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January 11 - January 27, 2018
It’s not just with angels. I walk into churches and see mountains of financial help piled next to those in need. I see fatherly love for the brokenhearted and lonely—not the intangible idea of distant affection from an impersonal deity, but a love more present and real than if God were physically standing in front of you with arms open wide. I see books full of wisdom and clarity flying directly into the hands of those seeking answers from heaven. I see the release of supernatural physical healing welling up from the ground near those who are in physical pain.
the angels wait for someone who knows what God has given to His people.
we are constantly affecting the spiritual atmosphere around us with our thoughts, actions, and mind-sets.
If I regularly worship in my home, then I have created an environment where the presence of God is attracted and can thrive. If I consistently get into angry arguments with my wife, then I have created an environment where the spirit of division and strife can thrive. These actions and thought patterns determine our spiritual environment.
dancing.
I believe that what God is doing on the earth is too big for any one church or any one denomination of churches. The things that are happening in the spirit are too big, and too good, for only a few people to be able to see it. I didn’t try to fit every good thing or even every kind of good thing I have seen into this book. That would probably be impossible. I picked a few key stories so that you could have a taste of what’s out there. Because I believe that God wants you to see what is happening in the spirit too.
was. Maybe I knew it because I’d grown up surrounded by ministry, maybe my family’s positive and encouraging nature influenced me, or maybe my unique gift had made it impossible for me to miss the fact that God’s hand is in everything. Whatever the reason, I never realized that people who knew God might not know how close His kingdom is.
Through all the bumps and bruises that I had received while trying to learn how to use my gift, the only time anything ever worked or made sense was when I sat with God and spoke with Him about what I saw. It worked so well while everything else about my seeing perpetually failed that I came to value this connection with God above all else. It had become so intrinsic to everything I did that I couldn’t imagine functioning without it.
People gave me prophetic words that made me feel really great, but they were a small footnote in the volumes-long love letter that God had been writing to me. Since what God had to say to me was the meat that fed my identity, I viewed what everyone else had to say as side dishes and desserts. I felt the same way about the things that I saw. They were neat and fun to look at, but I cared much less about them than what God had to say about them.
I assumed that anyone who could hear the voice of God would understand His kingdom. They wouldn’t need to see it because hearing it from His mouth was the best part. This made me feel that everyone who dogged me to say what I saw or wanted me to give them an impartation was just greedy or obsessed with the novelty of seeing. As I stood completely...
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For the first time I didn’t see this flood of questions as the overspiritualized fanaticism of hype-drunk zealots but the genuine hunger of those who had tasted God in part and been left wanting more.
an inborn conviction that my gift was meant to be available to anyone who knew
regular occurrence
They are not earned, but the quality of their growth and expression is in direct proportion to your divine relationship. By giving people a simple and practical way to pursue seeing in
Regularly taking a moment to perceive what’s happening in the spirit realm is one of the quickest ways to
grow in it.
let the Holy Spirit teach you how to see.
the ability to commune with the Holy Spirit is paramount to your success in seeing,
time spent communing with your Creator.
none of this matters if you are closely connected to God.
The enemy is terrified of people who can see in the Spirit because it reveals his powerlessness and God’s greatness.
When we choose not to forgive, we are not allowing others the very thing that gave us access to God’s presence. Jesus
died on the cross as the answer to the laws of sin and death. It was the ultimate act of forgiveness. God looked at the entirety of human history, saw every dark choice that every person would make, and decided that we were worth forgiving.
You may be able to see into the spirit realm with unforgiveness in your heart, but I guarantee that you will not be seeing it through God’s eyes.
Most offense comes from insecurity.
The solution is twofold: become an expert at connecting with the Holy Spirit about everything that you don’t understand, and make your relationship with God the core of your identity.
If you want to see in the Spirit, you will see things that challenge your beliefs, perceptions, and identity. Alone, this is terrifying. When you’re sitting in God’s lap with His voice in your ear, it’s exhilarating.
Jesus said that we are no longer slaves but friends (John 15:15). Paul wrote that we have been made coheirs with Christ because of the sacrifice Jesus made (Rom. 8:16–17). The punishments and rules have taken a backseat because God got what He was originally looking for—a place to give His heart. The Bible is not a set of rules and regulations that must be followed to earn a place near God. It is a picture, painted over thousands of years, of God’s pursuit of mankind. It is the story of the Bridegroom seeking His bride. Is He going to strike you with lightning or pull all His blessings from
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put love. It makes you a slave when He’s looking for sons and daughters.
This is one of the main attacks against all prophetic people. It is my belief that the prophetic is best expressed when under the covering of accountability and authority. You need people in your life to love and encourage you as well as warn you if you’re swerving off the rails.
serving in the priesthood or under a king. It was only in rare and extreme circumstances that they operated independently.
While it is true that God is capable of filling every need you will ever have, I do not believe that this is His intent.
Everything that God does is modeled on family.
It is in this structure that growth and health flourish. You need spiritual fathers and mothers to speak into your life, brothers and sisters to run beside you, and children that you are pouring into. In this structure it is difficult to get far off track, and it’s easy to grow.
“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15, NASB).
The only time I consistently felt good about what I saw was when I’d sit in the back of the church and talk to God about what was happening.
Jesus said that His disciples were not slaves but friends and that sharing what the Father was doing was evidence of this shift in relationship.
realm, that the reason I can see in the Spirit is God wants me to ...
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I am teaching him how to steward his inheritance.
An employee serves so that he or she can get something. It is an exchange of time for money.
A child serves because of the relationship he or she has with his or her parents. It
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Every spiritual gift exists for the sole purpose of bringing us closer to God.
They are all in service of continual intimacy with Him. I was dissatisfied with my seeing gift until I realized that God was taking me on a tour of His kingdom—my inheritance.
The truth is that I hope to point out that the door has already been torn open. Jesus died so you could know God better—so you could be alone with Him without sin being the elephant in the room. There is no longer any barrier between His goodness and our hearts. He tore down the veil. Learning the magnitude of that goodness is our Christian walk.
The point is that Jesus opened the gates to the kingdom of heaven so that you could come through them.
Seeing isn’t a privilege; it’s your destiny.
There are too many people, too many blessings, and too much kingdom for only a select few to see into its depths.
