Get Some New Shoes Ben Peters Mar 13, 2007

Greetings in Jesus' Love,

It's been ten days since my last letter and they have been some of the busiest and best days of our lives. Some of the busyness has been extra company and private meetings and many trips to the airport to pick up people, but we have also had an intense weekend of ministry for the Chicago River Church and a large home group in Fox Lake.

Everywhere we go now we sense a new level of anointing and transition. We know we are entering into new territory and we've never been this way before. It's exhilerating, sometimes exhausting, but tremendously exciting.

For example, this Sunday morning at Chicago River Church, meeting at Trinity College, they took Brenda out to minister to the kids. She ended up staying there for over two hours, not only ministering herself, but getting many teenagers involved in prophesying as well. They prophesied to the young ones and then to each other and finally they and some of the children prophesied to Brenda. She was blown away by the prophetic flow of these kids who were prophesying their first time ever. One of the tall young men told her how her words had touched his heart and changed his life, which really blessed her. She left feeling very excited about what God is doing for today's youth.

NEW SHOES

Meanwhile, the Lord was giving me a message from the encounters that both Moses and Joshua had when they were told to take off their shoes because they were on holy ground. I believe that there was great symbolism in the taking off the shoes, along with the concept that the shoes are dirty from the journey.

The shoes they were wearing represented their journey of forty years in the wilderness. Moses had kept sheep for forty years and Joshua had wandered with Isreal for forty years. Their shoes represented the wilderness experience and they were now about to enter into their destiny. Moses' destiny was to bring Israel out of bondage, walking right into Pharaoh's court, and Joshua's destiny was to bring Israel into their promised land. I felt God was saying we need new shoes now for our new journey into destiny and the fulfillment of the vision that has been delayed in the past.

Prophets are telling us that this year is very significant. It is forty years this June since the Six Day War, when Israel possessed their possessions in Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights. There is coming a new release of spiritual possessions to the church as well as to the nation of Israel. This year 2007 will be a year of spiritual breakthrough for Israel and the church. It is a year of breakthrough in natural blessings as well.

ANOTHER BIG NUMBER FORTY

Brenda and I will have been married 40 years this summer. We know that our greatest ministry and our highest destiny is now upon us. Compared to the future, our past will seem like wilderness wanderings. Some amazing doors are opening to us and God is putting together an awesome team around us that will expand and multiply what we do. Finances, which have often eluded us, will flow through our hands to empower the younger generation and older saints as well to do the work they are called to do without being worried about provision.

Brenda has already got her new shoes, but I haven't had time to shop yet. I will be getting some new running shoes, because I intend to run the next forty years for Jesus and His Kingdom. That would make me 100. I might slow down a bit for the next twenty and let the young 80 year olds do the running.

Speaking of running, I better get on the road. We have three appointments today and I'm running late.

God bless you all with abundant grace, wisdom, anointing, intimacy and provision.

Your Servants and HIS!!!

Ben and Brenda, boys and team