The Revelation of Spiritual Seeds and Roots for Soul Cleansing

I often learn the Lord’s truths in nature terms from the spiritual realm.  I recieve many visuals of natural imagery and one huge concept that I apply to my daily life involves seeds and roots.  Everything that happens in our life, through circumstances, other people’s decisions, and through the enemy’s interferences, are seeds that are planted in us.  We can recieve seeds that are of the Holy Trinity, that take root inside to eventually grow into wonderful and victorious produce on the surface.  They can manifest in our lives to become part of how we live in this natural realm. 
But things that are not of the Lord, like traumatic childhood or present experiences, can also be planted and take root to hinder us from being who the Lord has made us and from doing what the Lord planned for us to accomplish.  A very fearful and unhealthy experience that may have happened to a person when they were younger can plant a seed of memory, and if not dealt with immediately, can take root in mind and thoughts.  If that happens, it grows deep and becomes a stronghold that directs how one lives and acts…and most restricts them from where the Lord want to take them.
Words as another example, can be spoken to us, by others, in a derailing and negative way when they are trying purposely to hurt us, doing it in ignorance, or not guided by the Holy Spirit.  What we say has the power of death or life according to the Word (Proverbs 18:21) and they may take root by way of becoming how we think about ourselves, life, and the Holy Trinity. 
  Anything can be planted in us, which is why it truly does matter what a person allows themselves to see and hear!  I think the majority of this world probably doesn’t even have an understanding of this spiritual truth, which the Word even points out that people perish for a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). 
Seeds that fall on the soil of our souls aren’t always a deliberate thing by us.  We may unexpectedly hear something or see something and then we can’t always predict what someone else is going to do (like seeing someone wreck their car nearby or someone unexpectedly coming up and expressing their judgement about someone else).  However, some of our actions can be deliberate, like what we watch.  Images can be a very powerful and influence on a person, so be mindful of what you watch.
All that is planted in us matters and it so wise, as in with every area of our lives, to pray and seek the Lord’s wisdom and council.
Seeds can either bring life, encouragement and spiritual growth as they take root, or bad seeds could cause hinderances in willingness to do something that the Lord is guiding you to do in the present and future, taking room away from what is lovely and from expectations of victory in the spiritual walk.
So, what to do with this revelation-knowledge?  What the Lord has had me do is to pray in that all seeds and roots that the Lord has not planted in me be removed and completely replaced with the Lord’s truths, realities, and all good things from Him.  In faith, i believe that it is done and that the Lord hears and answers, in Jesus Name.  It works every time!

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Persistence

Persistence.  This is the word the Lord has consistently brought me back to this year and it proves to be a very valuable quality!  It compliments faith, causing seemingly impossible results to manifest, because being persistent shows that what you are believing for IS possible and worth it.  The Lord is also persistent (Philippians1:6), both in having a relationship with us and continually helping us to discover and live the abundant life He specifically called each of us to.  He is persistent because He believes we are worth it and He truly cares that we recieve the blessings/purposes He has for us!  We can persist through Christ, who strengthens us (Philippians 4:13)!  So don’t ever throw away your confidence by ceasing to be persistent, especially before you see your victory, in Jesus Name!   Have a fresh and exciting new year!

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Use Your Weapons:Fasting

For times when I’m in pursuit of spiritual realities, and I desire to recieve vital and unfailing guidance from my heavenly connection with the Holy Trinity, which is mine as a believer,

Or in times when i notice that my confidence in spiritual truths is beginning to fade because of something I see, that’s seemingly contradictive in appearance to those truths in this physical realm

I use my weapon of fasting, so that I am not living by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the Lord (Matthew 4:4)

Fasting is not for proving anything to God, or to get Him to listen to you and I better.

Fasting is void of any significance if the heart motive for it is to prove to the Lord that we are good enough to recieve from Him or acting righteous enough as a believer

The true weapon is for your own footing…to stay spiritually sharp and focused for a continued victorious mindset!

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The Truth of the Matter

While chatting with a coworker, (whom I’ve spoken spiritual truths to in the past and am believing has planted seeds in her) the woman revealed the she believes everything happens for a reason and that the Lord put her through problems in the past to prepare her for what she is going through now. 
The current problem she is referring to is that her husband has brain damage, which limits who he once was as the man she had married and causes him to forget most things, including hurtful things he sometimes says to his wife.

The brain injury was a result of the husband’s personal choice to box for years. The Lord didn’t lead him to make that choice, because, to my knowledge, my coworkers’s husband was not a believer at the time. The Lord did not bring the brain injury on this man, nor was it in the Lord’s plans for him to experience that for his and her present or future.

