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Runways & Landing Pads Part III

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Let’s recap: Noah isn’t just any regular Joe Schmoe. This is the guy God chose to reboot all of human civilization. So in other words, Noah is kind of a big deal. Not only that, but Noah and his family are the chosen seed in which the Messiah would come from. It’s always been very clear that Lucifer, as splendid as he was, could not be God. So when he and a third of all of the angels decided to rebel against God, they essentially chose to be completely separated from the presence and glory of God. The story gets very interesting when the Godhead decides to create humans in his own image. Sometimes this gets lost in translation, but it’s a very important detail in understanding why there’s so much animosity between Satan and the human race. Chronologically speaking, God and the angels came before creation. This means that God cast Lucifer out of heaven prior to creation. Queue Adam and Eve: God creates man and woman in his own image. Here’s the part you don’t learn in most seminaries or local churches: The role Lucifer’s plays in God’s economy prior his rebellion is literally handed over to Adam and Eve. Just stop and stew on that for a second. That makes me wonder, “How did Lucifer feel about that?” Needless to say that’s why the Bible describes Satan as the enemy of the children of God. His goal is to steal, kill, and destroy our relationship and standing with God. He’s very crafty though. He chose to masquerade as a bearer of truth and enlightenment, all the while seeking to blot out the knowledge of the existence of a loving God. Here lies the lesson: Noah created a runway for evil to penetrate his family line when he got drunk. I believe God is giving people today the power and the authority to step in and cut off perversions, strongholds, and influences that had been allowed to penetrate their family line. I believe that God is giving his people dreams, visions, encounters, and special prophetic insights to go back in time if need be and close the doors of demonic influence for themselves and their families.

Activation:

Get some paper and a pen, put on a little light instrumental music, and submit your imagination to God.  Begin asking God for dreams and special vision and revelation into your past and family line and write down whatever comes to mind.

You could also: Ask parents or grandparents about your family, or do some research online to see what you can find. You can’t hit what you can’t see…

 

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Speak It Into Existence!

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In this time frame that we are living in right now, while the atmosphere is ready and waiting to create the things that we speak, I’d like to share a testimony of what this has looked like for me.

A few years ago I heard Joyce Meyers talking about how she quit smoking. I was interested in this, because when God delivered me from drug addiction, I was unable to lay down the cigarette addiction.

I tried fasting from smoking, thinking if I could get past the first few days I’d just lay them down all together. I don’t think I made it 2 full days without a cigarette. I tried the patches, but smoked right along with them. I tried the prescription drugs that I saw others manage to quit with, but I could not quit.

So when Joyce Meyers spoke about how she quit, I listened. She said she simply claimed that she was a non-smoker, even as she lit a cigarette and smoked it. She spoke the words out loud, and finally she was a nonsmoker.

I began declaring that I was a nonsmoker. I would just say it out loud. I did not see results though for two years. But what began to happen as I made the declaration was that things were being put into place. My habits began to change over time, so that when it was time to let go of the cigarettes, I was set up for success.

I made a choice to quit smoking in my house, which may sound like an easy thing to do, but for me it was not. This was something I had never done since the time I was 16 years old and had started smoking. A year later I got a new van. It was so nice that I chose not to smoke in it either. Another thing I had never done before in my life. I did not realize that these things were setting me up for success. Finally, ten months after not smoking while driving, I asked God one day, “When will I know that You have set me free?”

Within a day of me writing that in my journal, I traveled to Yakima Washington with a group of people to a prophetic worship conference hosted by Michael Danforth, and my first night there an 11 year old boy told me that the Lord would like me to quit smoking. I have not had a cigarette since.

The time that we are in is a time of declarations being manifested. This testimony is a picture of what it looks like, but the atmosphere is so thick with Gods anointing that things will begin to manifest even as we speak them!

Declare!! Speak into your destiny, and watch it rise with the Son.

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Inherit the Earth

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As I continue to mediate on Psalm 103:1-5 and all the benefits that come through grace, I’m caught up by the power of our tongues.  Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Prov. 18:21).  In the third chapter of James, the tongue is compared to the likeness of a rudder and its ability to maneuver an entire ship.  Meaning our tongues maneuver our bodies.

Jesus said in Mt. 15:11 that it’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles the man, but what comes out of the mouth that defiles.  A few chapters later He expands on this and links our words to our heart.

So as we lay this course out what we discover is that death and life are issues of our heart.  We bring those issues into existence by what we speak.  We conceive blessings and cursings in our heart and our mouth reveals what’s in our heart.

David knew this, he knew that we can say something nice with our lips, but be filled with the opposite spirit in our heart.  This is why he so adamantly reminds his soul to bless the Lord, to not forget all His benefits.

