534. The Power of Rest

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Resting Before Purpose

Coming to a place of rest is what God really wants us to do. And then from a place of rest, everything else can come out of that place of rest. And when you are in a place of rest, things begin to happen around you, things begin to outwork around you because you are not trying to work it. You are not trying to make it happen. You are trusting in God’s provision and blessing and protection and guidance in that situation.

334. Embracing Spiritual Rest

And in a group dynamic, God wants the group to come to a place of rest in relationship with him and with each other. Then if there is a mandate for a group for a particular purpose, again, that is much easier to hear when everyone is resting and not striving, and not seeking their own agenda.

So there was another group that has met for probably about four years, and they have been meeting to ascend together and engage together, but with no agenda. And they did not have an identity other than the time that they met, which was noon. So they called it the noon group. But then they all felt that God was drawing them to think about, what is our identity? Who are we? We know who we are individually as children, but is there an identity for the group? And there was.

As they came and asked, you know, “Can we do an ascension to find out?” I was like, “Yeah, you can, but you do not need me to do it,” you know, because essentially they were ascending every time they met. So they did not need me to facilitate that for them. So I did give them some ways of thinking about what you do if you are seeking God for clarity about what the group’s purpose is or what the identity of the group is, because the identity comes first, which gives a blueprint and a mandate.

Identity Before Function

So if you are, let us say, as a group, a fellowship group, or in this sense, are they an ekklesia? What is an ekklesia? Ekklesia carries some sort of governmental aspect to it as well as the relational. But what for? You know, they are the questions that you begin to ask.

235. New Order Ekklesia

Then you can go to God and ask him for revelation and clarity to give us, well, what are we? Are we an ekklesia? And sometimes as soon as you say, “We are an ekklesia,” people think, “Oh, church. Oh, I am not sure I want to be that.” Because they are thinking of the old model, you know. So they are thinking, “Oh, we have got to do this every Sunday, and we have got to do this, and then we have got to have notices,” and all the, you know, you end up sort of like, “Oh, there is this model. I am not sure I want that.”

483. Is God Bored? A New Perspective on Church Practices

So we have got to be careful we do not frame words with our ideas of what they mean, but allow God to unveil what he means about the identity of a group and its blueprint and mandate. And I think once you come to rest, it is much easier to be able to hear God speak about that sort of subject.

Trusting the Journey

The adventure of it is when we begin to trust in the journey rather than dictating where we are going. Too many people look at the destination and they actually miss the fact that the journey is the important part.

445. Walking In The Spirit: A Journey Into Heavenly Realms

Ultimately, in a group dynamic, we are all individuals and we all have our own blueprints and mandates for our own lives. But when we come together, there is something special when that begins to connect relationally.

From my past experience, people want the function before they have got the form, and they do not want to spend time building the relationship that enables the function to be released. We are sort of conditioned a little bit that way. “Well, what are we going to do?” You know, “What is our purpose?”

But it sounds like, and I think God is drawing other groups into, “Well no, the relationship is what is the foundation, and the purpose will come out of the relationship.” Discovering it is an adventure in that you are probably going to go further than what you would even imagine or have thought at the beginning.

And if you had put an identity on it at the beginning, you would have had a lesser identity than what it is now when you are in a place to be able to seek God for where you are now, because you have all grown and you have all matured. So you are all in a different place than where you would have been before, you know, which is part of trusting God and walking with him; one step at a time, and not racing ahead or looking ahead.

So many people are walking with God and rather than looking at God, they are looking ahead, and they are missing the fact that the relationship and the intimacy is right there with them, you know! Right there with them, rather than always looking ahead and missing what they have got.

Let us enjoy what we have, and out of what we have more will come, which is awesome. It really is powerful when you are on a journey and this becomes this sort of adventure and you know, what is coming next, and you know, it is great. It is certainly not boring.

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533. A Well-Being Economy

Mike Parsons

A Well-Being Economy

I would like to see politicians who do want to be supporting the people of the country they live in rather than the big businesses or the corporations or everything else. People’s health and well-being should be the key factor. So I think a well-being economy rather than a productivity economy would more reflect God’s heart.

There are some governments around the world who have adopted a well-being economy agenda, but not the US, ot Britain, although I think Scotland does as part of Britain, and New Zealand. I think some of the Scandinavian countries are looking and thinking, “What are we doing? You know, we are ruining the planet, ruining people’s lives. What for? To make people rich.”

So I do believe that actually a well-being economy would change things to benefit more people for more of the time and therefore health and immortality would certainly be part of that.

Profit Over Health

Now, I do not know how much of this is true, but I read about when they first introduced corn syrup into the US food system and how it was marketed as the solution to everyone’s problems. Corn syrup has basically produced obesity throughout the world. But someone made a lot of money out of corn syrup and it was promoted by advertising to be a healthy option.

And I think there are things like advertising companies who make money promoting products which are unhealthy. I mean, look at the epidemic of opioid addiction and those that made all the money out of promoting addiction on the basis of, “This is safe and non-addictive.” When you look at oxycodone and other things, I mean, you know, I have looked at the movies or TV series about it and obviously people were prosecuted or whatever else, but it is still going on.

