HIDDEN WISDOM (c) by Morris E. Ruddick (SIGN)

HIDDEN WISDOM (c) Morris E. Ruddick "Wisdom is better than might, although a poor man's wisdom is despised and his words not heeded. The words of the wise, spoken quietly, should be heard, rather than the shout of those who rule among fools." Eccl 9:16-17 The Word of God is a treasure trove of the wisdom for life, together with the principles needed for the community of God's people to live out their destinies, according to His ways. Solomon was anointed with extraordinary wisdom. Yet, in all his observations (Eccl 3:11), he was quick to note that the extents and depths of God were beyond the best of our human capacities. Among his reflections in Ecclesiastes is the story of a small community that was attacked by a numerically superior force (Eccl 9:14-16). Within that city was a poor man who possessed the wisdom that saved the city. Yet, once the status quo was restored, no one remembered him. Repeatedly Solomon points to truths reflecting the need for the practical, often hidden wisdom to reorient our distorted, short-sighted view and value of things. He notes that a living dog is better than a dead lion and that a dead fly can cause the perfumers ointment to putrefy and smell vile. Solomon also discerns (Eccl 9:18) that while wisdom can prove mightier than weapons of war, one sinner can destroy the inherent good. So it was with the story of the poor, wise man, who saved the city. The wisdom of the poor man who saved the city did not conform to the prevailing popular perception of things. God's available wisdom too often can be constrained and overshadowed by distorted prisms and be sought from the wrong places. The Right Thing the Wrong Way Jacob went through many years of hardship by reaching for the right thing the wrong way. While his clever deceits pushed the envelope, he faced setbacks because there was always someone a little more clever than he was. Despite his dramatic, life-changing encounter with the Angel of the Lord, as he finally acknowledged that he was in over his head, when faced with reuniting with Esau, his ways influenced and were passed on to his sons. The sons of Jacob defiled what God intended for their generational blessing and destiny, when deceitfully they took things into their own hands over the matter of their sister Dinah and Schechem. The story of Joseph is one of God's anticipatory redemption of the calling that flowed from their great-grandfather Abraham. It was marked by hidden wisdom, the prophetic wisdom that God invested in Joseph. However, at its start, within his own household, this wisdom was despised and resented by all, but Jacob. In reading the history of God's people, from generation to generation, it has followed the same sequence. God demonstrates His power and blessing with a generation that finally "gets it" and establishes something eternal, only to have it marginalized, with the "God-essence" squeezed out with a misguided, but prevailing "conventional," often contemporary wisdom. What seems to result is short-sighted, as the real significance of what God has done succumbs to defilements and myopic diminishments. When deliverance comes through "hidden" wisdom, the reality is that it had already had been evidenced in the prior generations. The cycle of recovery comes through a generation getting "beyond themselves," in repentant humility, in their quest for that "something more" dimension in God. The Cultural Threshold There is a threshold that has been sought by cultures and generations. It is the threshold that taps the resources of God's glory. It is the chasm that is bridged when the limitations of the natural are superseded by the supernatural. "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither is bread to the wise nor riches to men of intelligence and understanding, nor favor to men of skill." Eccl 9:11 When released, dramatic change results. No power on earth can stand against it. Yet, not unlike the time of the tower of Babel, cultures and generations possess a power, blinded against God, that transcends the sum of it parts. This power ties into the dynamic of the tree of knowledge that was perverted in the garden. Counterfeits have abounded. It is why God told Abraham to leave his family and the country of Ur, the land of the Chaldeans where sorcery had its roots. God's glory and the release of His hidden wisdom will not abide or compromise with either the occult or pop wisdom. It operates on a spiritual level far beyond the counterfeits and illusions of a watered-down status quo. This threshold must be overcome in God to see the true reality of God operating. When this takes place, it releases what we call revival or the ongoing manifest Presence of God among a people. In his interactions with the rulers of the lands where sorcery dominated, Abraham began being recognized as the man with a quietness of wisdom that commanded the respect of having as its source, the one true God. When a culture, religion or the occult faces the purity of God, Light