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#45 Bloody, Fat Covered Swords

Wanna freak out about something really cool?

Isaiah 34:6 The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams.

If you're like many, you may not completely understand the sacrificial system that was brought to its apex and completion in Christ. Suffice to say, it's complexities can be studied for many lifetimes over and there will still be new information gleaned each time you sit down and let the Lord teach you the scriptures.

This passage in particular interests me in that is specifically labels a body part (kidneys) and then something OF of the body part (fat). If you've ever seen a kidney in the real world, there's little to no fat associated with the kidney itself, rather, the fat is cloaked around or ON TOP. Also on top, and also a fatty like substance is a little gland called the adrenal gland. It is the seat of emotional response. It is the connection between the concerns of your soul and the physical body. Its the switch that flips the body into response mode - responding to the peace or lack thereof in the soul!

The fact that the Lord's sword is covered in blood and fat from the kidneys tells a beautiful story of sacrifice. That the ram's fat from the kidneys was taken by the sword instead of yours means that there has been a replacement! With a ram its one thing, but how much more with the body of Christ? What's the big deal, you may ask...

If you've heard��about your adrenals you know that their dysfunction is a major root of chronic disease - fatigue, obesity, brain disease - both neurologic and metabolic. STRESS is the operative phrase given to the battle that these little guys fight every moment of everyday. Lack of adrenal function yields a body that is breaking down in real-time.

Do you understand what this means?

You do not need to be stressed out -  or at the very least, if you like being stressed out, chronic stress does not need to destroy your body! The Lord has already made preparations for you that, if you can agree with Him, will literally turn around your health! He has made a way to stop the destruction of your body through destructive stress.

This ram's sacrifice is a substitution for you. The sin you once had was transmitted to the ram and its adrenals were taken I place of yours. The ram is a picture of Jesus - He literally offered himself in your place.

Meditate on this - see it in your mind. Let Him minister this peace to you and be energized, knowing that the fat of the kidneys has been sacrificed!

Say "no you don't adrenals! You stay put in health and peace because the Lord has already provided the sacrifice. So chill out!"

ID NOTE: stress has no hold on you!

PTL.

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#44 Your Name.

"Your Name is higher, Your Name is greater, Your Name is stronger, Your Name unfailing, Your Name unending"

You and I as believers are in His Name. Right in the middle of it. In the center of His Name. The Nature and Character of the Name are transmitted to the one IN the Name. Meditate on this for the entire day - you wont come to the end of it, this revelation is so amazing.

What’s your deal in life? What’s your issue? If you are in His Name, then it doesnt matter. “Every knee will bow” at the Name. You may say, “yes i know that, but this issue concerns ME, not him. I’m the one in trouble!”

You have misplaced your identity, son. You’re right though, if your identity is outside of the Name, you are in trouble. The One with the Name has already defeated all obstacles in life - all of them. Be in THAT Name and that victory is transferred to you.

Its the Law of the Observer effect: you become what you observe. So spend your time wisely, observing the power and majesty found in the Name and expect the result of that to be DOMINION in life. Dominion in all things.

When you identify the attributes of His Name, you take on those attributes - only if that’s where your ID is coming from; what a wonderful place to BE.

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#43 Blessed Be the Name of the Lord

Blessed be the Name of the Lord

This looks like a statement that we utter to Him, but really, its a statement that the Holy Spirit inspired others to write concerning the Name of the Lord. Now remember, we're in the middle of the Name as believers. In the middle of the name is a location, not just a cool club of religious people. Its a location, IN, where the Divine Nature and Character of the owner of the Name is transmitted to you, the believer. 

As the divine Nature and Character are transmitted to you, your personal culture becomes HIS personal culture. He already finished the work of Creating you as a new being, its now the point where your culture reflects the real, TRUE, you - HIM. 

IF YOU ARE IN HIS NAME, THEN YOU ARE IN THAT BLESSING. You are one with his SELF - Knit, self to SELF. That Name, that wonderful Name, is the Key moving forward. BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD. Say yes, yes! Its talking about the NEW/NOW you. 

Ask Holy Spirit to open this up for you. Ask Him to show you what He's communicating here. 

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD. Where its written in scripture, its actually pronouncing blessing upon those that understand where their ID is coming from. 

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD. He is the Great I AM - Blessed be His Name. I am in that Name. 

Can you see it?

The devil has tried to "religiousize" this by turning the tables and making this statement "Blessed be the Name of the Lord" about us giving something to Him, as in, "I'm so low and worthless, but you God, bless you. Be merciful to me." Another way the devil turns the tables is by conditioning your mind to see your self as a separate entity from the Father. So when you say, "blessed be the Name of the Lord," and its coming form an ID that's separate from the Lord, its coming out of the FLESH! What a religious act - yikes! As if the Creator of Heaven and earth wants anything to do with the flesh. 

Thats where its at. In the middle of His Name. He has called you by Name and NOW is transforming your culture to reflect the identity He gave you. 

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD for what He accomplishes through it, for who He is, and for how he loves you!

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#42 Expansion of #41

Have you ever had this ache in your heart for the Lord, for His might, for His power, for His Love, and for actual manifestations of these? I have. And if you're like me in that the ache is never satisfied by going to church, then this post is for you. I found out why!

The ache is actually a pull, a yearning of the Holy Spirit that is causing you to crave actual Truth. That Truth is Eternity - that ache is an attraction toward Eternity and living in the Kingdom of Eternity. The Word communicates and is actually embedded with Eternity and has the power to awaken you to Eternal life, which is what happened when you became a believer. But to grow in Eternal Life is the great challenge! Religion has shrouded eternal life in DBH nature, turned most of us off to the actual pursuit of it, and left us with an ache that can't be satisfied apart from TRUTH. Its left us in the infant stages of being believers.

But most of us never get real TRUTH, so we make up our own version of it. Our bastardizations leave us broke, busted, disgusted, and sick. So here we are, years of "church," preachers, and teachers and we still have that ache for real TRUTH burning inside of the believer, unsatisfied.

