On Spirit, Soul, Body, and Light

I was having a conversation with Holy Spirit recently where he pointed out that I never need to try to be more holy, as I AM holy and therefore everything I do is holy, There is no divide between secular and sacred. It doesn’t exist. In the Beginning of Time God called all things good.

I then thought about the fact that while I may not be more or less holy, that there are certainly things I can do that influence God’s activity in my life. Holy Spirit explained it like this: “You cannot become more holy than you already are now, but you can position yourself to carry and release a greater measure of God’s glory into the Earth based on your choices. And not even just your actions, so much, but by your thoughts and beliefs. The truth is that your actions are dictated by your thoughts, so it is really your thought life which decides the measure of glory that you carry.”

I then thought about auras and the fact that it is possible to see energy fields around people and even plants and objects. I was pondering how an increased measure of glory must cause one’s energy field to expand, and that part of our goal ought to be to expand our energy field as a result of heaven’s influence. For I believe it was similar to this that people tell stories of men of God who would go somewhere and even from miles away someone would be overcome by God’s power, inasmuch as the people were influenced by that man’s godly aura.

Holy Spirit didn’t deny that it was true, but explained and clarified it for me. “You have more than one aura. You do have a soul aura which is where people can pass information from one to another by their energy fields, and where unconscious information including emotional states are transferred when in proximity with one another. You also have a spirit aura. This is the light of God which comes from Heaven and is reflected from you and emanates out of your spirit. This light is not directly transferred to your soul aura, so the energy fields are not one and the same. However, anyone who has a strong and vibrant spirit aura will invariably have some measure of trickle-down effect that influences their soul aura, making their soul aura more vibrant and life giving as well.”

I considered the problem that we often do not have the measure of glory flowing through our lives that we could have, and I inquired as to why that was. Holy Spirit said “There are gates, you might imagine that it is akin to the sphincters in the digestive system, between access from the spirit to the soul and again the soul to the body. How open or closed those gates are direct how much of Heaven’s light is passing through you at any time. This is dictated in part by your thoughts as well, as your soul is the transfer point between your spirit and body. Basically, the state of the first gate decides how much of Heaven’s light reaches to your soul, and the state of the second gate decides how much of Heaven’s light trickles down from your soul to bring Heaven’s light to your body. Healing and restoration in the body, and even transformation of your physical body, is a result of Heaven’s light moving through the soul and penetrating and transforming your physical form. This is how people can be breatharians and live on air and energy alone –because my life has not just transformed their soul, but the channel is open for me to invigorate their body as well.

The way to do this is in part by meditating on my word. What this does is it transforms your beliefs to reflect the truths of Heaven, and as this occurs, more light shines through.” I got the feeling He meant the actual Bible when he said this, but I don’t think it has to be limited to the Bible only, as Holy Spirit can easily give us a rhema-word to meditate on as well.

That was about where the conversation ended, but it put some things into an interesting perspective for me, and gave me not only some new things to think about and consider, but some helpful hints on moving toward living the “life more abundantly” that Jesus said he came to bring.

 

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Kingdom Training Schools: A Vision of Things to Come

In the Old Testament there were prophets that ran together in groups.  Some surmise that these were ‘schools’ of Prophets, and maybe they were.  Jesus himself taught his disciples in a group that one might call a ‘school’, and rightly so.  For Jesus both did AND taught with authority, and his disciples were with him most everywhere he went.  But the one thing I think that is sometimes overlooked in the busy process of learning to be disciples is that Jesus actually TAUGHT.

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Over the span of his three year ministerial-seminary-with-internship, Jesus sent his students on multiple learning-intensives involving self-study.   The first time he sent his twelve out, and then later on he sent out seventy-two.  Presumably the first twelve actually worked with some of the others in the group of seventy two on that second intensive course, taking those who were the slowest and most shy and helping them branch out into the experience of the course material  as any good Teaching Assistant ought to do.

In addition to these learning intensives, Jesus offered a scholarship program for his ministerial training, having sufficient funds in the Trust that he assigned his TA with the highest marks in Accounting manage the accounts  (Unfortunately this particular student kept a second set of books, but that’s somewhat beside the point).  Jesus did not turn his students away on account of a lack of money because he saw to it (as did his Father) that all of their needs were met.

In the midst of reviewing this training school that Jesus ran, one could pay attention primarily to the didactic learning that took place, focusing on such scripture passages as the Sermon on the Mount, the many parables he told, and his monologue at the Last Supper just before they entered their Senior Immersion.  And in truth, that is what much of the Church seems to have focused on in our Seminaries and Colleges and with our Masters and Doctorates in Divinity and Theology.  But if we do that we miss out on a key theme running throughout the Gospels – Jesus both did AND taught.

