I want to start off by saying how difficult this is for me to share my story with all those who will read this. This is a true story and accurate to the best of my ability to remember.

Even though many of you will never see my face, the thoughts of those scars residing in times past, will without mercy overwhelm me, bringing that dark and tortured heartless nightmare back to a saved man once again. I should tell you even though these memories may bring great sadness to my heart, they by no means thrash me in slavery as they once did in my past. I am a man who has been covered by the blood of One who truly loves me, so much so, that when He took that wicked man that I was, upon Himself, I became stripped and emptied awaiting new instruction, left with a radiant new heart, being saved from the slavery in which I was chained to, for what I thought was an eternity without hope.

Before I move forward in sharing with you my past, you will come to see someone who bore great anger against his father. By my growth In Christ Jesus through His Love releasing me from that dark self made wickedness, I have seen just how lost that my father truly was.His pain, his sadness and his inability to see Christ and what He has to offer, was so far out of reach that he sought no relationship with him, wanting no one to speak with him about God.I sorrow greatly for him with forgiveness and love bringing not the past to the present for any accusation, holding no anger against him but only praying in hope for his soul, knowing that he too can become a mighty tool in the furthering of God’s word with love being released from the torment within, walking together as brothers In Christ.

As a child I grew up in a home which harbored great physical abuse upon me and my siblings whenever we did anything wrong, or just because our father endured a trying day at work. My memories take me back to a time when my father’s rewards for our wrongs would bring the wrath of his belt, his fist or his open hands, and if by any means he did not feel satisfied, he would grab us by the ankles, hanging us upside down against the wall and would proceed in beating our heads into the floor.

We would be playing with great joy and sharing the thoughts of a child-like fantasy in some made up war theme, playing with little green army men, when suddenly our father, swinging the door open to our room with great force, bringing us to an immediate trembling in fear of the pain that was about to take place, grabbed my brother lifting him under the shoulder with one hand bringing him high and to the wall, proceeded to beat him as if he were a monstrous beast to be killed.

My heart would race and tears would fall from my eyes knowing that I was next and with great confusion and despair I could not find a place to hide avoiding the anger that filled my father’s heart at that very moment. When he finished with his violent corrections inflicted upon my brother, he quickly threw him aside and turned towards me as if a lions hunger was left unsatisfied. Quickly grabbing my shirt by the chest, with great force he threw me against the wall striking me in all vulnerable areas across my body, leaving me feeling each blow like a rippling explosion consuming my body every second. With a quickening speed, he pulled me away from the wall just to slam me back up against it once again, removing the very breath that was left within my body, bringing my cries for my mother to a silence.

Finishing his wrath from exhaustion, he threw me into the dresser as if I were a toy with such strength that it toppled over and crushed me underneath. The pain from the dresser falling upon my body was so over whelming that I again lost my breath, leaving me with an inability to cry out. Then walking out to leave us to care for our own wounds, we laid very still attempting to calm our rapid breathing, crying in silence, horribly afraid to make our father’s wrath any worse.

That night alone in my room after bedtime, by sheer desperation, after so many years of abuse I sought the help with praying hands calling upon satan himself to end my father’s reign in our lives. In peril and torment lasting day after day, hatred and anger became common place within my heart, birthing a vengeance inside of me that only satan himself could place a definition upon, and by no means was this vengeance passive or unresponsive.At the very age of 9 years old, I fired back, but not of my own will….. something in me snapped, and even though I was still small in comparison to my father, I was a monster to be feared.

After a beating from my father one day, as he was walking out, I broke. My whole body and thought process just shattered. It was as if something else hoarded itself within me, taking over. Coming up from the floor with fire screaming from my eyes, I proceeded to attack my father grabbing anything and everything that was available to me at that time.From that moment on I could only remember bits and pieces of flashes as to what happened in all that took place. I had no idea as to what I had done, the most I can remember is my father running from me heading down the stairs and from there everything went black as if my very existence ceased. I awoke and everything in my room was destroyed, I struggled for air but couldn’t get enough, my sight was hindered by a fading blackness that would come and go within seconds, my body was paralyzed with exhaustion having tears falling from my eyes rolling off my cheeks, listening to every drop hit the floor as if I were floating over a pond.

Within a few minutes of my awakening I heard sirens, and soon after, the sounds of many footsteps racing up the stairs running to my room with many people hovering over me as if I were going to die. Sweeping me away just as quickly, they placed me, tied to a gurney, arms and legs restrained from any movement injecting me with something that immediately put me to sleep. When I awoke from the medication that was injected into me, I found myself locked in an institution being assessed for information concerning my long term stay.

It is with great sadness for me to say that my fears and pains were not over, I had a false hope of safety from the pains that I thought would end. I was now starting with a completely new round of torture and pain, one that I knew never existed, leaving me feeling hopeless and worthless as if my very life meant nothing to anyone. I was left without hope of ever feeling the love and joy from any one person again. I soon found myself in a downward spiral facing over 20 different institutions within my years as a youth and young adult.In those institutions, much hardships and hatred was engraved into me, searing within the very depths of my soul. I was at the mercy of those whom I was supposed to trust and yet even they found in their temptations ways to hurt me without others having any knowledge, threatening me of the oncoming doom I would endure if I was to ever reveal their dirty secrets. In my growth, relationships with others was,“to say the least”, unhealthy. All my friendships and relationships were born and tilled in these institutions. My first girl, fights, fun, arguments and schooling were all part of my life in these institutions. I even received my GED under the guardianship of a state institution.

By the time I was sent back to my parents, we were moved by my father’s new job within months of my release. In no time, I lost the ability to remain in my new home because of my disobedience leaving me homeless and in hunger. I ended up finding a place to stay in these apartments that were being constructed about a mile away and my little brother with his great dedication would bring me food and drink, hoping for a better solution to my situation. But in desperation and lack of wisdom and anger, I felt I had to make a choice and I knew no one in the new state that I lived in and knew many from the state that I left , so with little, money and no clothes to pack I left and headed to those I knew best and felt safest. To my surprise very few came to my response for help and being under age I had no real avenue or prospects for work. The streets became my home now and I soon found out just how keen predators were in picking out those who were runaways or just lost and desperate souls.

It happened within the first few days, I was manipulated into going with this man to his home and being as hungry as I was, the promise of money through small tasks, seemed alluring, tempting me to a degree of happiness through the pounding uneasiness residing within the depths of my stomach. As soon as we got to his home these tasks changed and he took off his shirt and requested that I rub his back. I was in danger and I knew it, so giving him a relaxed agreement, I told him to lay down and when he did I immediately ran to and out the door and continued to run until I could take no more hiding in a building shaking in great fear of him ever finding me. You may find this to be a lesser story to which you might have wanted to read, but nevertheless the impact of the immediate danger was real and the offenses of my past granted me the wisdom of discernment. The rules of survival had changed; I was no longer living in a controlled environment and no longer were others also limited by their environment.It was a grab for all, especially in the parts of the city that I found to be easy access to the things I might need.

As days went on I soon became so overwhelmed with hunger that I raided a McDonalds dumpster in order to fill my stomach. And fill that stomach I did. My time spent looming on the streets left cold, hungry and scared had me searching for places on a nightly basis to rest my head in a safe environment. The goodwill dumpsters became my home at night finding warm donated blankets and safety because I could dig myself deep and be hid out of site. About a year later I was so fed up with the life on the streets being unpredictable at every turn I soon pickup a pay phone and dialed 911 telling them that I was a run away from another state and I needed help. It didn’t take long for them to arrive and with gentleness they brought me back to the station and questioned me as to where I was from and do I want to go back. As much as I didn’t want the same thing to continue to happen with me and my father, I said yes I want to go home. The officer got up from the table and went and called my parents house and soon returned with an angered look upon his face, and with compassion and regret he told me my father never wanted to see me again. I was speechless but not surprised and yet for some reason it hurt. I was soon within 1hr or so delivered to a lockup for kids until they could determine what to do with me. Within weeks I was taken in front of the family courts asking me as to why I was in the situation that I was and with the answer explained they were still left as to where to put me. I told them that I could stay at a homeless shelter until my birthday and then they could release me from state guardianship at that time, reaching the age of 18.

To my surprise this was allowed.

After years in this never ending cycle of a perverted and tampered edition to the meaning of life, I did find a way out and to me it was the Holy Grail (Drugs and alcohol).These two mind bending products hid the pain and brought about a boy who in times past could only fantasize such happiness. By no means did this cure me as to what I thought was my life beginning anew, though I was numb to the abominations of my current and past circumstances, what I felt to be a new life soon became a hidden liability changing me into the hunter and not the hunted. I inflicted much pain and tribulations upon those whom I thought were my friends and those closes to me, even the stranger passing by. I’ve stabbed people, and stolen that which never belonged to me, from homes, people, cars and whatever I suppose you could ponder. I received what I reaped in many lockup facilities and each time I came out going right back to the drugs and alcohol, those products I felt to be the loved ones of my life in that I could trust and base my daily decisions on. I know now more than ever that if I hadn’t been under such influence of drugs and alcohol that there would be several people who would be at peace in their lives, not troubled over being victimized by what they may interpret as a heartless piece of trash worthy of only darkness behind bars.

The thrashings of my past living within me dictating and consuming my soul with fire left me alone not only within myself but brought a wall between me and my Creator. It was always the thoughts as to why did all this happen to me, and how can I end this, seeking vengeance with these impurities and evil to be imputed to all those whom I felt transgressed me. I, of myself, became an idol to my surroundings and by no means did I ever feel or consider as though I was undeserving of the satisfaction for revenge. I cannot stress the hatred and the evil that took comfort within the depths of me. I felt as if you all had no right to live and with that I was the one who should address the actions into your deaths. I ponder wicked thoughts in my heart and wished horrible things to take place upon others hoping for their torturous downfall. I wasted so much time hoping for the fall of those who hurt me, wishing those who tore pieces from my heart would suffer a greater torment.I never knew how much time I wasted in allowing such thoughts to consume me.My anger and hatred for others imprisoned me. I was no one but belonged to everyone.

I’ve spent 35 years of my life thinking of nothing more but vengeance. In that energy and emotion I spent so much in thought towards others that I found myself to be lonely, hurting for more, searching for truth and peace from this torture that I myself fed throughout my lifetime.Eventually my anger directed itself inward.I found myself to be thinking bad thoughts just by habit and yet my very heart cried out for understanding and comfort. I could take no more, I knew no way out, my very life was consumed with the thoughts of others and they themselves where carrying on with their lives as joyful and fulfilling without thought of me.I didn’t matter to them.

I was broken and didn’t know it, I was laid up in sickness and dying in an illness that consumed me by habit (Drug Abuse).The doctors knew and spoke of my nearing death.I was finally at the end, I could go no father in my dying body and I knew within the marrow of my very bones that I was condemned.But somehow I knew, even though that every part of me was wicked and undeserving, that there was hope.I knew because I saw no other path that lead out but the path of righteousness. I broke down and cried upon my covers and asked with a fearful broken heart calling out to God, Save me Father, save me, I am so undeserving of your love, let alone your desiring attention, yet I, Father, ask within my cold and wicked heart will you please take this broken man that you see and save me from the depth of hell that I so well deserve. I am yours I surrender; you have all of me, do with me what you wish, just please come into my life and save me my Father.

With those last words coming to a finish in my prayerful cries to God, a voice penetrated every part of my body, giving me that chance, allowing me to know that He would be there for me, but it was the only chance I had.I was afraid, I had not experienced such a thing in my life, but I submitted to His authority and from that very moment on I walked as a new born baby, walking and stumbling throughout my new growth with a new heart. I cried so much in pain from all the years I’ve wasted not knowing the love and forgiveness that God’s Son Jesus Christ has had awaiting for me.My life was made new in Christ, I am in love with others forgiving all, thinking not of the wicked things I can do to others, but having much concern for those who take so much of their own thoughts and time to justify their hatred. I stemmed such growth on the very words of God to counsel me in my every step.If I slipped and reverted to a sneaking wicked habit I would call out the words of encouragement and love from the Bible, Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.I knew in my heart that I was a refined individual stepping ever closer to that heavenly gift promised to me.And yes my friends my walk with Christ was not one filled with riches and complete peace in this world but one filled with riches and peace within the Holy Spirits residing presence in my body, having a growth and understanding from the temptations and hard times, refining the new man that I am, founded firmly in God’s word ready for that righteous and revealing Day of Judgment for all.

In all, I may have had some hard times in my growth with God but my heart stayed at peace in Jesus and as I drew closer to Him, He drew closer to me, filling me with his wisdom and love for all.I could not and would not trade my true love“God Almighty the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” for the life that I left behind.I no longer stand in fire with the hatred of satan within my heart.I now stand in righteousness firmly founded upon the true wisdom in guidance and love for every thought and step I take in this new life.

Our anger that we hold in our hearts, only projects an image of immaturity and loneliness posting our feelings as if we deserved the throne of charity, boasting around about as if we owned authority.We already stand condemned in our lives without Christ Jesus, even if we live a life of joy and prosperity, even if you fill that you stood strong guiding your children up in great wisdom, even if you strived to love and give to others with all your might and dedication.

In all this,… anger,… depression,… happiness,…a giving heart,… a dedicated mother or father or a hard responsible worker, you will still stand condemned being judged alone and your sentence will be that of an eternity in the depths of hell to be tormented forever, never seeing another death again.

If you have not the Father, all that you do stands against the Father being sin and the Father being God Almighty in His Righteous Judgment cannot and will not look upon you with mercy in that revealing day of his Glorious Sons coming for the gathering of his children, those who have died first then those who stand alive next, but all taken within a twinkling of an eye.

But in all this suffering and prideful living, we don’t have to stand alone to face this judgment and condemnation, for we have an attorney (Jesus Christ), an advocate standing with powers far above kings and kings against kings, ruling all as far beyond the sights that man could endure to see or imagine. Where by Him in His unwavering love, will stand in our place and speak of the great sacrifice that has been given to cover our sins. There is no room for Christ in our lives while such bountiful riches in our hearts take weight to the wants and desires of this world in the individual’s life.

You may feel as though it’s too much to give up, too much has been done, I have so much to straighten out, if only I can just put this away. Take this, my very words to heart with all sincerity that I speak to you…. Through the very thoughts being of the same mind in times past that you now have, I give you this promise as even the Father has promised me and all those who come to Him unclean or clean. You can at anytime with a sincere and repentive heart call upon the name of Jesus Christ confessing your sins no matter how big or small and in you will He fill with His Holy Spirit, renewing your hearts in a new birth ready for that redeeming and revealing day of salvation for all whom believe in the Son of God. Remember also this, if by any means this may comfort you, God does not measure salvation by the weight that you carry, instead the Fathers Son Jesus Christ enduring the burdens of sin throughout the world died so that he could lift that weight off your shoulders carrying it for you.

When I gave all that I was to Jesus allowing his love to bear my burdens, I became free in spirit and mind.I can only pray and look upon you with a wishful heart that you would share such a gift with me being released and having hope in the now and ever after.

This testimony is such a small piece from that person you may think you see. But let me please with love speak to you with gratitude thanking my Father God almighty and the Father of our precious Lord Jesus Christ, that by my tribulations and trials, though they be in many numbers, they are the golden cups by which I may drink of for your edification, confirming the love and patience of our Father, tilling and planting the purity of truth into your groaning hearts for the revelation of Jesus Christ your Savior and love,that you by no means search any excuse to deny Him but by the wants of your own hearts condemning yourselves to the eternal condemnation awaiting all those that choose by freewill “that” which they can see, leaving behind “that” which they cannot see bringing the very words “Faith and Hope” to no avail.

I pray my most precious love.Please awaken a dead, angry and wounded heart out of the condemnation of eternal fire awaiting those who know you not and give them the same confirming hope that you so graciously blessed upon me.Watch over them and give them light to see, circumcising their minds for your glory and their understanding, walking in confidence on that narrow road leading to your kingdom. Bless them Father Bless them even from the very concerns of my heart, if it be your will.In your Son’s Blessed name I pray for them Father, for your Glory and Kingdom will come, in your name will a new earth be revealed and may we all find Your Welcoming Arms awaiting us in our day of redemption.

Amen.
Thank you
Sincerely,
Thomas Fleshood

My name is Brad Nottingham. I have been in FORERUNNER Ministries in Southern California for 15 months now and have developed a relationship with YAHWEY like I have never experienced ever before in my life. I thank YAHWEY for the obedience of the Apostle Michael Petro and the revelation of the mysteries of YAHWEYS kingdom he shares with us. Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of JESUS CHRIST according to the revelation of the mystery,which was kept secret since the world began,  26 but now made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets,according to the commandment of the everlasting GOD, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith  27 to GOD only the wise, glory through JESUS CHRIST forever.

We are definitely experiencing a kingdom movement here and we are very excited. I am on the worship team here and at our meeting on Sat. Dec. 24, 2011, the most demonic active night of the year, we were worshiping with all our heart , mind and soul, and during our worship I was blowing the OX horn ( the OX horn is the apostolic shofar) and while in heavy worship I was blowing the shofar very hard and long and had run out of breath , so i put the OX horn down to get my breath and I heard the OX horn sound off again. I looked around to see if the other shofars were being blown and they were not ( the OX horn has a distinct sound and I knew it was the OX horn sounding off) I looked at the rest of the worship team and they also heard the OX horn while my OX horn was at my side. We simultaneously looked at each other and instantly knew it was the angels from the throne room praising and worshiping YAHWEY with us, We were so excited to have that supernatural visitation that we continued worshiping with zeal from our hearts. 1 Chronicles 16:29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: and bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of HOLINESS, As we continue to see YAHWEY manifest HIS glory to us we need to continue to bring our offering to HIM,our death to self and exalt HIM on high for he is so deserving of our sacrifice, praise and worship, hallelujah,
be blessed and shalom,,,
brad

I’ve held off writing this letter for some time now but I really sense this must get out to the body of Christ to prepare them for what I feel is one of the major deceptions that will be released in this age. In the late 90’s I was with 2 other prophetic brothers in Europe when we began to talk about a subject that back then seemed to wild to believer but today it seems very conceivable.

One of the prophetic brothers is a brilliant scientist in France and was asked to come to the United Nations for a meeting that would alter his life and ours. He told us that President Bush told those who attended that meeting that the UFO phenomena was genuine and that they needed to leak out the information because they didn’t want the public to panic when contact was made with these creatures.

We were incredulous to hear this from this brother and at that time we didn’t pay much attention to the warnings that the Lord was preparing us for. Let me say this, I do not believe in aliens but I do believe in demons. Anton Lavey, who was the founder of the satanic church openly said that aliens were really demons disguising themselves as another race of beings. At first I didn’t realize why, but later on it hit me that this would be the most inconceivable deception that could be given to mankind. Can you envision these demons coming forward and saying that they created us and that they are our God?
This isn’t going to happen… it’s already started! The movie, “The Fourth Kind,” is about people in Nome Alaska that have had contact of the 4th kind… this is where an individual is taken and has direct contact with these alien/demons. The movie is the ACTUAL footage, that’s right actual footage. I’ve cast demons out of people and the same types of manifestations in this movie is the same things I’ve witnessed. But when these alien/demons posses the people in this movie they speak threw them and claim to be God. These alien/demons also in this movie speak in one of the oldest languages in the world that is now extinct, Sumerian. If you have been watching Discovery Channel or History Channel they have one program after another with scientists claiming that we are descendants of these aliens and that the bible and other religious writing that are speaking of God and angels are really a battle that has been raging between these aliens. As I watch these programs I’m amazed at what is being released and the major deception we were told about years ago.

The Sumerians had biblical accounts the same as the Bible in their writings: Noah’s flood and Genesis account are in their religious accounts. When the bible talks about King David fighting Goliath it says that he was a giant. The Sumerians told this flood story and that these giants were the descendants of the Annunaki. The word Annunaki means, “the fallen ones,” so these must be the fallen angels or principalities that birthed these giants in the days of Noah’s flood and those in the Promise Land.

When we read the records of the Egyptians, Sumerians, Aztecs, Mayans, and many other ancient cultures that were advanced in education they all had interaction with these same beings. The interesting thing is that these alien demands all pointed to the 2012 prophecies about the end of the age or that there would be a return of these creatures to the earth. No, I do not believe they are aliens, but that they are demonic principalities getting ready to pull the largest spiritual battle that will ever be seen, and before you write this off, it happened before with Noah and the inhabitants in the Promise Land and it’s all over the educational channels.

I also feel that this must happen in order for the Apostles to be tested in this final move. The word principality speaks of a prince or chief in the heavens and so does the word Apostle. In Revelations chapter 12 it talks about the Man Child being caught up to God and satan and his angels being cast down to the earth. We can see that satan and his demons will walk on this earth and attack the women who gave birth to the Man Child, she is the church!

Revelations 12:7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,  8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.  9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.  10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.  11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.  12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”

I feel the event is right around the bend and many prophetic brothers are saying the same thing, that 2012 could be the start of this war. As you can see the Man Child has been caught up to be seated in the heavenly realm.

I feel that all the garbage and back biting is about to stop because those who will be persecuted will be looking for those who have authority in this realm for the protection of their families and loved ones. In the movie The Fourth Kind, the psychologist’s daughter is abducted by these things and her mother is trying to get her daughter back. The demon speaks through this women says there is only truth, meaning you can’t have your daughter back because of the Law. We need to ask ourselves why these things are quoting a law and what law is it? I feel it’s the Torah and we need to be ready to battle with it. Now in this movie this psychologist was praying in the name of Jesus and seemed to know God but I feel we are really going to be tested about who we know.

Not to long ago a brother came to me with his wife and told me a story that blew me away. He said he was abducted by these creatures and taken to a place that he didn’t know were he was. As they began to experiment on him he rebuked them in the name of Jesus, there reply was, “we don’t listen to that name.” Maybe we need to get back to the name Yahweh gave His Son, Yeshua! That is the name above all names.

For those of you that know me you also know that I’m very level headed. I feel that I can’t hold on to this information any longer. I feel we are about to see the greatest spiritual battle of all times. And in case you haven’t noticed the world is going crazy!! It seems that satan is creating havoc and that is because he knows his time is short.

I’ve seen many saints being taken out at this time, people I would have never expected to fall are falling all over the place. I’ve watched there fruit and its ugly, gossip, lies, back biting, faithlessness and the big one is the holding on to offences. Paul said that because of unforgiveness that many would fall away from the truth at the end of the age, he also said that people would be unthankful. I’ve never seen so much of these traits as I’m seeing now and people are being turned over to a reprobate mind. That is the mind that can’t be saved because of the ugliness in the heart.

We need to prepare ourselves for this year it seems to me many ugly things will happen but I’m looking forward to it because I know my redemption is drawing nigh. Don’t be one of the foolish but buy the oil while there is still time.. Blessings

Two weeks ago Yahweh spoke to me and said that signs and wonders would begin in order to warn His people that a new move is about to start and that we need to get ready for what is about to transpire in the earth. It will be a time of great battle and the release of demon principalities unlike anything we have seen in the past. These principalities will take out believers and reveal the deception in their hearts like never before.

This week we had several signs occur in the church. First ruby gems fell in the meeting. They speak of several things in the bible: preciousness, of great value, costly glories, wisdom, and prized treasure. I feel these stones are a sign of the season we are about to enter and see the wisdom of Yah released unlike never before with many signs and wonders. A pastor just recently came to me who didn’t know me and began to prophecy that the church only has a few months to prepare for the next move of God, that He is about to shut the door on the religious and bypass those who refuse to learn, by separating the wheat from the tares. It was interesting because that day I spoke upon those lines in the service.

Another sign was a girl in our church who had bad cavities and needed dental work done had her teeth filled supernaturally from the Lord with gold fillings. We have had several cases of this happening in the last few weeks, this is another sign of the Holy Spirit increasing the signs and confirming His word to the church.

The Last sign is really incredible, one of the brothers on the worship team loves to blow the shofar. During service he was playing the shofar and set it down to enter into worship when the choir noticed the shofar kept playing while it was sitting on the floor.

Not only are these signs increasing but many miracles are happening and healings from all types of sickness and disease. It’s time for the new move to begin and Dad is giving us signs that its starting. I also received a call from a church in Australia that on the same night gold was breaking out over the people in their meetings, it’s a confirmation that the move is starting….

I’ve also noticed that the Lord is removing people from the flock who refuse to change and sending them back into the deception of old religion. I notice these people listen to gossip and don’t understand Biblical precedence. They didn’t follow the Bible and the order of the scripture. The Lord says that they can’t be used in His government because they refuse to follow truth so He is cutting them off.

Galatians 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
The accursed is: anathema it means to be excommunicated from the body, which means to be cut off from the body of Christ and dammed to hell. These are tares that must be removed in order to prune the church for the final season.

Paul says his gospel is:
Rom 16:25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began  26 but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith—  27 to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.

Notice that Paul’s Gospel is the revelation of the mystery of Christ. It’s interesting to me that the people who keep pulling others out have no revelation themselves and usually don’t even follow the Lord but live in sin. These people are deceived and bring deception to others. Those who get pulled out would rather follow a people living in the world and deception than the fathers of the faith. My response is Paul’s response, let them be anathema!!!! It’s time to get rid of those who are holding back the Lord’s kingdom!!

Part of the word that was given to me this week from the Australian pastor I met for the first time was this: He said, I see you with a golden spear ready to go into the Promise Land, a Lion is sitting in front of you waiting also. The Lord says you have been waiting for the army to get behind you but they don’t want to mature. The Lord said get ready He has created you for war and now the Lion will lead you in because the rest don’t want to pay the price.

My response is: I’m tired of waiting for the babies and whiners to grow up, like Joshua and Celeb I’m going in now!! Let the lazy and rotten ones die in there disbelief. Like Noah I turn them over to the fate of Ham. There are too many souls that need to be harvested and I see the signs and wonders to confirm my direction and call.

Mar 16:17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;  18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.

I walk in these signs almost EVERY WEEK, so i know i walk with my King.

This time of year many Christians fall into the trap of the season of Pagan worship and call it the birthday of Jesus. If we are to be disciples of the Word of Yahweh then we must be a disciple/student of the Torah. This means we are a student of truth. Obedience to Dad’s Word is the reason the bride will rule the nations. Anyone who doesn’t follow that truth is a son Satan. Yeshua told the Pharisee’s that they were the sons of Satan because they didn’t teach or follow the truth. Saying that, I also need to say that when we put our word and desires above Yahweh’s word we make ourselves to be God over His word.

Let’s look at the truth. There is a way to determine the birth time of Christ. It’s not that hard but you must understand the Feasts of Yahweh to find the truth.

Luke 1:5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years. (NKJV)

Notice that John’s mom and dad were righteous and blameless. Blameless means that they followed the torah perfectly. I hear people say that no man can be perfect in regard to the Law, well here is just one example were that philosophy is false!

Let’s move on. We must understand who the division of Abijah is. 1 Chronicles 24:1-19 tells us that Aaron had 24 grandsons (Eleazer and Ithamar children). They were divided into 24 divisions for the purpose of Temple ministry. The 8th division for service was the tribe of Abijah (1 Chronicles 24:10).
These divisions did an eight day period of ministry in the Temple (1 Chronicles 9:25). The service began and ended on the weekly Sabbath (2 Chr. 23:8). In addition to their normal service, all 24 courses served at the Temple during the three holy seasons every year. The Jewish Mishnah indicates that each course served a week during the first half of the year, the three annual festival weeks, and a week during the last half of the year, for a total of five weeks during a normal year.

The Hebrew calendar consists of twelve lunar months of 29 or 30 days, for a total of 354 days. This is about 11 days less than a solar year (365.24 days). During a regular Jewish year (which occurs 12 times in a 19-year cycle), 51 weeks of coverage would be needed to ensure that the Temple was cared for every week throughout the year.
24 (first half of the year) + 3 (festival weeks) + 24 (second half of the year) = for a total of 51 weeks.

Between the 1st and the 9th week of the year, two of the three festival times when all 24 courses served occurred. Therefore, the course of Abijah, the 8th course, would serve its first regular week during the 9th or 10th week of the year (depending on how the Feast of Weeks fell on the calendar). Knowing this we can easily see from the birth of John the Baptist the time in which Yeshua (Jesus) the Lord of Truth was born.

Luke 1:8 So it was, that while he [Zacharias] was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, 9 according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the Temple of the Lord. 10 And the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense. 11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. 13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. 16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 He will also go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” 18 And Zacharias said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.” 19 And the angel answered and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. 20 But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time.” 21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marveled that he lingered so long in the Temple. 22 But when he came out, he could not speak to them; and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the Temple, for he beckoned to them and remained speechless. 23 And so it was, as soon as the days of his service were completed, that he departed to his own house. 24 Now after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying, 25 “Thus the Lord has dealt with me, in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.” (NKJV)

Zacharias’ wife Elizabeth would have conceived John the Baptist shortly following the week of his service at the Temple. This would have been sometime in late Sivan or early Tamuz. A little further down in Luke he gives us the key to unlock the birthday of our King.

Luke 1:26 Now in the sixth month [of Elizabeth's pregnancy] the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!” 29 But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. 30 Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS. 32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. 33 And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” 34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” 35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing will be impossible.” 38 Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her. (NKJV)

The Holy Spirit likely overshadowed Mary very soon after her encounter with the angel Gabriel. If John the Baptist was conceived in the two week period after Sivan 19, Jesus would have been conceived about six months later, at the end of the Hebrew month Kislev or the beginning of the month Tevet. Mary would probably have conceived Jesus sometime from Kislev 24 to Tevet 7. Kislev 25 is the beginning of the Feast of Chanukah, also known as the Festival of Lights. This eight-day feast continues to Tevet 2.

Jesus observed the Feast of Chanukah (called the “Feast of Dedication” in John 10:22) while he was on earth. John gives us an indication that Jesus was in fact conceived during this Festival of Lights (Chanukah) when he speaks of him at the beginning of his Gospel: Shortly after Mary’s visit from the angel she went to meet with Elizabeth.

Luke 1:39 Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah, 40 and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. 41 And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. (NKJV)

Luke 1:56 And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her house. (NKJV)

It appears that Mary stayed with Elizabeth right up to the time for her to give birth. The average time for the gestation of a human baby is nine months/40 weeks/280 days. Nine months from the time of John’s conception in early Tamuz would bring us to Passover of the Jewish year 3756 in the 1st month called Nisan. This Hebrew date fell in the month of March in 5 BCE.

Luke 1:57 Now Elizabeth’s full time came for her to be delivered, and she brought forth a son. (NKJV)

It’s highly symbolic that John the Baptist was born at the time of Passover. Even to this very day, there is still an expectation by religious Jews of the coming of Elijah the prophet during the time of Passover (Mal. 4:5-6). In fact, a cup is set for Elijah at the annual Passover seder, and children symbolically check for him at the door during the service. This is one of those prophetic signs that show us the unbreakable truth of scripture and God’s divine hand in creation. As Gabriel prophesied and Jesus confirmed (Matt. 11:14), John the Baptist was the preliminary Elijah to come before the Messiah.

Since John was born on Passover, the 15th day of Nisan (the 1st Jewish month), Jesus would have been born six months later on the 15th day of Tishri (the 7th Jewish month). The 15th day of the 7th month begins the Feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:34-35), also known as Sukkot. Jesus was born on the 1st day of the Feast of Tabernacles! This explains why there was no room at the inn for Joseph and Mary. A multitude of Jewish pilgrims came to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, as God required (Deu. 16:16). Bethlehem, which was only a few miles outside of Jerusalem, was also overflowing with visitors at this time because of the Feast.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and did TABERNACLE among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

It’s interesting how precise the scripture is if we just no what to look for! Eight days after the birth of Messiah, in accordance with the Law of Moses, Yeshua was circumcised on the Eighth Day of Assembly (Shemini Atzeret), another holy day of God (Lev. 23:36): We see Luke telling us this fact also.

Luke 2:21 And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Yeshua, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. (NKJV)

So now we see that Yeshua’s birth was clearly at the beginning of the Feast of Tabernacles. This is the fulfillment of scriptures and reveals the truth of God’s word and HIS times and seasons. Yahweh gave us the exact times and seasons of the birth of His Son to show us that the scripture is truth! And that He ordained these times so that the world would know that only He is in control of time.

Only in a divine symphony of creation can the creator show that He is in control of time, space, planet alignment and show us He knows everything before it happens. We dilute His word when out of ignorance we institute our own pagan holidays and tell the world we are ignorant of His divine plan. What I mean is this: Every time Yahweh moved, He did it on one of the feasts He created. The Feasts were set around the new moons which means that God knew every event years before it happened, then had those events happen on His feast. Jesus was crucified on the Feast of Passover, resurrected on the Feast of First Fruits and birthed the Church on the Feast of Pentecost. These Feasts were centered around the moons movement around the earth. This means the earth had to be in a certain spot around the sun and then the moon had to be in a certain spot and time around the earth in order for the Feast to begin and for the events to unfold for the death, resurrection and birth of the Church to ensue.

When the unsaved see this plan in action how can they reject that the scripture can only be written by the creator. When we replace this powerful proof of a divine hand in creation with pagan holidays we hide the proof of Yahweh’s divine influence in the earth and man’s lives. We need to stand for truth in order to show God’s beautiful purpose and plan.

I give thanks to Yah for hearing and answering my cry for more and to know the truth. I now look back and see three periods in my life when I was greatly reaching: 1998, 2008 and 2010. He began to lay the foundation that would help me be able to embrace Revelatory Teaching. Several months ago in 2011 when I had the opportunity to hear Apostle Michael teach, my Spirit leaped at the words He spoke on understanding the Parables and Mysteries in the Word of YHWH. Finally, teaching that showed the depth of the scriptures to be searched out and that through the unveiling of the mysteries… lasting fruit and transformation could be manifested in the lives of Believers. Those wanting to crucify the wicked, carnal mind. I wanted to be INITIATED.

