Thursday, October 29, 2015
SHOULD WE REALLY DECREE THIS? by Stephen Hanson
Decree:
noun: decree; plural noun: decrees
1.
an official order issued by a legal authority.
synonyms: order, edict, command, commandment, mandate, proclamation, dictum, fiat; law, bylaw, statute, act;
formalordinance
"a presidential decree"
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isaiah 55:11
Sometimes I hear the phrase, "I decree this to happen in the name of the Lord, and that many will be healed. Or perhaps one may say, "I decree that prosperity will come to this group and that ALL will have an overabundance, and rose petals will be strewn along the pathway in front of them."
I have studied and I am well aware of the teachings on this subject, but I am not persuaded that this is entirely something that is scriptural. Let me explain:
When we make a statement like this we are assuming that an entire group of people are in agreement with it, and that this body of individuals has chosen to believe with this person that stated the decree. How can this be if the people are anonymous and not in clear sight? How can this occur if we as a people have the choice to believe in the statement that was uttered or not? God has given us a free will, and we are not puppets that can be controlled by the strings of another, much less the Father who created us.
This can be very much like the "name it and claim it" doctrine that had infiltrated the church many years ago. One can utter something like, "Lord, I decree that this job is mine." When actually, it's really up to God whether or not we will receive that job or not, isn't it? It's really not a question of faith either, it's a matter of who is "in control."
The decree and declare movement actually overestimates our authority. Some would believe that no matter what we speak "in Jesus name," that it will come to pass. Truly, there are some things that we are told to "bind and loose." But I don't readily see the apostles binding and loosing the demons of financial poverty, or to retain a Mercedes in "Jesus name." God wants us to be prosperous, but many have the cart before the horse.
When Paul was given a thorn – a messenger of Satan to buffet him, did he speak to that thorn to go away or rebuke the demon of thorns? No, he pleaded with God. (2 Corinthians 12:7).
We are told in Hebrews about what faith is. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) And it is true that in order to believe in him, we must have faith in what we do not see, and this also can and does pertain to our spiritual walk. But even though we believe and trust in him for what we do not see, we leave the circumstances up to him, because he actually knows what is best for us.
Let us be careful and let us be wise in how something like this is said. I actually believe that many have not been taught correctly about this doctrine and that they haven't fully understood the ramifications and perimeters of making a statement that utters this type of command.
A true prophetic word will accomplish what it was sent out to do, and it will not return back and fall to the ground. It will not return void. Its purpose will be seen as it is spoken into the spiritual atmosphere in time. But as something is decreed, let us be wise and understanding of the words and the statements that we utter. Let us not so quickly put on the garb of pretentiousness and spiritual pride.
Selah`
Stephen Hanson
www.stephenhansonprophet.com
tseyigai@yahoo.com
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BREAKING DOWN THE STRONGHOLD OF JEALOUSY by Glenn Jackson
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
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SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by MARSHA BURNS
Maintain clarity of thought and purpose, and refuse to allow non-essentials to cloud your vision. Strive to be focused so that you can stay connected to Me and receive wisdom and direction. It is imperative that you stay on track spiritually. Know that there is an over-abundance of things that can and will distract you if you aren't careful, says the Lord. 2 Corinthians 10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
My Healing Miracle—I am Fully Restored After Germany! by Doug Addison
Today I have great news to report on my healing!
But first, let me paint a quick picture of the last two years and why I know this turn around is a miracle.
For most of my life I have been a very healthy person. I am a blessed man to be in good physical health at age 56. I eat well, exercise regularly and I consider my body to be a temple of the Holy Spirit.
But that all suddenly changed in June 2013 when I got sick but did not know what was wrong.
I had debilitating levels of anxiety and chronic fatigue. I later discovered I had Lyme Disease and I was healed miraculously at Prophet Bob Jones’ funeral on February 22, 2014. It was during one of the darkest times of my life.
In the process of all my medical testing I discovered I also had heavy metal toxicity, including dangerous levels of lead in my body. I had also been exposed to black mold. The average person can fight these things, but after Lyme wiped out my immune system I became more susceptible to them.
In June 2014 I began having more trouble that developed into an acute case of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Things such as the strong odors of cleaning products and mold would cause me to go hysterical. I was living a life of avoidance and I had to minimize my participation in live events.
One year later, by June 2015 I had lost 25 pounds and my life was a mess as I was having emotional breakdowns over 10 times a day. Doctors seemed to make things worse because my immune system was so depleted that the slightest amount of detoxing would make me sicker.
Then in July I got an opportunity that would jumpstart this turning point in my health.
Germany Connection
Many people in ministry recommended that I go to His Place in Germany since others have experienced amazing results from what they do there.
Many people in ministry recommended that I go to His Place in Germany since others have experienced amazing results from what they do there.
For example, Rolland Baker (Heidi Baker’s husband) was cured of severe dementia there. James Goll was ill and they discovered an Epstein Barr virus that no one in the U.S. could find and he is now cured from it.