One thing that no one can deny is that the teaching Jesus did included a lot of demonstration and hands-on learning.  Jesus was big on having his students experience the things he spoke about, not just sit there and listen to him prattle on about grand ideas with no actual fruit to show for them.   Jesus was actively involved in pushing his students into experiences with God that stretched their understanding of who God is and what God is like, and also what God would do in and through them.

When Jesus went up on the Mount of Transfiguration, he took some students with him to experience the Glory.  When he went to raise Jairus’ daughter and Lazarus, he had students with him then as well.  Jesus was very clear that the Gospel of the Kingdom involved manifestation of things Heavenly into the Earth-realm.  For this reason the Lord’s Prayer contains a prayer of command – “Come, your Kingdom, and BE DONE, your will, on Earth as it is in Heaven!”  Jesus expected of his students that his teaching would not just alter their minds but would cause literal physical substance to manifest at their command.

And we can see that this is true from what Jesus taught.  The first time he multiplied the loaves among thousands of people they multiplied at Jesus’ hands.  The next time they multiplied while in the DISCIPLES’ hands.  Jesus was demonstrating to them that they, too, could manifest the Kingdom in power.  And when they later were discussing the matter of not having enough bread, he rebuked them for completely missing the point of his object lesson.  Jesus wasn’t just interested in starting a religion – he was transforming people to become vessels of Glory that would release that glory in tangible form.  When a temple tax was required, a coin was taken from a fish’s mouth.  When a lake proved too far to go around, Jesus began walking on it, and when he came upon his disciples in a boat, he teleported them to the far side.  Yes, Jesus was as interested in teaching through experiences to manifest the supernatural realm in the earth as he was chatting about spiritual sounding ideas.

Knowing that Jesus taught this way, I find it no surprise that so many ‘Schools of the Supernatural’ are springing into being around the U.S. and probably around the world.  But having been in one of them myself and having observed smatterings of the curriculum of others, I wonder how much is actually being taught in these schools compared to what Jesus taught his students.  From where I sit, it appears that we are busy learning to finger paint in Kindergarten compared to the Masters-level thesis-writing that Jesus had his students doing.

I feel very strongly and have for years that God is trying to take us into a new level of Kingdom experience.  God is trying to graduate us from Kindergarten, through first and second grade, and even skip us up a few grades into Middle School.  I believe and feel in my spirit that there is a wealth of abundance of learning and experience to be had and to be caught if we would avail ourselves of Heaven’s Curriculum.  As we look at stepping into a new grade and new levels, the questions I have are the same ones I always ask:  What does it look like? and How do we get there?

I had a vision a while ago where I was a part of a school that seemed like it was in an old city with streets made of stone – one I perceive to be located somewhere in Europe based on its feel.  We were in an old house that had a yard in the back and the place was filled with students.  We didn’t have a set curriculum, per se, but we did have some things we were actively pressing into and practicing.  Worship with music was certainly part of the plan, but it wasn’t by any means the main venue of each day.   Meals were communal and each part of the house had a training purpose.  There was a ‘playground’ out back that had a set of dividing walls, each with a picture painted on it.  The goal of the pictures was to stand in front of one of them and then practice teleporting to one of the OTHER pictures.  The different pictures (painted by one of those present in the vision) served as focal points for the teleportation.  One of the walls in the dining area was full of items which had been attached to the wall by faith – plates, spoons, etc.  Another wall next to it was available for people to try and walk up it.  Food was prayed over and it would be expected that God would either provide the food in some fashion or other (whether it was delivered by someone, bought with faith-found money, multiplied in front of us, or otherwise appearing from Heaven), or we would fast.  Mind you, fasting was not mandatory, but it was just the way we did things.  No one in the vision felt like they had any major sickness, and while lean times might have been the order of the day, it was a time of intensive spiritual training for things to come.

Looking back at that vision now, I don’t yet see many of the pieces that God showed me in that vision, but what I do have is the revelation — that it is possible to actively LEARN to engage and perform the supernatural by faith, and that we as the Body need to learn how to do this and activate our gifts of prophecy, healing, miraculous powers, and the like.

Imagine a scene where one of these higher-level Miracle schools is in action. Think of a storefront church building that’s grown too big to be a home church but isn’t large enough to be a mega-church yet. If a passer-by looked through the window when the school was in action, what might they see? What one might see are not only the things Jesus did – walking on water, raising the dead and cursing fig trees, but much more.

