The TRUE reward for someone like me isn't the big home, the luxury car or the designer label. The TRUE reward for me is seeing someone's life touched or changed through the revelation that He has given me. Like the following note that was posted on Angell's blog in honor of little old me. :)
"I just had to show RB some love. I believe that we have a spiritual connection. We are both women that loves to give HIM our father GOD the praise. She always seems to send me blogs that are right on time just like GOD is. They end up going right along with something that I may have been praying for or what not. Her blogs and her myspace messages always hit home with me. She is such a blessings and is most definitely a Woman Of God. I have nothing but, love and respect for her. Its amazing at how you can feel the words of God through someone. Especially, someone who is ground in HIM like she is. And, how you can feel peoples prayers. But, the reason for this W.O.G. blog. Is just to recognize my sister, my friend, my family in Christ RB. For all that she minsters to me. I receive it all! She is always and forever in my prayers! I can say that she is a great in pack in my life. She is such and blessing. I am thankful and blessed that I am able to communicate with her. I pray that God continues to show this woman favor!For the note. She doesnt just talk about GOD she walks this thing out. ;)God bless this amazing W.O.G.!"
Angell
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Change
In this interesting, sensitive season of change I have been introduced to yet another side of God. I am witnessing Him in ways I have yet to experience. I am seeking with a fresh hunger and thirst for understanding and in that this is what I have received thus far regarding this interesting, sensitive season of change.
The Economy: I realize, for the one in covenant with God, that even with all that is transitioning for us it is not a time of retreat but a time for advance, it is not a time of loss but a time to possess. The Bible says that we are to be the Lender, not the Borrower, but up until this point the majority has lived on borrowed money. The majority lives, drives and wears that which is owned, not by them, but by some organization or business. Could this be because the church has defined the word “blessed” with what one has materially? The church, for a time now, has equaled the blessing of God with the size and location of one’s home, the type of car one drives or the label one wears. The church equivalents lifestyle to blessing rather than the change of one’s live to blessing. The definition of blessed is empowered. It would seem that one would be empowered when one has dominion over their life and all that their life involves, even when not all ducks are lined up in a row. It would seem then that true blessing is one having their right mind and peace through a season of chaos, it would be one having their health, it would be one being joined to the one that they’ve been carrying (or to the one that has been carrying them if you’re female), it would be one having enough to pay their expenses AND the expenses of someone else because they have more than enough, it is knowing the principles needed to acquire that which has belonged to you before the foundation of the world and being sustained in it with joy for true blessing doesn’t accompany sorrow.
I now recognize that 2008 was a year of evaluation for those of us who “claim” to be about our Father’s business, for those of us who were chosen to bring forth and birth change, which when I refer to change I am really referring to restoration for I believe the change we are experiencing now, the transition taking place is God stripping what man created to re-build what He designed. God must ensure that in this next wave, those in leadership have their heart right with God and toward God. God is separating the wheat from the tares in this season. He is checking to see that even if He allows one to lose all will one still serve Him. It is easy to serve God when everything is handed to you and you have all you could imagine, but can you still serve God when it seems all has been taken and what you desire seems so out of reach? Those who know God the answer is easy, yes, because we know what to do to re-build and know that re-building His way and according to His pattern this time it will last.
The appointing of now President Obama was very significant. It shows that God is now choosing and positioning for this next wave. It also shows that the heart of his people are ready to receive those He will position even if it doesn’t look how they thought it should look. For a moment He stepped back and allowed His creation to make choices, and as we can see, His creation made a mess of something so precious and sacred. His creation, again, designed something based off their own desires and even off what they felt was needed rather than according to His pattern. God has spoken, “enough is enough”. There is no more time to play church. Someone’s life, even in other countries, is relying on His creation to now be about His business and He knows better than anyone who has the right heart to do this. In this season the body is the pieces on a chessboard and God Himself is positioning those who are sincerely about His business, into places of leadership. Those who are not about what others can do for them but what they can do for others and He is removing those who have been about their own gain.
While this moment is exciting it is also very unfamiliar which is why I have learned that when in an unfamiliar place one must allow for there to be space between one’s self and God. One must allow God to go before them for the way is not one in which they have been before (even it appears similar to one’s past) but if you allow God to go first and follow you will end up in your promise land and with different results.