God opened an opportunity for me to take a 5-week healing sabbatical last month at His Place.
God opened an opportunity for me to take a 5-week healing sabbatical last month at His Place.
Why Germany?
To be honest I didn’t know a place like this existed and I’m sure there are others around the world and possibly in the United States, but I’ve never found one. They treat the entire body and soul through the Holy Spirit and various treatments. They even do deliverance prayers and counseling over your test results.
To be honest I didn’t know a place like this existed and I’m sure there are others around the world and possibly in the United States, but I’ve never found one. They treat the entire body and soul through the Holy Spirit and various treatments. They even do deliverance prayers and counseling over your test results.
I know of many programs that handle spiritual roots and others are for physical (medical) healing only. But none that I have found will actually handle everything.
How Healing Happens at His Place
His Place is not a clinic or hospital. It is simply a hotel owned by a church called Community Without Walls in a small cow town in the Western side of Germany. They have a wellness center and a naturopathic doctor who has an office in the hotel. (See photos of my time at His Place in Germany.)
His Place is not a clinic or hospital. It is simply a hotel owned by a church called Community Without Walls in a small cow town in the Western side of Germany. They have a wellness center and a naturopathic doctor who has an office in the hotel. (See photos of my time at His Place in Germany.)
They work together to do testing and treatment for the whole body, soul and spirit. First and foremost they pray over everything. There is a lot of worship going on and the presence of the Holy Spirit is quite strong. Peace and shalom are the keys to healing.
This is not a quick fix and they recommend 3–6 weeks to see results. First, they increase your physical health by juicing and eating healthy food based on your personal food and tolerance testing. Most of the food is grown in their on-site garden.
They have testing and treatments in Germany that are often more advanced than in the U.S. They use a combination of blood testing and body measurement devices that are amazingly accurate. You will need to follow through with a local doctor back home who is willing to work their plan.
I received vitamin IV drips three days a week and ozone therapy, as well as other natural methods of building the body up. They also cleared the detox pathways through weekly colonics, massage, chiropractic adjustments and spa treatments. I had a personal physical trainer who worked with me on my body.
Within three weeks my brain came back to life. My memory began working again and I no longer had fatigue when I tried to read or write. I had been battling this fatigue for over a year. I was still having some anxiety but nothing like when I arrived.
I Got a Miracle
Prior to going to Germany, any detoxing I tried to do would cause me to have terrible reactions. They did not detox me at His Place, but they did build up my system and cleared my pathways to a level where I could start detoxing once I returned home.
Prior to going to Germany, any detoxing I tried to do would cause me to have terrible reactions. They did not detox me at His Place, but they did build up my system and cleared my pathways to a level where I could start detoxing once I returned home.
I found a new integrative medicine doctor, Dr Allen Green in West Los Angeles who agreed to continue to work the plan they gave me in Germany. He has a cutting edge machine called BioPhotonic Therapy (Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation or UBI). It is often referred to as “the cure that time forgot.”
After three UBI treatments, I had a major breakthrough in my health just last week and I was restored to a level I was before the Lyme Disease. I am no longer reacting to any chemicals and I have not had any breakdowns or anxiety. I was able to minister at a live event in San Diego in ways I have not been able to do in a few years.
What is BioPhotonic Therapy?
A small amount of your own blood is drawn through an IV and run through a machine that infuses Ozone and ultraviolet light and dripped back into your body. It is painless and only takes 30 minutes.
A small amount of your own blood is drawn through an IV and run through a machine that infuses Ozone and ultraviolet light and dripped back into your body. It is painless and only takes 30 minutes.
This process is approved by the FDA and the American Cancer Society but has not been used much. There are no major side effects, and it treats over 40 diseases and is relatively low cost. It worked for me and I am grateful to God to be totally restored!
If you are interested in this therapy, you can visit this website to learn more.
I Thank God for This Miracle
My energy and brain is back! All the prayer, cleansing and restoration I experienced in Germany set me up to get a full healing once I got back home. I am still going through detoxing and treatments, but with my immune system restored it is not as devastating as before.
My energy and brain is back! All the prayer, cleansing and restoration I experienced in Germany set me up to get a full healing once I got back home. I am still going through detoxing and treatments, but with my immune system restored it is not as devastating as before.
Thank you to those of you who donated to my healing sabbatical. Your gifts and prayers really made a difference and helped restore my life and ministry.
Grateful for all of you,
Doug Addison
To Whom Much is Given by Adela Just
“When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.” - Luke 12:48b (NLT)
When I was in college, I spent a month doing missions works in Swaziland, a tiny little country next to South Africa that is being decimated by HIV/AIDS. They have the highest infection rate in the world and a life expectancy of only 50 years.
While it was not my first missions trip, nor my first trip to a third world country, something about my time there deeply affected my heart, and I wrestled with a feeling I had never experienced before in any of my other travels—guilt over being American.