Maybe the meeting would start with worship. Perhaps it would start with testimonies. The attention would focus on Christ. It would start with focusing on Him, as the King of Kings is the central figure of every gift and empowerment of the Spirit. From there the school would break up into practice teams. Each team might discuss a certain miraculous power and what the Bible says about it, what God has been showing them in personal revelation, and comparing and discussing to reach a deeper understanding. These revelations and new truths could be added as curriculum material for the future and for the other practice teams to use later. The teams would each then transition into a learning lab where faith is put into action.

In one of the learning labs, viewers might see kiddie-pools full of water and students with their pant legs rolled up, shoes off, stepping onto the water to see if it holds. If they break through the surface and it doesn’t hold their weight, they stop, spend a moment re-centering and refocusing on what God has told them – things like “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” and ‘Jesus said I would do GREATER works than these”. After spending moments or minutes they would try again.

Over in another corner one might see people practicing with multiplying food by faith.  In yet another corner one might see a group with flashlights and searching everywhere – their hands and arms, the ground, their pockets.  Every now and again one might pick something up, motioning and shouting excitedly.  It appears it might be a gemstone by the way it glints in the light.  Did that just appear?  And where did that sparkly dust come from on that woman’s hands?  Miracles of apportation in action.

On one wall there would be a series of paintings – possibly ones that were painted during the worship time.  There is tape on the floor in front of each picture that is in the shape of a person-sized box.  Students are just standing there staring at the pictures and sometimes closing their eyes.  It rapidly becomes clear what this lab is about when one student translocates himself from one picture to another!

Heading around back one might see a group tending a small garden plot – but with no tools other than their mouths.   Speaking to the plants, the group is telling them to grow whole, healthy, and for all weeds to remain ungerminated in their seeds.  Worms and ladybugs would be welcomed to the plot and all harmful insects would be rebuked and sent elsewhere.  Leaf blight and dry fungus could not flourish, and the fruit of such a plot would certainly be large in size and plentiful in number.

A field trip might take the class to a local funeral home where families receive back their dead by the power of God, or to a hospital cancer unit where tumors fall off in front of one’s eyes.  Or even to a burn unit, where skin grows back on a victim’s arms and legs in seconds at the utterance of the name of Jesus.

And with so much faith in the air, certainly in a place like this there would be no sickness, no disease, no disability.  And with the faith to see gemstones appear, there could be no lack either, for whatever need arises would be met with faith equal to the task, and the solution would manifest before the eyes of the one in need.

Why all the focus on the miraculous?  The gift of Miraculous Powers (note that it’s plural, not singular) is possibly one of the most neglected gifts of the Spirit at this juncture in history.  Much is known about faith already – the Word of Faith movement saw to that.  Asuza Street brought with it, among other things, a revival of tongues and interpretation.  Entire volumes have been written on discernment and casting out of demons since the days of Derek Prince.  The Healing movement has flourished mightily since the days of John Wimber.  The Latter Rain movement brought a resurgence of prophets and the gift of prophecy, word of knowledge, and word of wisdom.  Of all of these, the gift of miraculous powers stands alone without understanding, yet if the Church were honest with herself, Jesus spent possibly more of his time doing miracles than anything else.  Of Jesus’ own confession, Capurneum was a place where he did many miracles, and the Book of John states that more miracles were performed by Jesus than could fit in all the books in the world.

What is clear at this point is that it IS possible to actively learn and engage in order to perform the supernatural by faith.  The Church as a whole are expected by Jesus to learn how to do this and activate the gifts of prophecy, healing, miraculous powers, and the like far more than before.
In my own life and those of personal friends I can list miracles we have experienced:  apportation of objects including gemstones, feathers, and oil; translocation in time and space; spirit travel on earth and in heaven; gravity defying miracles; multiplication of objects (including food); levitation; mind-reading; weather control; and raising the dead.  I know that all these things and more can be caught and/or taught, and I also know that God is releasing greater revelation, authority, and understanding to the Body at this time to walk in these things in a much greater measure.

