Can you hear the new sound rising in the land? A sound of peace, a sound of inheritance, a sound of good news for all nations? The Bible says let those who have ears hear what the spirit is saying to the church. Not what people are saying, what the spirit is saying. The spirit is saying, it is a new day, there is a new sound, there are new orators of old truths.

Israel is a people, a land and a history we are to learn from. One of their battles was worshipping other gods. Most Christians do not think they are doing this, just like Israel, so have we lived with mixture.

God invited Israel into the wilderness and He did the same for many in the body of Christ. The wilderness was hard, lonely, transforming and challenging in ways we cannot describe. But just like Israel we needed the wilderness to transform us forever.

Hosea 1 describes what happens to us in the wilderness. “I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. In that day,” declares the LORD, you will call me ‘my husband’; you will no longer call me ‘my master.’”

The wilderness radically changes our relationship with God from my master to my husband. It goes from transactional to relational. From distant to personal. We leave religion in the wilderness and we gain a love we cannot deny. Once you go through the wilderness you will never be the same again, which is why those who go through the wilderness inherit the promised land.

Friends, there are voices rising out of the wilderness, not declaring prepare the way of the Lord, but rather be reconciled to God; be baptized in the Holy Spirit and fire. The voices rising are carrying an inheritance of good news. Can you hear the sound? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org