The River has Risen
Friday evening October 30th the Lord lead me on a journey through the national weather service announcements and archives. I found the information below that states that the rainfall at IAH-Bush Intercontinental Airport had broken a record from 1982. I then began looking for any information about moves of Holy Spirit in 1982. I had never heard of "Third Wave" until Friday evening. I am not pushing the complete teachings of any of the groups that I am about to mention but I do find that this is significant.
RECORD EVENT REPORT...COR SEP/OCT TOTAL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
941 AM CDT FRI OCT 30 2009
...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT HOUSTON INTERCONTINENTAL
YESTERDAY ...
A NEW RECORD RAINFALL OF 2.45 INCHES WAS SET AT HOUSTON
INTERCONTINENTAL YESTERDAY OCTOBER 29TH. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF
2.38 INCHES SET IN 1982. ADDING THIS MORNINGS RAINFALL OF 0.51
INCHES...THE OCTOBER MONTHLY TOTAL IS NOW 13.16 INCHES WHICH IS THE
5TH WETTEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. AFTER A DRY MAY THROUGH AUGUST...RAIN
HAS RETURNED WITH A VENGEANCE. THE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER RAINFALL IS NOW
17.84 INCHES WHICH IS THE 8TH WETTEST SEPT/OCT COMBINATION IN
HOUSTON WEATHER HISTORY. THE 2009 ANNUAL RAINFALL IS NOW ABOVE
NORMAL AFTER FALLING AS MUCH AS 10 INCHES BELOW NORMAL DURING THE
SUMMER.
In 1982 John Wimber was teaching on Signs, Wonders, Miracles, and Power Encounters. The Third Wave started around the same time that Wimber was accepted into the Calvary Chapel circle and the names of many Calvary Chapel churches changed to Vineyard.
Saturday October 31st, I shared this information in greater detail with a group of men that were in my home. The reason for this meeting was to discuss prayer support, prayer missionaries, and to grow in relationship with one another. I believe that The Lord is going to continue to bring believers together to prepare the infrastructure that is needed to prepare the laborers for the harvest. There was also a beautiful encounter with The Father's Heart during our meeting. There was an incredible time of impartation.
Sunday November 1st. The new series at New Haven House of Prayer started. The series is from Jack Frost teaching Slavery to Sonship. In the message our Pastor mention the Third Wave and that a revelation of The Father's Heart will prepare a way for the harvest. If we are sons instead of orphans, we can trust that we do not have to eat all the fruit and seed that comes in this new time of Holy Spirit breaking out in Signs, Wonders, Miracles, Power Encounters in the earth. Past Waves of the Spirit ended due to the Spirit falling on orphan hearts.
Just thought I would share a glimpse of the Father's Heart journey I have been on for the past 26 months. I pray that you will all be in a place to receive this revelation and the Fathering Spirit that The Lord is pouring out on the earth.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Deuteronomy 7 (from the perspective of healing and deliverance)
Deuteronomy 7 (from the perspective of healing and deliverance)
Verse 2
The Lord will bring the struggles and sins before me. The Holy spirit in me we destroy the fear, temptation and sin in me. I will not agree with the enemies plans or pressure to cave in to these sins and desires. I will not compromise with sin.
Verse 3
I will not entertain or agree with any form of sin. I will stand on the promises of God to deliver, heal and keep me.
Verse 4
I will not be led astray by any form of sin. I will be protected by writing the word of God on my heart and in my mind. (He is faithful.) I will purse the Love of God and allow Him to set me free from the hidden things that still live in my heart.
Verse 5
I will destroy the alters of these sins (trigger points, miss appropriated desires)
Dispel the lies related to images or representations of glorified sin.
I will destroy the offspring the young seeds that come from the sin and miss guided thoughts that are associated with these sins.
I will allow Holy Spirit to burn away the images and fantasies related to past sins.
Verse 6
I am called and separated unto the Lord. I am special, different than the world, set apart for the work of the Lord.
Verse 7
The Lord chose me because of my weakness before Him and my recognized need for Him.
Verse 8
The Lord loves me and keeps His promises to me. With His strength i have been delivered from my struggles and my past life of sin. God's love has set me free.
Verse 9
God is faithful and keeps His promises, He shows tender mercy towards me. I will love Him and keep His commandments. Keeping His commandments is a response to love, not drudgery or out of duty. Due to my relationship with Him, many generations will be blessed.
Verse 10
My enemies will be destroyed by the Lord. I do not have to defend myself, Father is my defender. My enemies will know that it is Father that is repaying them.
Verse 11
I will keep the commandments of the Lord. Keeping Father's commandments will bring liberty and peace to my heart. Obedience removes any hindrance that separates my from my Father. Not that he distances himself from me, but that I can not stand in his presence with unrepentant sin.
