Gale Sheehan: "Kingdom Reformation is

at Hand--As GREAT as you SEE ME will

be as Great as I Will Be"
By Gale Sheehan
Mar 10, 2008

Seeing God Great in Church Reformation for City Transformation

The Lord has been speaking to me prophetically and saying, "As

GREAT as you see Me will be as GREAT as I will be." The Scripture
the Lord gave me to confirm this prophetic word is Numbers 13. This is
the story of Moses being directed by the Lord to send spies into the
Promised Land to bring back a report of the land. The spies came back
with proof that there was a great harvest in the land and it was very
fruitful and prosperous. The valley of Eshcol had grapes of tremendous
proportions. However, only two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, said it was a land that
could be taken and possessed with the help of the Lord. The other spies said the land
could not be taken because all the people in the land were giants and the cities were
greatly fortified.

This negative report was not even a true analysis of the land. It was true that there were
a few giants in the land, but not the exaggeration that all the people of the land being
giants. Because of this negative report, the Israelites became dismayed and did not enter
the land to fight and possess it. Joshua and Caleb were the only two people of about two
million that actually got to enter the land and possess it, and that was many years after
this story. They, however, held fast to their original view, which was--if God is for us
we can take the land--giants or not.

2008 will be a year that God will be as great as how "we see Him" in our battles,
challenges, opportunities and destinies. This year, we will need to see the Lord
moving great on our behalf--or there will be no lands, spoils, and victories to possess.
God wants to demonstrate He is able to do all things exceedingly and abundantly
beyond all we ask or think according to His power that works within us. That means He
desires to do great miracles on our behalf and cause us to possess great things for Him.
The only way we will be able to gain the victories He has for us this year, is to have the
same view and mentality of Joshua and Caleb of old. This is the perspective that--we
can do it because we see God as being a Great God!

His Greatness is all that matters in the battles at hand. We will need to see His greatness
and decree His greatness to make our victories real. The power of our words enforces
the greatness of our God. We can be a people that are not persuaded by the negative
reports or facts of the satanic kingdom, but be ones moving forward in faith by the
Word of the Lord. In the midst of darkness and birth pangs of last day events, we
can be a people of God arising and shining--because our God is a Great God.

Here are some keys to enable us to see and experience God being GREAT in 2008:

1. Magnify the Lord!

"O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together." Psalm 34: 3

We can magnify the Lord in our situations by focusing on Him and His victory in the
midst of all else that would persuade us otherwise. Even though we do not make God
bigger in an actual sense, we do make Him "bigger" than doubt, unbelief, disease,
financial lack, despair etc in our eyes and in our heart. This is important because out of
our heart the mouth speaks. We acknowledge who He is in character first and foremost
and worship Him because of that. Then we can also worship Him for what He will do
on our behalf.

2. His Word is His Promise!

"...for thou hast magnified Thy word according to all Thy name." Psalm 138: 2

God says that He Himself has exalted the power of His Word according to all His name.
God has declared the victories He has for us in His Word. This Scripture in Psalms says
God stands behind His Word with all that He is. If we desire to experience the victories
God has for us, we need to know what His Word says. There is power in every promise
of the Lord to make that promise happen. This means natural things and demonic things
must change to come in agreement with the Word of the Lord. In order for us to walk in
this realm, we must move from being passively hopeful in our thinking, to being
actively aggressive with our mouth. As Bill Hamon decreed this past year, "The victory
is in our mouth."

3. God's Spoils are GREAT!

"Now the sons of Israel had done according to the Word of Moses, for they had
requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold and clothing: and the
Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have
their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians." Exodus 12:35-36

When the Israelites spied out their promised land, they found the land had great spoils to
be taken. There were supernatural grapes that would require two men to carry a single
cluster between poles. We must see that with God, we also have great spoils to plunder
and the things the enemy has robbed must be returned. After many years in captivity,
the Israelites left Egypt with a great spoil of silver, gold and precious commodities.
However, the only way we will get the spoils into our hands is seeing God be great in
the midst of the situation and relying upon Him in impossible situations. We do this by
decreeing and declaring who He is and who we are in Him.

4. Seeing God GREAT in Battle!

"And the Lord confounded them before Israel, and He slew them with a great slaughter
at Gibeon...and as far Makkedah. The Lord threw large hailstones from Heaven...and
there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed
with a sword." Joshua 10:10-11

This passage shows that God is actively involved in our battles. Sometimes He may use
hailstones; sometimes He may discharge angels to fight; sometimes He may alter the
natural courses of rivers and seas; sometimes He confuses the enemy to fight among
themselves. We are co-laborers with the Lord in the battles we are in. It is important to
know that we cannot do God's part and He will not do our part. God wants to us co-
labor with Him to release our victories and defeat our enemies.

