When we depend upon man, satan will see to it the types of people who thrive upon others’ weaknesses will walk into our lives.  They see weakness and try to take advantage of us.  They see “sucker” written on our faces.  They try to manipulate and coerce.  They try to make us think we can’t do it without them.  For example, in business because we are “Christians”, we should “give ‘em a deal”, a discount or whatever.  Business and personal losses have we suffered at the hands of these persons.  We thought, we needed to do it their way.  They’re “always right,” right?  Wrong!  God is the ONE WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT!  He always knows what’s right for us.

If we allow ourselves to believe in our hearts that we are less than God says we are, we’re  opening ourselves up for a “rip off” experience, by the “rip off” artist himself, satan.   He smells intimidation, insecurity, inadequacy and inferiority a mile or even ten miles away.  God wants us to be savvy, and to be “wise as serpents and gentle as doves.”

When we allow Him to show us our weaknesses, admit He’s right, that we can do nothing apaart from Him, we’re going somewhere.  We’re going up.  Out of the pit and into the palace.  Out of the depresseion and the “mollygubbs” and into the “joy unspeakable and full of glory” place–into God’s presence.  If we stay in that place, that place of brokenness, surrender and dependence we’ll be walking in the spirit not in the flesh,  even as awesome-living “the high life “  is, as the THE SONS OF GOD!

So today we kiss the “Labans” of our lives goodbye.  We confess, I do not need you any more.  God is MY SOURCE.  He supplies all of my needs not as “Laban” did but ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS!  (Wow!)  My security is in Jesus.  My value is in Jesus.  When I’m weak, I’m strong (in Him).  He says also, “let the weak say, I am strong;   let the poor say, I’m rich; let the sick say, I’m healed; let the bound say, I’m free.”

From the salvation experience until now, we’ve always had everything we needed to do everything God’s called us to do.  It’s been there all of the time.  Where?  Inside our spirit man.  Now, how do we get from there to our minds, that distance that is about eighteen inches?  We get it by praying in the Holy Ghost, asking for interpretation in our natural language and receiving it by faith.  “I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray with my understanding.  I will sing with my spirit and I will sing with my understanding also.  For who may know the thoughts and knowledge of the Lord that he may instruct Him?  But WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST–HOLDING HIS THOUGHTS, FEELINGS AND PURPOSES IN OUR HEARTS!”   Gen. 31:35; Phil. 4:1; Jn. 10:10; Mt. 10:16; Jn. 15:5; Rm. 8:1, 14; Joel 3:10; ICor.. 14:15;  1Cor. 2:16.

This is a Word From the Lord  on April 21, 2006  given to a very anointed intercessor and prophetes that has been sent on missions to anoint with oil key places such as the capitol building in Washington, DC.   Marilyn Hoover, mahoov08@yahoo.com

“Yes, My daughter, in this day ‘Compassion’ has raised her voice as never before.  The intensity is increasing above that which was heard but with little or no response.  Today the sound is reverberating around the world and interrupting business activity as usual.  Thus the pause in the busyness is allowing interjections of the NEW  which I am bringing on the scene,  K.E.Y.S  to the Kingdom, bruce@kingdomventures.com which will totally flip-flop the old ways of doing things to open doors of that which IAM introducing to be Wisdom and Knowledge actively manifesting and ushering in My Kingdom.

There are those listening but without full understanding, but have known the presence of My Spirit’s leading and so without questioning have added to My number.  By Faith, they are walking in the Spirit with Me and as they step, that which is of the old is being shaken to where only that which I have built will remain standing.

Be not afraid, for the Host of the Lord’s Army is out in front to bring about the fulfillment of My Plans and put into motion My Course of Action by April so that the world will begin to see and to acknowledge My Presence in the earth.  Shalom!”

But when Jesus came into the earth, as planned and purposed by God our Father, born of Holy Spirit of God with no sin consciousness but knowing He was born of God, a son of God, hearing His voice and walked the earth 30 years doing what the Father told Him to do in the midst of all the wrong being done to humankind.  After being baptized by John the Baptist the Spirit of God came up on Him in Power and led Jesus into the Wilderness to confront satan.  Jesus was there 40 days being taught and sustained in the power of Holy Spirit and when faced with the devil tempting Him to bow down to worship him, Jesus responded with the Word of God.  “It is written…” [3] times Jesus responded quoting the Word which silenced satan for the time only to return another season.

