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Unicorns are Awesome and so is Jesus

We were early for the transport so I stopped at the nurse’s station to get a report on our patient. Annette was a 16 year old girl who had spent the last three days in the hospital after trying to kill herself. We were transporting her to a mental health facility for evaluation and treatment. There was just one problem. Annette’s mother was addicted to drugs and at the present time she was homeless. Before we could get her admitted to the receiving facility, her mother had to be there to sign her in. And with her being homeless, there was no guarantee she would be there. I’ve had to wait several hours for a parent or legal guardian to show up before a minor patient could be admitted, so when I hear that the parent’s whereabouts are unknown, it always makes me a little uneasy.

I walked to her room and peeked inside and was surprised to find my partner already joking around with her. I watched them for a few more minutes then introduced myself. Annette’s long hair was a layered with a deep red and electric pink. The pink was the same color as the stuffed unicorn she clutched in her hands.

We talked for a while and as I got to know more about her, I took an instant linking to her. She reminded me of my daughter; happy, smiling often and full of life. She didn’t seem like the type of person who would be depressed or suicidal. It was time to leave, so I told her to get her personal belongings together. Holding up her cell phone and her unicorn she said, “This is all I have. I’m ready.”

I looked at the unicorn, then at her and said, “Unicorns are awesome. And you’re awesome….therefore you are a unicorn.”  She busted up laughing and I helped her to the gurney.

The trip would take about 30 minutes. I got a set of vitals and started asking about her medical history, prescription medications and allergies. She said she had scoliosis and was supposed to be taking a pain medication for it, but she didn’t have a way to get the prescription filled.

“Scoliosis?” I asked. “How bad is your pain on a scale of one to ten?”

“About a seven most of the time. My back bones pop and make this crunching sound whenever I turn to the left or right.”

I became silent for a few minutes, thinking about my next move. I wondered if she’d be open to prayer and of course, I wondered if she’d actually be healed if I prayed with her.

“I’m afraid you might be one of those people.” I said.

She turned to look at me. “One of what people?”

“One of those people I pray with who gets healed.” I replied.

“What do you mean healed?” She asked.

“Well….I pray with a lot of my patients and a lot of them are healed. And you have back pain and I’m pretty sure that if I prayed with you, it would be healed. Have you ever seen a healing miracle?” I asked.

“Yeah….once,” She replied. “When my gramma got sick and she lost the feeling in her left leg, the doctors said they would have to amputate it or else she would die. We all gathered around her and prayed and asked God to heal her. She got all the feeling back in her leg and they never did amputate it.”

“Wow. That’s pretty cool.” I said.

She looked at me. “I don’t just have scoliosis.’ She said with a serious look on her face. “I have a problem in my knee, too. Pointing to her fibula and her tibia, she said, “There’s nothing between these two bones in my leg. It’s bone on bone. My knee hurts all the time.”

“On a scale of one to ten how bad is the pain?” I asked.

“It’s about a nine.”

I sighed, looked at her and said, “Well, do you want to be healed or not?”

“Yeah. That would be cool.” She said, smiling.

I moved to a different seat in the ambulance so I could be next to her and explained what I was going to do. Starting with her knee, I commanded spirits of pain to leave then commanded ligaments, tendons, bones, nerves and muscle to be healed. Since the pad between the upper and lower bones of the leg is called the meniscus, and it seemed like her meniscus had deteriorated to where it was no longer doing its job, I commanded a new one to be created.

“What do you feel?” I asked.

“Wow! It feels great!” She exclaimed.

“Go ahead, move it around. Test it out. I guarantee you that thing is healed,” I said with a smile. She moved her leg and flexed her knee joint several times trying to make the pain return, but there was none. It was completely healed. So I asked about her back.

“Are you ready to have your back healed?”

“Yes!” She said excitedly.

I asked where the pain was located and when she said it was near the middle of her back, I placed my hand there and commanded the bones of her spine to come into alignment. I commanded scoliosis to leave and commanded ligaments and nerves to be healed.