will always dispel darkness. Throughout the history of God's people, it has always been a choice of the real or the counterfeit. The Source of Blindness To understand the gap to be bridged, we need to understand the biblical concept of iniquities. While some simply count iniquities as sin, which they are, they are more than that. Some also view iniquities as generational sins, which indeed they are. However, again and again, the context of iniquities is cultural. Iniquities are something deeper and ingrained in the traditions of men, taken on and passed on not only by a generation, but by a culture of people. Iniquities are the hidden, often deemed acceptable sins of a people. The story of the sons of Jacob and their response to Schechem and their sister Dinah is a story of sons embracing the conniving, deceitful iniquities of their father. Yet in Micah 7:19 the word of God tells us that God will "subdue" our iniquities. It will come from our pure, humble response and grasp of His presence. The fine line is in closing the door to iniquities, while sinking deep roots of our cultural identities -- in God. "You shall teach these things diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up." Deut 6:7 Iniquities are in essence hidden masks. They replace the gaps of our understanding of the ways of God with distorted human understanding. They become snares and hurdles to the pure presence of God. Examples of iniquities impeding the wisdom that only God can provide are the cleverness, conniving, pretense and limitations of human reasoning. Their subtle roots are removed only by the diligent mix of seeking God as first priority and repentance. The roots of iniquities are found in the subtleties of pride. It is why the word of God places so much importance on humility. Humility is the cloak needed for a generation to overcome the transgressions that have become the established way around them. Throughout Proverbs we are warned about pride. Prideful enlargement is equated with death by Habakkuk (Hab 2:5). While the Lord is the God of increase, the right thing done the wrong way is wrong. Likewise, Samuel rebuked Saul with the observation that stubbornness is as the sin of witchcraft. In like fashion, Jesus again and again told his followers to "fear not." Each of these factors are subtle, generally condoned behaviors that mask the operation of the pure, "hidden" wisdom reflected by the poor man, which is readily available, but too often remains dormant in the word of truth. The Wellspring There are factors that accelerate the process by which a generation of God's people peel back and grasp the wisdom required for times of change. It begins with recognizing the need. The process both begins and advances by tapping and becoming immersed in the Wellspring. When God's people come together in unity and humility, seeking the Lord, then revelation is imparted. With Solomon's insight of there being nothing new under the sun, what is fresh and new for the needs of a generation is in reality ancient wisdom, hidden in God's word. "Teachers who have been instructed in the Kingdom are like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old." Matt 13:52 Paul wrote the Colossians (2:9) that in Jesus is the embodiment, the fullness of the Godhead. In Him are the depths of the wisdom that Solomon, despite all his own extensive anointing in wisdom, recognized as the wellspring of wisdom that is beyond any human capacity. Jesus is the Source. Tapping the Source Jesus made it very clear that a key role of the Holy Spirit is to impart truth. Jesus told His followers that when the Holy Spirit came, He would guide us into Truth (John16:13). The acceleration of this process of tapping the hidden wisdom that releases God's supernatural into otherwise impossible situations will combine an unequivocal cultural identity in God, a clear grasp of God's heart and the cause, a mobilized following, embracing the Holy Spirit as teacher, and a bedrock priority to our faith. Cultural Identity. From the beginning, God's people have served as a distinct culture within the surrounding cultures. Their identity has been as a people of God. This is the observation that Jesus made in John 17 when He said we would be in the world, but not of the world. We are citizens of God's Kingdom and God's ambassadors demonstrating His reality and life to a world without hope. Grasp of the Cause. God has always intended those who are known by His Name to be a people of influence, bearing the mantle of Abraham, to be blessed to be a blessing. God's priorities and focus will result when our hearts become truly aligned with His heart. That means time spent with Him and spiritual maintenance. We are people of Truth, bearing witness to the standard of Truth established by the One who is the source of Truth. We are catalysts changing the spiritual climate in our sphere, penetrating the darkness with His light. This is the driving purpose for both individuals and the community of His people. Mobilized Following. The