If something isn't TRUTH, then what is it? A lie. A lie is not real. So if your language doesn't communicate truth, what does it communicate? A lie. If your language communicates lies, then what is your language? NOT REAL.  If TRUTH communicates life, then lies communicate death.

Here's why you're unsatisfied, here's why the world is turned off to Christ, here's why you go to church looking for an answer but walk away with a sweet social group instead of real truth: False language.

The organized religious church in America is trying to communicate TRUTH, something that is alive and powerful, by speaking language that is embedded with lies and is ultimately not real. You cannot use language that is not real to communicate something that is absolutely real. It guts TRUTH of the power inherent in it. This is why church is often relegated down to discussing social issues and organizing how to be a better person.

Your Father told you to crucify the part of you that communicates using false language - a language of death. But as a church, we haven't done that! Go to church and you ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and what you'll see is a bunch of well meaning, nice people that need to wake up. The flesh has clothed itself with humility as its form of pride - just listen to its language!

Eternity communicates through TRUTH words, the flesh communicates through this false language that I'm telling you about. When you hear it in the teaching, in the praying, in the singing, you now understand why the power the Gospel communicates and so many of the early believers experienced is lacking in the organized church today.

Part of waking up to your ID in Christ is actually learning to speak the language of eternal life. That allows heaven to pierce this earth and get stuff done! More on this in a few days.

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#41

Language = Culture = Identity/beliefs/values/behavior = Lifestyle

This is how culture works. Think on it for a while if you'd like, but trust me, this is how culture works. Every culture from the beginning of time until now has been based on language. Language has the ability to communicate the identity, beliefs, values and ultimately the behavior of a group of people.

What we are talking about today is the identity, beliefs, and values (ultimately leading to behavior) that your personal culture reflects through your language. In the above word diagram, notice that Language equates to lifestyle. Notice that the personal culture you ascribe to, on purpose or passively, is what ultimately determines your lifestyle.

Lets make this short and sweet: the language you speak allows people to understand how you identify yourself. The words you say communicate who you think you are or are trying to be.

Remember that religion always puts language in a DO BE HAVE context and always places language in the future or past. As in, woulda, shoulda, coulda, want to, might, please be, etc.

The Word speaks to a new identity in Christ, a new belief/value/behavior system that reveals a different lifestyle. The word says that we are as HE is in this world. Just like a few posts ago, we discussed that the book of revelation portrays Him as having a face that shines like the sun, eyes of fire, white hair, powerful voice, etc.

Jesus rose from the dead so as to BE the Firstborn of many brethren!

HOW COME WE ARE NOT SEEING PEOPLE AS HE IS, CURRENTLY? WHERE ARE THESE SUPERNATURAL SONS THAT LOOK AND ACT AND ACTUALLY ARE JUST LIKE HE IS, IN THIS WORLD?

The language of religion, the language of the world, the language of control has to be stripped from the personal culture of believers; then the world will see the "many brethren" about the earth. And its happening!

Eternal life is in the NOW - HE referred to Himself as the Great I AM. Right now! Ask the Holy Spirit to show you where your language communicates religion instead of eternity. Ask Him to correct your language so that you are communicating Eternal reality in the moment on a daily basis.

More on this subject is on its way...

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#40 DNA - Your activity log.

I want to remind you of your amazing, wonderful, and simply brilliant structure. Everyone knows that their body is basically the result of DNA expressing itself in whatever atmosphere its placed in. Meaning, your DNA has plans for what you’ll look like, function like, and be, but the atmosphere that the DNA is placed in will cause different expressions of that original intention. 

This microscopic picture of a DNA strand is really cool. Remember that DNA is the code book for your life and that DNA also has memory. That means that DNA contains the original manuscript and the subsequent chapters. It contains both destiny and the fulfillment or lack thereof. 

In this DNA strand above, are the original directions for life - straight from the Father. Think on THAT. 

Also, in this DNA strand above, are the recorded memories of everything after the Garden incident. In the Garden, Adam gave life to the devil. Adam let the deceiver in to this genetic arena. Adam gave up control of HIS own genetics to the devil. 

Remember from a previous post where we talked about how DNA submits thoughts to the mind and then the mind has a choice to act or not act on those thoughts which then creates another memory that gets encoded into the DNA and then submits thoughts to the mind…and so on and so forth? 

In the Garden, Adam said “I was afraid” -  a phrase and a feeling that had never been uttered before except by one being - the devil. Adam didn’t have fear in his DNA until he committed the first religious act of allowing another spiritual being to control his physical body. 

That act was the contraction of a virus. The virus was ego, the flesh, the carnal nature that is now wrapped up and deeply embedded in the DNA code of the human frame. Its a spiritual force that exerts control over YOUR physical body. It has, through genetics, darkened your mind from seeing your true spiritual identity. If you cannot see your true spiritual identity and are observing yourself “living” this natural life, then you’re going to believe that the life you’re living is a result of “YOU”. What’s funny is that this “YOU” is not actually you.  !

Well the gig is up, the jokes over, the shade is lifted. Two spirits, fighting over one physical body. One spirit has educated your mind in such a way that its blinded to the reality that you’re a way more powerful, purposeful, and glorious spiritual being than he ever will be. Christ came to separate the two and circumcise the heart. 

He gave us His Holy Spirit as a guide and teacher to illuminate our mind to the hidden nature that demonstrates that we’ve been given everything for life and godliness. 

These two natures are in direct opposition to one another. These two natures are in battle over the mind. These two natures are vying for your attention. If you listen to your physical body/cirumstances/history, you’ll keep getting manipulated (SEE ABOVE). 

The beginning of a spiritual circumcision has to start with observing, recognizing, and acknowledging that there is a spiritual component that needs to be cut away. 

