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We're In A New Season | Pastor Craig Field | Wed. Jan. 21, 2026
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We're In A New Season | Pastor Craig Field | Wed.…
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I just want to say in just a few minutes and then we'll go. And the weather's a bit bad tonight, so I'd like you to go early a little bit so you can get home faster. But I just want you to know that the Lord's been dealing a lot with me while we've been away. Well, I've been away. Both of us were away. And then I got home and left a few hours later. And he's been just. He's just been dealing with me a lot. It just won't leave me. It's just like a bubbling, you know, like a kettle that's boiling. It just won't turn off. It just keeps coming. Every day, it keeps bubbling up. Son, you're in a brand new season. Son, you're in a brand new season. I'm thinking that because of that brand new day thing, we can do that individually for our lives. But in the bigger picture as a ministry, which we're all individual part of that ministry, but as a ministry, I just want you to know we're. Something has happened. I didn't even really see it coming, Jenny, because he started talking to you about it and Joey, but then he started dealing with me about it and he won't let me go. He just keeps. It just keeps rolling over me, over me on a daily basis for days now. And he just keeps saying the same thing. Son, you're in a brand new season now. What I said, but Lord, you know, we're on a timeline. We've been following this timeline from 2017, right? And so we're still in the timeline. I think I shared with you the next four years and what that timeline is. And so none of that's changed. But see, God is multidimensional and he's multi layered. And what I just thought was this a normal. I mean, I knew something important was happening because the 17 year of pastoring completed just like 17 years of preparatory. I stepped into the pastor's office, I stepped into that apostle's office. That was October, October to December. The pattern with me and God, it's always an hors d'. Oeuvre. It's an overlap. It really starts in the new year, but it's an hors d' oeuvre in the last quarter of the previous year for me to get a taste of what's coming. And so he always does stuff in those three months, and he did a lot in those three months for me when I would minister, that healing anointing went up dramatically in that three Months, Pastor Nancy and Pat Harrison ministered to me with tongues and interpretation of tongues and laid hands on me from the night they did that healing, anointing, there was a distinct increase in that, and there was other things that God dealt with me and spoke. So there was certainly an hors d', oeuvre, and it was a wonderful hors d'. Oeuvre. But I knew that January, come January, it's the main meal. It's always like that. It's like the main thing starts. You know, you have a salad, but then you get your main dish. Nobody's really that interested in the salad. They want their main dish, okay? And so we always get a taste. So I knew January is important because it's the beginning of the main meal and what we tasted is good, but now it's going to start to really ratchet up. But I'll be honest with you, in my heart, it was just very simple. This is just another year of our timeline. Every year it's just another year. And every year is important. And I knew that this apostle thing was very important, but that's more apostle for the world. It's not necessarily affecting the local church here very, very much. Do you understand? It's more for my traveling ministry. So I'm just entering 26 then, thinking, Lord, you know, my focus is a lot on that apostolic thing and that traveling thing, and not that it's not on the church, but it's just that has dominated my thinking mostly. And I'm thinking, okay, well, when it comes to the church, promise of life, not Fmigo, just promise of life. You know, we're just in another year. Every year it's another year. It's important, but there's nothing that special about it. We're just in another year. We're in 2026. Then it's going to be then. We know all the symbols and we know what's coming, and it's just going to keep progressing. I don't know what's happening after 29 because he hasn't said anything to me. He's only shown me to 2029. So I don't know. Either we're going to be raptured or we're going to see. I don't think it's going to happen then, but I think something is going to break loose in the 30s, and we're going to see this last day move of God that all the great men of God that have gone before us have prophesied about. I think we're going to see it But God is prepping us to get ready because it's going to be a big thing. It is. Okay? So I'm just thinking it's just another year. Now the possible thing is the ministry, international ministry, that's a kind of a different big deal. But the church is the church. Everything is the same. We're just following our timeline. Do you understand? But then in early January, very first week of January, that's where the Lord started dealing with me. And my wife, obviously, I think had got it even before me. But that's where he started dealing with me and said, you, yes, everything is continuing in the timeline. But son, you don't understand. He didn't tell me till