Jesus demonstrated how we could live on the earth in the midst of a world ruled by evil and darkness under the control of satan by receiving and empowered by Holy Ghost Power when we accept and believe in Jesus.   If we do not willingly accept Jesus and believe that He is the Son of God but reject Him, then we also reject the Power of Holy Spirit that enables us to live a life in the abundance of God, which is the peace, love and joy as promised in God’s Word.

It is decision time!  Make a qualified decision to accept and invite Jesus to be your Lord and Saviour!  It is as simple as this…….TRUTH!

This realm is the Kingdom of God being ruled by God’s childrtem,  made in His image desiring that Freedom He had provided and promised to us, who are submitted and yielded to His protection evermore.

What the sin of Adam created by his disconnect with God was a commitment to slavery for all mankind until the time of Jesus, who came as a living,  breathing being in a human body,  just as we are.  You have to have a human body to live on this planet earth, just as you must have a space suit to live in space, otherwise without a body you would only be a spirit wondering around trying to find a body to occupy, which is what the fallen angels- demonic spirits do.  They are hitch hikers until you let them ride long enough to make your body home for themselves.   Their presence will manifest in some form of evil, they will stay until made to leave by a command from the Word of  God spoken out our mouths.

God empowered,  anointed Him from on High with  His Holy Spirit (the toooo much anointing) to teach, guide and instruct Jesus of our Spiritual nature so that Jesus could speak, teach, preach, and demonstrate how we can live and walk in the Supernatural Realm created by God above without interference of fallen angelic demon influence who have been cast back into the  pit and put into chains.

This change will be made as we each one recognize-agree-and accept that God brought  Jesus,  to exemplify how we with Holy Spirit’s Power can take control by His Words out of our  mouths to exercise dominion and occupy the earth commanding every demonic fallen angel to be confined into chains.

Your Plan, Father, is steadily, unhesitantly progressing with Holy Spirit lighting the way of truth in your word gives me peace and confidence to see my place of stepping into without any fear and do my part, in my arena or area of life.  Where I may speak your word that destroys the works of the devil for like Jesus,  we were born for this war to destroy the works of the devil setting the captives free and to bring victory.

After apologizing to the Lord for there being another misspelled word that I didn’t catch when proof-reading my post, I began declaring and decreeing changes to take place so as not to try the patienc of any English student wanting to read my Blogs.  The Lord made it clear to me why and how this kept repeating itself and always a sting to my pride.  I was practicing self-prejudice by seeing myself as a second rate writer,  not as good as  (? ) or whatever), by repeating -”I always do that” – “why can’t I do it correctly?”   The Lord revealed to me it was because of my attitude and thoughts which contradicted what I desired it to be.

Self-prejudice is as damaging as if another were gossiping about me, or as if someone were speaking negative damaging words that are really curses against me and thus the damage was being seen in the results of the work I performed,  i.e. the Blogs .   I began declaring what the Word of God says about me.  I spoke to the spirits of slovenliness, laziness, slack, haste and carelessness be broken off my life and decreed I take personal responsibility to become accountable for all that occurs in my life.  This means I must stay alert, be mindful of the truth in God’s Word, to act quickly in obedience to do what He says, so that He then can keep me completely covered and protected.

This is such a powerful lesson as it requires that we do not permit fear of any kind  to dictate our decision and govern our actions as this is in our thought pattern as well.  So we become cognizant of what is running around in our heads out of control and sooner or later it will be spoken out of our mouths.  This is our powerful weapon to defeat our enemy.  God created the earth by the Word He Spoke and we are made in His Image with His characteristics and with the same limitless abilities-therefore we create our world around us by allowing what happens.

The voice of discernment will often give us pictures through our imagination to see what God is doing in the Spiritual realm at that time.   We should set a goal to enter into and have interactivity and experiences with the Word of God.  “For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow, it judges the thought and attitudes of the heart.”  Heb. 4:1-2.

The life and activity in God’s word leaps onto us and interacts with our spirits, soul and body just as our pet welcomes us home after a long day alone.  The Word is all over us, welcome it, allow the life in the Word to wrap us in and hold us close in the arms of God.  Use your imagination looking intently on this picture of pure unadulterated affection.   “The spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing, the Words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.”  John 6:63.

