and to press into the new life that the Holy Spirit is crying out for inside each one of us. This is the life of faith and this is the life for this new season!

Feb. 20, 2012
For Mike and Robin (Rainbow Centre):

You hammer of God, you mend and build My house in the places where others see nothing to mend and build. I have made you a strong one! Lo, in My name you will tear down strongholds of the dark one. So be lionhearted, and I will be with you.

Part 1: What is Offence?
To overcome offence, one first has to determine what offence is. This is important because offence is the number one killer of Christian life in the Church today. Offence is like a cancer, it can attack you at any time. If it is caught early enough it can be treated but if left too long it is fatal. Thanks be to God that there are precautionary measures that can be taken to reduce the risk factor but first we need to discover what this killer is and how it really works.

Matthew 24:1-13 (MKJV)
Matthew 24:10 (MKJV) And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.
Offended: G4624 skandalizō (skan-dal-id’-zo) To “scandalize”; from G4625; to entrap, that is, trip up (figuratively stumble [transitively] or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure): – (make to) offend.

Matthew 24:10 (BBE) And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.
(CEV) Many will give up and will betray and hate each other.
(CJB) At that time many will be trapped into betraying and hating each other,
(GNB) Many will give up their faith at that time; they will betray one another and hate one another. (GW) Then many will lose faith. They will betray and hate each other.
(NASB) “At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
(NLT) And many will turn away from Me and betray and hate each other.
(WNT) Then WILL MANY STUMBLE AND FALL, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

Part 2: Letting Go

Matthew 6:12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Forgive: to release, to let go, to let alone

Matthew 18:21-35 (NLT)

What we do to others, we will have done to us. Do you not realize that you are one with your brother? He and you are from the same body. If your foot stumbles and hurts itself, does it not bring hurt to the rest of your body? So what should you the rest of your body do? Should you be offended because of the pain you are feeling or should you take care of the foot until it is healed? The problem here is that we do not believe that our brother is one with us because we are living on the low road of life in self-outside of the Christ. Beloved we are confused about what our rights are. The only rights that we have are in the grace of God, we have NO rights in ourselves. We do not belong to ourselves, we belong to Christ. We have no right to hold something against another. Choose to let it go, take the high road of the Spirit and be free! Let it go!

We live in a time where there is much spiritual awareness. Our culture is quickly discovering that there is a vacuum that exists in life that requires something beyond our natural abilities and talents to fulfill. The challenge we face in this season is to be a spiritual people (something in which the organized church is sometimes lacking) and not be moved or lured off of the foundation which is Christ.

The spiritual philosophies of the world today can sound very appealing and yes very tempting but at the heart of each philosophy we usually find self. Remember that in these last days, a spiritual hunger with many false Christs will appear (Mat. 24:24). People want the supernatural, people want a spiritual reality. The problem we face is that people want it their own way, and it is this idea of our own way that is the mark of the beast. You see, spirituality or lack of spirituality is not the problem; the problem lies in the hearts of people who are afraid to trust and open up their lives to others resulting in a spirituality that is self serving, self motivated and puts the focus on ourselves.

The only spirituality that can save the planet is a spirituality that is selfless, lives for the benefit of others, is not concerned about it’s own success but the success of others, a spirituality that is ever growing, ever learning, a spirituality that doesn’t have to be right all the time but will always be there in the right time. Such spirituality can only be found in the Father heart of God through His Son Jesus Christ, revealed through a collective expression of individuals living for each other’s welfare in the higher purpose of The Father’s ultimate intention being manifest in each and every life. For such a concept to come to fruition, the measuring rod must continually be applied; and that measuring rod, which is our foundation, is Christ and Christ alone!