January. That's very interesting. He didn't tell me while I was eating the hors d'. Oeuvre. He waited to the new year because that's when the main thing happens. And right in the first week he started saying to me, it's a brand new season. And I'm thinking, I know about the apostle. And he said, no, I'm not talking about the apostolic, I'm talking about promise of life. I'm talking about your home, local church. And because the timeline is not about the apostolic, the timeline is about our church. Do you understand? And, and he said, and I said, but Lord, why is it a new season? We're just continuing. We're just trudging through these years. And that's when he started to reveal to me. He said, yes and no, you are continuing. But the last four years has its, it's like its own. It's like, it's like a multi layer. I don't know how to explain it to you, but it's like multi layered. The last, it is this main timeline. But the last four is the last years of this timeline. And he always deals with me in fours. I don't know why, but that's another pattern with me. He always deals with me in fours. And he said the years before have been, if I could say it this way, normal years. But he said, and he keeps saying it every day. That's why I know it's not just me feeling something one day or you know, just being emotional one day. Because when God repeats it day after day after day after day, he's trying to get my attention. Son, pay attention. I'm really trying to say something to you. And it's not just a regular. This is not just another trudging. 26, 27, 28, 29. It is continuing the timeline. But you have something, something's different. This is a layering. And these years have been set apart. They're part of the bigger timeline, but they're in some ways their own timeline, even though they're part of the bigger timeline. And there's something very special about these years. And I would not know that unless the Holy Ghost said that to me. And I probably wouldn't say it to you unless he said it to over and over and over and over again. Because he's trying to get my attention and he wants your attention. And he's talking to me because I'm in the office. You're not. But you listen because he talked to me and I'll talk to you. But it will bear witness in your spirit. If you'll check your spirit and if you'll pray about it, it will bear witness to your spirit. In your spirit. There is something that has changed. I don't even know how to articulate it, Jenny. I don't know how to articulate it because in my natural mind we're just continuing our years. But there's something about these four years that God, it's like he's elevated them. It's like it's in timeline, but he's taken them out of the timeline and put him almost in its own level, an elevated level, a higher level. And there's something very special about what's about to happen. I'm telling you, I'm speaking to you by the Holy Ghost. And he keeps saying this. You're in a brand new season. You're in a brand new season. You're in a brand new season, son. You're in a brand new season. And I might feel the same to you, and I might even feel the same to me. But in God, the way he sees it, he's looking at this as the clock is ticking. Jesus is coming. And I'm giving you four years to get to a certain place. Because I'm telling you after that, I don't know what's going to happen. But. But something big. I mean, across the whole body of Christ, not just for us, but something big is fixing to happen. And he is taking. It's almost like he's saying you're so on a timeline that you can get too familiar with the timeline. I don't know how to explain that to you. And it's almost like he's saying it's a reset. You're still on the timeline. But pay attention. This is not just church as normal. This is not just timeline as normal. This is not just one year to the next as normal. No, something's changed. Something is elevated. And this is the first of the last four years in terms of the timeline and in terms of prepping for something that God wants to do on the earth. And I'm telling you, it's bigger than any of us really realize or can fathom. So I want you to know the Lord. I need you to know what the Lord is saying to me as your pastor. You're in a brand new season. It is the same kind of season from one perspective, but in another way. You're in a brand new season. It's a season of fire and glory. Now, I'm going to share some things that really were a blessing to me on Sunday that my wife shared with me that she got by the Holy Ghost about Amy Simple McPherson. And there's some, there's some, there's some neat stuff that the Lord supernaturally revealed to us because there's some kind of a connection. I'm not fully sure everything. I don't understand everything. But he just, he talked to us about this next four years and some parallels with her ministry. And I don't know, and I'm afraid to say that because I know people, you know, they'll attack and they'll accuse and they'll say certain things, but it doesn't matter. God knows my heart. And I'm not trying to. Not trying to imitate her. I'm just saying when God says things, it's important that we pay attention to those things. Hallelujah. And listen, I just want to say something. I'm going to say this very gently and I'm going to say this very carefully because I don't want anybody to be hurt or anybody to be offended. But let me just