I’m merely exposing this to you today to shed light on it. The Holy Spirit will take these little seeds and cause you to think on them and then give you a choice: fight for or ignore the truth. The fact that you’re even reading this should tell you that YOU KNOW THAT THERE’S MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU’RE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING. There’s an ache in your heart for something but you don’t “know” what it is. That ache is there because the memory of what you’re designed for is fighting its way to your consciousness. Your brain doesn’t know, but then again, your brain has been trained to not see the real you.

If your life sucks, then wake up and ask the Holy Spirit to illuminate this truth within your natural mind. He wants you alive in your original intent and wants you powerful in the works of the Father. He has your best interests in mind. He’s about freedom - religion and the flesh are about slavery, control, and revenge on a heavenly Father that kicked that nasty spiritual being out of Heaven. 

Engage the Holy Spirit and He’ll engage with you, right here and right now.

"Holy Spirit, thank you for being my teacher, my helper and my guide. Illuminate in my mind the truth you want to show me. Thank you!"

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#39 AM

So I'm on my way to work this morning and I'm singing this song by an artist that I can't recall at this moment; this artist has a plea in the main line that says "remind me who I am to you..." "I'm the one You love..." As he's singing to the Lord, the Holy Spirit submitted a few thoughts to me that I wanted to write down!

This blog has been focused on the AM HAVE DO reality of being a believer. BUT, I think I've focused more on the HAVE and DO more recently. So here we are, letting the Lord remind us, again, of who we are in His eyes. 

Questions: why am I to expect that I'm favored over someone else? Why am I to believe that He loves me and will fight for my cause? Why are believers having such a hard time reconciling in their minds that GOD IS FOR THEM? 

Answer: identity crisis. 

The word says, "it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives within me." But we are so educated and focused on developing this ID around our personality, our intellect, our brawn that we are focused almost solely on the first I in that verse. 

God favors you because when He looks at you He sees Jesus. Jesus represents His original intent in creation. Jesus represents Adam before Adam fell. Jesus is the embodiment of who you were intended to BE in the Father's creation story. Your brain has trouble seeing that, which is why your heart needs to wake up and BE in charge again. 

He favors me because He loves me. He protects, provides, blesses, and loves me because He sees His Son. To HIM, its about identity not action. The action shows up when we are identifying ourselves correctly (AM HAVE DO).

You see you. He sees Him. Is God bipolar? No, so there's got to be an issue with what we're seeing. 

STOP LOOKING AT THE FLESH AND IDENTIFYING YOURSELF AS THE FLESH. The flesh (ego) was the input into man by the devil. Read the account of the story in the garden. The Flesh came into the picture and immediately there was an identity crisis. That's what happens in the presence of competing personalities: what the Father created and what the devil created. 

In the gospels, Jesus loved the unlovely. He wasn't looking at what the flesh created, He saw what the Father had originally intended! 

So we need to BE of the same mindset. Please, PLEASE, stop identifying yourself as the flesh. The Father will never favor the flesh. He can't bless the flesh. He can't finance/protect/love the flesh. He has already reserved eternal punishment for the devil and all his works. Get out from under that umbrella and ID yourself in the SON. 

If you can't see how the Father will favor you, love you, protect you, give you health, joy, prosperity, etc...THEN YOU'RE PROBABLY RIGHT - BECAUSE YOU'RE IDENTIFYING YOURSELF AS THE ESSENCE OF THE DEVIL (ego). Satan is not ever, EVER, expecting the Father to do anything good for him. Ever. Why? Because satan understands that he's screwed. If you're feeling the same way, then take of the clothing that satan put on you in Adam. If you're feeling the same way, then realize that's how the devil feels. If that's how the devil feels and the Father has promised you something different, then switch teams - TODAY.

God sees you as Christ! How is He not going to protect the One He loves? How is He not going to give all of the resources of heaven to the One He loves? How is He not going to Favor the One He loves? How is He not watching out for, on a daily basis, the interests of THE ONE HE LOVES?

Life on earth is about how YOU SEE YOU. God sees you as Christ, that's why there are all these promises in the word that believer's are having a hard time manifesting. If you see you as the flesh, then you're screwed until you die and are taken up.

"It is no longer I (the flesh/ego) that lives, but Christ who lives within me (my body)."

Lets wake up peeps. 

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#38 Your building blocks.

I want to start by saying that this entry deserves its own book, its own tv station, its own exploration that is so much deeper and more explained than what I'm about to do that its not even funny. Please see my heart in this, I merely want to stimulate thought in this direction and in no way am I explaining all of your questions as we go through it. 

So, building on the last entry, we're going to talk about part of the reason why you're sleeping - or least the supernatural part of you is. This may get a little heavy for a few minutes, but the take in the information as best you can and and if you're a skeptic, please fact check the science and quiet that portion of your religious brain. 

There are roughly 51 trillion cells in your body - roughly. Those cells are each made of various components, but the thing they all have in common at their very core, is DNA (the only cells in the body without DNA are the red blood cells). DNA is made up of different combinations of a few specific proteins that link together and end up forming the blue print for "you." 

As we break the parts of the body's makeup down into smaller and smaller parts you end up with atoms. Atoms are then broken down into particles. Particles are the beginning of our story, as they are the essence of the human experience - or at least they're going to be from here on out. 

Particles have been elusive in scientific research for some time, as their nature and character can change in the blink of an eye, which makes them hard to study. As you can imagine, when scientists got their hands on the ability to slow down a particle and observe its function, they were ecstatic! This excitement lasted for only a little while as they quickly learned that the laws of physics and chemistry, as we know them, were inadequate in their attempt to quantify and label the lifespan/lifecycle/properties of a particle. One thing they could all agree upon though is that we, as a human race, are definitely made of particles. 

Particles are interesting in that they have duel characteristics (that were thought to be opposing) as scientists tried to quantify them. Particles are both wave form energy (like sound and light) AND matter. This is why the confusion in observing them arose - they shift characteristics right before your eyes. Again, particles are both wave form of energy and physical matter. That means particles are both a sound and a structure. They're both light and a physical thing. 

