Holy Spirit wants more of our time so He can expose Jesus's love personally to you and me.
Sometimes my efforts to engage Him are so pathetic and small. It's humbling and embarrassing as I crack open the door of my time to find He's so eagerly waiting.
I find myself so involved with the stuff of living - essentials like working and nonessential time-wasters like TV, sleeping too late, shopping for my 50th pair of shoes - and yet I find Him to always be on my mind, regretting that I am not more disciplined to sit and stare into His love.
What shocking love ! He pursues me. Patiently going with me - so that in each pause when I stop and speak to Him, He rushes to express His presence.
If I compare His love for me to how much I love Him, it's as though I hate him.
I look forward to the Soaking meetings because it's a set time to do one thing: learn what He wishes to teach me. Tonight's meeting will be a pursuit -that I pray will infuse my heart with His so that I am overflowing with His great love , so that it will pour out of me in to others who He wants to embrace.
If you can come join us for your own pursuit, it would be a good use of time I promise.
7PM Zion Rd Healing Rooms.
We'll do it again Saturday night at the Divine Encounters gathering at the Marriott on Salisbury Road. (Check out Tara Travis's myspace for details.)
If you can't come be with us, just be with HIM for a little more time. He's waiting.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
YOUR SPOKEN WORDS
Here it is a short two months since I posted this and I am embarrassed at myself.
I am listening tot he live webcast of a church service with Myon LaFevre speaking on the need to speak what the angels can use.
I really needed this again- so I'm re-posting it and reading it as I do.
You know, God speaks in simple short sentences that we can remember.
Then, for the particularly hard of hearing, spiritually speaking, He is kind enough to repeat Himself. Hopefully we all eventually get that cartoonish light bulb over our head and hear the Hallelujahs as we grin and say "I Get It!".
That's the pattern I've seen with a new spiritual broadcast of an old truth. Here's what I am convinced has been released for any Christian BELIEVER who will "Get It".
Now is the time to recognize the power and authority of your words.
Jesus made this clear when He said anyone who speaks to a mountain and tells it to jump in the ocean and doubts not what he says will see that mountain obey him.
Study it all you want. It says what it means and means what it says in any translation.
Read Mark 11:23 -24.
Consider who's image we are created in.
In Genesis He spoke the worlds into being.
This applies to everything.
Does your marriage need a divine makeover? What have you been speaking about it and to it?Don't like gas prices? What are you saying?
In short, we create everything around us with our tongue.
I've sensed a new release of more power in my own words. Things that used to take months or years of travailing prayer have changed within one day of my words declaring and calling things to be different.
Do you think the drop in oil prices is just a happy coincidence? Well, my mother and I are two people who have been speaking to the matter, calling them down.
We are now speaking into the spirit realm over the American people. We are saying they are wise and discerning and will vote according to God's priorities. And they can discern between fluff and substance.
We are speaking blessings over President Bush and calling forth the favor that he needs to finish all that he needs to do - favor with the media, favor with governments of other nations, favor with the people and with everyone he needs to cooperate with him. As my mother was praying and speaking these kinds of things last week, with the eyes of the spirit I could see laser swords shooting out of her mouth.
So I'm encouraging everyone to take more heed than ever to the old saying " watch your mouth".
Take it further. Picture your words forming what you speak.
And above all, before you speak, look to Jesus. Ask Him what you should say.
Bless those that curse you.
In everything give thanks.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue.
Whosoever shall say with his mouth to this mountain be removed and cast into the sea and not doubt in his heart, he shall have what he says.
I am listening tot he live webcast of a church service with Myon LaFevre speaking on the need to speak what the angels can use.
I really needed this again- so I'm re-posting it and reading it as I do.
You know, God speaks in simple short sentences that we can remember.
Then, for the particularly hard of hearing, spiritually speaking, He is kind enough to repeat Himself. Hopefully we all eventually get that cartoonish light bulb over our head and hear the Hallelujahs as we grin and say "I Get It!".
That's the pattern I've seen with a new spiritual broadcast of an old truth. Here's what I am convinced has been released for any Christian BELIEVER who will "Get It".
Now is the time to recognize the power and authority of your words.
