Generation Miraculous

by Evangelist Todd Bentley | www.thearc.bc.ca

From: "Todd Bentley" <toddbentley@hotmail.com> | To: "[Rivermail]" <sdayton@northwest.com>

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This is a prophetic article. Much of what I have seen and written came out of three months of burning and the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.

There will be a generation that grows up in the promised land and their destiny is the miraculous. We are crossing the River Jordan, and we will take the land. God has promised revival, and these are some prophetic insights to where I believe we are, and where we are going.

THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS, GENERATION X AND Y

--What are these?

I believe that the church in the wilderness speaks of the absence of God's manifest presence, which is the spirit of revival, and I believe the promised land of abundance, fruitfulness, milk and honey speaks of revival.

I believe that Generation X is a parallel to Joshua and Caleb, who tasted of the fruit of the vine and were no longer satisfied with unbelief, but wanted the full destiny of God. The church needs revival--and what God has done and is doing in Toronto, Smithton, Pensacola, Argentina, and many other places--is the fruit of the vine to make us hungry and desperate to push past the giants in the land of unbelief, religion, and a form of Godliness; and go for the full land of fruitfulness. When you are in the Spirit of revival and moving with God, you will declare like Caleb in Joshua 14:11, "As yet I am as strong this day as I was on the day Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, for both going out and coming in."

It was in this move of the river that many Xers were greatly impacted and saved to be hungry for God's power and not just religion. So many words were spoken that they would be the revival generation and that God would have a great youth movement. There have been some of this generation X that have really abandoned themselves completely to God and have been a voice of revival; but for whatever the reason, we only have the first fruit, and not a whole generation of radicals. There are many voices like Nolan Clark, Todd Atikson, Judah Smith, Chad Taylor, and many, many more I have not named. Just as in Elijah's day, there are "seven thousand more".

The next generation of youth which they call Y--when I was praying into their destiny and asking God, "Why?" He said that their purpose is--the gospel with power miraculous. Y is Generation miraculous! What X had will come on them in a double portion, and though those of the revival generation may not be in full revival, and many of us still remember the desert, yet we will cross the Jordan, stir the church out of unbelief, and make them hungry for what we tasted. There will be a generation that grows up in Revival, all they will ever know is being raised in the Glory [promised land] and miracles will be supernaturally "normal".

WE ARE AT JORDAN

In Joshua ch 3:1-4 it says that the children of Israel were lodged [camped] at the Jordan. I believe prophetically that is where we sit. Jordan is the new level where the heavens open and you step in to something fresh. We are at the Jordan; We see and have a sense of what's coming and where we are going, but how do we get there?

Verse three declares this phrase, "Go after it," talking about the arc when it was moving upon the shoulders of the priests--they were told to go after it. God is moving us deeper to another level and is calling us to desperation. Now is the time to seek God's face with fasting and prayer like you haven't done before, because He is moving us deeper and He wants us to go after his face not His hand. In verse 4 of this passage the Word of God declares, "You have not gone this way before," and where God is taking us in revival we have never been and will never be if we don't go after the arc now.

THE NEW OIL

In Ps 133 it declares that the oil was upon the head of Aaron running down the beard and onto the garments. God is commanding the blessing, and I believe that the new oil is about to not just be on the head [leadership], and the rest of the church being entertained, but the head and God is putting the oil on the body [garments] . The body of Christ will save souls, heal the sick, move in apostolic oil, and prophesy; not just the apostles, pastors, prophets, teachers, and evangelists.

WHAT IS THE NEW OIL AND HOW IS IT COMING?

Fresh oil and new oil are different. fresh oil is when God re-anoints a ministry or gifting, but new oil is exactly that--new! New ministries and anointings, God's power on the flesh enabling us to do what we couldn't do without Him. There will be revivalists as young as 13 and 14 in the mantles of Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finney. God will release a healing anointing that will be as it was with Peter--his shadow healed the sick. The sick will be healed across the nation walking by churches and in their homes as healing services are conducted. We have seen this many times: Recently a lady was healed at the altar in one of our meetings; At a quarter to a eleven at that same time her daughter called to say that at that same moment she was healed of the same condition 60 miles from the services. Another lady was healed of diabetes hundreds of miles from our service and many more.

God will release new preaching anointing, and music, with new songs being birthed out of heavenly experiences. The new anointing will cause those ministries that have died for whatever the reason to resurrect, and cause there to be a great release of the saints for the work of the ministry. New oil means new wells, not just the wells of our fathers, but there are wells--deep wells we have not even dug, new anointings.

Be encouraged, all you who have labored and are laboring fervently. We are crossing the Jordan into a new day. In no way do we forget about all those Moses(s) out there and your faithful training. You will see the promised land, and God has said that those of the spirit of Joshua and Caleb, despite the age in the natural, will taste revival too, and receive a great inheritance. A revival generation is one of the spirit of Joshua and Caleb. Let's not be satisfied with the dust of the desert when there is a vine full of the new wine of heaven. The old men will run with the young.

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