I love the church, I love its history, I love its current reality and I love its mystery. The church is the agent of God on earth and there have been times it has been hidden, there are times it has been harvested. All seasons of this beautiful body called the church have produced fruit for us to taste and see that the Lord is good.

While sitting with my friend Kari yesterday, we talked about what the Lord is saying to us through this ice storm. She shared how as the trees bowed under the weight of the ice, so the church is in a time of bowing before the Lord of heaven and earth. We shared how we see this bowing in creation is manifesting in God’s people and it is beautiful.

I have been hearing the Lord speak about this ice storm in the realm of access. I have friends in the country region of Tennessee and in the heart of the city, both are without power, but neither is without money. No matter how much money my friends have they do not have access to power, so they are living off alternative forms of energy, due to lack of access.

I have thought about this a lot this week, how you cannot buy access no matter how much money you have. In 1 Thessalonians 1, the apostle Paul says “Our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. And so you became a model to all the believers.”

I believe this lack of access is revealing to us as the church that we have had money, but we have not accessed power. But I see this changing and changing quickly. We may have learned to cope without access to power in the past, but the Lord is declaring, “ACCESS RECOVERED!” The Lord is recovering our access to power.

The next season of the church is going to be one of the gospel of the kingdom being preached with a demonstration of power recovered. Get ready for the two fold reality of preaching and power happening all over the body of Christ worldwide. ACCESS has been RECOVERED! Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org