Jesus made this clear when He said anyone who speaks to a mountain and tells it to jump in the ocean and doubts not what he says will see that mountain obey him.
Study it all you want. It says what it means and means what it says in any translation.
Read Mark 11:23 -24.
Consider who's image we are created in.
In Genesis He spoke the worlds into being.
This applies to everything.
Does your marriage need a divine makeover? What have you been speaking about it and to it?Don't like gas prices? What are you saying?
In short, we create everything around us with our tongue.
I've sensed a new release of more power in my own words. Things that used to take months or years of travailing prayer have changed within one day of my words declaring and calling things to be different.
Do you think the drop in oil prices is just a happy coincidence? Well, my mother and I are two people who have been speaking to the matter, calling them down.
We are now speaking into the spirit realm over the American people. We are saying they are wise and discerning and will vote according to God's priorities. And they can discern between fluff and substance.
We are speaking blessings over President Bush and calling forth the favor that he needs to finish all that he needs to do - favor with the media, favor with governments of other nations, favor with the people and with everyone he needs to cooperate with him. As my mother was praying and speaking these kinds of things last week, with the eyes of the spirit I could see laser swords shooting out of her mouth.
So I'm encouraging everyone to take more heed than ever to the old saying " watch your mouth".
Take it further. Picture your words forming what you speak.
And above all, before you speak, look to Jesus. Ask Him what you should say.
Bless those that curse you.
In everything give thanks.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue.
Whosoever shall say with his mouth to this mountain be removed and cast into the sea and not doubt in his heart, he shall have what he says.
Monday, September 8, 2008
INVITATION
SOAKING AT THE ZION ROAD HEALING ROOMS
SPETEMBER 25 2008
7:00 pm
3846 Zion Road
Jacksonville, Fl
SPETEMBER 25 2008
7:00 pm
3846 Zion Road
Jacksonville, Fl
SOAKING IN GOD'S PRESENCE
A few years ago, while at the library I saw a sign with a picture of a yogi. It was and ad for transcendental meditation classes being held there. Being a Christian, it occurred to me that the library should allow equal time to have Biblical meditation. I may have had a brief conversation with God about it. I'm pretty sure the moment was marked in Heaven.
With that moment totally out of mind, I discovered a new word for Biblical meditation while at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship on my first visit there in 2004. They call it soaking.
Soaking is a simple word that encompasses the practice of stopping the busy mind, being still, focusing heart and mind on God . Waiting for Him to talk to me, asking Him to say whatever He wants, I have found that He has much to say.
In daily life, my habit of waking up, getting coffee, multi-tasking my way through the morning, working, talking care of the mundane duties that keep the household in order, my time with God is like a conversation while jogging.
Corporate appointments to do nothing but BE WITH HIM are rare in our churches and our daily lives. There is just so much to do.
Soaking meetings are the best time of all for me. This is a block of time where no wandering thought, no task, no duty, no agenda, no sermon will interrupt Holy Spirit when He begins speaking to my soul. During those times, He has plucked up weeds from the garden of my heart, healed childhood rejections, taken me on flying visits to other nations, imparted vision and gifts and convinced me that I am truly His daughter.
Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship has a ministry training program to teach how to facilitate soaking meetings. I went to this soaking school and became infused with a heart to host times for Jesus where He could spend this quality time with His bride.
Many people have their meetings at homes or churches. There's even a meeting at the Fusion Christian bookstore.
Back to the library -
I started looking for a place where anyone could come. Churches and homes can be so territorial. I knew the library had meeting rooms and made arrangements for our first meeting. That's when I remembered the moment years earlier, looking at the transcendental meditation sign. God seems to have remembered too.
If you're in Jacksonville, Fl, come join us. You can check out ctfministries.com or soaking.net
for some other soaking resources and places.
With that moment totally out of mind, I discovered a new word for Biblical meditation while at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship on my first visit there in 2004. They call it soaking.
Soaking is a simple word that encompasses the practice of stopping the busy mind, being still, focusing heart and mind on God . Waiting for Him to talk to me, asking Him to say whatever He wants, I have found that He has much to say.