“What do you feel?” I asked.

“Heat.” She said, grinning. It feels really warm and it doesn’t hurt anymore.”

“Well that’s because God is healing you.”

I prayed again, but this time I spoke to her destiny. I declared God’s identity over her and asked the Holy Spirit to remove painful emotions and memories and to heal her soul. I declared God’s protection and provision. I figured a kid like her needed as much help as she could get. She became very relaxed and in a few minutes she was sleeping on the gurney with her unicorn clutched tightly to her chest. I let her sleep the rest of the way and my fears about her mom never materialized. She was waiting for us when we got there

Unicorns are awesome… and so is Jesus.

Healed of Stage 4 Cancer

At 25, Nate was diagnosed with Stage 4 terminal cancer and was given 6 months to a year to live. Even with treatment, doctors gave him a 3% chance of surviving. What happened next is simply incredible.

How Bias Can Blind Us

I’ve been reading The Latent Power of the Soul  by Watchman Nee as part of my research for the book I’m writing on spiritual travel. Several chapters into the book, I ran across a problem that I see in the writings of many authors. (I found several problems with Nee’s views on this issue but I’ll only focus on one of them here.)

The problem is the bias we develop when we embrace a certain view of the end times. As Nee describes his beliefs about how the soul has its own power to travel outside the physical body – he wraps the discussion in a shroud of suspicion and fear. The reason is that he believes there is great deception growing in the world and that interest in spiritual travel will be part of the agenda of the soon to be revealed Anti-Christ. His conclusion is that we must at all cost, avoid getting involved in such things, because God would never use them as part of His own plans, and for us to do so can only lead to ruin.

Nee’s concerns come from the fact that he embraced a view of the end-times known as dispensationalism. This view teaches that as time goes on, the world will become darker, being filled with greater and greater deception and trickery until the forces of darkness overcome the world. This narrative serves as the default view of future events for many Christians today.

When a person embraces this view, any new trends they see developing in the world tend to be viewed with suspicion. Their overriding concern is that anything new that comes to light may be part of Satan’s agenda to overcome the world.

This view predisposes its adherents to a belief that God cannot be the driving force behind anything significant going on in the world (except perhaps sending missionaries overseas and building orphanages) since most of the spiritual activity going on today is by default, the work of Satan. Thus, if God were to actually increase the use of spiritual travel in the coming days among the church – a dispensationalist would tend to assume it was the work of Satan.

There is a view of the end times that has a different take on the future, called partial preterism. This view holds that the things that dispensationalists expect to see happen in the future have already happened centuries ago. People who embrace this view also have certain biases of their own which color their perceptions. They tend to dismiss predictions of catastrophe and increased darkness in the world and they attribute most of the increase in spiritual activity today to God. They see Satan as a defeated foe and have difficulty imagining his agenda becoming more influential in the coming days.

Both camps have a bias that blinds them to one set of possibilities. The more strongly you embrace a certain view, the stronger your bias tends to be and the greater your blindness is to the opposing set of possibilities.

I’ve studied the various end-times scenarios that have been put forth and for now, I’m not supporting any of them very strongly. All the theories have some amount of biblical support, but all of them overlook key passages of scripture that discredit their main points. None of them are so strong that I would risk losing my ability to objectively evaluate what God is doing to embrace it whole-heartedly.

The trick here is to become educated about the different views on a given issue and unless it’s a critically important one, to resist becoming overly invested in any one view, lest you adopt the biases of the view and blind yourself to other possibilities. Having said that, there are subjects about which we need not negotiate on. But many of the subjects people debate today are not essential to our faith.

My concern about bias as it relates to spiritual travel is that people who have read Watchman Nee’s book and who have been influenced by the same bias, might agree with his assumption that increased interest in spiritual travel can only come from Satan. People predisposed to this view would probably not support the idea that God could be the driving force behind such growing interest. I have personal revelation from God that disagrees with this bias. I believe God is the driving force behind the growing interest in this subject, even if there is also growing interest in the enemy’s camp.