People are making money out of making other people sick. Well, that is the sort of thing that should be addressed in government, but who is taking the backhanders? Potentially, those who make decisions on what drugs and how much they are charging and all of that stuff. You know, there is this massive scandal in the pharmaceutical world, which is not trying to make people well, it is just trying to make people more money at the expense of other people while they keep them sick.

So I definitely believe there needs to be a change. That change will not come about until the governments are not influenced by those who have the most money and the most lobbying power.

Truth, Discernment, Integrity

So, I would love to see a well-being economy looking out for the health of the nation and changing things to help people live more healthily and live longer and eventually, if they live longer, finding God and finding healthy immortality.

436. How to Live Forever | Communion (Part 1)

It is not an easy world we live in and it is becoming harder and harder for people to know the truth. I mean, if you saw something on the TV 50 years ago, 40 years ago, even 30 years ago, you would think what you were looking at was absolutely the truth because you were seeing it on your screen and someone was reporting on it.

Now the people who are reporting the news are making the news and they are deciding what is news, and what you see you cannot believe with your own eyes anymore, unless you were there in person. And I think that is a very dangerous situation in that there are a lot of people who are not discerning enough to actually see what the truth is. Therefore, they believe what they are being told, and what they are being fed as true, when it is not true.

And sadly, I do not think most people will go and find out what is true or do their own fact-checking on what is true. They just listen to what is being said. And I do not think that is what we should be doing as believers. We should be looking at the truth, which is Jesus, spending enough time with the truth to be discerning of what is true.

So I never take what I am hearing and accept it as being true or not true. If it is important to me, I will fact-check it – with God, primarily. I might do some of my own research, but even that is harder and harder to do, to find out what is actually true because who knows whether what you are reading is true?

500. Jesus, The Ultimate Fact-Checker!

So God is the best source of information when it comes to what is true. And the more time you spend with the frequency of truth, then when you hear something, you discern the frequency of love and truth on it. That will help you.

Character Rather Than Charisma

And it is not one side or the other. It is both sides who do the same thing. And, you know, we need to rise above it all. We need to go into a realm where the truth is in a relationship which enables us to be discerning because we have practised training our senses to discern what is good and evil. And I do not think enough people have practised training their senses and therefore they are gullible to believe a lot of what is being said which is targeting them at their agendas.

384. Spiritual Senses | Learning to see beyond the physical

I mean marketplace stuff, social media, it is targeting people to buy things because it is listening to conversations and all of that stuff. And you get targeted marketing. You get targeted political statements. There is no integrity in doing that at all. They just want to win at all costs.

And I do not think that is the way we should operate as believers. We should be looking at the truth and focused on what is the truth. And there is truth in both sides of every argument. And there are truth and good things in both parties. But you are not going to get it because they will not come together on a higher agenda of, “We will support these good positive things that you are doing if you support these good positive things that we are doing.” It just does not happen, does it?

But I would hope that change would eventually be driven from grassroots people who say, “Enough is enough. We are just not playing this game anymore. We are not agreeing to this system anymore.”

Now, how you would do that, I do not know. But change has happened politically in history from people rising up and saying, “We are not having this any longer.” You know, who would have thought the Iron Curtain would come down and the Berlin Wall would come down? No one thought that was possible. But individuals began to promote change supported by the grassroots who were behind change and eventually change happened.

I would never have imagined the Berlin Wall would come down in my lifetime. Well, now I am going to live forever, so in that sense it would anyway. But back then it was a huge shock that essentially communism fell. But now, what have we got? Something worse probably that says it is democratic but actually is not and operates the way it does.

So things can get hijacked. We have got to have the right people who bring about the right change for the right reasons. And that is why we need to look to people with character and integrity rather than look at charisma or money. Do they have the right character and are they operating with integrity?

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532. Grace Over Law | The Revolution of the New Covenant

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The Old Covenant System

We’re looking at a perspective where the old covenant operated in a way that they had a system in which they needed a temple which reflected a heavenly picture of a holy of holies, an inner court and outer court and that sort of thing. And I do not understand personally why David would have desired to do that, when he had the presence of God in the Tabernacle of David, which represented our day in which the gospel would be open to all people, not just a limited people. But they had a religious system and, according to their religious system, they needed somewhere where God’s presence would be, where they could offer their sacrifices and offerings and their day of atonement and all that.

So according to that system, I can understand why that was important to them; and God worked within their system. But did he intend there to be these things made out of stone, when we are the temple that he always desired to dwell within and with? So we have got to look at it from their perspective. Under their religious system, a temple made sense.

Jesus came to completely destroy that temple. That is what he said. “Not one stone will be left standing on this temple,” which was the representation of the old covenant system of law, when the new covenant would be a system of grace, not law. So Jesus said that this system was coming to an end. It would happen within a generation. It happened within a generation.