In daily life, my habit of waking up, getting coffee, multi-tasking my way through the morning, working, talking care of the mundane duties that keep the household in order, my time with God is like a conversation while jogging.
Corporate appointments to do nothing but BE WITH HIM are rare in our churches and our daily lives. There is just so much to do.
Soaking meetings are the best time of all for me. This is a block of time where no wandering thought, no task, no duty, no agenda, no sermon will interrupt Holy Spirit when He begins speaking to my soul. During those times, He has plucked up weeds from the garden of my heart, healed childhood rejections, taken me on flying visits to other nations, imparted vision and gifts and convinced me that I am truly His daughter.
Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship has a ministry training program to teach how to facilitate soaking meetings. I went to this soaking school and became infused with a heart to host times for Jesus where He could spend this quality time with His bride.
Many people have their meetings at homes or churches. There's even a meeting at the Fusion Christian bookstore.
Back to the library -
I started looking for a place where anyone could come. Churches and homes can be so territorial. I knew the library had meeting rooms and made arrangements for our first meeting. That's when I remembered the moment years earlier, looking at the transcendental meditation sign. God seems to have remembered too.
If you're in Jacksonville, Fl, come join us. You can check out ctfministries.com or soaking.net
for some other soaking resources and places.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
PRAYING FOR THE RNC
I've decided that I will vote for the sake of the possible supreme court judges and the unborn lives at stake.
As I watched my dear President, with red eyes, give a speech to an ungrateful nation last night I could only sob and pray for mercy for us and for him to be greatly blessed with the favor he deserves.
When the RNC followed his speech with a slap in the face by a video tribute not to his accomplishments, but instead skipped back to Ronald Regan it spokes volumes to me. I now understand vividly what God was saying to my mother a month or so ago.
She said "It was as though He was pacing and talking. He said he had given George W Bush to us as a gift and watched over this nation through him. It was bothersome to God how we had dishonored him. It was clear that He was weighing our actions as He looked at Mike Huckabee, the next gift He had prepared for us. "
The Republican Party is in much need of mercy and prayer. I'm pretty angry with her at the moment and it's difficult to pray effectively with a lack of love. I must though.
On an action level, I'm more compelled than ever to join the efforts of Mike Huckabee's HuckPac to help get the right people into the right offices.
If I continue to participate with the local and national Republican Party, they will probably wish soon that this vocal thorn in their side would just go away.
And I will soon write a personal letter of thanks to my President. I encourage you to do likewise.
As I watched my dear President, with red eyes, give a speech to an ungrateful nation last night I could only sob and pray for mercy for us and for him to be greatly blessed with the favor he deserves.
When the RNC followed his speech with a slap in the face by a video tribute not to his accomplishments, but instead skipped back to Ronald Regan it spokes volumes to me. I now understand vividly what God was saying to my mother a month or so ago.
She said "It was as though He was pacing and talking. He said he had given George W Bush to us as a gift and watched over this nation through him. It was bothersome to God how we had dishonored him. It was clear that He was weighing our actions as He looked at Mike Huckabee, the next gift He had prepared for us. "
The Republican Party is in much need of mercy and prayer. I'm pretty angry with her at the moment and it's difficult to pray effectively with a lack of love. I must though.
On an action level, I'm more compelled than ever to join the efforts of Mike Huckabee's HuckPac to help get the right people into the right offices.
If I continue to participate with the local and national Republican Party, they will probably wish soon that this vocal thorn in their side would just go away.
And I will soon write a personal letter of thanks to my President. I encourage you to do likewise.
Friday, August 29, 2008
McCain has announced his choice for VP.
While I am delighted that it is NOT Mitt Romney who's face just irks my flesh for some reason, and while I am not disgruntled about the lady from Alaska, I stand firmly locked as I have been for the past year.
I am as convinced as ever that it was His plan to give us Mike Huckabee as President through the door of the VP. But if God always had His way with mankind, everyone would know Jesus already.
The message this sends to my heart is a sad one:
I pray for a great awakening to come to this nation. We have sent the message to God that we think we are smart enough to figure these things out without His help. By we, I mean , Americans generally as a people.
