Going to The Garden Place

                Yet again I was having a difficult time of finding what God wanted me to write about on this blog. When I first started this blog it was easy to write, because I had so much bottled up I needed a place to outpour everything that was in my Spirit. I had an overflow so to speak of the Word of God, and I am trying not to repeat myself, but to give a fresh NOW Word from Christ. I have really been studying on the power of our words, and faith in God which produces healings and miracles, but this is not what this blog is about. He has really put on my heart to speak on the garden place with Him. This week alone I have had two confirmations from God on this topic in two of the intern classes I had with two different teachers. It truly was an, “Okay God I get it” moment. The word garden isn’t mentioned too often in the Word, but it is a very sacred place when you begin to study it. There are two formal definitions I would like to give on a garden. The first definition of a garden is a plot of ground where plants are cultivated. The second is a yard or lawn adjoining a house.  When you think about these spiritually a garden is really the heart of God. The garden of God is where we cultivate intimacy or fruit of the spirit. The garden is where our house, which is our spirit, soul, and body, are adjoined to His heart. In this garden place is where we are able to spend much time with God, and to learn who He is and what He is speaking. The garden is where we get to enjoy Him, and see Him in all His beautiful splendor.

                First I want to talk about the garden place in Genesis that He created for Adam and Eve. This is the first paradigm of a garden being the heart and secret place of God. Genesis 2:8-9 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  The Lord made the garden first and then put man there. He created us to dwell within His heart. He put us in His heart before He did anything else in the garden. We are His most prized possession, and He longs for us to dwell in His heart every moment of the day for that was our intended purpose. The word pleasant to the sight in the Greek and Hebrew means beautiful in countenance. This is just God showing us the beauty of His heart. He created the garden as a paradigm of what His heart looks like. He wanted to show us in the natural what He was on the inside. The word good means beautiful, best, bountiful, cheerful, joyful, kind, loving, pleasant, prosperous, and wealthy. Food breaks down to eatable or fruit. Everything God has in His heart for us that we are to consume which is the Word is basically the fruit of the Spirit (Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control). We are to find all of these things in His heart, and when we give our heart to Him we begin to take on His heart. All of the things in the garden become things in us. We are to be wealthy, prosperous, loving, and joyful. He longs for us to have all of these things and above. He created His garden as a place for us to come enjoy the very beauty of Him, and to partake in the fullness that He has for us. His garden (heart) is not a place just for the ministers in the pulpit, but for all of the followers of Christ. His garden is so beautiful, and it shows the very personality of Him. Yes, later when man fell he was cast out of the garden, but when Christ died for us we were allowed back in to the garden place with Him. Once we ask Him to come into His heart we all become kings and a part of His royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9). Never forget who you are in Christ, and allow yourselves to go to this sacred garden place with Him as royal kings through Him.

                The next aspect of the garden that I am going to talk about is the garden experience as the Bride of Christ. I will be stealing some of the information that I gathered in my class with Norma on this portion, because it was such a great revelation.

 Song 4:12-15

12 A garden enclosed Is my sister, my spouse, A spring shut up, A fountain sealed. 13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates With pleasant fruits, Fragrant henna with spikenard, 14 Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, With all the chief spices —  15 A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon.  