role of leadership is mobilizing God's people in their life-purpose to make a difference in the surrounding society. One of the most subtle spiritual immobilizers has been the dichotomy between the sacred and the secular whereby the success of spiritual leaders is judged by the ability to raise money. Fund-raising and increase may be involved, but the goal is not money, it's the by-product. Nor is the primary goal congregational membership or attendance at services, but rather the mobilization and equipping of every true believer into God's specific calling on their lives. The Holy Spirit as Teacher. The only way every believer can be activated and guided into the fullness of their purpose is by introducing them to a proactive prayer life and the role of the Holy Spirit as their Teacher Who guides them into the truths bearing on their life-purpose. The Priority of Faith. For the most part, the way of the Kingdom is a paradox to the way the world normally operates. Bedrock to our faith is the fine line between recognizing that it is not what we can do for God, but rather what we allow Him to do through us. That truth, together with accessing God's hidden wisdom, rests on a humility, which is required to be truly led by Spirit, rather than becoming ambitious zealots whose efforts are the result of human confidence and achievement. The alignment of these factors, both individually and as a community, will open the gates into the secret place of His presence. They become the catalyst for the release of God's manifest presence. From that will flow the hidden wisdom from above, against which no other power can stand. The Secret Place I've long recognized this type of resolute identity with those who have found that "secret place" of regularly abiding in God's presence. Leaders I've worked with in persecuted nations who have spent time in prison for their faith have found that secret place. It is clearly not a matter of "what you know," but rather "Who you regularly abide with." Joseph found that secret place in God as a slave and then, due to no fault of his own, experienced spiritual backlash and became a prisoner. Having lost his family and his freedom when enslaved in Egypt, Joseph never had an issue with his identity. It was recognized by all those around him. Everyone saw that God was with him and that he extended the blessing of God to those he served (Gen 39:2-4), making all that he did to prosper. His identity was firmly established in God. He operated as a culture within a culture. Despite Joseph's lowly position, an authority and influence flowed from his identity, his faith and his purpose in God. It flowed from the hidden wisdom that came from the secret place of God's presence, a place that Joseph learned to abide in and use as the navigator through the challenging corridors in his journey to God's place of opportunity and destiny. Pure faith and humility will always close the gap and open the gates into God-opportunities. "He who speaks from his own self seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of Him who sent him is true and no unrighteousness dwells in him." John 7:18 ___________________________________________________ Morris Ruddick has been a forerunner and spokesman for the call of God in the marketplace since the mid-90s. As founder of Global Initiatives Foundation and designer of the God's Economy Entrepreneurial Equippers Program, Mr. Ruddick imparts hope and equips economic community builders where God's light is dim in both the Western and non-Western world.   He is author of "The Joseph-Daniel Calling;" "Gods Economy, Israel and the Nations;" "The Heart of a King;" "Something More;" "Righteous Power in a Corrupt World;" and "Leadership by Anointing," which address the mobilization of business and governmental leaders called to impact their communities with God's blessings. They are available in print and e-versions from www.Amazon.com,www.BarnesandNoble.com and other popular outlets.   Global Initiatives Foundation (www.strategic-initiatives.org) is a tax-exempt 501 (c) 3 non-profit whose efforts are enabled by the generosity of a remnant of faithful friends and contributors whose vision aligns with God's heart to mobilize the persecuted church to be the head and not the tail. Checks on US banks should be made out to Global Initiatives and mailed to PO Box 370291, Denver CO 80237 or email us atsign@strategicintercession.org for access information on our secure web-site. Likewise, email us to schedule a seminar for your congregation on the wisdom the persecuted church has for the times emerging in the West.   2014 Copyright Morris Ruddick - sign@strategicintercession.org Reproduction is prohibited unless permission is given by a SIGN advisor. Since 1996, the Strategic Intercession Global Network (SIGN) has mobilized prophetic intercessors and leaders committed to targeting strategic-level issues impacting the Body on a global basis. For previous posts or more information on SIGN, check:http://www.strategicintercession.org