I am sad for my nation today. I remember hearing sobering, chilling words from the two prophetic voices I have most respect for: My mother and Chuck Pierce. Both of them had a message directly from God that our treatment of our current President, whom He has given us a gift is being carefully weighed in light of the upcoming election. He made it clear that He had indeed prepared a very special gift for us in Mike Huckabee. His love for Mike, however is great. I feel that God has chosen, at least for now, to protect Mike from us.
If the election were held today, I don't know if I would even go to the polls because to me, it doesn't matter. Both parties have declared by their actions that everything will be decided by what's between their two ears.
Have mercy Lord.
I am as convinced as ever that it was His plan to give us Mike Huckabee as President through the door of the VP. But if God always had His way with mankind, everyone would know Jesus already.
The message this sends to my heart is a sad one:
I pray for a great awakening to come to this nation. We have sent the message to God that we think we are smart enough to figure these things out without His help. By we, I mean , Americans generally as a people.
I am sad for my nation today. I remember hearing sobering, chilling words from the two prophetic voices I have most respect for: My mother and Chuck Pierce. Both of them had a message directly from God that our treatment of our current President, whom He has given us a gift is being carefully weighed in light of the upcoming election. He made it clear that He had indeed prepared a very special gift for us in Mike Huckabee. His love for Mike, however is great. I feel that God has chosen, at least for now, to protect Mike from us.
If the election were held today, I don't know if I would even go to the polls because to me, it doesn't matter. Both parties have declared by their actions that everything will be decided by what's between their two ears.
Have mercy Lord.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Reasons for McCain to ask Huckabee to run as VP
THIS IS THE TIME TO RE-POST THIS.
The Huckabee Prayer Coordinator sent out the email asking if anyone is willing to pray for McCain to offer Mike the VP spot and followed with several excellent reasons.
Below is my reply and his complete message.
Daves message:
Is anyone willing to pray for McCain to offer Mike the VP spot?
I know that it is not a very appealing prospect to have to consider, but I've put together some reasons why Mike should become the VP nominee:
Reasons that Mike Huckabee should accept a VP position on the GOP ticket:
It gives Mike the opportunity to gain foreign policy experience—an area that was heavily criticized during the campaign as a weak point in his experience.It gives Mike Huckabee a bully pulpit from which to champion conservative causes.It keeps Mike in the public eye, and allows Mike to develop relationships with the national press.It will allow the press and the public to see that Mike is more than just a former Baptist Preacher, (even though we know there is nothing wrong with that) but an executive with experience.It allows the American people to get to know Mike better.Mike is very likeable.And with this opportunity, they will come to view him as Presidential.It allows Mike to establish relationships with Washington elites—the main source of resistance to his campaign in the GOP.It gives Mike input to national policy decisions, like the selection of Supreme Court Justices.It makes Mike the heir-apparent to the Presidency.It allows Mike to transition smoothly to the Presidency should McCain suffer a debilitating physical ailment or die in office—something that is very possible considering his advanced age.It prevents pseudo-conservatives like Romney from attaining power.It gives voters a choice in November between an Ultra liberal-Ultra liberal team in the Dems and a Moderate-Conservative team in the GOP.The general election tends to favor a balance toward political center.It gives conservative voters a choice.Many conservative voters will stay home in November if McCain chooses a moderate running mate.
Reasons John McCain should select Mike Huckabee as a running mate:
Mike is a superb speaker, he will be a great communicator for the ticket.McCain is generally viewed as lacking charisma.Mike brings the charisma that overcomes the personal appeal of Obama.Mike has won the conservative base—the states the McCain needs most to win in the general election.McCain has won mostly blue states, while Huckabee has won red states.Mike and John get along very well—as was apparent during their debates; John and Mitt sparred continuously with negative jabs but John and Mike were always friendly and cordial to each other.Mike has more executive experience than any other presidential candidate in either party.Mike has good ideas and a fresh approach.A combined McCain-Huckabee ticket would be hard to label as “Washington Insider”.Mike is young enough to assume the reins after McCain retires from public life—just as George Bush Sr. took over when Reagan retired. That was not the case with VP Dick Cheney.Voters will be very sensitive to the age issue with McCain, but Huckabee can defuse the issue.Mike has credibility with the social conservative base.If McCain runs without a social conservative like Huckabee, then James Dobson and other social conservative spokesmen will abandon the ticket, but with Mike aboard, social conservative spokesmen will likely support it.Social conservative voters are skeptical about McCain’s dedication to social conservative issues.Selecting Mike as a running mate will help prove his willingness to support conservative positions.Gun owners have determined Presidential election outcomes in the past.GOA’s website currently reads “McCain? No Way!!” But they say: “Mike Huckabee: Standing Tall for the Second Amendment.” Without a Huckabee running mate, gun owners will find it hard to support McCain.
