Sunday, April 24, 2011

1, 2, 3, 4...Happy Easter!

Appropriately so...I heard as this weekend began “penetrate the works of darkness”. As He is so are we! Jesus did this for us. He left us with victory and tools to do just this. We curse every ill spirit that has given life to all that is unaligned to the word of God in your life and mine. All that which has caused lack of joy, brought to you negative thinking and brought disunity to the church. You may question how a wrong or ill spirit can give life to these things that ail you since God is the author of life and there is no unrighteousness in Him. That is just that. It is a wrong spirit so it is false and an untruth, lies are within it and when you take this on it becomes in you pain, hurts, blessing held back, wrong thinking, sickness taken on in every manner of speaking. It is false, a lie, a false thing that brings all that ails you.

You have authority because it has been left for you here and to use now. So, I boldly pick up this tool and curse the wrong spirits that have closed off portals in the spirits, held back and held down blessings to you all. It doesn't align to the word because the word says...He will open up the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing you cannot contain. This word stretches far and wide. I curse the shame, the depression, the futility of thought, the mind tangling areas that affect your heart and Spirit. Think of Him, Jesus in the flesh, hanging there on that cross. The enemy is so in fear of you because He knows the Christ on your face and he knows it was done. It's just we sometimes forget our authority as a believer and just how powerful we are because of what has been done for us already. It is a matter of picking it up and making good use of it. The enemy is running from you and me because of what we possess and what we confess. He knows He can't touch blood bought believers and he can't touch the path you've been on. It's covered as well. This is why you and I are saved by our testimony. The enemy will use those of us who have an awesome story of our lives to tell and try to entangle you for as long as possible into thinking you are of no value and little worth. And there is no testimony uncovered by His blood. He will use your body even as a stolen testimony if he thought he could deceive with it.

Let me tell you...once I saw Jesus in prayer walking down a road and a imp like thing, small and aggitating was hopping behind him from behind one side of the road to the next as to not let Jesus know he was there. Jesus kept on and it bothered him not. But when I got a hold of the visuals' meaning it shouted triumph, that He gave us authority to not fear these small distractions, to stomp on them even and to continue to go with God in the way he is leading us. I think I laughed aloud more than once thinking of this how if we knew how big we are in comparison to the imps that cause us pain, only because we don't realize. Put on the armor of God. Envision each piece of armor and what it stands for. Your shield of faith alone is enough to ward off all coming your way but used all together, you have just become dressed for your success!

Imagine you are at the foot of the cross. One drop of his blood drips onto your head. Feel the purity. In that one drop contains enough redemption for your sins past, present and future. Washed clean. Washed pure. Made whole. Totally white. Now shout with a shout so loud that makes every demon on hell and Earth shutter. Somewhere in my bible it reads in the margin ..."Knowing Him as the Christ will determine how the gates of hell respond to you." Claim what belongs to you. If your heart condemns you not and it is received, its yours. If not, pray.

You are entitled to the spoil of what the devil has robbed, killed and destroyed and mighty is the restoration of what the swarming locusts have eaten. This says to me for all the poverty I have lived in, I am rich, so rich I am making others rich. I have given my last two coins and indeed I have received His honor for it but doesn't stop there. He offers abundance to us in every arena we lack in. There shall be years of my life in terms of time that has been stolen that have to be repaid at the command of my voice. For every “no” that has been shouted to me there shall be a thousand sudden “yeses” because the word says...All the promises of God are yes and amen to the glory of God! Oh my! My vats shall overflow, aimlessly overflow. The rain of the Spirit. Receive! This shall be blessed in your life if you take hold of what is being given. Its food for your Spirit. Eat and celebrate!