Verse 12
My heart condition allows me to either receive or restrain the blessings that Father has for me.
Verse 13
Father will increase the fruit of my labor because He loves me. Every good and perfect gift comes from above.
Verse 14
My seed will multiply and will yield a harvest, others will know that I am fathers son. The blessed son of God
Verse 15
No sickness will take up residents in my body, soul or spirit. Those things are for the haters of Father.
Verse 16
The enemies of God will be delivered over to me. Their ways I will not consider for they lead to death and distance between me and my Father.
Verse 17
I will not be intimidated by things that appear to be more powerful than me in the natural.
Verse 18
I will remember the power and strength that father has shown time and time again to bring defeat to those that come against me.
Verse 19
With signs and wonders the strength of my Father will deliver me from the grip of sin and evil men
Verse 20
My Father will get revenge on those things and people that come against me.
Verse 21
I will not fear for my Father is mighty and to be feared by those that hate Him. There is no match for my Father.
Verse 22
Over a period of time my enemies will be destroyed
Verse 23
Father will not allow my enemies to stand. He will destroy those things that hinder love.
Verse 24
The strongest spirits can not stand the destruction that is due them. I am confident that Father has given me everything I need to annihilate my enemies. Resting in my Father's love is my greatest weapon
Verse 25
All false gods will be destroyed, none of their enticing pleasures will trap me.
Verse 26
There is room for no darkness in my heart or home.
The River is Rising
The River is Rising
A flood of Holy Spirit in November will be extremely refreshing. As we come closer to the end of the year, we are to continue to expect Holy Spirit to move. Following a massive push by those that worship darkness (Halloween), we will have the opportunity to turn the tide once again. Enter His presence with Thanksgiving in our hearts, enter His courts with PRAISE! In the west we see the end of the year as a time to close out old business and prepare for the coming year. We tend to coast and go on auto pilot, we even close down certain expressions of ministry due to travel and holidays. The Lord is inviting us to press in harder than ever. Fasting and sitting before Him. There is much to receive and give away in this season. The Lord encourages us to share the True hope in a season when wickedness and idols are so commonly observed.
I commend you for you dedication and continued desire to lean in and minister in the place the Lord has planted you. Give freely from that which you have received.
Blessings,
A flood of Holy Spirit in November will be extremely refreshing. As we come closer to the end of the year, we are to continue to expect Holy Spirit to move. Following a massive push by those that worship darkness (Halloween), we will have the opportunity to turn the tide once again. Enter His presence with Thanksgiving in our hearts, enter His courts with PRAISE! In the west we see the end of the year as a time to close out old business and prepare for the coming year. We tend to coast and go on auto pilot, we even close down certain expressions of ministry due to travel and holidays. The Lord is inviting us to press in harder than ever. Fasting and sitting before Him. There is much to receive and give away in this season. The Lord encourages us to share the True hope in a season when wickedness and idols are so commonly observed.
I commend you for you dedication and continued desire to lean in and minister in the place the Lord has planted you. Give freely from that which you have received.
Blessings,
Monday, July 27, 2009
The Son's Inheritance
Welcome to The Son's Inheritance!
This blog consist of revelation, prophetic words and a lot of my personal journey. Please feel free to submit any stories, words, or revelation that you have that pertain to God's heart as a father and what it means to be his child. Ladies, please insert the word daughter anywhere you see the word son.
Feel free to share anything posted on this site and make sure to include a link back to the original post.
Blessings on your journey!
This blog consist of revelation, prophetic words and a lot of my personal journey. Please feel free to submit any stories, words, or revelation that you have that pertain to God's heart as a father and what it means to be his child. Ladies, please insert the word daughter anywhere you see the word son.
Feel free to share anything posted on this site and make sure to include a link back to the original post.
Blessings on your journey!
We must know the heart from which the blessings flow.
Luke 15:11-20
The Parable of the Lost Son
11Jesus continued: "There was a man who had two sons. 12The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.
13"Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
17"When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.' 20 So he got up and went to his father.
Another common title for the parable is “The Prodigal Son”. There are lessons about God's Fathering Heart that endlessly spill of the pages while reading this passage. One familiar lesson for me is that of desiring my inheritance before I am prepared to steward it well. The idea of a child asking for something that is normally transferred at the time of death is horrendous. Another way of saying I want my inheritance prematurely is “Father, I wish you were already gone.”
When it comes to actual inheritance from our earthly family or the inheritance we have as children of God, we often times miss the importance of the relationship. There are many instances in my own past that I have only seen relationships for what I could get out of them. The thought of giving love, appreciation, and blessing, can be so far removed from my mind when I am living with an orphan heart.