For me it is unfamiliar because in 2008 I began to see my life move forward in more than one area and heard God speak in ways I had not before and then saw my life come to a complete halt in more than one area, with no explanation. Where there is no explanation you must ask questions otherwise you will be confused. At that I had a choice, I could get my mind on the season and come up with my own conclusion, or I could get His mind on the season and know the “real” conclusion. I chose to get His since He knows all and sees all. See, people who get His mind aren’t shocked when certain circumstances happen. I feel as though God removed everything and everyone that I could depend on so that I can only depend on Him. Now, I can only depend on Him to know the time and the season, what Word(s) need to be coming forth from my mouth in this season of Harvest (yes, I said Harvest), to speak to my thoughts and give me peace when my flesh decides that it wants to have a discussion with me contrary to what God has instructed me to speak and believe, to give wisdom when it comes to decision making. I also recognize depending on Him in this way will be needed for my destiny. I must know Him as the all and all in my life. Therefore this unfamiliar place is beginning to be identified. It is a place of preparation that will be followed by promotion into the place that was destined for me before the foundation of the world The place that I only I can occupy because it was created for me and I for it.
I urge anyone in an unfamiliar place to get to know the One that created you for in knowing Him you really begin to know you. Unfamiliar places can also bring pitfalls so I also urge, and I know this from experience, anyone in an unfamiliar place to stay in a place of consecration. An unfamiliar place can lead to vulnerability (among other things) and vulnerability can lead to wrong decision making that one may regret later. Sometimes it is best to BE STILL until you are ABUNDENTLY CLEAR rather than attempt to do something on your own when you are treading new territory.
In this transition we must hold fast to our confessions, we must continually plant His Word, water His Word until that Word Harvests, we must obey His principles (especially financially), we must seek Him not people and obey even if it doesn’t make sense, we must worship even if we don’t have full understanding as to that which is taking place and we must trust like never before, even in loss, that the One who created us is finishing what He started concerning us and seeing it through till completion. I know He didn’t bring us this far to leave us!
My prayer life has changed recently. I see the big picture isn’t about those in my circle or me it IS about those connected to those around me and me. My prayer in this season, “God, you can take things and people from me but please don’t take the Anointing for it is the Anointing on me that others need most and it is the Anointing that equips me to go where no one else can and do what no one else can.”
Be encouraged…Your BEST days are ahead!
The Economy: I realize, for the one in covenant with God, that even with all that is transitioning for us it is not a time of retreat but a time for advance, it is not a time of loss but a time to possess. The Bible says that we are to be the Lender, not the Borrower, but up until this point the majority has lived on borrowed money. The majority lives, drives and wears that which is owned, not by them, but by some organization or business. Could this be because the church has defined the word “blessed” with what one has materially? The church, for a time now, has equaled the blessing of God with the size and location of one’s home, the type of car one drives or the label one wears. The church equivalents lifestyle to blessing rather than the change of one’s live to blessing. The definition of blessed is empowered. It would seem that one would be empowered when one has dominion over their life and all that their life involves, even when not all ducks are lined up in a row. It would seem then that true blessing is one having their right mind and peace through a season of chaos, it would be one having their health, it would be one being joined to the one that they’ve been carrying (or to the one that has been carrying them if you’re female), it would be one having enough to pay their expenses AND the expenses of someone else because they have more than enough, it is knowing the principles needed to acquire that which has belonged to you before the foundation of the world and being sustained in it with joy for true blessing doesn’t accompany sorrow.
I now recognize that 2008 was a year of evaluation for those of us who “claim” to be about our Father’s business, for those of us who were chosen to bring forth and birth change, which when I refer to change I am really referring to restoration for I believe the change we are experiencing now, the transition taking place is God stripping what man created to re-build what He designed. God must ensure that in this next wave, those in leadership have their heart right with God and toward God. God is separating the wheat from the tares in this season. He is checking to see that even if He allows one to lose all will one still serve Him. It is easy to serve God when everything is handed to you and you have all you could imagine, but can you still serve God when it seems all has been taken and what you desire seems so out of reach? Those who know God the answer is easy, yes, because we know what to do to re-build and know that re-building His way and according to His pattern this time it will last.