Here are some keys that have been left to us. They unlock all that ail what we really desire. If it is in the word of God it belongs to you. Pray it in. Don't give up. We serve a powerful, awesome, righteous, mighty God. He fights for us. He sends angels and ministering spirits before us even to protect and win the battle and show himself strong before us. Give Him glory for it. Look at these...Exodus 23:21-25(New Century Version) Pay attention to the angel and obey him. Do not turn against him; he will not forgive such turning against him because my power is in him. If you listen carefully to all he says and do everything that I tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies. I will fight all who fight against you. My angel will go ahead of you and take you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will destroy them. "You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. You must not live the way those people live. You must destroy their idols, breaking into pieces the stone pillars they use in worship. If you worship the Lord your God, I will bless your bread and your water. I will take away sickness from you.

And then look at this one...Hebrews 1:7-14(Amplified Bible) Referring to the angels He says, [God] Who makes His angels spirits and His ministering servants flames of fire;But as to the Son, He says to Him, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever (to the ages of the ages), and the scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of absolute righteousness (of justice and straightforwardness). You have loved righteousness [You have delighted in integrity, virtue, and uprightness in purpose, thought, and action] and You have hated lawlessness (injustice and iniquity). Therefore God, [even] Your God (Godhead), has anointed You with the oil of exultant joy and gladness above and beyond Your companions. And [further], You, Lord, did lay the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain and continue permanently; they will all grow old and wear out like a garment. Like a mantle [thrown about one's self] You will roll them up, and they will be changed and replaced by others. But You remain the same, and Your years will never end nor come to failure. Besides, to which of the angels has He ever said, Sit at My right hand [associated with Me in My royal dignity] till I make your enemies a stool for your feet?Are not the angels all ministering spirits (servants) sent out in the service [of God for the assistance] of those who are to inherit salvation?

And so this seems appropriate to put here... Deuteronomy 20:3-4 (New Living Translation) He will say to them, ‘Listen to me, all you men of Israel! Do not be afraid as you go out to fight your enemies today! Do not lose heart or panic or tremble before them. For the Lord your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies, and he will give you victory!’ Here is our choices. When we decide we have all that we need in our choice to be for Him and take Him for what He says is ours in His word then we are accounted blessed...on account of what He did...and so it is accredited as righteousness to us just as Abraham. Woah!

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 says...(Amplified Bible) I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live. And may love the Lord your God, obey His voice, and cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And so moving from that to this....I will tell you a story of a man who was searching deep within himself but also searching and looking around for a place to speak the word of God; a church. It wasn't me but I was there and watched the toil on his person; in his Spirit. It was fully revealed to me that the enemies' plan was to destroy. There are those, unbeknownst to you and also to them even at times that are out to destroy you. He will go before you.

The church was wrecked by some sort of storm. It had sat abandoned, seemingly set for demolition. It had been vandalized. An invasion of some sort had taken place to see this kind of wreckage. It took no logic to see as we looked around this building that destruction had hit. On down the hall revealed a glass door, see through to a restroom. The stench of the enemy lurked everywhere and then suddenly for no apparent reason, yet to tell me not to go in that room, a huge white, rainbow spotted 20-30 foot long snake flew up from the broken flooring afront that door and went through the roof into the bright sky and down into this beautiful valley. Now I knew exactly where that valley was but it was what it stood for that held understanding. Normally I believe anyone might have jumped out of their own skin had they seen this snake but this snake was harmless. This snake carried a message and it was one of redemption and it spoke of the return of the spoil and was one of promise.

Let me say this. The heart of God is sickened, highly and heavily sickened, when the church is wrecked and ravaged by the enemy. Nothing surely hurts more the heart of God. Think of this....Jesus wept. That's God in the flesh, made flesh with the heart of the Father. Now for me, there was much in this for me, missing pieces that have not come to be, however, there was such a more profound message to share of our authority. It said, "No more!" We cannot allow, with sane hearts toward God for His church, our sanctuary of the Spirit, acclaimed to what He so longs to give. So choose for yourself...Joshua 24:15 says...(Amplified Bible)And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

And Mark 11:15-17 and 22-25 says this...(New Living Translation) When they arrived back in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people buying and selling animals for sacrifices. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, and he stopped everyone from using the Temple as a marketplace. He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.” Tell me God does not get righteously angry when the Spirit of God is tampered with. Selling doves. Look deep here. Doves signify love. They were selling off spiritually more than just a few birds. And the motive of the heart is all over this story. He rebuked them because had they been in prayer and in God they would have seen the lack of love. This is what I felt when I saw that wreckage in the building. It was uncared for; unkempt. But behold He goes on down to say and to encourage us as in verse 22... Then Jesus said to the disciples, “Have faith in God. I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours. But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too.” Wow, let me tell you I have this kind of 'no doubt' in my heart faith to see the blessing really come. The "really" I heard a brother speak of not so long ago. Put love first and it takes away all else that hinders.