You are made up of an innumerable amount of particles that are both wave form energy and matter - meaning you are both sound/light and physical matter. 

Obviously this has interesting implications, but at the very basic level my question is this: why we're only experiencing this "particle life" as a physical body? There are attributes to you that can never be defined by anatomy. There are attributes to you that can never be defined by biology. Are you catching my drift? 

There are parts to your humanity, that if experienced, will boggle the minds of anyone trained in human biology. These parts are, in essence, the sound/light aspects of your particle existence. The fact that you can have duel characteristics, be 2 things at a once, is supernatural in origin. Again, you are both wave form energy and physical matter. 

This means that your DNA, made up of atoms which are made up of particles, contains both characteristics. Your DNA has the coding for both functions at the same time - both energy and matter. Religion has tried to keep you bound to the natural, physical expression of your DNA for thousands of years. That's what religion is about, control. Everything is always set in a future context (DO BE HAVE). But what if, after becoming a believer in the death and resurrection of Christ, you had access to that dual nature of your existence again? Right now. As in, you're just not aware of the beautiful power and privilege you've been given.

See, there are these little things called epigenes in the body. They are like little switches that either turn on or turn off portions of your DNA that are to be expressed. For instance, if your DNA has the code for brown hair, that brown hair is not expressed unless there is an epigene that is turned on and allows that gene to be expressed. 

If your DNA contains both the coding for natural (matter) and supernatural (sound/light) than that means that you were designed for both to function. The reason why we're not seeing many people function out of the wave energy portion of their particle-atom-DNA existence is that the epigenes have been in the off position and hidden. 

Read the portion of Genesis where the serpent gets Adam to sin. Understand that Adam was functioning in the fullness of the wave energy/matter reality and had supernatural function. I touched on this a little earlier in the blog - such as, Adam somehow remembered the names of the entire animal kingdom as he elected to name them individually. Adam (and you) were designed in the image of your Creator - thats what the Word says. That got tangled in the middle of the crux of the matter with Satan and God: Satan wanted to "elevate his throne" above God's and God booted him out. Satan wanted to be a god. So Satan spies this dude that God created in His very Own likeliness, and thinks, "I'm going to usurp his supernatural abilities." That's what Satan was after in the Garden - using man the way he used the serpent - except man had supernatural abilities. If he could "commandeer" man the way he did the serpent, then by proxy, he was god of the earth (the word says that the earth and the fullness within was given to man).

Well that's just what happened - except the supernatural function went out. Satan entered the human genome by Ego and now Adam was destined to labor in the dust for food, shelf, etc. Read it, its all there! So how did the supernatural function get turned off? Epigenes! The supernatural, the "God-like" function, shut down in the presence of the devil. Now the presence of the devil was within Adam - evidenced by him saying "I was afraid"…. The epigenes that control the function of the supernatural within our Natural/Supernatural lives were flipped to the off position until the Day that Christ was crucified, died, rose again, and ascended into Heaven. His destiny was to become the "firstborn of many brethren" and he now appears in Revelation as a supernatural being. 

Do you see this? Tell your religious mind to pipe down. You are like Him - RIGHT NOW. But you're sleeping! David predicted it, the prophets predicted it, Paul saw it, Peter saw it, John saw it. The supernatural function of Christ is IN YOUR DNA as it sits in your body currently. The epigenes that need to be turned on are not going to flip on until there is no residue of the filth of the devil left - EGO. Can you imagine if Hitler got ahold of the epigene trigger that gave him supernatural power? NO! God will not allow it to happen. EGO-FREE supernatural sons of the Father are what the Word says the earth is groaning in anticipation for. 

We'll have more on that later, but for now, just get the concept. You are meant for both natural and supernatural function. You are both matter and sound/light. 

You can't tell me the Bible isn't interesting.

yeah baby!

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#37 Waking Up

It's been a while since anything has been written on this blog. Part of the reason is timing and effort, part of the reason is continued learning that needed to be experienced before spoken of. Its one thing to know something, but its another to know something and then use it, make it experiential. So that's what I've been up to, experiencing the excellent reality that the Word talks about. The fullness of it? Of course not, but certainly more than I was last year at this time!

I'm going to spend a few posts reframing TRUTH-reality. Its important to note that if we're ever going to move into greater knowledge, greater experience, and greater results, then we have to periodically take time to review and solidify the foundational elements that we've come to understand.

Think about these things: re-read some of the early posts that describe and lay them out.

1. Spirit/Soul/Body

2. Peace on earth, good will TOWARD men

3. What we experience vs. what the Word says we can experience

4. 3 works of the gospel: redemption, resurrection, restoration

5. AM HAVE DO / DO BE HAVE

6. Time-Pride relationship

As we talked about previously, religion is a lie that tells you that you must DO something to BE something to HAVE something. Its about control. If the enemy of your soul can control you by always dangling a carrot out in front of you that holds future promise of results if you can just perform XYZ, you're deactivated/controlled/distracted/tricked. You're like the picture of the elephant above. An idea, a lie, has been beat into your head that says that you're not good enough in your current state, so you must do something in order to break free from your current state. 

The lie tells you that you're a mouse tied to the stake - as if you'll never have enough power to overcome the stake. Well wake up. You're the elephant - and just like the elephant, most believers are "believing" wrong. If you see an elephant bound to a stake in the ground, something inside of you shouts out - as if to say "he'd be free if he only knew!"

Well that's where we're going. Its not about doing anything to be different to have different. NO. Its about waking up to the reality of who you have been created to BE. Its the present realization of a past event. Its not about becoming who you were created to be, its about realizing it. 