God also knows that what we say with our lips may not be the truth of our heart.  He sees what no one sees – our inner most thoughts and intents.  This inward look of God provokes a deeper revelation of grace, and with an ever increasing revelation should come an ever increasing humility.

By taking a step toward remembering God’s grace as David did, humility and meekness overtake us.  The promised inheritance for the humble and meek is the earth (Mt. 5:5).  So to our list of benefits: forgives all our iniquities, heals all our diseases, redeems our life from destruction, crowns us with loving kindness and mercy, and satisfies our mouths so we are renewed in strength, we add inherits the earth.

As for me and my household we shall bless the Lord, oh my soul.

Reminding you of who you are.

Jeph

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Disconnect to Reconnect

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Twenty-four years ago I got a call, “your sister needs us now.” My mom and I rushed to her home where my sister Kim lived and we came upon a scene I really wouldn’t want to see again. My sister Kim after months of morning sickness that was like having a constant flu was losing so much blood that it looked impossible for her to even still be pregnant. We called the doctor and he said that her body had naturally aborted the baby. We wrapped my sister up and took her to my house, laid her down and put her feet up. At this point  we refused to believe the baby was gone and my Mom and I went to war (which of course now we recognize was the leading of the Holy Spirit). We let the enemy know under no circumstances was he going to take what was ours and this baby was ours. Ashlee Marie Pottenger was our first miracle baby and I would say we disconnected any right the enemy thought he had to this precious little one.

Over the past few months since Ashlee shared her engagement to Scott O Malley we have been anticipating this last weekend. Ashlee was marrying the love of her life. We had wedding showers and all the things that go into making this the most special occasion for this young couple. Ashlee parent’s had been praying for the right mate since she was born and at the shower Scott’s mom shared that since he was five years old his father and her had been praying the same thing. I was amazed how blessed Ashlee was to have two strong Christian families uniting to witness the covenant these young people were making before God.

Well this weekend all the hard work Ashlee, Scott and their families put in paid off and it was a wedding to remember. The bride was stunning; the groom only had eyes for her. The attendants were joyous and the witnesses were in awe. Her Father gave her away and officiated the ceremony at the same time and everyone there knew of this couples commitment to Christ first. This wedding was Ashlee’s dream but not her purpose. Her purpose was to disconnect as Ashlee Pottenger and reconnect as Scott’s bride. When her parents gave Ashlee to Scott so she could as the word says “leave and cleave” it was with no reserve.

The day after the wedding Ashlee posted on Facebook, “Please refer to me as Mrs. O Malley from here on out.” Ashlee disconnected to her single past and connected to her future as Mrs. O Malley. Many marriages fail because the individuals can not let go of their past and go forward into their future. Ashlee’s eagerness to be Mrs. O Malley  makes my heart glad; because I know she is ready to connect with her future as the two shall be one.

Often when I worship I will hear the Lord speak. A couple weeks ago I heard, “disconnect to reconnect.” A couple days later I went onto the Prophetic River web site and listened to the live stream and a well known prophet was prophesying. He prophesied the exact same words the Lord had spoke to me during worship, “disconnect to reconnect.” Now the Lord had really caught my attention and I began to ask what does that mean, “disconnect to reconnect?”

As I was asking the Lord what to share I felt he wanted me to leave you with this challenge. Will you pray and ask if there is an area you need to disconnect to reconnect? He has assured me that this needs to be done on all kinds of levels and that it will be personal to each person. Ashlee and Scott’s future and how they face life as one, under a new covenant they made before Christ depended on them disconnecting from what had been the structure of their lives to a new connection as man and wife, pretty simple but really a new identity.

I believe for some the Lord is wanting a disconnect from your past to reconnect with your future, also the “battle” 24 years ago laid the foundation for a incredible future! What do you need to be contending for in your life? And your future!

God bless,

Sheryl

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Runways & Landing Pads Part II

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There’s been lots of speculation as to what happened in this very vague and downright weird exchange between Ham and Noah. Some have said that Ham had sexual relations with Noah while he was unaware. Others have said that Ham had relations with Noah’s wife while he was drunk and passed out. What exactly happened between Noah and Ham is uncertain, but best method of discovery lies in tracing out the history of the family lines. When Noah pronounced a curse on Canaan, we know that he is talking about the same people groups the Israelites fought against under the command of Joshua. It’s safe to say the land of Canaan has been and still is a hub for demonic activity. (What I’m about to write is by no means an exact or comprehensive list) Tracing the bloodlines of the people groups and locations creates a “Who’s Who” list that goes something like this: Sodom, Gomorrah, Goliath and his brothers, the Philistines, King Nimrod, the Tower of Babel, Babylon, Baal, the list laid out to Abraham: the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites. Even today these areas are centers of very serious resistance against Christians and Jews.  As you can see tracing out the Ham’s descendants may not tell us what happened that strange night with Noah, but the lifestyle he passed on to his children was not good.