320. The Signs of Jesus’ Coming

So we have got to be careful not to read into what happened in the old covenant as anything that we should be looking for to happen in the new covenant. So God certainly allowed them to have their belief system and he operated within it for them, but he did not condone it because he said, “Sacrifices and offerings I desired not.” You know, “You wanted to do this, I went along with it, but I never wanted it.” And even in Hebrews it says sacrifices and offerings God did not want.

So why did they do it? Because they operated in their own system of belief that they created to enable them, in their view, to have a relationship with God. But they never had a relationship with God that was personal and intimate. They had a relationship with religion and a system that they thought was keeping their nation safe from God’s wrath and judgment and punishment.

419. Jesus Saves Us From The Father’s Wrath? NO!

Grace Rather Than Law

The day of atonement is where an offering was made for the sin of the nation, whereas Jesus is the sin offering for the world. So we do not need any physical temples anymore. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. God dwells in us. We are the tabernacle, and corporately God dwells in our midst as well as dwelling within us individually. There is a corporate dynamic to that.

But definitely I do not believe that we should be looking to rebuild or have temples which are physical things. Now, I do not mind going into wonderful cathedrals and things like that where they have been built often out of respect and honour for God, and you can tell that people put their heart and soul into it. And they can be places where you can find peace and I have often been in them. But I do not believe in the religious system of denominations occupying them.

They did not have any church buildings for the first few hundred years, until Constantine decided that Christianity would be the Roman religion. Therefore they had a lot of temples which were now redundant, so they might as well use them for Christian things. The same with priests, a lot of redundant priests. So, let’s have a priesthood (rather than the priesthood of all believers, which is what it is).

All of us have access into the holy places of God in the realms of heaven.

445. Walking In The Spirit: A Journey Into Heavenly Realms

Reading the Bible With Perspective

Part of the problem with a lot of these things is we read what the Old Testament says and we think that must be true, the total truth. A lot of it is their interpretation of the truth from their understanding. It does not make it true. It makes it true from their perspective, under their religious system.

We have got to be so careful we do not just accept the Bible must be totally true because it says so. The Bible, you have got to understand, is a collection of books written by loads and loads of people. Some poetry, some wisdom, proverbs and things like that. Some are history, some prophetic books. They are all books written from someone’s perspective who wrote them. It does not make them right.

403. So you think the ‘Word of God’ is the Bible? Think again!

Just because they said that God said, “You need to wipe out this group of people,” does not make it right that he said it. They just used that because that was their view of God. God was going to wipe out their enemies, because that is how they saw it. That does not make it true. God was never going to wipe out his enemies in the way that they thought. God can turn enemies into friends. That is what it says, turn his enemies into his footstool, the place of worship, not destroy them and wipe them out.

531. When the Bible Becomes a Barrier

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Moving Beyond the Need for Proof

When I started this journey, everything for me had to be focused in the Bible because that was what I was brought up with in the evangelical system of thinking. And that was limiting what God was able to show me, which were things beyond the Bible. But because I needed it grounded there, that grounding then was outworked in what I knew. And so I would try to do it myself because I knew and I was confident, well, the Bible says this.

481. Beyond The Pages | Finding Truth Outside the Bible

Now, at that point, I had not gone through deconstruction, and that was still what was framing my relationship with God. But God wanted to take me beyond that, so he had to start weaning me off needing proof, biblical proof, which was where my proof came from, you know, because there were things then he started to show me. Well, if you want biblical proof about this, your understanding of the Bible needs to change because the way you see the Bible now is not going to give you the proof, which is actually the truth. Because you are framing it with a wrong expectation of me.

And I suddenly started to realise that what God was saying to me is, “You do not have to do this yourself. You just let me do it.” So presenting myself as a living sacrifice, as a priest, meant for me I was doing what I needed to do to be a good sacrifice. Whereas actually Jesus my high priest prepares me in my life. But I was doing the preparation.

Trust Jesus Rather Than Knowledge

So every day I would want to go into the tabernacle in heaven and I would want to look into the bronze laver and see a reflection. But what I was looking at was a reflection of my understanding of the Bible. I did not know at that point that Jesus was the Word of God. Of course, I knew it intellectually, but actually the Bible was the word of God. So for me, that is how it was.

403. So you think the ‘Word of God’ is the Bible? Think again!

Therefore being washed by the water of the word was not Jesus doing that. It was me, reading the Bible, who was doing it. So I was actually trying to wash myself. You know, when I was trying to renew my mind, I was using the Bible to try and renew my mind. And all of the things like “the word of God is like a sharp two-edged sword just dividing soul and spirit,” – I was trying to divide my soul and spirit using the Bible to do it.

And actually what Jesus was trying to say is “No, I am the living Word. So trust me, not in your knowledge, because your knowledge will not be enough to do it because you do not know enough, and also some of the things you think you know are not true.”

So it was quite a challenge, you know, to go through that process of him removing the evangelical framework of my thinking to trust him rather than to trust my knowledge. Ultimately that took me through a whole process where I had to accept that I was in control and I was doing it myself. And I was not trying to do a bad thing, but I was still doing it in works, and I was still doing it in the power of my soul, and I was still doing it actually because I trusted myself more than God.

