Faith and a Feather

Last week I was at a meeting in Albany Oregon with a precious group of believers who are hungry for God and gather regularly to seek Him and to engage the supernatural realms. This particular meeting was set aside to seek the Lord in faith and expectation for gemstones from heaven to manifest. Many of those at the meeting had experienced this before, but there were those there who had not yet but wanted to. I was invited by a friend, and although my wife and I did not attend as guest speakers by any means, we were invited to share a few words about the gem manifestation.

I spoke for about five minutes, and after sharing a brief testimony I encouraged everyone present that God wanted to give them gems–personally. God loves each and every one of us and desires to directly interact with each of us. He desires to lavish gifts on each one, and we are not so special that God won’t do for us what he does for many others, whether it be gems or any other miracle. I encouraged the group to actually go around the room and look for gems, as God is a good Father and loves to give his kids gifts that they’ll enjoy, much like any earthly parent gives their children fun toys to play with just to see their enjoyment. I let them know that looking for jewels isn’t a sign of valuing them over God, but that we are simply getting to appreciate the gifts that God is giving us–we’re not seeking his hands instead of his face, but we want to both know God and get the goodies!
No sooner had I shared this than a well-meaning but misguided woman did the favor of sharing a short testimony with exhortation that we were definitely not to look for gems at any moment whatsoever, and that we were to worship the Lord only and not get off into idolatry with this gem-business. If God wants us to have gems, He knows where to put them so we will find them without searching for them. I must confess, I was very disappointed to hear this. This woman single-handedly dealt a huge blow to the growing faith in the room, and I am sorry to say that I don’t think it ever quite recovered.

I am sure if I had been prone to arguing we could have gotten into one, as the woman had a very contrary attitude about her. I was very gracious with her disagreement, even backpedaling slightly in stating that each person needed to decide what was in his her or her heart with the Lord in how to address this issue she had brought up, when in reality the woman was dead-wrong. She was determined to pursue the issue and made sure she had the last word on the subject so that everyone would bow to her will on the matter. I feel it important to point out that In Matthew 7: 7-8 it says “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Jesus himself instructed his disciples to ask and seek, and if Jesus says it, we should probably do it.

A few minutes later during worship the Lord instructed me to get up and start looking for jewels, telling me that if I didn’t they definitely would not appear. I realized that this woman’s words had put everyone in a state where they didn’t want to offend her and weren’t going to look for gems. I got up and walked across the middle of the room and began searching on the far side of the room from her. After I did so, a couple other people got up and started to do the same. It wasn’t too long after that this woman left the meeting, and after she was gone a number of other people also began to search in earnest, and the gathering took a much lighter, more enjoyable tone.

Although no gems appeared that night, there was a supernatural manifestation that evening. While the woman was still present, I found a single small white feather near me on the floor. Feathers are a manifestation I am familiar with and have experienced over the years at home, church, at my workplace, and even in random public places. In this case, I believe the feather was showing a level of warfare that was happening over this issue of supernatural manifestations. I was pleased the feather appeared, but I was disappointed it didn’t go any further than just that lone feather.

This meeting was a bit of an object lesson for me in regards to things-supernatural. We often do not realize the power of our words and the attitude and intention behind those words. We have the ability to create and encourage faith, as my wife and I had done with the things we shared, and we have the power to sow doubt, as that woman had done. I wish I could give her the benefit of the doubt and say that she did it unwittingly, but the purpose of the meeting was no secret, and if she didn’t want to be around people who were looking for gems it would have been better for all of us if she had chosen not to attend.

Faith is a tenuous thing at times, and when faith is wavering the smallest things can tip it one way or the other. It is important, therefore, that we encourage and cultivate lifestyles of faith that push us toward heavenly realities on a daily basis. A single feather from heaven was all that appeared out of a group of 20-30 believers, many of whom have already seen and a few of whom currently still experience this on occasion in their own homes, all of whom had been praying that week and that day for angels to bring gemstones into the meeting. That feather served as a bit of a lesson to me–that not only do I have a lot to learn about dealing with contrary people in large group meetings, but that more important than just those people are the influence they have on the rest of the people present. When given the choice to build up or tear down it is always best to take the high road and encourage our fellow man, strengthening his faith in the good things God is doing. When opinions are at odds, we will never go wrong by emulating the fruit of the spirit.

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It was around midnight and I was carrying my eldest granddaughter from my bed where she had fallen asleep down to her bed for the night. There was a dim light on in her room, and as I walked toward her bed, I noticed something glint on the sheets at the edge of the bed. As I neared it I instantly recognized that it was a gemstone, but not knowing if the kids had recently been playing with plastic stones or something, I wasn’t quite sure what I had found. I put my granddaughter in bed, walked back upstairs, and turned on a flashlight to inspect further.

The moment I turned the flashlight on it I knew it was a gem from heaven, not of human origin. I have seen thousands of these gems appear to date, but few of them have been with as little fanfare or completely out of the blue as this one was. You see, a few years ago my wife and I were introduced to a couple who have seen gemstones manifest around them for years. A year after that we invited them to do a series of meetings at our house, which expanded into some other meetings in other homes around the region as well. We did this for about a year when there were some changes that took place and we stopped having those meetings. Since then, the gems have appeared with scarcity, and the last ones prior to this were probably at least six months ago, so as can be imagined, I was pretty astounded to find the stone when I did. Talk about unexpected!

I immediately showed my wife, who, with childlike abandon got giddy and gleeful as she celebrated the discovery of the stone. For those of you who don’t know her, my wife is the most fun person to be around when she gets excited about God and what He is doing. Childlike doesn’t even begin to describe the joy that spills out of her.

Tiny feathers have been appearing, floating by in the air, and disappearing for the past number of months with increasing frequency, but gemstones had not broken forth again until now. God had spoken to me a week or two ago about wanting to bring forth the manifestation of gemstones, but I was not expecting anything as quick as this one happened. I am still pondering the meaning of this event, and what God is saying and doing, but I am confident that there is much more to come, both for myself and my household, and for you, the reader.

God is readying the Body of Christ to receive a veritable explosion of the miraculous. We are in the beginning stages of what is going to be a wild ride of the miraculous. Signs, wonders, and miracles are becoming much more commonplace as Heaven invades the Earth realm, and this will only continue in the lives of those whose focus is turned heavenward. After all, as we are ambassadors of Heaven, where we go Heaven follows, and where Heaven follows, miracles break out. In the coming days diamonds falling from heaven will be the least of what God is doing–he is preparing to feed entire nations in a day, to make buildings appear where there was only rubble moments before, to make rivers dry up and resurge once those who need to cross have passed over. God will make the desert wilderness to bloom like a garden, and these things I say are no figurative speech, but a literal reality. God has far more prepared for each of us, more than eye has seen and ear has heard.

I encourage you to draw closer to the Lord in the coming months. He has been speaking to a great many people about drawing closer and sitting with Him in this hour, to hear what it is He would share with us and to equip us to steward and release the visible manifestations of his love in power to our families, communities, and even the nations of the world. As the light of a gemstone reflects the source of the light and brings new beauty into the room, spend time to sit with the Father and let His light transform you even more, refining the heavenly gemstone that you are to Him, that you can carry even more of His light into this world.

Note: The gemstone in the picture above is one that I found on my granddaughter’s bed, and the hand holding it is mine. This was found and the picture taken on January 31st, 2015.

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