Mark 12:29-44 says..(New Living Translation) Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’No other commandment is greater than these.” You, in this, are not hung up on a lot of anything unnecessary when we see Him for all the love that is being poured into us.

Look at what He did... Ephesians 1:3 says...(The Message) How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He's the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.

Receive all of Him today! Salvation if you have never received Him!

I heard a preacher say that on palm Sunday Jesus directed a one before going to the cross to go to the next town and retreive this donkey. Think of this. Remember in the book of Esther when the enemies plan to destroy God's chosen people backfired and the plan to destroy personally? The enemy had to proclaim the victory taken from the people of God loudly in the streets.... for the people of God, for what had been stolen. Honor was given back. The spoil if you will. Drawing on this conclusion. Jesus sent for this donkey knowing what blessing it was going to bring. You are royalty in the eyes of God and so am I. Believe it. Nothing matters of what has taken place behind you except for the blessing ready to be poured out to you right now. God tells his story from beginning to end. The victory is ours if we believe it! I am about to shout for God's people, for the spoil, for the joy set before me! Amen!

It's time to worship in song this day! God Bless you. I love you.    

To the praise of His glory in the heavenly places we shall do that this day. I wrote not so many years ago on this same day a line that said..."if walls could talk the truth would speak". Let down your walls today and worship Him for all He did, all He gave and is giving to you and to me this Easter!                      Posted 2:00am Easter Morning!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Getting Lost In His Presence








Posted at 10:00 pm 4/11/2011

Monday, April 04, 2011

Repentance

Purposeful experience of what God wants to do in and through you to take you to the next level....that level begins (sometimes) physically bending a knee  brings us up to where God wants you to be. 

I've pondered over a week now how it is that you come to a solid repentance. It's certainly ongoing but here I will write questions I have asked myself in this. It's how you begin a process. 

~What do I have to repent of?
~Am I seeing things in a different light?
~Are there hidden things that hinder my repentance in or against me?
~How can I help others see how to find this place I once found in depth?
~Is there not only one perfect and He left us as His example in his word?
~What in my life is unaligned of the word?
~Is not repentance an inward act and not judgment pronounced in working out salvation?

...Even inside your questions you will find answers that allow you to go further.

There may be more but this I know...I have prayed since I was a child old enough to talk; nearly 40 years and it begins with conversation; with God and others. This I know to be true. Right there is the release. The release of offense where the blessing may have been hidden behind the stronghold of the lie holding you back or holding back your blessing. If there is not a word spoken, who hears? The word says...without a word the people go astray. If we are full of God then it is meaningless not to come together in word and deed to love one another. This is not a word of judgment but one of search. Think of the means of conversation with God and or man. There is a beginning, a middle and end in each conversation. When someone comes to you; having been given some kind of speech; word; something for you...before they come to you you remained the same. Indeed, we all who are spiritual judge prophecy; by what the Word says and what the Spirit is telling you, but my thought here to share is, before the person spoke you remained where you were; either unchanged or defiled in your mind by a word unaligned. Much deceiving spirits roam about in these last days. We all spend too much time in concern in searching within ourselves, though contemplation is good.