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Wrestling With Wicked Witchcraft—and Winning by JENNIFER LECLAIRE

Wrestling With Wicked Witchcraft—and Winning

10/16/2014  CHARISMA MAGAZINE

In this season of spiritual darkness, are you having witchcraft dreams? (Flickr/Christine Zenino)

It started a little later than usual, but spiritual witchcraft is rising—and rising rapidly—in South Florida this October. My community is home to a large population of witches, pagans, Wiccans and other heathens who practice one form of witchcraft or another. Your community may not have palm trees and beaches, but it's likely got a few witches, pagans, Wiccans and heathens practicing witchcraft.

A quick scan of the latest news reveals that reports of witchcraft-related child abuseare on the rise in London; two children were tortured and dumped on the streets over witchcraft in Akwa Ibom; a pastor who runs several churches in Kiambu and Meru was found practicing witchcraft; authorities have tied Texas drug smugglers to witchcraft, cartels and a house explosion; and seven people accused of witchcraft were burned to death in Tanzania.

When I first moved to South Florida, I battled Jezebel and her witchcrafts (see 2 Kings 9:22) with limited success for at least a year before I learned to discern the attack of this spiritual enemy at its onset, submit myself to God's Word, resist the devil and command it to flee in the name of Jesus (see James 4:7, AMP). Now, I am much quicker to sense witchcraft operating in the spirit, but sometimes witchcraft attacks in your sleep.

Witchcraft Dreams

Earlier this year, I wrote an article called When Jezebel's Witchcraft Keeps You Up at Night. I wrote it in March, which, along with October, is a prime time for witchcraft manifestations. In March, it has more to do with the spiritual climate that stems from false Mary worship. In October, it's more about the witches, pagans, Wiccans and heathens practicing witchcraft.

As I explained in my article earlier this year, the enemy has used a different tactic in 2014. Since the spiritual forces of darkness could not slow me down by day, the attacks are coming at night. I've started having what I call witchcraft dreams. A more complete way of explaining it would be to say I've experienced dream activity inspired by witchcraft rumbling in the spiritual climate.

While we watch kids dress up as witches and knock on doors asking for candy, bona fide witches are celebrating their holy day and Witches' Sabbath. October 21 is also Samhain, a Gaelic festival that marks the finale of harvest season and the start of winter. One Paganism/Wiccan expert explained, "It's a good time to contact the spirit world with a séance, because it's the time when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest."

Symptoms of Witchcraft

People who are especially sensitive to the spiritual realm can sense witchcraft in the atmosphere. As demonic activity increases, people report feelings of oppression, fatigue, strong spiritual warfare against the mind that makes you feel like quitting, and even physical manifestations for which doctors can't find a reason. Are you experiencing any of these things?

When witchcraft is particularly heavy in the spiritual climate, my eyes actually burn. Everything seems like a much bigger deal than it really is because witchcraft works to take your eyes off Jesus by magnifying the problem. The enemy can use people to release witchcraft against you through word curses, but this spiritual force seems to sometimes hang over your head like a dark cloud—unless you break it.

In my book, Satan's Deadly Trio: Defeating the Deceptions of Jezebel, Religion and Witchcraft, I write: "We need the gift of discernment to truly understand what we're battling. We can't effectively take authority over false authority in the name of Jesus if we can't discern what we're taking authority over. Sure, there are the generic 'I bind every spirit that is not of Christ, in the name of Jesus!' prayers but my experience tells me those will only take you so far in battle."

Combating Spiritual Witchcraft

Just because you are exhausted, feeling oppressed, are battling in your mind, or otherwise sense a struggle doesn't mean that you are necessarily battling witchcraft. You need the Holy Spirit to show you what is going on. That said, if it's October and you are consistently facing these symptoms—and specifically if you are having vivid nightmares suddenly—you should ask the Holy Spirit if witchcraft plays a role.

With nightmares and bad dreams, it could just be that you ate too much too late at night, that you are processing internal fears in your soul, that your subconscious mind is dredging up strong emotions from your past, or some other natural cause. However, it could also be spiritual witchcraft. If it is, what do you do?

I wrote more about this in a past article called Overcoming Witchcraft Attacks Against Your Mind and Body. If you are experiencing nightmares, I'd also suggest reading that and also remembering and confessing this: "You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day (Psalm 91:5). And this: 
"When you lie down, you will not be afraid; yes, you will lie down and your sleep will be sweet" (Prov. 3:24).

Pray over yourself before you go to sleep—plead the blood of Jesus and command these spirits to cease their operations in the name of Jesus. And if you wake up with one of these bad dreams, do it again. The spiritual climate is intense for these next couple of weeks, but we are overcomers by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Amen.

Click here to download a free chapter of Jennifer's new book, Satan's Deadly Trio: Defeating the Deceptions of Jezebel, Religion and Witchcraft.

Jennifer LeClaire is news editor of Charisma. She is also director of Awakening House of Prayer in Fort Lauderdale and author of several books, including Satan's Deadly Trio: Defeating the Deceptions of Jezebel, Religion and Witchcraft, and The Spiritual Warrior's Guide to Defeating Jezebel. You can visit her website here. You can also join Jennifer on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.

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Where Are the Christian Men?

10/16/2014 PAUL MAXWELL charisma magazine spirtled Woman

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She was a single Christian friend (totally just friends), venting her frustration about immature men. It was casual, because that kind of venting is common. It was over coffee. It cut deep.

"Christian men ... ugh."