This is the Bridegroom (Christ) speaking to His Bride (us).He is saying that when we go to the secret place with Him and cultivate the garden of our heart in Him we produce pleasant fruit. I long to and burn to bear good fruit, so that others can eat from the revelation that He has given me. My hope is that God uses the fruit that He grows within me to spur others to grow to deeper levels with Him. I want to be used as a person that encourages others, and exhorts them and can be used as an example of how to bear good fruit. Bearing good fruit can only occur when we get into the secret place with God. In the secret place is where we learn about who He is, and we are allowed to gaze upon His beauty. Our praise is what brings Him the fragrance of many spices. I believe that different aspects of how we praise Him bring a different smell to Him. When each form of praise and worship is special, it also serves its own purpose.  I am not going to go into each specific way to praise Him, but know that when you do praise Him throughout the day it brings to Him a sweet fragrance of pleasure, and cause Him to burn for you with a new level of passion. When it says a garden enclosed it is speaking of a private garden. He has a private garden for each follower of Christ. He took the time to make a special private garden for each of His Brides. We are all so special to Him, that He has catered certain facets of Himself specifically to what season we are in in our lives. In the period which this book was written “King’s had special gardens that were enclosed to keep out all of the animals from polluting it. The purpose of the king’s garden was to provide pleasure and rest in contrast to most gardens being grown for food.  It was costly and required much work from many servants to cultivate (Norma Tanton’s notes).”  God created the garden for us as Kings and Brides and enclosed them to keep out all of the bombardment of the world. The secret place in His heart that He has created for us was made for us to go to in order to rid ourselves of defilement, and to commune with Him and all His beauty. This is not only a garden that you can eat from, but another purpose of it was to find pleasure and rest. In my first example of the garden of Eden I spoke of eating of His word and beauty, but another paradigm of His heart is a place of rest and pleasure. To stay in the garden of God requires a great price. We are to constantly cultivate in the garden, and spend time in the intimate place with Him. We are to grown intimately with Him as His Bride and through that we are cultivated to make our heart His heart. His garden thus becomes our garden. 

Song of Solomon 4:16

16 Awake, O north wind, And come, O south! Blow upon my garden, That its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden And eat its pleasant fruits.

                This is the Bride speaking to the Bridegroom. We are to pray and ask that winds of testing come and blow over our hearts. As I said in the last blog “Search me thoroughly O God! Try and know my heart!” We are to ask as David asked and as the Bride asked to have the Bridegroom test our heart so that we know what we need to work on to bear good fruit, and how to cultivate our own garden. She then asks God to blow His breathe on her heart so that praise can come forth. With His breathe comes a reviving to our heart, which in turn brings a revival. I do not know about everyone else, but I want His breath to constantly breathe over my heart so that I can have a fresh awakening of His love. We as Brides are to also invite Him into our heart (garden) and to eat of the fruit of our labor of love. When we cultivate in the garden we produce good fruit, and He eats of that fruit and gains pleasure from it.

                Lastly I will touch on the last garden place that God has really highlighted to me which is the garden place of prayer. In the garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-46) (Mark 14:32-42) is where we see Christ distressed and goes into major prayer. I am not going to touch on most of which I have gained from these scriptures, but look at the picture of how Christ intercedes for us in this garden.  Christ is always in the heart of God for they are one, and He is the One whom intercedes and cries out for us. When we continue to stay in the garden with God and our heart becomes His we began to intercede for what He intercedes for. His prayers become our very own prayers, and we are moved with compassion as He is. We must understand that when we pray He hears is and begins to come into agreement with it as long as it. Please do not take this out of context and think that if I pray for murder He will too, but in the sense of the desires of our heart which come forth from righteousness. He longs for us to have what we desire, and has even put desires in our hearts.  In John 14:14 states, “If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.” Christ comes into agreement with what we pray. I pray often to Him to give me a heart of an intercessor. I want to pray what He prays. I so long for the garden of my heart to look like His I cry out to Him daily. I want my heart to be transformed into His and in doing so the rest of my body follows including the renewal of my mind. He interceded so passionately on earth that He sweat blood. How much more do you think He intercedes for us in His heavenly body?

              When we get into the garden place with Him we begin to see His beauty, a feel His love, and to take on His heart. I urge each of you to get into the garden place with Him. Allow yourselves to see what beauty He has to show you. We are all each in different seasons of our lives, and each garden experience with Him is different. Do not compare your garden with others, but be content with the beautiful garden that He has to show you in this timing. Allow yourselves to be taken in by the love of the Bridegroom, and let Him sweep you off your feet into a love place with Him. Let your heart become His so that you are moved with compassion for others.  I promise you in this garden place comes growth and good fruit, and He will began to outpour a love for others that you have never had before. You will begin to intercede for those who cause you pain and anger, and nothing will phase you because of the deep secret place you are in with Him. Let your day fill His nostrils with the fragrance of your praise to Him. He loves you so much and burns with a passion for you. I love each and every one of you and I will not cease to pray for you all. I long for a new awakening of love to come into each person in a different level that we have no choice, but to consecrate ourselves to Him because His love has overtaken us. He is worth everything I have, and the exchange of my life for His is worth the cost. Breathe Your revelation over each person that reads this Father. Fill their hearts with a new capacity of abounding in love, and gaining knowledge of Your love for them. Open up new heavenly realms in their hearts, and take them to Your garden, to Your heart Father and show them Your beautiful splendor. Amen!