You see, since a small child my heart has been big and full with a dream and I am as certain yours too; but one that begins so simply. It was first given to me. Absolutely attainable. Simple and easy. So what I am speaking to you about here is this...sometimes it may not always be the 'something' you have done wrong, but the lie we believe. You say, well, that may not be my fault. You are right in this but we have a will. And I will to not be a part of the enemies' plan. In fact, I am not. There have been places unattendable for me due to circumstance but God is far bigger than all that so that a way be made in and of it all. I want to say right now I not only believe deeply for even in tears for dreams that many of you hold in your heart that at quiet times you sometimes think God does not hear your heart. Oh, yes you are heard! ...sometimes without so much of a word. Your countenance speaks volumes. You are so very heard of things you so desire. Pray on when to speak to others. If you sense a prompting...do it, say it. Some things are not heard because we don't share; often because we doubt or mistrust that God is really speaking. Then we feel guilt and shame under it all if we have let the moment pass and didn't move with it. And after that struggle to find where we went wrong. Yes, I speak to you truthfully from trial and error. And it is these transparencies within each of us that gets the ball rolling so to speak : ) So, I am placid in this. Besides we all know edification is what makes the church what it is. Without airing love to others we often feel unaccomplished. It's the pressing in of love, whether in prayer or toward others.

I believe there is so much dreams that want to be given even in addition to what you already have and so I write and I also therefore speak! I write to you this because (and let's just agree on this to go further) our success, our money, our goods, our relationships are not always what we are really after at heart level. My next house and my next car is picked out completely for the most part in what I would like to have. We know what we want if we think on it and pray about it, but what is your most real desires? Glory. I sense prayer about to happen. I heard that God is a dreaming God. He dreamt and therefore gives dreams. He pours we receive. He was and is the most creative of all. After all we have been given the breath of God in our body.

Why do I write this? Well, a dear one agreed with me about birth...a birthing of prayer. That is that which sets motion for any necessary repentance. Think of how vast the creator God is? Now think of a woman giving birth. Giving birth. You give life in birth. You give the child life for you and your husband to raise up from birth. It was given to you in conception, carried and now birthed. A heart with the Spirit of God given you. You carry this with you and you cannot carry a child for always. It must be birthed. So we pray. Most often a woman does not give birth on her own. She has others around her to help; whomever that might be. The point is that it takes others conversation, hearing of the word of God spoken, interaction to form in our hearts and mind what and how to begin to repent; the desire to be in right standing with God. I was in heavy travail; and yes, a birthing at the alter heavily in prayer some years ago when another said, "Let me help you". That person sensed there was something so deep that I needed help. So we prayed together and came to the end of it. When you are praying deeply in the spirit experience has told me when you know you have your answer or that God is done giving to you what He wants to give you in that moment of time or time of prayer, you will come to a place of peace; a place of light hearted laughter even. You just know you have gone where God wanted you to go. We don't always know what we pray or interpret every word we pray but these are indications. You may even come to a place of being simply unable to say another word sensing a peace that you cannot explain. No less, I was prompted to write here though this may be of no new news to  you.

I want to ad here that I have had people say something to me in judgment and then feeling as though I had to go and find what it is I had to find repentance for. Let me stop right now and say this ever so boldly!...This was not of God and was plot and ploy of the enemy to derail your thoughts, you heart, your Spirit, your week and to take from you. The kind of repentance I have heard of late is of a chiding to gather together as a church and do the word of God.

It starts within. That is what 'seems' the chore and pain of repentance. Let me break this down for you so it doesn't look nearly as daunting a task to self. It's about giving our time. The more time we give to God in prayer and in seeking Him the more useful our time is and the greatest thing is this...we don't realize it because we are not controlled by it. That is the stress that tries to take away from it. You begin to enjoy moments in time you never thought possible. You've now successfully drawn closer to God and shed some need of repentance and best of all God did it and you didn't realize it was a task...because truly it wasn't. It's when we see we have sin but in the Spirit of God he is in command and so there is grace and light and laughter and pleasures forevermore. Chores are not chores after all. When fellowship with the Spirit of God takes place we find that ill-willed imaginations drop of the old religiosity of how mean a God we have been taught we serve. It is simply not so. Dreams can come true. To get with God in prayer skims the dross off our stresses and gets to the heart of what truly matters. Life begins.