As a male Christian college student with no wife, no steady job, and no financial independence, I squirmed with unease and insecurity. She wasn't attacking me; just issuing a general complaint to the universe. The words effortlessly flowed out of her mouth like she had said them a million times before, and I wasn't prepared for the adjectives that would be slung in the conversation: "Immature." "Childish." "Lazy." "Weak." "Pathetic." Wait for it ... "Man-Boys."

At a level, the tone we use to speak about young Christian men today would be self-evidently disrespectful in another context. And to state the obvious, it cuts the deepest when coming from our single female counterparts. There are a slew of legitimate reasons a single Christian woman would be tempted to rag on immature men. (1) Secular women offer a pre-packaged and intuitive man-boy bashing liturgy. (2) She (or a friend) dated a guy, got burned, and reinterpreted him through the lens of hurt as a "man-boy." (3) Taking jabs at immature men is a fun and easy way to sequester the chilling reality of singleness.

It's understandable, but can I please say this? It's not OK. The term "man-boy" (sometimes "man-child," "baby-man," etc.) is a slur. It is used to personally demean and debase a class of Christians. It is a put-down. It expresses contempt and exhibits haughtiness. And, worst of all, it defines the value of humans in God's image according to their gender performance.

The Problem Is Not Laziness

"But," you say, "there are a lot of Christian men who exhibit disappointing behaviors." This is true, but I'm not convinced categories like sinfulness or laziness, common explanations, properly capture the issue. Perhaps laziness points beyond itself—maybe it is symptomatic of a more systemic problem. Let's interpret the classic "man-boy" behaviors through a lens other than laziness:

   Delaying marriage can help: avoid shared physical, emotional and spiritual space, and retreat into personal space.

   Neglecting the Bible and church can help: avoid divine intimacy, and retreat into personal life.

   Floating without ambition can help: avoid work hours, and retreat into personal time.

   Playing video games chronically can help: avoid external reality, and retreat into virtual reality.

   Living at home can help: avoid external pressures, and retreat into internal comforts.

Modern-Day Fig Leaves

"Lazy" is a surface-level description. "Avoid" moves us toward an explanation of the heart. Scripture tells us that the heart is always active (Gen. 6:5;Deut. 11:6; Jer. 17:5, 9; 1 Pet. 1:22), so our description of the heart should always be in the active voice (I'm not saying avoidance is the problem, but it helps us get a bit deeper than the laziness concept).

"Avoid" is a door to a slew of other active words and a host of other realities of the heart: fear ("What if I fail?"), anxiety ("I can't handle this!"), depression ("I hate myself/life"), feelings of insufficiency ("I am not enough"), self-deprecation ("I am stupid/dirty/undesirable"), shame ("God and neighbor are disgusted with me"), and a thousand more. "I would rather escape than publicly be put to shame" (cf. Rev. 6:16).

These categories give us a new perspective. "Man-boys" aren't first and foremost struggling with being men, but with being human. Singleness, solitude, laziness, video games and Mom's house are modern-day fig leaves—self-made coverings for men who are stripped of competence and deeply ashamed of their inability to engage with the realities of life because of their experience with the Oppressor (Is. 14:4), who seeks to spread confusion and chaos among God's people (John 8:44; 2 John 7; Rev. 12:10).

The Solution Is Not 'Try Harder'

The need of the day is not for the church of Jesus Christ to rip away the leaves but to start clothing them with the God-made garment of the gospel (Gen. 3:21). The solution to immaturity among young Christian guys is not remembering truths or tightening regulations, but a Person who did not avoid our realities but rushed into them for our sake: Jesus (Luke 2:52; Phil. 2:6-9)—Jesus, with his intercession, charity and grace.

Surely women aren't to blame for male immaturity or responsible for changing men. But what can single Christian women do about this phenomenon of immaturity—for their brothers in Christ—besides vent and name-call (Matt. 18:15; 1 John 3:14)? Here are some ways that they can help:

1. Intercessory Prayer

Pray for more fathers to take seriously their role to teach their children how to engage the world and not avoid it. Pray for men in general to do the same for guys without fathers. Pray for men to change, not merely at a behavioral level, but at a heart level—to move toward God and neighbor in the midst of indwelling sin and external oppression (Luke 10:27).

2. Charity

Speak well of others (Eph. 4:31). Treat the immaturity of young men the same way you would treat any other issue in the church: with diligence, faithfulness and love—the very same traits Paul includes in his imperative to "be men" (1 Cor. 16:13-14). This means that women are not reacting with cynicism or using the term "man-boy" (Eph. 4:29).