The Dreaded Wait on God

We have all been there, the time waiting on God which many of us dread. Speaking from experience I can honestly say that I get frustrated with the wait time God has me endure in different seasons of my life. At this season in my life I am currently undergoing a major wait time for all of the promises that He has given me. It is as if I can feel the fruit of my labor and wait at my fingertips, but I cannot yet grasp it. I used to complain through this time of waiting asking God “When is all this going to come forth?” I grumbled, I murmured and basically lost my joy in the time of waiting. God then began to speak to me and tell me that I need to enjoy this waiting period for in it He is preparing me to handle everything that is to come to pass. At times we are not readily prepared for what God has for us, so we must let His perfect will be done in our lives so that we can undergo growth. Large oak trees do not just grow over night, but take years of growth before they can reach their massive mature stature. It is no different with God. When it may not take us a hundred years to reach full maturity, although it may seem that some of us it might, we still need time to be watered, and to let our roots take to the ground so that nothing can uproot us. Waiting on God now reminds me of when my parents bought me a new Leggo set when I was a kid. On the car ride home I wanted to play with it, but I had to wait until I got home until I could open up the box. When I got home I still couldn’t play with my Leggos, but I could open the box and disperse all the pieces. In order for me to get the final product I had to patiently build the Leggo according to the directions (The Word).  Finally after some time of building and making sure all the pieces were correct on the building I would play with it. This is the same when we are waiting on God to fulfill the promises He gave us. We have to wait initially when we know what He has promised us, then we see what the promise is, and then we have to wait until He puts everything together properly until we get to walk in His promises.

                David is a great example to look at when waiting on the Lord. Here was David anointed to be king, and was placed in the palace and had to wait. He knew he was anointed to be king, but had to serve under the present king, Saul until his appointed time came. David had plenty of chances to take matters into his own hands and could have killed Saul to take the throne, but waited on God instead of making it happen in his own timing. David allowed God to have His perfect work in him in preparation for what He was going to endure next.  Psalms 37:34 says,  “Wait on the Lord, And keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. “ When we wait on the Lord and keep His commands He will exalt us and then we will inherit the promises that He has for us. We aren’t to complain and grumble about the waiting period, but we are to rejoice and be glad knowing that God is preparing us for the next step. Realistically I know this process sucks, but we cannot let it steal our joy. His blessings will be poured out according to how we handle the wait time, and how we endure through each season in our lives. He will bless us no matter what, but do you think He is more likely to trust those more who complain when they are waiting or those who rejoice when they are waiting. One of the most used scriptures that we use down here is James 1:2-4 which states, “2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” We are to count it all joy when we are tested in tried which includes the waiting periods in life. In counting it all joy we should understand that through this waiting time of testing our faith that it will come to fruition produces the fruit of the spirit which is patience or better known as longsuffering. When we are patient and all His perfect work in our lives we become complete and will lack nothing. Through the wait time if we are joyful and allow His work to take place we will receive the fullness of what God has for us in our lives.