489. Nine Pillars That Shaped (And Shook) My Beliefs

You know, because of the [understanding of the] nature I still had of God who was to be feared, because that was before my understanding of God was deconstructed into unconditional love. So I was still functioning in penal substitutionary atonement and all of those doctrines which were my understanding of framing the Bible. So I was framing the Bible wrongly all of that time.

Surrender, Deconstruction and Trust

So he decided to wean me off the need for biblical truth and biblical proof and show me that a lot of my understanding of what I thought was true based on the Bible was not true because it was based in a false system of belief based around a god who is not actually who God is.

So you go through seasons, and it is not always easy if we do not surrender. So what I have learned to do is just surrender and trust. If it seems to be a season of inactivity, it is okay: I trust you, and I trust you enough that if there is anything you want me to do, then you will show me. And when this season changes, then I will actually sense and feel something has shifted and now something else is happening.

But it is not an easy process when you are conditioned. And I was certainly conditioned. And I had to go through a lot of deconstruction. And I had to surrender to trust God before that deconstruction could really take place. You know, there was a degree where I had experiences that challenged some of the things I believed about God, but that was not sufficient at that point without a surrendering of my soul’s need to understand and to know and effectively to be in control.

501. Deconstructing Beliefs: A Journey to Authentic Faith

So God took me through a whole process of softening me up, preparing me, a lot of refining experiences of going into fire and going into being soaked and getting ready for the most difficult thing that ever happened when I got to the point where I had to surrender my right and need to know to just trust him. And that was such a hard thing back in 2012. But since then, my relationship with God, my understanding of who God is, my understanding of who I am has been totally transformed because I now know God at a completely different level.

So go for it, you know, go for resting. And it does not mean that you cannot say to God, okay, if you want to tell me what is going on or show me what you are doing, I am open. But that is not the driving force behind what you do when you engage God. Because there is no problem, God is quite happy for us to talk to him and ask him questions, but he is quite at liberty not to give us the answer if he does not want to. And we have to accept that there is a reason for that, whatever it might be. That is what we have to trust God in, the process.

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530. Active Steps to Immortality

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Put On Immortality

It is a subject which is becoming quite widespread and more and more people are beginning to engage it. I think the key to it is you cannot just be passive hoping that you are immortal. It says that the mortal puts on immortality. So there is a sense of “well, what do we do to put it on, or be clothed by immortality?” and that it requires our thinking to align with immortality. So, no fear in our thinking, no alignment to aging and death as if inevitability, no alignment to time running out. All the negatives, you know, we have to think of.

You cannot embrace immortality without thinking about the effects of death because death is overcome with life, it is swallowed up in life. So we have got to actually address what is our thinking which needs to change, which has been aligned to death or the inevitability of it, because most of us have been brought up with that inevitability. And in Christian circles, death is seen as a promotion because you get promoted to get the good stuff. We have got to break that mindset and make that mindset disconnected from death so that we can actually embrace, ” why does God want me to be immortal? God has made me immortal, and how can I clothe myself with his intention for me?”

346. Ageing and Immortality

Draw from the Right Source

Which means, how do I draw from the right source, because most people die because they run out of life. It is almost like you are born with an amount of life within a container of your body. There is an amount of life that, as you get older, you are running down that amount of life until eventually there is no life left and you die because you are only drawing from the natural source of life that is within your mortal body.

But if you are drawing from an energy source which is beyond that energy that you have just within your body, and you are drinking from living water as an energy source which is a fountain which is supplying you eternal life, then you are not going to run out of energy – because it is a constant supply of energy which is not that you had when you were born. So we have got to change the source to draw on immortal energy, the energy of God, the life of God, the spirit, all sorts of ways of looking at it. Drinking living water so that rivers of living water are flowing in us.

It is like we were born with a tank and we are drinking from the tank until there is no tank left. Nothing in the tank and the tank is empty, we die. But if we continually be infilled with a flow of life which is coming from beyond the tank, then our tank never needs to actually run out. But it is the source, and we have got to turn to the source. Jesus said, “Anyone who is thirsty, come to me and drink.” Think of thirst being running out of life. We need to turn to a source of eternal life.

506. The Mindset of Immortality | Secret to an Abundant Life

Abundant Life

And immortality is not just ‘not dying’. It is living a quality of life which is the abundant life that Jesus promised. I do not think most people would want to live forever in the state that they are currently in.  They do not want that, but they do not know how to do it.

382. Understanding Immortality | Beyond life and death

And there are changes. We need to find the abundance of life so that that life is a joy to live and we do not want to die because this life is so good. Why would I want to miss out on more of this life? But for a lot of people, the quality of their life is not there. Therefore they see life as something where “eventually, I am going to get a promotion and then I will get the good stuff when I die” because they do not have the abundance now.

So we need to ensure that we have the abundance of life which is love and joy and peace and everything that God intends us to have, and not be robbed, killed or destroyed by the lack of it, which is how the enemy will deceive us into believing that we will inevitably die. So there is a sense where our mind needs to be renewed to a different way of thinking about it, but our being needs to be focused on drawing from a different source.