A wonderful truth about being joined with the Lord and treating His guidance seriously is that all great things are possible in Him! If this man seeks, learns, and applies to His life how the Lord would lead Him (not according to the man’s limitations, but in the strength of the Lord…Philippians 4:13) or his wife believing for him in prayer and active faith, they WOULD see and know the manifest healing of any brain injury! Here is more of the Word that speaks in my Lord’s defense, especially in showing that the Lord is not the source of everything that happens…

“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” ~John 16:33

Jesus here is informing the disciples (and us current disciples!) that situations and challenges will occur in our lives. It is because we are in this world, where satan and his realm of darkness has much influence, because not everyone is a believer who values godly standards and are not living by the complete guidance of the Holy Spirit. Jesus also shares that

“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.  If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.  Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’  If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.  They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me” ~John 15:18-21

Jesus does not take responsibility for giving any of these problems to us!  In John 16:33, Jesus reveals that problems come through all that is of this world.  Jesus is not of the world, otherwise He would not have shared that He has overcome the world in His people’s lives!
So, not everything that happens is the Lord’s doing and to prepare you for situations of defeat that you have to endure. The Lord doesn’t bring degrading afflictions on us to teach us things! But what He DOES DO and has ALWAYS done, for the one who has a relationship with Him, is take advantage of every situation if you continue to seek and let Him.

We are confident that God is able to orchestrate everything to work toward something good and beautiful when we love Him and accept His invitation to live according to His plan ~Romans 8:28

Whether it is a mess you have gotten yourself into or it’s the enemy’s attempt to interfere in your life, the Lord can and does want to work it to your good by helping you overcome it, help you to stay victorious to live the full abundant life that He has called you to, and even with your testimony expose the lie in others’ lives for both their benefit and to the benefit of the Lord’s goodness!

 

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The Fullness Within

Jesus was the physical manifestation of what was true in the Spirit realm.  God is Spirit (John 4:24) and is in the spiritual realm, but then Jesus Christ became the manifestation that was brought into the physical realm.  This is a main proof that what is true in the spiritual realm can be pulled into this physical realm (by faith).  I imagine the demons in shock at seeing Jesus and asking themselves, “what is He doing here in this world?!”  They recognized that Jesus had the fullness of God in Him (Mark 1:24, Matthew 8:29) and that He Himself knew that (John 13:3, Colossians 2:9).  The spirits of darkness also experienced firsthand the power of Jesus’s Name, especially when being commanded and having to leave people by His words and authority.
The enemies of darkness still do know who the Lord Jesus is and, since I have The Lord in me like Jesus had God fully in Him (1John 4:17), the darkness knows who I am…the full effectiveness, though, comes in me knowing and acknowledging this in myself (Philemon 1:6) and the power of the Name I’ve been given privilege to use. 
In Acts 19:13-15, a demon was confronted by seven brothers who were trying to use the identity of the apostle Paul. The demon responded to the brothers with “I know Jesus and I’ve heard of Paul, but who are you?” (Acts 19:15).  The enemy acknowledged and recognized those who had the Lord in them and who knew who they were in Him.  The brothers, on the other hand, did not have and know that precious identity and were defeated, not even being recognized by the enemy.
So seek a true revelation of the fact that, if you are one who has recieved salvation, you truly are a ‘temple of the living God’ (1Corinthians 3:16) which means privilege, power, victory and closeness with the Holy Trinity…to name a few wonderful benefits! You have authority and also the privilege of using the powerful name of Jesus to live the abundant life the Lord has provided you!

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Use Your Weapons: Tongues

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Many lies have tried to entwine with the sound mind I’ve been given in my Spirit (*2 Timothy 1:7),

And angry words have wanted to flow from my mouth if I don’t guard closely.

Or I might find myself in a swirl of fruitless talk and actions of others all around me.

But then I use my weapons, as I utter beautiful tongues of the Spirit that torments the Spiritual enemy and helps me express trust in my Lord and the truths He shares with me.

Like a radar, this Spirit language echos through, from the spiritual realm within me, to help pick up revelation and hope when I need to maintain freedom in my mind…the freedom that Jesus has already provided for me.

These supernatural words are a communication between the Trinity and I…there is a clear passage for the help and victory that already belongs to me.

Signs, like tongues of the Spirit within, are evidence of the existence of the supernatural in my life, beyond this physical realm.  For the reality of the matter is that whatever begins in the supernatural Spirit realm is what can become truth in the physical realm!

The Lord also wants to hear encouragement and appreciation, so I also speak to praise Him in Spirit and truth;

That is the kind of worship the Lord seeks…that which is done in Spirit and in truth (**John 4:23-24)

*For God hath not given to us the Spirit of fear, but one of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7)

**But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him (John 4:23-24)

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Use Your Weapons: Spirit-Inspired Singing

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Distractions can become like a guard rail, coming down to hault my complete awareness of the Lord.

Worries of the world and it’s busyness may become abundant in my thoughts, pushing out thankfulness to my Lord in the moments of my life.

But then I use my weapons, as I change my atmosphere with the sudden sharp light of singing life-filled words.

They stream through my thoughts, with key words and ideas that point me back to my ever-present Lord. (*Matthew 28:20)

I consider the fact that, like me, the Lord also desires and needs to know that He is appreciated and thought of (**Ephesians 5:19-20)

The Lord inhibits praises and spiritual victory truly does follow daily.