Quick tangent, then a beginning thought to start this roll forward. If you were sleeping and I walked in and put 100 Million dollars in a suitcase at the foot of your bed with a note that said "hey, thought you could use this. It's all yours" and then left, you'd be 100 million dollars richer. You'd immediately be put into the top .001% of households in the world. How many problems could that solve for you? How many people can you help with 100 million? Think of the lifestyle you and your family could live. You wouldn't be able to spend it all - ever. Think of all the sick and hungry kids around the world you could help. Think of all the family members you'd save from poverty and debt. Think of all the kids you could send to school - and then college!

What would you do with it? Write down 4-5 things that you would absolutely do with 100 Million - things that no one would be able to talk you out of. Where would you go? How many orphans would have homes to stay in? How many sick people would get the care they needed? How many sandy beaches would your feet walk upon? How many people can you fit in your private jet? I wonder if your mother will like her new vacation home? Think of the difference you could make in this world with 100 million dollars! 

All of that is possible, but none of that is going to happen. Why? Because you're sleeping. You don't know that you're one of the wealthiest people in the world. YOU'RE SLEEPING. You don't realize the power that you now have sitting at the foot of your bed next to your dirty clothes. YOU'RE SLEEPING. 

Now, what if your enemy kept you asleep until the day you died. What if your enemy's biggest fear is that you wake up - along with the other people I left money for. What if your enemy was so smart and cunning that  he devised a way to keep you asleep without you actually knowing you're asleep? What if you did gain some sort of consciousness, but were unable to open your eyes and see the reality that the suitcase is in your room? You're getting my point. 

Its time to wake up and see who you really are and what you really have and what you can really do. 

Read 1 John 2:20. Read it 30 times. We'll start there on the next posting.

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#36 Pride and Time Part 2

Continuing with the theme of post #35, go back and read Psalm 105 all the way through. We're talking about heart attitudes and how they determine whether your words are actually your words, or if the words that come out of your mouth are His (the Lord's). The first thing we had to expose was a reality in American culture that is very prevalent: disdain for the un-earned. We agreed that this was an extension of human pride. 

If we are ever to "glory in His name" as the Psalmist suggests, then we'd be celebrating the manifestation of the supernatural works of our Father. That manifestation isn't going to occur - ever- if pride is allowed to exist. Its a seed, planted as a result of Adam's fall. Its time to get over it! That disdain of the un-earned is not really you, its your pride. The real you, the spirit you, agrees with the Word and already has access to everything you'll ever need for life on this earth. The Gap we talked about is kept open by inappropriate heart attitudes, like pride. 

Psalm 105 uses the term "seek the Lord" a few different times. If you're going to seek the Lord, what are you looking for? His presence, right? Well what if you already have His presence? You'd seek the Lord for a manifestation of His power then, wouldn't you? I mean, think of all the prayers and petitions you've brought to Him over the years. Most of them have to be about concerns you're asking Him to take care of. 

So then check this out...

Psalm 105 shows us the gate to manifestation: JOY. Read and reread the first 6 verses again. 

If joy is the gate, then doesn't that put Nehemiah 8:10 into a different perspective? 

The joy of the Lord is my strength! Of course it is, if thats the gate that allows HIM to show up on our behalf!

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Okay, here's where it gets interesting...

The only place to find real, God inspired JOY, is in the moment. "In the moment" is the only place your ego doesn't know what to do. 

Your ego is based on forward projections and reliving past experiences to protect your interests in forward projections. Think about how much of your day is spent on reliving events and conversations that happened (even years ago) in the past. Think about how much of your day is spent worrying and planning the future. Think about how much your ego (pride) is controlling your mind! No wonder we don't see the miraculous on a daily basis. If 99.9% of our day is spent feeding and protecting our ego, the gap between spiritual and natural is not going to be bridged - and even if it is bridged, it'll take forever!

Psalm 105:43 says it all. He brought forth His chosen ones with joy...with a joyful shout!

So practice staying in the moment, IN JOY, the place you were designed for. There's no way depression, anxiety, poverty complex, etc. can exist in the moment when that moment is inspired by supernatural, Holy Spirit JOY.

The first thing that's going to happen is you're going to have thoughts like...

1. If you don't worry about this, no one will.

2. If you don't control this situation, you'll lose everything.

3. If you don't...

(Your ego is always trying to get you to DO something in order to BE and HAVE; if it doesn't, and you find out you already ARE and already HAVE, it dies.)

So when these thoughts arise, confirm your belief that you really ARE and you really HAVE what the Father says: http://findyourid.tumblr.com/post/40770988775/6-i-am

Remember, the goal is to bridge the gap. Read Psalm 105 everyday this week and look at how the gaps were bridged! Joy is the gateway for the supernatural to show up. Joy allows your Heavenly Father an avenue to display His works. 

In that spot of JOY, your words are no longer just your words, they're backed by His. Your ego is set aside and the Lord is allowed to speak - let Him speak!

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#35 Pride and Time Part 1

One of the cool things about reading the bible is that it shows you who you really are and what you really have IN Christ. Life in our culture is built around your DBH mentality and is largely ignorant of AM HAVE DO. Now that you've been exploring your AHD nature, which is the truth, there should be a daily battle going on in your head that causes you to compare what you know to be truth and what actually happens to you on a regular basis. 

We have previously discussed how there's a gap between you (the spirit you) and your physical body. If there weren't a gap, you'd be walking in the supernatural power of the Lord on a daily basis. No sickness or disease, people getting healed left and right, and the Garden of Eden manifesting all around you. We talked about the gap being bridged by your words, just as the gap between God the Spirit and his physical Creation was in fact His words. 

If we want to see the supernatural manifest, that bridge of words cannot really be your word, its HIS WORD. So how do you know when its His word or yours coming out of your mouth? Hint: its an attitude of the heart. 

So lets do this: read the entire Chapter of Psalm 105 and then lets get to it!

Alright, at the very beginning of this text it lays out some DO's:

Give thanks, make known His deeds, sing praise to Him, speak of His wonders, Glory IN His name...