So we are actively clothing ourselves in immortality or drinking from the right source because we know that we do not have what it takes within our own self to maintain life forever. There is a limitation on what we can draw from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, if you like. We need to draw from the tree of life, and that source, the tree of life, will never run out.

So there is stuff to think about, you know, in changing thinking, turning our attention to a different source, and then drinking from that source.

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529. Transform Your Reality | Let Go Of The Past

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Choosing Reality from God’s Heart

That is how God has created us to be, that we can choose and create our own reality. Part of the problem is if we keep choosing our reality out of our knowledge of the past, then we keep repeating the past and our reality never really changes that much.

477. Transform Your Reality | Harnessing the Power of Intention

We have got to actually see the possibilities that God has for our future and begin to align our choices from our future, which also comes from his heart in eternity. So it is coming from a place of intimacy with his eternal heart, which essentially is my scroll, my destiny, to which I then choose to align to what that frequency is.

His living words, when he spoke me into being as my source of life, are still vibrating within me. Now, when I resonate with that source and those words, then I am going to choose a reality from his original intention for me. And when he shows me a vision, if you like, of how he intends my life to be, then I see future realities that cause me to be able to choose them in the present, so they actually begin to form and come about. But it is not like it is fixed, therefore God shows me my future; and if I choose it, it will be guaranteed to happen. It is like there are possibilities for my future aligned to his desires, and for me, and if I come into agreement with them they will begin to form.

464. The Power of Co-Creation: Aligning with the Heart of God

Breaking Free from Past Programming

We have a lot of history in which we have been disconnected from our eternal identity, and we have made decisions based on what we have been taught from nature and nurture in our lives. So our soul has been programmed from all our experiences that have happened in our life from the outside in. But God wants us to begin to be led and guided from inside out, from his Spirit, my spirit, and therefore not the programming that my life has had. So if I keep choosing the reality based on what my past experiences are, I keep getting the same experiences, and that has got to change. So my mind needs to be renewed to see things differently, so I am not programmed to inevitably keep repeating the mistakes of my past.

The future is better. God wants me to succeed and prosper. He has blessed me. I need to come back into that place of his blessing and empowerment so that then my future is good, and his desire for my future is always going to be for my good and for my blessing, and so I can be a blessing. I am blessed so I can be a blessing. I am loved so I can love others, and that comes out of that reality of my relationship with God, which causes me to choose aligned to his heart rather than from my past. But we all have things that we are in process of having renewed so that we are not influenced by those things anymore, but we have a higher frequency of influence, that we resonate to a higher frequency rather than to the lower frequency that we have been used to living in. And his words still vibrating in me resonate with that higher frequency, but am I choosing to come into that agreement with that, or do I keep choosing the low frequencies.

Sometimes that is what people do. They are so familiar with the low-frequency life that they have been living, they do not think there is any other way of living. But when we start to glimpse what God starts to show us, then what is possible enables us to choose that to become reality rather than the inevitability of life just going on the same way. So yes, I totally agree with that statement, but it requires a relationship of intimacy to choose those realities rather than what we have been necessarily programmed with. And eventually, you know, we will be deprogrammed, if you like, and renewed to think differently and not have those negative choices or negative things dictating what we choose or how we choose it. So there is a process involved, but God is active in that process in renewing our minds.

253. Framing Your Reality

Cooperation and Corporate Agreement

Ultimately, we mature to a level where we create our reality instantly rather than over a period. At the moment for most people it is pray, believe that you have received and you will receive, because we have been used to waiting for what we have chosen to manifest. And sometimes it has to be a time period because other people are involved in that, and other things are involved in that, and I cannot just force my reality on other people. So there has got to be somewhere where cooperation comes in, and connection comes in, that there is a corporate mind of Christ choice of reality that more and more people will embrace and things will change on a greater scale rather than just around my life.

Because none of us are an island independent of everyone else; we still have to interact with other people. So if I am living in this area and I am choosing for this area to be blessed, but there are a thousand other people believing the worst, I have got to have a thousand times more influence than they have if I am going to change things. But if two or three come together, well, one can put a thousand to flight, but two, ten thousand. So there is a sense of exponential increase in there. If we start to come together with others and agree with God for those realities, then I think those realities can begin to bring good for the benefit of everyone, even if they are not making that choice themselves. It is not forcing them, but it is creating an environment where they will see what a wonderful thing it is to be blessed, rather than to live in a state of less than what God intended.

So I think more and more people will begin to connect with God’s heart, God’s mind, and will have a union of desire and heart which will bring about change, which is why I think things like the earth shield and other things, where people were coming together in agreement to engage with God and therefore be looking to see a place of protecting what God was doing on the earth and keeping it from interference from external sources so that God’s purposes can be outworked in practice. But I do think it is something we need to start to focus on, but we have got to make sure we are choosing a reality that is aligned to God’s heart.