Dave Mike Huckabee Presidential Prayer Team National Prayer Coordinator David QuintanaNew Mexico for Mike HuckabeeState Coordinatorhttp://www.nmformike.com/ http://hucksarmy.com/ http://www.mikehuckabee.com/ http://www.prayerformike.com/ My Reply to Dave You had me at "Is anyone willing to pray for McCain to offer Mike the VP spot?" BUT OF COURSE! I have secretly felt this was the pre-ordained outcome since I saw Mike on Kenneth Copeland and learned of his history in Arkansas - how the people were not smart enough to elect; God had him strategically positioned .Do you mind if I post your entire email on my blog, http://prayinghyde.blogspot.com/? And Dave responded: Please do post it on your site.I think that our Huckabee supporters need to hear the message.Yours is not the only one who responded in favor of my idea.Take a look at the message below--you might want to post that too! Dave Another message Dave was sent from Gail: I was thinking about that as plan B and actually God's plan A all along.God may be using McCain to get Mike in, knowing there might have been enough resistance against his candidacy in the fall election if he would have won the party nomination out right.It would be characteristic and follow the pattern of how Mike became Governor after running for Lt Governor in Arkansas.Besides, Haley Barbour, who is a surrogate of McCain's let the cat out of the bag when interviewed by Fox News that Mike would be a marvelous choice and that was after Fox News went through the litany of all the other names with him.You can maybe catch the interview on the Fox website or maybe later on today or tonight.My husband and I believe that is why Huckabee needed to get into second place on the delegate count, which he did, and have a regional following which the Lord gave him, in order for McCain to publicly justify a decision like that politically before the party establishment.With the fact that Democrats are now starting to make inroads to the more liberal element of the evangelical community, a VP Huckabee pick could squash that.There are so many reasons why, as you listed below, that Mike Huckabee would be a superb choice and we should pray that God will all that together .Mike said that the VP job was "the one that no one wanted but that no one would turn down", so he is not going to turn it down either if offered it.Besides of all the names on the VP list, Mike is the only one that isn't doing anything.All the rest either are getting older, or are in the middle of circumstances that are not advantageous to them accepting an offer.I think that for these reasons we should start lifting this up in prayer, big time!
The Huckabee Prayer Coordinator sent out the email asking if anyone is willing to pray for McCain to offer Mike the VP spot and followed with several excellent reasons.
Below is my reply and his complete message.
Daves message:
Is anyone willing to pray for McCain to offer Mike the VP spot?
I know that it is not a very appealing prospect to have to consider, but I've put together some reasons why Mike should become the VP nominee:
Reasons that Mike Huckabee should accept a VP position on the GOP ticket:
It gives Mike the opportunity to gain foreign policy experience—an area that was heavily criticized during the campaign as a weak point in his experience.It gives Mike Huckabee a bully pulpit from which to champion conservative causes.It keeps Mike in the public eye, and allows Mike to develop relationships with the national press.It will allow the press and the public to see that Mike is more than just a former Baptist Preacher, (even though we know there is nothing wrong with that) but an executive with experience.It allows the American people to get to know Mike better.Mike is very likeable.And with this opportunity, they will come to view him as Presidential.It allows Mike to establish relationships with Washington elites—the main source of resistance to his campaign in the GOP.It gives Mike input to national policy decisions, like the selection of Supreme Court Justices.It makes Mike the heir-apparent to the Presidency.It allows Mike to transition smoothly to the Presidency should McCain suffer a debilitating physical ailment or die in office—something that is very possible considering his advanced age.It prevents pseudo-conservatives like Romney from attaining power.It gives voters a choice in November between an Ultra liberal-Ultra liberal team in the Dems and a Moderate-Conservative team in the GOP.The general election tends to favor a balance toward political center.It gives conservative voters a choice.Many conservative voters will stay home in November if McCain chooses a moderate running mate.