Many dark presences have also drawn back from around me while I’ve sung what the Spirit brings to mind.  There is no room for darkness when powerful beams of words circulate through and occupy the space i’m in!

And when that evil darkness, or my flesh, suggests distortions and false thoughts about the Lord’s good character, the Spirit provides…

He provides me with pieces of songs that interrupt what could have been a downward spiral of deceit from my enemy.

Thank You, Holy Spirit!

And because I am connected to the spiritual realm, I’m sure angels gather around to listen and occupy the spaces where darkness can’t be!

*And never forget that I am with you every day, even to the completion of this age.” (*Matthew 28:20)

**Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 5:19:20)

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Revealing the Lord’s True Character: John 11

20170423_162233While sitting with the Lord, I received a revelation concerning the Lord’s character through one of Jesus’s miracles.

John 11 excitingly contradicts man-made, religious beliefs that say the Lord ’causes’ or ‘allows’ bad things like permanent sickness, pain, suffering, and other defeat, for a person to have to live with throughout their life….or that rather these terrible things are for the purpose of bringing glory to God if they remain in a person’s life.

John 11 shares the instance where the man named Lazarus becomes so sick that he dies.  Everyone around him is grieving believing that they wouldn’t see this man again until the resurrection.
But Jesus declared that it was for God’s glory that the man Lazarus be raised from the dead and be made well! He DID NOT claim that the tragedy of Lazarus remaining sick and then dying, as the final result, was what was going to bring God ultimate glory!
The full and instant healing is what brought the Lord true glory, through praise and the crowd believing in Him.

He said, “This sickness will not end in death for Lazarus, but will bring glory and praise to God. This will reveal the greatness of the Son of God by what takes place.” (John 11:4)

It was when the healing and restoration took place that brought the crowd to Him. That is the Lord’s true character. He does not want His people suffering and deprived! Why would anyone eagerly be drawn to a God whom they believe actually puts, and then keeps His people in suffering, pain, deprivation, and defeat?

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Use Your Weapons: God-Given Visions and Dreams

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Sometimes I see what appears a defeating and hopeless circumstance, and my own mind is troubled.

For what I see in the natural seems like the set and unchangeable reality…

But then I use my weapons, as the Spirit gives me a truer insight into what is possible for me, with the Lord, through visions and dreams.

Glimpsing into the lense of the Spiritual realm reveals what is already provided for me

and shows me that there is more to something when I otherwise would have believed I had to give up on it.

Visions and dreams give me special information on how to alter what is happening in the physical world

and by faith, I receive the confidence, in what I hope for, to be made manifest (*Hebrews 11:1).

Glimpsing these supernatural ‘maps’ can provide advanced information on where to obtain the blessings the Lord has provided for me, revealing how to pray and what to pray, and showing what actions may be effective to make those things which are not yet existent, in the physical or perceived by the five senses, into being (**Romans 4:17-21)

Not only are these spiritual weapons for my defense, but at times I can use them to bring motivation, clarity and encouragement to others of the family of believers.

For those of the body are made to help one another with weapons when needed (***1 Corinthians 12:7)

Thank You, Lord, for visions and dreams!

*Now faith is the assurance that what we hope for will come about and the certainty that what we cannot see exists (Hebrews 11:1)

**“In the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist” (Romans 4:17 NRSV)

***To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the benefit of all (1 Corinthians 12:7 NET)

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Use Your Weapons: Spoken Words

20200806_201549I once unconsciously spoke showers of death over my life; every word like a raindrop keeping me drenched and cold.

I claimed negative feelings, thoughts, and fears that I never wanted to own as mine in the first place.

Even against the Lord’s true intentions I had accused and spoke words that cut short the flow to true freedom in Christ and the flow of faith that is able to receive abundance.

But then I began using my weapons, like scripture and revelations, that greatly unleashed power of the Spirit’s movement in my life.  The Spirit gained the space to run joyfully.

My battles against descending thoughts and spiraling feelings were conquered, to be consistently made obedient to the truths of Christ (*2 Corinthians 10:5)

Through the understanding of the power of words,  I’ve grasped freedom in an effective way…in a victorious way.

Life truly is in the power of what is spoken (**Proverbs 15:28, Proverbs 18:21), so I will only speak sun-rays of beauty over mine and others’ lives.  

And if declaring the Words of life were effective enough for Jesus to cut off Satan’s advances in the wilderness (***Matthew 4:3-11), then such is a reliable tactic for me!

And what revelations are quietly spoken to me in my Lord’s presence, I will give voice to for building my faith and remaining free in my mind!

I will be conscious of my words always, In Jesus Name.

*We capture, like prisoners of war, every thought and insist that it bow in obedience to the Anointed One (2 Corinthians 10:5)

**The heart of the godly thinks carefully before speaking (Proverbs 15:28)

**What you say can mean life or death. Those who speak with care will be rewarded (Proverbs 18:21)

***The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’  Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down.” […] Jesus answered him, “It is also written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test”.

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if  you will bow down and worship me.”  Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only. Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him (Matthew 4:3-11)

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