Get Ready: When Everything Changes, God Breaks Your Old Patterns

Introduction

Pastor Guillermo Prein opens his message with a brotherly blessing. Speaking from Lena Gases, Argentina, he addresses every church in the CCNV network watching live or by recording, all over the world. He reminds us of something important: "when you receive this word, you can receive everything God wants to give you in a future that is near and is coming." The message carries a title that reads like a loving warning: get ready for when everything changes. What God wants to do in the months ahead is going to break your old patterns. This is not about anxiety or prophetic speculation. It is about opening your heart so God can surprise you.

Outline of the message

1. God is at work even when we don't notice

• Pastor Prein states it right away: the Lord is moving powerfully, showing himself in mighty ways, and many people don't notice.
• This is exactly what the word for the second quarter highlighted: "Jesus arrived and no one noticed." Just like Bethlehem. No one saw God settle into the manger. It took thirty years before people understood who he really was.
• Today, the same pattern is unfolding. God is quietly preparing the ground, and those with open eyes and open hearts are starting to see it.
• Like Elijah, who received strength from God, outran Ahab, and arrived at Jezreel ahead of him (1 Kings 18:46). The church is a step ahead because God, in his grace, has already shown it what is coming.

2. Pray without becoming discouraged, like Elijah

• Elijah is not only a model of power. He is a model of persevering prayer.
• Seven times he cried out for the drought to end and the rain to return. Seven times. And God answered (1 Kings 18:42-45).
• From this, Pastor Prein draws the word for this quarter: pray without becoming discouraged. If you're tired of not seeing an answer, don't stop. Go back to the window. Look at the sky a seventh time if you have to.
• Persevering prayer is the muscle you need to carry the change that is coming.

3. Don't stay trapped by betrayal

• The pastor returns to a scene he shared the Sunday before: Jesus facing Judas at the Last Supper.
• Matthew tells this conversation and then moves straight into the blessing, into the new covenant. Jesus did not stay locked in the pain that Judas's betrayal could have caused.
• He moved forward with everything he had, believing that God was able, fulfilling his mission to transform not just his own generation, but all of humanity.
• You too, if a betrayal, an abandonment, a disappointment has marked you, can move forward. Don't stay stuck in the last painful chapter of your story. God is moving you into the next covenant.

4. Jesus changed everything, and he is still doing it

• Pastor Prein makes the point forcefully: few people grasp the revolution Jesus brought about in the society of his time.
• Israel had priests. The Levitical priesthood was ritual: you brought an animal, the priest offered it. The Levites sang. Everything was liturgical and structured.
• In the New Testament, the priestly ministry as such disappears, mentioned only once in Revelation and in Peter. What appears instead is the pastoral ministry: personal, relational. The pastor gives his life for his sheep, cares for them, walks with them.
• The word "priest" comes from the Greek hierarchia (hieros = sacred, arche = rule). The priest is the one who is exalted, who holds authority and power. Jesus overturns this pattern: "the greatest among you will be the one who serves" (Matthew 23:11). The greatest is the one underneath, the one who helps, who blesses, who pours out life on those around him.
• Then the evangelists appear, spreaders of the good news. Then the apostles, the sent ones. Then the prophets and teachers, but with a completely new role. In the Old Testament, prophets were outsiders who confronted kings. In the New Testament, prophecy takes on a different value: through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, it spreads across the whole body. Paul explains this clearly in 1 Corinthians 12-14.
• In other words: Jesus changed everything. He made all things new. And God is telling you today: "get ready for another great shift."

5. The new Jerusalem is a cube, not a sphere

• Pastor Prein insists: apocalyptic language is not mythology. It isn't invented. God showed Daniel, John, and Ezekiel things they could understand and describe, so that generation after generation, we could grasp them too.
• These texts need to be approached with a spirit of expectation, not with a rigid determinism that says, "that's just how it is, period."
• Revelation 21:15-16: the angel speaking with John held a golden reed to measure the city, the new Jerusalem. And here is the key verse: "The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. He measured the city with his reed: 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal."
• Length, width, height, all equal. That is not a square. It is a cube. Twelve thousand stadia comes out to roughly 2,220 kilometers. A stadion equals about 185.2 meters, times 12,000.
• A city 2,220 kilometers tall. We can barely picture it.
• Here Pastor Prein draws out a principle that stirred his heart all week: we are used to a world that is round. And here God offers something cubic. It doesn't fit in our minds. It is beyond us. And that is exactly the point.

