GET READY! RAISE YOUR EXPECTATIONS!

Hey you Impact leaders! If you have not been raising your expectations for more of Him, you better start expecting, because He is going to blow a wind of breakthrough among us and the church as a whole! I received a dream about Impact from Tammy, a student from CalState Long Beach, who has visited Impact a few times.

Here's her dream:
i saw people walking around the church and kind of unsure of what is going to happen next. there is an expectation for something exciting or awesome to happen. after the service or during, some of us started to leave the church and went to a store. the store has the coolest and most trendy clothes. here is the awesome part: it is extremely cheap!! however, not a lot of people know about it because it doesn't have signs that says "On Sale" or anything. Only a few people from your church went into the store and bought things when I think everyone should get something! I mean like some of the jeans were only $5!!!! actually, a lot of the clothes were only $5!! If you ask the manager there, you'll know that it is on sale but if you don't ask, you'll probably think it's too expensive to buy anything there.

so this is what i sensed from the dream or its meaning for your church. God wants to bring a breakthrough at your church and he's bringing it soon! but you need to let go of the old wineskin or the familiarity of it to move on. i have the sense that you guys know that so that's really good.anyways, you need to change your old clothes and put on the new clothes. there is an anointing that is about to be released in your church so you can walk in the calling to impact the youth in this generation. to do this, you need to know that 1. your true identity, the identity that God is calling you! 2. the things that He wants to give to you are great stuff! you need to ask Him for them! it comes with a price, and that price is simply praying for them. You'll be able to purchase/receive these things through God's grace (number 5).

I'm expecting great things to happen at your local church soon!! woop-pii! i hope you can pass this on to your leader so he/she will be encouraged. God bless ya
love,tammy

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I believe this is a confirmation, and I have been expecting a breakthrough since we moved into this new facility. I believe we will enter into a season of new favor and new wine, even though I do not know what to expect.

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!...For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
-Isaiah 64:1,4-

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.-Romans 8:18-21-

I believe when we have positioned our hearts for a breakthrough, the Lord would reveal yet another side of Him to us, and the roof on which we are pounding shall be broken through and become the floor of a new dimension. Can you feel the anticipation? I urge you to stir yourselves up to contend for a breakthrough, and ask the Lord what is it that He wants us to pray and to press in. I believe in the next month or two, we will receive confirmations from different people regarding to the breakthrough we are about to enter into!

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
-2 Cor. 8:9-

Man I love that verse. I am believing for a new level of grace and favor is on its way. In order to take in the new wine, we oughta have our new wineskin ready!

I was just listening to Kris Vallotton earlier today, and I felt his message really lifted my expectation. He shared about Isaiah 54:

1 Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband," says the LORD.
2 "Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back;
lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
your descendants will inherit the nations and settle in their desolate cities.

God's telling the barren woman to SHOUT FOR JOY as if she just gave birth to a child! Moreover, He wants her to build a HUGE HOUSE even before she had any child! I believe we ought to start shout for joy and THANK HIM IN ADVANCE for what He is about to do! Throguh doing this we are creating an atmosphere that ushers in the breakthrough. It is very exciting NOT to know what God's about to do, but I can feel the ever-growing anticipation inside of me every day!

If you have read thus far, I pray that you are now as joyful as I am, and the Lord would convict your heart to start shouting for joy and thanking Him in advance for the breakthrough to come!

Just keep lovin' Jesus =D
Johnny