I appreciate so much and am thankful that Apostle Michael pressed in to make the SOTP (School of the Prophet) available to those so hungry and thirsty. Many are desiring truth and know there is more, but are not finding it in the Church today. I pray that more people will go through the SOTP and get prophetic insight to the scriptures. We must get out of the Hellenistic mindset and begin to understand the scriptures through Hebraic study. I am just finishing going through the first 5 DVD’s and such a love for YHWH’s word has filled my heart…and the scriptures are ALIVE for me. Not just words, but the Logos is RHEMA being manifested in my mind and heart. This is significant for me. I worked in ministry and for ministries, collectively over 10 years and just now am I really getting the MEAT of the Word. I am being IMMERSED by the Spirit and the washing of the word is bringing cleansing. I am beginning to do word studies and learning the Aleph Bet/Pictographs. It is glorious to be studying this way. At first I wondered if I could really get it, because it is a PARADIGM SHIFT, but by the Ruach HaQodesh (Spirit of Elohim) I am. It’s coming together. It helps to write out my thoughts and what is on my heart with key word studies. I really encourage this as you go through the School of the Prophet. Do not let the enemy tell you it’s irrelevant what you write. Document it and revelate with others on it. We make up the body and if it’s in Maschiach, then it echoes in the Spirit.

I believe Righteous Leaders and those who are The Remnant (The Army, The Bride) will buy the oil to understand the mysteries revealed in the Old Covenant and Renewed Covenant. To walk in purity… in the Revelation of Yahshua HaMaschiach and enter the Holy of Holies in these latter days. These are those who will manifest as the Sons of Elohim and trumpet the Word of YHWH.

Living Faith Fellowship, an Elijah Ministry: Pastor Vivian Gregor.

We have been blessed with the teaching from the five fold ministry: Pastor Vivian, Apostle Michael Petro and a host of faithful ministers. Apostle Petro taught on OUGHT-”The Spirit of Unforgiveness”. It has been my heart’s desire to have any unclean thing within me removed; veils that keep me in darkness and any fat surrounding my heart. That evening, before I retired, I was in prayer with YAH and wanted him to show me any unforgiveness that I had been holding on to. I also had asked for forgiveness for my debts for hurting those that I have loved so dearly. As I was sleeping, I was awakened by Holy Spirit and I could hear my prayer,”Lord please show me any unforgiveness.” My heart was heavy and I began to cry. I was feeling remorseful for my past mistakes. I cried out to My Father God and ask for forgiveness once more. I could hear these words being echoed into my spirit, “My daughter, I have forgiven you but you have not forgiven yourself.” I shared this with the Body of Christ the following Sabbath day. This is what I was blessed with.

Genesis 19 (Lot delivered) vs: Look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed… Vs26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Immediately, my spirit took hold of this and I was set free. I escape to the mountain top, remembering that I am apart of the Body Of Christ. I needed to move out of my fleshly thinking and move into the mind of the renewed Spirit Man; I needed a change of mind. I could not completly enter into the Promise Land crossing over into the other side of River of Jordan while carrying this old way of thinking. I had asked for forgiveness to those I had so deeply hurt and now I have been able to forgive myself for hurting those that I love so dearly. Because of his mercy and grace, I have been able to move into a higher level with Yeshua and devote more time in letting him love me. I have embraced the teaching from the Torah and I also have had a change of heart. I am sharing this testimony because we need to be able to walk with a clean heart. We need to completely be submitted to Yahweh and not to have any unforgiveness in our heart which is not in agreement with the word of GOD.  If we do forgive others, His words will be written upon our hearts and we will be able to receive his promises and blessings. Joy is within me Amen-Minister Rosalind E. Lemons

Cheshvan-Revelation Rain

From a Hebraic understanding, October 29th marked the 1st of Cheshvan according to the Hebrew calendar. Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, the beginning of the 8th month, is referred to as Mar Cheshvan… the time coming off of the Fall Feasts, particularly Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles).

Leviticus 23:36 Seven days (Feast of Tabernacles) ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto יהוה: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation (Hebrew word – mik-raw’- called out, bidden, rehearsal) unto you…

Symbolically, the number 8 represents putting off the old, as in the “old man” and the “works of the flesh” – hence sanctify, manifest, reveal, die, death; and therefore, by implication: New Beginnings, Marriage Huppah (unite, binding, covering of Yah).

Scriptures: 1 Peter 3:20, 2 Peter 2:5, Luke 2:21, Luke 9:28-29, 2 Chronicles 34:1-2.

Both water and fire are used in cleansing/sifting processes, which prophetically is death to our flesh and Life to our Spirit.

The word “mar” is generally interpreted as drops of water in regards to the 8th month. If we think of millions of drops of water, we get a picture of RAIN. Yisrael sends forth prayers for RAIN, for a plentiful rainy season, for a watery Cheshvan. I understand that right now some of the lakes are even close to being empty, which is disappointing.

The Hebrew word “mar” also means bitter or disappointing. I find this interesting, because from a dream interpretation perspective Rain generally symbolizes one of the following:

Life, Holy Spirit (Ruach HaQodesh), Word of Yah, trial, disappointment (as in “raining on someone’s parade.”) (or drought as a lack of rain).

Cheshvan is called the month of bool/bul. See 1 Kings 6:38 (בּוּל). Bul in the Hebrew refers to heavy rain, increase, produce, fruit.

Remember when the flood came (Yah was disappointed, fed up with the evil)… the flood destroyed all flesh according to Gen. 7:21. The Flood began on the 17th of the month. Interestingly the numerical value of the word Tov (good) is 17, but YHVH gave the bow in the cloud over the earth as a sign of Covenant…

Gen 9:15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

DO YOU SEE A REVELATORY PICTURE FORMING HERE?
The times that we are in are “as the days of Noah.”  After the rain/flood, there was New Thing.

Rain is symbolic of Yah’s Word ~ His Teachings ~ His Revelation as revealed through Yahshua Messiah. It is the spiritual, prophetic rain.

Deut. 32:1-2 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine (instruction, words, revelation) shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

The Rain of the Revelation of his Word is to bring life and fruitfulness to those who will come and receive. Those who will not receive will be left out.

Also, as an appropriate side note… if you are wondering how this can be the 8th month and also the 2nd month based on this scripture from 1 Kings 6, I will explain.

Cheshvan (Hebrew: חֶשְׁוָן), is the second month of the civil year (which starts on 1 Tishrei) and the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year (which starts on 1 Nisan) on the Hebrew calendar.

In Hebrew, Cheshvan is written with the four letters: חשון. The borders (the first and last letters) of Cheshvan are chet – ח and nun – ן, which together spell the word chen – חן, meaning “beauty.”

I asked a friend of mine what The Rainbow signifies for her, and she replied BEAUTY, Yah’s Covenant, and Life. I agree and I believe this study shows a picture of Yah’s beauty, and His nature, which is extended to us as we embrace revelation and have the seed of the deeper mysteries become engrafted (rooted) within us.

We can see the rainbow is also signifying the covenant we have in being able to receive deliverance in Yah, from carnal, evil ways. The revelation of His Word is what transforms us. We will experience floods of revelation as we dive into the deeper things. The rainbow, the mark of transformation, comes after the rain!

Moreover, here is more of an explanation of the letters that make up the Hebrew word chen or beauty.

NUN: (picture of a seed with sprouting root):
Representative of Seed (Torah/Word of Yah, Maschiach, new, continue)

CHET: (picture of a wall)
Representative of Marriage (enclosure, unite, binding- under the Sukkah)

When you think of the early/latter rains, the rehearsals that we have in the Feasts you can see that we are clearly being prepared for consummation. Enter into the NEW!

Also, revelation rain brings us into repentance and transformation and through that reformation can begin to be at work in the earth. Simply put, the rain is spiritual revelation of the MYSTERIES of the KINGDOM coming to the Church for the purposes of  calling the Bride forth.

In the Greek revelation is the word apokalupsis which means (appearing, manifestation, revealed), and it is from the word apokaloopto which means (to take off the cover, unveil).

Yahshua taught in parables to teach the mysteries of the Kingdom. He wants us to search out and understand the mysteries of His Word, His Kingdom, and His Nature. This will bring us into intimacy and oneness with Him. Revelation is an understanding or unveiling of the scriptures. The mysteries are the opening up of the Logos Word and the revealing of the Rhema Word. Understanding the mysteries means you fall under The Father’s covering and are initiated into His Kingdom Reign.

All life depends on water. Water is symbolic of prophetic revelation. Spiritually, we, the earth, need the washing of the water if we are to bear true, good and lasting fruit. The former and the latter rains come and cause the buds to grow into fruit.

Isa 55:10-11 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Kingdom Reality is realized through the release of Kingdom Revelation (removing of the veil), which is the veil of our flesh.

The Father gives us Revelation of the mysteries through the Spirit, Ruach HaQodesh, as we press into KNOWING Him. We come to know more of Him through understanding the prophetic utterances of His Prophets. He wants to know that He can trust us with His Word. He wants us to join His Prophetic army and Trumpet His Truth.

1Co 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Are you part of the Prophetic Elijah (Eliyahu) generation that will bring revelation for the healing of the nations? Are you a Forerunner?

John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, יהושע stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

Rev. 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Aleph and Taw, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

This season of Cheshvans is time for us to make us choice…it is time to choose to have eyes to see and ears to hear…THE RAIN.

In summary to the Revelation Rain study:
I see a message to the CALLED OUT ones. With the rain of Torah/Yah’s Truth being poured upon and revealed to us…we become His Word Manifested. We therefore transition from death of the old that which is carnal at enmity with Yah to Life in Him, in His Light, NEW in Him. Flooded by His love, flooded by His beauty, flooded in intimacy. That rain which has showered us…we take those showers of living water within us that others may experience the rain and want to be transformed as well. We will be putting off the old robes and putting on the new garment of fine linen. Forerunners AWAKE! Bring the rain! Let showers of His holiness purge, purify and cleanse us for transfiguration! Let revelation rain fall upon the dry, barren land so that life/Kingdom Reality will spring forth. Let the revelation rain fall!

My name is Alexandria Lewis and I am 23 years old. I have a great testimony that I would like to share! All of my life I did not know how to read at all. My reading skills were very, very bad. Every year I would take my new teachers to the side and let them know I could not read. I was just a sad girl who didn’t even want to speak in class. My teachers would understand. All my life I was in slow classes with people that were very slow. I was also in a speech class. I would just give up on everything. I thought my life was just bad. People would always make fun of me. I was so depressed because I couldn’t read. I remember when I was in the 7th grade and everybody had to go around the room reading this book we were studying in class. Soon, it became my turn. After I read, everybody laughed at me. I was so sad. To make a long story short, I couldn’t even read at 18 years old.

One day I was reading the word of YAH and I couldn’t even read it. I just gave up. I was at a third grade reading level, mind you I was 18 years old. One day I said to myself, “I can’t give up… I have to understand who Yeshua is.” So, I just kept reading by myself because I didn’t want anyone around. I just wanted it to be me and Yeshua. I kept asking for wisdom and knowledge. I was crying out from my gut saying please, please Lord, teach me how to read so I can know You.

When I came to Living Faith Fellowship, He healed me and it was all because of His true Word. Now, I can read! Yeshua taught me how to read ! That is the most amazing thing ever. Praise be YAH!! YESHUA YAH IS SALVATION. Now I am 23 years old and I have a 2 year old son Joah whom I love so much and I now know how to read. Not only do I know how to read but also I know how to read in Hebrew! Now, I even teach Hebrew (the secret word of Yah, the true Word) to little children!

PRAISE YHWH. SHALOM.

Greetings in the name of Yeshua,

Hello my name is Prophetess Carolyn Stewart and this is my testimony.

I have been blessed to minister on many occasions to large and small audiences and was traveling around the country ministering the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I discipline myself before attending any Church or Conference by way of a 21 day fast or a 40 day fast. For the upcoming conference in Dallas, I was led to do a 40 day fast. My heart was so grieved doing this fast because my mind took me back to the last conference that I had ministered at. I noticed that the people were getting slain in the spirit, however I didn’t see anyone healed, delivered, or any miracles and I was disappointed.
I also noticed the same people that had went down in the spirit came up unchanged.

Now let me explain, if a person can cry out to God in one breath and get up and curse out another brother and sister in the next breath then something is wrong, and I have not done my job.

I questioned God on why are the people going down but coming back up the same way? Is it me or were they pretending? So I took the blame!

I told God: “Since I am at fault, I know it is something I’m not doing and I need You to show me how to help Your people. I know something is missing in my life and I refuse to go to hell after all the hell that I have been through on this earth, so I need a Revelation from You and if I cannot see Your power and a change in me, then I quit, I give up, I don’t deserve to ever preach again and I am no longer going to be in ministry!

I told my Father, I know there has to be more, all I want is the truth and if He could not teach me how to rightly divide the word of truth, then I must quit.

When I was a child, visiting a church with my uncle, I saw a Pastor fall dead in the pulpit! That stuck in my mind on my 40 day fast for some odd reason and my spirit was grieved. I felt like if that man of God could fall dead in the pulpit, then that could just as easily be me.

I knew something was missing, so on my last day of my fast I cried out to God louder, that I wanted more or I’m going to quit, and I am tired of not seeing the people of God changed!

Then I heard something say “Turn on the TV.” I thought it was the Devil so I asked myself, why would God tell me to turn on the TV when I should be listening for His voice? But I obeyed and turned on my TV and it took me to channel 34.1, a channel I had never seen before.

There was a young man speaking and I stayed on my knees the entire broadcast listening to every word that was coming out of his mouth.

My soul was being filled and my mind was being transformed and when he ended, I screamed “God that’s what I’m talking about. I want what he’s got.”

Let me back up a little. The young man was Apostle Michael Petro, and he said something in his broadcast that changed my life. He said… “Wherever the Word is, things should change because every where Jesus went miracles happened, people were delivered and healed because Jesus is the Word.”

I knew that, but when I got the revelation of what that meant it changed my life. Obviously, I could not have the full truth of God’s Word because although they were falling out at my meetings, they were still raising back up the same way they went down so they never got delivered.

Every ministry gift should ask themselves a question, and that question is “Did I give God’s people the truth or my opinion?”

As men and woman of God we have to stop blaming the people. We are responsible to make sure we are preparing a good feast so when they sit down at the table to eat, the people are leaving us full and want nothing more. But when the people leave us empty, we leave them wide open and naked and bare without the truth because we never took the time to get the truth before we fed God’s sheep and one day soon we will be judged for that.

I’m not trying to scare you, however when God spoke to me during that fast he also said to me loud and clear “The church is not ready, so if the church is not ready what about the sinners!”

When the program was over, I contacted Forerunner Ministries and visited them. I felt like I was with my family and they welcomed us in with open arms. When my husband came home from work you would have thought I was the woman at the well! I told him of all I had heard. And we are in the School of Prophets learning, and being transformed everyday. We are so excited, we are sure that we have the truth to give God’s children every time we minister now.

God bless you!

A gentleman by the name of Harold Camping prophesied the rapture would occur on May 21, 2011. It did not! He has now made the statement that he made a mistake and that it was actually a spiritual judgement (as opposed to a physical judgement), but still believes the world will physically end this Friday, on October 21, 2011. Here is a quote from the Family Radio website:

Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period. On that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21.

I would imagine that most of Mr. Camping’s followers were very sincere in their belief that the rapture would occur, and some are probably still sincere in their belief that the world will end. I would also imagine that most do indeed love God with all their hearts. Mr. Camping and his followers (and his ex-followers) need to be kept in prayer. Pray that their eyes and ears would be opened to the truth, and any deception would be removed.

Actually that’s a good prayer to pray for yourself as well, because we all have areas of deception in our lives! If you think you know it all, you are truly in trouble. You need to allow the Holy Spirit to teach you, not just in the areas you do not understand, but also in the areas that you do understand! Deception hides in what we think is truth. When we are deceived, we do not know we are deceived, therefore what we consider to be truth, may not actually be the truth we thought it was. Deception causes us to limit God. If we are not willing to reconsider and change our mind about what we think is truth, then the Holy Spirit cannot show us the deception and teach us the true truth. And if we are not allowing the Holy Spirit to teach us, then we are limiting what God is trying to do in each of us.

For the record, I do not believe the world is going to end this Friday. I do however pray that our carnal earthly worldly ways would be put to death so that we can live by the Spirit and manifest the love and salvation of the LORD to those around us. As a side note, it is interesting that October 21st is the 8th and final day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Feast of Booths, Sukkot) called “Shemini Atzeret” which literally means “the eighth of assembly” and is considered to be a day of rest or Sabbath day.

Blessings and Shalom.

L’shannah Tovah, Happy New Year, Happy Rosh Hashanah, Happy Yom Teruah, Happy Day of Shouting, Happy Feast of Trumpets and Happy Opening of the Gates… the day that no one knows is here!

The moon was not visible in Israel on Wednesday night, but it was visible on Thursday evening (it’s already night time in Israel), so tonight (Thursday) from sunset until Friday night at sunset marks the Feast of Trumpets.

If you did not already know, the Feast of Trumpets is the only one of the seven Feasts that occurs at the beginning of the month on the visible sighting of the new moon. And because the cycle of the moon is between 28 and 29 days, you usually do not know whether the moon will be visible on the first night or the second night, and hence the name “the day that no one knows“.

Orthodox Judaism however, does not follow the visible sighting of the moon anymore, but instead simply sets a fixed date on the calendar, which is why most Jewish people would have celebrated Wednesday night.

Be blessed!

UPDATE – September 4, 2011 – Pastor David has started a breakfast feeding program for children (mostly Muslim) in the area, and would like to add a dinner program as well. Please prayerfully consider if you can give (or give again) to this cause. Here is what Pastor David has to say: “Hi Pastor Jeff. God bless you all together with your family and every member of your ministry. Now we have stared feeding program in the church which is meant for Muslim children who live around the church and they don’t have food. It runs from Monday to Friday, only breakfast at 10am . And this is part of the money that you guys contributed. They come from very poor families and it is us who give them clothes because some of them come to our Sunday school naked. Most of them are badly malnourished. We would like to start a dinner program as well, so if you can send more money it would be greatly appreciated. Pass my sincere regards to brethren and also greet for me your wife and children. Stay blessed. David.”

UPDATE – August 17, 2011 – We have raised $1220.00 so far, which converts to 110183 Kenya Shillings, and have just sent it over via Western Union. Pastor David has this to say: “I am very much grateful and thankful for receiving this money from you. It is a big blessing to me, my wife Rosemary and the brethren, particularly during this hard time when us who are living in the region of the horn of Africa are seriously affected! Please pass my sincere thankfulness to the people who contributed and may our good God bless them according to the desire of their hearts. And we shall continue praying and thanking God for the good you guys have done to us. Stay on top blessed blessed until you are fulfilled. David.”

ORIGINAL POST…
Shortly after my wife Anne-Marie I got married in 2004, we went to Kenya for 16 days on a missions trip. We stayed with Pastor David Matolo and his wife Rosemary and their family. Pastor David and his wife pastor a church called Love Worship Centre, which is located in the town of Garissa in the North Eastern Province of Kenya, and is part of the Redeemed Gospel Church denomination.

I received an email from Pastor David this morning, containing the following:

Pray for us as Kenyans because of the famine teeth that is biting us here, particularly in the North Eastern Province where our church is. I trust you have seen on TV how people are dying and even animals because of the serious drought. About three months ago the government declared famine a national disaster. So any contribution from well wishers there will be of great help because even our church members are affected.

If you have not heard about what’s being called the worst crisis in 60 years to hit the “Horn of Africa”, here is an article and video I found on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/21/africa.famine.voices/
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/07/21/intv.lake.kenya.drought.cnn

Financial Support page:
http://www.forerunnertv.com/more/missions/loveworshipcentre#financialsupport

  The current crisis is not the first one that our friends have had to press through. They have had to deal with both human acts of violence and other natural disasters as well:
  HUMAN CAUSE – About 90% of the inhabitants of the town are refugees from Somalia, which borders Kenya to the east. The Somali refugees actively practice the Muslim faith. In 2008, the Muslim’s finished constructing a mosque next door to Love Worship Centre, and then proceeded to attack and tear down the church and threaten all the members. The local government suggested that Love Worship Centre not return to their property for safety reasons, and allowed them to hold outdoor meetings on government property.
  NATURAL CAUSE – The area is very arid, located in the Eastern part of the country close to the equator, and typically suffers from drought most of the time, but not as bad as the current situation. A flash flood in November 2006 caused many deaths and many to lose their homes, and created both sanitary and health issues for the area.

We asking for both your prayers of support and your financial support to help our friends in anyway you can.

If you are able to help financially, then please go to this page and scroll down to the Financial Support section:
http://www.forerunnertv.com/more/missions/loveworshipcentre#financialsupport

And please consider forwarding this to others that you know, so they may have an opportunity to help as well.

Blessings and shalom
Pastor Jeff Sherk
Forerunner Ministries International
www.ForerunnerTV.com

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[UPDATE: We have had several requests as to exactly what information was passed onto Daivd. We have now included it below, at the bottom of this post.]

Greetings Brothers and Sisters,

I wanted to share with all of you, my gratitude and thanks to Pastor Jeff and sister Shelyn at Forerunner Ministries. I recently sent an email to Forerunner Ministries, asking, “how are we to properly observe the Passover?” Soon after, I received an email from Pastor Jeff. He responded and gave me some elaborate and knowledgeable information about the Passover from both himself and sister Shelyn!

This year, we [my family] are observing the Passover. We were not quite sure of how to observe it, but we had plans to do so. Their information proved valuable and wonderful! You see, I always knew there had to be more to a “Holy Communion”. There had to be much more than just “in remembrance of me”…and there is! It has been an awakening and a beautiful revelation to see, to understand and to know who God is. Through Forerunner Ministries, we have seen His Word revealed.

I say this because I grew up in the church. I was taught the stories of the Old Testament and the New Testament. I heard teachings on who I was in Christ and why I needed to be saved. I also remember how I would get so excited for the LORD and brought down again because of all the things I could not do! It only gave me more reason to search for the Truth!

In short, I realize now that everything we go through in life has a reason and serves a purpose, just like the Passover, when God commanded his people to place the blood of an unblemished lamb on both sides and upper sides of their doorways. In doing so, God saved his people from a plague that killed all the firstborn of Egypt. By this plague or “miracle” from God, He brought His people out of Egypt (limitation) and into the Promise Land. This foreshadowed Jesus, the ultimate sacrificial Lamb of God, who without blemish was humiliated, beaten, and tortured on His way to be crucified. Yet, He never complained. When Jesus died on that cross and rose again, He saved the world. (John 3:16)

The same God that I had  learned about in church through historical biblical stories and of their examples is now the God I worship and praise because of His teachings and revelations of who He is through the prophetic scriptures of His living Word!

I am so grateful for learning the truth! I am also very thankful for Forerunner Ministries and all other ministries that are willing to stand in courage and obedience in spreading the truth. I say this because I have witnessed the refusal to accept anything other than what they [certain church bodies] have grown to learn and accept from our western ideology and interpretation, which things are pleasing to their individual eyes and ears. But ,Praise be to God! As it is written, we are in those days where ministries like Forerunners [are sending forerunners]  to awaken the church. The Scriptures never lie!

With that said, The Passover has become much more important, special and meaningful for me and my family as it is also part of the LORD’S feasts.

Thank you, Pastor Jeff and sister Shelyn, for taking the time in sending me this valuable and wonderful information! As all things I have been learning, I intend to share this new found knowledge. As the saying goes, “Knowledge is power, only if you share it”.

I will leave old saying with you also. “We should want a personal relationship with God, not a religion with God”.

May God bless you all.

Information from Pastor Jeff:

The short answer, is that it is a prophetic picture (a shadow of good things to come), so spending the week studying the scriptures involved and trying to look for a deeper meaning and understanding beyond the natural celebration of the Feast would be my recommendation.

I have never worried too much about the actual natural keeping of the Feasts, although that does not mean it is wrong to celebrate them in the natural. Just remember that even the Jewish celebrations have incorporated pagan practices and the “traditions of men”, so it’s important to really search it all out for yourself!

Information from sister Shelyn:

Well the Passover holiday was historical but it also has spiritual and symbolic meaning for us now. during that time the children of Israel were suppose to sacrifice in the wilderness, moses was to take them then come back… but the Lord was about to set them all free from Egypt.

The word egypt means [limits] so the Lord was taken them out of Limits, after 400 or more years and it came through following what he said for them to do…. they had to eat the passover in haste. which meant they didn’t have time for preparing bread with yeast[which needed time to rise] sin speaks of mis-understanding the word or having ignorance of what HE said, so when they prepared the sacrificial lamb and made bread they had to prepare it and eat it in haste … meaning they didn’t have time to mis-understand the word of the LORD they needed to do what the LORD said and be fast about it…. the LORD said when He sees the blood [of that lamb] he would pass over them… because the death angel was coming for the first born children, in the land.

When John the baptist said behold the lamb which takes away the sin[mis-understanding]of the world Jesus was that Lamb symbolically, and the ultimate sacrifice was that He died for our sins[mis-understanding of the word. so as we are getting into the word more and more like when we eat, we consume the food, so we must read and want more and more of the word,who is the LORD, we must want his word like food. the more we consume and eat of it the more we die, no naturally but spiritually, in ourselves by allowing the word to move us from limits, we are also observing the passover.
1Co 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
1Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
the Passover was also an exodus and the word exodus speaks of departure from a place, and to pass over is just that …to pass over something or someone, which is what God was going to do .. if the children of Israel were obedient to Him

So, this would take a while to explain, but being able to observe passover isn’t just for us to follow natural pictures or even having a seder which is still a beautiful picture of the Lords coming… but, to observe passover now, is to be able to stay close enough to the Lords heart through the Holy Spirits leading, and what ever is in our hearts, or lives we need to repent of or change, the LORD will always reveal His heart to those willing to learn from Him.
One thing that is most effective is that the LORD required them to move and not stay stagnant …. being consistent to move forward in our walk with the Lord IS very important, it is not always moving geographically. The LORD loves to reveal His heart to us in deeper measure and there is a lot to understanding how we must walk before him in Holiness and Love.

You can read them on his blog here: http://waylandhenderson.blogspot.com/

Hello everyone, this submission is written on behalf of Bobbie Spencer in Fort Worth, TX. With Mrs Bobbie Spencer’s permission, she allowed me to post her wonderful testimony of healing that the Lord demonstrated in her one evening.

It was November 11, 2010 and I placed a return call to Bobbie after she had left a message at our office. After watching the “Keys to the Kingdom with Michael Petro” weekly broadcast on Access 34, she decided to give us a call, like she had done many times before with other ministries. She said how her knees hurt really bad, and she started to share what happened, and told me how she suffered for 2 years in horrible pain, immediately after the death of a family member. She began to share just how severe her pain was and how it was increasing since the funeral. In addition to the death of a near relative, another tragic incident also occurred, this time with one of her children. As she cried out about how bad her pain was and gave me details of the incidents that lead up to this phone call, the Holy Spirit revealed to me a deep rooted bitterness, and unforgiveness that she carried for one of these individuals. Each time she thought about her past relationship with this particular family member, she saw how bad her feelings were towards them and she began to cry out in repentance on the phone. Then, I told Mrs. Spencer to get up and walk right now… “RIGHT NOW” I said… and she began to walk. Then she screamed “oh my goodness, oh my goodness I haven’t walked like this in years.” And for an additional 20 minutes or so, she just cried and worshiped the Lord while walking around her house just thanking God for His healing in her knees. Mrs Spencer said the pain was so bad for two years, that at the funeral for her relative, she had to have two people assist her to walk, sit and get up. Since that conversation, Mrs. Spencer was unable to be contacted for weeks, due to the fact that she was never home anymore because of the Lords Healing touch!

Mrs. Spencer had suffered for two years with Rheumatoid arthritis, without much doctor related help, all because of unrecognized unforgiveness that she carried in her heart all that time. Without the deepness of the Lord’s word, deep issues go unnoticed in our lives until our Heavenly Father sends His Revealed Son Jesus.

Blessings to you all and never hold anything in your hearts towards anyone!!!

According to the book of Hebrews chapter 6, God is calling us into the Holy of Holies! Coming into prophetic revelation of who Jesus Christ is, is the keystone to coming into the Holy of Holies, to being transformed and to becoming like Him, to coming into the glory, and to having an intimate face to face everyday relationship with the Father.

If this isn’t happening, then we are not coming into revelation, but information…

The very function of revelation is to bring us into the presence and glory of the Father, so that we can see Him face to face, even plainly.

Hebrews 10:19-22
19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
21 and having a High Priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
(NKJ)

Aaron, the natural high priest would enter into the natural tabernacle, made by the hands of men, remove the natural veil, enter into the natural Holy of Holies and sprinkle the blood of a natural animal on the mercy seat for his sins and for the sins of the people. This would only foreshadow how our Great and High Priest Jesus Christ would enter into a heavenly tabernacle, [true worshippers, not fashioned by man] remove our veil, [at the cross] and in His mercy, sprinkle His redeeming blood upon our hearts, cleansing our conscience to give us such a boldness and full assurance of faith to enter into the Holy of Holies, and to be presented faultless before Him in the presence of His glory (Jude 1:24!) Hallelujah! This is the essence of coming into revelation!

There are three prophetic realms in the tabernacle; the outer court, the Holy place, and the Holy of Holies. The Holy of Holies is where the LORD spoke with Moses face to face; therefore the Holy of Holies speaks of the divine presence, intimacy and glory of the Father.

In the tabernacle, there were veils or curtains which separated the outer court from the Holy place, and the Holy place from the Holy of Holies. Each veil or curtain functioned as a separator from the Father, His presence, intimacy, and glory.

Exodus 26:33
33 “And you shall hang the veil from the clasps. Then you shall bring the ark of the Testimony in there, behind the veil. The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy place and the Most Holy.
(NKJ)

The Hebrew word divide (badal) simply means separate. So, the function of the veil is to separate. It separated the people from being in the face to face presence of the Father. Needless to say, with the veil in their view, God was not seen. Since we can see the function of the veil [to separate] let us begin to see what the veil is symbolic of.

Isaiah 59:1-2
1 Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.
(NKJ)

The Hebrew word separated used here in reference to iniquities is the same word (badal) that is used in Exodus 26:33 in reference to the veil.

The Hebrew word hidden (sathar) means to conceal and to cover, but it also speaks of a mystery, a mystery because it is concealed or hidden. According to this scripture, what was concealed from the people was face of the LORD, which means they were separated from the Holy of Holies, the face to face realm. The Father was a mystery to them because He was hidden from them because of the veil of their sin (wrong understanding) and iniquity (guilt as from twisted actions or living a perverse life).

Our sins and iniquities functions as a veil that separates us from God, and in order to enter into that face to face realm with the Father the veil (sins and iniquities) has to be removed.

Ephesians 3:3
3 how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already…
(NKJ)

When we come into revelation, the mystery, or that which is hidden and concealed from those who are veiled is made known. In Isaiah 59:2 Isaiah said that the face of God was hidden or a mystery to the people because of their sin and iniquity (veil).

The Greek word revelation (apokalupsis) means to make something known, but it also means a manifestation or an appearing. This word comes from (apokalupto) which means to uncover what has been veiled or to remove and take away the veil.

I John 3:5
5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
(NKJ)

Jesus was manifested to take away the veil [our sins]!

This word manifested (phaneroo) means to make something known by teaching [revelation] and also to appear! Who is appearing? Jesus is appearing! What happens when Jesus appears? When Jesus appears or manifests through a revelation of the mystery, our sins (the veil) are removed, so that we can have access into the Holy of Holies!

If the revelation of Jesus Christ does not remove our veils and bring us into the Holy of Holies and into a face to face realm, where we can see Him and become like Him, (i.e. be changed) then it is not revelation, IT IS INFORMATION!

Furthermore, every revelation takes us straight to the cross, because that is where the veil was torn! It was prophetic!

Mark 15:37-38
37 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.
38 Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
(NKJ)

There are two words in the Greek or New Testament for the word temple: The Greek words Hieron and Naos.

(hieron) is used of the natural, physical temple. That word is used here:

Matthew 21:12-14
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”
14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.
(NKJ)

(naos) is used of the spiritual temple, the temple of our bodies and also the ecclesia! That word is used here:

1 Corinthians 3:16
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
(NKJ)

The word temple used here (naos) is the same word that is used for when after Jesus was crucified the veil of the temple (naos) was torn!

The veil is within us. Revelation removes the veil! It was at the cross that after Jesus gave up His Spirit to die that the veil was torn. When revelation comes it brings us straight to Golgotha, the place of dying to self, the place where the veil is torn! The place where the blood is sprinkled! The place where we have access into the Holy of Holies and can be changed!

Revelation is a removal of the veil; therefore it is not something that you get, it is something that happens. It isn’t us reading a definition or reading a scripture that we never saw before and getting excited about it. While that is admirable and great when it happens, it speaks very little of the function of revelation, which is to bring us face to face with God, to change and transform us, to take away sin!

I pray that the tithe of this word will fill you!

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Praise God! Since we came under Forerunner Ministries teachings by Prophet Michael Petro in 2005, we have been learning and studying about the Feasts of God. When we see the unveiling of Yeshua in these feasts of the LORD [which are outlined in Leviticus chapter 23], we also start to see the full plan of redemption for mankind. As a result of endorsing and teaching the feasts of God, we had been asked to leave our church. Many of our family members and friends have separated themselves from us as well; they think that we were in a cult. Well, praise God!

John 15:20
²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

We have been praying, as a very small group, that God would move mightily in Canada, and that the Bride would start to speak out, and reveal her Husband Yeshua. We have been praying for the church to repent of their Constantine Christianity and to see the truth in the feasts of God and to that make the truth known.

Gradually, we have seen changes. Well, praise the Lord! For the next two weeks, [the believers who minister at] 100 Huntley Street in Burlington Ontario, is featuring Pastor Joe Amaral, and he is TELLING THE CHURCH THE TRUTH about the heathen practices and about the traditions of men that have masked the truth of the Messiah as told in the feasts. It has been an amazing three days! Praise the Lord, for the 100 Huntley street staff for insisting that this revelation needs to be aired.