As we move forward in the coming days, I would ask you to keep your mind free of unnecessary bias and be open to the things the Holy Spirit desires to teach us.  Be aware of your own biases and consider the ways in which they limit your objectivity.  (I’ll be posting excerpts from the book in future messages. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.)

Time and Eternity – Joshua Mills and Patricia King

Joshua Mills and Patricia King discuss the dominion we’ve been given over time.

Battery Miracle – Jim Brown

Originally posted on Facebook by Jim Brown

The Lord ‘Wowed’ me again today. There was a couple camping near by the Camp I work at this morning. Their battery on their car died so I went to try to jump it with our truck. When I got there and tried to jump the battery but it was as dead as a door stop. So they let me bring it back to the shop here and I put it on a charge for hours. The battery wouldn’t take a charge. So I realized Papa wanted to do or speak something to this couple.

At 3:00 I took the battery back to them just figuring it wasn’t going to start. The girl began to cry, they were far from home and she was scared. I put my hands on the battery and asked them to agree with me as we asked Father to start the car on a dead battery.

Now, I know about dead batteries being a maintenance guy and dealing with this stuff all the time and that there was no way in the natural that this thing was going to give any life or spark to start the car. But I had something working in me, a knowing that it was going to start.

We prayed and then the guy went in the car and turned the key, and Low and Behold it STARTED!

I just cracked up laughing!!!

She broke down crying and the guy looked like a deer staring into headlights stunned!

Then the Lord began unfolding their lives to me and I spoke what I heard…I spent about 10 minuets sharing God’s love and telling them about the Good News of Jesus’ sacrifice for them. As they listened they were both in tears they surrendered to the Love of God and absolutely accepting Jesus and acknowledging that He paid the price and penalty for their sins and they both received His already given forgiveness on the spot. I welcomed them into the Family and prayed for them. It was a God moment for all three of us!

Wow, how cool is that!

Glory to God!

Shoulder Healed – John Mellor

John Mellor prays for this man who was healed of shoulder pain.

Praying Medic Live – Part 2

This is the second interview with Donna Tonya Crow on Blogtalk Radio where we discuss divine healing.

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My Appearance in the Court of Heaven

In January of 2010 I had a dream in which I received a document from the court of heaven. The document was an order requiring people to be given the information they needed to complete their kingdom assignments. The information to be given was restricted to that which pertained to a person’s geographic region. It had no expiration date. Prior to having this dream I knew virtually nothing about the courts of heaven. After having the dream my understanding came very slowly. At this time I still don’t know that I could explain to a friend in any detail what the courts are and how they operate. There is very little information available on the subject. Most of what I know is second-hand information that I received from people who were courageous (or foolish) enough to appear in court to plead their case.

In February of this year I became sick with one of the worst viral infections I’ve ever had. My wife and I prayed to the best of our ability using the strategies we normally use, but the virus would not leave. My wife posted a prayer request on Facebook which got several hundred friends praying for my healing. A couple of friends even started a Facebook “event” to post updates on my condition and to recruit people to pray. Despite of all this the fever, chills and weakness kept me in bed for almost 4 straight days. A couple of times on the 3rd and 4th days I felt as if I was getting better so I logged onto Facebook to post an update, but a few hours later the fever and chills returned.

That night as I was getting ready to go to sleep, as my eyes were closed, in my mind’s eye I saw what looked like a bookcase with law books on it. This was a simple image that appeared in my mind. There was nothing glorious about it. If you’ve been following my messages lately, you know that visions from God usually appear in our mind and are very similar in appearance to the usual images we might see in your mind that come from our soul. One difference between visions that God gives us and the images that are inspired by our soul is that images from God are difficult or impossible to manipulate willfully, whereas images from our soul can be changed or made to disappear completely by exerting our will over them. A second difference is that images from God tend to come on spontaneously with no effort or involvement of our will, where images that originate in our soul require some degree of intention and focus on our part to make them appear.

