Pandemic Pause: Time to “Re” Invent Yourself

I believe some of the next greatest inventors, business leaders, pastors, entrepreneurs and creatives are going to rise out of this time of crisis.

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I hear the Lord saying “It is time to reinvent yourself.”

The Lord has been reminding me of the economic crisis in 2008 during the Obama administration. In that time my husband lost his job because all building had halted.

He went to work for another local guy for a short time doing odds and end construction. We never missed a check-in at that time of recession. We may have had to live from week to week but God provided and we remained faithful.

Then at that time, I felt the Lord tell me to encourage him to step out in faith and start his own construction business again. Yes, start a business in a time of economic crisis.

I remember the Lord saying “He needs to re-invent himself in this time.” So we asked God what did that look like? He stepped out in faith and started taking different kinds of construction or handyman jobs. It was a “one call does it all” type of thing. He moved with the circumstances under pressure and was successful eventually building a business with multiple crews. He had knowledge and wisdom from prior seasons of life to apply to the new season.

WHERE ARE NEW INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE ONES?

The point is this. In times of crisis, we must get creative. I, and many other prophets, have spoken of this New Era being a time of new creative and innovative ideas. The Lord has been speaking this since last year. And I believe He was doing so to prepare us for such a time as this. Everything is virtually online right now. This means many of us have had to get creative and innovative with our lives, our businesses, and our ministries.

WHERE ARE THE BEZALELS OF TODAY? WHERE ARE THE ESTHERS OF TODAY? WHERE ARE THE LYDIAS OF TODAY?

WHO WILL RISE TO CREATE AND ESTABLISH GOD’S KINGDOM ON THE EARTH?

I believe that this is part of the reinvention and innovation of the new era. It’s part of a paradigm shift. A Paradigm shift is a belief system and a way of thinking. I believe the Lord is wanting to break down the walls of limited thinking and challenge what we thought we knew about life, business, ministry and even Him.

I hear the Lord saying “IT’S TIME TO REINVENT YOURSELF IN THIS SEASON. THE STRUCTURE AND SECURITY YOU HAD IN WHAT YOU KNEW AND WHAT YOU BUILT IS BEING CHANGED. IT’S BEING FORCED TO CHANGE.”

SEE AND THINK FROM ON HIGH (Ephesians 2:6)

God is calling us to think higher and see from higher places. He’s calling us to seek Him and hear from His heart and His mind.

Multitudes need to reinvent themselves right now with new creative and innovative ideas.

I hear the Lord say, “YOU WILL NOT BE WIPED FROM THE MAP BUT YOU WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN THIS TIME. YOU WILL BE MARKED BY A MASSIVE SHIFT OF CREATIVITY.”

Many of you who have been displaced from your churches, jobs or lost them altogether. This is an opportunity for you to reinvent yourself according to the Innovation creation of the most-high God. He’s wanting you to think higher of yourself. He’s wanting you to think and co-labor with Him as a co-creator.

IT’S TIME!

One month ago I was driving and praying and I heard the Lord say “THIS IS YOUR TIME”.

Then I had a vision of multiple people I know in all different mountains of society.

He was speaking to me, too. I began to weep. I knew the hard work and the faithfulness of these people and myself. I could feel a flood of favor about you be poured out on those who had been faithful in and out of season. These were diligent ones who had not gotten distracted on “the way” to the promised land. These were ones that were not swayed by cultural trends or forced to perform under the pressure of marketing or ministry.

The Lord said, “THIS IS YOUR TIME.”

Those prophecies of new creative and innovative words—well, THIS IS YOUR time to pray into them, seek His face and ask Him to give you divine solutions.

It’s time to partner with heaven and agree with all God wants to do in and through you — for your good and His glory. He is re-establishing His kingdom and wants to work with you!

What do those things look like from the mind of God?

MADE IN CRISIS – MARKED BY HISTORY

I believe some of the next greatest inventors, business leaders, pastors, entrepreneurs, and creatives are going to rise out of this time of crisis. I believe it is the ones who are resilient and resistant to the storm. I believe it is the ones who have walked faithfully with Him in and out of season. I believe it is the ones who know their identity and carry the mind of Christ in everything they do. I believe it is the ones who can see!

I hear the Lord say, “YOU WILL BE MADE IN CRISIS AND MARKED BY HISTORY.”

“Watch and see these will be the ones that are made in crisis and marked by history”, says the Lord. This will be the next wave of creative and innovative design, business & medical and even ministry moguls.

IT’S TIME

“It’s time to reinvent yourself,” says the Lord.

Exodus 31:2-5 NKJV
[2] “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. [3] And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, [4] to design artistic works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, [5] in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood, and to work in all manner of workmanship.

Read Exodus 36 – More than enough!

Esther 4:14 NKJV
[14] For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

1 Corinthians 2:13-16 NKJV
[13] These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. [14] But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. [15] But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. [16] For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Isaiah 11:2 NKJV
[2] The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.

 

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About the Author

Dionne White Art and Mentoring exists to care for the soul of the culture in her community. She does this by creating and designing art divinely inspired to release beauty and display God's glory. Her work carries a message of hope, healing, peace, and restoration. Dionne weaves together the message of the cross and God's heart (Isaiah 61) along with the Japanese art of kintsugi method, "the mending of brokenness", using fine gold paint. This message and method are at the heart of her art, writing, speaking, instructing and mentoring. She is passionate about awakening souls to truth and identity of abundant life. Her mission is to blaze a path to peace through all her creative avenues and mentoring. As a prophetic artist, writer, mentor and speaker her heart is to fully connect and equip people with all God has for them in order to prosper and glorify Him. Redemption, Restoration, and Transformation describes her mission and purpose for God's glory.