PROPHETIC WORDS

A SEASON OF RECALIBRATION

by Lyn Packer

March 2025

This prophetic word was given at the NZ Council of Prophets gathering and Behold Conference in Christchurch, March 2025.

We are in a Josh 1:10 time where God is tearing down in order to build the new. Nehemiah had to clear the rubble and reset the foundations to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. If we want the new we must be willing to have wrong foundations exposed and torn down so that we have a solid, stable foundation to build the new on.

We are in an intensified time of shaking that is causing exposures within individual hearts, churches, theology, systems and governments. Amid the shaking God is at work, committed to our wholeness and righteousness, and is exposing all that is working against that in our lives. (In the Bible, shaking and sifting is usually associated with freeing the goodness of wheat from the chaff for the purpose of setting free and liberating the goodness of the wheat!)

God is showing us the hidden things of our heart, the things that have shaped us, and that we live from.

It is a season of paradigm shifts and, along with that, it’s a time of God-gifted opportunities for true repentance through the kindness of God (Rom 2:4). It is a season where we are invited to embrace the renewal of our mindsets joyously, running toward it with open arms, knowing that it is God’s kindness, and His love for us, that calls us to repentance, to a greater place of seeing truth, and having the mind of Christ established in us. This repentance will bring a change of one’s mind and result in a foundational and stable change in an individual’s life, which will be followed by a positive re-building.

It is a re-aligning, a de-construction, and re-construction, leading to reformation – personal and corporate – to bring us into alignment with the Covenant Christ established through His life, death and resurrection.

As promised in Rom 8: 27-29, God’s plan is to make all things work together for good and to fulfil His plan from the foundation of the world – the restoration of all things, reconciling all to Himself, reinstating mankind into the fullness of His original plan for us, that we might become like Christ.

A fresh call to Christocentric/New Covenant theology and lifestyle

The church as a whole and we as individuals are being recalibrated – measured against God’s nature and character, His standard of righteousness, wholeness and truth, to determine where we have deviated from that standard, to ascertain the proper correction factors, and to help us act accordingly. In this we must be humble and allow Him to challenge our thinking and renew our mindsets, to bring healing where needed, and adjust our character and the mindsets from which our behaviour flows. 

Over the next few years there will be an increased focus on seeing through a Christological lens. This will cause many questions to be raised and many long-held western evangelical church beliefs to be challenged in the light of newly gained understanding of what Jesus and the earliest church fathers believed, and how they lived as a result of that.

We must look back in order to see more clearly the path that leads forward. Jer 6:16 says, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it.” Jeremiah goes on to tell us the consequences of not walking in that way.

This questioning, and the corresponding mindset shifts, will be based on solid research into Scripture and early church beliefs. It will lead to Scripture being reinterpreted in the light of Christ’s work, not just on someone’s subjective revelation.

This paradigm shift will cause tension within the church globally, as mindsets and theologies are challenged, and will cause many to take sides as brothers and sisters accuse each other of heretical beliefs, simply because others dare to believe differently from what they believe to be the only truth. We will need to guard against the religious spirit that would want to bring division within the church and to isolate and label those who believe differently from us and see them after the flesh, instead of as God sees them.

There is an ongoing call to walk in humility with one another and to lay aside human based judgements. We are called to see no one after the flesh, but to see them after the Spirit – to see them as Christ sees them. As we humble ourselves, and see people as God sees them, it will allow for open and vulnerable dialogue to take place, especially in areas of disagreement. 

The Gospel of the Kingdom

There will be more emphasis on the gospel of the Kingdom, and how it is out worked in the earthly realm, and less on simply presenting a gospel of personal salvation, although that is obviously very important. Along with that there will be a renewed emphasis on discipleship (without the legalism of previous moves), and what it means to live as disciples of Christ and ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven. Christianity will become more Christ centred, less denominational belief centred, and less worldly minded.

That recalibration will reform the way we approach life, church, ministry, and our interactions with society. It will result in increased wholeness and effectiveness as sons, daughters and ambassadors of God’s Kingdom! This will have a flow on effect into society, as the children of God have reformational impact in every sphere of society

There will continue to be an increased shift away from measuring our Christianity by our ‘attendance at church’, to measuring it by whether we are ‘being the church’. By their fruit you shall know them (Matt 7:15-20).

Alongside that there is an increasing shift from our focus being only accepting church in its current form, to recognising the value of there being a variety of ways that the ecclesia can meet and operate from as their base.

There will also be an exposing and repentance needed for where we have made our western evangelical form of church an idol, or made our ministries an idol. Remember, Christ didn’t come to start a church. Part of the reason He came was to set mankind free from religion that held them bound to rules, regulations and traditions of man. Don’t think that us prophets are exempt from this. Many of us have had our wrong mindsets exposed, and we’ve needed to repent and ask God to lead us back to the ancient paths.

Shift away from seeking personal significance through gifts and ministry

There is an increased focus on representing the King and His Kingdom in an authentic and healthy way. Within that is a shift away from seeking personal significance through gifts and ministry to re-presenting the significance of Christ through gifts and ministry.

The Lord is calling ‘TIME”S UP!’ on the days of searching for significance through being seen to have a ministry. We have fallen prey to this subtle ploy of the ego, encouraged by the enemy of our soul, whose desire is to lure us away from the simplicity of following Christ. 

There is a call to come back to operating from true identity and godly character, as much loved sons and daughters of God and healthy, mature ambassadors of Christ, not just operating from giftings. God is dismantling ‘celebrity Christian’ culture, bringing us back to simply being followers and disciples of Christ, led by the Spirit of Truth, in life and ministry.

All the above is a glorious and positive work of the Spirit that will result in a ‘from glory to glory’ growth within the church, and a more authentic representation of Christ within society. This in turn will have a huge impact on how the church interacts within itself, and with society, leading to godly positive foundational shifts and changes within the church and in elements of society, and in how we treat each other.

In Summary. . .

• There is a recalibration unto righteousness and wholeness taking place in individuals, churches and world systems.

• A call to Christocentric theology and lifestyle.

• A shift away from seeking significance through gifts and ministry and a dismantling of ‘celebrity Christian’ culture.

• A shift in how church is seen, and how it operates.

• God is calling us to lay down ego and pride and walk in humility.

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