As I looked at the image of the bookcase, I noticed there were a few golden fixtures and ornamental objects nearby. These objects were not immediately apparent, but the more I focused on the image, the more I began to see subtle details appear. The scene reminded me a little of my grandfather’s house. My grandfather was an attorney. Every bedroom in his house had bookcases lining the walls holding the hundreds of law books that he owned. Looking at the bookcase in the vision, I asked my wife, “Why am I seeing what looks like a courtroom?”

Now I wasn’t absolutely certain that what I was seeing in the vision was a courtroom, much less the court of heaven. This is where the line is drawn between knowing something with certainty and choosing to believe it is true, because you trust the One who is leading you. It’s possible that I was mistaken, and that this was just something my imagination conjured up. But I chose to believe instead that God was inviting me into the court of heaven to plead my case concerning my illness. Based on that assumption – I made another assumption that somehow my spirit had appeared in the court of heaven and if that was the case – it seemed as though I should to speak to the court, though I saw no one present who could hear me.

Notice that one must move from one assumption to another in order to do these things. Each new assumption is based on the previous one. Traveling (or translation) in the spirit is done by faith and faith alone. Faith allows us to believe that what we are seeing is real and it helps us get from one place to another and from one situation to another. Faith builds bridges that span the gaps of our understanding so our spirit may walk peacefully in heavenly places.

Though I saw no one else in the vision, once I made the decision to believe that I was in court, my next assumption was to believe that a judge must be present and presiding over my case. It would be illogical to appear in court if there were no judge to preside over the proceedings. God is not illogical, so it was safe to assume a judge had to be with us though I did not see one. When it comes to the things of the spirit we really do see through a glass, darkly.

Procedure

I had a conversation with Steve Harmon a few months ago where we talked about his experiences in the court of heaven. He told me not to worry too much about knowing the correct procedures when I go there. He said that beginners are usually given a fair amount of freedom to make mistakes, but the more experience you have, the more you’re expected to know and follow procedural guidelines. Being very new to this, I expected to receive grace where issues of procedural correctness is concerned.

I’ve appeared in various human courts at different times in my life. I defended myself during my divorce proceeding and in a criminal case that lasted more than a year. These experiences gave me some familiarity with how to conduct myself in court. In the courts of man – parties representing themselves are usually given a lot of latitude where procedural issues are concerned because judges know that most non-lawyers aren’t familiar with the rules of the court. This knowledge gave me the confidence I needed to speak for myself.

I remembered Ian Clayton saying it’s a good idea to call your accuser to appear with you in court, so I asked the court to summon my accuser. What I saw next is a little hard to describe, but if you’ve ever seen the Lord of the Rings movies, when the camera pans toward Mordor, you get a glimpse of a land filled with darkness and dread. What I saw was similar to this; I saw a swirling cloud of darkness that began moving toward me. Soon the cloud of darkness seemed to be beside me in the courtroom.

Knowing that this being is also called the accuser of the brethren, who stands before God accusing us day and night (Rev 12:10) I asked that the accusations against me be read. I heard nothing. But as I turned to look at the swirling cloud of darkness, words like “blasphemy” and “liar” appeared to be clearly visible in the cloud of darkness. I assumed that these were the charges against me – and the reason why the enemy felt he had a legal right to afflict me with sickness.

My Defense

The court of heaven operates under different principles than human courts do. While human courts say that their goal is to arrive at the truth, human courts frequently allow false testimony. Witnesses who testify in human courts often have only the goal of getting a decision in their favor, regardless of  whether they are guilty or innocent. Human courts permit dishonesty, but the court of heaven does not. So I had a problem; the accusations the adversary brought against me were true. How does one defend themselves against true accusations in the court of heaven?

