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A "new" wineskin can receive fresh wine and stretch and mature with it. An "old" wineskin will break when new wine is poured into it and starts stretching and maturing. Why? Because it lacks the trust that believes the stretching is for its good. When the Lord starts to give a fresh revelation of who he is, and who we are, it will reveal if we carry the trust to allow that revelation to mature IN us, or if we are so stuck on what is comfortable that it will break us and waste the wine. Stretching is a blessing.

Being chosen often comes with the assumption of a rejection of others. However, the way God chooses speaks to his intentionality. You were specifically chosen to become the fullness of God's image within your unique person. If we struggle to understand this and the full acceptance of the Father, we will not be able to allow our inner kingdom to be built into what the King desires it to become.

The kingdom of God doesn't start in a ministry setting or in the world around us; the kingdom of God starts within us. Within us is a vast kingdom that God, the king, longs to transform into the full image of his goodness. The problem is, to do so, he must first face—with us—the dark alleyways that we've avoided for a long time. We are the beloved of the Father. If we can grasp our beloved identity, we'll effortlessly see "Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven." We are a kingdom work before we ever do a kingdom work.

Revival is a choice. We are called to choose what we know to be true before we feel it or experience it. If you wait for momentum or mass adoption, you'll never encounter the fullness of what you can access. The first step into any experience with God is a choice.

Once we establish that we are what Christ has made us and that our futures are what he has made them, we can walk with confidence that all things are, in fact, possible for us.

Luke opens his gospel with his purpose and then his reasoning. In summary, Luke is writing to convince us of what we have heard (the Gospel), and he begins his convincing argument by introducing us to the idea that nothing is impossible for God. What does it look like for us, as people of God, to move from a life of fear-induced impossibility to faith-induced possibility?