Also, thank you Prophet Mike and ministers of the gospel for your tenacity to get the truth of the Messiah out. You have certainly endeared yourself to the kingdom of God. We Praise the Lord and thank Him for this ministry daily.

Shalom
The Hampton Group

Blessings to all who read this!
Ever since we have been in Texas, the Word has proven the miraculous in my life! This is just one story I want to share after finishing a 3 day fast.
I took my 18 month old baby boy, Noah, for a walk and as we were passing one of our neighbor’s house, he stuck his arm straight out and pointed his finger at her house, so I thought maybe the Lord is using him to have me knock on her door and see if she wants to go for a walk with us. She was in the middle of bathing her kids but didn’t hesitate at all to hurry and join us. As we went for our walk she opened up to me and shared some concerns with me that there’s some sicknesses in their lives and some other issues going on. Then she went on to tell me about some encounters she’s had with “ghosts” in her home and that she can smell cigarette smoke in the area where she feels the “ghost”. She thinks it is probably her dead grandpa and since he’s not doing anything bad or hurting them, she is fine with the ghost being there.
Finally, after listening and hearing all this and having just finished our 3rd walk around the neighborhood, I blurted out the truth. I just said, “That’s not a nice ghost, it’s a demon.” and all of a sudden she said, “Do u smell that? It smells like chlorine and it’s so strong!”. I did not smell it at all and there are no pools in our neighborhood and then I realized it was God telling her to listen to the truth I’m bringing her, because chlorine is a very strong cleansing agents and it prevents the bacteria (lie) from continuing and you usually mix it with “water” (symbolic of the rain of revelation)!
That encouraged me to continue with my thoughts and I said, “Oh yes, it is hurting you! Why do u think u have all kinds of sicknesses and other troubles in your life? The demon’s job is to destroy you!” She understood what I was saying and I was able to pray with her and now this “thief” has been exposed and must return what was stolen! Amen.

My name is William Bailey and I want to share this awesome, supernatural experience with you, which occurred since attending Forerunner Ministries and hearing the mysteries of the kingdom. Recently, while driving home from work, and on the phone, I looked down at the phone, taking my eyes off the road. I then looked up and realized that I was going to hit the car in front of me. I felt like my heart was jumping into my throat and I automatically tensed up preparing myself for the impact. As I am smashing into the car in front of me, the hood of the truck starts to mesh with the other car, but in no way were the two vehicles becoming damaged! It was like another dimension! They just went right through each other! By now, I am past that car and the car is behind me. I veered off to the side and drove slowly and I saw the car behind me doing the same. So… obviously, they experienced the same thing that I had just experienced. I was completely stunned! I was so freaked out that I couldn’t do anything but drive on. I didn’t know what to do and I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t in an accident. I drive to the next light and made a turn to see if they had followed me. For if they did, then I would have gotten out of the car to talk to them. But they just kept going straight, so I went home. Now, the best part about this is that Yeshua starts to talk to me!

He asked me, “Where are you?”  ”What street are you on?” I said “Amethyst.”  He immediately said, “Precious stone.” Then he said, “I am no longer building my foundation with wood, hay and stubble, but with silver, gold and precious stones.” Then he asked “What was the cross street?”  I said, “Clear Valley”. The only reason why it made sense to me was because the day before this, Yeshua led me to pray for the valley.  Moreover, I was driving my friend’s truck and I pulled in his parking garage to return it. He was guiding me in as I was still in a fog. I was waiting for him to freak out because I wrecked his truck but he did not. I then realized that the truck and I were perfectly fine! I shared this supernatural experience with my brothers and my sisters! We believe that there will be no limitations in this move of Elohyim! Praise Yeshua for His grace and mercy!

Hello, my name is Henrietta Angulo, and I am currently living in Whittier, CA. I have been attending church services in Baldwin Park, sitting under the teachings of Pastor Michael Petro of Forerunner Ministries International, and want to praise my Lord Yeshua for my healing! I had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and had been on oral medications for over 20 years. But in the last two years the doctors stated that my sugar levels were not being controlled and that I must start taking insulin injections. On my last appointment, with a new physician, I was prescribed the insulin and told to return in 3 weeks to see if it was working. I went home and immediately entered my prayer closet. Holding the prescription in my hand, I prayed, “Lord, by Your Word I am healed!”

I did not care what the doctor said! As a daughter of the Most High God, I knew that my faith had swelled up in me since hearing Pastor Mike teach the Rhema Word, giving me “eyes to see” and “ears to hear”! I took a stand and believed the Word of God over the doctor’s report! In three weeks I returned to see another physician who ran a more complete blood test and the results were miraculous! The doctor stated that I DID NOT have to take insulin! My sugar is normal and controlled and again, praise Be To Yeshua!

Another way of saying language is tongue. There are some scriptures that use this word tongue instead of language. An example of it being used this way is:

Acts 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

John 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

The phrase “Hebrew tongue” in the Strong’s is:

G1447 Ἑβραΐστί

Hebraisti
heb-rah-is-tee’
Adverb from G1446; Hebraistically or in the Jewish (Armaic) language: – in (the) Hebrew (tongue).

Another use of the word tongue is used in Acts 2:6.

G1258
διάλεκτος
dialektos
dee-al’-ek-tos
From G1256; a (mode of) discourse, that is, “dialect”: – language, tongue.

Tongue is another way to say language or dialect. So, if I were to use the word “tongue” in a sentence it might be, “I am speaking an English tongue.” Now that we know that a tongue is another way of saying language, there are other scriptures that use the word tongue, but are different words in the Greek. For example:
1 Corinthians14:1-5
1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.
4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.

The word  tongues, used here, means a language, but not just any language; an unknown language that is only acquired spiritually. Here is the Greek definition of the word tongue or “glossa” used here:

G1100
γλῶσσα
glōssa
gloce’-sah
Of uncertain affinity; the tongue; by implication a language (specifically one naturally unacquired): – tongue.

There is a language that isn’t acquired naturally. This means that there is a spiritual language that can only be acquired spiritually. So, how do we learn this language? The answer is within the first two verses:

1 Corinthians14:1-2
1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

The Word for “Spiritual Things” is actually one word in the Greek. It is means spiritual and it speaks of things that are figurative. Figurative and Spiritual are synonymous. Here is the definition for this word spiritual:

G4152
πνευματικός
pneumatikos
phyoo-mat-ik-os’
From G4151; non-carnal, that is, (humanly) ethereal (as opposed to gross), or (daemoniacally) a spirit (concretely), or (divinely) supernatural, regenerate, religious: – spiritual.

The definition alone does not give us a very good description of how this word spiritual also means figurative. So, let’s let the scripture define it for us. Lets look at how this same word is used in another scripture:

1 Corinthians 2:13-14
13These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The word spiritual used here is the related to word that is used in 1 Corinthians 14. The word spiritually used here is an adverb. The definition is as follows:

G4153
πνευματικῶς
pneumatikōs
pnyoo-mat-ik-oce’
Adverb from G4152; non-physically, that is, divinely, figuratively: – spiritually.

Paul is saying that the spiritual things are the figurative comparison in scripture, such as the seed is the word (Luke 8:11) and God’s teaching or revelation is rain (Deuteronomy 32:2). By this, we can see how the word spiritual can be synonymous with saying figuratively. Now with that in mind, lets go back to 1 Corinthians 14.

1 Corinthians14:1-2
1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

The word “mysteries” used here speaks of a secret thing that only the godly can understand. This word speaks of things that are only given to those who are initiated to the religious secrets. Here is the Definition:

G3466
μυστήριον
mustērion
Thayer Definition:
1) hidden thing, secret, mystery
1a) generally mysteries, religious secrets, confided only to the initiated and not to ordinary mortals
1b) a hidden or secret thing, not obvious to the understanding
1c) a hidden purpose or counsel
1c1) secret will
1c1a) of men
1c1b) of God: the secret counsels which govern God in dealing with the righteous, which are hidden from ungodly and wicked men but plain to the godly

Now, we can see that this figurative (spiritual) language (tongue) are the mysteries (secret language of God). How do we learn this spiritual language of (mysteries) secrets, which are hidden in parables, proverbs, dark Sayings, and riddles. Here is a scripture that may open up our eyes:

Mark 4:11
11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,

Matthew 13:10-11
10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

The secrets or language of God are in the parables. It is a language that doesn’t use literal words, and to learn it you have to understand the parables. So, speaking in a Tongue is speaking a language. This means that The book of Proverbs, The Song of Solomon, Psalms, Revelations, ect. are written in a language that isn’t literal but spiritual (figurative).

Hi, my name is Canisius Kapu. Three years ago I was removed from my so called church where I got saved.I believed in the mystery of the word. In fact, I was a pastor of Revival Centers in Papua New Guinea (PNG). I taught my local church about the deeper secrets of the Kingdom of God. The subject I studied was about the tabernacle and the priesthood. I thought I knew everything. I desired to know the Lord in a more personal manner. I knew the devil wanted to destroy me, but the Lord is good and will continue to be good. Four months ago, having access to the Internet, I found the Forerunner Ministries web site which had the teachings of the servant of God. Praise God! I worked for a local company and I was being paid AUD $170/fortnight (every two weeks). After reading the prophesies, my faith jumped so high and I told my children that we would be millionaires by 2011

Today I can proudly give all glory,honor,praise,and greatness to my DAD in heaven for his blessings. Thank you, prophet Mike. Today, we own 10% in a multi-billion in an oil/gas, and gold business, also a shipping company, third level airline and shortly we are going to pay off a local helicopter company and all will be 100% owned by the REMNANT believers of PNG. Because we value the word and started speaking into existence the things which are not. Praise God! It’s value for value. In PNG we have a servant of God and he is also teaching us the mysteries of the kingdom like Prophet Mike. Praise God for these great servants of God.
Praise God.
AMEN

Shalom brothers and sisters!

This past month has been extremely refreshing for me and Dad has been speaking to me about “removing debts.” Actually, about a year and a half ago, the end of 09 going into 10, I was watching an episode of Sid Roth’s show “It’s Supernatural” and a brother was there sharing some prophetic insight that the LORD had given him. He said that a word from God to His body is COME OUT OF DEBT. He mentioned that those who are in debt, become a slave to who they are in debt to.

The next day I was looking on line at the Elijah List, made by Steve Shultz, and the first article I saw was about coming out of debt. I do not remember the title, but I do know that the article focused on coming out of debt, and this was a confirmation for me.

The LORD began speaking to me about coming out of debt, both naturally and spiritually, and I also began to bear witness to my spiritual fathers Mike Petro and Wayland Henderson share about debt, and deception just this past year, and both around the same time as well. My wife and I just left Dallas, Texas about 2 weeks ago and before we left, the LORD began speaking to Pastor Way all over again about coming into perfection and how it relates to our debts being paid. Simultaneously, Dad was speaking to me about being forgiven and removing debts.

This can’t be just a coincidence. There is a progressive revelation and  wisdom being released. Our heavenly Father is definitely trying to get our attention, and He is, very clearly, saying COME OUT OF DEBT!

But what does that mean? First we need to see what the debt is if we are going to come out of it. I just want to share the rudiments of what Dad has poured out to me so far.

Matthew 6:12 (King James Version)
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Notice how the Apostle Matthew writes, forgive us our debts….

Luke 11:4 (King James Version)
And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

Now, notice how the Apostle Luke writes, forgive us our sins…

Both Apostles are writing about what Yeshua (Jesus) told His disciples to pray…they are both referring to the same prayer, but one writes debts, the other writes sins…Let me ask you…Do you think that the LORD is trying to reveal something to us? Of course. Very clearly, scripture is saying that our sin is the debt and the word debt in the Hebrew means deception. Moreover, sin means to miss the mark, but it also speaks of living out side of the mark. The mark isn’t some random place that we are pressing to, but rather a person who we are pressing to be like! Christ is the mark. He is the goal that we are pressing to be like. So, if living in sin is living outside of that goal than it means that sin is living outside of the standard of  who Christ is. That’s why sin is a deception because we were always meant to look like Christ. We were always meant to hit the mark!

So, as Christ forgives our sins, He is also removing our debts. The Greek word for forgive literally means (to remove a debt) In connection to what the brother from Sid Roth’s show said…He said that those who we are in debt are slaves to who they are in debt to. This means that the one whom we owe is our master or owner, but when forgiveness comes, our debts are removed and we are set free from our owner.

Romans 7:14 (New King James Version)

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Paul, speaking about the Torah, (law) said that he had come to realize that the teachings of Torah are spiritual, but he didn’t understand them because he was carnal, and because he was carnal he was sold (enslaved) to sin. It is important to realize that the carnal (fleshly) nature is a slave to sin. So, if we are carnal, it means we are controlled by sin.

However, at the time, Paul’s lack of understanding of God’s word is what caused the enslavement to sin. That is debt!

A slave is one who has a master or an owner. The owner is the one who controls the slave, so Paul was saying that sin was his owner or that sin controlled him. That is why he continued to say…

Romans 7:15-17 (New King James Version)
15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

He said that if he kept on doing what he really didn’t want to do, than it was no longer him, but that it was sin controlling him. The debt was causing Paul to be oppressed to live in sin. When we are slaves, we can’t help but to do what our master requires.

But, Jesus began to bring forgiveness through the death on the cross, and His redemptive blood purchased us and paid the price for our sins (debts).The blood is not only symbolic of wine, but is also symbolic of the power of His Word to redeem and the power of His likeness that saves. It is the power of the Word and His divine likeness that purchases us and makes us free from sin! That’s why the scripture says that we overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of our testimony! (Revelation 12:11)

Paul realized how much sin (debt) he was in, but he also realized that apart from Christ and His death, there was no way to come out of sin (debt)…

Romans 7:24-25 (New King James Version)
24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

The Old Testament word for forgiveness (Nasa’) spoke about a banner or a standard that was lifted up, key word, it was lifted up so that those who were afar off (off the mark or in sin) could see it and gather to it to take refuge in it from their enemies or slave masters. So the banner that is lifted up is a place of refuge from sin, but it also the place of forgiveness!

When Yeshua died on the cross, He crucified His flesh (which is really ours), removed sin, and His Godly divine nature was lifted up so high that we [all those who missed the mark, or are enslaved by sin and in debt to it] could come into God’s divine forgiveness as we repent and grab a hold of His standard for refuge! Yeshua is the Banner that is lifted up! The LORD my Banner Jehovah Nissi!

John 12:32 (New King James Version)
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.”

Yeshua is being lifted up within us! As we crucify our flesh sin is being expiated and is taken away so that banner of God’s nature can be lifted up within us. We are not only being drawn into the Father’s forgiveness, we also draw others into that forgiveness and refuge from sin as well. Just as we seen the nature of God being lifted up in Yeshua and were drawn to it for the forgiveness of sin, so will others be  drawn to it as they see that banner lifted up within us. That is how we bear the burdens of others and fulfill the law of Christ! (Galatians 6:2)

There is so much more to delve into about this, but I just wanted to share this nugget at least. I pray that the tithe of this word will bless you.

Shalom!

Hi, my name is Greg Henry, (Chappie), and I just keep getting healed! My long-time friend, Valerie was going to meetings in the High Desert, learning the teachings of Pastor Mike Petro. She gave me some CD’s to listen to on the road, as I am a truck-driver and not in town very often. I also joined the School of the Prophet to study when possible. I knew I had never before heard a man teach the Word of God so clearly and it totally made sense to me. I started attending the meetings when I was in town and would like to share my testimony of healing with you. While driving, I started to experience chest-pains and shortness of breath.

I was coming in for the weekend to go to the hospital but decided to go to church first. I hadn’t told anyone what was happening to me. This was my first time in a service and I had never met Pastor Mike. He opened the alter for prayer and when he came to me he got a word of knowledge that I was having heart problems due to diabetes and told me that God was going to heal me and to receive the healing. He laid his hand on my chest and I could feel the warmth flowing into my heart. I was totally healed from chest pains, shortness of breath and a headache! He continued to speak things to me that he could not know and I knew this was a true man of God! Needless to say, I didn’t go to the hospital and have never had any trouble with my heart since that time.

Approximately 3 weeks later, while attending another service, I was worshipping God with my arms raised and suddenly felt a weight fall off my right hand. A few days later while driving and shifting my truck, I realized I was healed of carpal tunnel syndrome! My right hand to my elbow used to hurt and swell and I could hardly use it at times. I now have no pain, swelling, or weakness and it is totally healed!

In August 2010, I went to a church BBQ with the Forerunner Family and several brothers and sisters prayed for my knees because I have had pain for several years, getting in and out of my truck. The doctors said I lacked cartilage and may need treatment sometime soon. Both of my knees were healed and I now have no pain! Late summer, Pastor Al Cifelli from Australia, was ministering with Pastor Mike Petro during another Forerunner service. I had high blood pressure and had been on medication for at least 10 years and my doctor added more medication in the last year. During the alter call, Pastor Al prayed for the high blood pressure to be healed and within a week I was completely healed. I went for a physical and my blood pressure was like a young man and I no longer take medication!

The weekend of December 12, 2010 I walked into service during worship and had extreme pain in my leg. A brother and sister prayed for me and the pain immediately left!

I believe I am closer to God than I have ever been thanks to Pastor Mike Petro and Forerunner Ministries. I know that the revelatory Word of God that is taught here is healing me. I personally thank Pastor Mike for everything he does and the price he’s paid to bring healing to the body of Christ! This truly is a life-changing ministry!

My name is David Mario Calderon and I have been a Christian for over 23 years. I have always wanted a deeper understanding of the Word of God, and as a minister in the Foursquare Church I thought I had reached a level of understanding worthy of preaching the gospel. That is until I began to really listen to the teachings of Pastor Michael Petro.

I went through a bout of depression, and I was so oppressed that I couldn’t move, I couldn’t pray, and I questioned myself thinking, “where is my God who promised not to forsake me?” I remember finally getting on my knees and crying out to God and soon I felt better and was able to function but I was still confused. Scripture did not help me at all and there was no power in the Words I read. My brother David Jack gave me a CD with Pastor Mike’s teachings, so I put it into a CD player, but within about two minutes I turned it off and remember saying, “what is this guy rambling about?” A week later I went into my basement and attempted to clean and arrange things. Suddenly this heavy foul spirit of depression came upon me and I thought, “Not this again!” I called my wife and told her how I was feeling and she prayed with me and said, “You know what you have to do.” I knew prayer was the answer but I just stood there and cried. Then in the “Spirit” a voice said to me, “listen to the CD.” In the basement I had no CD player, no electrical outlet and I didn’t feel like going in the house, so I figured it was not the voice of God. But again a voice said, “Mario, listen to the CD,” and I fully intended to go into the house and listen, but immediately moved one box and behind this box was a little CD player which I had bought about 5 years ago to use on a job site. I ran and got the CD of Pastor Mike and started to listen to the teaching of the man who changed my Christian walk forever. I stayed in that basement for about four hours and I played that CD over and over and over. I then called my brother and inquired about this man, (who I had previously thought was nuts), and how to get more teaching CD’s. For the next 2 months I listened to the CD’s, went to Pastor Mike’s meetings in the High Desert and also to the meetings at the church in Gardenia, CA., and I just couldn’t get enough! The people in my church think I’ve lost my mind because I do everything I can to glorify my Savior!

Now, I want to tell you that about 2 years ago I had back surgery and I was always in constant pain, even after the surgical procedure. I was stuck on pain pills, could hardly walk at times and work was still very difficult. But one night while studying one of Pastor Mike’s teachings and amazed at how someone could know all these things, he said one thing that has revolutionized my life, “if Christ is in you how could you be sick, or in pain”, and I stood up and cried out,” thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you my Heavenly Father for healing me”! At that moment I knew God had touched my back! Now I can dance, jump and run around with no more pain! I was healed and will never live in that state again! So much more has taken place in my life since Pastor Mike introduced me to the Rhema Word of God! No more milk for me as I now truly hunger and thirst for more revelation and a closer walk with God! Thank You Pastor Mike and all involved in this wonderful move of God!

Sincerely, David M. Calderon

Shalom! God is doing amazing things in the body of Christ. A greater harvest is as imminent now as it ever was before. God is shaking nations (mindsets) to draw all to Himself, for He is the desire of all nations!

Part of that harvest includes those who the LORD will and is drawing in at Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. We have been plowing out there for a few semesters and fruit is beginning to come. I wanted to share with you all a testimony of a young lady whom Dad has touched and changed through the Word.

(This message was sent to me via Facebook January 3, 2011)

Hey Jimmie! I hope you and your family had a blessed holiday! I just wanted to talk to you about the way the Lord has been really regenerating me through His Word and renewing me through His Holy Spirit! It feels so awesome just to be in His will! I thank God for you brother. He really used you to bring me back when I was being led out of the way, and for that I am eternally grateful. My sister Rachel and I were talking about you and how the Lord allowed you to pour into the both of our lives! I just wanted to say your labor is not in vain… and I remember your Pastor told you that something big was gonna happen at Slippery Rock…or something like that.. well I can say it has… My life is changed… my relationship with the Lord is in a place where it has never been before.. I’m just so happy! The joy of the Lord is my strength! Be blessed!

The “something big” that the young lady was referring to was this…During the New Years Eve service we had in New Castle, PA of 2006 going into 07, Prophet Mike prophesied that the LORD would bring revival at different universities and colleges. One of those schools was Slippery Rock. At the time, my wife and I were attending another school…a school that was not mentioned the night this word was spoken. To make a long story short, we, [my wife and I] by the will of the LORD, transfered to Slippery Rock University and along with sisters Janel Benning and Lashawnna Lewis, we have been doing bible studies there. The LORD has really set a fire in the hearts of many students. Life (revival) is truly being poured in the students. Many have come in to truth and are hungry and thirsty for more of Jesus. I believe that there will be an increase as well because there is a door wide opened at Slippery Rock and much adversities as well, so brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers of the faith we ask that you continue to pray and intercede that the LORD will continue to shake us and shake Slippery Rock University for the purposes of drawing many more to Himself!

Bless you.

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The presence of the divine Ark will constitute the Life of this Virgin Church, and wherever this body is, there must the Ark of God be. The unsealing of the Living testimony within the Ark of God will be the proclaiming of His testimony, and will be as the sounding of a trumpet to “ALARM” the nations of processed Christendom. Authority will be given by Jesus Christ to the putting an end to all controversies concerning the true Church, that is born of the New Jerusalem mother. His decision will be the actual sealing of the Body of Christ with His Name (or Authority) thus giving them a commission to act by His same authority. This New Name (or Authority) will distinguish them from the seven thousand names of Babylon.

The election and preparation of this Virgin Church is to be after a secret and hidden manner. As David in His ministry was chosen and appointed by the Prophet of the Lord, yet was not admitted to the outward profession of the Kingdom for a considerable time afterward. Of the stem of David, a Virgin Church, which has known nothing of a man or human institution, is to be born, and it will require some time for it to get out of the minority and arrive at a full and mature age. The birth of this Virgin Church was typified in St. Johns Vision on the isle of Patmos, where the great wonder appeared in Heaven, bringing forth Her first born, (A man child), that was caught up to the throne of God, (or that is Identified with the Authority of God). This Church so brought forth and sealed with the mark of Divine Authority, will have no bondage or imposition, but the Holy Anointing upon these New Born Spirits will be all and all!

There is not at this day (1619) visible upon the Earth such a Church. All profession being found light when weighed in the balances; therefore they are rejected by the supreme Judge. With rejection will be for this cause that out of them may come a new and Glorious Church!

Then will the Glory of God and the Lamb so rest upon this typical tabernacle, so that it will be called the tabernacle of Wisdom, though it is not known in visibility, yet. It will be seen as coming out of the wilderness within a short time. Then it will go on to multiply and propagate itself universally; not only to the number of the first born (144,000) but also to the remnant of the seed, against whom the dragon will make war continually. Wherefore the Spirit of David will revive in this Church and most especially in some of its elect members of this blossoming root. These will have might given to them to overcome the dragon and his angels, even as David overcame Goliath and his philistine army.

This will be the standing up of the Great Prince Michael, and will be as the appearing of Moses against pharaoh, in order that the chosen seed may be brought out of hard bondage and servitude. Egypt does oppress this servile creation under which Abraham’s seed groans, but a Prophet and a most prophetic generation, will the Most High raise up, a people that will deliver His people by the Force of Spiritual Arms, for which there must be raised up certain head powers to bear the first office, who will be people in favor with God, whose dread and fear will fall upon the nations, visible and invisible, because of the mighty acting Power which will rest upon them; Jesus Christ will appear in some of these chosen vessels to bring into the promised land this New Creation Church!

Thus Moses, Joshua, and Aaron may be considered types of some upon whom the same Spirit will come, yet in even greater proportion, where by they will make a way for the ransomed of the Lord to return to Mount Zion! But none will stand under God but those that have become the “tried stones,” after the pattern and likeness of Christ. This will be a very fiery trial through which a very few will be able to pass or bare up under; where by those waiting for this visible breaking forth are strictly charged to hold fast, and wait together in the unity of pure Love!

This trial will be of absolute necessity to all, for the clearing away of all remaining infirmities of the natural mind, and the burning away of all wood hay and stubble, for nothing must remain in the fire. As a refiner He will purify the Sons of His Kingdom!

There will be some that will be fully redeemed, being clothed with the Priestly garment after the, “Melchisedec order”. This will qualify them for governing Authority. Therefore it is required on their part to suffer the Spirit of burning and the fanning of His fiery breath, searching every part within them until they have arrived at a fixed body to which Gods signs and wonders are to flow out!Upon this body will be the fixation of the Urim and the Thummim, that are the portion of the Melchisedec priesthood, who’s decent is not counted among the genealogy of the creation that is under the fall, but in another genealogy which is the New Creation!

Hence these priests will have deep inward search and divine sight into the secret things of deity and will be able to Prophecy in a clear ground, not darkly enigmatically, for they will know what is couched in the first originality of all beings, in the eternal antitype of the nature. They will be enabled to bring forth according to the divine council and ordination.

The Lord swears in truth and righteousness, that from Abraham’s lineage, according to the Spirit, there will arise a Holy seed, produced and manifested in the last age. The Mighty Spirit of Cyrus is appointed to lay the foundation of this third temple and support its building!

Please look at; Isaiah 44:28-45:1-3 & 13, also; Ezra 1:1-3 & 4:1-3 & 6:3-12.

There are characteristics and marks where by this Pure Virgin Church will be known and distinguished from all others that are low and false, counterfeits. There must be a manifestation of the Holy Spirit to edify and raise up this Church; where by bringing Heaven down upon the Earth, and representing here the New Jerusalem State. In order that men’s spirit’s are thus begotten and truly born of God. Thus ascending to the New Jerusalem above, where our head and Majesty does Reign!

None but those that have risen with Jesus Christ in this regeneration can come forth and communicate this Kingdom, being thereby His chosen representatives in the Earth, and subordinate Priests under Him now. He that has ascended and been glorified, has made Himself, as it were, our debtor, consequently He will not be slack in qualifying and furnishing certain high and principled vessels who will be most humble, and as little regarded as King David was, who God will dignify with honor and priestly sovereignty for drawing to Himself the scattered flocks, and gather them into one fold out of all Nations!

Therefore there should be a Holy emulation and ambition stirred up among the bands of believers that they may be of the first fruits unto Him that is risen from the dead, and so being made principal agents of Him, that they may be if possible of the number of the first born, of the New Jerusalem Mother!

To all true waiters of His Kingdom, pray and desire to be numbered among the Virgin Spirits, to whom this Prophecy pertains. Be watchful and quicken your pace!

At a Saturday night bible study on October 2nd,  Pastor Joey Marinelli began to lay down some foundations about offerings and sacrifices, among other things. While the word was going forth the Holy Spirit opened my understanding to powerful revelation that began unfolding within my heart. I could understand  very clearly  how all of the offerings such as the sin offering, the trespass offering, the peace offering, the grain offering, and the whole burnt offering, were all fulfilled in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. These offerings really caught my attention, but more specifically the whole burnt offering.

Pastor Joey began to lay some foundation on the word “burnt offering.” The word burnt offering in the Hebrew is the word (olah) and it means a holocaust. The Encarta dictionary, (2006) defines a holocaust as, a complete destruction of human life… especially by fire.

When we see this spiritually we will understand that the LORD is an all consuming fire (Deuteronomy 4:24). The word consume means to destroy. This means that this consuming fire is destroying something; it is destroying a life. The life that He wants to destroy is the carnal nature or the old man, so that we can be renewed in the image of Christ.

Moreover, this word burnt offering also speaks of stairs or a stairway. Stairs are used to ascend, or to go up, as in going higher into heavenly places. Very clearly, we can see that this type of offering will manifest the very stairway that leads into the heavenly places, where we can sit and learn from the Lord Yeshua (Jesus). (Ephesians 2:6)

Now that we have seen the definition of the burnt offering, what exactly is it?

Exodus 29:18
18 “And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
(NKJ)

The whole burnt offering was an offering “made by fire,” which means the presence of God’s fire is what made it an offering. Therefore, without that fire, its could not be an offering, but  would only be a dead animal.

Who does the burnt offering represent? It first points to Yeshua and His sacrifice on the cross. (See Genesis 22:2-13, John 19:30, and Ephesians 5:2) However, this burnt offering also represents the believer.

The significant thing about the whole burnt offering is that it wasn’t just parts of the animal that were consumed in fire as were other sacrifices, but the whole animal of the burnt offering was wholly consumed in the fire; hence, a whole burnt offering,  and that fire could never go out! (Leviticus 6:13)

The fire of God has to consume every area of our life, and that is what makes us an offering to Him.

Mark 12:33
33 “And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
(NKJ)

To love the Father with ALL…not parts of our heart, strength, understanding and soul, but ALL. Thats the burnt offering!

Someone once said to me, “How can I love God when I did not keep His commandments.” This was coming from a believer who had a fallen into error, but had repented and was turned back to the LORD. This individual has a very clear love for the LORD, but at this moment in this believers life, felt as if they didn’t love the LORD at all, and being gripped with guilt.

I realized something at that moment. For many, it is not the case whether we love the LORD or not. The question is do we love Him with our ALL, or do we just love Him in PARTS? Those who only love in part will always be ensnared by other things.

IKing 3:3
3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.
(NKJ)

King Solomon loved the LORD, but because the temple had not been build he would go where the pagans worshiped and burn incense with them. We can clearly see that Solomon loved the LORD, but it was not with His ALL.

There are areas where we have giving ourselves wholly to the LORD, but in other areas of our life, we may hold back.

Becoming a whole burnt offering is to fully give our WHOLE heart to the LORD, and not just parts of our heart to Him. It is to be madly in LOVE with the LORD and utterly dead to what separates us from Him. The more His fire consumes us we will begin to die to sin, and fall more in LOVE with Him. We are to continue in that fire, until we are wholly consumed, and wholly in love with HIM. THAT IS WHAT MAKES US AN OFFERING. It is the offering made by fire…an offering made by a passionate love for the LORD! HALLELUJAH!

I saw this more clearly as I meditated on Daniel chapter 3. Daniels companions Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego,were told to worship Nebuchadnezzars image or suffer being tossed into the fire. They refused to worship any other god except Jehovah the true God, and in return the king became outraged and ordered for the fire in the furnace to be turned up 7 times hotter.

This is a major revelation. When we reject the flesh and what it desires the supernatural All Consuming Fire of God begins to increase in our life. Also, the supernatural consuming love of God increases in our life.

Daniel 3:27
27 And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.
(NKJ)

That carnal fire had no power over them because the supernatural fire of God that burned within them was greater than that natural fire!

But the beauty of this comes in the next verse…

Daniel 3:28
28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!
(NKJ)

This word frustrated, or shena in the Hebrew means to change or to exchange one thing for another. As defined in the Encarta (2006) dictionary, frustrate means to stop something from coming to pass. The enemy spoke one thing over their life but God began to change it. What the enemy spoke could not come to pass over them and had no power over them because they fully yielded their lives to the LORD! They became whole burnt offerings. They fully yielded their lives to the LORD! They loved the LORD with their ALL, and loved not their own lives unto death (Revelations 12:11)

I believe the LORD is looking for a people who will love Him with their ALL. These will fully manifest His Kingdom in the earth, and nothing in their life will be in opposition to His Will. I know this day is coming and is here now! My prayer is that we will become that burnt offering unto the LORD, that we will ascend into the heavenly places and receive those hidden riches in Christ, and that our fire never goes out, so that we will be an everlasting offering to the LORD!

Let the tithe of this word bring a harvest within your hearts.

Jimmie

PART 2

Blessings All,

I write this with a great concern in my heart for the church and the nation of Israel. An article has just been sent to me from the Kuwaiti Press that is saying that Iran will begin military operations against Israel in 2 weeks. We must pray for this situation because of the great consequences that may ensue; this could be the acceleration of the final battle and possible nuclear war in the natural that could bring the whole world into a major crisis. We need to be on our faces before God and asking for the Apostles and Prophets to fully released by God. Without those ministries the church and saints are defenseless against the attack of the enemy. We need our Generals to be in position to handle the spiritual war we are getting ready to encounter.

I’ve posted the article so you can read it:

Kuwaiti Press: Iran will declare war on Israel in two weeks” article dated Aug. 25, 2010:  http://ceiprophecy.com/archives/1610

I also think it’s interesting that a prophetic sister from Israel/Dallas last week ask to see me to give me a word for what is to come with Forerunner Ministries. This is a very serious time! Please keep these things in prayer. I also think that it’s very interesting that Iran is choosing to attack Israel on the High Holy Feast of Trumpets and Atonement, BIG MISTAKE IRAN! Our Lord is getting ready to release His Government.

I would also like to say sister Jane below who gave me this prophetic word doesn’t know me at all and has not heard my teachings before. God spoke to her to meet with me while she was at another church.