There is an ever-present danger that must be addressed to balance out the pursuit of the Miracle realms.  It is possible to find a group of people who have a high level of operation in various miracles, anointings, and giftings, and some who have a lot of faith in these many areas, and to do so in order to create a school like that I have described above.  This actually might be an idea that would advance the school’s supernatural journey rapidly, but at the same time there is a risk.  Quantity of miracles without depth of character is a pitfall that has ruined people before, and without care will do it again.  “Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.” Psalms 11:14.  Without a multitude of counselors who can see areas of weakness – both of the individual and the group, it is almost guaranteed to fail before it has even started.  These counselors are not present to be fault-finding or blame-seeking, but rather to serve as an early warning system for problems so that they never grow too big.  As it says in Proverbs 16:18, “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”  It is best to avoid destruction, and while pride is not the only character flaw that causes problems, the entire issue is avoided by means of vigilance.

An additional problem in developing this type of school is the money.  While one might locate the right teachers and group facilitators, it is impossible to make promises that students will learn this or that, guarantees that can be made in public schools, but not in Kingdom schools.  That said, is it ethical to charge tuition with no guarantees?  Additionally, these things can be taught, but they can’t be bought.  This is a difficult thing, but the vision still remains within me.  I do believe we are reaching a time where schools such as this will develop into supernatural communities, and those currently in existence will increase and expand, exemplifying a new wave of power-packed supernatural encounters such as most people have only dreamed.

I envision communities of people where teleporting, flying, and manifesting money and resources by faith is a daily occurrence.  Where rescuing children from sex trade is simply a matter of teleporting into the holding area and teleporting thirty people back out with you.  Where there is no real lack among them because it can be created at will based on the needs present.  Clothes, shoes, money, whatever one has need of is available because those in these Haven communities know how to manifest the abundance out of heaven into the earth so that there is no needy among them.  I envision properties that are portals of heaven into earth like nothing we have yet seen.  Moravian Falls, Redding, Prayer Mountain in Korea, none of those hold a candle to what I see possible when the right people come together in one heart and one mind seeking after the supernatural workings of God to manifest life with love and demonstrations of the Spirits’ power.

When I think of all the human struggles and issues that could rise up and the difficulty that having a cohesive group living in one accord like that would pose, I say to myself ‘It would take a miracle’, but I can’t let go of the idea in my spirit that God really WANTS us to live in that kind of realm of the flow of the Spirit.  Until then, I will continue to press forward into the goodness of my Father, knowing that He is building in us all a blueprint of the things that He is doing, and knowing that as I follow the portion of that blueprint God is laying on my heart and piecing my page together with others God is calling and preparing, that together we will be able to construct a spiritual city in the earth whose Architect and Chief Builder is God.

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They’re Not Your Thoughts

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Back in 2010 I spoke to a good friend (let’s call this friend Frank), who was having a tough time emotionally.  Frank texted me about 10:30 because he was having some difficulty from a faith-perspective.  But the story starts an hour or two earlier. He was at work and a coworker was having some pain. He thought “I should pray for her.”  Then he thought. “But why should I?  God wouldn’t answer ME.”  Later, he saw a blind man at the train station. Same thoughts. These thoughts got him thinking. “Why am I thinking this? Do I really believe that? I mean, why do I believe that God won’t answer me? Is my faith really that shaky? What is wrong with me” He really started spiraling downward emotionally at that point, and was having a really rough time. That was when he texted me.

We texted back and forth a little, I made a suggestion, and that was about it until he called me about an hour later.  We talked, and all ended well.  But I’ll share with you all what I told him at that time.

There are times you have thoughts.  And there are times that the enemy gives you thoughts.  The problem comes only when you think that their thoughts are your thoughts.  They’re not your thoughts.

You see, the enemy likes to be tricky.  They will put thoughts in your head and then when you start thinking about those things they PUT there, they will accuse you (again, making it sound to you like your own thoughts), of thinking those things.  Could be as simple as “I don’t have faith.” “God doesn’t love me”, or something more specific, such as thoughts of anger, rape, abuse, violence, stealing, or some other malevolent idea.  It really doesn’t matter what the thought is, because it isn’t yours.  When they can get you to believe that YOU thought it, then they will accuse you of being a sinner, dirty, evil, etc.  And the thing is, it works.  They tend to get you to blame yourself for their ideas.

There is another way.  In fact, it’s the way that I texted and then later suggested to Frank.  But it all hinges on one point:  Any thought that begins with an incorrect premise from a Kingdom perspective is an illegal thought.  In Frank’s case, the illegal thought was “God won’t do it for me.”  He didn’t need to think ANY further than that, because it is a lie.  How do you know it’s a lie?  Simply, the Bible SAYS it’s a lie.  “God is no respecter of persons”.  It’s in there somewhere.  I could even look it up for you and tell you where, but that would keep you from having to do it yourself  ^_^.