465. The Earth Shield | How Spiritual Beings Influence Natural Disasters

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528: Embracing Change | The End of a Cycle

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When the Old Stops Working

I think sometimes we need an end of something for the beginning of something else. That is when sometimes it feels like it is dark. This is not working anymore. Why is it not working? You feel that because actually what God is wanting is for you to move from one old way of doing something into something new. Often, if the old way of doing it keeps working, there is no incentive to embrace the new. So it can feel like, why is this not working, what is going on? Because God has something new that he wants you to embrace.

Fasten your seatbelts!

Therefore, it can feel like there is a gap, or it feels like what is going on, but actually God is at work in it so that you can find what is new rather than staying with the old. Often what people do, when they have been used to doing something a particular way and it seems it is not working, is they try harder and push it. They often do it in the flesh, with their own effort and their own strength. What they are not realising is that God does not want them to do it that way anymore, because he has something new for them. But they are not able to rest in the gap.

Rest in Transition

Some people really do not like quiet. There has to be noise, there has to be activity, something has to be going on. That is the problem with not being at rest, you need the activity. And if the activity is something God wants to change, you keep trying to do it because that is your comfort zone. When you are comfortable, it is familiar, but it becomes uncomfortable when things stop working and you have not yet discovered how the new works.

That was the transition out of the old covenant into the new. It did not just end. There was a 40-year period of transition where both were in place, and that caused quite a lot of confusion and difficulty. But it allowed people to come out of the old thing, which was fading away and becoming obsolete, as it says in Hebrews, and to embrace the new covenant, which was a completely different revelation and experience. Some never came out of the old. They tried to make the old work.

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Letting Go of the Old

Paul was one of them, trying to make the old work when Jesus was trying to show him a new way. It was not until he was on the Damascus road, in the light, that God revealed that Jesus was in him, and that revelation transformed his life. But he had to abandon the old way of doing it to embrace the new way. He could not keep going with law and works as opposed to grace. So his whole message became one of grace and the finished work of Jesus rather than law.

He had to explain to many people why this was not working anymore, and some were pressured into going back to a system, or even going to a system they had never had, by those who wanted to maintain the law of Moses alongside the grace of Jesus. But you cannot mix covenants. During that 40-year period there was a mixture of old and new, until eventually the old came to an end. Even today people are still trying to mix old and new, because that is what happens with a religious spirit. It wants you to operate in a way that is based in a system, but mixing systems just creates a mess.

You know, if you want hot water, you want hot water, if you want cold water, you want cold water, but warm water is not very pleasant to drink. It is a simple picture of not trying to keep the old going, but embracing the new. But it is not easy when you are in the gap, because it feels uncomfortable. It feels like something is not right, not feeling good anymore, but that is because God wants us to embrace something new.

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Growth Requires Movement

There is always a beyond. In Ephesians 3 it says God is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond what you can ask or think. If you keep going with what was before, you will never go beyond into what is next. That is why it can feel uncomfortable, but you can still be at rest even when something does not work anymore or when things are changing and transitioning. It is not easy, because there are questions and feelings and a sense of uncertainty.

Ultimately, you cannot stay in a state of immaturity forever. We have to mature. It is like what happens when birds in a nest reach the point where they need to learn to fly. The mother pushes them out of the nest. They are encouraged out so that they will fly, because they will never fly if they stay in the nest.

I like watching the birds in the garden. We have bird feeders and tables, and the little birds chirp while the parents feed them for a while after they have left the nest. But eventually the parents stop feeding them. I have seen the adult birds sit on the bird table, encouraging the fledgling to come and eat, while the fledgling still opens its mouth expecting to be fed. But the parents do not do it anymore, because the food is right there. The young bird has to peck at it and eat it for itself rather than relying on the parent.

Moving Beyond the Gap

There is a sense of growth in this, and I think God orchestrates those periods where things are not working as well, or there is a gap, or it feels like you do not know where you are, so that we will not want to stay there. It may feel like a hole, as you described it, but it is actually part of the process of moving us forward into something new.

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527: The Ripple Effect

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Transition Rather Than Revolution

I always hope for transition rather than revolution, because a lot of people get hurt in revolution. Transition is a more peaceful way of doing things, but I am not always totally convinced that transition brings about change if people do not want the change. What will cause people to want the change? They are not happy with the present situation, other than a more philanthropic view of wanting to see the world a better place, but most people are not really looking that way.

So ultimately, do I believe things will just change? I think there will be some shakings that promote people to look for a different solution, rather than perpetuating the same. It is people who will eventually bring the change. If 250 million people in the US suddenly found an intimate relationship with God as Father, things would change, because those people would demand change and they would be agents of change. They would change how they treat people, and then other people being treated differently would treat others differently.

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Beyond Political Solutions

Ultimately, I am not optimistic of a political solution, but I am optimistic of God’s kingdom eventually, through transforming people’s lives, changing the world, hopefully transitionally. But there may well be some bumps in the road that cause people to start looking at different solutions to their life.

If you think the government is going to solve all your problems, you are looking in the wrong place, because has it ever solved everyone’s problems? Not really. So let us give them a role that they have, to make sure there is an infrastructure in the nation that can support well-being, but they are not there to control people’s lives and they are not there to make money for other people either.