Prophecy to Michael Petro from Jane Nasrallah (Unconditional Love Ministries) on Aug 22, 2010

Apostle Michael,

My rainbow is released over you, My promises are yes and amen! You have humbled and bowed yourself to Me. You are like my beloved John, he followed Me through torture and suffering – John had passion for Jesus and His Kingdom; his eyes were no longer in the natural.

John had great and mighty revelation, you’ve laid down your crown, and repented. I can trust you with My “Mysteries” because of your bowing down. No silver or gold – you just want Him. There is no lack for all that you seek Me in. Son, I already have everything in eternity – there’s already a blue print…. Visitation from angels, “Holy, Holy is the Lord”, visitation in writing. Women prophesying from My heart, from My heart… many men and women…. My heartbeat, they’ll know. No love for their own life-even unto death, not ashamed, no fear of man or Anti-christ, no lack.. My Kingdom economy – not of this earth. … they will dream and dream Big. There is no longer an orphan spirit, no longer abandoned. Son, rebellious you were, no more anger, you will be full of joy! You were redeemed from damnation, I have snatched you out of the fire… you’ve been rejected, you know sorrow, but so have I! Son, you have a glorious future – power released and anointing; a mantle of miracles! I can trust you… you have a reverent fear of Me. Angels ascending and descending, rivers that flow from your temple.

My son, everything will be alright, I’m gathering My “Eagles”, to serve one another, Freedom in finances, this is your day, visitation, visitation, visitation,…. Time for “Fathers Headquarters” to be built in the earth… to be revealed!

PART 1

Maybe most of you already know this, and since I’ve drastically curtailed my TV viewing, I may be one of the few who just became aware of this. Thanks to my dear friend Linda Felzer, for sending this to me.

Please join me, in stepping up our prayers for the Shalom of Yerushalayim.

May Adonai bless and keep you all.

On Aug 25, 2010
Kuwaiti Press: Iran will declare war on Israel in two weeks
http://ceiprophecy.com/archives/1610

As I’ve been searching the scripture I’ve seen that the Lord is going to take the Church into a whole new realm of Apostolic Release. Gone will be the day of just anybody saying “I’m an Apostle”; the true Apostles will be a terror for those living in sin and will bring the church under the wrath of God. I can see these men won’t build their own ministries but the kingdom of God with a passion for Holiness. There will also come into the church a very strict order for those who will follow these men and those that will just be removed. And I don’t mean just ‘leave the church’ removed, I mean ‘sent to hell’ removed! Part of this came when I was reading Romans 13. I can see that the body of Christ must be in order and under Governmental Authorities. We really haven’t seen this type of apostolic order or government as to this day but it will shortly be released.

Rom 13:1 Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.

Paul clearly tells us there is a governmental authority and that all of it is appointed by God. We understand that, but what is the magnitude of their overseeing authority in our lives, and exactly what is there authority they have over us? Is it like a mall cop who really has very little authority over us, or is it more like a judge who has the ability to put us away for a long time!

Rom 13:2 Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring damnation on themselves.

Now Paul gets a little more in depth and begins to outline those authorities that are ordained of God. The key word used in this verse is ordinance. “Ordinance” is the Greek word diatage G1296 meaning  institution or a place of learning and this word is used in only one other place: Acts 7:53. Here, it is used to explain our relationship with regard to God’s Torah/Law. This word is explaining our relationship with God (not man) and our ability to be governed by His Authorities, those who have been ordained by Him to reveal His word. Notice that those who resist God’s authorities bring damnation on themselves. This is the first time in scripture that I began to recognize that those believers who come against God’s government or resist it can lose their salvation and be damned.  This was an interesting proposition but all the ramifications of this are incredible. Before I go on I must qualify that this government is not political but Apostolic. But think about it: a person can lose their salvation because of resisting God’s government. I began to realize the immense burden and qualifications God will put on these men and women. He won’t be playing games; all of heaven will be invested in those leaders who will bring the church and world to its knees under the power and stewardship of Christ. It hit me what little respect people put on these ministries, but God puts all authority in their hands to fulfill His purpose in the earth.

The church that’s coming won’t be able to pick and choose: “I don’t like what is being said here so I’ll go over there and get some milk and have my ears tickled.” It’s not going to work that way! People’s resistance will cost them their eternity, disobedience won’t be tolerated and spiritual fathers will be respected. I believe to some extent this is already in place but a fullness is coming.

Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.

There are several things to point out about verse 3. Notice these rulers are a terror for those who resist what God is doing! That is a scary word “terror“ but it will begin to unfold in future verses.  I want to go on with this word “rulers”. It is Strongs number G758 and the definition says: Present participle of G757; a first (in rank or power): – chief (ruler), magistrate, prince, ruler. Notice this word means those who are first in rank or power, a chief or prince. According to Paul the first rank of the church are the Apostles who are the fathers of the faith. This word for fathers is used in the old testament for those who are patriarchs or chiefs of the family so we see these rulers that the Lord is speaking of are Apostles or fathers of the faith. These fathers are a terror to those who resist the covenant. This brings a whole new light on the job of the apostolic mandate that is being released. These men will terrorize those who don’t want to come into line with God’s word. This isn’t going to be just church as usual… these men will bring a power into the earth that’s never been seen before. I wonder how many true saints will follow these men when they come?

Rom 13:4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

These apostolic men will bring the sword to those who resist the apostolic teachings, and we know that the apostles are teaching the mysteries of the kingdom.

Eph 3:4 by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),
Eph 3:5 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

Notice that these men will reveal the sword of the Lord in order to avenge and execute God’s wrath on the earth. It became so plain to me, meaning the entire book of Revelations began to unfold, that these generals of God’s army will unfold the wrath of God on the earth onto those who resist God’s word. They will attack the religious system and bring it under the government of the Lord Jesus Christ. All, and I mean ALL, who oppose this government will be dammed. Wow, how clear is this message that Paul is bringing to the church.

These apostolic men must be the bride of Christ, those who follow the Lamb. Come on lets just admit it… going to church a few days a week and living like hell the rest, is not following the Lamb! Following the Lamb means wanting to feel His heart in our very chest, to know His feelings in our heart… not just head knowledge but relationship with Him!

When these apostolic men of war cross the path of those that have resisted God’s discipline, they execute His Kingdom on earth by bringing His wrath and His damnation upon them. We haven’t seen this yet but it’s at the door. These men must go through intense testing and training to be able to handle the weight of this job. They will be spiritual giants able to take on all the giants of the enemy. They won’t crumble like many so called Christians that when something is said to them they whimper with excuses and anger to cover up there unhealed inner man. They won’t build ungodly walls but the walls of the new Jerusalem. They will love God’s word with a passion and want to see that word come to its fullness in the earth. No excuses, no hesitation just the release of God’s glory in there very being. Everything will be released by them and through them, even the gifts of the Spirit of God.

Exo 18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exo 18:26 So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.

All matters of judgment were decided by men that Moses appointed.

2Ki 2:9 And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.”
2Ki 2:10 So he said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.”

Elijah passed his mantle on to Elisha in order for the work to be continued.

Rom 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established—

1 Th 2:7 But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
1 Th 2:8 So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

You can also see that the gifts were imparted by Spiritual fathers, there legacy and inheritance was imparted to those who could see their authority. The ability to see someone “going up” like Elijah is the ability to realize that this man is going into places that I want to follow and be a partaker. Those who can’t see the anointing and mantle can never be used in the measure that God is lifting up these end of day’s ministries. Sons that are followers and not Hams will obtain the inheritance of the fathers but those who are trying to build their own kingdom and not follow in the order of Apostolic succession can never enter into the fullness God has for them. Their only judgment, Paul says, is damnation for resistance.

I pray that all of you reading this are not among those that resist!

Amen and Amen.

Psalms 145:6
6 Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will declare Your greatness.
(NKJ)

As I knelt before God on Saturday August 7th, my hands got hot and tingly. I didn’t move, for I wanted to receive whatever Daddy was going to do. So I continued to remain in the prostrate position with my hands before me in a praying position I continued in praising, worshipping, loving and thanking Yeshua for all He has done and for what He is about to do in my life. I thanked Him for healing me, for He has healed me greatly! Daddy has healed my neck and my lower back. He has healed me of cervical cancer and has stopped my menopause. He has freed me from drug addition, and has delivered me of demonic oppression. He has healed me from having chronic sinus infections and He has healed me from loss of hearing and now He has healed my Hands! Now, I can use my hands without any pain where before I could not. I abused my hands throughout my life. I used huge scissors to cut out 12 layers of chiffon material at a time. I used to be a seamstress for a ballet studio. I sewed hundreds of ballet skirts and costumes. I did this for 9 years. I also had carpal tunnel from typing. Then, about 5 years ago I hurt my hands severely by trying to remove old glue from the flooring with a chisel. Because of my injuries, anytime I would pick things up or use scissors for more than a hour, my hands would get very swollen and painful. I would then have to wrap them with pain patches and ace bandages. Just last month I had helped with a huge yard sale and I really hurt my hands badly. However, I’ve been thankful that the Lord has given me hands and that I am still able to use them, and now Yeshua has taken all the pain and the swollen veins away from my hands! On the Monday that followed my healing, I noticed that after I got done with my typing and my housework that my hands where beautiful and painless! I noticed this at about 4:00 in the afternoon. I took photos of them to show what Dad has done. I compared the new picture with an old picture of my hands that was taken back in February of this year. At that time I had planned to find get in touch with a hand doctor to show him/her how bad my hands had gotten.

The Holy Spirit is doing a great work with me and also with my fellow brothers and sisters at Forerunner Ministries International. Gods truth is being unveiled by a prophet. His name is Michael Petro. Each time I go and sit under him I learn more and more of the mysteries of the kingdom. I believe this is one of the reasons why I am being healed (Matthew 13:15). God is getting ready to do His greater works with His people and He wants only those who are willing to die for Him (Revelation 12:11)! I know that I am one of His chosen few and my prayer is that you will be one too. Thank you Daddy and Thank you Pastor Mike, Pastor Al, Pastor Robert, and all of the Forerunners!

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Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share with everyone something that Dad has been putting on my heart. Right now, its really heavy on my mind, so much so that I don’t think I can sleep until I post it. He has been leading me through this for the last month or so, and He is still showing me more, and I know the more that I share, the more He pours out. I don’t want to be the man that buries his talent in the earth. I pray that this blesses you, and encourages you as much as it did me. It may be a little lengthy but please bare with me:

Revelation 9:11
11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
(KJV)

The Lord spoke to me some time ago about the bottomless pit. The word bottomless in the Greek is the word “abussos.” If you study this word out you will find that this word is a variation of the word buthos which comes from the word bathos. The Greek word bathos is used in 1 Corinthians 2 where Paul speaks of how the Spirit searches the deep things of God. Therefore, we can see that the bottomless pit (a very quick explanation) is a place or a people without revelation or without the deep things of God.
In Revelations9:11 it talks this locust army that had a king over them. The name of this king is Abaddon, but in the Greek language his name is Apollyon. After taking a look in the Strong’s dictionary, I learned that this name also means a destroying angel. An angel is a messenger or one who brings a message. In Hebrew thought, angels are also considered  the message.  Therefore wee see that  Apollyon is a messenger or a message of destruction. As I searched out the word Abaddon in the Ancient Hebrew, a dictionary that defines the word by the meaning of the Hebrew letters that are used to spell the word, I learned that Abaddon is spelled with the Hebrew letters: Aleph, Beyth, Dalet, Vav, Nun.  Breaking these letters down opened my eyes to a greater understanding. The letters Aleph Bet together is how the word father is spelled. The letters Bet Nun together is how the word son is spelled, and the letters Aleph Dalet Nun together is how the word Adonai is spelled. Adonai also speaks of the door of life.

With all of the above said, one can clearly see that Abaddon is a false image of Yeshua (Jesus). Jesus came to en graft the branch (the church) but Abaddon came to seperate the branch.  If you take a look at the name Abaddon in the ancient Hebrew, the root  word to his name is the Hebrew word bad spelled with the letters Bet and Dalet. One of the definitions of Bet Dalet in the ancient Hebrew means:

Separated: Something that is separated from the whole. This can be a branch as separated from the tree (as well as a staff made from a branch). Linen cloth whose fibers are divided. A lie or liar as what causes a separation through careless words, lying, or bragging | {str: 905, 906, 907}

As we understand this definition  we can see the function of Abaddon. His function is to separate the branch from the tree. Jesus said that He is the vine and that we, the church, are the branch. We can clearly see that Abaddon is trying to separate a people from Jesus.

Romans 11:7-22
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
(KJV)

Paul said that it was because of unbelief that many Jews in his day were cut off. The Greek word unbelief is the word apaistia, and it means faithlessness, or lack of revealed truth. It was a lack of faith and revealed truth that they, the original branch, was removed from the tree.

I was sitting in my room meditating on this one day and it hit me…the Jews knew a Messiah was coming;  it was prophesied in almost every book in the old testament, and even in their oral Torah there is a whole separate book called “The Messiah” that explains what they thought the Messiah would to be like, and also when would he come. Dad showed me the very thing that they missed. They miss interpreted how Yeshua the Messiah was going to manifest and appear on the earth. They were expecting someone to come and overthrow the Romans. They believed He was going to save them from their enemies not realizing their true enemies of Israel was their carnal mindsets. It was their way of thinking that caused them to miss the appearing of the Messiah.  They knew the Messiah was supposed to go to the High Priest first, but instead of going to Caiaphas, a high priest chosen by the people, Jesus went to John the Baptist. In God’s kingdom, and according to His order of priesthood, John was a high priest. The Jews had heard about the coming of the Messiah probably all their lives, but because He didn’t manifest the way that they were expecting Him to, and because Jesus didn’t look like what they thought He should have looked like or do what they thought He should have done, they rejected Him, moved in unbelief, and in turn, they were cut out.

When the Lord begins to reveal things to us, we ought to stay in an intimate place with Him so that He can show us how He is going to manifest what He showed us.

Deuteronomy 4:9-12
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

The Hebrew word for similitude is the word temuwnah. The definition is as follows:

Storng’s 8544 temuwnah (tem-oo-naw’);or temunah (tem-oo-naw’); from 4327; something portioned (i.e. fashioned) out, as a shape, i.e. (indefinitely) phantom, or (specifically) embodiment, or (figuratively) manifestation (of favor): KJV– image, likeness, similitude.

So they heard a voice, but they didn’t see how it was to manifest or appear.

Deuteronomy 4:15-16
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
(KJV)

If you look at the word for graven image (it’s all one word in Hebrew) it’s the word pecel and it means an idol. The first Hebrew letter in the word pecel is the letter Pey. The Hebrew letter pey speaks of an opened mouth or a language. If you look at the definition of the word pecel in the AHLB It means a sepulchre by definition is a vault in which a corpse is buried.  Meaning, something that is being spoken is bringing death. Moses told the people that because they only heard a voice and did not see the similitude, or how it was to manifest, to make sure that they did not build a graven image. Meaning, do not speak of what you don’t fully understand because it will manifest the wrong image of God and release death to those who receive it. They would be releasing an idol image of the Torah, an idol image of Jesus if they had spoken of what did not understand.

I started to truly understand that when the Lord begins to give us a revelation, it is only the beginning of the overall picture of what He is trying to say to us, for the revelation is meant to bring us into a manifestation. He wants us to stay in an intimate place of fellowship with Him so that He can show us how He wants to release what He showed us through revelation in the earth. When we hear only, but don’t stay in a place of intimacy with the Lord in order see His similitude and how He wants to manifest what He gave us, and begin to go release it to a people, we cause idol images to be built, and separate people from God and we operate in the spirit of Abaddon and not the Spirit of the Lord. So just hearing a revelation isn’t ok, you have to be able to see how the Lord wants it to manifest as well.

Those that refuse to stay in that place with the Lord and begin to release what they have heard and not what they have seen and heard they are the ones who will begin to build the idol images that brings separation causes people to move into idol worship, and as a result, cut off from God. That is the function of Abaddon! As mentioned above, his name means to separate a branch from the tree.  This happens when one speaks a message out of lack of understanding that releases death to a people instead of life.

If you take a look at the locust army that is under Abaddon Apollyon, they mirror, exactly, the army that is in Joel chapter 1. In verse 7 of Joel 1, Joel speaks about how that army caused the branches to be destroyed and separated away from the vine.  Meaning this is an army of people that are manifesting the characteristics of the king in which they serve. This army keeps moving until Chapter 2 where you begin to see a different army. This second army are those who begin to see and hear what the Lord is saying. They are those who manifest what they have heard and seen in the secret place. They do not bring destruction, but they bring life.

I John 1:1-4
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
(KJV)

This is truly an Apostolic function. The Apostles not only heard the voice of Jesus, but they seen the manifestation of Him, and because of that they were able to manifest His image to a people.They were the friends of the bridegroom who brought people into the intimate knowledge of Jesus.

Matthew 10:5-6
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
(KJV)

That word lost in the Greek is the word apollumi. The definition is as follows:

Strong’s 622 apollumi (ap-ol’-loo-mee); from 575 and the base of 3639; to destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively:KJV– destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.

This word is the root to the Apollyon. The apostles were sent to join back to the LORD those who had been separated from Him through a lie. I know that Dad truly wants His people  to not only hear revelation, but also to stay in an intimate place with Him to see how He wants it to manifest in the earth.

Through this understanding, Dad has truly taught me a lot. One major thing is that when He begins to speak something to me, I don’t try to make it manifest the way I want it to manifest.  In encourage you all with this…stay in a place of fellowship with Him until He shows you how it will come to pass. It may not always happen the way we think it is going to happen, so seek the Lord always and understand what He has to say about it. Joseph knew that he was going to be a ruler, and that his brothers would bow down to him, but the way it happened, more likely than not, is not the way he thought it was going to manifest. Abraham was promised to be a father of many nations, but the way that Dad wanted to do it was probably not the way Abraham thought it was going to be.

So again I pray this blesses you as much as it blessed me.

Revival of Restoration Aug. 3, 2010 (It is the 8th month, the number for new beginnings)
My morning began in the early hours as the Lord stirred me awake. His voice speaking, “can you hear the call, the Spirit cry?” The words came, “the door” and I perceived there must be a transition happening, a crossing over. The clock said it was 4:44 AM. Something new is coming! God’s wake-up alarm went through my spirit and it was a good one. It felt intense enough that I woke up my three sons along with my husband. I just said, “Pray for what God is doing this moment, until He shows us more.”
Being the great friend that I am, I immediately called several intercessors, two of which were already awake and praying, sensing something exciting today would happen. One called back and she said it was revival. Through intercession I saw a picture of the mounds of earth with rock, like granite that began to smooth over. New grass, flowers, trees, and vegetation began springing up. Everything was being renewed. It was new life and restoration. Remembering the exact time I woke up and the symbolism of the number 4, I began to come into revelation. There are 4 seasons, 4 directions, 4 rivers in the Garden of Eden, and the sun, moon, and stars were made on the 4th day. There are 4 faces of the Living Creatures and Judah, (which means praise), was the 4th son of the 12 tribes. Consequently the 4th Hebrew letter is the Dalet which is symbolic of the veil, and the swinging door. The Dalet also symbolizes the parable Word, Jesus who gives us authority and dominion when we pass through the door.
I asked the Lord to reveal to me the name of the book in the Bible to go with 444. I pressed into intercession and I saw the letters “IS”. My first thought was of the tribe of Issachar who knew the times and the seasons. Then I saw the same two letters again and I realized it was also Isaiah 44:4, which read:

Isaiah 44:1-5 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel,(one who rules with God) whom I have chosen:(select) 2 Thus saith the LORD that made (brought forth) thee, and formed (to squeeze and shape) thee from the womb,(inward part) which will help (protection and aid, prepared) thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, (upright) whom I have chosen. (appointed) 3 For I will pour (grow and overflow) water (flood,spring, symbolizing revelation) upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground (us) I will pour my spirit (ruach, breath, and violent whirl) upon thy seed,
(the Word) and my blessing (prosperity) upon thine offspring 4 And they shall spring up (bear and spring forth, bud) as among the grass, (symbolizes new life) as willows by the water courses (streams) 5 One shall say, I am the LORD’S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

Verse 4 is the main reference and refers to the restoration that the revival is bringing forth. The grass speaks of new life and the willows according to the Webster’s dictionary say, “A genus of quick growing trees with tough pliable shoots.” Willow roots are known to go to all extent even through pipes to reach for water. Doesn’t this sound like Forerunner Ministries? We are to be tough, pliable shoots that go to all extent to search for water – the revelation of the Word. This will bring about our restoration.

You can glean even more from this, but I know this will encourage you as I was encouraged. I thank and praise Yeshua for His insights.

Blessings to all in the name of Jesus. There is powerful and beautiful tapestry of revelation on light and manifestation that The Lord is releasing right now. I know enough from seeing how God speaks that when revelation from others starts flowing into the same vein then we should all stop and really press into the bigger picture. Pastor Mike had released revelation on apostolic order and how the light is what brings the order. Pastor Jimmie just released a revelation on how praise is manifesting the light and life of Jesus. Brother James Bolger also released a powerful word in regards to manifesting presence of Jesus. When revelation begins to flow from different streams we must pay attention to the bigger picture. I believe Jesus is showing us how the apostolic order is to manifest. We must walk in the light of the revelation in order to manifest apostolic authority.

I John 1:1-2
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life–
2 the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us–

This is such a powerful revelation the Apostle John is bringing here! If you look closely he is speaking of having ears to hear, eyes to see! Jesus says in Matthew 13 we need to have eyes to see and ears to hear the mysteries of the kingdom! John is talking about having an encounter with the Word that brings life which is the mysteries of the kingdom! Why do I say that? Because verse two says that life was manifested. The word manifest means an appearing of revelation or make known by teaching! According to John here that means when true revelation of Jesus comes it’s an appearing or a manifestation of Him. Now if you remember the teaching I just put out on becoming a witness, the only way we can be a witness is if we see Him and die a violent death or in other words become martyrs and lose our heads! The process of revelation is when the word is revealed it brings us into an encounter with the manifest presence of Jesus which brings us to a death of the way we think and we begin to manifest His nature! I John 3:2 says when we see him we will be like Him! Hallelujah! There is so much in this chapter but it just too much to unfold right now but I do want to reveal a pattern here as the chapter continues.

I John 1:5-7
5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

The message that is being declared is light! The declaring is not just in words my brothers and sisters it is in thought and deed. We can’t say we are declaring light if we are walking in darkness. First of all darkness speaks of types and shadows so when light comes there is an unveiling of those types and shadows which causes us to walk in light. Now the question is what does it really mean to walk in light? The word walk in Hebrew concept means your lifestyle or your conduct. The word walk and angel (message) come from the same root in Hebrew so it means I am walking out a message until I become the manifestation of that message! Walk also means to die so as we are walking out this message we are going through a death process by dying to carnal mindsets. Here is a profound understanding about the word walk that we must understand in this season. The word kingdom in Hebrew comes from the word walk! That means as we walk out the message we are becoming children of light, but most importantly the kingdom first begins to manifest in our walk! If we have no authority in our lifestyle we can never demonstrate it to the world. The powerful thing The Lord revealed to me is that Jesus didn’t demonstrate the kingdom to his disciples by just miracles, signs and wonders. He demonstrated the kingdom by His walk! The miracles signs and wonders were a result of His walk. Jesus says in Matthew 28 take of my yoke and learn of me! The yoke means teaching and in Hebrew concept it speaking of two ox that are yoked or in covenant together! The older ox (Jesus) who is teaching the younger ox (those who are his disciples) how to plow his field (the heart) by leading him to the mark (right understanding)! When we walk with Jesus we are walking the light of revelation and as we fellowship with Him the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin (misunderstanding)!

Ephesians 5:8-10
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

Here Paul says we were once darkness but now we are light. But when he says walk as children of light! Children are those who manifest the likeness of their parents. Pastor Jimmie had mentioned that the word for Spirit here is actually the word the Greek word for light! Fruit is a manifestation or the result of something so that means this can also mean translated like this..The result of walking in the light is in all goodness (functioning as the Lord created us too), righteousness (justified) and truth! When we walk in the light we are being transformed into His image and the result is the kingdom is manifested for others to experience and be brought into fellowship with Jesus. Lastly verse 10 says finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. The phrase finding out is the Greek word dokimazo that means to test and prove meaning after we have been tested and proved by the word we become a manifestation of what is acceptable to the Lord! That can only come through a purified life and demonstration of the nature of Jesus Christ in our walk. An apostolic army is one that has been prepared to be an army of light that demonstrates the kingdom in their lifestyles and there life becomes light that shines in darkness. We are living in dark times but it’s time for an army of light to rise and shine!

Isaiah 60:1-2
1 Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.

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AUSTRALIA THE CHARIOT OF THE LORD IS COMING

I saw the chariot of the Lord heading towards Australia, I saw the Chariot coming from the ocean on top of Australia heading and moving through our nation. I saw the THUNDER AND LIGHTENING and the noise of The Chariot and the Thunder was so LOUD.

I saw that wherever the LIGHTENING went it sparked FIRES, and the FIRES began to become greater. I felt that the Lord said “AUSTRALIA IS GOING TO BE A BURNING BUSH”

He said tell my people to get ready for as this chariot comes into the Nation it will cause not only fires but ripples, these lightening strikes will cause the Prophets to arise and proclaim the WORD of the LORD. The Chariot was so bright, the light that came from it was so bright, I could not even look at it. You could not see the Lords face because of the brightness of the Light that proceeded from this chariot. The Thunder and lightening was proceeding from the very center and they were all around it.

I did a short study on several words, to my amazement again, here is the Lord confirming the vision-

CHARIOT

Chariot in Hebrew- 4818,A Chariot 4817; A seat, a covering, A SADDLE. 7392 Hebrew; to ride n an animal or a vehicle, to place upon to ride, to dispatch, to bring on ( horse) , carry, to get one self up, on horse back.
7393; a team,a rider, the upper millstone,multitude, 7395; A charioteer, :- a Chariot man, driver of a chariot,horseman.

THUNDER

Hebrew; 6963, To call aloud, a voice or a sound:- bleating, crackling, cry out, fame, lightness, +hold peace, proclaim, proclamation, sing, sound, spark, thundering voice.

LIGHTENING

For His arrow shall go forth like lightening Zec 9.14
His face was as the appearance as Lightening Mat 28.3
They shall run like lightening Nah 2.4
There were lightening, and voices Rev 11.19

Hebrew ;1300; A flashing sword, :- Bright, glitter,(ing sword) 2385; to glare, a flash of lightening

So as this chariot comes into our lives and into the Nation we will see the flashing SWORD start to be released. In the book of Genesis, there were the cherubim in the garden protecting the east of the garden of Eden with a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the tree of life.Gen 3.23.24

LIFE

Hebrew 2416; fresh life, fresh, plant, company, congregation LIVING CREATURES, THING, merry, multitude. 5315; a breathing creature,animal:- beast, man, me, mind,measure, own,person, self.

I started to see something here. The Lord actually placed the four living creatures here in the garden with their flaming swords to protect it. He drove out man and ensured that the four living creatures were protecting the tree of life.

I believe just as a few have had this revelation, that the covering will be in amongst those four living creatures. Their wings will surround us and protect us in a greater way. Boundaries were put in place at this point in the garden. I Believe this will also cause boundaries in a greater way to be established in our lives. God wants to protect what is sacred to him and bring us back in to the purity of THE GARDEN and drive out anything that is ungodly.

In the book of Ezekiel, the Lord takes Ezekiel to the bank of the river, 47.6. There he saw many trees on each side of the river. An interesting picture, as I looked back in th book of Revelation 22. In Ezekiel 47.8, the water flowed towards the eastern region, interestingly, the cherubim were put in the eastern area of the garden. The Lord says to Ezekiel, wherever this water goes every living thing will be healed, the fishermen will stand by it and there will be places for spreading their nets. Ezekiel 12, Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food, their leaves will not wither, their fruit will not fail, they will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for medicine.

What a picture, I have never noticed this before. The Lord is showing Ezekiel his end time promise there and then I saw such a parallel between the book of Genesis and the book of revelation where the Lord is talking about his trees. In revelation 22, the Lord shows John a pure river of the water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of the street and on either side of the river was the tree of life, ( cherubim), which bore 12 fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

The tribes on the east were – Dan ,Asher,Naphtali, Manasseh,Ephraim, Reuben, Judah.

Here we have seven different people the Lord positions

What came to mind here was where in Revelation the LORD addresses the SEVEN Churches and we also have the SEVEN BRANCHED CANDLESTICK.

In Revelation John hears the “TRUMPET” then he is called to send the message to the seven churches, and then John sees seven golden lamp-stands and then he sees “The Lord”. He had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. Rev 1.16

The Lord had been speaking to me about the “stars” for over a year. Esther means star and Australia has stars on its flag.

I thought again about how the Lord put the flaming Swords and the “Cherubim/four living creatures” towards the east of the Garden in Gen. The brightness of them would have blinded anything from seeing what was there. Nothing could enter in there.

Just as I saw the chariot entering Australia, I could not see HIS FACE it was so bright with the flashes of light that proceeded from it. My eyes were almost blinded. All I remember was the thunderings, the lightening’s, the brightness and the fire. I saw what also seemed to be a circle of color around the chariot like a rainbow, but it was not clear. I thought that could make sense too, I looked up the word Light in Hebrew, it means :- Worship, the word Color in Hebrew; 5869; an eye, a fountain, countenance, favor, presence.

When we go to the story about MOSES , Exodus 3.2 The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush.The Lord speaks to MOSES in the burning bush, in the fire. He could not look at the Lord once he knew who it was speaking to him. MOSES, was a deliverer, and it also reminded me of Esther, and how she was for her people. He was so upset that the people were oppressed. God says to MOSES ” I AM WHO I AM”.

This is GODS word to AUSTRALIA ” I AM WHO I AM”, MOSES, is speaking to the Lord and then says, ” Suppose they don’t believe me or listen to my voice. Suppose they say the Lord has not appeared to you?”. The Lord then says to MOSES ” What is that in your Hand?” ” A rod” , This is the rod that he has given us to use. It was a rod of authority, also the rod of favor that Esther had before the King to have her people released from oppression. How many times have we felt like this and have asked the same question? There were signs that followed MOSES, and there will be signs that follow us too as we are obedient to the voice of the Lord.

I looked up the meaning of the word BUSH-

BUSH

Hebrew ; 5572, to prick Greek 942; a brier shrub

Dictionary-

THE BRIER PLANT

The brier plant is a tough little tree which the botanists call Erica Arborea, a member of the heather family. It closely resembles a dwarf tree, since it grows to no more than fifteen to twenty feet high.

Found chiefly on the shores of the Mediterranean basin, its development depends on climate and soil. Most plants flourish readily under abundant rainfall and in fertile soil. But the brier wood most suitable for use in meerschaum pipes is that which has to fight for its survival high in the mountainous Mediterranean country. There the soil is barren and rocky, rainfall is sparse, and growing conditions are among the worst in the world. Harsh winds tear at the hardy plant; the rocky soil resists its efforts to grow. But the hardy brier drives its roots into the smallest crevices, forcing the soil or rock apart bit by bit.

In fighting for a foothold in the arid soil so that it can nourish itself and grow, the little shrub develops a tight, hard-grained knob of wood just above its roots. This toughest portion of the plant, the brier burl, makes the brier plant unique in the plant kingdom, at least insofar as brier wood pipe smokers are concerned.

The burl found in most fully-grown brier bushes lies just below the surface of the earth, barely covered with dirt. Neither stem nor root, the burl is the meeting place of the roots which grow downward from it, and the trunk which grows upward from it. In fact, the burl serves as the bier’s shield against an unfriendly environment; it forces an opening in the hard rock or soil above the roots and anchors the plant against the wind that would bend or break it. Only the burl, often erroneously called the brier “root,” is used in making brier wood pipes.

VOICE OF REVIVAL

Our voices will play an important part in this move of the Holy Spirit, our voice is to proclaim the MESSAGE the KING wants us to Proclaim. He wants us to be the “PIPE” the “TRUMPET” and to usher in the “SOUND” of “HIS HEART BEAT”.

We are to stand to proclaim the word to a generation that cant use their voice, we have the authority through our father The God of Abraham,the God of Issac and the God of Jacob!

We have the ability through Grace to deliver his people and share the message he gives us to share. We are the VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS PREPARING THE WAY OF THE LORD!

Bless you,

Alexandra

Hallelujah! I release blessing and shalom to the members of the body. With great pleasure, I share with you what the LORD has been sharing with me at this time.

I believe that within this apostolic move that is now, and is coming will be a people that will manifest the fruits of the spirit and show fourth the light of the LORD to bring glory to the Father. This apostolic people will manifest the praises of the LORD in word (revelation) and in action (lifestyle of power). God is showing us the true meaning of what the highest praise or Hallelujah is.

The word Hallelujah means Praise the LORD, and it is made up of two words, halel (praise) which means to shine or to give light, and jah (LORD) which means the self existing one. Those two words halel and jah form hallelujah which means to shine, or to give the light of the LORD. That’s why hallelujah is the highest praise because it is manifesting the light of the LORD. Hallelujah is not just something we say, but is what we live by demonstration and by revelation that reveals the light of God in the earth so that those who are in darkness will come to that light! By our words and by our actions we are to manifest the light of the LORD.

John said that God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5). He said that was the message the early apostles declared, and it will be the same message that the Bride will manifest, “God is light and Him is no darkness.”

Ephesians 5:8-14
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
14 Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”
(NKJ)

One thing I realized in this passage was that manifesting the fruit of the spirit is walking in the light. Jesus told the apostles to let their light shine so that men will see their goodness, good works which is good fruit, and glorify the Father in heaven. Meaning, when we manifest the fruit of the spirit it indicates that we are walking in the light.