Questions for healing:
1.) Do you live a lifestyle that is poisonous to you and the people you love?

2.) Has a way of life been passed down to you that hurt you and the people you love?

This is a several part series (I’ll post every Monday) I believe God will use to bring healing and deliverance to you and your family line. Feel free to post comments and questions, and I’ll do my best to get back to each one.

Blessings,

~Josh

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Time For Snow White To Release The Sound!

This morning while sitting with the Lord, He showed me a vision. I saw Snow White dancing in a forest, and her dance partner was a tree. His limbs were arms and they danced in a clearing. The tree’s face was a clock, and as they danced Snow White began to sing, as in the movie, “ahh haaa ahhhh haha”. As she sang this song, nature began to respond to her voice. The birds came around and chirped and landed in the tree and took flight from the tree and it was a lovely sight.

I don’t remember the movie Snow White very well, so I went to You Tube to find a clip. There is a song called  With A Smile And A Song, and it begins with Snow White on the ground, her face buried and she is crying. The birds and forest creatures have gathered around her, and as she looks up, she explains that if they only knew what she had been through, they would understand her fuss.

I feel this is a picture of our time. Snow White, the bride of Christ, each of us, has been through our own trauma, our own hard times and hurts, but I feel the Lord saying it is time to lift our faces from the ground. It is time to stand up, and be who HE has called us to be. When we stand up and praise anyway, when we declare who we are, and who God has called us to be, all of creation is waiting to respond. All of heaven and earth are in waiting to carry out the sound that comes from within each of us. The invitation has been sent, and the ball is in our court.

There are some of us who have buried our face in shame, thinking we have missed our time, but the Lord says “Arise, shine; for the light has come! And the Glory of the Lord is risen upon you.”

If you could just imagine the angels standing ready, waiting for your words, waiting to capture them as they come from your mouth into the atmosphere and as the angels grasp the words you speak, as quick as a blink they are off and setting all things into motion for the coming of their fulfillment.

Who are you in Christ? What is yearning to come forth from your belly? What desire is hidden within you that God has planted from the beginning? What part of His Body are you?

“I am a writer….”, “I deliver the word of the Lord…”, “I have gifts to share with the up and coming generation that will build God’s army…”, “I have songs to release into the world…”…..What is in you?

It is time to declare it, and let it be. Call those things forth that are not, as if they are, and they shall be. The atmosphere is anointed to create.

God’s Attitude Toward A Sinner

Most born-again believers are familiar with God’s attitude toward the sinner – He longs for none to perish and gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, so that through Him we might be saved. Outstanding!  Is grace awesome?  Yeah!  Is seeing the sick healed amazing?  You know it!  Is waking up and knowing that you are eternally blessed overwhelming?  YES!  You know this, I know this, yet why is the Kingdom of God not being pursued with violence and force.  Why aren’t the sick coming to us, why aren’t the blind finding their way to us, why do most people run the opposite way when they hear or see a Christian coming? Chances are they have a belief that God’s attitude toward them is one of hell and wrath, or boring and the same-old-same-old.

Most people get involved with something or make a commitment to be a part of something because of the benefits.  Benefits make the difference.  How many of your decisions are based on the benefit factor?  God has some  amazing benefits that we need to be bring up in more of our daily lives and encounters with others.  I love what David gives us as an example here in Psalm 103:1-5.

Ps 103:1-5  Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name!  Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits:  who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases,  who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. NKJV

When was the last time you spoke to your soul like David is speaking to his here in this Psalm?  Try it, right now.  Say, “soul, bless the Lord and remember all His benefits.”  Powerful!  Try that for one week, and see if things aren’t different.  People are going to notice something different about you.  When they ask, just share with them the benefit package you got when you said yes to Jesus.

Reminding you who you are!

Jeph

It is Already Done!

I love when the Lord gives me two or more witnesses of Him at work, don’t you?

This last weekend, that is just what He did. He was trying to get a point across and He did it in a way that I could not help but notice. He was showing me once again He does not leave things unfinished. He is the author and finisher of our faith. He is our great healer and He has already done all He needs to do.

My friend Crystal (who is like my own daughter) fell during an exercise program she was participating in this last week. She thought she sprained her ankle. She had her Uncle take a look at her ankle, he is a physician’s assistant and he told Crystal that the ankle was not sprained but it was broken. Crystal’s ankle would need an x-ray, cast or boot and possibly even surgery depending on how bad the break was.