Remember, if you're a blood redeemed believer, then you don't DO anything until you're equipped. What's the equipment? Verse three, "...let the heart of those who seek the Lord BE glad."

These DO's are IN PART results that come with BEing glad at heart. So of the AHD triangle, we're two parts down and one to go...

AM: Glad at Heart

HAVE: ?

DO: Give thanks, make known His deeds, sing praise to Him, speak of His wonders, Glory IN His name.

To find this last part, and the most exciting to me, we have to go all the way down to verses 42-44. "For He remembered His holy word with Abraham His servant; He brought forth His people with JOY, His chosen ones with a JOYFUL shout. He gave them also the lands of the nations, that they might take posession of the fruit of the peoples' labor..."

This is an expression of the Blessing of Abraham that produces results. Those results produce the works IN us (the DO portion). This is what this passage says we HAVE: a promise. Joy. Possession. People laboring in vain, just to see the Lord give us the fruit of their labor. 

Honestly, the only thing that can't take this statement of action from the Lord is your ego. It says "Let me DO DO DO until I HAVE HAVE HAVE.  Kill that thing. Kill that ego. Kill that pride. The reason it exults itself is that the only way it stays alive is by keeping you separated from the Father. 

Think about that. The only way your ego stays alive is if it can take credit for something. It's on a ravenous hunt to find something everyday, anything at all, that it can take credit for. In doing so, it looks at the Lord with a boast and says "I can do this on my own." 

This is tough to swallow - if your ego is running your life.

So if you want to see results that cause you to give thanks to Him, tell other people, marvel at His wonders, and GLORY in His name, the only way is through who He has made you and what He has given you. 

Ponder this: How do you feel about a trust fund baby? A person with wealth beyond compare, that they didn't do anything for - they just inherited it. 

Careful. That's you your pride is judging. How are you ever going to enjoy the benefits of your "never-ending spiritual fund" if you have disdain in your heart for exactly that?

[findyourid]

#34 The Real You, The Real Me

Following suit with the previous few posts, I'd like to work through in a little more detail the aspects to and the hindrances of you walking in the manifestation of the Lord's health and healing. 

1 Thes 5:23 mentions the parts to you: spirit, soul, and body. In the context of health and healing, its important to be solid in your understanding of this. For review, again, YOU ARE A SPIRIT, you have a soul (mind/will/emotions/intellect), and you live in a body. Say it a thousand times if you have to in order to get it straight - or place it in the blood of Jesus and trust Him to burn it into your consciousness. Medicine and natural medicine are the only options for you if you don't develop in this understanding of reality. 

For organization purposes, lets categorize healthcare practices into the 3 spheres of your life:

BODY: medicine, natural medicine, all forms of physical therapy, nutrition, exercise, any practice that utilizes physics and or biology. 

SOUL: education, emotional mapping, psychotherapy, psychiatry, anything designed to draw out or suppress material within the conscious/subconscious arenas.

***The body and soul are intricately related and will feed off of each other in many, MANY different forms. If you can think of a therapy or area of energy work that I didn't mention above, it will most commonly take place in this "relationship arena". 

SPIRIT: Revelation 21:5, Matthew 10:1, Matthew 10:8, Matthew 14:14, Matthew 14:36, Luke 9:2, Luke 10:9, Acts 5:16, ISAIAH 53:5, ETC! 

There's a finished work that doesn't negate natural law, it fulfills natural law. The finished work is only available in the SPIRIT. If you don't know you're a spirit that HAS a body, then you don't get access to the finished work. Your Father is not willing that any should parish, and He has also said that His children parish for lack of knowledge! Don't be one of them, let the Holy Spirit show you this reality.

As a result of not knowing, most people are praying for God to give them all the things He has already given them. Read that again if you must, because its true. Are you seriously going to pray "Jesus heal me of this disease..." and then when you're still sick, wonder if He actually cares about you?

Lets move on from that, for His sake and ours. Spend time reading those verses listed in the Spirit section. They're true. They'll build your expectation and that will ultimately combine with your faith and you'll then speak the healing He's provided right into that sickness. 

Continued on the next post...

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#33 Glove Notes

If you haven't read #32 yet, please do that first, or this is REALLY going to be confusing. :)

In #32 we used an illustration that crudely demonstrated the spirit/soul/body paradigm. 

I'd like to expand on that by furthering the illustration here: The glove is analogous to the body, a container that in and of itself is useless. In the illustration we used your hand to draw a parallel to you the spirit as it is housed within the body. 

Lets focus on the you the spirit for a second. In the illustration, the only reason we could describe the glove as heating up is that there was heat, or energy contained in the hand to begin with. This is representing a born again, Holy Spirit filled believer that is inborn with all the creative power and attributes of the Father, through Jesus. A born again believer contains the "heat" because you've been made alive!

If you were physically dead, there'd be no heat substance. You could put all the gloves (containers) on in the world and they'd never heat up. You could paint them, dip them in chemicals, and slather them with vitamin D, but they'll never get warm because the heat (energy) is not present in the substance filling the container. 

In the same way, if you the spirit are separated from the Father, you can't expect to manifest His works in you the container. They aren't there! You can't draw something from nothing. 

However, If the Spirit is present in your life, your body is now qualified to experience Life flowing in and through and out of you. This is important to recognize, its why you can have a different expectation from someone who is not a Believer. Its why the Word of your testimony causes you to overcome, while the word of the world's testimony causes them to get run over. Its the BLOOD OF THE LAMB difference. 

If you have to read through all this one or two more times, please do so, it'll help to solidify in your mind the reality of "you in a container" and the connection points between the two (blood of the Lamb and the Word of your testimony).

Ask questions if you need to...

[findyourid]

#32 Like a Glove

This is in response to the question "If I already possess everything I'll ever need for life and Godliness, then why am I sick? Broke? Depressed? Etc."