For a month, I listened to children tell me stories about losing their parents and being taken in by a family member on the condition that their bodies had to be available to the head of the house any time he wanted. They told me how they were trading themselves for education, food and shelter because it was their only shot at a better life someday. They shared about power struggles in a culture that stills practices polygamy, where children became pawns in a game between desperate women. I heard about a wife falling out favor with her husband, so he intentionally infected her with AIDS.
I want to tell you these stories were isolated, but they came in droves at school after school, from student after student. We did the best we could, teaching them to take care of their bodies, addressing common myths surrounding HIV/AIDS, and having cultural exchanges with them. It didn’t feel like enough, but we poured ourselves out anyway.
And then we went home.
I headed straight from the airport to Starbucks, and 24 hours later, left for a little vacation with my family, sleeping off my jetlag in a plush resort and never having to worry for a moment that someone might take advantage of my body in order for me to have basic human needs met.
For the next year, I furiously wrestled with God, trying to reconcile His standard of justice with what I had seen, struggling to see how He could allow me to live in relative comfort and ease here in the United States while children were trapped in nightmares all over the world. That season cemented a call on my life to live for more than myself, for more than my own comfort and my own ambition. I did not fully understand what I had experienced, but I walked away knowing with unshakable certainty that the evil in this world is not from Him and that He was inviting me to partner with Him in standing against it.
Facing Reality Head On
There’s a buzzword in our culture that we’ve been hearing a lot lately: privilege. It comes up in a variety of contexts, and I confess, it rubbed me the wrong way at first. But I also felt there was something I was supposed to understand, so I’ve been asking God to teach me.
I’ve realized that the initial resistance I felt toward this word is because typically, a privilege is something we earn. For example, if my children clean up their toys, they earn the privilege of watching TV. If you perform your job well, you earn the privilege of a raise or promotion. You do something worthy; therefore, you are rewarded.
But in a social justice context, privilege generally refers to an advantage we have that we had absolutely no control over gaining, but still it results in a dynamic that tilts in our favor. We don’t choose the economic status we’re born into; we don’t choose our country, our culture, our race, our families, and so on. And yet, in the dialogue over current issues or events, there is sometimes an underlying sense that we should have chosen differently or we should apologize for being born into a better situation than someone else.
I believe that feeling—that strange, unwarranted sense of guilt—is a lie the enemy tries to whisper in order to cause division and to block compassionate revelation and understanding. This stops us from truly listening to each other’s stories and from being effective ambassadors of God’s kingdom. It stirs some to get defensive and others to get offended, and neither of those attitudes are good conduits for establishing God’s justice.
Instead, with humility and gratitude, we need to understand that we are blessed to be a blessing. Whatever situation you were born into, there is likely to be some advantage you had over someone else. Did your parents have a healthy, committed marriage that powerfully demonstrated love to you? That is a privilege. Did you have a hard-working single mother who powerfully demonstrated that you can overcome any obstacle in life? That too is a privilege. I could spell out scenarios all day, but the point is, we all need to ask God for His perspective on our lives. None of us have these things because we deserved them, or we were better than someone else; they are simply where we were placed, and now we have a choice to make about how we will use our position—to serve ourselves or to serve others.
What unique privilege do you have? What unique blessing have you been given? As Mike Jacobs likes to say, what’s in your hand? Whatever it is, we’ve all been entrusted with something we should be actively using, not merely for our own comfort or gain, but to push back against the injustice someone else is facing.
Taking Action
Last month, best-selling Christian author Ann Voskamp wrote a powerful, convicting post about her recent visit to Iraq and the destructive effects of ISIS that she witnessed firsthand. It was a call to action and awareness for the body of Christ that has spread like wildfire across social media and other internet platforms. In the post, she issued this challenge:
Don’t turn away, Church. Blessed are those who mourn and weep with those who weep and in the face of evil, how will we make our hands and feet into Cross-Shaped Love? ...The exact reason you are where you are—is to risk everything for those being oppressed out there. You are where you are—to help others where they are...The world needs people who defy cynical indifference by making a critical difference—and that could be us. Every single one of us can start changing headlines when we start reaching out our hands.
And in her words, I hear the echo of Jesus’ words: To whom much is given, much is required.
What can you do today, right where you are, to push back against injustice, to “defy cynical indifference by making a critical difference?” Who needs you to reach out your hands and throw them a lifeline? Who can you encourage or fight for?
We all have a privilege that has been entrusted to us, not because we deserved it, but because God wanted to give us a tool that would help someone else. He is inviting us to partner with Him in establishing His justice, righteousness, and mercy. Will you invite Him to give you His perspective? Will you let Him call you out of your own comfort?
What will you do with what you’ve been given?
THE KEY TO TRUE PRAYER IS TIME SPENT IN THE "INNER CHAMBER by Glenn Jackson
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