6. Get ready: God is going to change the categories

• The message is clear. A time is coming when God wants you to understand that things are going to be different.
• This could touch your job. Your career. Your life. Your future. Your ministry. Everything you do or everything you are.
• God is saying: "get ready." And this call is good news. It pulls you out of all the surrounding confusion: the media voices contradicting each other, the analyses tripping over one another, the feeling that no one knows where things stand anymore.
• This word calms you. It resets you. It reminds you that God knows exactly what he's doing.
• The pastor shares a testimony he received this week. A brother needed to pay his rent and was short 50,000 pesos. Weighed down, he was walking down the street thinking it over. Then, from somewhere above, he sees bills falling, with no one else noticing. He bends down and picks them up: fifty 1,000-peso bills. Exactly what he needed. What struck him most wasn't the amount, it was the way it happened.
• Pastor Prein says he has "waves" of testimonies just like this one. It's the picture of a God who steps in and tells his people: the victory is already yours. Don't worry about this battle, it's already won.
• But there is a condition: being ready. Ready for God to change your circumstances. Ready for him to set new targets. Ready for him to call you to things you've never seen before, "things which eye didn't see, and ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man" (1 Corinthians 2:9).

7. Widen your tent pegs: dream big

• Maybe you've already got everything mapped out in your mind. You're waiting for a sphere because you've always lived with spheres. And God says to you: "what if I gave you a cube instead? What would you do with it? Are you ready for me to change you?"
• Pastor Prein shares a question a sister asked him this week: "are you ready? Are you ready for what God wants to do?"
• He closes with a short prayer to open the mind and the heart. He asks the Father to open the heavens, to bring peace, joy, anointing, the glory of heaven. May your mind be widened. May your heart grow large. May your tent pegs be moved (Isaiah 54:2). May you begin to dream big dreams, like Jeremiah's dreams: good dreams, wonderful dreams. Because days are coming when God will do extraordinary things, and we will be ready to receive them.
• And he returns, humbly, to the prayer from the Gospel: "I believe. Help my unbelief" (Mark 9:24). Help us step into this new thing. Help us believe and grow according to your glory. May we place our lives in your hands.
• Amen, and amen.

Key takeaways

• God is at work right now, often quietly. Just like at Bethlehem, it takes open eyes to see him moving.
• Elijah's persevering prayer (seven cries for rain) is the model for this season.
• Don't stay trapped by past betrayals. Jesus moved from Judas straight into the new covenant without stopping.
• Jesus has already overturned everything: from ritual priesthood to pastoral ministry, from the outsider prophet to the whole prophetic body.
• The new Jerusalem is a cube, not a sphere. God is preparing realities that don't fit your current categories.
• The testimony of the 1,000-peso bills reminds us that God intervenes in ways no one expects.

Personal application

• Where in your life are you waiting for a "sphere" while God wants to give you a "cube"?
• Is there a betrayal, an abandonment, a disappointment still holding you back? Are you ready to move, like Jesus, into the next covenant?
• Are you willing to pray seven times for the same thing without giving up, or do you quit after the first clear sky?
• What are your "tent pegs"? What dream might God want to widen in you this week?
• What recent testimony of God's intervention could you share to encourage someone today?

Scriptures referenced

• 1 Kings 18:42-46 · Elijah prays seven times for rain, then outruns Ahab to Jezreel.
• Matthew 23:11 · "The greatest among you will be your servant."
• 1 Corinthians 12 · The diversity of gifts and the unity of the body.
• Revelation 21:15-16 · The angel measures the new Jerusalem: 12,000 stadia in length, width, and height.
• 1 Corinthians 2:9 · "Things which eye didn't see, and ear didn't hear."
• Isaiah 54:2 · "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations."
• Mark 9:24 · "I believe. Help my unbelief!"

FAQ

What does it mean to "get ready for when everything changes"?

It means opening your heart and your mind to a God who is preparing something new. Pastor Guillermo Prein reminds us that a time is coming when God will break your old patterns: your work, your career, your ministry, your future may all be called to change. Getting ready means accepting in advance that God will unfold solutions and paths you never imagined, just as he did for those who waited on him throughout Scripture.

Why is the new Jerusalem shaped like a cube in Revelation 21?

Revelation 21:16 says the city's length and width and height were equal. The angel measures it: 12,000 stadia, about 2,220 kilometers on each side. It is a cube. This image breaks our categories: we live on a sphere, and God offers us a cube. For Pastor Prein, this is a sign that God is preparing realities our minds cannot yet contain.

How can I know if God is calling me to something new?

Stay in a posture of expectation, not resignation. Pray without becoming discouraged, like Elijah who cried out seven times for rain (1 Kings 18:42-45). Let God widen your tent pegs as in Isaiah 54:2, and dream big like Jeremiah. If a new peace fills you when you think of a project, if doors open that you never knocked on, if an inner cry rises up, "I believe, help my unbelief" (Mark 9:24), it is time to get ready.