So I was asking the same question and here's what came up: You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You are a spirit living IN a body. There are dividing lines in your life that have separated you from the soul/body complex. It sounds heavy, but that's what the Word was talking about when it said that you were dead in your sins (separated from God) and then made alive again, together with Him. You, the spirit you, were cut off from Him after the fall of man and the body was then on its own as well. NOW, you've been brought near and have been GIVEN a Spirit of Power, Love, and Sound Mind. That Spirit of Power, Love, and Sound Mind has linked you back to His presence. Now He's within! 

You might already know all of that, but the question remains: why am I not seeing the results that would follow Jesus around? 

The answer is somewhere between your natural mind and the continuous manifestation of pride. Renewing your mind is the starting point, which is really you allowing the Holy Spirit to renew your mind. Pride is the dividing line. PRIDE IS THE DIVIDING LINE. 

It's like this: Put a glove on your right hand and leave it on for like an hour. If you're inside, your hand is bound to get warm or even hot. Right? Wrong. The glove gets warm, your hand was already warm to begin with. The connection point was the contact between the two objects in this lesson, the glove and your hand. 

In the same way, your body is the glove to you, the spirit you. There is a dividing line between you the spirit and your soul/body that needs to be overcome by a connection point between the spiritual and the natural. When that dividing line has been bridged, the glove gets warm - meaning the energy contained in your hand heats up the glove, its transferred to the glove. The same thing is true when we're talking about bridging the gap between the spiritual and the natural - when the gap is bridged, the natural will heat up with the energy, the electricity, the POWER contained in you the spirit. So the idea then is to find the tool that He gave us that can bridge the dividing line between you the spirit and your soul/body complex.  Remember, He'll never tell us to do something without first giving us the tools to accomplish the task.

So do you want to know what it is?!

Revelation 12:11

The last post was building toward this, unbeknownst to me. The words of your mouth are spiritual in nature with physical attributes (sound) - the sound is the tool that the creative force (intention) uses. The intention is spiritual! The blood of the lamb is what has brought us near to the Father, once again. Because of that, our words are now Power laden, backed by the faith and expectation (hope) of Jesus. 

If you have the faith and expectation of Jesus, then you're unstoppable. Of course we overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. So let the word of your testimony be determined by the Lord, not your history. THE WORD OF YOUR TESTIMONY NEEDS TO BE WHAT HE BELIEVES AND EXPECTS, NOT WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN OR GOTTEN IN THE PAST. 

We need to say what He says because if we say what our testimony of the past has been, we'll continue to get it. You can't say the same thing that you did before your were sick and expect to have your body be healthy.

If you don't like where you're at, change the word of your testimony. Meditate on Revelation 12:11 and then have fun growing into the expectation that Jesus has - what you say you get, because the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony are the connection points between the spiritual and natural. 

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#31 Because He Said So

When you read the title of this post, if you're like me, your first thought is something that draws ties to a demand. Like when you're a little kid and a parent tells you to do something and you say, "how come?" - the response is often, "because I said so!"

For most people, this same type of exchange happens in your head when you read the Bible. You read the ten commandments and you're immediately faced with the "10 demands," of which you cannot completely fulfill on your own. Or how about this one: you go to Sunday school as a kid and you're told to DO what Jesus would DO - and not given any direction otherwise. That's a huge demand that will always, ALWAYS go unfulfilled in the flesh.

While the feelings associated with now having to meet a demand that you don't really want any part of are flying around in your heart, your lack of ability shines through. Then comes feeling like a failure/poor Christian/second rate church goer. The demand in the word will never be met by you, of you. 

That point is vitally important to remember. This is not just true of the Word, its true of the demands in life as well. If you're sick, broke, depressed, uneducated, or whatever, see those issues as DEMANDS. What are those demands saying to you? Sickness could say "don't eat that food again," or "you really need to take your vitamins," or "I think you need to go get back on your meds, crazy pants." Being broke speaks to you as well: "go get a job you bum," and "you haven't done enough to EARN your keep."

What are the DEMANDS in your life saying to you?

1 Samuel 2:2 says "There is none holy like the Lord; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God."

This Old Testament verse speaks to the demands that the Lord alone meets:

#1 Holiness

#2 Strength

If you, in and of yourself, had the Holiness to meet the demands of the Word and the Strength to meet the demands of life, you'd be set. There'd be no stopping you! 

The original Adam had these two qualities because he was ONE with the Father. He laid them aside by performing a religious act (DBH), and was then separated from his Creator. Read: pride separates you from your creator. Before the separation, the Lord met the requirements (of both demands) THROUGH Adam. After the separation, the Lord meets the requirements (of both demands) THROUGH Jesus.

So here we are today with both choices laid before us. You can DBH and miss the mark like Adam, or you can explore this reality of 1 Samuel 2:2 in your life - of which you have access to through Jesus. 

Without Jesus, there is only demand, which still needs to be met. Jesus qualifies you as having already met the demands on your behalf. Meaning, in Christ there is no more demand. Do you get that? THERE IS NO MORE DEMAND. THERE IS NO MORE DEMAND! 

JESUS has named you: righteous, healed, prosperous, wealthy, peaceful, fulfilled, protected. If you don't know this, then read the Bible. If you have already heard the news, then your job is to now rest in this fact. Believe it no matter what you experience to the contrary. 

The laws of the Word and demands of life are going to be present whether you like it or not, because He said so. BUT you can access fulfillment of the demands through Jesus, apart from your performance. 

Why? Its not even fair. 

The one reason why: Because He Said So.

[findyourid]

#30 A little healthcare observation...

Proverbs 14:30 "A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot."

If you didn't get a chance to sit and think upon the previous post, go ahead and do that before reading the rest of this current posting.

Alright, lets begin! There's something about the current state of healthcare that has been on my mind lately, and then, lo and behold I came across this verse in Proverbs today. 

We have previously discussed the two issues contained in this verse, but have not exactly applied them to healthcare. The two issues are:

#1 A tranquil heart.