Crystal’s Aunt wanted to go to a healing meeting that night. Crystal’s Uncle had told Crystal there was no way she would be able to walk on her ankle until she had went through the process he described for her healing. Crystal told her Aunt she wasn’t going to go forward or ask for prayer on the way into the meeting. . She sat with her swollen, painful ankle on a chair in front of her. She listened to the speaker, how he went through a process with the Lord. The speaker had done everything he possible could to get the Lord to release healing through him. He prayed, fasted and begged the Lord to no avail. He could not understand why the Lord would not answer his cries. The Lord finally told him that He had already done all there was to be done. When Crystal heard him say those words “the healing was already done”, she unwrapped her foot, which was like unwrapping those old grave clothes, (taking away her old thinking) got up and walked. Her foot was totally healed.

Crystal shared this testimony with me right after I had listened to a testimony about a woman who God did a creative miracle for. He created a brand new top lip for her after an accident she had with her dog. Her dog and her bumped into each other and he actually bit off half of her top lip. Her physician said it was impossible to regenerate a top lip but, she believed that the Lord’s provision was already there and all she needed to do was have faith in what “He had already done.” She stood in faith for 6 months believing she would receive a new lip and that is exactly what happened.

Is there an area of your life that God has already made a provision for but you need your faith activated so you can really hear in your spirit, “it is already done?”

Open our eyes and ears Lord so we can activate our faith to receive. We believe that You have already taken care of everything we need. You are our provision.

Thank you Lord!

Sheryl Jones

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Christ in You the Hope of Glory

Christ in you the hope of Glory
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the
Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” – Habakkuk 2:14
It ‘s like when we were born into the Kingdom of God there was
a seed planted in us. When we release that Kingdom seed
outside of us it manifests into life, which in turn causes that seed to
increase in us. Now that seed becomes more powerful inside of us to release
more life.
Years ago I had a experience where there
was a movement that started down in my stomach. I felt it move
up through my body and come out of me and moved upward
above me. At the same time a weight of movement was coming down
From above me. As these two movements came together there was a
big explosion. I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit speak to me.

“When this happens there is nothing that is impossible
.”

Out of us flow rivers of Living Waters…
You are a garden spring a will of fresh water and streams
flowing from Lebanon.” -Song of Songs 4:15
My friend Chris and I both had this same vision.
There were flowing bright sparkling colors and it was as if
These colors were alive.
Out of this experience came this song…
I am the hope of His glory
I am the hope of His glory
Christ in me. Christ in me.
The hope of His glory.
There is a kingdom that has been setup in me.
And in this kingdom is a river that sets me free.
Flowing, flowing in me.
There is this river, it is in me.
It will flow through me to bring healing to me.
There is this river, it is in me.
Bringing healing to the blind, to the lame and setting the captives free.
It is a resurrected life giving Spirit.
That is the river and river is in me.
I am the hope of His glory
I am the hope of His glory
Christ in me. Christ in me.
The hope of His glory
There is a kingdom that has been setup in me
And in this kingdom is a river that sets me free.
Flowing, flowing in me.
Oh, can’t you see that this river is in you.
Can’t you see, can’t you see.
Please look the captives need you to see.
The blind need you to see.
The lame need you to see.
You need to see to be FREE.
That river is in you and me.

Runways and Landing Pads

Runways and landing pads are path ways and doors we leave open to the enemy. We have several examples of godly men leaving a doorway open into their lives and also to their family lines. Satan’s objective is to distort our destiny -not just in the current generation, but to scar, maim, or pervert every generation that follows. The Bible lists Satan’s priorities as killing, stealing, and destroying. Two examples that come to me right off hand are the stories ofNoah and King David. Both of these men represent God’s promise seed, and both of these men open up a runway for Satan to come and to corrupt their family line. These patriarchs’ stories are graphic examples which illustrate the evil intentions of the Satan towards God’s children, and also the redeeming plan and power of God to restore his prized creation.

Noah’s story takes an interesting twist when his first his project after the flood is to plant a vineyard. When his fields begin to yield its harvest, Noah decides to make wine from its fruit. Noah then proceeds to drink until he’s completely inebriated. Scripture puts it this way,
“Then he drank the wine was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent. And Ham, father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. Then he said: cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brothers.” Gen 9:21-25

A couple questions to reflect on:
1.) What runways and landing pads have you left open in your life?
2.) What runways and lading pads have family members opened up that you’ve had no control of?

If your past has a way of haunting your present and future, I pray you would keep coming back to this blog for the next month or so. This is a several part series (I’ll post every Monday) I believe God will use to bring healing and deliverance to you and your family line. Feel free to post comments and questions, and I’ll do my best to get back to each one.

Blessings!

~Josh