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Discernment and Unity

We should be looking for peaceful transition, without what happened last time to divide the nation even further. You want things to come together, not be driven more and more apart. I would want people to be discerning and to be able to find out what is the truth, and not be swayed by lies and propaganda and all that goes on. The political arena is like a pigsty, everyone is dirty in it. Not corrupt, but it is just not a good environment, it just feels like it stinks. It did not used to as much as it does today.

Love as the Highest Agenda

As followers of Jesus, “love one another as I have loved you” should be the highest agenda that we have. To love one another, even if we disagree, whether we disagree politically or in so many different areas. Love should be the higher agenda and call; and if it was, things would be different.

It seems that in the last election, Christians were no better than anybody else in vilifying others, and it was not good. We need to rise above that and demonstrate love for those we disagree with, because that will change things, because Jesus said it would. How would the world know that we are his disciples? By our love for one another. And that does not exclude the world, because Jesus came to save the world, not just a part of it.

Love That Transforms

We need to love everybody, whether they are a different colour, speak a different language, or whatever differences there are. Nothing should be higher than love. Love can bring about unity and union, but only love can do it. Therefore, we need to be loved. More and more believers need to know that they are loved unconditionally so that they can choose to love each other, the world, and their neighbour.

Our neighbour may be a different colour, come from a different country, be an immigrant, or anything else. Most people in America are immigrants when you go back a few generations. So let us love each other, whatever our background or wherever we have come from. Let us choose to love one another, because that is the higher law. That is what will change things ultimately, if we choose to love one another.

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Love forgives

Jesus said to love your enemies. From our perspective we should not have enemies, but if people feel that they are our enemies, we should still love them, forgive them, and want to bless them. That is what love really is. Can you want the best for someone who does not love you? It is a challenge, but that is what Jesus did for those who put him on a cross, both political and religious. “Father, forgive them.”

I think that is what love does. Love forgives no matter what. And that would change things if more and more people who say they are followers of Jesus actually followed him by doing what he said, loving one another and loving their neighbour as themselves.

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526. Crystal Bowls: Sound Therapy for Mindfulness and Meditation

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Using Sound to Facilitate Rest

This is something I use to help other people, generally, when I was using them more, back then. I have not got a big enough office here to have the seven big bowls that we have, the coloured ones, there is not enough room. So I have just got one smaller one that I occasionally use if I want to help someone focus, or in meditation. If you engage the sound, it can bring you into a place where you are at rest. So I do use it that way occasionally, but I have never really used it particularly for myself. It depends entirely really on what people need.

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Intention Carried Through Sound

So I could use it to release a healing frequency. Again, it is my intention. When I play the sound, the sound carries my intention. If my intention is for you to experience peace or rest or joy or love or healing, then my intention is carried. And if you receive that intention and agree with it, and come into agreement for whatever it is I am releasing, then that begins to engage and touch you. You can use it in meditation just to focus your thinking and your mind on the sound, or you can use breathing techniques alongside it or independently of it, just to actually get your mind focused.

A lot of people struggle getting their mind to stop going round and round and round and thinking of things all the time. When it comes to meditation, you are fixing your thoughts on God to engage with God, and if there are lots of other thoughts going around, it can make it really quite difficult. So sometimes breaking the thought patterns that we have with a sound, so that we focus our thoughts on the sound, or even with breathing, slowly breathing in and breathing out very deeply and very slowly, can just get our mind off our thinking. Some people’s minds are like washing machines that just go round and round. They just cannot turn it off. They cannot come to a place of rest.

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Helping Focus and Engagement

Sometimes people need something to distract them and to focus their thinking so that meditation becomes easier for them and engaging God becomes easier. I have used it in lots of different ways, and I have used it in activations. It is not as easy in an activation when you are on the other end of a computer and a microphone. Sometimes you do not feel quite the same as what I am feeling if I am playing it in the room, but my intention is the same. Sometimes it can be quite distorted when you are trying to record it, which is not always the best.

I have used it in groups of people to focus a healing intention so that they would receive healing. When I first started using the bowls, we had a group of people who were interested to try them out, and we just practised intention. We went around the room and each person would play the bowl. I showed how to do it, and then I encouraged each person to focus their intention on a word and then play the bowl and release the word through the bowl. The rest of us would just receive what word they released.

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Different Responses to Sound

It really was quite amazing. One person got every single word spot on. Others got the impression of the word. So if the word was peace, some people would feel calm, some would feel different words describing a peaceful rest, or other words they felt the intention in a way that they related to with a particular word. Some would say tranquil, others would say restful, but most people got it. So then we started to use that in helping people, releasing those sounds over people.

But some people might find it helpful and some people might find it distracting. The first time I played it to someone, one person said, “That is really piercing,” because it was hitting against something in their mind, so it felt quite uncomfortable. Another person said, “Wow, that is amazing.” Not everyone experiences the sound or the frequency or the intention in the same way. Sometimes it made the recordings quite difficult to hear what was going on, so I do not do it that often now in recordings.