The word spirit in this scripture is not the Greek word (pheuma) which is used in Galatians 5:22. This word spirit is the Greek word (phos) which is the word light. Very clear, Paul is saying that the result of walking in the light is in manifesting spiritual fruit: goodness, righteousness, truth, love, joy, peace, self control, kindness, faithfulness, longsuffering, gentleness and every characteristic that is pleasing to the LORD.

Since the Garden, spiritual death and resurrection life has always come by fruit (Proverbs 18:21). The fruit of those who walk in the light will bring life to those who see that light and it its fruit (Proverbs 11:30, Revelations 22:2)

Good fruit is characteristics of God Himself. It is God’s nature and that is why it is acceptable to Him for us to manifest them. Therefore, we cannot say that we have fellowship with Him, the Light, and still walk in darkness. (1 John 1:6 and Galatians 5:19-21)

According to the scriptures, the Father sent Yeshua (Jesus) as a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles (those who are darkness, no illumination) see Luke 2:29-32.

Isaiah 9:1-3
1 Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed, as when at first He lightly esteemed the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles.
2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.
3 You have multiplied the nation and increased its joy; they rejoice before You according to the joy of harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
(NKJ)

Isaiah 42:6-7
6 “I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles,
7 To open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
(NKJ)

When Yeshua appeared 2,000 years ago, He gathered men out of darkness, and he sent them as light to bring good fruit and resurrection life to the nations, those would be part of a greater harvest. Notice that as the light comes, which is resurrection life, we come out of prison (bondage to sin) we get eyes to see and ears to hear, we come out of darkness, (ignorance, sin, lack of understanding) and we come in covenant with the LORD.

Isaiah 42:16
16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them.
(NKJ)

The word way or (derek) in the Hebrew does not speak of a “way” as in direction, but as in a way of life and moral character. Jesus said that He is the way, the truth and the life, (John 14:6). The light of revelation brings us into the resurrected life of Christ and into good fruit. Resurrection life not only brings us out of darkness but gives us authority over darkness. The light of who Yeshua is causes the crooked place, (areas of perversity, disobedience to the word, areas of the flesh) in our lives to be made straight (righteous, producing good fruit) before the LORD.

That was the ministry of Yeshua, it was the ministry of John the Baptist, (John 5:35) it was the ministry of the apostles, (Matthew 5:14-16) it was the ministry of the apostle Paul (Acts 26:18) and now is the ministry of the apostolic Bride or Zion, (Isaiah 60: 1-6 and 1 Peter 2:9)

Isaiah 60:1-6
1 Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.
3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
4 “Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
5 Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover your land, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and incense, and they shall proclaim the praises of the LORD.
(NKJ)

Notice in verse 1, Isaiah says arise and shine. Why shine? Shine because the light has come into you! That is what praise means, to shine because your light has come! When revelation, illumination, good fruit and the resurrected life of Christ appears in us, we are commanded to let that light shine, so that those who are in darkness can be drawn to that light. They will be drawn to the resurrected life of Yeshua! That is giving praise to the LORD, Hallelujah!

2 Peter 2:9
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

We are this royal priesthood, we are the army of lights, the heavenly hosts that will shine fourth the light of God, and manifest good fruit. It is the holy spirit that gives us the ability to be a light that shine to the gentiles, to bring those who sit in darkness to light, to opened up the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf, to bring those who are imprisoned to sin because of lack of revelation, out, to manifest the praises of God!

The LORD wants us all to be part of this apostolic army of lights, but we must arise and wake up to receive that light of His life.

Psalms 115:17-18
17 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence.
18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the LORD!
(NKJ)

Why don’t the dead praise? Those who are spiritually dead cannot praise (let their light shine) because they have no light, they have no fruit, they have no illumination. They have no breath; therefore, the apostle Paul says, and I leave you with this…

Ephesians 5:14
14 … “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”
(NKJ)

I pray that the tithe of this word produces the harvest in you! Bless you.

Jimmie Altman

I just want to encourage others as I have so much to be thankful for. Last week I was able to have family and friends over for a
bbq and I did all the cooking without having to go to bed for hours in between and feel terrible. God is giving my life back to me that I haven’t had for over 4 years. It felt so good to be able to do for others again because Yeshua is healing me. For years I have been in prayer lines asking God to heal me with very little results. Since I have been going to Forerunner and sitting under Pastor Mike I have been getting steadily healed more and more each time I go. The power and anointing that is there is amazing. I thank Pastor Mike for the price He had to pay to have this power from God. Blessings to all Lori

Blessings to all in the name of our Lord Jesus the Christ! I am extremely excited about the apostolic season we have stepped into and I am looking forward to the increase of Dad’s government upon the shoulders of those whose life has become a death sentence, so the life of Christ can be manifested out of them! The Lord has really been revealing to me what it means to be a witness, and this word has been increasing in my heart not to just release it, but to see all of us step into the demonstration of it. I am just going to share part the message now to bring you up to speed. What I can see in scripture through what the Lord has been showing me is that to be a witness is an apostolic call to demonstrate the very character of God in power and authority. There are a many scriptures that show this but here are a few:

Acts 1:8
8 “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 4:33
33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.

As you can see, the scripture says that they were to be witness’ of the resurrection power of Christ. The powerful truth here is that according to Luke 24:49 the disciples were to tarry in Jerusalem until they were endued with power from on high! When did this happen? Pentecost! The word endued means to sink into clothing which prophetically speaks of sinking into the image of the character of Christ. That is powerful in itself, but what is more important is how does this happen? Paul says in Galatians 3:27 those who are baptized into Christ put on (endued) Christ. Now, see this powerful connection Paul speaks of in Romans.

Romans 6:3
3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

This is a powerful revelation here. Baptism speaks of being immersed into the cleansing water of the word but it also speaks of being overwhelmed by calamity! While the word is cleanses us is it also killing us! Baptism brings us to a death so that we can bury our old mindsets and be resurrected in thought and deed. We must take off our garments of flesh and darkness and put on garments of lights.  For us to be a witness of His resurrection power, we must die to our limited understanding. Now that I shared that, lets look at  the power of what it means to be a witness. The word witness in the Greek is where we get the word martyr from which means to die a violent death or to lose your head (mindsets). This word also means a witness in a legal sense! Hallelujah! It means one who testifies in court of what they SEEN AND HEARD! Wow! Jesus says in Matthew 13 if we had eyes to see and ears to hear the mysteries of the kingdom we would be made whole or come in salvation! When Jesus says in Matthew 13 to the disciples that it has been given to you to KNOW the mysteries of the kingdom the word know is not head knowledge. To know means to have intercourse or to experience the word. Consummation is when a man and a woman come together and the two become one! When we truly have eyes to see and ears to hear we are becoming one with what we see! John says in 1John3:2 when we SEE HIM WE WILL BE LIKE HIM! The Lord also says to Moses that no man can see God and live! When we truly see him in His glory it will kill us so that we can manifest His life and be a true witness…His life manifesting in us and testifying to the world that Jesus is not dead but alive and moving in power in us. Now see this scripture through new eyes…

Revelations 12:11
11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

They overcame by the blood (coming into the likeness of the Lamb) and word of their testimony! Testimony is the witness! They died to self and Satan was casted out of their way of thinking and they began to step into the likeness and image of Christ! The word overcome means one who goes to court and wins the case! The enemy can’t defeat a generation of over-comers because they are manifesting the image of Christ. He overcame so that we could overcome every plan of the enemy, every giant in the land and every religious system that would leave people in bondage instead of setting them free! Now is the time to step into Dad’s power and authority and set people free by the life of Christ manifesting through you and out of you! Shalom.

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I want to tell everyone that sometimes the Lord will take away something that you are not aware of right away like ” Menopause.” I didn’t pray and ask Him to do it! He just did it !.About 13 years ago I had precancer cells in my uterus. Thanks to God it was caught and the cancer was frozen off. Then I started to have more female problems at the age of 48, so I had a full hysterectomy – after that the doctor gave me estrogen 1mg a day for the early menopause that I went into. That was not a good idea! After 2 years, I started getting lumps in my breasts. So, back to the doctors I went.  I praised the Lord because I was free of cancer, but I still had painful breasts. I really wanted to stop taking the estrogen.I tried the natural supplements, but they eally didn’t work well. The hot flashes, mood swings,etc., were just as bad, so I continued taking it, but not the full dose. I broke the pill in half.  The Lord decided to throw in a great big surprise that I didn’t realize right away. He took away the menopause! Yes! After the Lord healed my spine disorders, I continued  taking that pill every morning,  until one time when I forgot.  Because missed one dosage I decided to take a double dose the next day, but it did not turn out for my benefit. I didn’t feel well at all! Moreover, I ended up forgetting once more, so I thought, “Lord you don’t want me to take this anymore do you?” Then He caused me to  forget again and again and again! However the LORD was delivering me the whole time. Now, I am free of this cancer causing estrogen,  and I am free of the mood swings and the hot flashes! Thank you Daddy! I just love You so much. I love you all, and I love you Pastor Mike. May God bless each and everyone of you!

I’m writing today because I feel that what the Lord is releasing is a new season of transition to Apostolic government.  The season is definitely upon us, based on the type of revelation that is being released to the church around the world, and to those who are willing to hear and be part of this next mighty move of the Spirit of God.  As the Lord begins to show us things in the realm of His government we have two options; listen and move on, or be left behind like the stragglers in the wilderness that came out of Egypt.

What I’m about to share I’ve studied out and can see no other explanation than what I’m going to release. I’ve never seen a season in my life in all the years of ministry that so much information has been given to me from the Holy Spirit. This is only a small part of a much larger revelation the Lord is giving me, hopefully I’ll be able to let it out in the near future.  My hope is that not only will you see this but begin to adjust your life with what God is saying and releasing to the body.

Genesis 3:24
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

The word “drove out” H1644 in the Hebrew means divorce and remove from a pasture. We can clearly see that because of Adam and Eve’s mistake they were driven from Eden or God’s pasture, which in reality speaks of a place to eat. This gives us a little insight about Eden. It was a pasture that as long as Adam and Eve were willing to eat what the Lord instructed them, there would be a continual marriage between them and the Father but as soon as they wanted to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, a divorce occurred and YHVH put them out of the pasture. We can clearly see that the first divorce happened because of the knowledge of good and evil.

He places a Cherubim at the East side of the Garden to guard the way. I’ve been very interested in these Cherubim for some time now. They represent something that the Lord is letting us look at in the Spirit realm that will give us a clear picture into this next season of change. These Cherubim keep the way back into the garden… it doesn’t say they keep anyone out. These swords “turn every way” H2015 which means to convert. So these swords are used to convert people to keep the way to the tree of life. To go through these swords that the Cherubim swing, means you must be converted! By the way, Cherubim is plural so there is more than one.  So these swords of conversion “keep the way.” This phrase is interesting because when broken down it means to hedge or preserve a “narrow” road. So these swords that these Cherubim turn are to make the way to the tree of life a narrow road.

Matthew 7:13-14
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Jesus clearly teaches about a narrow gate which must be the way back into the garden to the tree of life. He says “few there be that find it”, but Jesus is already giving us several clues to the way back to eternal life. The word “narrow” also means tribulation so the way back into the garden is for those who go through tribulation and its only for the few who are willing to pay the price. The word “few” is also used for the word “mystery”, which means the initiated of the few so we can see that those who are willing to dig deeper are the few that are chosen. Now when we look back at Gen 3:24 it also speaks of a “flaming” sword or a flaming word. This word for flame spoke volumes to me when I seen it so I will give the full Ancient Hebrew bible lexicon definition of it:

Flaming H3858 Strongs #3858: AHLB#: 1262-G (N)
1262) ac: Cover co: Veil ab: Secret: The pictograph l is a picture of the shepherd staff representing authority, the u is a picture of a basket or container. Combined these mean “authority contained”. The covering that covers and hides the face of a woman.
A) ac: ? co: ? ab: Secret: A covering that hides what is behind.
N^m) Secret: [freq. 6] |kjv: enchantment, softly, secretly, privily| {str: 3909}
D) ac: Cover co: ? ab: Secret
V) Cover: [freq. 1] (vf: Paal) |kjv: cover| {str: 3813}
N^m) Secret: Something that is covered or hidden. [freq. 1] |kjv: cover| {str: 3814}
E) ac: ? co: Lizard ab: ?: A hiding by covering.
N^f1) Lizard: From the camouflaging capability of the lizard to hide. [freq. 1] |kjv: lizard| {str: 3911}
G) ac: ? co: ? ab: Secret
V) Burn: [Unknown connection to root] [freq. 11] (vf: Paal, Piel, Participle) |kjv: fire, burn, kindle,| {str: 3857}
N^m) Secret: [freq. 2] |kjv: flaming, enchantment| {str: 3858}
J) ac: Wrap co: ? ab: ?
V) Wrap: To cover something by wrapping it. [freq. 3] (vf: Paal, Hiphil) |kjv: wrap, cast| {str: 3874}

Notice this word for “flame” means something that is covered, veiled, secret, a veil that hides a women’s face. This flaming sword is that narrow way back into the garden. Meaning the only way back to the garden is through the secrets that are veiled to the bride, and these secrets must be unveiled. We can see this picture in the book of revelations.

Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Those that do His commandments are the ones who have the right to the “tree of Life” or have the right to go back into the garden through the narrow gate or the secrets. Notice that those who make it to the tree of life are those who have a right to enter into the city, the New Jerusalem. Jerusalem is made up of two Hebrew words: Yaru & shalom. “Yaru” is the root to the word Torah, and it means to throw or teach the rain and “shalom” means peace or restoration. We know in Hebrew that a name speaks of it’s function, so the New Jerusalem are those who teach the rains of restoration or the mystery of the kingdom like Jesus.

Revelation 2:7
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Notice those who eat of the tree of life are the ones that overcome from the church age, so these overcomers have gone threw the flaming sword, the hidden manna, or the secret words and have made it back into the garden to partake of the tree of life. We know those that overcome also get to eat of the “Hidden Manna” or the secret word or the mystery of the kingdom. We can also clearly see that the FRUIT on the Tree of Life is the mystery of Christ or the secrets (sod) of God. Who hung on the tree? Jesus was the fruit who hung on the tree or cross.

In Gen 3:24 again, the word for “life” also means living creatures.  Living creatures are another name for Cherubim in the book of Ezekiel. This must mean that the fruit from the tree of life must be distributed by these Cherubim. Fruit comes from a tree and a tree starts with a seed, and Jesus said the seed is the word of God. So these Cherubim are filled with a secret word and we must go through their flaming (secret, veiled) sword to get back into the garden. This word for “life” also means a stomach that is filled with food, as in an empty stomach is death but a full stomach is life. This word is also used for revival. Revival is when we have a full stomach. These Cherubim are bringing an end time revival and are feeding the nations from the tree of life, feeding them the mystery of the kingdom. They are feeding everyone to the full and preparing the overcomers to rule.

We can see these Cherubim are a people or ministry that is released at the end of the age to feed the nations for the last move of God. These Cherubim are the way back to the tree and they are swinging a big sword that we must all pass through to get back into the garden. The sword they swing are the secrets of God so now we can see just a glimpse of what ministry they are. They play a major part in the redemption of man.

Ephesians 3:3-5
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

The word mystery that is used in the NT is the equivalent of the OT word secret according to the Catholic Biblical Dictionary. We can see that the Cherubim and the Apostles both teach the mystery or secrets of the kingdom, the way back into the garden. Paul also says that the mysteries are taught by the Holy Spirit in  2 Cor 2:10 “the Spirit searches the ‘deep’ things of God” and that the Holy Spirit Reveals these things to the Apostolic ministry. Paul also says in 1 Cor 14:2 “For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.” The word “tongue” means language in the Greek so Paul is saying there is a language of mysteries. This language is God’s language and is learned from eating from the tree of life. Many in the church are waiting to partake of the tree of life but the time is now to eat from the garden. Many in this day and hour are already eating from the tree.

The foolish virgins said to the wise give us some of your oil but the wise said to the foolish go and buy it from the oil merchants. Oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit who is the teacher and councilor so the foolish didn’t have enough teaching to get in and they wanted it too late but they still had to buy it, so it will cost you too. The oil merchants must be the Cherubim or the Apostles that have paid the price to bring everyone else into the secrets of the kingdom. Apostles are fathers or men of war. They command the armies of God, they have paid the price already in order to lead others into this new realm, so their fight is with the carnal mind. Those who don’t honor them, God will destroy according to scripture.

Exodus 21:15
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Mark 7:10
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

These are the very ones that lead us back into the garden to eat of the tree of life… to curse them is to cut off the food supply from the tree of life.

I also began to realize that on the veil of the Holy of Holies is 2 Cherubim, meaning the holy of holies is also the garden of Eden. On each side of the Mercy seat there are also 2 Cherubim. The Mercy seat is considered the throne of God in the earth. When the Apostles asked who would be seated at the left and right side of the throne of Jesus they were also saying they were Cherubim. This truly is the way for church to come into perfection. I will be writing more on this subject to try to get everyone up to speed.

And lastly, I just want to say it’s a blessing to see your spiritual children taping into the flow that the Lord is releasing in season. I see so many being pulled in this last hour into the things of the world but I do see those sons and daughters moving toward the goal of the high calling.

Blessings

On the weekend of May 22 & 23, 2010, my son Brandon(age 5) was playing with his Tinker Toys along with another boy named Isaac(age 4) during worship in Victorville, CA. Pastor Mike’s worship team had arrived, some from New Castle, PA and others from Dallas, Texas  for Pentecost weekend. Worship was intense. The following Tuesday my daughter Sharon and I were pulling up pictures online that were taken during the previous weekend services and Brandon came up to us and started telling us about something that came out of his Tinker Toy canister while he and Isaac had been playing during worship. He described it as a bright, white, circular globe that rose up from the bottom of the canister when he opened the lid and said it floated down around the seats. He said they watched it float down over the seats and all the way up to the front of the church by Pastor Mike (they had been playing at the far back of the building). Sharon and I then pulled up one of the pictures and showed it to Brandon and he exclaimed “There it is!” while pointing to one of them. He then said they had followed it for a short distance before it headed to the front of the room. In the picture you can see a small bright, white circle about waist high on Brandon’s back and another bright one in the aisle close by. Actually, they were all over the room, but Brandon saw the brightest one!

A few years ago, my grandson Blake (13) was diagnosed with Aarskog Syndrome, a rare syndrome which has many effects one of which can be a loss of hearing due to the main hearing mechanism that goes to the brain. A few weeks ago Pastor Joey prayed with Blake. A few days later we were booked for another specialist hearing appointment in Cairns to see what avenue of treatment and devices they would use to help Blake with his hearing. The results of the test showed normal hearing!!! Blake has had many tests over the years and this was the first time that it had showed up in the normal range!!!! It didn’t even click with me at first that a miracle had taken place.  Praise be to our wonderful Father!!!

I am shouting! Jesus Christ loves you and me. Believe Believe Believe! He is so amazing, and glorious – He has healed me twice, first my neck, and now my lower back! On May 30th at Adelanto, CA the very special, Pastor Mike Petro asked me to give my testimony of how the Lord healed my neck, in April. After that, I had explained that I still had a lot of pain in my lower back. The reason’s why were from a degentive disc disease. The pads between the disc’s in several areas in my lower lumbar where gone.I couldn’t sit or walk for more than 20 minutes at a time; I felt my life had been destroyed. I used to love to dance, run on the beach, and take long walks. I loved life, but I had been so depressed, and  I was taking several kinds of pain medications, oxycodine, morphine, norco soma, and steriod injections! Then, my doctor had done a painful test to see if I was a canditate for surgery. During that test something went wrong in my back. I had to be hospitalized for two weeks due to the chronic pain. The Dr. said that a morphine implant would be better than taking all those oral drugs that I had been taking already. I cryed out to Jesus and He saved me 2 years ago, and now He has healed my neck and also my lower back! One might ask how do I know? I know because I am dancing and doing yardwork! I am doing the things I could never do before! PRAISE GOD!

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There is no better place to be in this world, or in any other, than in Dad’s presence. His beauty is unmatched. His love is inextinguishable, and His grace (provision) is un-ending. There has never been greater evidence of this than the weekend of May 21st to May 24th, 2010. If you have never had a true desire to press forward in the Lord, or if your fire has ever gone out, then here a spark that I pray will ignite or re-ignite the flame in you.

Greetings: my name is James M Bolger, and this is my account of Pentecost weekend.

I had been looking forward to that weekend for over a month. I knew that Dad was going to do something during that weekend. All I kept hearing Him say up to that weekend during my personal time with Him was “it’s time to transition”, but how He was going to do it, and what it would be like I didn’t have any idea about, all I knew is that it was going to be major. People from all across the country, all across the continent were going to be there, and they didn’t care what the cost was, or what it meant giving up, it was like Dad was gathering us all to the upper room.

Saturday night was great. You could tell Dad was setting the stage for what he was going to do. Worship was great, and Apostle Mike was sharing on the Spirit of Elijah and its function and purpose. Being back in that atmosphere again was incredible; you could see the excitement in the people for receiving the word, and their desire to want more of it. It is one of the most beautiful things to see.

Sunday was POWERFUL!!!! Worship was going really well. We began to play “Rain Down”, and when we got into that song, everything began to break. I could feel it. (I’ve been sitting in my room for the past week writing this, and cannot figure out how to really express what I felt. The only words I can think of are strong, and powerful. ) I remember at one point in time I was sitting up playing the piano, and then when I felt the release my body was almost parallel to the piano keys. I knew I had to keep going, keep playing, but if my body would’ve gotten any closer to the piano I would have been laying on it. Dad was releasing a small taste of what He was going to release, and now I am an addict!!!! That is what life should feel like all the time… But I know that in order for Dad to release more of it we have to remain in a constant place of intimacy with Him, constantly being purified by the washing of the water of the Rhema Word!

When I finally had the courage to open my eyes and was able to at least sit (somewhat) up straight again, all I saw were people rejoicing in Dad, people who had been laying in His glory, and people who were in amazement at what Dad was doing. The sight of it was beautiful (for lack of a better word). Sunday was a day that you would want to relive over and over again, just to feel Dad at that magnitude. Dad truly proved two things: He releases on HIS APPOINTED DAYS (The feast days, with that Sunday being Pentecost weekend) and Dad is truly moving in California.

It was truly a blessing to be apart of, and I can’t wait to see what more is in store for this year. My desire, now more than ever, is to be fully prepared for the fullness of His glory, not just for the feeling of it, not just for the beauty of it, but to be a carrier, and a manifestor of it to the nations of the earth. No one, anywhere, should ever have to live without it. God Bless you.

Hello to one and all from here in Innisfail, Far North Queensland, Australia.

I’ve been a member of Forerunner Ministries here in Innisfail for just on 12 months now, and wow, the Lord’s blessings have been upon us all here.

The following is my testimony which I wrote as a poem to share with you all.

Gone For Good

Got prayed for on a Tuesday,
to break the rotten spell.
The alcohol and tobacco,
were my quick way to hell.

I lasted one whole day
without the need to light,
then I gave in to the devil,
lit up and got a fright.

The fear of the Lord is creeping in,
of this I do now know.
I’ve got to keep on pushing in,
this seed from God, I must sow.

So three days later I go to camp
up amongst the hills,
Pastor Joey was talking about
nicotine, addiction and pills.

I penned a drawing of a cigarette
the devil as it’s face,
Don’t ever want to be bound again
and be a hopeless case.

After the lesson I went for a walk,
along the winding path,
A bonfire site I came upon,
a place for the aftermath.

Seven cigarettes I did have left
after lighting up just one,
“Now take the rest and rip them up,
go on and have some fun”

The words they were so loud and clear
from our good Lord above,
“Write satan with your cigarettes,
and burn them with my love”

But hang on Lord, just one more toke
and I’ll do it in the morn,
Yet when I went to walk away
The Lord he did loudly scorn.

The pain riped through my ankles
and up into my knees,
“DO IT NOW, with my love,
I dearly ask you, please.”

I turned around right then and there,
and went back to the fire.
I arranged those last filthy cigarettes,
the word satan, no more shall I desire.

I gathered twigs and pine needles
and did as I was told,
I lit that fire and said goodbye
the past habit, no longer shall hold!

As I walked away to leave,
I asked God for a sign,
to let me know I’d done the right thing
and all was now Divine.

No pain was there in my ankle then,
or in my leg at all,
I thank you Lord for all you’ve done
You catch me before I fall.

So there you have my testimony
on what the Lord has done for me.
Thirty seven years of addictions,
Now I’ve been set free.

________________________________

Along with the nicotine, all desire for alcohol and pot has also gone!!

Ye Hah!!!!!! The Lord is amazing.

We is a shaking and a moving here in Innisfail. Praise be to our Glorious God!!

Gypsy.

THE CROWN

Christ the Head Of The Church

I have been asking the Lord about the mind, probably one of the most complicated parts of the body that we have.I started to read about the mind and I found some of the most amazing facts that scientifically has proven to me yet again,that we serve one amazing God!

The mind and emotions stem from two thoughts “Love and Fear” and our brain actually grows branches and trees in the mind, so every time you think on the thought of fear/negative thoughts, a branch will start growing out in the mind and create toxic thoughts and emotions. Every time you think on Love or good things the trees branches will go down and you will experience less toxic thoughts etc. You will read more about this as you read further.

You might be saying “Yeah, I get that, that is obvious”,but actually the word says ” As a man thinketh
so is he.” Lets take another look at this on a deeper level.

I started to do further research and the Lord opened up to me a very interesting revelation.

The revelation is called “The Crown”

You will see the illustration of the Menorah next to this teaching, and you will notice the seven branches on the Menorah-

If we then go to the scripture Isaiah 11.1-2, we will see that it says

“There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit
of council and might, and the spirit of the fear of the Lord”

These are the seven spirits-

- Spirit of the Lord
- Spirit of Wisdom
- spirit of Understanding
- Spirit of Councel
- Spirit of Might
- Spirit of Knowledge
- Spirit of the Fear of the Lord

I then went to the scripture in-

Revelation 5:6

And i looked and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb as though it had been slain,having seven horns and seven eyes,which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

What an interesting picture. The Lamb of God upon the throne as if he was slain having seven horns and having seven eyes!

HORN

The horn or trumpet has several meanings- Power, strength.

A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externallyof true horn, and are never shed.

Qeren Hebrew Strongs 07161
horn
horn
of strength (fig)
flask (container for oil)
horn (as musical instrument)
horn (of horn-like projections on the altar)
of rays of light
hill n pr loc (BDB)
a place conquered by Israel probably in Bashan

keration Greek -Strongs 2769

little horn, the name of the fruit, Ceratonia silqua or carobtree (called also John’s Bread [from the notion that its pods, which resemble those of the "locust", constituted the food of the Baptist]. This fruit was shaped like a horn and has a sweet taste; it was and is used not only for fattening swine, but as an article of food by the lower classes.

Keras- Greek- strongs 2768

A horn of animals since animals (esp. bulls) defend themselves with their horns, the horn with the Hebrews (and other nations) is a symbol of strength and courage, and used as such in a variety of phrases
a mighty and valiant helper, the author of deliverance, of the Messiah
a projecting extremity in a shape like a horn, a point, apex: as of an altar

The differnt things that the horns were made out of or used for-

- Blood
- Gold
- Iron
- Atonement
- Blowing/Sound
- Music

There were seven priests in-

Joshua 6.4

And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

And there were seven trumpets

Joshua 6.6

Then Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.”

Joshua 6.8

So it was, when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’horns before the LORD advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.

Now lets go to the almond-

ALMONDS

The Almond, which needs little water, is the first fruit tree in Israel to awake from its winter dormancy and bursts into bloom, while the others are still bare and asleep. The Hebrew name for almond is “shaked’, meaning watchful,wakeful,diligent or alert.

In doing my researchIi found that there is scientific proof that the brain consists of what appears to be “two Almond” shaped pieces called the amygdala. These organs have a doubled almond shaped structure, that is designed to protect you from any threat to your mind or body-such as danger or stress. The amygdala deals with both positive love based emotions like joy and happiness, as well as negative fear based emotions like sadness,anger, and jealousy.

It is like a library that stores emotional perceptions that occur when a thought is built. In other words, every-time we build a memory we activate emotions. The amygdala deals with passionate, perceptual emotions attached to incoming thoughts and all the thoughts already in your head. It keeps your mind awake!

Again, we see the outworking of our Gods amazing ability to show us that nothing he designed is a mistake.

On the Menorah you will notice that there were little bowls, these had the almonds and almond blossoms encarved on them. The Menorah was used in the temple. The bowls would keep the oil in it and keep the wicks of the menorah burning continually. This brought light in the temple and the priests had to ensure that the wicks were trimmed and burning all the time.

I said “Lord, this reminds me of our mind”, I felt that the Lord then said ” Yes”.

Exodus 25:33
Three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower—and so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand.

Exodus 25:34
On the lampstand itself four bowls shall be made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flower.

Exodus 37:19
There were three bowls made like almond blossoms on one branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower—and so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

Exodus 37:20
And on the lampstand itself were four bowls made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flower.

I began to think and then look and connect these all together, I felt that the Lord then started to open revelation on a different scale. I began to look at the Lamb upon the throne and the horns on his head, the horns are prophetic of power and strength. I then had a vision of the Menorah with the branches connecting to the horns of the lamb almost like a car with its leads. I then saw something amazing. I saw that the wicks needed to be trimmed just as our mind has to be trimmed by the word or the truth. The scull of your head is the alter, what you place there is just as important as your body placed on the alter.

I went to the book of revelation again-

Revelation 21.22

But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God almighty were its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it,for the Glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.

So here we have the Lord saying in Revelation 21.9 that John was taken up and he saw the City “New Jerusalem” and then saw the most beautiful precious jewels and gems, he then goes on to say that the Lamb was its light. As you read on to Revelation 22 you will come to see more-

Revelation 22

And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb. In the middle of its street , and on either side of the river , was the tree of life,which bore twelve fruits,each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it,and his servants shall serve him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there. They need no Lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

What I saw here were several things, as I connected the branch’s of my mind to the Menorah and then to the horns of the Lamb, suddenly there was greater revelation that began to flow, just as this river in revelation. I started to see clearer not only in the natural but in the spirit of revelation and I found that things began to become more illuminated. There was so much that the Lord was showing me, however then the Lord directed me to-

Revelation 22.12-17

And behold, I am coming quickly, and my reward is with me to give to everyone according to his work. “I am the Alpha and Omega,the Beginning and the End, the first and the last”Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of Life, and may enter through the gates into the City. But outside are the dogs the sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves to practice a lie.

“I Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the Bright Morning Star”

And the Spirit and the Bride say “Come” And let Him who hears say “Come” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires,let him take of the river of Life freely.

What the Lord was then saying was this- We are from the root of Jesse and the offspring of David. We are his branches and trees. The Tree of life is the way we think which leads us to Him, those that have a wrong mindset will not have the right to it or Him. The gate to the City is the mind and having the mind of Christ the Head of the Church gives us FULL access. He says “The gate will not be shut day or night”, this is the gate into “The Kingdom of Heaven”. We can have access to the heavenly Kingdom all the time through knowing the mind of Christ.

I believe that the “Crown” is given to those that come into this revelation in this season. Its where the Lord says ” For those who overcome I will give them the right”. We have the right to VICTORY. This is where we have life, this is where the fruit is.Hebrew 1556(galal). This word is where the Greek word Golgotha comes from. Golgotha means “the place of the skull,” speaking of the mind. This is where we need to have the mind crucified.

The book of revelation will be opened in a greater dimension and who you are in Christ.

As the Church changes “The Mind” we will partake of greater fruit and that fruit will enable us to be able to see others healed.

We will have “HIS NAME” on our foreheads, and see his face, and just as in Revelation 19. ” He had a name written that no one knew except himself” and so it will be with us. We will have “His Name” written on us and be branded.

We will have this same ability just as our LORD,to “Tread the wine-press in the fierceness and wrath of the Almighty God and be the rod of iron that we might rule the nations” We will have the authority through Him to conquer,to overcome, to see the treading of all sickness and disease and tread on these things with our feet, to see mighty healings. That all things will be possible.

The fruit on the trees in revelation were for the healing of the Nations, this is not just about you, it is about the Kingdom.

-The book of revelation will be opened in a greater dimension and who you are in Christ.

-The river that is running down from heaven is to cleanse us.

-This is where we come into the Holy Of Holies, the awe of The Lamb and the mighty King!

-This is where we reign as Kings and Priests with God and the Lamb.

-Where is your mind? What do you meditate on? Are you awake Church?

“COME” the Spirit and the Bride say “COME” your reward is “The Crown and the right to the tree of Life”

” I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIGHT/LIFE”

Jeremiah 1:11
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”

Job 29:19
My root is spread out to the waters,And the dew lies all night on my branch

THIS IS WHERE HIS CROWN MEETS YOURS

Blessings,

Alexandra

Genesis 41:32
“And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
(NKJ)

Blessings! A few weeks ago I had two of the same dream, one on a Tuesday night and one on a Wednesday night.

In my first dream I saw Prophet Mike. He had his bible opened up and he was unveiling things in scripture. The anointing behind the word carried such a weight of beauty and I could feel the purity of what was being released. There was also a high level of promise and confidence behind the word as well.

The next night I had the same dream. After the second dream, when I woke up, I didn’t tell anyone. I wanted to see if the LORD would give me a third dream; however, He only gave me the two. I wondered why the LORD gave me two of the same dream two nights in a row, but I realized that Dad was definitely showing me something that He is beginning to establish within His children.

2 Corinthians 13:1
This will be the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”
(NKJ)

The two dreams were two witnesses of something that the LORD is getting ready to establish and bring to pass within His people. I began to see that the dreams were prophetically speaking of an apostolic generation that is appearing. The revelation that these men and women will release will be at its purist. They will be wholly yoked to Jesus and will have dealt with worldly desires that corrupt the bond, they will be fully dead to self because they will always carry within them the dying of the LORD so that His life and witness can manifest wherever they go! They will have their trust embedded in Christ. They will be a people of honor, loyalty and integrity, and they will prepare the way and bring the harvest into the fullness of Christ. Not only are they the bride, but they are also sons of God. What the bride is to her husband is what a son is to his father, and that is being a visible manifestation and glory of Him in the earth to bring all nations to Himself!

