The Briefing: New Wineskins for a Season of Shaking" with Hal Sacks | Awake Arizona Gathering

Send Us A Note!In this prophetic briefing at an Awake Arizona gathering, Hal Sacks — speaker, filmmaker, and author of Unshakable — opens with a simple but urgent message: this is not church as usual. God wants to brief His people on what they need to hear for today.Drawing from his Jewish roots and decades of ministry, Hal unpacks the Hebrew depth behind two foundational words — Shema (to hear and obey) and Shalom (to destroy the authority that establishes chaos) — and makes the case that hearing God requires stillness, intimacy, and surrender, not just religious activity.The heart of the message centers on three overlooked parables from Luke 5: the patched garment, the new wineskin, and the preference for old wine. Hal argues that what Jesus was warning the Pharisees about then directly mirrors what the Church faces now — the temptation to patch God's next move onto old structures, the resistance to being remade into new wineskins, and the comfort of staying with what's familiar.Hal weaves in his personal history at the birth of the Jesus Movement, a 1984 prophetic vision of widespread devastation he believes is unfolding now, and the sobering call to go through the current cultural, moral, and political shaking as unshakable people — not because the shaking isn't real, but because God's shaking is mercy, not judgment, designed to reveal what was built on human ambition rather than His word.The session closes with a call to respond: not just to receive insight, but to surrender structure, become new wineskins, and renew our minds for what God is about to pour out.