5. See God's Great Love for Us!

"But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I
am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created
thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ our Lord."
Romans 8:37-39

God's everlasting love for us is the key and foundation for our victory and destiny in
Him. He loved us before we knew Him and has the victorious plan for us to be
conformed to the image of Jesus. As we follow Him in obedience and see Him great in
our circumstances, He will lead us by His truth and life to victory.

Church Reformation for City Transformation

This year will prove to be a monumental one for the Body of Christ. Seeing God "as
great" will enable us to move into new realms. As the number 8 has always been a
significant sign of launching into new beginnings, this year represents a "new beginning
era for the Church." It is a strategic time in God's timetable for a great reformation for
the Church. The Greek word for Church is the word "ekklesia" which means assembly
or called out ones. Martin Luther received a new revelation from the Lord of "the just
shall live by faith," which caused the structure of Christianity to be changed forever. In
this same way, there is a new revelation coming to those who have ears to hear of
another "monumental change" for the Church as we have known it.

There has been a Church structure system in place since the time of the Great
Reformation of Martin Luther's era, which has separated "clergy" from "laity." The
Church has also focused on things occurring "inside" the four walls of a building rather
than wherever saints are living and working. This separation has limited born again
believers from successfully fulfilling their destiny or ministry. There has been a false
belief that the power of God and ministry of the Spirit was reserved just for
"clergy."

The new revelation coming forth at this time is--Jesus preached a message of the Gospel
of the Kingdom. This message of the Kingdom is a message of the Church impacting
those things that had been lost at the fall. Jesus preached that it was His Father's desire
to have a Kingdom of priests who would represent Him in the earth. He stated in the
Book of Luke that He had a purpose to preach the Gospel to the poor, proclaim release
to captives, proclaim recovery of sight to the blind, set free those who are downtrodden,
and proclaim the favorable year of the Lord. These Kingdom goals will now be
fulfilled by all in the Kingdom, rather than just a few.

For the last several years, it has been on my heart that we were nearing the timetable of
the Lord for a launching of a "Saints Movement" described in Ephesians 4:12. This will
be a time when believers will realize they can be Kingdom priests with power to change
their environments. This means workplaces, governmental arenas, educational settings,
media systems, entertainment spheres and financial institutions will be influenced by
saints fulfilling destiny in those realms. This year of 2008 will be a year we see this
fulfillment come to a new fruition in the Church around the world. This will enable the
Church to impact and take dominion over forces of darkness as never before.

In Matthew 16:18, Jesus tells Peter that he (Peter) received a revelation of who Jesus
was and upon that revelation Jesus would build His Church. Jesus also said, "...the
Gates of Hell shall not overpower it." This "Kingdom Dominion" movement will
initiate a reformation of the Church today in a way that enables believers to fulfill
destiny in the power of the Lord.

Colossians 1:25-27, states there has been a mystery hidden for ages and the mystery is
"Christ in you the hope of Glory." For every born again believer, these are exciting days
of demonstrating the Kingdom of God.

This year will initiate a movement in the Body of Christ, leading to great impact by the
Kingdom of God upon the kingdoms of darkness. As the Church arises to shine and
take dominion in this hour, there will be cities, states and nations changed and
launched to fulfill God-given destinies. Signs, wonders and miracles will be an avenue
for saints to demonstrate the Kingdom in the places where they are. As we, Kingdom
priests, reveal the nature of our King Jesus and demonstrate the power of His name, it
will lead to a great harvest season in the Church today. There are many that will be
transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of Light, because saints are
arising in this season and are seeing the Church transformed to a Church of power and
dominion in the earth today.

Let us be those that see God as Great and hear the Spirit of the Lord to activate "Church
Reformation for City Transformation."

Miracles Now!!

Gale Sheehan
Christian International Network
Email: cimn@cimn.net

About Gale Sheehan:

Gale and his wife Shelly, serve as Directors of Christian International Apostolic
Network and are the founders of Destiny Now Ministries. They serve as an
apostle/prophet team in the Body of Christ and serve on apostolic oversight leadership
teams for networks, Bible colleges and local churches. Gale and Shelly have appeared
on the 700 Club and TBN broadcasts and are speakers at national and international
conferences. Gale and his family reside in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.