                Another example of a person who waited on the Lord for His perfect timing was Elisha. Here is a man that followed Elijah back and forth and was mentored by him. He got to see all of the amazing things that God had done through Elijah, but had to wait on the sidelines for his turn. I bet the Elisha knew who he was in God and was chomping at the bit for God to use him in a mighty way. I cannot recollect one instance where it said that Elisha complained about His lack of use for the kingdom in this growth and waiting period. I myself had to take a look at his life, but I am becoming ever increasingly distraught about the lack of use I was doing for His kingdom. I know I am called to be used by God, but felt that I was wasting away not using what God has given to me. I needed to gain the revelation that where I am at now is a waiting period of growth so that when He does call me I can be used to the fullness of what He has intended. Elisha waited for so long, but then when Elijah knew his time was up he asked Elisha what he wanted from him before he left. Elisha simply replied a double portion of what God has given you Elijah. Elijah said to Elisha if you see me when I am taken up you will have what you asked for. I bet Elisha didn’t sleep the whole time during this waiting period and stayed as close to Elijah as he could so that he could get what he asked for.  It even said that Elijah tried to run away from Elisha, but Elisha followed him earnestly waiting on his inheritance.  As we all know when Elijah was taken up Elisha was there and saw it and Elijah’s mantle fell and Elisha picked it up. Later Elisha did everything double that Elijah did and fulfilled the destiny that God had for him by just simply waiting and allowing His perfect work to unfold.

                I know most of the body of Christ is just finishing a period of transition, but as we wait for our inheritance we need to remain steadfast in joy. I want to encourage each of you who read this that the time of crossing into the Promised Land is upon us. It is a NOW timing. We are about to see the fruit of our labor, and are about to step into a great inheritance that God has for us. Keep enduring and encourage each other through the rest of this season. I can feel the pull on my heart for a level of increase in the Body. There is about to be a great outpouring of His Spirit that we have never seen before. Get your hearts right with Him, and worship and praise Him for this time of preparation and perfecting. He is the all-knowing God and only has our best interests in mind. Remain steadfast, keep plowing through day after day, for when the hour comes to pass great blessing will be outpoured to you. I love each and every one of you. I pray a God breathes joy, endurance, and wisdom over all who read this. Incline their ears Lord to the Words that come from Your mouth. Pour out Your loving kindness over them throughout the day. Uplift each and every one of them with unyielding strength and bless them with peace.  Lord give them visions and dreams, and let their heart become Yours. Bless them O Lord and in Jesus’s name I pray. Amen!

Search Me Thoroughly

               At the beginning of this month we had discussed in class about how bold David was. Not bold as when he went to fight the lion or bear, or even the giant, but when he went straight to God and said, “Search me thoroughly, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts (Psalms 139:23 AMP).” He was basically telling God search my heart God and show me what You see. David wanted to see the impurities in his heart so that he would know what he needed to work on his life. David was asking God to test him, or put him through trials so that not only can he show himself approved, but that he can go through a purifying learning stage with Him.

Psalms 139:23

23 Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!

Search-Examine Intimately

Know-Discover/Teach

Try-Examine/Test/Trial

Thoughts-Divided mind

               David is asking to be intimately examined, so that God could discover things in his heart, and teach him. David then asked God to put Him through tests and trials, and to discover and teach him where he had a division of mind in his thought process. He wanted to know where he didn’t have the main focus of God. In verse 24 David states that he is asking this so that if there is any evil or wicked way in him that God could lead him back to the way of everlasting or His way.

               I say all of this just to give a background what I have been crying out to God to do in me. I have been asking God to search me intimately and to teach me, try me, and show me where I have a divided mind at so that I can draw closer to Him. Honestly I never really broke down this scripture until I started typing, and now it makes sense of all the warfare and testing and trying I am going through. I should have had a better understanding of what I was asking God to do before I prayed it. All I knew is that I want my heart to be as David’s was, so that in doing so it will eventually get to the heart that Christ has. I believe our walk is a process, and change takes time. I now know that God is allowing me to go through warfare so that my heart can be tested. It is easy to praise God when things are fine and dandy, but it takes true love to persevere through each trial to show yourself approved. Within the first week of praying this prayer a lot of things that were in my heart that I thought I had dealt with began to bubble up. I still had anger, rejection, lust, pride, and manipulation in my heart. These things were really hard realities to deal with, but God brought them up to the surface so that I can deal with them and get the root of them out of my life. I learned that I do not walk in love as well as I thought I did. I had to apologize to a few people for moments of anger that I had towards them. Mom I hope you do not mind me sharing this and I know that you will read it but I realized I still had issues with our relationship. God was showing me that I felt rejected by my own mother even though I know she loved me from the depths of her heart, and I know she still does. I long to have a relationship with her, but I have calloused my heart so much to her that I could no longer accept her love. She had called me earlier this month to apologize to me for something that she felt she did to me as a kid. Little did she know that the moment that she called I was having a conversation with two people about the very same thing the Holy Spirit told her to call me about. I am undergoing a healing process in my heart daily so that I can eventually have the relationship with my mom that I long for. She and I have bumped heads for as long as I remember and through that I have shut her out of my heart unintentionally. I realized that I had done so, because of the root of rejection that I felt. God is uprooting this pain in my heart and replacing it with His love, and I know that this process is going to create an opening to build a better relationship with my mom. I know you will read this and hopefully forgive me for putting this on my blog mom, and I just want to let you know I love you. I want to reiterate, Mom, you were never a bad mother, not once, but we have just had our differences.