The appointing of now President Obama was very significant. It shows that God is now choosing and positioning for this next wave. It also shows that the heart of his people are ready to receive those He will position even if it doesn’t look how they thought it should look. For a moment He stepped back and allowed His creation to make choices, and as we can see, His creation made a mess of something so precious and sacred. His creation, again, designed something based off their own desires and even off what they felt was needed rather than according to His pattern. God has spoken, “enough is enough”. There is no more time to play church. Someone’s life, even in other countries, is relying on His creation to now be about His business and He knows better than anyone who has the right heart to do this. In this season the body is the pieces on a chessboard and God Himself is positioning those who are sincerely about His business, into places of leadership. Those who are not about what others can do for them but what they can do for others and He is removing those who have been about their own gain.
While this moment is exciting it is also very unfamiliar which is why I have learned that when in an unfamiliar place one must allow for there to be space between one’s self and God. One must allow God to go before them for the way is not one in which they have been before (even it appears similar to one’s past) but if you allow God to go first and follow you will end up in your promise land and with different results.
For me it is unfamiliar because in 2008 I began to see my life move forward in more than one area and heard God speak in ways I had not before and then saw my life come to a complete halt in more than one area, with no explanation. Where there is no explanation you must ask questions otherwise you will be confused. At that I had a choice, I could get my mind on the season and come up with my own conclusion, or I could get His mind on the season and know the “real” conclusion. I chose to get His since He knows all and sees all. See, people who get His mind aren’t shocked when certain circumstances happen. I feel as though God removed everything and everyone that I could depend on so that I can only depend on Him. Now, I can only depend on Him to know the time and the season, what Word(s) need to be coming forth from my mouth in this season of Harvest (yes, I said Harvest), to speak to my thoughts and give me peace when my flesh decides that it wants to have a discussion with me contrary to what God has instructed me to speak and believe, to give wisdom when it comes to decision making. I also recognize depending on Him in this way will be needed for my destiny. I must know Him as the all and all in my life. Therefore this unfamiliar place is beginning to be identified. It is a place of preparation that will be followed by promotion into the place that was destined for me before the foundation of the world The place that I only I can occupy because it was created for me and I for it.
I urge anyone in an unfamiliar place to get to know the One that created you for in knowing Him you really begin to know you. Unfamiliar places can also bring pitfalls so I also urge, and I know this from experience, anyone in an unfamiliar place to stay in a place of consecration. An unfamiliar place can lead to vulnerability (among other things) and vulnerability can lead to wrong decision making that one may regret later. Sometimes it is best to BE STILL until you are ABUNDENTLY CLEAR rather than attempt to do something on your own when you are treading new territory.
In this transition we must hold fast to our confessions, we must continually plant His Word, water His Word until that Word Harvests, we must obey His principles (especially financially), we must seek Him not people and obey even if it doesn’t make sense, we must worship even if we don’t have full understanding as to that which is taking place and we must trust like never before, even in loss, that the One who created us is finishing what He started concerning us and seeing it through till completion. I know He didn’t bring us this far to leave us!
My prayer life has changed recently. I see the big picture isn’t about those in my circle or me it IS about those connected to those around me and me. My prayer in this season, “God, you can take things and people from me but please don’t take the Anointing for it is the Anointing on me that others need most and it is the Anointing that equips me to go where no one else can and do what no one else can.”
Be encouraged…Your BEST days are ahead!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Healing
Healing can occur in more realms than just the physical, such as in the realm of the emotions, mentality and the spirit. I also believe that the key to physical healing is first being healed in the realm of the emotions, mentality or the spiritual. For only once the emotions are submitted to the Word and the Promises of God, only once the mentality of the one who is in need of physical healing can break out of the negativity, break out of the role of the victim and wrap their mind around the Word and the Promises of God regarding physical healing, and only once the one who is in need of physical healing is spiritually connected to the One who heals and has received their salvation through the One who heals and understands that at the time of their salvation they became a joint heir with the One who heals and thereby their healing was already received on Calvary will one be able to then believe for the One who heals to heal them.