#2 The pride-envy relationship.

First of all, its impossible to have a tranquil heart without accessing the Peace of the Father, through Jesus. So if you're not a blood redeemed believer, you have no other option except rotting bones, as expressed by Proverbs. Get that squared away first and then lets continue with the options that are now available to you IN Christ.

The tranquil-ness of your heart is an issue of trust. I won't expound on it completely here, but for the basics just remember that the price for your peace has been paid. Its available to you at no cost. If you agree with that, then fight to stay in agreement with it no matter what rises up in your face. Rest in the fact that you are taken care of on a level of completeness that is beyond your wildest imagination. That rest leads to LIFE. Do you get that this rest is the SOURCE of life for your body? Meditate on this principle. 

Secondly, we need to discuss the relationship between envy and pride. Envy is the result of your pride being damaged after comparison with someone else's point of pride. If you don't have any pride, you cannot be envious. The fuel for pride is adversity overcome. The fuel for envy is  fear. Fear of inability, fear of failing, fear of death.

There are two ways to sickness, if you're looking for them. Unrest and envy, of course. 

The healthcare industry uses this, knowingly or not, to motivate people into making decisions that just continue the cycle of sickness. Remember, health and wellness is a spiritual principle with physical tangibility. So if you DBH in hopes of better health, it will only be temporary. (The same way the Israelites sacrifices were temporarily covering their sin - a physical act designed to attain the spiritual instead of a spiritual act designed to attain the physical).

Healthcare needs UNREST in order to exist. "Get your mammogram before you're 35 or you have a 60 percent greater chance of dying young" (my version of the Ad, of course). Create unrest, render "preventative" service, get paid. Or how about this one: symptoms create unrest, doctor doubles down on the fear, testing shows a problem, treatment rendered, patient improves, patient fears relapse...hows that for chronic disease care?

Healthcare profits from envy as well. If envy causes the bones to rot (read: disease) then medicine in America is safe for the time being. The demand is as high as ever! 

So if we're talking about DBH and AM HAVE DO, then we also have to identify the other side of the coin: your healing is paid for, you don't have to DO anything to attain it. Notice I said ATTAIN. You have it, but how do you activate it (use it)? Your words. 

Your words are the connection point between the spiritual and the physical. Your words are spiritual. YOUR WORDS ARE SPIRITUAL. God is Spirit, but he spoke, and then the physical showed up. You are also a speaking spirit - why then is our healthcare system trying to attain the spiritual FROM the physical? It never was designed to work that way. 

Think about it for a while. I'm just sayin'.

[findyourid]

#29 Hearts AT REST.

Over the past few week I've taken some time off from writing this blog in an effort to further explore the ideas that have been presented. I spent some time thinking on the DO BE HAVE nature of the world we live in and the AM HAVE DO reality that the Bible presents. One major thing that keeps on presenting itself over and over in my study is this idea of rest.

Jesus work on the cross is labeled a "finished" work for the sheer fact that there's nothing left to DO. Health, wealth, justification, right-standing, protection, peace of mind, access to your creator, actions full of power, and the ability to DO anything with success are yours through the pieces of the life of Christ.

#1 He took the stripes.

#2 He took the sin.

#3 He rose again.

#4 He ascended

Believers are willing to apply the laws of double jeopardy to life in every other area except their spiritual life. This needs to stop. If you, in daily life cannot be tried for the same crime twice, then why do we act as though we need to "pay" for our shortcomings and inabilities continually?

ANSWER #1: You don't believe the work of Jesus was finished.

ANSWER #2: Your pride wants to earn it the spiritual through physical acts.

If you really believed it was finished, then you'd expect supernatural health and wellness. If you really believed the work of Jesus was finished, then you'd expect wealth and prosperity with peace of mind. If you really believed it was finished, then you'd expect His Love and favor to show up on a daily basis without having to DO anything.

We're comfortable speaking Ephesians 2:6 out loud because most people that do, don't know what it means: "and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus." If you, the spirit you, have been raised up with Him and seated in heavenly places, then that means you got what HE DESERVED - spiritually. The same thing has to be true physically. You cannot separate the two - they're tied together. The only thing that is allowed to separate the two, spiritual and physical, is your mind.

If Ephesians 2:6 read "and raised us up with Him and gave us health and wealth and prosperity (undeniable blessings, seen in the natural)" we wouldn't be having to discuss this. But the point remains, I get what Jesus deserves, spiritually and physically.

It's the right time in your life to start opening up to that revelation. You can handle hearing that you're seated with Him in heavenly places because you can have faith without seeing it. Here's the question, could you handle SEEING the manifestation of His finished work in your life?

Sit and meditate on that. What if you were miraculously healed; do take credit for it in some fashion? What if you had a million dollar idea today, do you take credit for it? What if your attitude was so relaxed in the next few days after experiencing His supernatural peace? Do you tell other people so they can experience the same thing?

I mean honestly, look at your life and see where you're NOT looking to Him. In the areas where you desire improvement, put a demand on the finished work of Christ. If you need healing, demand that your body is healed - He already paid for your pain and disease, so tell it to go! Why go to prison twice for the same offense?

The rest we're talking about is a HEART rest. Heart rest equals trust. Think about a newborn baby; it doesn't have the tiniest thought of "what if...what if...what if..." It just sits there thinking about whatever colors or shiny things it just saw. The point is that it's heart is at rest! A heart at rest frees you up to DO what you were designed to DO.

Notice that one of Jesus works wasn't road construction - meaning we'd never have to build our own roads if we put a demand on His "finished work". Why? Because its not personal! The finished works are personal in nature and can only be accessed on an individual level. He requires your participation. Again, check the two areas that limit the manifestation: pride and unbelief (an unexpecting heart is another way of saying it).

The works are for you, you just need to accept that the cost was enough and accept the fact that He is giving it to you without you deserving it. Think about it, I'm just sayin'.