Help Us to Dream
Your Dreams oh Lord!
Your Dreams oh Lord!
I see how little I really understand about God-given authority. In my head I now understand that Jesus purchased this for me to have full access to all its benefits for all of mankind thru His death on Calvary. More recently, He has been convicting me about the innocence of creation in the fall of man and its longing to be freed by the only ones tasked with such a calling-mankind. (Ro 8:18-22)
Dr Frances Miles, originally from Zambia, has watched first hand the power Shaman’s have over weather, the earth and even other aspects of creation. Those in third world countries who come to Christ, know that while the blood of Jesus is sufficient for salvation and for breaking curses, witches who know their “art” well, still know how to place curses, spells and omens on families and family lines who still have a “legal license” to be invaded by spiritual enemies? Legal license, hmmm. There are many scriptures who point to this, but that phrase “legal license” is not found in the Bible. Then again neither is the word “trinity” yet we know our God is 3-in-1 and see it from Genesis to Revelation. Frances Miles, shares his testimony on Youtube videos that teach patterns for prayer to set creation free and christians free from curses, omens, genetic diseases, spells and the like that have been spoken against a family-line, sometimes centuries ago. Holy Spirit knows the Bible better than the devil. We need to be in better tune with Holy Spirit as we read God’s word and also in our day-to-day interactions with others. We’ve had a lot of teaching that tells us about the anti-christ who is coming to “win for a short season” on the earth. We’ve heard a lot of talk about the rapture that keeps us from experiencing the evil of that “antichrist”. We learn about what it is to live a virtuous life but teaching on how our authority and prayers activate that authority or how our lack of obedience opens us up to dark forces that know the Bible better than we do and know how to use it against us. In this season of my “awakening” to things I’ve never been taught on, except by gentle Holy Spirit nudges as I read the word of God, I am learning how much of me remains asleep to the power andthe plans of the Holy Spirit’s influence in my life. Covid was the “start’ of my “wake-up call” to intercession. As He awakened me to my lack of prayer and I repented, He awakened me to prophetic intercessions, songs in the spirit and heavenly intel. Some of it was contrary to my own belief system, the doctrines I held tightly too that I thought came directly off the pages of scripture. I had no names of labels for what was happening as I prayed but He was radically changing my opinions on politics, on what is the true church and the government of God that I thought was entirely now on the shoulders of Jesus according to Isaiah 9:6. He was teaching me to partner with all of heaven, one obedience step after another until one principality after another was taken out of our territory. Even when I was praying alone in the woods, I wasn’t alone, I was partnering with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, all the prayers of the saints that came before me, since Abel, crying out for justice and recompense for what was stolen from us. Let me show you scriptures on legal license then build my case for the title of this blog. “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put (award) none of the diseases on you which I have brought on (award) the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” Ex 15:26 If God’s name is Healer, wouldn’t it be contrary to His character to cause disease, so what is He saying here? As I looked at the meaning of this word used in the NASB version “put” seems to indicate a lot of possibilities but the one that stood out was the “reaping and sowing” principle we see throughout the scriptures. When we listen with the intent to obey we are blessed in multiple ways. When we refuse to listen, harden our hearts so we don’t sense God’s leading or when we sense His leading, like Jonah we go in the opposite direction, we end up cursing ourselves. One of the curses that can befall us is ending up in the belly of a big fish. Sickness is one of many other areas in which we can fall into as a result of poor listening skills. Would Holy Spirit really be that interested in what we put in our mouths to eat, drink, taste, smoke? Is He actively engaged in leading us away from things that can cause physical health? I believe so. What we reap we will sow. Disobedience/refusal to listen to the voice of the Lord with the intent to obey Him brings us into a position in which the “awarder” of sickness, disease, disaster, death can act upon us. God is not the “awarder” of such things. Jesus pointed that out to us while we were on earth. “The thief comes to kill, steal and destroy but I have come that I give life, life more abundantly.” John 10:10 Certainly illness, disease, infirmities fits into the killing, stealing and destroying category. God has been given a “bad rap” on this. I think our translations at times have not helped. Jesus came to give life but only did what the Father told Him to do so then, the Father only wants “life” for us, “abundant life” for us. When Jesus left to “build up heaven” for us to come to Him when He returns to us, He promised the Holy Spirit would “lead us into all truth.” ALL truth, about everything in general and every truth we need in the practical. So then am I believing all sin is caused specifically from my own sin life? Well sometimes we participate with the enemy of our soul to perpetuate an illness or even to cause a disease process by bad habits, by rebellious living, thru the use of illegal drugs, excessive eating, drinking, sex outside of God’s safe boundaries and habits that we either know or learn “after we are addicted” that the practice is harming our bodies but now we can’t quit. Yet sometimes illnesses come to us as part of a fallen world and not a response to a specific sin we have committed against our bodies but as a result of living in a fallen world influenced by sin, disease and pathogens that were not created to cause illness but are cursed by Adam and Eve’s fall and bring on consequenes unrelated to our own walk with God or does it? Psalm 91 teaches us that those who “Dwell in the secret place of the Most High” will not be touched by the enemy or by pestilence or plagues (pathogen-caused diseases). There are two examples for us to follow in the Bible that teach us something about divine health in the midst of living in a sinful world. Gaius lived in the same fallen world, Enoch as well, and yet it seems that they learned a lifestyle that prospered body, soul and spirit. John says of Gaius “Beloved I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health (physically) just as (I know) your soul prospers (spiritually). For I was greatly pleased when I (and some of) our brothers came (from time to time) and testified to your faithfulness to the truth of the gospel message, that is, how you are walking in truth. I have no greater joy than this, than to hear that my spiritual children are living their lives in the truth.” There is a connection between walking in truth and being healthy in our soul and spirit. According to John’s prayer physical health is related to soul health which comes from a healthy spirit that walks and dwells in truth. Then the father of lies comes along and tries to get us to believe a lie about God’s character, about what will “satisfy” our cravings, or to puff us up to think we don’t need to rely on Holy Spirit for every decision we make in a day, from the moment we wake up, every time we put food in our mouth, we may ask, we have the privilege of asking Holy Spirit “what is the best choice for me to eat this morning? to drink this morning? to say this morning? to pray this morning? to think this morning? Get the picture. He knows our tastes, our propensity for sin and He knows the way of escape for every temptation. Our friend, counselor and guide is worthy of our trust. “The devil is like a lion prowling around looking for someone to devour.” Our adversary wants the opposite of what the Holy Spirit wants for us. When we listen to the voice of the enemy and let him lead us away from the voice of the Lord, he gets legal license to harm us. The first lie, I am attempting to uncover is the lie that God “allows” illnesses to sanctify us and make us more like Jesus. Illness hinders us from fully living out all that God has called us to live out, it slows us down, it hinders our strength, endurance and stamina. None of it speaks about the “abundant life” God has promised to give us. We can believe the lie that God makes us sick as a punishment for our disobedience or we can believe what God’s word says about God. He rewards those who listen and obey His voice. He came to give abundant life and He gives us a way of escape from every temptation to believe a lie instead of “walk in the truth” as Gaius did. I will explore Enoch’s walk in the next blog.
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