In I Believe in Miracles it mentions that Kathryn Kuhlman strongly disapproved of anyone having the idea that her ministry was devoted only, or even primarily, to the healing of sick bodies. Ms. Kuhlman had many teachings but what everyone remembers is the many healings of sick bodies that took place and it is in this realm that the present day church operates. Now don’t get me wrong, healing of sick bodies is something we should rejoice about and ensure to give God glory for (not man) but I think it is just as important to ensure that the healing of one’s emotions, mentality and spirit take place for it is through these healings that one will gain the understanding regarding physical healing not just for themselves but to share with others. It is great to receive the miraculous power of God in a circumstance but it is greater to walk out of the circumstance with understanding of the miraculous power of God. Understanding of His Word and His Promises regarding one’s circumstance, understanding of what occurred at one’s time of salvation, understanding of what spiritual weapons to use in what season, understanding of the Anointing and how to move the Anointing into any situation by the Word, understanding of what to do when the Holy Spirit, the Power of God is present and understanding of how to reverence the Holy Spirit, the Power of God when present.
The Lord has had me studying the services of Kathryn Kuhlman and the many testimonies that took place in her services. Within the first chapter of the first book I was brought to tears. I realized just how far the present day church has gotten from the reverence of the Holy Spirit and how today the church reverences things more than the presence of the Holy Spirit, positions and titles more than the presence of the Holy Spirit. It seems the church is more interested in performing an entertaining service rather than letting the Performer of the miraculous have liberty to move. It seems the church is more interested in showcasing one’s gifts rather than showcasing the One who is the giver of the gift. It seems as soon as the atmosphere is at the place where He can move the green light goes on for the congregation to move with people jockeying to be seen laying hands or delivering a Word with the majority having no understanding in what they are doing.
What the church has learned very well is how to copy, how to copy the world, how to copy other’s anointing and callings, other’s worship, and other’s ministries. Copying does not bring forth the miraculous power of God. Dying to one’s self does. The present day church must learn what it is to die, to be broken. Watchman Nee wrote it like this, “Only one kind of basic dealing can enable man to be useful before God – brokenness.” Kathryn Kuhlman has been quoted to say, “I die a thousand deaths before every service.” Now I am sure one can still be used without these but it will never to be to the extent that God would like to use them for self, pride, fear, etc will commonly get in the way. I agree with the following statement by Ms. Kuhlman, “…To this very day, there is nothing more repulsive to me than the lack of wisdom…There is one thing I can’t stand, and that is fanaticism – the manifestations of the flesh that bring a reproach on something that is so marvelous, something that is so sacred.”
There is such a drive in me for the church to become again that oasis for those who are thirsting purely after God and the Anointing of the miraculous to touch their situations. It is here that I have been lately in consecration and in prayer/worship. It is as if I’m seeing the big picture for the first time. This has only come after the Lord had me on a 30 day Word consecration and now a 10 day fast in which I have never broke down the way I did on New Year’s Day. Nothing else matters to me anymore except seeing people who need to find God, find Him and find the real God, not the one the church has created. Nothing else matters to me anymore except seeing the church go from fanaticism to true, genuine and pure worship and reverence toward a God that nothing is impossible with and can make the way of escape out of any situation…including physical death.
I understand more and more as I read the many testimonies that occurred during the many services Ms. Kuhlman conducted that anyone who has a responsibility in a service as such must have first died to self so that they are completely out of His way, they must second have the heart of a servant and realize they are solely there to be a vessel to Him, to be that point of faith, that agreement for someone who may or may not know they need it, and thirdly they must have understanding of the different types of healings that can manifest (some do happen over a period of time) as well as the different types of individuals and their mindsets that will be present. Only when you can understand and relate to someone can you truly be effective.
I believe the Lord is identifying and promoting this year individuals who realize this really isn’t about them. It is truly about Him and His work. He is trying people’s hearts and dealing with individuals in ways He hasn’t before and I believe He is connecting individuals, who are seeking after Him to other individuals who get it and disconnecting individuals, who are seeking after Him from those who don’t.
