The Lord spoke to me about the way we often run our churches, concerning foundations and building on them. He said “I cannot get My people to build above the first floor.” Pastors start to build a church but due to circumstances etc. they have to leave, and then another pastor takes over, and instead of building on the already established foundations – this new leader has new ideas, fresh revelation and they start teaching their new ideas etc. This means the church is so busy with renovating they have lost the ability to innovate with the Holy Spirit’s help.

Our leaders need to recognise and respect our foundations, and the things that have already been built. Someone else before them has already laid a foundation in Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:6. “I planted the seed but Apollos made it grow.”  Hebrews 6:1. “Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God…”

Let’s learn together how to build His church ABOVE the first floor … ushering in maturity and wisdom. We prayerfully need to respect the ministry of those people who went before us.  This will take great faith, humility and the ability to recognise  what other saints have done. Otherwise the church will constantly nit-pick over things that could easily take care of themselves.

We need to trust the Holy Spirit to do what He said He would do, and the Body must grow up into the fullness of Christ.and go on past the foundations and the lower floors into the greater things He promised us in John 14:12. “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.”  Amen.