               On top of praying God to search me thoroughly I am asking Him to break me, shape me, and mold me into the finished product that He is looking at. I do not know about y’all but I absolutely love change and progress in my life. I cannot allow myself to stay stagnant for very long. I will actually go so far to say that I want change daily, so that in doing so my life can be drawn closer to God’s perfect will for me. He has begun a breaking in me that there is no turning back from. I really feel as though He has taken me as soft clay, and is beginning to mold me into the man that He wants me to be. There have been some sharp cuts and a few hard presses through this molding. Eventually there is going to be a trip to the fire of the oven, but when I come out I will be a finished product. In Isaiah 64:8 it states, “But now, O Lord, You are out Father; We are the clay, and You are our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.” God’s hands are like very firm potter’s hands, but that embrace only with loving care. We need to understand that all of us are in the work of the hands of God. We need to learn how to walk in love more deeply and with compassion with the understanding that God is molding all of us. He will continually put people in your life that will test your ability to walk in love. He wants to see if you will walk in love with condition, or without condition as Christ did. Through all of this I have learned to take everything to Him in prayer.

                I have been praying for a heart of an intercessor as well, and let me tell you as an intercessor you are heavily broken. Your very innards pang with discomfort, and you are moved with compassion for others. I have been hitting veins in my prayer life that I never thought I could reach. I have become more disciplined in my prayer time, and understand the importance of it. Paul states in 1 Corinthians 14:18 that he “Speaks with tongues more than you all.” You have to love Paul’s boldness and confidence in himself through Christ. One of the greatest Christians known to man made this statement, and there is much weight to it. I challenge you to meditate on this scripture and ask God to reveal the mystery of praying in the Spirit to you. Through my prayer I am strengthening my spirit through trials and tribulations. I am directly communicating with God Himself the very things in my heart. I may not understand what I am saying, but the prayer is being mixed in with heaven’s prayers (Revelation 8:3), and I am conversing Spirit to Spirit with Him. This makes my time in prayer so much easier than it was before. Knowing that I can go to a place to strengthen myself in Lord is quite the revelation. I am unsure of the address of this scripture but I know it is in the Word, but it goes to say when David was going through much persecution and trials in his life he strengthened himself in the Lord. We have the ability not to sit and cry out to God to strengthen us, but to strengthen ourselves in Him as well. I believe this is done through prayer and supplication. Remember when you are praying or interceding you’re never doing it alone, because Jesus is always interceding with you.

          I want to challenge each of you to pray this prayer that David prayed, and to ask God to break you, shape you, and mold you into the finished product that He sees. It is a very painful and awkward process when you pray this prayer, and I promise you that things will come to the surface that have been buried deep within. . I love to surrender myself to Him, because I know what He takes out is worth the exchange of what He puts in. I would rather have these impurities out of my life now so that in doing so I will not have to deal with them later as the roots get deeper with time. He shows no partiality so when you go through this process you will get closer to Him as He has done for me, and I am sure as for David as well. He takes all the garbage in your heart with love and not chastisement. He shows you things that you need to work on by practicing them instead of preaching them. Getting closer to God comes with a price, but it is worth the final result.  I love each and every one of you that have read this post. I pray blessings over your lives, I pray fresh revelation, I pray breakthroughs for your mind and your heart, and I pray that if you dare to choose to go through this process that you embrace it and arise victorious. I know each and every one of you can do it, because He is giving me grace to do so as well. Be blessed in ALL things that you do throughout each day, and I pray an overwhelming joy to blanket all of you. I covet your prayers, and I will keep you in my heart. 