say this, and you can figure out the rest of it on your own. When you start something new, do you understand? Sometimes changes have to happen. Do you understand? Sometimes certain people that can't or don't want to go with the new, they have to go. You understand? And the problem with the local church, it's such a positive and it's such a negative, is because we're people, humans with souls. We come here, we're faithful, and we get to know people and we become friends with people and we become close with people. And then all of a sudden, sometimes those people are no longer here, and then that hurts us and we feel a void. Do you understand? And then depending on the reason why they left, sometimes they will not be very positive about me or about the church or about whatever. Do you understand? And then it's. Now this is where it gets very dangerous. Because if God planted you and if God put you, because spiritually you're in covenant, but soulishly you wonder why, you wonder what happened. And then sometimes you reach out and talk and then you don't know what's going to be said. And then the devil's got a prime opportunity. If negative things are said and they're not always said negatively, but if they are, you've got it off. The devil has an opportunity to now try to separate you and get you offended. But I'm just telling you, and you better listen to me because I've waited on God for many, many hours and so was my wife since January 1st. And the Lord was so kind. But he said, we're in a brand new season, son. And he said, anybody that will not go with you for a variety of reasons, and I won't get into those reasons. But whatever the reasons are that they won't go with you, it's better that they go. Because I need people that are all in. I need people that are going to go with the vision and not withstand you in any way, shape or form. And you know, some people, they've got their own vision. Other people, they. They're offended with my vision. Other people, they're offended about money. Other people, they're not living clean and they don't want to. They don't want to change their ways. There's. There's a lot of reasons why. Do you understand? But. And sometimes they're legitimate and sometimes they're not. But I'm just saying, the Lord dealt with me. He said, you're in a new season now. Sometimes when a new season starts, there's a bit of a shuffling, you understand? And the Holy Ghost is trying to protect our flow in this season. And it's not that we're against anybody, but if they won't go with this flow, if they won't go with my instruction as a pastor, then despite how much we love them and miss them, it's best that they find another place. Because I have to go with God. Are you all listening to me? So that you don't, you don't. If you are feeling, you know, we notice somebody's not here or somebody's not there, you know, you can pray for them, you can love them, but I'm just warning you, if you reach out and there's anything negative spoken about me or the church, you better guard your heart and you better not just believe what somebody says until you come talk to me because nobody knows how I deal with people because they're not there. Nobody knows what I see in the spirit as the office of a pastor because they're not me. Nobody knows what God shows me about people in the night seasons by the Holy Ghost, because you're not me. And nobody hears me plead with people, beg people, try to rescue people. I'm a very mercy motivated person. I'm firm, but I'm very fair. And nobody knows that. So don't ever pass judgment on me because you weren't there and you don't know. And that's why you have to trust me, that I'm here to protect this fold and I'm here to protect the path ahead of us. And that doesn't mean that anybody is our enemy. And that doesn't mean we're mad at anybody. And just. I want you all to know something. I wasn't planning on saying all this, but I can feel the Holy Ghost. I just want you to know somebody. If I have ever kicked somebody out of this church, you will know it. Because any person I've ever kicked out, I have announced it publicly. If I kick somebody out, it means there is such danger, there is such violation of their life that they are dangerous to the sheep. And I will not let that go. I will make an announcement. So if you don't see somebody here and you haven't seen me make that announcement, it means I didn't kick them out. They chose to leave on their own accord. Do you understand? Because sometimes I get texts. Pastor, why did you kick this person out? And I'm thinking, what are you talking about? Where did you come up with that? That I kicked somebody out? Well, we don't see them, so why do you assume that I did the kicking out? Do you understand? It actually really hurts me and it infuriates me because people don't know how to. They're not pastors. They don't know how to be a pastor. Unless you are in that office. You have no idea. You think you do, but you don't. And it's a difficult office to navigate at times. Traveling ministry is easy, man. You blow in, you blow up, and you blow out. But a pastor has to labor with the people, has to protect the sheepfold, has to talk to people, has to hear all of their different things. You have no idea what I hear. And then try to walk in love, and then try to rescue and then try to pray. Lord, what do I do? How do I help? Do I