I remembered Ian Clayton saying that Jesus gave us instruction about how to deal with our adversary:

“Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison” (Matthew 5:25).

So I did not dispute the accusations brought against me. To do so would require me to lie. I then remembered Ian’s strategy of standing under the blood of Jesus and using its cleansing of all our sins as our defense. So i said  to the court that I stand under the blood of Jesus, which cleanses me of all unrighteousness and makes me spotless and blameless in the sight of God.

I then remembered someone who shared a testimony about their appearance in the court of heaven and when they were asked to give their defense they didn’t know what to say. I believe an angel suggested that they ask for the books to be opened. In that story and angel came forth with a book and the accusations were not found written in the book. So I asked for the books to be opened.

At this point the vision that I was seeing in my mind changed. I saw what looked like a stone cliff. I could see that there was a small room hidden behind a secret door at the base of the cliff. I saw the door to the hidden room open and a warm glow of light came from inside the room. Then the door shut. Next I saw a book opened before me. It took a few seconds for the image to become clear, but I definitely saw a book that was open. On the edges of left-hand page I saw a faintly visible flower pattern. There was no decoration on the opposite page. As I looked at the pages of the book it was obvious that there was nothing written on the pages. The pages were blank. It was time to make another assumption.

I assumed that the book was a record of my sins. Yes — it was another assumption that required a leap of faith, but I know what the bible say on this issue so it wasn’t a big leap. Noting that there was nothing written in the book, I took this as an indication that my sins had been removed from the written record in heaven, being washed away by the blood of the lamb. So I made a short speech to the court noting that the book showed no record of my sins, because the blood of the lamb, slain before the foundations of the earth had washed them away once and for all. I said that since my sins had been washed away — there was no basis for the affliction the enemy had brought upon me. I asked for a decision from the court to have the sickness removed, since the enemy had no legal right to afflict me. This was where the visions of the court ended.

I did not expect my symptoms to disappear immediately. I had several Facebook friends who seemed to have the same virus. They reported that their symptoms had persisted for several weeks. I know that once an adversary has been evicted, it can take time for him to leave. I wanted to keep my expectations realistic and I figured that if I had no symptoms after 24 hours I would consider it a victory. The fever and chills persisted through the night, but in the morning the fever was gone only to return later in the day. At 3:00 in the afternoon my temperature was 100.5 ° (38° C) but by 6:00 it was down to 97° (36° C). I slept well that night, believing the decision from the court had taken effect and the fever never returned.

Follow-Up Questions

For those who want to know a little more about what this experience was like — here are my answers to the questions I you’re probably wondering about:

The entire series of interactions that I described above took no more than ten minutes. It may seem like these thing are drawn out over a long time, but most of my experiences like this are rather short.

While I speak about this event as though my spirit was in heaven, I’m absolutely certain that my physical body never left my bedroom. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if you’re traveling out of your body or in your body, but with this experience there was no doubt that I traveled only in my spirit. My body did not travel with my spirit. I felt no strange sensations in my physical body during the experience.

I did not see angels, a judge or any other spiritual beings of any kind except for the cloud of darkness that was apparently my adversary. It’s not uncommon for people to see other spirit beings in these experiences, but my ability to see any other spirits was restricted.

Through the entire experience I heard nothing audible. All communication was done through visions that God showed me in my mind and things I either said aloud or thought in my mind.

To be perfectly honest, the experience was not as thrilling, exciting or bizarre as you might expect. In many ways it was very normal. It’s something I think anyone could do, given the right set of circumstances and a little faith.

Final Thoughts

I have friends who have had good experiences in the courts of heaven and friends who have bad ones. I suppose that the experience  a person has is probably determined by a couple of things:

One factor is whether or not you were actually invited to appear in court in the first place. I think some of my friends went to court without being invited and they had a bad outcome because they were not supposed to be there in the first place. It’s tempting if you’ve been to the courts to go there when you want a situation to be dealt with swiftly. But not every battle requires an appearance in the court of heaven. Most of the issues we run into can probably be dealt with through prayer and normal means of spiritual warfare.  Appearing in court should not be our first response to a problem. It seems wisest to take whatever action the Holy Spirit offers and most of the time it will probably not be a court appearance. 