3. Faith

God is disciplining immature men to grow them up (Heb.12:11). He doesn't need your snide comments to help (Prov. 11:12). Trust that God has not abandoned men to immaturity, but is finishing the work that he began (Phil. 1:6).

4. Grace

All temptation is common to humankind (1 Cor. 10:13). The fear that exists in a man's heart may manifest itself in different (gender-specific) ways in your life. No matter whom you date, he will be a sinful man (Rom. 3:23) who is immature and afraid, and if he is a Christian, God is overcoming evil that is against him and in him (Phil. 2:13; Rom. 16:20). I'm not saying Jesus wants you to date a loser. He doesn't. All I'm saying is this: Don't just date a gospel-centered Christian; date like a gospel-centered Christian (1 Pet. 4:8).

Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said that nature has affectionately equipped women "with an instinct so sensitive that by comparison the most superior masculine reflection is as nothing" (Sickness Unto Death, XI, 162). Sisters, prove Kierkegaard right. Outdo us in prayer, charity, faith and grace, and we men will try to outdo you in godly discipline and ambition. Then, perhaps mutual awe of the One "who helps us in our weakness" will bloom in due course (Rom. 8:26).

This article was originally published on desiringGod.org, and is used with permission. You can read the original article here: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/talking-about-man-boys

Prophetic Warning: 'Great Humbling' Coming to America - Larry Randolph with Sid Roth

10/17/2014 CHARISMA NEWS STAFF

Larry Randolph offers prophetic warnings and hope on "Sid Roth's It's Supernatural." (YouTube)

Larry Randolph shares his prophetic journey with Sid Roth, as well as offering stark new prophecies for America, Israel and the world.

The Breaths of God by Kathie Walters - Identity Network

The Breaths of God 

by Kathie Walters

Identity Network

 

Yesterday I had a vision of a golden angel. He had a golden bow and golden arrows. The gold represents the glory and the arrows are words from the Lord. The bow represents His servants, prophets, but not necessarily as in five-fold ministry prophet, because the Bible says we may all prophesy one by one (1 Cor 1:31).  So any one of us can prophesy and encourage one another.  A prophet, as in five-fold ministry, is someone that can discern the word of the Lord in any given situation. It's not someone that can prophesy over people (although it includes that).  We may all prophesy….

 

So now is the time you can believe for a word for yourself (an arrow), or be open to give one.

 

Well today I had so many words of knowledge visions - I couldn't keep up with them. Every time someone mentioned a name I saw pictures - visions, and when I read people's names on Facebook I saw visions  - just pictures, but so many, one after the other, after the other.

 

So the breaths of God are moving everywhere….blowing away the dust of religion. Do you know that every move of God develops its own religious ways and religious traditions eventually, which later on have to be broken, in order to receive the new things that God is bringing to the Body of Christ.

 

You can believe for an arrow - a word - you can chill out and relax because you can't earn anything from God.

 

But you can believe that, "God is working in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure." (Phil  2:13)

 

Living in the Spirit Realm

 

Your spirit man is the real you isn't it?  Because He is eternal and the eternal spirit dwells in you. Your spirit man lives in the spirit realm.  He doesn't jump in and out.  He always lives in the spiritual realm.  Your spirit man prophesies all the time, because He is prophetic. Your spirit man has visions continually because He lives and dwells in that realm. Your spirit man lives in the heavenly places, so it's not unusual for us to have visitations from God and visitations to heavenly places. After all that's your home.

 

The spirit of religion always tries to make you do what only God can do. The spirit of religion always promotes striving and trying in you. Those are the very things that take you OUT of the spirit realm.  Your spirit is not striving and  "working at it."  Everything you have is a gift. I want to add that living in the spirit and moving in the spirit is not hard.  It's very easy and sometimes that's a problem because a lot of people struggle with the fact that there is nothing we can do to qualify or earn points. Jesus and all He represents - salvation, healing, deliverance, Baptism of the Spirit is a wonderful gift from God. He wants us to receive it. If I gave you a precious gift from my heart and then you came to see what you could do to earn it I would be very upset. It was a heart thing not a legal thing. Jesus came to establish the New Covenant. The New Covenant is all about God's  heart when you think of it. He even gave you a new heart to match His! 