let him go? But I'm just saying if it gets to the point where I say you're out, I make an announcement. If you don't hear the announcement, it means they left on their own. So don't think that your pastor is mean or just kicking people out because that's not my heart. We're trying to build this church. We're not trying to shrink this church. Now listen. So God's been dealing with me. You're in a brand new day. Don't worry about. Don't worry about others. Just don't even give them thought. Focus on what I've asked you to do. I'm bringing you people that will run with you, that will in no way shape or form hinder your vision. They are all in. They are all in. They're David's mighty men. Okay? All in. Now I'm meditating on this for days. He's saying this to me day after day after day after day. And I've just preached in the. In the night service at Billy Brim's church. And she was watching, by the way. Oh God. It's nerve wracking. And apparently she liked it and she wants to meet Jenny and I in the fall. They've invited us back and she's flying in from Branson just to talk to us. And anyway, praise God. Such an amazing general. And she's just been around, you know, and you know, and Chip told me stories about Mama Jenkins who was under Wigglesworth. And he spent time with her privately and stuff that's not in the books, stuff that's never been preached, stuff that's not in any sermon that she's just giving nuggets about his life. And Billy sitting with dad Hagen hundreds and hundreds of hours transcribing his books. But she changed the world by doing that. He never wrote a book. Did you know that? He preached sermons and she transcribed them and then they edited them into books. Brad Hagin never wrote one book. Never. But he preached under the anointing. And Ms. Billy was the first one. Others later that transcribed that. And that's where you have the believer's authority. Thank Ms. Billye Brim for that. How to be led by the spirit. Thank Ms. Billye Brim. If it wasn't for her, it wouldn't have happened. And so I just, I said, pastor Chip, can I just talk to her about. About, you know, John Leg's daughter. She was very close with John Legg's daughter. Can I just talk to her about that? Can I talk to her about dad? Hagin can I just talk to her about Oral Roberts and about Mama Jenkins and about all these people? He said, that's why she's coming down to sit and talk with you about it. Oh, my God. Like catnip to me, I'm telling you. Pastor Chip calls them God dots, you know, Pastor Nancy says, connect the dots. Well, he calls them God dots. And he said to me, he said, even though we've never met just one time before, but we don't know each other. He said, I just sense a divine connection with you. And he said, I feel like God. There's God dots between our lives. God's going to connect something with us. And I said, brother, I feel the same way. So let's just let God work out the details. But listen, I'm getting off track, but, but I'm standing there in the, in the, in his office after the service, and, and, and we're sitting talking to somebody, another minister, and he, out of the blue, I didn't say a word to him. He knows absolutely nothing. But this is the Holy Ghost he turned to. And he's a spiritual man. He can flow with the Holy Ghost. And he turned to me and he said, I just need to tell you something. And I said, what? What, sir? I thought, my God, did I preach something that he didn't like? Like, I didn't know what he was going to say. And he said, I just need to. I just heard the Holy Ghost. I need to tell you something. And I said, what? He said, always embrace a backdoor ministry. And I said, I'm sorry to be ignorant. I don't understand what you're talking about. And he said, john Osteen before Joel Osteen, John Osteen, dad Hagin called him the greatest pastor in America, that he had the greatest church other than the good ones. He had one of the best churches, and he was one of the best pastors. And whenever John Osteen traveled, he always called Billy Brim into his pulpit as much as he could, which I didn't know. And so they were very close. John Osteen and Billye Brim were very, very close. And Chip, because he was traveling with his mother, would go to these places and he would be in the back room with John Osteen many, many, many times. And John Osteen once said to Billy, because she had opened her church, you know, they pastored. I met the pastors 45 years as pastors before 13 years ago, they gave it to Chip and Candace. And they're in their early 80s and they came to the service and they're just such precious people. 