The world is standing at the threshold of an unprecedented shift. In light of this reality, we must embrace fresh paradigms of change and uncover the passageway that leads from the "old" to the "new." To help navigate this critical transition, The Coming Shift reveals our need for change and transformation and presents a clear vision for the next step of our journey."The Coming Shift expresses the hope and vision that many share of the church's glorious maturity in our time. It will encourage and inspire those who are called to help bring this hope of the ages to a victorious conclusion." – Rick Joyner
I haven't read this book yet, but I intend to soon. We are about to enter a new dimension never before experienced. In a sense, I think we are leaving one age, and entering another..call it dispensation. I also just read this on the Watchmen site called Door of Hope:
What Time Is It?
One of the most important things we need to realize right now is that we have entered into a very significant season of transition in the body of Christ. There is a shift taking place from the church age to the kingdom age. Everything we have known about “doing church” is about to be turned upside down. Religious structures and mindsets that have not been founded on the pure word of God are being uprooted and pulled down, so God can download new revelation, strategies and blueprints from heaven to see the establishment of His kingdom on earth. This shift is critical to the end-time preparation of a glorious Bride and our enemy, knowing that he cannot stop God’s eternal purposes, is doing all that he can to “change the set times and the laws” of God (Daniel 7:5). This strong spiritual dullness is meant to make us insensitive and unaware of the urgency of the hour. It is vital that at this time, we remain “self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.” 1 Peter 5:8-9
There could also be a physical shift: as scientifically defined -
There are two basic types of poleshifts:
axial shift: a change in the inclination of the earth's axis caused by the entire planet altering its axial orientation in space (the position of the geographic poles and equator is unaffected);
polar wander: a change in the location of the geographic poles and equator caused by the entire earth, or its outer shell, moving relative to the spin axis, whose inclination remains unchanged.
Isaiah 24:20a (NIV)
The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind;
I've only been given a glimpse of the spiritual shift but it will completely blow out all pre-conceived ideas, all man made solutions, all programs and self efforts..I was given a prophetic word February 9, 2006, speaking of this very thing...and I quote a portion of it:
......But I tell you this - I have heard the prayers of a small remnant of my people. I am sending a warm wind to blow. This wind will not be like any other wind of the past, for I am a creative God, and I love to do new things. Therefore, do not dwell on any former thing or on any other move of my Spirit, for I am indeed doing a new thing. It will spring up quickly; it will be very different. It will challenge mindsets and institutions. The wind I speak of is the wind of my Spirit blowing. It will be a wind of true repentance and sorrow, even as they look on the one they have pierced and there will be a heavy spirit of grace and supplication on those who hear my call.
Zechariah 12:10 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
To some, who have already been walking in brokenness, humility and true repentance from their own dead works, this wind will come as a rushing wind of power, anointing and love to envelop them and enable them. Most of these servants of mine are well hidden in my body at the present time. They have not looked for positions of ministry or power for themselves, but are presently a nameless, faceless band of people who have learned the way of the cross, to empty themselves so that I can live my life through them. They shun the attention of man, for they know that what is highly esteemed among men, is detestable to me. They also have learned to judge not what their eyes see or their ears hear, but to discern my ways and my voice. They have learned that their own ways cannot be trusted and that my ways are vastly different. They have learned to set aside their own wisdom in exchange for mine. For the wisdom of man is foolish in my sight.