In the dream, the revelation that Prophet Mike was releasing carried the fullness of promise and confidence. When we move into that realm of the apostolic as a true son and a true bride, we will not speak on our own authority, but from the Fathers. We will give witness to the things we have heard and seen, not just because we want to share revelation, but because the Father has charged us to speak what He has given us. We will fully speak from what we see and hear from the Father and what is released will surely come to pass. The sign that we fully speak from what we see and hear from the Father will be that the LORD will not allow anything we speak to fall to the ground, but he will establish our thoughts and confirm the word that we release!

I also thought that is was significant that Prophet Mike was reading from an opened book (bible)

According to Revelation 5:1-10 the lamb that was slain (Jesus) was the only one worthy to loose the seals to unlock the things hidden with the books. We are those books! We are the living epistles to be read by all men!

We can see the ultimate example of what an apostolic people will look like within Christ.

John 12:49-50
49 “For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
50 “And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”
(NKJ)

We also see it within Samuel

1 Samuel 3:19
So Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
(NKJ)

1 Samuel 9:6
6 And he said to him, “Look now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable man; all that he says surely comes to pass. So let us go there; perhaps he can show us the way that we should go.”
(NKJ)

We also see this character within Moses

I Kings 8:56-61
56 “Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
57 “May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us,
58 “that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers.
59 “And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day may require,
60 “that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.
61 “Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.”
(NKJ)

Notice that in verse 57, the cry of the people was “May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers!’

And we see it with the apostles in Jesus’ day.

Mark 16:20
And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
(NKJ)

The Father wasn’t just working with such forerunners for no reason, but these men carried the witness of God. They were containers for Emmanuel!

Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

The privilege of  this end time people is not about attaining the title of an apostle or apostolic, but to be the true Bride and a true Son who will be a container that will carry Immanuel “God with (in) us.” This is not an overnight anointing. It is something that is appearing within a people who fully embrace the call of God in their life.

Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts will be established.

The word for commit used here is the word, Hebrew 1556(galal). This word is where the Greek word Golgotha comes from. Golgotha means “the place of the skull,” speaking of the mind. Christ was crucified at Golgotha and we are to take up our cross and do likewise. There has to be a crucifixion of mindsets that prohibit us from carrying the mind of Christ. There has to be a crucifixion of our agenda, our wants, and our desires so that His thoughts can be established and fixed within us. When the Body of Christ deals with her mindsets, she will move into that apostolic mandate to carry the mind of Christ and release His nature in the earth!

There’s going to be an eruption,
And you’d better be ready,
Standing on the Word,
Rock solid and steady.

You’ve had all this time,
To gather the information,
But information wont cut it,
It must now become revelation.

Like a waterfall erodes,
The earth as it rushes,
My Word cuts and cleans,
All that it touches.

And I’m now going to move,
Like I’ve never, ever done,
I’m ready to claim My folk,
I’m ready, to reveal My Son

Last month on April 12th, 2010, I received a phone call in the morning from my sister, and all I recall her saying was “Dad is dying and you better come. He might not make it by the time you get here.” At that moment all I could respond was, “I’m on my way.” which meant a two hour drive from downtown Pasadena to Victorville in the high desert.

As I grabbed my things, I remembered that nothing is impossible for the Lord and I said “God, if my dad doesn’t know you, please don’t take him home yet.” I called all the intercessors I knew from New York to California and we all began to pray. Some how I made it to Victorville in one hour just in time for my dad to go into a code blue status. But we all kept praying . It got very touch and go because my dad is 84 years old.

He made it out of the code blue but was now in a coma. They took my dad into ICU and said we don’t know if he’ll make it thru the night. They could not tell the degree of damage he had taken or if he would be able to speak or walk for that matter. So I called Pastor Mike and I asked him if he would come and pray for my dad. The hospital allowed him to come and pray and before he entered the room, I explained to Pastor Mike that my dad was in a coma state and that we were not sure if he could hear us. On top of that, I mentioned that my dad only spoke Spanish!

Pastor Mike entered the room in ICU at 10:00pm that evening and he began to pray for my dad in English. As he prayed, my dad started to move his body… this was incredible because he was in a coma state! Then Pastor spoke to him (in English) and said “Mr. Baro if you can hear me and you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, squeeze my Hand.” And my dad squeezed Pastor Mike’s hand!

I was now busy jumping and rejoicing on what our Lord had done with my father. And the fact that my dad understood and doesn’t even speak English was unbelievable as well. My dad made it and is doing great today. The power of prayer when people believe and come together is awesome. God is still doing miracles. I thank the Lord for his faithful servants.

On April 3rd, my sisters in Christ car pooled to hear Pastor Mike speak. It was my first time hearing Pastor Mike and God was in the building! How great I thought! I wanted my very close friend Lori Larson to be healed, so I was really praying for her, as we stood together hand in hand while the Lord used Pastor Mike to see and heal people at the alter. Shortly after that, Lori’s leg began to shake! She said, “The Lord is healing my Leg” and it started to grow! (Lori has had multiple problems in her back, legs, etc.) We where all so excited. Tears of joy came running down my face.

Much, much later that night, after the service had ended, my two sisters ” Rose” and “Diana” where speaking to Pastor, and I was just standing back. It was so late and I didn’t want to bother this man of God with my wants. But I got up the courage to ask him to pray for my neck and my lower back. I had been in three car accidents, and I also had Degenerative disc disease of the cervical and of the spine, arthritis, and facet disease. Besides daily medications, I would get painful epidural injections and facet blocks 3 times a year. This was my life. I had a real hard time turning my head and trying to tilt it back and forth. What was scary was waking up in the morning and not being able to turn my head or lift it up off the pillow. I’d actually have put my hands on my ears to move my head! Well the Lord changed all that! As I said it was late, most of the people had left the church. I had asked Pastor Mike to pray for me, he placed his hand on the back of my neck, down I went. I got up but I didn’t feel anything, until 10 minutes later while standing in the back lobby… The Lord started to heal my neck! I said “Rose! I am in pain! My neck hurts real bad! I want to pop a pain killer!” She said,” No Jo Ann, it’s God!” I realized this pain was not the same pain that I was used to. It burned, it hurt, it was as though God was doing surgery on me and without the anesthesia. But God never gives us anything we can’t handle. We drove home, and the Lord let me fall asleep. I awoke without any pain. I am so thankful and grateful to the Lord and to you Pastor Mike.

And another testimony, Pastor Mike spoke a word to me from the Lord. He said that I would be coming into an “Oasis”. I really didn’t know what He meant. Until the Lord had brought Pastor John, sister Rose and sister Diana together at my home on May 1st. God refreshed and renewed us as husband and wife. Our little group was my Oasis! We all spent a beautiful day together worshiping and praising God. He also has started healing my husband “Tom’s” back too! Tom could not bend and touch his toes but now he can! My husband is doing better and better everyday. Thank You Father God.

The Innisfail group of Forerunners went on a weekend camp, with Prophet Joey Marinelli from the US, up into the high places to worship the Lord; and man, was it good or what!

The journey up into the Atherton Tablelands was enjoyable as we experienced the clean fresh air. But it was nothing compared to the experiences that started almost from the moment we arrived.

The first thing we noticed was an incredible sense of spiritual cleanliness. I actually felt as if a band of angels had gone before us to clean the place out ready for our arrival, and I voiced this to several people. And, surprise, surprise, many felt the same way. You will not convince me that this did not happen. The sense of angelic presence was beyond doubt or question for me.

And this was not our only encounter with angels. Many felt their presence throughout the camp. On the Sunday morning, during worship, the last session of the camp, I audibly heard angels singing with us. And, yes it’s true, many others did too. I’m not the kind of guy that gets carried away with this sort of thing, but I know I heard those voices and I sensed angels around me several times during this camp.

Another thing that happened several times were waves of spontaneous worship with an indescribable sense of freedom and joy. We would be singing along, worshipping and just loving God, when a wave of emotional love, joy and praise seemed to hit everyone at the same time. It was an awesome experience that I’ve only felt in worship a few times, but it happened at nearly every worship session of this weekend..

Now, of course, one can always argue that this was just emotional enjoyment getting carried away. But then, you’d have to argue with twenty five other people and you’d be arguing against the Holy God, who performed all of the other miraculous signs and wonders that happened as well.

Two people were miraculously delivered of nicotine addictions at this camp. And these deliverances within themselves contained signs and wonders. I’ll let them tell their own testimonies, but in one case an intense pain in the ankle was healed as the deliverance from smoking took place. If you don’t believe that cigarettes affect your ‘walk”, then maybe you’d better think again.

One young girl had a back injury that was causing considerable pain. Within ten minutes of being prayed for, all pain was gone. One young lady had bad migraines, and has suffered with them for years, and prayer relieved the pain and brought more improvement than she’s felt for a long time.

Another young girl was experiencing a high fever and was visibly quite unwell with pain and flu type symptoms. Prayer did not bring instant relief, but seeing as we were about to enter a worship session I felt the Lord impress something upon me. I shared that worship was a spiritual weapon that we could use to our advantage. I remembered Apostle Mike once telling me that if I wanted breakthrough in my life, I needed to dance before the Lord, so I encouraged all to keep this young lass in their hearts as they worshipped. In effect, let’s worship the miracle into place.

The girl’s dad checked on her a little later and reported her to be “A1 and full of cheek.” In other words, totally recovered.

And the greatest part of many of these signs and wonders was that they did not all come from the laying on of hands. They happened as prophet Joey released the Word of Truth.

Gold manifested on several people and there was an incredible sense of lightness, joy and freedom. To say that the attitudes and sincerity of the people was changed in a new and fresher way would just be a wild understatement.

Blessings

A quick message to share.

On Sunday the 2nd of May as I was in worship when the Lord showed me a vision.

I saw volcanoes and they were underground and around our nation and surrounding nations as well. The volcanic lava was boiling and very hot. I then saw that the points of these volcanoes started to pierce the top of the soil and were breaking forth.They were in strategic position.

The Lord said-

” Tell my people to get ready for there is about to be a volcanic eruption. There is about to be a breaking forth. Get ready for the ambers of the overflow, get ready for the charge, get ready for the prophetic voices for they are about to be released, and the Lord says, for surely they are about to be released.

“WHO WILL STAND AT THE SHAKING OF MY WORD?” “WHO WILL STAND AT THE PRONOUNCEMENT OF MY TRUTH?” I am calling forth the REFORMERS, I AM CALLING FORTH MY REFORMERS TAKE YOUR PLACE AND GET READY TO TAKE THE LAND!

Bless you,

Alexnadra

This is a testimony that fully confirms the prophetic Word released by Apostle Michael Petro on the 4 May 2010 (click here to read it).

I am writing this testimony on the morning of 5 May 2010, the morning after a breakout of perfumed oil and miraculous signs and wonders in our church; a satellite church under Apostle Michael, in Innisfail, North Queensland, Australia.

Last night, during our praise and worship, my wife, Pastor Giovanna, noticed what she first thought was large pieces of glitter on one of the brick pillars of the church. She went closer to have a look and saw that it was moist. She ran her hand over it and found it to be perfumed oil breaking out on the pillar. She called my daughter over to see it and in no time at all many were running their hands in the perfumed oil.

We know that pillars are the Apostles in the church and there is no doubt that this is full confirmation that as Apostle Michael was releasing his prophetic Word, God was confirming it supernaturally on the other side of the world. Taking time differences into account, as close as we can tell, on both sides of the world God was saying the same thing at exactly the same time.

But it gets better and even more confirmed as we look at the other events that happened last night, and during the few weeks preceding it.

Several weeks ago, Pastor Tim Duda, visiting Australia with his wife Kari from the USA, experienced a bout of illness that involved some quite intense pain in the digestive track. The Lord gave me a word to say that this was Him, telling us that the body was not digesting the food correctly.

Guys, we can read the Word from daylight to dark, we can get all the information that the Scriptures will willingly offer up to us; but if it isn’t changing us, we are just information gatherers not revelation receivers. The milk, bread and meat of the Word must be digested to the point of its nutritional value being absorbed into our spirits; bringing change, health and growth.

I shared this Word with Timmy, laid hands upon him for healing and he was instantly healed. We took this as confirmation that we had to start interceding for this body to start digesting the food, not just swallowing it whole. The digestive process starts with chewing the food properly in the mouth; rumination of the word.

Two weeks later, Timmy again shared with Giovanna and I that the discomfort in the digestive track had returned and had been upon him for a couple of days. Again I felt the Lord saying that we now had to take this to a new level and release a Word to the body that we MUST now come to the place of allowing ourselves to be cleansed by the washing of the Water of the Word. Again, we prayed for Timmy, who was unable to eat or drink comfortably and certainly had to avoid acid food or soft drinks, and he was instantly healed. We enjoyed a very unhealthy, junk food lunch (we were on the road and eating on the run) and he enjoyed a soda pop with his.

At the next Sunday service, Giovanna received a Word from the Lord that He was ready to start to bring deliverance and healing to the body. That Sunday was awesome as God used Giovanna to minister in His anointing and there were deliverances and healings happening right there and then. The process had begun.

The next Sunday, Timmy released a Word to the body from Hebrews 12 about receiving the chastisement of God as a good spiritual experience and I spoke to the body about digesting the Word in a healthy manner.

Then Prophet Joey arrived in Australia (from the USA), one week ago, with the Word of the Lord burning into him; “clean the house”. And of course, we all need to see that this is all happening straight after the Feast of Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of First Fruits; a time during which the Hebrews remove the yeast from the house. And it’s during the time of counting the Omer when the grain and tares are separated.

We then spent a week where several things started to come to the surface within the body; including in the lives of Giovanna and myself. And here is a major point, leadership is not exempt; in fact, we come first. If the leaders of the movement are not prepared to be cleansed by the word, how can they expect anyone else to be.

A personal note here from Giovanna and I is that we rejoice and thank our Lord that Joey is here with us at this time. His spiritual leadership, his humble attitude and his fantastic discernment has seen blessing and deliverance start to break out in Innisfail, at exactly the same time that Michael starts to declare it over in America.

The long and the short of it all is that a spirit of disunity and division was exposed within the body and we were able to see that God could not move here as He desired. It’s no wonder Joey arrived in Australia with the God ordained task of cleaning the House.

Joey was then shown by God that there were problems in leadership on two faces. First, leadership was weak and in need of encouragement and building. Giovanna and I confess this to be true and submit to the process of having our house cleaned. Secondly, there was an undermining, a distrust of and even an active spirit working against leadership. Time to clean house.

Several things were addressed and there was an instant response from God at last night’s service. We’ve already told of the oil breaking out on the pillars, but there is more; much more.

As the praise and worship was flowing, and before the oil appeared, I felt the Lord drag me by my shirt collar out into the driveway of the church. The words that the body was singing were “You wont relent until You have it all.” And I heard God say into my spirit, “I will not relent, Graham, until I have it all.”

I believed then, as I believe now, that God was saying that the ‘all’ was Innisfail. I told Him I knew, but He pushed me further and repeated Himself, “I wont relent, Graham, until I have it all.”

I again told my Father that I understood that and I wanted that too.

But he confronted me again, “You don’t understand, I WONT relent until I have it all.”
I then understood what the Lord was telling me. Yes, He wants Innisfail, just as He wants Dallas and California. But what He is not going to relent on, is us. Our Father is going to push us relentlessly into a washing of the Water of the Word until we are clean enough for Him to use for His purpose of claiming these places. He will not relent on us in the purifying process until He has it all completed and can use us for His glory and Kingdom.

I returned from the outside driveway convinced of what I had just heard and was instantly told about the perfumed oil breaking out on the columns. The worship that followed was amongst the most joyous and wonderful worship I have ever experienced. My wife came over to me and said, “Now that we have started to uproot Jezebel in our midst, the Lord will give us breakthrough.” She was certainly right.

And so you could imagine the confusion when at the end of it, Timmy collapsed in great pain and discomfort grabbing his chest.

He called to Joey and said that he really needed prayer because he had pulled something in his chest and he was struggling to breath. I went over and the pain was written all over his face, the man was very unwell. Joey led Timmy over to a clear area and laid him on the ground while he kept praying for him. I followed, thinking that at any time now I would be ringing an ambulance (some of that weakness that needs cleaning from this leader).

As we knelt over Timmy, he was telling us that it felt like the artery was being torn from his heart. He was not talking with ease and he was looking as if he was in serious trouble. But our Lord is still the Lord of Lords and very much in control.

The Lord then reminded me of what Pastor Giovanna had said and He clearly spoke. I reminded Timmy about the digestive track and told him this was the enemies uprooting. I told him that the Lord was saying he no longer needed to suffer this pain because the enemy had been pulled out and he could rise healed in Jesus name.

As I write this I still can not believe the way that man came off the floor. Not only was he totally and instantly healed, but he was supernaturally hauled off that floor right before Joey’s and my eyes. He literally bounced to his feet faster than I could believe.

Please, after you have read this testimony, witnessed by the church of Innisfail, go back and see how it completely lines up with the word just released by Apostle Michael (click here to read it). And it was released in America at the same time all of this was happening in Australia.

Blessings

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has been telling me to get ready for the greatest healing movement ever to be seen! It’s at the door! In the Spiritual realm it will be like a tsunami that will sweep across the nations with apostolic miracles, signs and wonders. Nothing has ever been seen like it before and nothing will ever be seen like it ever again. Get ready, get ready, get ready!

Those of you who have been preparing your heart and seeing what is happening are going to come into the favor of God. Those who have had a mocking spirit will be ashamed for the words that have left their mouth. It will be like a snare that has trapped them in a place of destruction and persecution from the enemy.

It’s also time for the saints to cast their nets on the waters of harvest. For those who have been diligent with the Word of God they will see a great harvest with their families, loved ones and friends. It’s now time for the power, blessings and provision of God to be released on the faithful.

Deut 28:2 And all these blessings shall come on you and overtake you, if you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

The Lord is also telling me that there are those who are religious who will be turned over to a reprobate mind. They are un-teachable mockers who feel they are always right, when in reality they are self centered, selfish, and prideful. They are false apostles, prophets and pastors. There time is over and the Lord is saying “My Spirit will not always strive with man.” Dad is getting ready to send them a strong delusion. In 2 Thessalonians 2:11, Paul speaks of this delusion that God sends because of their hard hearts. These men will take God’s grace and try to use it to let everyone into the kingdom, but they will only lead the sheep who are lazy and not willing to pay the price. The foolish virgins said to the wise “give” us some of your oil, the wise said “buy” it! There is a price to pay for this last move.

We will also see some of the strongest demonic activity ever seen. Demons that have been chained will now be released for this great battle, but this battle will be with God’s Generals, His new Apostolic government. These Fathers have been built for war and will bring the war to the enemy. Get ready saints, you won’t get another chance, its all about to change!!!! The oil is being poured out on the sons of the prophets, so go and get the vessels… it’s time to fill them [2 Kings 4:3].

Don’t worry about the faith robbers or those who will try to steal your joy in this feast season; God is looking for those who are the sons of Issachar, they know that the time is now and want to step into this new season of Spiritual prosperity.

1Ch 12:32 And from the sons of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times…

Things will begin to intensify from Pentecost (May 23. 2010) until 2012 but in this time of change there is going to be a new anointing, a gold anointing for those who are selling out and preparing for this great harvest. New names will begin to emerge that will have a new trumpet sound, the mysteries and secrets of the Kingdom will begin to be released in a new dimension and those who fear will be rejected, like Gideon’s army. Mount up church, it’s your finest hour, with big battles come even bigger spoils of war.!!! The Nephilim know we are coming and will rattle there swords and shields. Rise up Joshua and Caleb for this battle is the test of our metal and our finest hour.

Eph 3:8-10 8 This grace is given to me (who am less than the least of all saints) to preach the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ among the nations,  9 and to bring to light what is the fellowship of the mystery which from eternity has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;  10 so that now to the rulers and powers in the heavenlies might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God…

Michael Petro

UPDATE: This word about oil pouring forth was confirmed within 3 hours of it being posted on our website, at one of our satellite churches in Australia. Here is what they said on Facebook (and note that Pillars speak of Apostles):

Amanda Heston said “And Pr Mike, guess what else!!! Guess what happened tonight!! As we were worshipping at the beginning of the meeting, Giovanna noticed something on one of the columns. It was OIL!!! and as we touched it, a beautiful perfumed aroma filled our noses… it was a sweet smelling aroma. We all had the oil on our hands from touching the pole. Perfumed oil. Amen!! Signs and wonders are happening again, just like when we first came out of TOYA. And I know they are going to increase… as the unity, love, submission, dying to self is walked out. Just wanted to share, as we were so excited!”

Giovanna Insley said “The droplets on the columns shined like large pieces of glitter I could see it from afar even without my glasses on lol!! so I went and had a closer look to see what it was, I then saw that it was like droplets of water, so I ran my hands over it and felt that it was oil, I couldn’t believe it, so I called my daughter over to feel it and she ran her … hand over it and yes it was oil, lol! oh wow just wonderful to experience it first hand… then many walked over to touch it and a fragrance was pouring forth, a sweet smelling aroma… needless to say an outbreak of absolute joyous worship broke out of the church..what a priviledge it was to be in the House of God…”

Graham Insley – Read his testimony here: http://www.forerunnertv.com/more/testimonies/890

As I have been going to hear Pastor Mike in Victorville California, each time I have been going the Lord has been healing me one thing at a time. I have terminal diseases as well as many other things wrong with me which have caused me to be very sick and weak. My back and neck had every disc damaged and I was looking at a life in a wheelchair. I also had scoliosis and my left leg was shorter than my right. The first time I went I started to feel stronger. The second time I went my leg grew! The third time I went my back was completely healed! And He continues to strengthen me as I read the Word. He doesn’t always heal people all at once. Sometimes it is a process. I have been sick for a very long time and on the verge of death more times than people would believe but I am hear to tell you Jesus is alive and working miracles. I am living proof!

THE GOLDEN BARLEY BOWL

Alexandra Bekiaris
Perth Western Australia
April 2010

I saw the angel of the Lord and he offered me a bowl. Inside of  the bowl was Golden Barley.

” Here, take this,” he said, “I am offering this to you.”

I stared at the bowl; it was Golden and full, so why was the Angel Of he Lord giving me this bowl, I thought? Was I to eat of it? What did it mean? Why the golden Barley? So I began my study. The Barley and the wheat represent two different things:

There is the harvest of Passover (Barley)
There is the harvest of Pentecost (Wheat)

Barley in the Hebrew is the word Orah. Here is the definition.

Hebrew 8184 (se’ orah); meaning plant; (masc mean.the grain); also; from 8175 in the sense of roughness;barley

8175; sa ar; to storm, to shiver, come to take away as a “Whirlwind”, be tempestuous.

Numbers  5.15 Then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. He shall bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, an offering for remembering, for bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Deuteronomy 8.77 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

Ruth 1.22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

2Samuel 17.27-30 Now it happened, when David had come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the people of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim, 28 brought beds and basins, earthen vessels and wheat, barley and flour, parched grain and beans, lentils and parched seeds, 29 honey and curds, sheep and cheese of the herd, for David and the people who were with him to eat. For they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

2Samuel 21.9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So they fell, all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.10 Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night

2 King 4.42-44 Then a man came from Baal Shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly ripened grain in his knapsack. And he said, “Give it to the people, that they may eat.” 43 But his servant said, “What? Shall I set this before one hundred men?”He said again, “Give it to the people, that they may eat; for thus says the LORD: ‘They shall eat and have some left over.’”44 So he set it before them; and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.

Revelation 6.6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart[a] of wheat for a denarius,[b] and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.

Here are a list of Hebrew words that speak of wheat.

(bar) and it means  bar;borrowed, from 1305, in the sense of winnowing; grain of any kind(even while standing in the field)

(dagan) increase, grain ;- corn, wheat, corn-flour

(chittah) wheat grain or plant

(riyphanas) pounded;ground corn,wheat

(sitos) any hard grain in which is the hard seed of any cereal plant;especially wheat.

Genesis 30.14 Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Exodus 34.22 “And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

Ruth 2.23 So she stayed close by the young women of Boaz, to glean until the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

2 Samuel 17.28 Now it happened, when David had come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the people of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim, 28 brought beds and basins, earthen vessels and wheat, barley and flour, parched grain and beans, lentils and parched seeds, 29 honey and curds, sheep and cheese of the herd, for David and the people who were with him to eat. For they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Proverbs 27.22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

Joel 2.24 The threshing floors shall be full of wheat,And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.

Revelation 18.13 The threshing floors shall be full of wheat,And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.

When Israel entered into the promised land they were commanded to keep the “Feast Day Of The sheaf Of Firstfruits“. It involved the harvest period under passover and Penticost. It could not be kept in the wilderness as that was a place of wondering, and feeding on the manna from heaven. It was not a place of harvest or feeding on the fruit of the land (Joshua 5.10-12)

The Custom-

The standing ripe harvest,barley and wheat, would soon be reaped. A person would go to the standing harvest,take one sheaf and bring it to the priest. The lone sheaf was called ” the sheaf of First fruits” The priest would take the one sheaf and wave it before the Lord in his house. A sheaf in scripture is generally used to typify a person or persons. Joseph dreamed a dream where he saw sheaves bow down to his sheaf. This was a prophetic picture of the days ahead where his brothers would bow down to him in repentance in the appointed time. (Genesis 37.5-11)

In Psalm 126 it speaks of the sower going forth to sow in tears. He then comes back in the harvest time bringing his sheaves with him. This is a prophetic picture that could be applied to the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He is the Lord of the HARVEST. In HIS first coming he went as the weeping precious seed and in his second coming he will rejoice in the harvest time bringing all his sheaves with him. These are the redeemed souls which bare fruit.

The first fruits were the BEST, and the first fruits were Holy unto the Lord (Exodus 13.12)

A. The firstborn of both man and beast were sanctified and presented to the Lord.

B. The First fruits of all the earth were to be presented to the Lord at His alter in Praise and thanksgiving.

Christ died and ROSE again!

He is the Firstborn of Mary (Matthew 1.23-25)
He is the First- begotten Of the Father (Hebrews 1.6)
He is the Firstborn from the dead. (Colossians 1.18)
He is the Firstborn among many.(Romans 8.28)
He is the First fruits of the resurrected ones. ( 1 Corinthians 15.20,23)
He is the First and the Last (Revelation 1.18)
He is the Beginning and the End (Revelation 1.8)

He was the firstborn and the “First fruits” unto the Father, he belonged to God, He was the sheaf of the first fruits!

Canaan – The Promised Land

Out of the desert and through the deep water

By faith and My Spirit, in truth will you conquer

Not looking back and with each step ahead

With strength through My word and courage you’ll tread

Out of the desert and onwards to Canaan

This time that befalls you is just for a season

They’ll be times when you’ll doubt what your eyes can’t yet see

But don’t be disuaded, just keep trusting Me

Out of the desert and through the deep water

Remember there’s nothing my Word cannot alter

When the wall seems too high and the water too deep

When the challenge too hard and the mountain too steep

Remember my Word which fashioned the earth

Which created your frame and predestined your birth

Remember there’s nothing that I cannot do

Just trust and obey and I’ll make a way through

Out of the desert and onwards to Canaan

Let steadfast persistance remain your companion

With eyes fixed towards the land filled with bread

Take heart my dear child…

That the best lies ahead

(by Leonie Coole, June 2009)

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I pray you have a powerful transformation in this feast of Pentecost season.  I’m asking the churches and the saints that support this Ministry, to move into a season prayer and fasting as it is Pentecost season (please click here to read CORPORATE FAST EVERY MONDAY on our events page).  Why?  Because I believe we are moving into a critical transition into the next season of God’s plan. We are getting ready to see a major move released into an apostolic generation.

Recently I was reading a book by a Jewish brother on apostolic succession and I can see that the Holy Spirit is saying that the time is NOW. We will see the release of a new age, the age of the Kingdom of God.

Last week while I was shaving the Lord spoke to me the words ‘first fruits’.  I didn’t understand but then He gave me the interpretation.  “Tell my people this is a ‘first fruits season’ for the next move and I will honor those who bring me a First Fruits Offering of their best seed.”

I was excited by this but before I was done the Lord spoke to me again and said, “Wayland has something to ask you.” So I called my assistant Pastor Wayland and said to him, “The Lord told me you have something to ask me.  What is it?” His response was ‘Wow, you’re really hearing from the Lord!’ Then he told me that the Lord told him to ask me for my mantel, just as Elisha asked Elijah for his mantel.  He then went on to explain that the Lord told him that I was being taken up to the apostolic mantel and that my prophetic mantel would fall on those who were prepared. The Lord also spoke to him about bringing a ‘first fruits offering’ to receive the mantel.

I saw that this was a confirmation for what is getting ready to be released and to get as many people in as possible while the door is open.

So many things are happening this Pentecost season.  I’m seeing the anointing increase in waves of anointed power that are pulsing out of my hands during the praying for the sick.

I’ve noticed the miracles in the California meetings are at a different level and happening fast. Paralyzed and crippled saints are being healed by the power of the Holy Spirit! I’ve also been more aggressive to “work the miracle”.  In one such instance, this saint was resisting the prayer (because this individual had been prayed for previously and nothing had happened).  But I kept insisting that God wanted to heal this person.  Then the power of God hit and the healing miracle took place.  Hallelu-Yah!  No faith was involved on their part.

On another occasion I was asked to pray for a sister’s father who was in the hospital in a coma.  I went to the hospital and prayed.  He came out of his coma and woke up during the prayer!  He had just been in a code blue (cardiac arrest) a few minutes before. They expected him to die as the family was there paying their last visits. But when he woke up from the coma he got a visit from Jesus because he gave his life to Christ with me. These are great and powerful miracles and they all happened during the last 2 weeks; there is a ramping up and its moving fast.

I was just contacted by a Pastor friend of mine who told me that God spoke to him that revival is getting ready to hit the US shortly.  He told me he wants to come and stay for the next 6 months.  This man is married and has children.  The family is in agreement that he should come because they feel it also. As a matter of fact, a lot of people I’m coming into contact with are telling me ‘something is getting ready to happen’.  I would be afraid for you if you’re not hearing it!  This says something, for a brother to leave his family for 6 months. Another Pastor from Europe called me yesterday and also a bishop from Africa all with the same word… they want to come to the USA.  God is getting ready to do something with this Ministry that is big.

The Lord also said to me He is pruning the tree.  I thought initially that this was a cleansing process.  But He kept saying it to me so I realized a pruning also means the cutting off of a branch that is sucking life from the rest of the tree.  This pruning refers to people who aren’t willing to sell all to come into the kingdom.

James 5:1-5

1  Pay attention to this if you’re rich. Cry and moan about the misery that is coming to you.

2  Your riches have decayed, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.

3  Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you. Like fire, it will destroy your body. You have stored up riches in these last days.

4  The wages you refused to pay the people who harvested your fields shout to God against you. The Lord of Armies has heard the cries of those who gather the crops.

5  You have lived in luxury and pleasure here on earth. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter.

I feel that now is the time to move into this next level of release and bring everything into the store house. The Bible is filled with examples of how God required His people to help in the release of His grace.

When grace (God’s provision) is released, so are His judgments! – Noah builds the ark (grace-God’s provision) and the people that get in are saved and the people that don’t get in are destroyed!  But those that got in, first needed to listen to the words of the prophet!

-        Moses tells God’s people put the blood of the lamb on the door posts. Those that did put the blood on the door posts were saved (grace-God’s provision) by the blood, but those that did not apply the blood were removed and killed!

So those that hear the prophetic word will be saved, but those that do not hear it (or obey it) will be judged.

Those are two major events but there are also minor ones and the pattern is always there in scripture.

Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Heb 4:2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

In both these scriptures we see that God’s provision must be acted upon! That is why I believe that when the Lord spoke the word ‘first fruits’ to my assistant Pastor and to myself, it is the ACTION ‘faith’ for the next release.

Another confirmation was the Lord woke me up the other morning and said, “Omar” so I was thinking ‘who is Omar?’ Then Pastor Jeff sent me an email (literally minutes later) saying that it was the beginning of the ‘counting of the omer’ in Israel. This word ‘omer’ also speaks of the 50-day countdown to Pentecost and also means the separating of the sheaves. The Lord is separating those that will come in and those that won’t, just like the parable of the wheat and the tares.

We are receiving a new release of what the Lord is saying in this new season. I know the time is now because the Lord is confirming so many things and quickly.

What the Lord is saying to me is this: “It’s time to bring a first fruits offering before the Lord, for a release of the prophetic mantel that is going to fall on those who will be released into this next season of ministry.”

The first fruit to the Jew’s and to the early church was for increase in blessings, health, and prosperity.  If the church would practice this offering it would keep the saints of God prospering in the things of God’s kingdom and in their personal life.  I also feel it will protect the saint and keep prosperity over the individuals in this very hard financial season that we are in.

I believe there will be those who will be moving into a prophetic anointing they never believed possible for themselves in these next few months.  The Lord is going to prepare the church over the next couple years until 2012 for the greatest move ever seen! Now is the time for the first fruits to join in by faith to show they are going to help build this last phase of the journey.

We are going to open a page on our web site called “Pledge Page” (Click HERE to visit Pledge page).  This is for those of you who want to be part of this offering. You will be able to put down the amount you want to pledge and the time frame.  I feel it’s important to have the pledge in before Pentecost.  But for those who need more time, I believe God’s grace is there.

The early church pledged 3% of the yearly harvest offering.  I feel this should be the minimum for those who want to be part of this release. The harvest was the yearly income of those who gave, so this would be 3% of the yearly wage before taxes because the Lord said that first fruit was the first part!  I also know for those who give more there will be a larger release for them.  We reap what we sow, and if we sow much then our harvest is larger. So please sow based upon the harvest you are expecting.  I know everyone is going to receive a harvest.