45 years laboring in that church. But while they were the pastors and Billy was the overseer, one time John Osteen said to her in the back room, said to her and Chip, he said, always have a backdoor ministry. And she said, like me, what are you talking about? And he said, there's always going to be people that won't go with you. There's always going to be people that have their own vision and they don't really want to run with yours, even though they say they do. There's always going to be people that get offended. There's always going to be people that won't live clean. And he said, if you don't let them go, you'll never fulfill the plan of God for your church because they will hinder things. So he said, I have a backdoor ministry. They come in the front. If they don't qualify. This is John Osteen, the greatest pastor in America speaking. They come in the front. If they don't qualify, then I lovingly help them go out the back. Are you with me? But he said, the key is lovingly. He said, we don't have to. We're not against anybody. We're all of Jesus. We're all fighting for the same thing at the end of the day. But not everybody can handle your vision. So he said, always have a backdoor ministry and help them leave lovingly. Then he said something else to Miss Billy and Chip. He was younger, not a pastor then. And he said, now, when they leave, even if they don't leave the right way, and most people don't leave the right way, most people don't even tell me they're leaving. They have no honor whatsoever. They don't even tell me that they're leaving. They just disappear. That's not right. It's not right people. But he said, even if they don't leave the right way, he said, guard your heart, Keep love in your heart for them and sow them. Sow them. He said, don't ever look at it. If somebody leaves like you've lost something, you've sowed something, even if they're not right, even if they didn't leave right, even if they didn't leave for the right reasons, even if you knew they shouldn't have left, sow them. You didn't lose something, you sowed a seed. And Chip looked at me and he said, I don't know why I'm telling you this. He said, But. And I said, I know why you're telling me. And he said, I just want you to know, no matter what is going on in your church and no matter what, people won't go with you. And if anybody has recently left. He said, guard your heart. Love them. They've just gone out the back door. Sow them. He said, pastor Craig, there's people coming. He said, don't let it disturb you. Don't let it ruin your peace. He said, now that was the Holy Ghost, a man that knows nothing. That was the Holy Ghost telling him to encourage me and to speak to me. Do you understand? And to let me remember that my confidence is not in people. My confidence is in God. And even if people don't always do the right thing, and even if I don't even always do the right thing, that we walk in love. We're not against, we sow, we're not losing, we're sowing. And that we have to protect the vision. And not everybody can handle that vision. Are you with me? These are hard things to talk about because we're human beings with soul realms. We have emotional capacities. And sometimes people get hurt and they get frustrated and then they don't know how to handle it. And I'm reminding you that. That this church and your place in this church is spiritual. God set them in the body as it pleased him. Guard and protect the spiritual. Don't let the emotional feelings rob you of the place of the Spirit where God set you. Are you with me? And don't get offended with anybody. And don't spread gossip. And don't, don't cause. Don't cause unnecessary issues. Can I just say that? Because some people, it's their nature, they like to talk. Other people, they're not like that. But some people, they want to talk. And before you know it, rumors are spreading and lies are spreading and through the monkey grapevine. You've ever played that game, by the time one monkey hears it, the other monkey says something totally different. Do you understand? And one person may say something, but six people later, it's. It's morphed into something that is completely not true. Are you with me? So I just. I just wanted you to know. We're in a brand new season and I need people to go with me in that season. And you are. And the rest of the folks that aren't here today are. And we're gonna. God's gonna send us new ones. And I just. I need to address it. I need to address it because sometimes if you don't address it. It can cause whisperings, and that can do more damage to a church than me just making statements. Hallelujah. Praise God for that. That really blessed me. Hallelujah. And there was a man. Oh, I got to close. There was a man there. I won't share a lot, but it was interesting. I heard about this man who prophesied Trump's assassination, but I didn't know who he was, and I had no idea he's part of that church. Pastor Chip is his pastor. And so he came in the back room, and I sat and talked with him for a little while, and he prophesied. He saw in a vision how Trump was there. He turned the bullet. He saw everything. He saw him go down. He saw him come up with his hand like this. He saw him say fight. And he put that on YouTube. And. And he went from like 10,000 followers to 600,000 followers overnight. In fact, witches all over the psychic network are now part of his thing because they're trying to ask him, how do you do this? And he tells them on his broadcast, you're going to hell. You better renounce what you're doing and confess the Lord Jesus, because you're doing it by demons, and I'm doing it by the Holy Ghost. And witches are getting saved by his testimony. He prophesied what would happen in Venezuela with that Maduro guy before it happened, exactly as it would happen. And so he's starting to get kind of a following. And yet, anytime you're with people like that, you got to keep him very humble and very submitted, because the devil can take them off very quickly. So I'm glad he's under that church and those pastors, they're good pastors. But he said something to me. He said, can I tell you something about Canada? And I