We must use our imagination and meditate on the Word of God in our spirt and interact with it for it is life and not just read it and expect to understand only with our carnal mind.  John 17:17, “Sanctify them by Your truth; Your Word is truth.”  The word for “truth” also means “reality.”

The Lord told me when beginning Beauty Fom Ashes TV a Christian Interview program that the viewers would grasp the “Reality/Truth” that Jesus could be in their lives just the same as in the lives of guest testifying about  Holy Spirit acting in their lives to bring beauty out of what appeared to be an ash heap.

Jesus said Holy Spirit would guide us into all truth.. Allow Him to put pictures on the screen of our imagination so that we see ourselves as an egg size diamond perched on top of a treasure box with lid opened revealing all these sparkling gems under spot lights that are God’s gems.  We are His treasure, we are God’s diamonds with limitless value that He has placed on us as there are no others anywhere like us, for we are special -one of a kind.

The Bible is our road map to these hidden treasuers and Holy Spirit is anxious and excited to walk with us revealing and helping us to discover on the screen of our imigination how special and precious we are to God, Our Father, who created us and to Jesus Christ, our brother, God’s Son, walking with us confirming everything Holy Spirit reveals to us.

When the screen of our imigination interrupts with word pictures of condemnation, guilt, unworthyness, shame ,**FLASH**, this like the negative, fear filled words hourly coming across our tv screens which the media has tried to dominant the airwaves with words, and thoughts of darkness.  These are controlled and prompted by demonic influences from satan, God’s adversary.  This is attempting to capture and defeat us by way of our MIND -pictures in our thinking.**TURN IT OFF**in the name of Jesus.  Do not listen, see nor hear – allowing this evil to enter our spirit man which then influences our thought patterns of mind.  Scripture says “as a man thinks so is he” and “out of his heart a man speaks.” 

**Anything ever created began with a picture on the screen of imagination, for just as God created us.  “In His Image”  God saw what He desired – children – offspring like Himself possessing ALL of His nature and character with LIMITLESS  abilities……………………    Put this on the screen of your imagination!

“THIS IS THE YEAR THAT I HAVE CALLED FOR:   Nothing can stop that which I have put in motion.  You see well where I am taking you and leading others to follow,  joining their force with you which will only gain momentum like unto a rolling stone going down hill.

Joseph, Bruce, Mark  and others I have spoken to to establish happenings that will become a part of your vision will find their position and will place their shoulders  to the effort and thrust through to completion that which I have started through you,

Be Blessed, Be Open, Be Resilient, Be Responsive, Be Activated for your resilience will pave the way for others to follow,”  says the Host of the Lord’s Army.

“HOT BREAD FROM THE OVEN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!”  “Be NOT afraid!”

   5.  MEDITATE ON THE WORKS OF GOD.

In the Old Testament the word testimony comes from the word, “do again.”  The implication is that God wants to repeat His wonderful works when we speak of what He had done.  In the the New Testament we have a confirmation of  that principle in Revelation 19:10, “….the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”  This means that when we bring a testimony of the works of God to remembrance, we are actually prophesying that He can do it again now, because “Jesus it the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Heb. 13;8.

Meditating on and remembering the works of God are major keys to seeing them repeated.  King David understood this well.  That is why when he was in a period of suffering he would meditate on God’s past works.  This  not only encouraged David, but it also prophesied into the atmosphere that God could do it again.”

  “And I said, This is my anguish; but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.   I will remember the works of the Lord; surely I will remember Your wonders of old.  I will also meditate on all your work, and talk of Your deeds.” Psalms 77: 10-12.

“I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of your hands.” Psalms 143:5.

“It is incredibly important to carry the works of God with you.  Some of my favorite conversations are the ones where I can tell a new friend stories of when I have seen God at work.  For example, when I  recount to a new person my story of how a lemon-sized tumor disappeared under my hand as I prayed, the story reinvigorates my spirit with life.  It stirs the Spirit of God whithin me.  When I speak into the atmosphere of something God has done, the atmosphere becomes charged for God to do that same work again, and the faith level rises. ”

“ Carrying the testimonies of what Jesus has done brings life to dead Christianity.  I have found that non-Christians perk up and become interested when I tell of what I have seen God do.  Legalism and quoting Scripture without LOVE has turned the world off toward us, but people listen eagerly if we are sharing the stories of the works of God.”