It’s not personal…it’s just Spirit!
In I Believe in Miracles it mentions that Kathryn Kuhlman strongly disapproved of anyone having the idea that her ministry was devoted only, or even primarily, to the healing of sick bodies. Ms. Kuhlman had many teachings but what everyone remembers is the many healings of sick bodies that took place and it is in this realm that the present day church operates. Now don’t get me wrong, healing of sick bodies is something we should rejoice about and ensure to give God glory for (not man) but I think it is just as important to ensure that the healing of one’s emotions, mentality and spirit take place for it is through these healings that one will gain the understanding regarding physical healing not just for themselves but to share with others. It is great to receive the miraculous power of God in a circumstance but it is greater to walk out of the circumstance with understanding of the miraculous power of God. Understanding of His Word and His Promises regarding one’s circumstance, understanding of what occurred at one’s time of salvation, understanding of what spiritual weapons to use in what season, understanding of the Anointing and how to move the Anointing into any situation by the Word, understanding of what to do when the Holy Spirit, the Power of God is present and understanding of how to reverence the Holy Spirit, the Power of God when present.
The Lord has had me studying the services of Kathryn Kuhlman and the many testimonies that took place in her services. Within the first chapter of the first book I was brought to tears. I realized just how far the present day church has gotten from the reverence of the Holy Spirit and how today the church reverences things more than the presence of the Holy Spirit, positions and titles more than the presence of the Holy Spirit. It seems the church is more interested in performing an entertaining service rather than letting the Performer of the miraculous have liberty to move. It seems the church is more interested in showcasing one’s gifts rather than showcasing the One who is the giver of the gift. It seems as soon as the atmosphere is at the place where He can move the green light goes on for the congregation to move with people jockeying to be seen laying hands or delivering a Word with the majority having no understanding in what they are doing.
What the church has learned very well is how to copy, how to copy the world, how to copy other’s anointing and callings, other’s worship, and other’s ministries. Copying does not bring forth the miraculous power of God. Dying to one’s self does. The present day church must learn what it is to die, to be broken. Watchman Nee wrote it like this, “Only one kind of basic dealing can enable man to be useful before God – brokenness.” Kathryn Kuhlman has been quoted to say, “I die a thousand deaths before every service.” Now I am sure one can still be used without these but it will never to be to the extent that God would like to use them for self, pride, fear, etc will commonly get in the way. I agree with the following statement by Ms. Kuhlman, “…To this very day, there is nothing more repulsive to me than the lack of wisdom…There is one thing I can’t stand, and that is fanaticism – the manifestations of the flesh that bring a reproach on something that is so marvelous, something that is so sacred.”
There is such a drive in me for the church to become again that oasis for those who are thirsting purely after God and the Anointing of the miraculous to touch their situations. It is here that I have been lately in consecration and in prayer/worship. It is as if I’m seeing the big picture for the first time. This has only come after the Lord had me on a 30 day Word consecration and now a 10 day fast in which I have never broke down the way I did on New Year’s Day. Nothing else matters to me anymore except seeing people who need to find God, find Him and find the real God, not the one the church has created. Nothing else matters to me anymore except seeing the church go from fanaticism to true, genuine and pure worship and reverence toward a God that nothing is impossible with and can make the way of escape out of any situation…including physical death.
I understand more and more as I read the many testimonies that occurred during the many services Ms. Kuhlman conducted that anyone who has a responsibility in a service as such must have first died to self so that they are completely out of His way, they must second have the heart of a servant and realize they are solely there to be a vessel to Him, to be that point of faith, that agreement for someone who may or may not know they need it, and thirdly they must have understanding of the different types of healings that can manifest (some do happen over a period of time) as well as the different types of individuals and their mindsets that will be present. Only when you can understand and relate to someone can you truly be effective.
I believe the Lord is identifying and promoting this year individuals who realize this really isn’t about them. It is truly about Him and His work. He is trying people’s hearts and dealing with individuals in ways He hasn’t before and I believe He is connecting individuals, who are seeking after Him to other individuals who get it and disconnecting individuals, who are seeking after Him from those who don’t.
It’s not personal…it’s just Spirit!
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