I’m  not necessarily known for my copious amounts of Bible-reading.  But I do know a lot of what it says, and knowing it comes in handy in times like these.  If you know what God is saying about you, then you really don’t need to give the lies of the enemy any further thought.  When the enemy plants lies in your head, what you need to do is send the liar away, and choose to focus on something that is true (preferably in opposition to the lie).  Satan is a liar and the Father of lies (you can look that verse up too!), so we know that it is a normal part of the enemy’s schemes to do this.  We know that God is the Father of Heavenly Lights in whom there is no twisting or turning of shadows.  We know that God does not change.  We know that in Him there is no darkness, but rather He is Light.  With all of this said, there is nothing that God is hiding from you.  There is nothing He is keeping from you.  That was the lie the enemy told Adam and Eve in the Garden.  It’s not a new tactic.

Why am I sharing all this?  Not to depress you, and there is no condemnation if this has happened to you (Hint: We have all been there at least once, and I multiples upon multiples of times).  Simply learn it and be protected for the next time.  If you GIVE IN to the lies, the enemy takes it step further.   What does this look like?  Well, what happened to Frank?  He started wallowing in the lie.  He gave in to the lie and took it into his heart and let it become truth to him, if only for an hour or two.  What then happened was that his heart sank.  His emotions gave way to the lie, and he began to sink.  He was struggling for a while before it got dealt with, too.  This is why it is important to cut it off early.  If you feed the lie, it will take root within you and grow.

But even if it DOES take root and grow, God is always more powerful, and will remove the deception.  The easiest way is to choose to rule over your emotions at that moment in time.  It’s not an easy thing to do, but anyone can do it if they choose.  Hear this:  It is a conscious choice to rule over the emotions.  Everyone is capable of this.  You simply have to choose to do so.  You are not incapable; you are not bound.  You have the freedom to choose to do it.  You just might not want to, and it becomes difficult the more you feed the negative emotions.  You must choose at that point to focus on the Truth that you didn’t think about earlier.  You must repeat that truth to yourself.  Even command your emotions to fall in line with the Truth of God.  You must choose that regardless of how you feel, your emotions are based in a lie, and therefore will no longer have power over you.  It is a thought, an idea.  It’s not a feeling.  You must overcome those feelings with your thoughts.  It’s a pain, I know.  But it’s really the only solution that I’m aware of that you can do  that will solve it.  I know I’m repeating myself, but I’m belaboring this point for a reason.  I want you to get it, and I want you to use it  ^_^

Well, after Frank called and we talked, I shared all of this with him, and I declared truth over him.  It solved the problem right then and there.  Because Frank wasn’t able to fix it himself that time (I think partly because he didn’t know what I’m sharing here until I told him), he had to get help.  He did, and he’s fine.  But because he couldn’t fix it himself, he had to wait a couple hours, all the while sinking deeper, until he could get set free.  One of the things I told him was that I used to always call my friend/mentor Diane when I had a problem or spiritual warfare issue.  At some point in time, however, I realized that I couldn’t depend on her to fight my battles for me.  I had to be strong enough to do it myself.  I had to be able to stand firm when no one else was around, no one else was praying, and the only person I could depend on is the Person of the Holy Spirit.  If you are stuck in this sort of thing, there ARE other ways to get out of the rut, and they involve other people.  But if there isn’t anyone else… what are you going to do?  Stay stuck?

The fact is that you are MORE than a conqueror, you are a overcomer, the SAME SPIRIT that raised Jesus from the dead lives IN you, and he has filled you with POWER by this spirit.  You are the head, not the tail, above and not beneath, and you have been seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus, who is far above all principalities and powers, and who disarmed them a long time ago and made a public spectacle and display of them by nailing them to the cross.  There’s much more  I could say, but you can read it in the Bible just as easily as I can type it out for you to read.

This was a good reminder for me too.  I got to share something with Frank that will help him in the future, but it also reminded me of this particular tactic of the enemy, which I am sure will be useful for me as well.  Demons are liars.  Don’t listen to them, don’t feed their lies.  Know what the Father says about you, and live by it.  Regardless of your circumstances, they don’t dictate God, and they don’t dictate the reality of His children as a result.  If HE says it’s true, then it is, and if HE says it’s a lie, then it is.  Be strong in the power of His might, stand firm against the schemes of the enemy.  And remember:  They’re not your thoughts.