When I believe that I am entitled to my inheritance, I miss the sweetest part. The relationship is the true blessing in the inheritance. There is nothing inside of me that desires my father to be absent from my life and then one day receive a letter in the mail saying that I have inherited everything that he owned. The value of a father and his love is worth so much more than the things he can give or do for me.
During many tough years of my life I lived with an orphan heart. I didn't understand my earthly or Heavenly Father's heart for me. The desire to live according to my own plan and for everyone around me to support me emotionally was all I thought I needed to be happy. Year after year I found myself empty and wanting a relationship with my Fathers but I didn't know how to be a son. The journey of understanding what it is to be a son has been a long but rewarding road.
Three years ago I found myself in a mission (voluntarily) in Nashville, TN. I remember staring out a window overlooking the city with my mind fixed on a fresh revelation of Father God's love. I had been saved for a few years but I was still living with the heart of an orphan. I was now the son that stayed at home in the Luke 15 story. I had been with Father for a few years and I had no understanding of how to relate to him.
Shortly after the Nashville trip I moved to Kansas City and the Lord surrounded me with spiritual fathers. During my time there the revelation I received in Nashville started moving from my mind to my heart. The more I began to experience a healthy relationship with God, the more I was able to be a son to my earthly father. My understanding of sonship was formed a thousand miles away from my earthly father. I remember spending time with the Lord and calling my dad and sharing my experiences with him. Over an eighteen month period the Lord built a strong relationship between me and my earthly father. The healing that is still taking place all comes from peering into the relationship that Jesus has with Father God. Beholding the relationship of perfect communion between The Father and The Son is the only thing that has brought me to a place of security and love.
There is not a more liberating experience than giving and receiving love from our Father in heaven. In order to truly enjoy our inheritance, we must know the heart from which the blessings flow.
The Parable of the Lost Son
11Jesus continued: "There was a man who had two sons. 12The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.
13"Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
17"When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.' 20 So he got up and went to his father.
Another common title for the parable is “The Prodigal Son”. There are lessons about God's Fathering Heart that endlessly spill of the pages while reading this passage. One familiar lesson for me is that of desiring my inheritance before I am prepared to steward it well. The idea of a child asking for something that is normally transferred at the time of death is horrendous. Another way of saying I want my inheritance prematurely is “Father, I wish you were already gone.”
When it comes to actual inheritance from our earthly family or the inheritance we have as children of God, we often times miss the importance of the relationship. There are many instances in my own past that I have only seen relationships for what I could get out of them. The thought of giving love, appreciation, and blessing, can be so far removed from my mind when I am living with an orphan heart.
When I believe that I am entitled to my inheritance, I miss the sweetest part. The relationship is the true blessing in the inheritance. There is nothing inside of me that desires my father to be absent from my life and then one day receive a letter in the mail saying that I have inherited everything that he owned. The value of a father and his love is worth so much more than the things he can give or do for me.
During many tough years of my life I lived with an orphan heart. I didn't understand my earthly or Heavenly Father's heart for me. The desire to live according to my own plan and for everyone around me to support me emotionally was all I thought I needed to be happy. Year after year I found myself empty and wanting a relationship with my Fathers but I didn't know how to be a son. The journey of understanding what it is to be a son has been a long but rewarding road.
Three years ago I found myself in a mission (voluntarily) in Nashville, TN. I remember staring out a window overlooking the city with my mind fixed on a fresh revelation of Father God's love. I had been saved for a few years but I was still living with the heart of an orphan. I was now the son that stayed at home in the Luke 15 story. I had been with Father for a few years and I had no understanding of how to relate to him.
Shortly after the Nashville trip I moved to Kansas City and the Lord surrounded me with spiritual fathers. During my time there the revelation I received in Nashville started moving from my mind to my heart. The more I began to experience a healthy relationship with God, the more I was able to be a son to my earthly father. My understanding of sonship was formed a thousand miles away from my earthly father. I remember spending time with the Lord and calling my dad and sharing my experiences with him. Over an eighteen month period the Lord built a strong relationship between me and my earthly father. The healing that is still taking place all comes from peering into the relationship that Jesus has with Father God. Beholding the relationship of perfect communion between The Father and The Son is the only thing that has brought me to a place of security and love.
There is not a more liberating experience than giving and receiving love from our Father in heaven. In order to truly enjoy our inheritance, we must know the heart from which the blessings flow.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
The Next Generation of Fathers
The Battle for the Hearts of Fathers
To peer into the hearts of the next generation of fathers is a sobering experience. The battle for the hearts and minds of todays teenage boys is not for the faint hearted. There are evil forces that are ever present in the lives of our next generation of leaders. The power that the father of lies uses to distort truth in the minds of children is unfathomable.