 

"A new heart and a new spirit I will put within them." (Ez 36:26)      

 

The Breaths, Rain and Torrents

 

So as I travel all over the world I see the same things happening. People who a couple of years ago were contented, are hungry again, and when you are hungry God can move in you and on you because you are open. The breaths of God are coming and are refreshing. I think of the famous prophesy that was given to Arthur Burt and a small group of people in 1930, in England. Bob Jones confirmed it without ever meeting Arthur Burt at the time. It talks about the end time move of God. It talks about the breath and then the rain and then torrents. In fact I have placed it here for you to read. It's good to know where we are in the plan of God.

 

"THERE SHALL COME A BREATH AND THE BREATH SHALL BRING THE WIND AND THE WIND SHALL BRING THE RAIN AND THE RAIN SHALL BRING THE FLOODS AND FLOODS AND FLOODS AND THE FLOODS SHALL BRING THE TORRENTS AND TORRENTS AND TORRENTS.

 

SO SHALL THEY BE SAVED LIKE FALLING LEAVES FROM THE MIGHTY OAKS SWEPT BY A HURRICANE IN A GREAT FOREST. ARMS AND LEGS SHALL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND THERE SHALL BE NO EBB."  

 

Kathie Walters

www.kathiewaltersministry.com

kathiewalters@mindspring.com

Christians, Jews Team Up to Fight Islamic Persecution

By Julie Stahl and Chris Mitchell

CBN News Middle East Bureau

Saturday, October 18, 2014

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- As stories of new beheadings of Christian children in Iraq come to light, many wonder - who will speak out against it?

Now Jews and Christians are banding together to fight growing persecution of Christians in Islamic countries.

"When hundreds of thousands of Christians - men, women and children - are killed, this isn't a war, this is genocide. And Jews know what happens when the world is silent to genocide," World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder told participants at the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem's annual Feast of Tabernacles celebration in Jerusalem.

Lauder advocates for Jewish people around the world. Now he's teaming up with the ICEJ and Empowered21 to fight Christian persecution.

"What's happened to the Christians (is) they're being massacred and killed," Lauder told CBN News in an interview. "Some 120,000 were killed last year and no one says anything. Everyone's focusing on Gaza now and the fact is the world is coming apart."

The WJC, Empowered21 and the ICEJ sent a letter recently to more than 100 world leaders calling on them to take up the cause of persecuted Christians in Muslim countries. Together, the three groups represent millions around the world.

ICEJ Executive Director Jurgen Buhler told journalists, "For the first time to my knowledge in modern history, probably even in the history of Jewish-Christian relations, a Jewish organization and a Christian organization are joining in a letter to protect Christians in the Middle East." 
 
"There has simply been a horrendous thing that has been going on. Christianity is dwindling in the Middle East. We believe it should be growing," Oral Roberts University President Billy Wilson, co-chairman of Empowered21 Global Council, told CBN News.

Canon Andrew White, known as the Vicar of Baghdad, said ISIS beheaded 30 more children on Saturday who refused to convert to Islam.

"The children said, 'We have always followed Yesua [Arabic]. We will never leave Yesua.' They all had their heads chopped off. This is the kind of terror that we are facing," White told journalists.

Lauder encouraged more than 4,000 Christians from 80 nations at the Feast of Tabernacles celebration to fight together.

In Paul's second letter to Timothy, he wrote that God did not give us a spirit of fear but the spirit of power," Lauder told Christian pilgrims at the feast.

"Do not fear. Have courage. Have strength and as one, Christians and Jews, we will be strengthened together and we will, we will not fail," he said.

Ancient Ritual Bath with WWII Graffiti Uncovered by Archaeologists

By Ahuva Balofsky October 15, 2014  BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for purification and for sprinkling.” (Zechariah 13:1)

The water cistern. (Photo: Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Two interesting discoveries were made recently at Ha-Ela Junction near Beit Shemesh. The first, an ancient ritual bath and water cistern dating back nearly 2,000 years, was accompanied by a more modern marking: graffiti from the Second World War.

The tandem discoveries were made during excavations to prepare for the widening of a local highway. The ritual bath, or mikve, itself is 1,900 years old. According to Yoav Tzur of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the site also contained other archaeological treasures.

“We exposed a mikve in which there are five steps; the fifth step being a bench where one could sit at the edge of the immersion pool. We found fragments of magnificent pottery vessels there dating to the second century CE, among them lamps, red burnished vessels, a jug and cooking pots,” he said.

