Why Is God Pouring Out The Message of The Bridal Paradigm?

My Grandson Nathan

First, it’s important to know that we are the bride and He is the Bridegroom because it is a biblical truth. Though it is not the gospel, it is part of it. It gives us the big picture of why God sent his son to die for our sins—because of His love for us. It’s the reason His son, Jesus the Christ, has given us life and is coming back to the earth.

He passionately desires to reveal His great love and kindness to us. God’s eternal purpose for His creation is to provide a family for Himself and an equally yoked bride for His Son as His eternal companion who will reign with Him in love. God is rising up a prepared bride for His worthy Son.

Secondly, many believe that we are living in the age in which the Lord will return. In the age when the Lord returns, it is imperative that the bride makes herself ready (see Rev. 19:7) and that she buys oil (see Matt. 25:1-12). Matthew says that in the final days, “because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved” (Matt. 24:12 -13). I will elaborate more on this subject later.

Mike Bickle, director of International House Of Prayer, Kansas City, gave a prophetic word to this generation while ministering in Cairo, Egypt. He said, “God is going to change the understanding and expression of Christianity in one generation.” This expression isn’t being changed to something new. It’s that the Church in our day is preaching many other things outside of Christianity and God is going to bring our understanding of the good news back to the foundation of His Word.  

I believe that the generation that Mike Bickle has spoken of will immediately realize that they cannot fight the battles over lost souls from the view of the pews. They will come to recognize that they need to move out into the enemy’s camp. They will understand that a confined church loses validity (relevance and meaning); that a confined church is an expiring church instead of an explosive church as it should be.   I believe that this fresh generation of young believers will not allow themselves to stay in their comfort zones. They will recognize and even know instinctively that the anointing comes to people who are willing to step out of their comfort zone and proclaim who God says they are!

The bridal paradigm is not to say that we just found a new way to walk out Christianity. The bridal paradigm is the Bible’s way of helping us understand our purpose for living and existing. God’s desire has always been for us to know who we are and why we were created. When this revelation occurs in each of us, we will move in the genuine authority that we have!

In his book, Bridal Intercession, Gary Wiens answers why God is pouring out this message:

"The whole reason we were chosen from the beginning of time was so that the passionate heart of Jesus would be satisfied! We were redeemed and adopted for a purpose, and that purpose was that Jesus might present us to Himself as His perfect counterpart, washed in His blood, filled with glorious beauty and made fully like Him. We were created and redeemed for romance, and because of that fact, we now have the hope that our deepest longings for intimacy and significance will be satisfied through relationship with Jesus."

The fire that has burned in the heart of God since the beginning of the beginning is the passion to have a partner for His Son! We were chosen to be holy and blameless in Christ before the worlds were made, so that we might become a bride suitable for Him, a partner who is like Him. The good pleasure of the will of God the Father was to have this kind of relationship with human beings, that He might nurture us with perfect love and prepare us to be joined to His Son Jesus in the romance of the ages .

The bridal paradigm message changes the way evangelists preach salvation, pastors counsel people through life, teachers explain the Bible, forerunners prophesy, entrepreneurs run businesses, and intercessors pray (see 1 Cor. 1:9).