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525. Intention, Frequency and Healing from Within | A Holistic Perspective

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Consciousness, Intention and Alignment

The way our consciousness is designed to choose a reality that is aligned to God’s heart, our intention and focus can work with things like [essential] oils and other frequencies to bring about change and to affect that change.

I think people are looking at different ways of engaging that in the  quantum realm, the ether, that there is energy there that we can draw from that can bring energy to our bodies, that can repair them and recycle them in the cells. But also the cells themselves have capacity to repair built in, and it is just that communication needs to be restored so that everything works together in harmony as it was intended. So definitely, I think you will find all sorts of different people working in different aspects of the field.

Epigenetics is one aspect, which is a programming to the genetic material, not changing the genetic material, but causing memory and things to be passed on generationally or affecting the present. And when you are looking at how we can live in health, then seeing the balance between spirit, soul and body, and the harmony that we can live in, in rest effectively, can bring about health.

But our intention and focus is what is the most important thing. Yes, there are some frequencies in some oils that have an effect, because they cross the limbic system of the brain and they can affect the way we think, but when our intention, which people would call faith, is engaged with them, then that brings about a powerful agreement. And when we are in agreement with how something works, that agreement can be effectively outworked in a much more powerful way.

Healing, Memory and the Whole Person

I think God is unveiling all sorts of different revelation to different people in different ways to reach as many people as possible, so that as many people as possible can find the health that God intended them to have and find healing and wholeness in every area, spirit, soul and body.

Now what essential oils and other things do with the limbic system can also release memory and toxic emotions that are trapped within the body, both within the physical and within the memory of the soul. Those things can surface, because they are often buried within our subconscious, and we do not always remember the actual event or what happened, but they can be toxic to us. When those are released and brought to the surface, which can be enhanced by essential oils, then we can see healing and wholeness come into those areas.

Releasing Toxic Emotions:
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So it is getting the balance of all of it. A lot of people focus on the soul, inner healing, which is good, but they do not always think about how that links to the body. There is a huge connection. Medical professionals are looking at disease and realising that so much of it is caused by emotional and mental issues, not just the physical. Some of it is purely physical, but a lot of it has a component which is mental and emotional. Therefore toxic emotions and trauma can have an effect on the physical body, even though they are memories of something that happened emotionally. Seeing things in a holistic way, and looking at how we can operate holistically, is really important.
What you will often find is that some people focus on one area, whether that is the body or the emotions, but we need to bring all of them together in a harmonious whole to see how it all works together for our health and wholeness. That is why it is worth looking at different ways of thinking, not just one area. Generally, one person gets revelation about one area and focuses on that, but does not always see that other areas are involved as well. So having a broader view of the whole way of thinking will give you some good perspective, and it looks like you have done some good research and are engaging with different ways of thinking. But in all of it, intention is the most important aspect.

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Agreement, Frequency and Intention

There is a sense where some things have a physical effect on the body, and some essential oils carry a frequency that, when absorbed or breathed, can have a positive impact because they bring a frequency that counteracts negative frequencies that might be operating. But when we add our intention to it, then you have agreement. And when there is agreement, that brings an exponential increase in the effect of something. You can focus that agreement, that intention, and that works whether you use the oil or not.

I have used frequencies in bowls, crystal bowls, to focus intention to touch the body, not in a physical sense, but through sound. You have a sound bath, and when you are surrounded by sound, if that sound contains intention, then it can have an effect on your body without even touching you physically. If you do put the bowls on your body… I had a sound bath where a friend used smaller Tibetan singing bowls, and placed them on my back. As soon as one of them was struck, I went straight into a deep state. I was not even thinking about it, it just happened.

So there is a powerful way of engaging this, but if you are intentionally active in it, you are more open to what it can do. I was open to the sound bath. I did not know what it would do, and I did not feel I needed anything in particular, but I was open. That openness led into an encounter, and the experience was very positive. When you engage it intentionally for healing or wholeness, you are adding your faith to it. Some people in medical trials who receive placebos are engaging in hope, and when desire and hope come together, that itself can have a positive effect on the body.

Alongside that, the attitude of thanksgiving, gratitude, and living in a state of joy and peace can help the immune system function well and keep us in balance. When our emotions are out of sync with our desire, there is discord, and it is important to have coherence. There is a group called HeartMath that works with this concept, showing how having our thinking coherent with our emotions can bring about health and wholeness. It is quite a large field that people are exploring, and there are many positive things to discover.

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Relationship Over Technique

The key is not to accept everything uncritically, but to go with what is in alignment with what you know to be the heart of God and love, and not to make it a formula. Engage with it relationally with God. If I am going to engage with it, God is my healer. He may use various things to bring about healing, but He is my healer. I am not going to put my trust in a technique that separates me from my relationship with Him as my healer. When people know God as Father, and know His desire to bless and to heal, that is far more powerful than trying to work a technique.

Some people separate the techniques, and while they may work, they are far more effective when you are engaged with the healer, not just the method. I always want to remain connected to God as the source of my healing, not just an oil or a frequency or anything else. I engage with it through God as Father, not in an independent way.

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