After a week with 8 young men at youth camp, I have seen firsthand the affects of the destruction that comes from the lack of fathering. To see a young man only 16 living life without purpose or destiny is a foreshadowing of things to come. To look into his eyes and see no trust or security in who he is, paints a grim picture of his future. With more questions than answers he searches for significance and manhood in dry wells. Looking at the men around him he finds none with virtue or integrity. There is no wisdom available to him, no source of encouragement or strength. The apparent hopelessness is written on his face and displayed by his words. Surrounded by friends that are searching for the same answers, he continues to find himself frustrated and empty.
What kind of father will this young man become ? How will he avoid passing on the pain? Will he ever experience the embrace he so desperately needs ? How can he protect his heart and the heart of a bride ? What does he have to give to another?
There is Hope!
As I watched the revealing of truth to this young man, I was blown away by the instantaneous shifts in his heart. The smile that had only been used to hide pain, now reveals peace and hope for his future. The tears are sweet instead of bitter. As he fixed his gaze on the Fathering Heart Of God, his countenance changed in an instant. The tearing down of walls around his heart brought intimacy that had not even been imaginable. As he was embraced by the arms of men that care and love him, his broken heart began to heal. With every tear he cried, his ability to receive love increased. After years of beholding wounded men and father figures, he chose to shift his eyes to the one that knows him best. To be loved well and to return that love to the giver, released him into a future filled with adventure and hope. Life for this young man no longer appears dark and lonely. He now has confidence in his ability to have intimacy without shame. The release of the pain has made room for joy.
Who is this God that he would tend to the heart of one child? Who is this God that inclines his ear to those who mourn? Who is this God that embraces the weak? Who is this God that fashions a new heart in place of one that has been destroyed?
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sin.
No only does the Love of God cover our personal sins, His love also covers the multitude of sins committed against us. Love is the key to the doors of protection and self preservation. There is no other way to experience release from pain and hopelessness.
John 17: 24-26
24"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
Take every opportunity to express the Love of Jesus to those around you. For the Saviour of the world desires us to experience the Love that His Father has for Him. The same love that God has for God, is our inheritance.
And where the Spirit of The Lord is, there is FREEDOM.
The battle ground of social injustice is fought on many fronts. The hearts of young men are a central focus in the fight to end all social justice issues.
To peer into the hearts of the next generation of fathers is a sobering experience. The battle for the hearts and minds of todays teenage boys is not for the faint hearted. There are evil forces that are ever present in the lives of our next generation of leaders. The power that the father of lies uses to distort truth in the minds of children is unfathomable.
After a week with 8 young men at youth camp, I have seen firsthand the affects of the destruction that comes from the lack of fathering. To see a young man only 16 living life without purpose or destiny is a foreshadowing of things to come. To look into his eyes and see no trust or security in who he is, paints a grim picture of his future. With more questions than answers he searches for significance and manhood in dry wells. Looking at the men around him he finds none with virtue or integrity. There is no wisdom available to him, no source of encouragement or strength. The apparent hopelessness is written on his face and displayed by his words. Surrounded by friends that are searching for the same answers, he continues to find himself frustrated and empty.
What kind of father will this young man become ? How will he avoid passing on the pain? Will he ever experience the embrace he so desperately needs ? How can he protect his heart and the heart of a bride ? What does he have to give to another?
There is Hope!
As I watched the revealing of truth to this young man, I was blown away by the instantaneous shifts in his heart. The smile that had only been used to hide pain, now reveals peace and hope for his future. The tears are sweet instead of bitter. As he fixed his gaze on the Fathering Heart Of God, his countenance changed in an instant. The tearing down of walls around his heart brought intimacy that had not even been imaginable. As he was embraced by the arms of men that care and love him, his broken heart began to heal. With every tear he cried, his ability to receive love increased. After years of beholding wounded men and father figures, he chose to shift his eyes to the one that knows him best. To be loved well and to return that love to the giver, released him into a future filled with adventure and hope. Life for this young man no longer appears dark and lonely. He now has confidence in his ability to have intimacy without shame. The release of the pain has made room for joy.
Who is this God that he would tend to the heart of one child? Who is this God that inclines his ear to those who mourn? Who is this God that embraces the weak? Who is this God that fashions a new heart in place of one that has been destroyed?
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sin.
No only does the Love of God cover our personal sins, His love also covers the multitude of sins committed against us. Love is the key to the doors of protection and self preservation. There is no other way to experience release from pain and hopelessness.
John 17: 24-26
24"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
Take every opportunity to express the Love of Jesus to those around you. For the Saviour of the world desires us to experience the Love that His Father has for Him. The same love that God has for God, is our inheritance.
And where the Spirit of The Lord is, there is FREEDOM.
The battle ground of social injustice is fought on many fronts. The hearts of young men are a central focus in the fight to end all social justice issues.
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