Most of you may know that I was in a car accident this past week.  I appreciate all the calls and prayers of those who have been praying and I want you all to know that Kenny and I are fine, thanks to the ongoing prayer chain.  It was just day break, early in the morning and we were driving from Dallas, Texas to Los Angeles, California for our weekly meetings, when Kenny fell asleep at the wheel.  We were both tired from the work that is going on right now.  The car went into the middle of the highway and hit the guardrails at 70 mph (112 km/h).  I woke up to see the metal and wires flying all round the car, windows busting and metal being ripped off the car.  I reached over and grabbed the steering wheel and pulled us out of the middle of the road back onto the highway and on to the other side.  I asked Kenny if he was alright and he was shaken but only with a few little scratches.  I didn’t even get a scratch in the whole incident! As a matter of fact everything slowed down for me and all I could feel was the peace of God.  I know that we were in the palm of His hand and that after looking at the car I could see Jesus kept us alive for something that is yet to come.  I felt the presence of angels around me as I stood in the middle of the highway.  Cars passed us and looked but no one stopped to help.  God was the only help we needed.  I felt the world pass us by – too busy to help those in need; but I also knew that God was my provider.  Soon the ambulance, fire trucks, and police came. They looked at the car torn in pieces and just shook their heads that we walked away.  I told the police officer I was a man of God and he smiled and said to me “you must be because you were protected”.

After walking away from that event I realized that if the Lord would have taken me home, the work I’ve been asked to do would have stopped.  Our time is so short on this earth.  I also realized that we need to accomplish as a body what the Lord has entrusted us with before we go on to be with our King. “To whom much is given, much is expected.”

This week has been extreme for me in the words that God is speaking and the finality of life. We are on the verge of doing so much.  I know we are being tested with our faith; do we really believe it’s time or are we going to be separated out (grace – separating of the sheaves).

The television in the next few weeks will begin to expand into the nations as well. Everything is coming at one time.  Please consider you’re offering prayerfully, happily, and generously, because you can never ‘out give’ DAD.  I know it’s a Jubilee for you and your family.

Blessings and Shalom,

Mike

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I say greetings to all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are in exciting times in anticipation of the coming glory and I hope this letter finds you in preparation for it. I have been in a time of deep prayer and consecration and Dad has been revealing things to me that I believe are essential for us to understand in this season. A few years ago Dad revealed to me the transition of The Spirit of Elijah and what that would mean for our ministry. In 2 Kings 2 Elijah is making transitions in preparation for the time when he would be taken up to heaven in a whirlwind. Every place that Elijah came to he tells Elisha to stay there, but Elisha’s response was, “As the Lord lives and as your soul lives I will not leave you”. When you understand this in Hebrew he essentially said “As long as revival is in you I’m not going anywhere!” Then the scripture says, “And they both went on!”  WENT ON in Hebrew means they both began to walk out a message until they became the manifestation of that message! We must also remember too that when Elijah first came and threw his mantle on Elisha he was plowing his field with twelve teams of oxen and he was with the twelve! Twelve is a symbolic number of apostolic government, meaning Elisha was already preparing his field (heart) for the apostolic! When he became Elijah’s servant it means he became yoked to the spirit of Elijah that would take him to his apostolic destiny! Many of us who have become yoked to this ministry was because our destiny wasn’t to just move in the prophetic anointing of the spirit of Elijah but to also to lay hold of the apostolic anointing that would lead us to becoming the bride! Now we come to the final transition before Elijah is taken up. 2 Kings 2:7-8 reads like this:

2 Kings 2:7-8
7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood facing them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan.
8 Now Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up, and struck the water; and it was divided this way and that, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

Here we find there are the sons of the prophets who watch from a distance while Elisha is transitioning with Elijah. We must ask ourselves where do we stand?  Will we be the sons of the prophets, those who are under the prophetic teaching of the spirit of Elijah but watch from a distance because they like the message but are not willing to pay the price to become the manifestation of the message? Elisha is a true son who not only follows a man, but understands that where the Spirit of Elijah goes is also his destiny as well. These are those who are willing to go the distance no matter the cost. Are we those who stand at a distance to see what will happen with Elijah or are we those who will stand the test and follow wherever the Lord will lead? When Elijah and Elisha arrived at the Jordan it was a place of transitioning over and taking dominion over sin. The point that is powerful here is that the word crossover is the word for Passover! That means that they transitioned at Passover! Passover was the time of being birthed out of limitations by dying to carnal mindsets. It’s an exodus out of one place and preparation to enter into something else. What happens next is the thrust of the prophetic decree The Lord would have me to release now.

II Kings 2:9-12
9 And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.”
10 So he said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.”
11 Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.

When they experienced Passover together, is when Elisha asked for the double portion of the spirit of Elijah. The firstborn sons are those who receive the double portion! Elisha was asking for his birthright! Elijah’s response was this is a hard thing, but if you see me go up then you can have it! To see in Hebrew doesn’t just mean to see with your eyes but to experience what you see! That means when the Elisha generation can enter into the same experience of Elijah they can receive their birthright. When Elijah was taken up by a whirlwind in a chariot of fire it is a picture of the prophetic mantle of Elijah transitioning to an apostolic mantle! When Elisha saw Elijah go up he called him father, father! He saw the transition of his spiritual father transition into an apostolic father. This Passover season The Lord said to me now is the time to ask for the double portion! I knew that meant that Elijah was going from a prophetic to an apostolic mantle. Pentecost was the release of the first apostolic mantle in the Book of Acts and this Pentecost will be the release of the next apostolic mantle. This time between the Passover to Pentecost is called the counting of the omer. It’s the countdown to the Feast of The Firstfruits Harvest (Pentecost)! The apostles were the firstfruits or the firstborn of the first apostolic movement and this Pentecost will be the release of the next apostolic release. The double portion goes to the firstborn and firstfruits comes from the word firstborn! This is for those who are willing to pay the price and step into their birthright! The firstfruits was the lump that was symbolic of what the whole harvest is to look like! What is coming is a preview of what the whole body will look like! Hebrews 12 lets us know that the church is the firstborn so this is something that we  all have to step into. It’s time for the church to arise to her birthright and claim back the authority in the heavenly realm that was given to us by Jesus.

As a prophetic act The Lord has instructed me to give a firstfruits offering to be a part of what’s coming and I believe this is for all of us. This offering is not just your money but it’s all of you! We give in prayer, fasting, studying of the word and giving of our time, energy and money to see this next move be released. The Lord said to me this offering will brings us out of debt and I am not afraid to decree it! The debt isn’t just money it’s the deception and bondage that the spirit of religion has put many of us in. Exodus 22 says when a thief is found he must restore double! The word found comes from word unleavened bread, which is the bread that is eaten at Passover. The Lord is saying that He is getting ready to restore double of what was released to the early church because through the mysteries of the kingdom we will take back what the thief has stolen! Double, Double. It is the abundant, overflowing, more than enough, excessive life of God that Jesus was talking about in John 10 “The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy but I have come to give you life and life more abundantly!” Get ready for the transition!

Shalom.

Pastor Wayland Henderson

In this encounter, I was getting so lost that i was feeling almost frightened with what I was experiencing. Suddenly, even though I was unconscious, I was in a state of semi conscious, and could hear my mind thinking ” I’m scared, where am I?”

I noticed before I got scared enough, and I realized, that I was in what seemed an eye. The eye contained so much color that it was almost like a whirlwind of color, and my spirit was getting vacuumed through this vortex of a pupil of an eye. I realized I was not in a normal eye; I was in the “THE EYE OF GOD”.

At first, I did not understand what this really meant. I soon found out that this year is the year of “The Eye” in the Hebrew calender.

So what does that mean?

Here is the definition of the word eye or Ayin in Hebrew.

The word (ayin 5869 in the strong’s concordance) means eye in all regular senses, but also as means of expression (knowledge, character, etc). The word ayin also means spring or fountain. The eye is one of four bodily “fountains,” the other three being mouth, skin and urethra (and only the mouth is not supposed to produce water outwardly). Transpiration releases the body of excessive heat; urine evaluates toxins, and the eye produces water commonly when grief or pain is processed. All have to do with cleansing or purification.

Here are some figurative Uses Of The Eye In The Scriptures

“One Thing I Do Know, That Although I Was Blind Now I Can See (John. 9:25).

The Physical Eye

“Every eye will see him” (Revelation 1:7).

The first instance of the eye in Scripture is simply as a physical organ, the organ of sight. When Job laments his condition to his friends, he says, “My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow” (Job 17:7). The eye here reflects the oppression that the body feels.

Likewise, Jeremiah laments the fact that Judah will not listen to the warning from God and heed the judgment to come. “I will weep bitterly,” Jeremiah says, “and my eyes will overflow with tears because you, the LORD’s flock, will be carried into exile” (Jeremiah 13:17).

In Job’s case, the dim eye reflects the physical suffering, and in Jeremiah’s situation, the tears signal the spiritual sorrow the prophet has over stiff-necked Judah’s rejection of God’s grace. When the psalmist considers the evil and arrogance of those who will not bow to God, he speaks literally of their eyes bulging with fat (Psalms 73:7.151 and the writer of Proverbs writes, a mischievous person “winks” with his eyes, causing harm to others (Proverbs 10:10).

Conversely, those who call out to the Lord for help remain awake at night, with their eyes open (Psalms 77:4). Finally, when Christ returns, “every eye will see him” (Revelation 1:7). Even in his despair, Job knew that he would see his Redeemer at the end of time, “whom my own eyes will behold, and not another” (Job 19:27).

The certainty of Christ’s return is attested to by everyone’s seeing him with the eyes of their resurrected bodies. These, and many other such references in Scripture, begin with the eye as the organ of physical sight, but they often are extended to express the moral or spiritual attitudes of those they describe.

The Eye As An Indicator Of Character

“Why do you seek the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?” (Matthew 7:3)

Often in Scripture, eyes indicate people’s character. Included in these uses are personality traits people possess, as well as their moral condition. As we might expect, the book of Proverbs comments frequently on the character of godly and ungodly people alike.

It is the charitable eye of the generous man that indicates his liberality (Proverbs 22:9) On the other hand, it is the miserly eye of the stingy man that describes his parsimony (Proverbs 23:6). For in Hebrew, the eye indicates the character of the man—in this case, either his generosity or his stinginess.

The humble man who is brought low is described in the book of Job as having downcast eyes (Job 22:29). In contrast, the arrogance of the proud man is portrayed in his “haughty eyes” (Proverbs 6:17). Like the tax collector in the Gospel (Luke 18:13), the humble man acknowledges his humility by looking down toward the ground, while the proud man lifts his eyes up in arrogance.

Indeed, the day will come when the proud will be brought low. Isaiah states that “the proud men will be brought low (literally, the eyes of the pride of man will be brought low), arrogant men will be humiliated” (Isaiah 2:11), and the psalmist asks that he not have “haughty” eyes (Psalms 131:1). Finally, the lustful women of Zion are said to “flirt…with their eyes” (Isaiah 3:16), while Job in contrast declares, “I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look lustfully at a virgin?” (Job 31:1).

Indeed, Christ teaches that adultery rests in the lustful look even before the act is committed (Matthew 5:27). In the Scriptures it is often in the eyes that the character is expressed.

A significant part of a person’s character is his moral condition,157 and in Scripture the eye often expresses the moral attitudes of a man. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ uses the eye—whether it is full of light or darkness—as the symbol of the moral quality of a man’s heart (Matthew 5:23-24).

In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis compares even our feeble attempts at virtue to light and our “indulgence” in sin to “fog.” Also, in Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, Marlow travels up the Congo River to find himself and, when he does, he sees that his heart is evil—a “heart of darkness” within, a heart that no civilized customs can finally sugarcoat or conceal. In our moral lives, we either serve God (light) or Satan (darkness).

When Christ speaks of hypocrisy and lack of forgiveness, he references the eye again in a classic hyperbole from the gospels, “Why do see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?”(Matthew 7.3) Peter speaks of false teachers who infiltrate the church as having “eyes full of adultery” (2 Peter 2:14).

The eyes truly are the “windows to the soul” in Scripture, exhibiting the condition of people’s moral character, and Christ often fingers his hearer’s moral condition with the image of the eye.

A final way the Scriptures use eyes is to indicate whether a person is inclined toward God or away from him. When God confirms Joshua as Moses’ successor he tells Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before (literally, in the eyes of) all Israel so they will know I am with you just as I was with Moses” (Joshuah3:7). In effect, God aligns the spiritual attitudes of the Israelites with his own approbation of Joshua and his anointing of him for his role as leader of God’s people into the Promised Land. Jeremiah uses the eye to confront God’s people when they refuse to respond to the Lord’s gracious invitations; Jeremiah indicts them as people “who have eyes but do not discern” (Jeremiah 5:21).

They choose not to respond to God. In the gospels, Christ meets the spiritual needs of people, sometimes accompanying the spiritual healing by restoring sight to the blind as he does with the two blind men in Matthew’s Gospel. We should not be surprised at the association of restored physical sight with spiritual healing, for that is exactly what Christ promised to do early in his ministry in Nazareth (Luke 4:18).

At times the Scriptures speak of God’s hardening the hearts of people and causing them not to respond favorably toward his grace as their being blinded by God. Immediately after Isaiah sees the Lord “seated on a high, elevated throne” (Isaiah. 6:1), God tells him, “Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind” (Isaiah 6:10).

Through His prophet Isaiah God dulls the people’s understanding so that they do not respond to him in faith. “For Isaiah to declare faithfully what he knew to be so would not result in an admission of guilt and a turning to God. Rather, it would bring about a more adamant refusal to recognize need.” Later, God speaks to Isaiah of his people choosing of their own free will not to respond.

“They do not comprehend or understand,” God declares, “for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern” (Isaiah 44:18). The blind eye in these cases refers to the spiritually-dead person who will not respond to God in faith and gratitude.

On the other hand, God often prompts his people to respond to him in faith. In the dramatic story of Balaam and his donkey, “the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand…” (Numbers 22:31).

Likewise, the Lord opens Elisha’s servant’s eyes so that he might see the “chariots of fire” all around him, protecting them from the enemy (2 Kings 6:17). God’s grace is likened to his opening the eyes of his people so they might see what he is doing for them.

The eyes in Scripture represent variously the character of a person, his moral condition, or his disposition toward or away from God. The writer of Proverbs reminds us, “The ear that hears and the eye that sees—the LORD has made them both” (Proverbs  20:12). We are responsible for how we use our eyes—that is, how we live our lives before the Lord.

The Eyes In Reference To God

“Look, the LORD takes notice of (literally, the eye of the LORD [is] toward) his loyal followers, those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness” (Psalms 33:18).

God’s omniscience extends beyond seeing mere physical presence; however, God’s sight includes knowledge of the inner thoughts and motives of all people. He knows the nations; for instance, and foresees their plans  He does not allow the “stubborn rebels” to “exalt themselves” against him (Psalms 66:7). God superintends international affairs in his sovereignty, “watching” the nations throughout history. Likewise, he turns the king’s heart in the way he wishes, thereby effecting his sovereign will in international affairs (Proverbs 21:1). God’s eyes on the nations lead him to judge them and even affect and control their decisions.

As he knows the nations, God also knows individual people. God knows their innermost thoughts. “The eyes of the LORD guard knowledge,” the writer of Proverbs states (Proverbs 22:12), and He sees if there are any offensive or evil thoughts in us (Psalms 139:24).

In these illustrations, God’s eyes represent His righteous judgment of sinful people and nations. His eyes represent his pure justice in the affairs of men. The adulterer is foolish if he thinks God does not see him (Job 24:15), but the righteous enjoy God’s sight, for “Look, the LORD takes notice of (literally, the eye of the LORD [is] toward) his loyal followers, those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness” (Psalms 33:18).

In fact, all living things—whether they know it or not—look to God for their needs to be satisfied: “Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis,” the psalmist declares (Psalms 145:15). God’s providential care of all people is signified by His eye watching over them.

When it comes to discerning evil, it is God’s omniscient eyes that search it out. “The eyes of the Lord are in every place,” the writer of Proverbs states, “keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good” (Proverbs 15:3). God distinguishes between right and wrong, and in His sovereign wisdom leads both evil and good people for his purposes.

From the beginning He knows the evil of His people. When He warns them not to turn to idols, He states, “After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the LORD your God (literally, in the eyes of the LORD), you will quickly perish from the land” (Deuteronomy 4:25). God searches out the evil of His people for their own good, that they may prosper in the Promised Land and enjoy His eternal blessings.

God speaks through the prophet Isaiah telling His people to “remove [their] sinful deeds from [His] sight” (Isaiah 1:16). It is His eyes that discern the evil and warn His people against it; He does not wish so much as to look on their sin. When God wishes to bless His people and forgive their sins, however, He promises that their past sins will be “hidden from [His] eyes” (Isaiah 65:16, MT)—in other words, forgotten entirely. Forgiveness is as if God cannot see the sins of His people; He removes His people’s sins from before His eyes and “sees” them no more.

God’s omniscience is associated with His eyes in the descriptions that Zechariah and John use to symbolize the glorious Lord, especially in His office as redeemer. When the Lord graciously cleanses Joshua to serve as high priest, he announces, “‘As for the stone I have set before Joshua – on the one stone there are seven eyes. I am about to engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day’” (Zechariah 3:9). The stone with seven eyes symbolizes God’s future promise of forgiving grace in Jesus Christ.

At the end of history, in the Apocalypse, John writes of a vision in which he sees the reigning Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes (Revelation 5:6-7). The Lamb symbolizes the victorious Christ who died for His people’s sins and now reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords. It is the eyes of these images that, among other attributes of God, underscore His omniscience. He “sees” all of history, all time, every event, individual human hearts, and He brings them all to the glorious foreordained conclusion. Nothing is hidden from His sight (Job 24:1; 1 Corinthians 4:5).

God’s Eye As Expressing His Love

“The LORD pays attention to (literally, the eyes of the LORD are toward) the godly and hears their cry for help” (Psalms 34:15).

The image of God’s eye of unfailing love toward His people Israel is often focused in His blessings on King David. When David’s men trap the sleeping King Saul in the cave and David spares Saul’s life, he says to Saul, “In the same way that I valued your life this day, may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all danger” (1 Samuel 26:24). The fact that David extends mercy to Saul reflects God’s mercy to David and the people of Israel in bringing them out of Egypt and establishing them as His favored people. David plays the godly man, created in the moral image of God, as it were, and shows mercy to Saul.

Through the prophet Isaiah, the Lord condemns Israel as being spiritually obtuse. “Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones! My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf” (Isaiah. 42:18-19). The blind eyes and deaf ears symbolize the people’s spiritual apathy indicating that they have intentionally turned away from God (cf. Romans. 1:18). In gracious response to their spiritual dullness; however, Yahweh (“the LORD”) promises to redeem Israel out of their sin, calling them “precious and special in [His] sight (literally, eyes)” (Isaiah. 43:4).

We still use the idiom of something or someone of value spoken of as esteemed in our eyes today, but how much more significant is this idiom when it represents God’s special love for his people and His willingness to pay to redeem them (Isaiah. 43:4-9).

The imagery of the eyes is used in Isaiah’s oracle in reference to Israel’s Messiah, the servant of Israel who will “restore Jacob to Himself [God], so that Israel might be gathered to Him” (Isaiah 49:5). In his role as redeemer, the servant-Messiah is “honored in the LORD’s sight (literally, the eyes of the LORD)” (Isaiah 49:5). The Messiah’s favor in God’s sight assures Israel of their favor with God as well. They too are approved in God’s sight, His chosen people who are the apple of His eye. So favored are they that even the deaths of His saints are precious “in His sight, (literally, in the eyes of the LORD)” (Psalms 116: 15, MT). God watches our birth and death, graciously considering the latter as important in His sight. God’s eye of chesed compassionate, covenant love is ever open toward His people because it is ever on their servant-savior, Jesus Christ.

The Lord sets His eye on Israel by establishing them in the Promised Land, driving out the pagan nations before them and settling the Israelites in their place. He watches over King David, through whom He blesses Israel in the united kingdom of Israel and Judah, and through whom Messiah will eventually come. Messiah is spoken of as finding favor in God’s sight, and His favor extends to the people.

A final way God shows His love toward His people is in His sheltering them from physical and spiritual troubles. When King Solomon, David’s son, finishes building the temple for the worship of God, he brings the ark to Jerusalem and places it in the Holy Place (1 Kings 8:1-13). Once the ark is in its position, Solomon dedicates the temple. Part of his prayer of dedication invokes God’s blessing. Solomon uses the image of God’s eyes when he asks for God’s favor to rest upon Israel. “Night and day may you watch over this temple,”

Solomon prays (1 Kings 8:29), and again he asks God, “May you be attentive to (literally, may your eyes be open to) your servant’s your people Israel’s requests for help, and may you respond to all their prayers to you” (1 Kings 8:52). God in this case because His favor toward the nation of Israel—is represented in the image of His eyes being open to Solomon’s invocation. They are fixed on the ark in the temple and hence on all the people who worship there.

The psalmist expresses God’s compassion for His people in their times of trouble with the image of God looking down upon His people with mercy. No army will save Israel, David warns the people, “Look, the LORD takes notice of (literally, the eye of the LORD [is] toward) His loyal followers, those who wait for Him to demonstrate his faithfulness” (Psalms. 33:18). Think of the sharp contrast between the frantic military preparations of a nation (vv. 16-17) with the simple declaration that God’s eyes alone are enough to rescue His people from their trouble (v. 18). The antithesis underscores the power of God which is available to help His people in times of trouble. Again the psalmist writes, “The LORD pays attention to (literally, the eyes of the LORD are toward) the godly and hears their cry for help” (Psalms 34:15). In both of these psalms, David rests secure in God’s protection because He “watches” over his people with his eye, and that is enough to protect them against any enemy who might attack.
Eyes And Believers

“Protect Me As You Would The Pupil (literally, little one, [the] daughter of an eye) Of Your Eye” (Psalms. 17:8)!

Scripture uses our eyes as indicators of our relationship with the Lord—whether we are believers or not and- and  if we are believers, whether or not we are living our lives for the Lord. Unbelievers have “undiscerning” eyes toward the Lord and are unable to “see” him (Jeremiah. 5:21) unless the Lord opens their eyes to see. Believers on the other hand have eyes that can “see” God—because He has opened their eyes by grace to understand their need of Jesus Christ as their savior. In his trial before Agrippa, for instance, Paul reports that the Lord sent him to the Gentiles in order to

open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me. (Acts 26:18).

Faith is likened to open eyes, and unbelief is likened to blind eyes. The gospel is likened to the light that shines in open eyes, and unbelief in the gospel is likened to the darkness produced by the power of Satan. Hence, eyes symbolize our spiritual condition before the Lord.

Considering, too, that strangely enough, one of the meanings of the eye is ” A fountain” I came to further study and understood too the significance on fasting as apart of this revelation. Fasting will cleanse us so the fountain of “Living Water” can pass through us. It is apart of our character building and coming into the Fathers will for our lives in a greater and closer way.

We are the “Apple Of His Eye”

Shalom.

There have been many misconceptions about judging or judgment now and in times past. However, as we prophetically understand God’s divine plan in righteous judgment, we will see that the righteous judgments of God are what bring us into life! The word judgment in the Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible means the “door of life.” Meaning, the function of righteous judgments is to bring one into life.

Rom 8:1-4

1              There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

2              For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

3              For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

4              that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

(NKJ)

Righteous judgments are not meant to condemn you, but to condemn the flesh. It is meant to condemn our flesh and bring us into Life with Christ, and to those who are dead in regard to the carnal man, but alive in Christ cannot be condemned. As long as we are not in the flesh, but in Christ,there is nothing to condemn. On the other hand, when we are in the flesh there will always be condemnation or a sentence of judgment against us.

According to verse 4, the carnal man cannot fulfill the righteous of the law; therefore, Yeshua had to set us free from the carnal man by bringing judgment against the sin that fuels it. When we are free from the sin that fuels the fleshly nature we can then walk blameless in the ordinances of God.

Luke 1:5-6

5              There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

6              And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

(NKJ)

I notice that sometimes a reason that some people may feel condemned is because they love darkness rather than light. It is because they don’t want their deeds to be exposed in the light.  

John 3:19-21
19 “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 “For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21 “But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
(NKJ)

I believe that part of understanding our role in God’s righteous judgment is found in understanding our role and our function as kings and priests.
Revelation 1:6
6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
(NKJ)

We love to proclaim to be kings and priests, and that is beautiful, but do we understand the function of a king and a priest? It is much more than a scripture to proclaim. A king walked in authority and wisdom, knowledge, understanding and maturity was given to him by God to judge righteously.

Such is the same for a priest. The priest, specifically a high priest, also had to judge between good and evil. He had to make righteous judgments. The priest had to where the breastplate of judgment which was also called the breastplate of righteousness, of faith and of love.

Ephesians 6:14

14            Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

1Thessalonians 5:8

8             But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

All righteous judgment had to come out those attributes: righteousness, faith and love. NOTE: notice how judgment comes not only out of the realm of righteousness and faith but also out of love!

Inside of the pockets of the breastplate the priest would put the Urim and the Thummim. The word Urim means lights or revelation and the word Thummim means perfection or maturity. They would use those two stones, revelation and maturity in order to bring righteous judgments. They could not judge according to appearance but by righteous judgments. Their ability to bring righteous judgments of God through not only revelation but also maturity with the revelation could bring the people into life. But as I noted at the top, the goal of judgment was meant to bring a death to your flesh and life to you!

John 7:24
24 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
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We must begin to see the necessity of God’s Righteous judgments in the church. Yeshua said judge not least you be judged first. His point in saying it was not to say you are not to judge. But He was speaking to those who judge according to appearance and not righteously. This kind of judgment is immature and of the flesh.

John 8:15-16

15            “You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

16            “And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent Me.

(NKJ)

I pray that we would understand the beauty of Gods Judgments, to walk in them and come into life! Let the tithe of this word bring you into a harvest.

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SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE

In the past, I’ve done my share of fasting, although admittedly not as much as I should have. One of the hurdles I always had a hard time overcoming was that I somehow felt like I was trying to negotiate a deal with the Lord, and that I was saying “God, I’m going to fast, so what are you going to give me in return?” I knew that God didn’t work on a barter system like that, but I also knew that scripture was full of examples of the power of fasting in many of the prophets and disciples lives.

So what was my problem? Why was I thinking the way I was about fasting? Well it boiled down to the fact that I had never really ’searched the matter out’ for myself, and my own misconceptions (my misunderstanding or my sin) was leading me to this false feeling about ‘bartering’ with the Lord.

John 8:32 says “… you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Well, searching out the truth about fasting has certainly set me free from feeling like I am playing “Let’s make a deal!” with the Lord!

I just finished reading “The Hidden Power of Prayer & Fasting by Mahesh Chavda (Destiny Image Publishers ISBN 13: 978-0-7684-2410-2)” and it was a great help in bringing clarity in understanding the subject of fasting from a spiritual perspective. Let’s take a look at some scriptures, so you can understand more clearly as well.

HUMBLE OURSELVES

The first thing I want you to see in Psalms 35 and Ezra 8, is that fasting is a way to humble ourselves before the Lord:

Psalms 35:13. But as for me, when they were sick, My clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; And my prayer would return to my own heart.

Ezra 8:21. Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions.

Why is it important to humble ourselves? Because God says he will guide you and teach you His way:

Psalms 25:9. The humble He guides in justice, And the humble He teaches His way.

He says He will give you Grace:

Proverbs 3:34. Surely He scorns the scornful, But gives grace to the humble.

He says He will give you wisdom:

Proverbs 11:2. When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.

Jesus says you will be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven:

Matthew 18:4. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Those are all pretty significant reasons to humble yourself.  Do a search on the word ‘humble’ in scripture, and you will see that are many more as well.

STRENGTH

You probably don’t need scripture to tell you that fasting can make you weak and feeble, but here it is anyway:

Psalms 109:24. My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

Why is this significant? The Apostle Paul tells us what happens when we are weak:

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

So again, God promises us His grace, which will both strengthen us and perfect us.

ANSWERED PRAYER

If you read back up in Ezra 8:21 again, it tells you the reason why they were fasting… they were seeking the right way… they were looking for an answer. Daniel says the same thing:

Daniel 9:3. Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

So fasting is way to get prayers answered!

POWER TO CAST OUT DEMONS

In Matthew 17:14-21 we have the story of an epileptic boy which the disciples could not cure.  Jesus tells them the solution though:

Matthew 17:21. However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”

So Jesus Himself tells us that prayer and fasting is the only way we will be able to remove some demons from our own lives and from others lives.

NO MORE BARTERING

So now back to my original problem of always feeling like I was saying “God I’m going to fast, so what are you going to give me in return?” The revelation from all this, is that you don’t need to barter with God because He already promised you these things!

God says, “If you fast, then I will guide you, teach you, give you wisdom, grace, strength, answer your prayers and give you the power to cast out demons!” WOW… that’s amazing! He is a God of His Word, so if He said it, He will do it!!

But be warned… there is a right way and a wrong way to fast!  In Isaiah 58:3-4 God says that their fasting is unacceptable and He will not hear their voice. But starting in verse 5, He sets some guidelines on proper fasting methods, and IF we observe them, THEN in verse 8 He says “your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.”

So let’s fast with our hearts set on seeing transformation in our lives, as well as the lives of others, and in seeing a fulfillment of Luke 4:18-19:

Luke 4:18-19 18 “THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED;  19 TO PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.”

Shalom
Pastor Jeff

P.S. – Below I have attached another article which looks at fasting from the natural perspective. I definitely recommend you read it as well before starting to fast!

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FASTING – A NATURAL PERSPECTIVE
by Falcon Blanco

What is Fasting?
Fasting is a period of abstinence from all food or specific items. Fluids are consumed in sufficient quantity to satisfy thirst and physiologic requirements. During the absence of food, the body will systematically cleanse itself of everything except vital tissue. Starvation will occur only when the body is forced to use vital tissue to survive. Although protein is being used by the body during the fast, a person fasting even 40 days on water will not suffer a deficiency of protein, vitamins, minerals or fatty acids. In the breakdown of unhealthy cells, all essential substances are used and conserved in a most extraordinary manner. There is an unwarranted fear of fasting that strength diminishes from the catabolism of proteins from muscle fibers. Even during long fasts, the number of muscle fibers remains the same. Although the healthy cells may be reduced in size and strength for a time, they remain perfectly sound.

A. J. Carlson, Professor of Physiology, University of Chicago, states that a healthy, well-nourished man can live from 50 to 75 days without food, provided he is not exposed to harsh elements or emotional stress. Human fat is valued at 3,500 calories per pound. Each extra pound of fat will supply enough calories for one day of hard physical labor. Ten pounds of fat are equal to 35,000 calories! Most of us have sufficient reserves, capable of sustaining us for many weeks.

Rest is understood to be a big factor in enhancing recovery, as it is when the body is at rest that it is able to direct the most energy towards the various chemical and mechanical processes of detoxification. When fasting, a person experiences recovery at a rate that is swifter than normal. He is ridding his body of toxins and excesses; allowing the body to use its own wisdom to healthfully reorganize itself from the atomic level. As the toxic load is reduced, the functioning of every cell is enhanced. In the same way that vital nerve energy is accumulated during a night’s sleep, the faster builds nerve energy through rest, sleep, and detoxification.

The human body has many ordinary modes of achieving elimination: the liver, lungs, kidneys, colon, etc. When these are overloaded, the body will resort to “extra ordinary” methods of elimination: boils, mucous and other discharges, sweats, vomiting, diarrhea, and many others. Should elimination be impossible or uneconomical of body energy, the toxic overload will go into storage forms in the joints, vessels, muscles, organs; almost any tissue in the body. While fasting, the body is highly conservative of its energy and resources. During this deep and profound rest, toxin intake and production are reduced to a minimum while autolysins and elimination proceed unchecked. Anabolic processes such as tissue and bone healing also proceed at a maximal rate during the fast.

In the body, the first stage of cleansing removes large quantities of waste matter and digestive residues. The first few days of a fast can be rough due to the quantity of waste passing into the blood stream. The tongue becomes coated and the breath foul as the body excretes waste through every opening. After the third day of the fast, there is little desire for food. The second stage is the cleansing of mucous, fat, diseased and dying cells, and the more easily removed toxins. As the fast continues, the cleansing process becomes more thorough. The last stage is the cleansing of toxins that have been accumulating in your cellular tissue from birth, and the microscopic tubes that carry vital elements to the brain. Cleansing of the last layer is only possible through a combination of juice fasting, water fasting, and a healthy diet high in raw foods. To overcome a severe disease like cancer, it is important to continue through a series of fasts, to the point where the full scouring action of catabolism removes the disease from the tissue.

During extended fasts the body removes: dead, dying and diseased cells; unwanted fatty tissue, trans-fatty acids, hardened coating of mucus on the intestinal wall; toxic waste matter in the lymphatic system and bloodstream; toxins in the spleen, liver and kidney; mucus from the lungs and sinuses, imbedded toxins in the cellular fibers and deeper organ tissues; deposits in the microscopic tubes responsible for nourishing brain cells and excess cholesterol.

Nearly everyone who fasts, discovers the same thing, that when they fast they actually have no hunger and more energy than they normally have. It is indeed liberating to find out that if we let go and trust that we will be taken care of. Fasting is the simplest, easiest and most effective way to find out that we do indeed have the power and freedom to heal and take control of our bodies.

Why Fast?
Probably the most important reason is that the body uses quite a bit of energy to digest food, and when fasting this energy becomes available for other uses. In the fasting state, the body will scour for dead cells, damaged tissues, fatty deposits, tumors, abscesses, all of which are burned for fuel or expelled as waste. The elimination of these obstructions restores the immune system functionality and metabolic process to an optimum state.  Fasting restores good digestion and elimination, and peristaltic action is quickened. Fasting allows a deep, physiological rest of the digestive organs, and the energy saved goes into self-healing and self-repairing. By eliminating obstructions, by cleansing, detoxification, and purifying the intestines, the blood, and the cells, we can overcome many of our physical ills or handicaps as well as getting a boost in energy. Fasting not only removes obstructions and helps the body to heal itself, it is also rejuvenating and life-extending. These resulting benefits can have lasting affects in your mental and emotional health.

