Sparking the Divine Shift

How the Vocabulary We Create Ignites Kingdom Culture

When observing God's past moves, a common thread emerges. The physical location or the vast expanse of a movement doesn't negate this thread: language outwardly expresses a fresh kingdom concept first born from internal change. “Bend me, God” are the words spoken by Evan Roberts that were the outward expression of his inner-man change. Ultimately, this made way for the Welsh Revival.

Language is a necessary part of our existence. We need it in some form or fashion to communicate, but its true power lies much deeper. Language creates understanding for the things we only feel or vaguely conceptualize. Those internal senses—that undeniable tension in the atmosphere between what was and what is coming—arrive long before we have the vocabulary to define them.

For years, Crystal and I discussed the idea of a new kingdom culture, yet we lacked the language for it. We used many different words trying to express the heart of God in this cultural shift, but we hadn't quite discovered a vocabulary that communicated it clearly to our community.

Then, around 2008, as I began discovering and documenting the different spiritual aspects at work in our world—observations and data that would eventually fill the pages of my notebooks—we found the language we needed. Words like New Era emerged in our daily conversations long before the phrase became popular in the wider church.

I believe the words we use to express our ideas ultimately help people understand the divine shifts they are sensing but haven't been able to intentionally grasp. With language, these internal feelings and quiet revelations can be externally spoken. It gives more people a way to move from merely sensing the transition to actively participating in it.

This brings me to a pivotal question: Does language become the external spark of our internal concepts that lead us into a move of God?

If this is true, then what language are you creating around the internal ideas and concepts of the Kingdom that will spark a move of God for those in your life?

This move of God is deeply personal. It is not a top-down broadcast; it is a one-to-one, face-to-face groundswell that you play a vital part in. It operates on the mathematics of transformation—where pouring authentic love into a few friends replicates dynamically through the multiplication principle, multiplying outward into the culture rather than just adding to a crowd.

A Final Challenge

What is your language, and who will be drawn to that authentic voice so they can finally meet, encounter, and respond to Jesus?

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