said, okay. And he said, I just want you to know Carney is not your friend. And I said, well, I already know that. He's liberal. He's left. And he said, there is coming. He said, God showed me in a vision that there is coming a tremendous revival in Canada. However, he said, before you shout, he said, I saw an olive press. And he said, I saw the church in Canada in that press. And he said, there is great persecution on the way. And he said, I saw it squeezing the church. And he said, but through that persecution came out this precious golden oil. And he said, it was like the glory of God. And he said, I've seen. I won't say everything, he said, because I don't know if he's right. But he said, I've seen certain things in certain provinces, some natural disasters and different things, whatever, I don't know. But he said, that's not really what I'm focusing on. He said, I'm telling you, he said, there's a move of God coming to your nation. He said, but they are going to try to take your charitable status. He said, they are going to try to silence your voice. And he said, laws are even being crafted in this day to do that. And I said, I know. And because Chantel, who's a lawyer, keeps me posted on some of these things. And a lot of the stuff they do in secret, they don't publicize anything and they're putting it on the floor and nobody even knows to argue it. But people are starting to find out because it is public knowledge. It's just that very few people look. And so people like Chantel and others are starting to find out. And lawyers and Christian organizations are starting to rise up and say, you can't do that. You can't pass that law. We have rights. But I'm telling you what he said, what he saw is exactly what's already started to happen. There is a pressing that has started. There is persecution that has started. He said, but. And of course, not everybody who calls himself a Christian is really a Christian. You know who the real Christians are when there's persecution because they don't quit. But he said that golden oil, he said, there's going to be a move of God that Canada has never seen before. There is going to be so many souls that get saved before the rapture of the church. He said, it is going to be a glorious thing in the North. He said, but prepare yourself because before that happens, there is going to be attacks. Now, he doesn't say it, but I know we can turn much of that in the spirit realm with prayer. I'm not saying we can turn all the persecution, but we are not going to be trampled on by the devil either. So there might be some persecution coming, but that's not what I'm focusing on. I'm focusing. I can turn stuff by getting in that spiritual realm. And we're going to. We're going to do whatever small part promise of life has, and it's probably very small compared to the whole nation, but whatever little part we have, we're going to do it. And that's why God said this. Four years, you feel like you're just in a. Like nothing's different, but it is. You're in a New season. These four years have been elevated from the rest of the timeline. Something special is about to happen. Make sure everybody is with you. Make sure nobody is withstanding you. Just focus and run your race and if they leave, let them leave and love them when they leave. But focus and run your race because I. There's great, I'm telling you, there's things that are coming. Jesus is coming soon. I'm telling you, we don't have decades and decades left. I don't know how long we have, but I don't. I know it's not very long. And so we have to. We have to get serious. And we are serious. We're a very serious church. But we have to keep getting serious and we have to realize we're in a new season. Hallelujah. So individually, it's a brand new day, but corporately, it's also a brand new day. Hallelujah. We're in a new day, Jenny. Hallelujah. So I love you all and I bless you all. And I'm sorry I said I'd let you out early, but I didn't expect all that to bubble up. It's always a disclaimer. I'll let you out early unless the Holy Ghost bubbles things up. Father, bless them. I thank you for the brand new day. For everyone I laid hands on, the power of God is working in them. Their words will stay in line with your word that they're free, that the power of God is working and setting them free. I thank you, Lord, that all of us will start getting more comfortable getting out first thing, even if we just do one spin, just one hop and one spin. It's a brand new day today. And I thank you as a church and as a ministry. It's a brand new day. I thank you for the days ahead. They're bright. I thank you for those that are called to run the race with me, for those that are called to fight with me as my mighty men. Lord, I thank you that they garner, they guard their heart, they steal their strength. They take a wide, stout stance with me. And we run this together because the greatest days of Canada are ahead. And I thank you that whatever part we have to play, we are so privileged, we have a part. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for this precious congregation. Thank you for those watching, Lord, that couldn't come. I bless them in Jesus name and I thank you that those, that, that all of them will be here on Sunday morning and we'll have a great time together. In the Lord, in Jesus name, I pray and I give you praise, Father. Amen.