The other very important aspect is that your self-awareness will be elevated. If you are sick and depressed, then this might be the most important thing you can try in your healing program, because it gives you immediately an energy boost and increased awareness which might allow that you see things more clearly, allowing you the first step out of your sickness and onto the path of recovery. While fasting you become more aware of your body process, your life and with everything you are doing. It becomes a period where you can evaluate all that you’re doing more objectively, and you naturally have more time for contemplation because you aren’t using time amassing, preparing, eating, eliminating and cleaning up all which is used to prepare food. You become more aware of what your body likes and doesn’t like when you start to eat again. You gain self-confidence in your ability to control your life process, to set a goal and carry out an intention.

Fasting enhances mental acuity
Perhaps the most instructive testimony as to the acuteness of mental powers during fasting comes from Dr. Herbert Shelton who supervised the fasting of more than 40,000 people over a period of fifty years. His message is that the freer the body is of toxic materials flowing through the blood and lymphatic system, the clearer is the ability to think.

These facts are due to physiological causes. Large amounts of blood and nervous energies have to be sent to the digestive organs to digest a meal. If these energies are not required there, they may be used by the brain for better thinking. This increase in mental acuity doesn’t usually happen until after the first few days of a fast, because the body is busy cleaning out excess toxins and substances and so the first few days can be a period of depression, with headaches and various pains as this process is underway. This makes the first stage of fasting difficult but after the body has thrown off it’s load of toxins, then the brain is fed by a cleaner bloodstream and the mental powers and clarity of thought are extraordinarily increased and the other senses also become more acute.

One’s mind becomes clearer and one’s ability to think and solve intricate problems is enhanced. One is simply more alert, and one’s mind seems to open up into new fields. The mental and physical senses are heightened, and often there can be a feeling of euphoria, especially during longer fasts. Some, for the first time, will experience emotional stability. The reasons for this are multifold – the elimination of the emotional dependence on food, exclusion of stimulating foods like caffeine, processed sugars, recreational drugs, tobacco and trans-fatty acids, all of which can have a devastating effect on delicate emotions.

Dr. Ehret stated an amazing fact at the turn of the 20th century. He said that, for a water fast to awaken the higher mind functions, it had to be longer than 21 days. Fasting has a history of awakening intuitive senses, creativity, and deeper spiritual questions in those with enough determination to get past the 21 day mark.

Healing
During a fast, a metamorphosis occurs. The body undergoes a tearing down and rebuilding of damaged materials. For this reason, fasting is famous for its ability to rejuvenate and give the body a more youthful tone. Why does fasting have such a powerful effect in healing the body? Fasting dissolves diseased cells in a systematic manner, leaving healthy tissue. The result is a thorough cleansing of the tube, membrane and cellular structures. There is a remarkable redistribution of nutrients in the fasting body. It hangs on to precious minerals and vitamins while catabolizing on old tissue, toxins and inferior materials.

Each cell of your body is a complete living entity with its own metabolism. It needs a constant supply of oxygen and sufficient nourishment. When due to nutritional deficiencies, sluggish metabolism, sedentary life, overeating and consequent poor digestion and assimilation of food, lack of fresh air and sufficient exercise and rest, our cells are deprived… they start to degenerate… the normal process of cell replacement and rebuilding slows down and your body starts to grow old, its resistance to disease will diminish and you become ‘sick’.

Animals will naturally fast when they are sick or injured, and when we are ill, our hunger diminishes. If we get out of the way and allow nature to take its course, we will find that we can heal from any problem. Since the dawn of recorded time, in fact since before the word “doctor” came into existence, priests provided sanctuaries where people could go to fast. Whereas modern medical practitioners admit that they have no cures, only drugs that mask the symptoms while causing yet other symptoms to appear.

“I had a medical practice for 20 years in NYC, supervised hundreds of long fasts, and I found that the physical healing or weight loss was but a pleasant side effect. What really happened is that the person got in touch with their higher self, their true self, and came to the experience that healing can take place at every level, simply by letting go and allowing Mother Nature to do her work.” – Dr. Rai Casey

Fasting has been beneficial for these conditions:
Although fasting is not recommended in every situation, (cancer of the liver is one instance where fasting is contraindicated), in many situations fasting is the only known solution. Fasting has been beneficial for arthritis, asthma, high blood pressure, lupus, chronic fatigue, colitis, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis, spastic colon, irritable bowel, cases of paralysis, neuritis, neuralgia, neuroses, and mental illness as well as many others. Fasting will also break down tumors and for this reason, many have overcome cancer with fasting.

Fasting decreases dependency on authorities
How many of us believe that when we get sick, that a doctor is going to save us from pain and death? We just assume that the technology is going to be able to repair us when we break down, by giving us a pill, a treatment or a surgery. We are so alienated from our bodies that we think that a doctor knows more about us than we do. The reality is that doctor’s don’t have the cures that we need, what is offered by the traditional system of healers is only the possibility to treat our symptoms never being able to cure us or root out the cause. When we take these kinds of treatments to suppress our symptoms then that cause, which is the underlying reason we are sick, goes unattended, then in fact our illness continues to grow. We will never be healthy until we take responsibility for our own health . We need to stop blaming the outside for making us sick, whether it is corporations, a person, our immediate environment or a government, and to recognize instead that our sickness is a symptom telling us something is inside needs to be addressed. For sure there are outside influences that we can’t control, but there is much that we can control by taking responsibility for ourselves and working to change our habits.

Benefits of Fasting
Mental clarity is improved and brain fog is lifted.
Rapid, safe weight loss is achieved without flabbiness
The nervous system is balanced
Energy level and sensory perception is increased. The longer the fast, the bigger increase in energy and vitality. You normally need less sleep.
Organs are revitalized
Cellular biochemistry is harmonized
The skin becomes silky, soft, and sensitive
There is greater ease of movement
Breathing becomes fuller, freer and deeper
The digestive system is rejuvenated and becomes more effective; the peristaltic action of the intestines (the cause of a natural bowel movement) is stronger after fasting.
Fasting retrains your tasting sense back to more healthy food as acute sensitivity is restored.
Fasting can increase confidence in our ability to have control over our lives and our appetite, and that our body is self-regulating and a self-healing organism capable or establishing balance when given the possibility to do so.
Normal metabolic and cell oxygenation are restored.
Detoxification – as soon as the body realizes that it’s fasting it will begin to eliminate those things that cause disease, such as fat cells, arterial cholesterol plaques, mucus, tumors, stored up worries and emotions.

One Day Fast
One way to start is to fast one day, working towards fasting regularly, one day per week or for longer periods of time. You can fast from all food, or only from solid food. You can choose a one day fast with only:

• water
• fresh fruit juice
• fresh vegetable juice
• raw fruit
• raw vegetables

Avoiding during the fast:
cooked vegetables, cooked whole grains, whole grain flour products, bread, pasta, etc. vegetable protein, soy products, etc.
dairy: milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, butter, eggs, meats, fast food, junk food, prepared foods, etc., chemicals: sugar, caffeine, artificial flavoring, sweeteners, etc.
Not to consume any drugs, nicotine and alcohol during fast should be clear.

Water Fast
You can fast from 1 to 40 days. Try to drink 2 liters of water or more per day.

The ten day water fast has become a recommended number of days. Ten days on water will cause the same weight loss as 30 days on juice. But water fasting is far more difficult, especially if you have a fast metabolism. Water fasting cleanses the body aggressively removing toxins rapidly. Water fasting can be more beneficial than juice fasting in combating more persistent forms of cancer, cleansing the tissues more aggressively. Water fasting demands mental preparation, the less pressure and responsibility you have during a water fast the better. Think of it a holiday away form the normal patterns of living. Some recommend that the week before your fast, you drink fresh juices and eat mostly raw fruits and vegetables to cleanse the body so that the detoxification during water fasting will be less aggressive. Water fasting should always include two of three days of juice fasting before and after the water fast. This alternating between juice and water fasting is the most effective method of achieving a full cleansing through fasting.

Water Fasting Tips
Avoid water straight from the faucet. Distilled water is the best for cleansing because of its inherent, magnetic properties and ability to absorb and suspend large quantities of toxins, flushing them from the body. The perceived value of mineral water is misleading because the inorganic minerals are like huge boulders to the cellular membranes, making them impossible to assimilate. Plants are able to break down the minerals from the soils, allowing them to be completely absorbable to the cells of the body. The best water is distilled, secondly, spring or filtered.

There are no calories or nutritional value in water. On a water fast you have given your body no options but to turn to itself for fuel. This can create a problem when you have spent years depositing counterfeit fuel. Living exclusively on dirty fuel during a fast takes tremendous courage & strength. To ease into water fasting some recommend juice fasting with periods of water fasting. For example 3 days on juice, 2 days on water, 5 days on juice, then 3 days on water. You can juice when you have to work and water fast on the weekend when you can rest.

Water Fasting Concerns
It is not advisable to water fast under the conditions of hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, schizophrenia or a chronic heart condition. If you have existing conditions it is best if you consult with a fasting expert and/or be monitored throughout your fast.

Be careful of dizziness and black outs. The heart is resting as much as it can during water fasting. Before you stand up, take one or two deep breaths to get the heart pumping. If you start to black out, sit down or crouch down on one knee. This will immediately stop the dizziness.

Master Cleanse Fast
The Master Cleanse or Lemon Cleanse is between a water fast and a juice fast. Basically it consists of drinking a mixture of freshly squeezed lemons, water and maple syrup for a period of 8 to 40 days. It is easier to do than a water fast because you are still getting nutrients and energy from the lemons and the maple syrup. This fast can be done while still maintaining your normal work, yet is less calories than what you would get from a juice fast. It is normal to lose weight on this fast and it is excellent for cleansing the colon.

Juice Fast
Juice fasting is safe and can allow the body to clean itself of toxins while greatly improving conditions for health. A benefit is that your energy level is high because you are receiving sufficient nutrients from the juices, so you can carry out normal activities. A juice fast takes some burden off the digestive system and frees up some energy for accelerated healing though a water fast does much better in that regard. Also, juices can make available extra quantities of nutrients that a person might lack. Juices are easy to assimilate and take hardly any digestive energy from the body, allowing the body to put more energy into healing and rejuvenation. Packed with vitamins, minerals, living enzymes, antioxidants, phytochemicals, yet low enough in calories to force the body to cannibalize on its filthy waste, propelling you to vigorous physical health and clarity of mind.

For your first fast and for the purpose of healing disease most experts recommend a juice fast over a water fast. Fasting on water has become a near impossible exercise for a body that has been nurtured on poisons. The juice of fruits and vegetables are filled with healing and cleansing properties that allow the body to gently and safely detoxify. Juice fasting has become an effective stepping-stone to water fasting. Through juice fasting, thousands of individuals have been freed from serious diseases such as cancer, leukemia, arthritis, high blood pressure, kidney disorders, skin infections, liver disorders, alcoholism and smoking.

The thirty-day juice fast is a standard. This length of fast feels about right because after 30 days it seems like you have been fasting forever. Less then 30 days and you can miss the best experiences of the fast. If you are juice fasting, a few days on water occasionally will intensify the fast and assist with weight-loss if you have a slow metabolism.

Most people can juice fast safely for up to 30 days. The exceptions are those with hypoglycemia, diabetes, hypo thyroid, and Wilson’s Syndrome. For these conditions, eat slices of avocado and banana every few hours, add high quality vegetable source protein powder to your juices, and add psyllium or another good bulking agent to your juices twice a day to regulate blood sugar levels. Do not juice fast if you have impaired kidney function.

The amount of juice you drink will determine the intensity of cleansing. Drinking small amounts of juice supplies fewer calories, thereby increasing detoxification. The more intense the cleansing, the greater the discomfort. Juice fasting allows you to have control over the process of elimination. However, when the body enters a cleansing crisis due to toxins in the blood, no amount of juice will eliminate the discomfort. You must wait it out.

Drink all-vegetable or all-fruit juices, never combine fruits & vegetables to create juice. Make your juice from fresh vegetables or fruits. You can also include herbal teas with honey, vegetable broth, Barley Green, wheat grass juice and supplements helpful for your specific condition. Drink juice whenever hunger develops until pleasantly full as opposed to stuffed full. It is best if you filter or strain the juices, removing any excess fiber or pulp so that you continue to give the digestive system a rest. Also if it looks like you are not losing weight on your fast, you can dilute the juices with water.

You may consider modifying the fast by including quarter slices of avocado or banana to slow the cleansing process. Modified juice fasting is good for those with health restrictions such as diabetes or hypoglycemia. Bananas and avocados are slow to digest and maintain a stable blood sugar level. Their high calorie content slows the intensity of the fast and, because they are easy to digest, the body still devotes energy to cleansing.

Preparation for Your Fast
Inform yourself about fasting: by doing your own investigation, reading all you can about the fasting process, the various kinds of fasts and what you can expect as side affects. If you have a pre-existing health condition then you should find out if there are contrary indications with fasting and your condition.

Determine your cleanse duration and time period:  Try to arrange that your fast is in a time period where you have low activity or lobsters. Avoid heavy kinds of work if at all possible. When it comes to long fasts and inability of somebody to handle a long fast, you just do the best you can. When detoxification increases as it does during fasting, the liver, kidneys, lungs and immune system work extra hard to handle the load. If these systems were already compromised before the fast, one must proceed carefully. You go as long as you can tolerate it, whether physiologically or emotionally, and then come back to eating again. Once you have some energy and are a few steps further toward health, you can consider doing another fast. Several short fasts can definitely do wonders if one long fast cannot be undertaken. Long fasts are preferable to short ones because once the body is in the fasting state it cleanses systematically into the harder to get at body tissues. For this reason, most of the recoveries from illness have taken place in the latter parts of long juice or water fasts. Long fasts give the body the uninterrupted time to do the work of healing. The first few days of fasting gets rid of the gross waste products of digestion, but only after this can the body pull out its tools to get to work on healing.

Frequency of Fasting
Of course, the best is that people stay on a good daily health regime and then when the need comes to fast to go ahead and do it for a week to 10 days or longer if indicated. At least long enough to move completely into the fasting physiology and accelerated detoxification.  Ideally people should fast once or twice a year just as a tune-up to deal with the environmental toxins and junk in our foods as well as the emotional build up. Traditionally people have fasted in the spring and fall, when the weather is mild.

Activity Level
It is good to at least have mild exercise and movements with short walks to keep the lymphatic fluid moving and to the keep the vascular system working.  The amount of exercise you can do is very much dependent on your existing condition and how you are feeling that day and what kind of fast you are doing. Basically one needs to be alert and listen to one’s body and not to overdo. Fasting is resting, not a marathon! You may feel weak during a water fast and may need to rest more often. While juice fasting, you may experience an abundance of energy that makes exercise easy. If you experience energy loss, limit yourself to stretching exercises, light walking or deep breathing.

Proteins & Fasting
It was theorized that protein loss during fasting was harmful and that a fast should be supplemented with protein. Fasting with protein became known as the Opti-fast. Fasters took nothing but water and a protein drink. Sadly, several people died. Protein digestion during the fasting state created an overload of urea and the blood become acidic. In this condition, the organs become more damaged instead of healing. To the body, fasting is a natural process. During water or juice fasting, the protein levels of the blood remain constant. Although protein is being utilized, a person fasting 40 days on water will not suffer a deficiency of either protein, vitamins, minerals or fatty acids. In the breakdown of dying and diseased cells, all essential substances are available while fasting for reuse within the body. These dead cells are utilized in a systematic manner.

Protein deficiency is non existent in North America. You never hear of anyone being diagnosed with protein deficiency. Fruit and vegetable juices have water-soluble highly absorbable proteins. The body has a store of protein, and it uses it selectively. Dying cells are the first to be used and healthy and vital tissues are the very last and will only be used as a last resort. Only during starvation is protein being stripped from healthy tissue to be used to survive. This may take 30 to 80 days of fasting on water to reach this point.

The systematic searching of cells to be metabolized is crucial in the healing of cancer. A cancer cell represents protein and calories. Some cancers are so persistent that you have to force the body to choose between healthy cells and cancer cells. This requires a long fast on small portions of juice combined with days of water fasting.

Aiding Elimination of Toxins
Enemas: If you are not having natural bowel movements then an enema is advised to move out the toxic material that is being scoured by your body. You will feel much better after taking an enema. An enema can be taken daily in the beginning days of a fast, then bi-daily for the remainder using just plain water.

Mucus: . It is common, during fasting, for the nose and throat to pass sticky mucus, clogging the sinuses. White strands of mucus may be found in the stool. You may find that you are more comfortable if you use a Neti Pot to clear the sinus cavities, to prevent getting a cold with the clogged sinuses. You can also drink lemon juice with water to help clear the mucus.

Showers/Bathing:  Plan to shower or bath daily to aid in cleaning the pores and assist the removal of toxins. The skin is a large organ and many toxins are removed through the pores causing a gummy deposit on the surface of the skin. It may help to brush the skin removing the sludge that is deposited there.

Reactions from Fasting
The ‘healing’ reactions you get from fasting are dependent on your existing health and the toxic load present in your body when you start. The first three days can be the most difficult until one’s appetite for food goes away, which it normally does after the third day. Many people experience headaches, joint pain and other discomforts in the first few days. Your tongue will become coated and your breath foul, and you may notice increased body odor. These are all normal detox reactions as the toxins move out of your body. With extended fasting you will notice some days are symptom free, then as you move into deeper layers of detoxification you will experience episodes of symptoms as your body cleanses these other systems. In the later stages you remove the mucous from your system and this can increase your likelihood to catch a flu or a cold. At times you may feel weak or tired, so you should listen to your body and rest. Periods of high-energy and mental clarity will be experienced and can be variable, alternating between periods of healing reactions and symptom free days. With extended fasts it is normal to also have strong emotional reactions that have been suppressed, as the body brings these to the surface also for healing… This can be a difficult period, but can be dealt with more easily with meditation or Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). The cleansing response that happens is dependent on experience with fasting, current health and level of toxins and sickness in your body.  If you have an existing health condition, it is possible that you get a strong healing reaction or healing crisis. A link to a page describing this reaction in detail is given below.

If cleansing responses arise (headache, stomach upset, mental fog, lethargy,.etc) exercise great patience and take rest until symptoms pass. It’s all part of the process. Always go to your capacity but never over-do. If unreasonably strong physical or emotional symptoms occur, it may be wise to discontinue. The following are common reactions and what can be done to ease the symptom while you are fasting.

Weight Loss
Weight loss can initially be as high as three to four pounds per day, but as the fast continues, the average loss will be one pound per day. If you are juice fasting and not losing weight, the juice is supplying all the calories you need. You may have to cut down on the juices or alternate between water fasting and juice fasting if losing weight is part of your goal. The slower your metabolism the slower the weight loss. If you are thin or average weight and you fast for 30 days on juice or 10 days on water, you will become thin. Ribs will show, the face will become gaunt, and friends and family will display concern. But the body will quickly normalize its weight in 5 to 10 days after the fast. If you are thin to start with, fasting may allow you to gain additional weight after the fast. Metabolism is normalized due to the cleansing process. It is very important not to try to gain weight too quickly. The body can rebuild only at a set rate. Overeating will burden the body and undermine the rebuilding process.

Dizziness
You may experience dizziness, if you do get down on one knee and the dizziness will stop immediately.

Backache
Back pain may increase due to toxins in the lower intestine. The blood vessels that draw nutrients from the colon are very close to the nerves of the spine. Back pain often decreases after elimination of the toxins. Back exercises also can relieve some pain. A cold pack also will help. An enema may be in order…

Bad Breath
Waste passes through the lungs which are an eliminative organ. Brushing the tongue with a tooth brush, using dental floss and rinsing with mouthwash will reduce bad breath.

Canker Sores
These may develop from a toxic buildup in the mouth. Unhealthy bacteria increases between the teeth. The tongue becomes coated with waste. To stop cankers, gargle with sea salt mixed with water several times daily. Dabbing the sore with tea tree oil or vitamin E quickens the healing process.

Cold Virus
Mucoid is the perfect food for viruses. Toxins weaken the immune system. When large quantities of toxins and mucus are in the blood due to a fast, they can cause a susceptibility to colds. To fight a cold, continue fasting to eliminate the mucus. Reduce the liquid intake and drink lemon juice.

Blackouts
During fasting the body conserves energy. The heart pumps slower and blood pressure lowers. Standing or moving quickly from a resting position will cause the blood to flow to the legs. For a few seconds, the brain may not get enough oxygen, causing blackouts and dizziness. To stop a blackout get down on one knee or sit. Lowering your center of gravity will instantly stop a blackout. Blackouts are more frequent during water fasting.

Diarrhea
Fruit juices have a laxative effect that is more pronounced after water fasting. It can be stopped by using the enema. Using psyllium husk during diarrhea will help regulate the system.

Strong Emotions
Try to journal, EFT, meditate, talk a walk, or rest.

Headaches
Toxins can cause muscle tightness in the neck and shoulders. This can result in tension headaches. Massaging the neck and shoulders will help relieve the tension. The herb Fever Few, which is available in health food stores, is well worth trying.

Mucus
Drink lemon juice with water, combine with Neti Pot.

Muscle Tightness
The muscles may become tight and sore due to toxin irritation. The legs can be the worst affected as toxins accumulate in the legs. A self massage, hot baths, stretching and exercising will help to release the toxins.

Nausea
When waste is released too quickly by the lymph glands, some of the toxic overload is taken by the liver and secreted with bile into the stomach. This causes nausea. Drinking water or carrot juice will dilute the bile and toxin mixture helping to flush it from the system.

Nervousness
The elimination of toxins can irritate damaged nerves. Exercise will relieve tension. Use quarter slices of avocado to slow the fast or drink fruit juice if on a water fast. However, you should note that any food intake may cause one’s hunger to return and make it more difficult to stay on the fast, just do the best that you can.

Skin disturbances
The skin may become oily as rancid oils are purged from the body. People with problem free skin may have a few days of pimples or boils. A pallid complexion is also a sign of waste in the blood. When cleansed of mucus and toxins, the skin will be healthy, soft and unblemished.

Tiredness
Tiredness is normal during water or restricted juice fasting. If the tiredness is too much, increase the quantity of sweet juices like melon and carrot juice.

Pre-existing Conditions

Heart Disease
Include bananas and avocados when juice fasting to balance the blood sugar level. Toxins in the blood and reduced blood sugar levels may cause a weak heart to labor. Like any other organ, the heart needs nutrients, a toxin free environment, and time to heal. Also if one has the disorder of POTS it is advisable to take salt so that the blood pressure does not get too low.

Hypoglycemia
Do not juice fast unless you use bananas and avocados to balance the blood sugar level.

Kidney problems
Fasting can irritate damaged kidneys due to the amount of toxins they filter. Try short juice fasts of 3 to 5 days before progressing to longer fasts.

Liver Disease
The liver can become toxic due to abuse. If the liver is badly degenerated, cleansing must be done in stages. Start with short juice fasts and lead to fasts over five days. Avoid heavy proteins, refined flours and fatty foods. Eat meals of fruits or vegetables between the fasts.

Age
Nobody is too old to fast – it is exactly what the body needs to feel young again. Shorter fasts are recommended to start. Assess your physical state as you proceed. If juice fasting becomes too intense, bananas and avocados will lessen the intensity by slowing the cleansing.

Ulcers
Fasting will help significantly. Choose the juices that do not irritate the condition.

Healing Crisis
(The cleansing reaction, the detox reaction, or the Herxheimer reaction.)

During your fast you may enter into a healing crisis, which indicates that a deeply seated sickness is being healed, but also this means that you are going in reverse through the reactions that you went through as your sickness progressed. This is normally a good thing, because it shows that there is a major healing happening, but the downside is that it is not easy to go through because of the uncomfortable reactions that cause pain, etc. If you are feeling quite ill then you should read through the healing reaction article to try to determine if this is what is going on with you or not. It may be advisable to check with your medical professional at this point, to try to determine if you want to continue the fast or not.

Going Off Your Fast
“It’s a fact that eating causes a cycle of hunger. It’s only when we stop eating that we lose hunger!  Think about it. All fasting experts agree that hunger sensations are usually lost on or shortly after the third day of fasting, and sometimes don’t return for weeks, but when they do return, usually very strongly, it’s the time to break the fast.”

But all fasting experts point out that it is important to resume eating very lightly, and very gradually, in exact relationship to the duration of the fast. Therefore, if breaking a 40-day fast, you may want to start with only small quantities of fruit juice for several days up to a week, before actually resuming with solid food like regular fruit.

Important: Keep the first solid meal light and simple even though the mental temptation to dive into heavier favorites will probably be high. Be gentle with your digestive system and your digestive system will not only thank you but the overall benefits of the cleanse will last much longer. If you were on a water fast, then your first day can be juices, if your were on a juice fast, then your first day should be raw vegetables or fruits. The next meal may include heavier items such as potato, avocado or corn, but in any case you will notice that your body is very sensitive to what you eat and you should use this period of transition to learn more about what your body likes and doesn’t like you to put into it.

When waking up a slumbering digestive system, the desire to eat will be intense. The flavors and textures of food will be enhanced by super clean nasal passages. Eating will be a brand new experience. This is the time to flex your new-found muscles of discipline and self-control. As the body screams, I want more, wisdom whispers, you have had enough.

Eating small amounts of raw fruits and vegetables for the first five or six days will allow the body to gently wake up the digestive system. The body will continue to detoxify and cleanse during this period. Any toxins that have accumulated will begin to move due to the sweeping action of the soft fibers of fruits and vegetables.

For six days gradually increase the amount of raw fruits and vegetables in your diet. To break a fast and gorge on meat, bread or junk food will be disaster. Jarring the system this intensely when the digestive system is in a sensitive state can cause stomach cramps, nausea and weakness, negating much of the benefits of the fast.

Eat slowly and chew your food well. Saliva has enzymes that assist in digestion. Up to 80 percent of the starch, 30 percent of the protein and 10 percent of the fat can be digested by the enzymes in saliva.

Do not overeat! Discover the amount of food that your body needs to live a vibrant, healthy life. Discern the difference between cravings and hunger. Never feed your emotions.

When breaking a fast over ten days, the break-in period should be extended one day for every 4 days of fasting.

Greater Sensitivity – Restored Senses
An interesting phenomenon occurs after a fast. The years of conditioning your body to tolerate unhealthy foods is reversed. The body is as clean as a newborn baby. Try feeding a newborn baby Grandma’s apple pie.

When the body is full of toxins, its defense systems are not able to operate effectively. After a fast the natural defenses are restored and sensitivity to unhealthy food is increased. You will feel satisfied with smaller amounts of food and sluggish and tired when overeating. Rich foods, full of fat, salt, and processed sugars will cause nausea, headaches and weakness. A handful of fruit will be thoroughly satisfying. Because the digestive system has to work less, there will be boundless energy to spare.

Why? After a fast your body is clean, and has far less tolerance to the poisonous foods that you were used to eating previous to the fast. Understand, feeling sick when eating poison is a sign that your body is functioning normally. Fasting restores the body’s ability to violently react to harmful, health damaging, food. If you really desire, you can desensitize your body by slowly introducing harmful foods back into your diet, but why you should? You better select your food carefully, even though it is not possible to avoid toxins as these are every where. So fasting as a regular cleaning is important and will keep you healthy.

Disclaimer: You can investigate about everything yourself, but before you start with a treatment, a cleansing, fasting or whatever, you should consult a health professional.

VOICE OF REVIVAL (Releasing the Preachers)

The trumpets are beginning to sound and with that sound we will begin to see whirlwinds and his Glory! There is a Voice that will be heard it is a Loud Sound that is coming says the Lord, I saw sonic sound, I saw vibrations, I saw a storm of HIS Majesty in heaven. I saw preachers not able to contain the word of the Lord, I saw truth, I saw the sword cutting down religion, I saw the walls coming down.

The Lord is saying be the voice, I have called you to be the voice, even when you know not what to speak; I will give you the words to speak. I have given you the keys to the Kingdom “To Open doors no man can shut and to shut doors no man can open, I am calling forth A FEARLESS GENERATION, a generation that will know where to move and how to move because I have instructed them says the Lord, and not only have I instructed them I have called them forth to usher in MY HARVEST, where many have been bound in the constitution of what man has made I am taking them out of it, they will move from the NORTH to THE SOUTH they will move from THE EAST TO THE WEST, I have called them to move according to the whirlwinds of my spirit says the Lord. They will see the expanse of MY GLORY and will move as the four living creatures would move, high and lifted up, where the four living creatures travelled so they will travel. Says the Lord.

Many will say “But what is this?” “ What this is says the Lord is what you have cried out for and even still many of you will not perceive it to be of me, but you will be brought lowly, you will be confounded, as I move by my spirit, says the Lord”
I will cause you to move as a man then I will cause you to move as the Ox, I will then cause you to move as swift as the eagle and then the Lion will roar! Do you see it? Do you feel it? I am stretching the limits you have also put on yourself as you too have limited what i can do, man has hindered you, people have bound you in false condemnation and false guilt, I am breaking these says the Lord.”
“ My eagles are going to see unlike they have ever seen, and as the see the Lions will roam to devour on the earth, these are the Lions of Judah, these are the ones that will move fearlessly, knowing who they are in me, says the Lord, they will be the ones that i will use to remove all the wickedness of false counsel”

Ezekiel 10
“Those that have eyes to see and ears to hear what the spirit of God is saying will now start to come out of captivity into LIBERTY”

DEFINITIONS OF VOICE:

VOICE- Strongs Number H6963 in the Hebrew: qowl; kole; from an unused root mean to call aloud; a voice or sound:-+aloud, bleating, crackling, cry.

VOICE – Strongs Number G5456 in the Greek: phōnē; fo-nay’; Probably akin to G5316 through the idea of disclosure; a tone (articulate, bestial or artificial); by implication an address (for any purpose), saying or language: – noise, sound, voice.

SCRIPTURES:

Ex 19.16
On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it with fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, the whole mountain trembled violently, and the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder. Then Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.

Psalm 77.16-20
The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed. The clouds poured down water, the skies resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth. Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightening lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked. Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen. You lead your people, like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Isaiah 61 1-3
The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom to the captives and release from darkness the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lords favor and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn, and provide for all those who grieve in Zion- to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.

Isaiah 62
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.

Mark 1.3
The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the son of God.
It is written in Isaiah the prophet; ‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way, a voice of one calling in the dessert, “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight paths for him.

Mark 9.7
Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud “This is my son who I am well pleased”

Luke 19.37
When they came down to the place where the road goes down the Mount Of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to Praise God in loud Voices for all the miracles they had seen.
“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of The Lord! “
“Peace in heaven and Glory in the Highest”

Luke 23.46
Jesus called out with a loud voice “Father, into your hands I commit your spirit’
When he had said this, he breathed his last.

Numbers 7:89
When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony. And he spoke with him.

Deuteronomy 4:12
Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice

Deuteronomy 4:33
Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 33:7
And this he said of Judah: “Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, And bring him to his people; Let his hands be sufficient for him, And may You be a help against his enemies.”

Joshua 5:6
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD—to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, “a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Now Joshua had commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout or make any noise with your voice, nor shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout.”

Joshua 10:14
And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the LORD heeded the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.

Joshua 22:2
and said to them: “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.

Deuteronomy 5:22
“These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 9:23
Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.

Judges 18:3
While they were at the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. They turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What do you have here?”

2 Samuel 22:7
In my distress I called upon the LORD,And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry entered His ears.

Job 2:12
And when they raised their eyes from afar, and did not recognize him, they lifted their voices and wept; and each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on his head toward heaven.

Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion,The voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 9:16
If I called and He answered me,I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.

Job 37:2
Hear attentively the thunder of His voice,And the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

Job 37:4
After it a voice roars;He thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain them when His voice is heard.

Job 37:5
God thunders marvelously with His voice;He does great things which we cannot comprehend.

Job 38:34
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,That an abundance of water may cover you?

Job 40:9
Have you an arm like God?Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

Psalm 5:3
My voice You shall hear in the morning, O LORD;In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up.

Psalm 18:6
In my distress I called upon the LORD,And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry came before Him, even to His ears.

Psalm 18:13
The LORD thundered from heaven,And the Most High uttered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 26:7
That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving,And tell of all Your wondrous works.

Psalm 29:4
The voice of the LORD is powerful;The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

Psalm 29:5
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars,Yes, the LORD splinters the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalm 29:7
The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

Psalm 29:9
The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth,And strips the forests bare; And in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”

Psalm 58:5
Which will not heed the voice of charmers,Charming ever so skillfully.

Psalm 77:18
The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

Isaiah 31:4
[ God Will Deliver Jerusalem ] For thus the LORD has spoken to me: “ As a lion roars, And a young lion over his prey (When a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him, He will not be afraid of their voice Nor be disturbed by their noise), So the LORD of hosts will come down To fight for Mount Zion and for its hill.

Isaiah 32:9
[ Consequences of Complacency ] Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice; You complacent daughters, Give ear to my speech.

Isaiah 40:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “ Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God.

Jeremiah 10:13
When He utters His voice, There is a multitude of waters in the heavens: “ And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”

Ezekiel 1:24
When they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army; and when they stood still, they let down their wings.

Ezekiel 1:25
A voice came from above the firmament that was over their heads; whenever they stood, they let down their wings.

Ezekiel 2:1
[ Ezekiel Sent to Rebellious Israel ] So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking. And He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.”

Ezekiel 3:12
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thunderous voice: “Blessed is the glory of the LORD from His place!”

Ezekiel 10:5
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like the voice of Almighty God when He speaks.

Ezekiel 21:22
In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem: to set up battering rams, to call for a slaughter, to lift the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege mound, and