It probably helps to have a little background information before you appear in one of the courts of heaven. I suppose you could have a good outcome knowing virtually nothing about the courts, but I think the odds are in your favor if you do a little homework first. The consensus from my friends is that a thorough knowledge of the scriptures is a great help. I would suggest reviewing the testimonies of people who have gone to court and glean what you can from their experiences. Pay special attention to any mistakes they made as you don’t want to make the same ones. According to Robert Henderson who has years of experience with the courts of heaven, there are many courts you can appear in. Henderson’s advice is to only appear in the court you have authorization to appear in. Just as local, state and federal courts have restrictions on which attorneys and which cases can come before them, the courts of heaven have similar restrictions. Thankfully Henderson has published a book on navigating the courts which can be purchased by clicking on the link below.

Resources:

Navigating the Courts of Heaven  (book) Robert Henderson

Courts and Government of Heaven (podcast) Ian Clayton

Navigating the Courts of Heaven (video) Robert Henderson

Protocol for the Courts of Heaven (PDF) Tom Hawkins

Restoration in Christ Ministries – Tom Hawkins ministry specializing in restoring people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) through the use of the courts of heaven.

Seeing in The Spirit – Developing the Gift

During my interview with Donna Crow on Blogtalk Radio, I mentioned that God shows me things when I pray for people. Things like serpents, demons, etc. A friend who heard the interview asked how he might develop a better ability to see things in the spirit. So here are a few observations and suggestions to help you develop your spiritual gifts.

Some people are born with an ability to see in the spirit without needing to develop it. I don’t know why all of us are not born that way – but that’s how God chose to distribute talents, gifts, abilities, etc. We all have some things God has given to us as gifts.

If you were not born with a certain gift – that doesn’t mean you can’t learn how to acquire it. While it may come naturally for one person, it may be difficult for someone else. Difficult – but not impossible.

I don’t think it is so much the gift itself that people are given as much as the stage of development of the gift when they receive it. Some people receive fully developed gifts while others receive an undeveloped gift that requires training and use in order for it to develop. I believe anyone can learn to develop any gift they want through practice and instruction.

I was not born with a fully developed ability to see in the spirit. I had to develop my gift. I decided I wanted to see in the spirit so I spent months sitting alone with my eyes closed on the bench seat in the back of my ambulance between calls. During these times I quieted my soul and focused my heart on God, and gradually, faint images began to appear in my mind’s eye. Day after day – month after month, I spent my spare time with my eyes closed focusing on what God wanted to show me.

At first the images were flat, a bit out of focus and two-dimensional. As time went on they became more clear and three-dimensional. Eventually they began to move, which was like watching a video in my mind. Later – I began to see multiple scenes overlapping and the intensity of colors became more real and vivid than what I see in the natural world. Before I knew it, I was operating with a pretty well-developed gift, one that had always been there, but had never been used before. I was almost like God planted the seed for the gift in me, but I had to water and tend it in order for it to mature and produce fruit.

This principle is true of anything you want to develop greater skill at – whether it’s playing piano, singing, painting, fishing, healing the sick or seeing in the spirit. The key is practice. If you don’t practice – you’ll never get better at it. I suspect (though it’s just a hunch) that people who have well-developed gifts as children — like the virtuoso violinist, the child prodigy painter or the 3 year old seer – are given advanced gifts so that they might inspire and train the rest of us who are not born with well-developed gifts.

There are a couple of resources I would encourage you to check out regarding seeing in the spirit. Blake Healy’s book The Veil is an excellent book that describes the life of someone born with a fully-developed gift.

Michael Van Vlymen’s book How to See in The Spirit has practical tips for people who need to develop their gift.