And so I encourage you to do as Jonathan does, find a story you like of what God has done to share or speak into the atmosphere over and over again paying close attention to the change you will sense about you.  Our living God, Jesus, draws close to you when you are talking about Him as He is just as you and I are wanting to hear complimentary things about Himself.  He will be delighted to make you aware of His loving presence.  He is eager to know you, so give Him half the chance to reveal Himself to you.  He is a friend you will never let go from you, that is a deal noone can pass up.  JUST INVITE HIM IN, AS YOU WOULD ANYONE, BEING GRACIOUS WELCOMING A STRANGER INTO YOUR PRESENCE.

“When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on you in the night watches” Psm. 63:6.  By keeping our mind focused on the Lord, we encourage our abiding relationship with Him. 
There are many ways to meditate on the Lord.  One of the most  practical that I have found is focusing on the names of the Lord.  Names equal nature, so by revealing His name to us, God has revealed His nature to us.  If  He says that His name is, “Jehovah Rapha, The Lord Our Healer,” then He is sharing with us that His nature is that of a healer. Here are some of the names of the Lord with which to begin our study:

El-Shaddai–The Almighty God (Gen. 17: 1-2)
Jehovah-Jireh–The Lord Our Provider (Gen. 22:14)
Jehovah-Rapha–The Lord Our Healer (Exod.15:22-16)
Jehovah-Tsidqenu–The Lord Our Righteousness (Jer. 33:16)
Jehovah-Nissi–The Lord is My Banner (Exod. 17:15)
Jehovah-Shalom–The Lord Our Peace (Judg. 6:24)
Jehovan-Shammah–The Lord Is There (Ezek. 48:35)
Jehovah-Sabaoth–The Lord of Hosts (Rom. 9:29)

I regularly go on walks around my neighborhood. As I walk, I pray and talk with God. I tell Him everything I am thinking and what is on my heart. At these times the Lord usually reminds me of one of His names.  Perhaps I tell Him that I am upset and confused because someone I prayed for didn’t get healed. He settles my heart and reminds me that He is Jehovah Rapha, The Lord My Healer. Sometimes while praying I share how weak I am in a certain area, and then I declare, “Lord You are my …(righteousness, healer, provider, etc.–fill in the blank). Meditating on God Himself has been a large part of my prayer life. ”

Put into practice what Jonathan is sharing with you and be prepared for a surprise and the manner in which He will reveal Himself to you.   He is more eager to talk with you than you are with Him.  I promise you it will be an experience that you will not want to be without .  “School of the Seers” by Jonathan Welton is a book  you will want to read about the miracles and many experiences that await you in your walk with Jesus.

“NO 2.  MEDITATE ON THE WORD OF GOD.  The Bible is ‘God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work’ (2 Tim. 3:16-17).   The importance of meditating on the Word is self-evident to many of us.  But for good measure, consider Joshua 1:8:  Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.  Then you will be prosperous and succesful.’

“One of my favortie books of the Bible is Proverbs,” says Jonathan Welton in his book The School of the Seers.’  “When I read it and a verse speaks to me, I repeat it out loud several times, I ponder it, and I chew on it.  Then I carry that verse in my heart and mind all day long.  It becomes my bread for the day.”   (The hot bread for the day and not warmed over bread from yesterday.)  “The next day I open Proverbs again and pull out another piece of bread.”  (The word is the sword of the spirit that you pull out to defeat your enemy- not that you battle-but the Word, the Sword does the defeating.)   “If I can find a way to incorporate that word for the day into a conversation with someone, this helps me remember the verse for the future.  The true value of scripture memorization is in application.”   

“NO 3.  MEDITATE ON PROPHETIC WORDS.   There are many things that should be done with prophetic words: testing, judging, proving, warring with, praying over them, and walking them out.”   (Here are [7] seven ways given by the Lord of what to do with words spoken through someone as from Him.)  “One aspect that seems to be under-taught is that we should meditate upon our prophetic words, 1Tim. 4:14-15 says,  Do not neglect the gift that is in you which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.  Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.”

  The above are different steps to meditating as taught by the Lord to Jonathan Welton as practical guide on how to see in the unseen realm and included in his book  “The School of the Seers.”  There are yet two more that will be posted  for your convience and support.  You are well on your way in discovering a whole new realm of life.