Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Jamie Walden
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January 25 - February 7, 2021
It is for you because the One Who foreknew you has called you according to His will and purposes (Rom 8:28-29), out of exceedingly great love and mercy, for your joy and to His Glory!
So, with apathy, escapism, futility, indifference, and jealousy as the dominant viewpoints, Satan continues his lies: “War? What war? Nothing to see here. Keep eating and drinking, giving in marriage, and checking off your religious to-do lists. Go back to sleep, sheeple.”
Warrior Class rises to take its position! This Class of Warriors is a confident, resolute, enduring, forcible, and effective people who know their God; a people whose identity is deeply rooted in the Living Water of Christ Jesus and who boldly stand in His power as they go forth to do exploits!
Perfect substitute in our wayward failings. His power, His strength, His authority and victory, His love, His promises and the light of His face are the hallmarks of the Ethos of the Warrior Class of the Most High in this generation. These are the attributes of the Warrior Culture to which “those with ears to hear” have henceforth been called.
Soldiers, conquerors, victors, yet meek, humble, innocent; bold, active, intensive, yet stilled, quieted, and entrusted to the Lord. Working, striving, wrestling, yet patient, secure, peace-filled, and confident. Weak, contrite, fools according to the world, yet standing as strong, exalted, wise, shrewd, and delighted over in the Lord. These are the attributes of the Warrior Class of the Most High born from an abounding love and deep “knowing” of Who it is we serve. These are the attributes of those “who know their God and do exploits” in the days ahead (Dan 11:32)!
Meekness is controlled power
If we do not fully comprehend the supernatural nature of the narrative into which we have been written (that of a war marked by enmity and corruption juxtaposed with redemption and reconciliation), we will by default accept a much lesser version. I have found this to be overwhelmingly
Many Shepherds in the Church, whether appointed by God or having assumed the position based on carnal, fleshly pursuits, have spoken falsely on His behalf. As the Lord often attests throughout His immutable Word, “They have WEARIED ME” with the things they are saying and doing on My behalf. A more fearful rendering of these offenses might state that they are “using the name of the Lord in vain”.
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 [emphasis added]
Good Shepherds prepare their people for suffering and endurance in a way that the truth and hope planted in them will spring up under the rushing waters of persecution. This is the basis of Psalm 1 and Jeremiah 17 (see also Ps 112). If we sow according to the Spirit, we will most certainly reap a harvest of power, boldness, hope, and steadfast love. However, if what is sown (by Hireling-Shepherds) is according to the flesh, we will most certainly reap fear, anxiety, discouragement, cowardice, and hopelessness.
If Christ has all authority in heaven and on earth and all things are under His charge (Matt 28:18), and if He has disarmed the Powers of Darkness and shamed them at the cross (Col 2:15), and if we are FULLY united with Him and He is in us and therefore (John 14), we are in Him, and if we have received the promised outpouring of the Spirit and Fire (Col 1:15-23), and if the Spirit searches out all things, even the deep things of God (1 Cor 2:6-16),
God’s words of correction, caution, and rebuke have been deemed foolishness; bywords in pages of scripture no longer useful for teaching and training in godliness. In their stead are frivolous pleasantries of goodness, friendliness, and promises of unceasing emotional highs. Only the antiquated fanatics, the stumbling blocks of a “Progressive Gospel,” would witlessly “fear the Lord” because His grace exists to coddle, nurture, and make allowances for our sinful desires. And those who speak otherwise, who “confronts with the Holy One of Israel” are deemed quarrelsome, divisive, unloving, and
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As the Word has declared: “Woe to you who turn things upside down” (Isa 29:16)! Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter” (Isa 5:20).
We must test ourselves and one another in matters of the Kingdom; not as a matter of fault-finding, superiority, condemnation, or haughtiness, but out of a sincere love for each other’s standing before Christ (1 John 4:1, 2 Cor 13:5, Rev 2:2, 1 John 2:3-6).
We seek those who fear the Lord, those who are fixated on what is not yet seen, and we eagerly enter with them into the Father’s work with joy and confidence!
According to His “task and purpose” we tear down every stronghold that sets itself up against the knowledge of Him. Not only so, but we are commissioned into entering His Mission of reconciling all things to Himself through His Son. We are subordinates to the Higher Unit [i.e., Christ Jesus], and our Commander ensures our success by providing us with a preponderance of support [i.e. the Holy Spirit] and designating to us all the “Supporting Effort” of Heavenly resources necessary in order to one day hear the joyous resound of, “Well done. Mission Accomplished!”
The most basic building-blocks of God’s created order are being corrupted. Our genes, our food, our air, our sensory perceptions, our neurology, our emotion, our logic and understanding, the Word, our hearts, and our spiritual discernment are all undergoing “genome editing” while we remain tragically unaware! But we have been admonished to rightly discern the spirit of this Age: But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful,
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Love will always manifest itself in the degree to which it is willing to sacrifice toward the object of its love.
Love will always manifest itself in the degree to which it is willing to sacrifice toward the object of its love.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13
As Warriors within His ranks, reject the doctrine of “Peace at Any Cost”, reject “The Switzerland Trespass” as you throw off any fleeting notion of neutrality in this War. Rightly divide because you have been rightly divided!