Tsur explained that the ritual bath itself probably ceased to be used during the Bar Kochba revolt, which began in 132 CE. In its southern wall there is an opening to the large water reservoir. “It seems that in an early phase it was a smaller reservoir and functioned as the “otzar” (water collecting vat) for the mikve,” he said.

According to Jewish law, ritual baths are used for purification. They must contain water from a natural source, such as a spring or rain. Often, rainwater mikves are accompanied by such reservoirs to store the required rainwater.

“When the mikve ceased to be used the cistern’s original cavity was increased to its current large dimensions and an extensive surface was built nearby which facilitated drawing water,” he added.

When the ritual bath was excavated, archaeologists were surprised to uncover a modern artifact: graffiti on the ceiling of the reservoir which included the date 30/05/1940, initials RAE and two numbers – NX7792 and NX9168 and the names Cpl Scarlett and Walsh.

Assaf Peretz, an archaeologist and historian with the IAA, described the efforts made to identify the two men.

“Since the initials Cpl signify the rank of corporal, we can assume that these were soldiers who wanted to leave their mark there. An inquiry with the proper authorities revealed that the numbers engraved inside the cistern are actually soldiers’ serial numbers and that RAE stands for Royal Australian Engineers,” he explained.

“A search in the Australian government archives revealed the following information: Corporal Philip William Scarlett was born in Melbourne in 1918, was drafted into the army in 1939, survived the war and died in 1970, shortly before his fifty-second birthday. His comrade, Patrick Raphael Walsh, was born in 1910 in Cowra, was drafted in 1939, survived the war and passed away in 2005 at the age of 95. It seems that the two were members of the Australian Sixth Division which was stationed in the country at the time of the British Mandate and was undergoing training prior to being sent into combat in France.”

The engraved graffiti left by the Australian soldiers. (Photo: Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

In addition to the graffiti, Peretz said, “the fins of British mortar bombs were found while searching the site, as were twenty-seven rifle cartridges, six of which were manufactured in Australia and fired in the region.”

Tsur elaborated on the significance of the discovery. “The finds from this excavation allow us to reconstruct a double story: about the Jewish settlement in the second century CE, probably against the background of the events of the Bar Kokhba revolt, and another story, no less fascinating, about a group of Australian soldiers who visited the site [about] 1,700 years later and left their mark there.”

The Netivei Israel Company, which is responsible for the road construction, financed the excavations. At the request of the IAA, the company has agreed to alter its plans in order to preserve the ritual bath and cistern and incorporate them into the landscape.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/22848/ancient-ritual-bath-wwii-graffiti-uncovered-archaeologists/#RFiZJyvFoQdQliWC.99

Batman Meets Moses as Hollywood Goes Biblical (VIDEO)

By Raphael Poch October 14, 2014   BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“She named him Moses, ‘Because,’ she said, ‘I drew him out of the water.’” (Exodus 2:10)

Christian Bale portraying Moses in the upcoming “Exodus: Gods and Kings” movie. (Photo: YouTube Screenshot)

In a continuing trend of Hollywood epic movies of biblical proportions and themes, a new movie entitled “Exodus: God and Kings,” is set to be released in December.

Like the other Biblical movie that was recently released, “Noah”, one of the main attractions will be the use of dazzling special effects to highlight the famous story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt.

In a similar style to the more famous exodus story starring Charlton Heston as Moses, “The Ten Commandments,” Christian Bale will be playing God’s messenger in the upcoming adaption.

The Hollywood star, who got his start in the TV movie “Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna” back in 1986, and swept away our hearts with his portrayal of Jack Kelly in “Newsies”, is most recently known for his portrayal of the Dark Knight in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” trilogy.

At a recent preview of the movie, Bale told the audience, “You can’t out Heston Charlton Heston”. He emphasized that this retelling of the biblical story will be “very different” from previous versions of the tale, according to Variety Magazine. Bale said that his portrayal of Moses will focus on the complex aspects of the character, stating that Moses was a troubled and tumultuous man.

The movie, directed by Ridley-Scott, presents the story complete with big battle scenes and aerial panoramas of ancient cities, rustic settlements and military camp, all rendered in the new technologically available 3D CGI glory.

According to insiders who have already previewed the movie, the footage really shifted into high gear with the depiction of four of the 10 plagues. More may be present in the film, but only four were depicted in the preview.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/22785/batman-meets-moses-hollywood-goes-biblical-video/#JeLOmJpXWDWBDcBX.99