Reasons John McCain should select Mike Huckabee as a running mate:
Mike is a superb speaker, he will be a great communicator for the ticket.McCain is generally viewed as lacking charisma.Mike brings the charisma that overcomes the personal appeal of Obama.Mike has won the conservative base—the states the McCain needs most to win in the general election.McCain has won mostly blue states, while Huckabee has won red states.Mike and John get along very well—as was apparent during their debates; John and Mitt sparred continuously with negative jabs but John and Mike were always friendly and cordial to each other.Mike has more executive experience than any other presidential candidate in either party.Mike has good ideas and a fresh approach.A combined McCain-Huckabee ticket would be hard to label as “Washington Insider”.Mike is young enough to assume the reins after McCain retires from public life—just as George Bush Sr. took over when Reagan retired. That was not the case with VP Dick Cheney.Voters will be very sensitive to the age issue with McCain, but Huckabee can defuse the issue.Mike has credibility with the social conservative base.If McCain runs without a social conservative like Huckabee, then James Dobson and other social conservative spokesmen will abandon the ticket, but with Mike aboard, social conservative spokesmen will likely support it.Social conservative voters are skeptical about McCain’s dedication to social conservative issues.Selecting Mike as a running mate will help prove his willingness to support conservative positions.Gun owners have determined Presidential election outcomes in the past.GOA’s website currently reads “McCain? No Way!!” But they say: “Mike Huckabee: Standing Tall for the Second Amendment.” Without a Huckabee running mate, gun owners will find it hard to support McCain.
Dave Mike Huckabee Presidential Prayer Team National Prayer Coordinator David QuintanaNew Mexico for Mike HuckabeeState Coordinatorhttp://www.nmformike.com/ http://hucksarmy.com/ http://www.mikehuckabee.com/ http://www.prayerformike.com/ My Reply to Dave You had me at "Is anyone willing to pray for McCain to offer Mike the VP spot?" BUT OF COURSE! I have secretly felt this was the pre-ordained outcome since I saw Mike on Kenneth Copeland and learned of his history in Arkansas - how the people were not smart enough to elect; God had him strategically positioned .Do you mind if I post your entire email on my blog, http://prayinghyde.blogspot.com/? And Dave responded: Please do post it on your site.I think that our Huckabee supporters need to hear the message.Yours is not the only one who responded in favor of my idea.Take a look at the message below--you might want to post that too! Dave Another message Dave was sent from Gail: I was thinking about that as plan B and actually God's plan A all along.God may be using McCain to get Mike in, knowing there might have been enough resistance against his candidacy in the fall election if he would have won the party nomination out right.It would be characteristic and follow the pattern of how Mike became Governor after running for Lt Governor in Arkansas.Besides, Haley Barbour, who is a surrogate of McCain's let the cat out of the bag when interviewed by Fox News that Mike would be a marvelous choice and that was after Fox News went through the litany of all the other names with him.You can maybe catch the interview on the Fox website or maybe later on today or tonight.My husband and I believe that is why Huckabee needed to get into second place on the delegate count, which he did, and have a regional following which the Lord gave him, in order for McCain to publicly justify a decision like that politically before the party establishment.With the fact that Democrats are now starting to make inroads to the more liberal element of the evangelical community, a VP Huckabee pick could squash that.There are so many reasons why, as you listed below, that Mike Huckabee would be a superb choice and we should pray that God will all that together .Mike said that the VP job was "the one that no one wanted but that no one would turn down", so he is not going to turn it down either if offered it.Besides of all the names on the VP list, Mike is the only one that isn't doing anything.All the rest either are getting older, or are in the middle of circumstances that are not advantageous to them accepting an offer.I think that for these reasons we should start lifting this up in prayer, big time!
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