AGITATION: Stir up discontent, then offer a corrective course of action that brings about their original objectives (i.e The Fall in the Garden). This has been coined as the Hegelin-Dialectic (Problem-Reaction-Solution). First, an artificial Problem is created with the intent of eliciting a specific Reaction from the people it affects. The people then demand something be done about the Problem. And so the Problem-makers offer their pre-planned Solution as the unwitting subjects eagerly swallow it. Under normal circumstances, however, the people would never have accepted the strategies or
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Where we have “wearied” the Lord with our flesh-peddling, presumptuous white-washing of the savage battle that rages all around us, repent! We are assured, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
Therefore, it is the obligation of those within the Heavenly Ranks to “put to death” their own, insurrectionary flesh without hesitation and to make war against the multidimensional Rebel Anarchists. Through an unceasing cycle of humility, contrition, confession, repentance, worship, thanksgiving, and obedience to God’s commands (His Word) we increasingly become a powerful and effectual weapon in the hand of our Warrior King, Jesus, arresting the rebel within as well as those Rebels without.
We are to walk loyally in a manner worthy of the Lord and pleasing to Him in all respects (Col 1:10). Faulty-loyalty or disloyalty (synonymous with defector, apostate, and traitor) assures our unfitness for duty. Those who talk of the things of God but have no action behind them are dead in the eyes of the Lord (Jam 2:14-26); those who say they “know” him, but do not obey His Word are liars (1 John 2:3-6). Those who claim Christ as Lord are to be found by Him blameless, spotless, confident, and holy at His Coming (2 Peter 3, Eph. 1). He is the great fruit inspector and deals with nonproducing
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refuses to compromise on the Word of God will embolden the weak and feeble of heart to stand firm in the fray.
Here too is a true and trustworthy maxim: The Lord is tender and compassionate in our fearfulness. How often did God have to remind Joshua to be strong and courageous? Many times, because he wasn’t! In our fleshly-fear the Lord is merciful. He is merciful to expose us now, in time of relative security, rather than later, in time of utter chaos.
As I was reading this, I thought, I don’t really fear anything because I trust in Jesus...then I realized I did fear before but I’ve given it all to Jesus—instead of fear, I have Jesus—even unto death; to live is Christ, to die is gain.
where Fear has maintained a Command Post in your life and you have had the “god of fear” placed above the God to be Feared, repent!
possessed (and maintained) an expectation of courage. Not only did he have an expectation of it, the purpose of that courage was clear: “so that, now as always Christ will be exalted”.
The People of God must take hold of the concept of Death (and fear) as merely a shadow. Think on these truths and increase in strength and courage: Shadows in and of themselves are harmless; they are only an illusion, a mirage, of the real thing they represent. More accurately, shadows are often a distortion of the object they represent (bigger, longer, wider, more opposing).
the Light of God. He is The Champion of absolutes, clarity, order and definition.
We of the Warrior-Spirit, of the Counter-Insurgency, are to be as the sons of Issachar, “men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” (1 Chron 12:32). We are to dispossess the land of the abhorrent, multidimensional tyranny!
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ is the greatest prophetic theme in Scripture. Approximately 300 prophecies in the Old Testament foretold the first coming of Christ. Astonishingly, there are more than eight times as many verses describing the Second Coming! In total, some 2400 verses throughout the Old and New Testaments reveal God’s promises about Christ’s Return, the Day of the Lord. And yet, for some errant reason (i.e. our love of self) the Church generally only deals with the 1st Advent of Christ.
The Cross led to the tomb, which led to the Gates of Hades, which led to the throat-punch of that Rebel Satan and that wretched curse of sin and death, which led to the display of the power of Christ over all life as He took His own life back up again (John 10:18), which led to the empty tomb, which led to the once-again-occupied Seat at the right hand of God the Father, which led to the promised outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which now inflames you and me with a Living Hope, and empowers us to carry out the Lord’s Mission with no fear in death and no shame in life! Therefore, when we look
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Church! We are called to be the light of the world, the salt of the earth, the apple of God’s eye, the purpose of the Ages, His masterpiece, His portion and delight, image-bearers and ambassadors of the Truth and the Life as a holy nation and a royal priesthood who holds forth His Love and Hope to a confused and dying world! Have we heard the Lion of Judah roar? Are we responding to the blasts of the trumpet? Woe to us if we are not, for we know, “if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under
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the solidifying factor of any Warrior Class is the reality that the individual is dead to self; the team, who becomes your family, claims unequivocal precedence over all else. No countries, no flags, no ra-ra patriotism and romantic ideals of grandeur; it’s just about your family and your shared devotion to see your mission through to completion.
The Lord God of all Creation, in great wisdom and love, chooses the weak things of this world to confound the strong; He chooses the foolish things to shame the wise; He chooses uneducated, common men to boldly carry inside them the most unsearchable mysteries of the universe and of Salvation in order to astonish the powerful. With the humble He shames the proud, and through tremendous crushing He unleashes unfathomable blessings.
The Warrior Culture of the Lord is not about running out, it is about kneeling down.
Do not chide your position and calling, regardless of its stature. Do not longingly desire to walk in/covet the anointing of another.
it the very purpose of this book: to compassionately, lovingly, and truthfully strengthen the timid in spirit as we encourage one another in the gospel of Whose Army it is in which we fight!
Therefore, as members of this elite, special-purposed Multidimensional Coalition, we are fervidly called to “consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near” (Hebrews 10:24-25, emphasis added). We (one another) are each other’s Force Multiplier!
In order to operate at the highest capacity as a Warrior of the Most High we must first become a weak, wriggling worm. Only when we become immersed in, captivated by, and humbled to the concept of our state before God, that of a forceless, flaccid worm, are we able to enter His Mission with earnestness. When we embrace this fitting, powerful posture before our King (this is the peculiar unorthodoxy of Worminess), it gives rise to the greatest Force Multiplier of all: The strong right arm of the Lord!
we will stand firm in His power, His strength, His wisdom, His victory, and the light of His face, because of His love for us!