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Wait Just A Little Longer

Yesterday was a little different than usual for me – I worked a half-shift instead of a full shift and had the afternoon free. I had to stop by a friend’s house to pick up our share of raw milk from a farm co-op we belong to. This couple, my wife and I, and one or two other people have formed our own ‘church’, and we fellowship every Tuesday night over dinner and an episode of “Marvel: Agents of Shield.” From time to time the agenda will change and we will end up doing something else for the evening, but both regularly and impromptu we gather in each others’ homes, break bread together, and simply BE the Body of Christ.

While I was there this afternoon, the wife of the couple (we’ll call her “Kay”) and I took a few spontaneous moments to pray for her as she and her husband are assisting with an important event this weekend from their ‘Normal’ church. We stood by the kitchen counter and simply held hands wordlessly, receiving and releasing God’s Presence and Love into the matter. While doing this we chatted some, but spent a large part of that time silent, enjoying and seeking God silently in our hearts.

After a few minutes of this, I was ‘ready’ to be done praying, but Kay hadn’t let go. I could have simply moved my hands away, but something about the situation kept me from stopping – and it’s good that I did. In that moment I made a conscious choice to wait just a little longer. I decided in my heart not to simply pray for her, but to also let God’s love and peace well up in me. I chose to cease being simply a conduit from God-to-Kay and instead become a vessel willing and ready to be filled. As I did this, I could feel my own internal atmosphere begin to shift, as well as the air space directly around my body. It took on a sort of gentle energy-filled state, almost like being in a small breeze or suddenly surrounded by a peaceful current of water. This is what the presence of Holy Spirit often feels like to me – a gentle moving and subtle shifting of the atmosphere right around me.

As I gave in to this feeling, letting God be God and I being open to His goodness, things started to happen. Kay mentioned to me that she had been having wrist pain and stiffness over the past few days that had appeared somewhat suddenly and was becoming troublesome. I began to pray over the wrist and command all demon spirits to leave, when Kay suddenly coughed – a common occurrence when demons leave the body, and a good sign of success. After praying for a few more minutes and doing a little more spiritual work on her body, her wrist was significantly better, with only the last remnants of the pain and stiffness remaining.

Right as we finished praying, her right ear started to get stopped up and her hearing diminished, and her left ear which has been having this problem for weeks suddenly worsened. Being no stranger to the activity of demons, this was clearly the work of spirits attempting to find another place to afflict. We moved to the ears next, and I placed my hands on the sides of her head. We both continued with this wordless soaking-type prayer as my right hand began to vibrate and tremor as God’s power started touching her ears.

When we finished praying for her ears, her right ear was restored and her left ear far better than it had been for some time. And then one of her housemates, “Sarah”, came down on her way to a prayer gathering at another church. We took about 2 minutes, as she needed to get out the door, to pray for her and decree more of Heaven into her life, and then we all headed out to finish our own errands for the day. Each of us left touched by God in some way, filled up and strengthened for whatever tasks lay ahead.

As I pondered this event – something simple and spontaneous yet impacting, I realized that there was more to this than the immediate event. I felt God speaking to my heart about a message for many in this time. We all go through situations in life where we need to be encouraged or strengthened and where we need a touch from Heaven. Some of those times we pray and receive the answer and other times we go away disappointed. Other times we keep on and continue to pray and seek and ask and knock, knowing that God’s Word says that ‘everyone who asks will receive, he who seeks will find, and to him who knocks the door will be opened.’

There are many of us right now who have been asking and seeking, some even begging for God to do certain things. The answers have not come, and we’re ready to stop, possibly give up, and move on. In the same way that I was getting ready to finish praying but the job wasn’t done, I needed to come back and take a fresh look at things. For everyone who is getting ready to give up, to stop praying, stop seeking, stop asking, and stop knocking, now is a time to press through. Now is a time to come back to a place of centering on Him and His goodness and letting him not just manifest through you, but also to FILL you. DO NOT GIVE UP!!

For as surely as the rain comes in due season, so will the rain of heaven pour itself upon your life. In every area that you have been asking for God to come and touch, He will come and fill it. Continue to press through, even after you feel like you can’t do it anymore. Return to the Lord in your heart that times of refreshing would come. Wait on him once more, wait just a little longer. For “Your breakthrough shall come” says the Lord. “I am not a liar, that I should say one thing one moment and another the next. No, all the promises I have given you are ‘yes’ and ‘amen’ in my Son Jesus Christ. Continue to seek ME – look to Me and you will find your rest and peace – a rest and peace which will carry you into the next season full of joy and singing. Yes, you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you in singing and the trees shall clap their hands.”

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