Get God Out of the Box

                Recently God has been speaking to me very clearly to let Him out of the box that the church has put Him in, me included. Christ did not die for us to put limitations and restrictions on what He can do through us. In fact, it is quite the opposite of that. He died for us so that we would have no limitations or restrictions in Him. People, we have what we are here for so twisted. We have allowed doctrine to get in the way of our powerful inheritance through Him. We were made for miracles, healings, and signs and wonders. Not to be some stiff necked people condemn and walk in judgment (He is the only Judge), and only go to church and do “Holy” things to look good to others. To live is Christ and to die is gain (Philippians 1:21). We as Christians have stopped living, because we are restricting what God wants to do through us. We say yes to people getting saved, having prayer meeting, being intoxicated in the Holy Spirit, but no to all the things that Christ did. How have we gotten so removed from Him? The problem is that most of us are blind to this reality, and think that we are doing our best by just showing up for church. I would give anything to just be used to do one healing miracle. I burn to raise people from the dead, to make the blind see, to cast out evil spirits, to make the deaf hear, to make the mute speak, to heal cancer, to heal bones, to make the lame walk, and to bring restoration to the church. The fact of the matter is that we have this very power, but we just lack the faith. All throughout the gospels all Jesus did was speak and it occurred. All we have to do is to speak with faith and knowledge of the power that we have and it will occur. It didn’t say in the Word that He had to fast 40 days, pray 100 hours a week, and read the entire Bible in a year to perform a miracle, but to simply just speak it into existence. Now before anybody gets all fussy about this statement I encourage you to fast, pray, and read the Word but the point I am making is that it is not by works but faith the miracle occurred. In James 2:20 it says, “Faith without works is dead”. From the very breath of our mouths and words from our lips lay miracles. We are too wrapped up in making sure we don’t sin, that we do our daily Bible study, and get in just enough time in church that we forget what we are supposed to be doing. Yes, all those things are good to do and I do encourage them, but let us not be so selfish. We are here to live for others. How many Bible studies do we need to do to gain the knowledge that Christ lives in us and when we speak miracles happen?

Matthew 10:7-8

7 And as you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'

You go-Journey

Preach-Herald (Public Crier)

Kingdom-Realm

Is at hand-Near/Ready

If this statement made by Jesus does not get you stirred up you need revival. Jesus is stating that as we go through our journey with Him we are to be a herald (denoting that this should not only be in the church, but in the streets as well), and declare to others that the very realm of heaven is near and ready. The realm of heaven is with Christ, so near to me means inside of me only longing to come out of me.  Bill Johnson once said, “We can only give what we receive.” If we receive the kingdom of heaven, which we did once we gave our life to God and the Holy Spirit came in, then we are to give the kingdom of heaven.

8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

Give-have power

Jesus is telling us here that because the kingdom is in us we are to heal the sick, cleanse the leapers, raise the dead, and cast out demons. We were given this gift freely, and are to freely give out this power. We gained the ability to do all these things by His death and we are to freely distribute this power by doing the acts that He did. We have the very power of the same God in Genesis 1 that spoke creation into to existence dwelling in us. I feel the glory of God when I read this very statement out loud. What a mind blowing revelation that is. Just walk it out in faith and continue to declare it until your mind can catch up to your Spirit.

