A transition is represented by a stage of change between one experience and another. This results in a development in the life of the leader, a community or a church.
When God wants to take us to a transition, he first deals with us and allows certain factors to begin to appear on the threshold of the transitions in our ministries.
It is necessary to ask the Lord to keep us always sensitive to detect such factors and move in the transition in God's time and not rush but not delay waiting for the transferrs to arrive.
For example: when Abraham begins the transition from leaving Ur of the Chaldeans, to find a city whose foundation and maker is God, he meets Melchizedek. There is the order. Immediately there is a change in lifestyle.
Abraham is in a casual life and suddenly enters a divine life. In this trajectory, the first thing that happens is that he gives his nose with the order of Melchizedek. When Israel leaves Egypt, at the first stop, God institutes the Levitical priesthood.
Whenever there is a change, whenever there is a transition, the priests appear on a different level. In the reform of Martin Luther, in addition to the fact that the righteous lives by faith, what he emphasized was in the priesthood of each believer, where each believer could approach God by himself, without intermediaries.
When Israel is crossing the Jordan, a transition begins: stop wandering in the desert and begin to distribute inheritance. A totally different lifestyle. When they cross and go to the valley of Shittim, the priesthood of Phinehas is presented.
Today, it has come to us as a church to begin a process of transition from which we will emerge victorious, giving way to a renecer of Christian ministries at the international level, whose mission is to expand the kingdom to the ends of the earth.
In the Gospels we find expressions like these repeatedly: "The hour has not come" "This is the hour" "Now it is". Expressions that indicate the movement of God in his time.God is saying: the cloak and the mantle are no longer good. That which brought you to today, does not work anymore. If you stay in it, says the Scripture, take off those garments and he said: see that I have taken away your sin.
There are four principles for the transition: No. 1: That God has a war against every incorrect position.- No. 2: There is the restoration of a divine order.- No. 3: The activation of the influence of the kingdom.- No. 4: The authority that enables the construction of the house. This means, in short, the assertion of God's purposes.
When there is a change in the church, this is not independent of your home. If the church changes, your home changes. If the church changes, humanity changes. That is, when there is a change in the church, that change has to affect the whole society.
If the church changes, its mentality changes. He no longer says the same, he does not talk to his children any more, he no longer relates to the same people. A change in the church is not a change in the order and methodology of the cult. You are church. The church is not the pastor, the deacons, the pulpit and the sacrament. The church is what God says it is and not what men have become accustomed to it.
The 13th chapter of Genesis speaks to us at the beginning and end of Abraham's building an altar to Jehovah. Before the transition and after it, Abraham built an altar to Jehovah. It is at the altar where we can understand the transitions and enter them. Let us approach the altar of Jehovah and surrender day by day the ministry that God has given us and thus we will not fear to enter into transition.