As we go through our experience in life with Him we are to preach, and tell others that the kingdom is at hand. We do not have to wait for some glory cloud, cloud of fire, or booming voice because we have all of that in us. The power of God transferred into our Spirits when Christ rent the veil for us (Matthew 27:51). He tore away the very thing that was blocking us from being able to walk in the fullness of Him. We are not doing God justice by keeping Him in the box. We are acting as if what Christ did for us is nothing of significance except for a way for us to get to heaven. Christ dying for us is so much more than for salvation, but for us to live as creatures of heavenly places. We were His ultimate creation, and have more power within us then any evil principality. If God is Omnipotent and abides in us then we as well are Omnipotent.

Most of us do not have a problem with the reality that these things can occur, and some of us have witnessed miracles of God right before our own eyes. We freely allow these things to happen within the four walls of the church, but if He asks us to do this out of those four walls we tend to panic. It matters not whether He asks us to pray, speak, prophesy, or heal somebody outside of church our tendency is to tense up and chicken out. We cry,” Use me Lord, use me!” but when He wants to use us out of our comfort zone we forget our cries and shrink away. I am no different than anyone else with the fact of getting nervous to do such a simple task as pray in public. He began to speak to me and tell me that I have a fear of man when it comes to things of God outside of the church. This statement crushed me and my pride. I have boasted on how I cared not what other thought of me, and many who know me think I am one of the most carefree and insane people they know. I can sing and dance in the middle of Walmart, I can talk to any person at any given time, and really do as many whimsical things as my mind can come up with as long it is not pertaining to things of God. After this revelation I told God never again will I allow my fear of man to get in the way of what You wants to do through me.  There have been several times previous to this new found revelation that I felt moved to pray for people when out shopping that had limps in their walk and I did not do it for the reasons of what will people think and what if nothing happens.  Through this I realized I was a man of little faith and trust in Him, and not as sold on the fact that God is the only one that matters. I guess this is what I get for praying Psalms 139:23 “Search me thoroughly, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thought.” Well He was faithful as always and searched me up and down and revealed to me things I am glad to know now, but when He told me they were extremely hard realities to accept. Since then I have been making more bold declarations where ever I am at, and am longing for Him to give me opportunities to perform miracles.

Just recently there was a young man that I had met that is in his early teens, and I found out his mother had cancer. I hung out and played a board game with him and some others that night. After we had dropped him off back to his house God had me go pray. In prayer I hit a vein of intercession for him and his mother for 2 hours straight. God told me to anoint a cloth with oil and to give it to him when I saw him again today. He also told me that his mother was going to be healed and his family was going to be restored, and come to know Him through this miracle. So today before the young man went home I gave him this cloth and told him to put it under his mom’s pillow, and that I believed that through this his mother was going to be healed miraculously. He does not know much about God from what I can gather, but the look on his face when I told him this just beamed with hope and thanks. I told him just have faith and believe that this is finished as I do, and he told me I believe. I am now waiting on a testimony of healing next time I see him. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that when God told me to speak the healing as a confirmation in prayer it occurred. I told God I will do what you ask me to do in faith, and it is up to you to be faithful. I believe that this is going to be the first of many miracles that God is going to perform through me, because of my desire to get Him out of the box that I put Him in. In ever opportunity He gives me I give Him all the glory. The only thing that I can do is be an obedient vessel and the rest is up to Him. I am so glad He has come in and showed me my fear, lack of trust, and pride so that He can perfect me just a bit more. I have a long way to go, and will never arrive but I will no longer keep Him in a box.  

               

               I encourage you to allow God to move through you. All of us can perform the same acts that Christ and later His disciples did. That same Holy Spirit dwells in us. I urge for you to take Him out of the box and live in the omnipotent power that He has bestowed upon us. He loves us so much that He gave (John 3:16) us this power to walk in. He gave us the very ability of Christ, so please do not waste such a pleasant and beautiful gift. Serving God with everything you have, and seeking His face comes with a price, but the exchange is completely worth it. Open up the very kingdom inside of you and share freely the very power that you have received yourself. I covet your prayers, and will not cease to pray for you. Send revival God to this nation. Lord raise up a generation of Spiritual revivalist to usher in this new outpouring that is descending from heaven. It is a NOW time to Arise and shine, because the glory is truly among us (Isaiah 60:1)! AMEN!