August 2026 – Sons of Issachar

545. The Quiet Ways God Is At Work | Connecting with Like-Minded Believers

Mike Parsons

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What I have discovered is that generally God is at work with people more than we think. But a lot of them are quiet and silent because they do not want to get trolled online or abused by those who are still operating in the church system and other systems. I had to deal with quite a lot of that initially when we first started posting things that challenged views of God and the evangelical perspective. There were a number of people who really tried to change my thinking or challenge my perspectives, and who made accusations to me, which quite often I would totally accept. Yes, I am moving away from your orthodoxy, and going back to the original orthodoxy that Jesus promoted. So what I did not do was take offence or try to argue with them. Initially there were a few discussions, and I realised it does not get anywhere because they are simply not on the same page.

242. Enjoy The Ride!

So a lot of people are out there but they are keeping their heads down, particularly in the US, because there is such a strong religious spirit operating that attacks and tries to undermine people who hold any opposing views, whether eschatological or spiritual: inclusionism, grace, all of these things. There was so much talk of greasy grace and all that sort of thing when people first started talking about the limitless grace of God, and they were disparaged and accused and all sorts of nasty things were put out there. So a lot of people keep quiet and just get on with it, because they do not want that type of exposure.

It is hard. God prepared me to be able to handle criticism and negativity without taking offence, and to be able to manage it in hopefully the right way. There were a number of people I had to block because they were not being respectful and were not respecting the boundaries we had set on our material. In the end I would just say, look, I am going to have to block you because you are not following the guidelines we have put out. But there have only been a few, not that many. I am sure there are lots of people out there who would oppose some of the beliefs I have or some of the things we have posted, but generally I do not see the negativity, and I do not want those people to see our material either, because I do not want to offend people if they are not ready to pursue something more open.

476. Love As A Movement: Challenging the Status Quo

So I would encourage you to stay positive. Send out the blue lights, but also look at what practical things you can do to see where those connections could be made, and just see how God might bring about those connections. There are a lot more ways of doing it than when I started. Years ago it was like, I do not know anybody, I would not have known how to connect to anyone. But God wanted to connect people to me, and they did. People found ways of connecting. One of the first people who contacted me, when we first started putting out the blog posts, said, hey, I have got questions I would like to ask, and I think there are a few other people who might like to as well. Can I create a forum for you? I did not even know what a forum was. But I said, well, yes. He said, I will give you the admin, you can look after it once I have created it. He started the forum and asked what I would like it to be called. I said, Preparing for destiny, let us call it that. And within a short period of time, there were not many people, but there were ten, twelve, fifteen people who regularly posted things on the forum asking questions, opening the door for me to give answers and connect.

411. Go Beyond Your Comfort Zone!

And then when God said, I want you to connect with people online in a more direct way rather than just answering questions, I used that as the base for starting, because I just posted to them: hey, I am looking to do an online mentoring session, just an online get-together. Who would be interested in that? And I think four people said yes. That is where I started. And then once we started posting YouTube videos, more and more people began to ask how they could connect, how they could get mentoring, how they could join these forums. And then it spiralled from there. God said, I want you to do it. I had no idea how to do it. So I said, well, I am willing. Let us see how it can happen. And God engineered it over a period of time. People would contact me saying, you came up on my YouTube feed as a suggestion, I looked at it, it is amazing. And then those connections get made. So if you have an online presence, it is obviously easier to make those connections, but we can use all the forums available that other people have got, to make connections with like-minded people who are looking in the same areas.

America is a big country and very spread out. If you think, optimistically, that there might be a hundred thousand people in the US who are operating or looking in this area, a hundred thousand spread over the size of the US would just be dotted around, and they would probably be more concentrated in areas of larger population. There are probably more in California and similar places than in a rural area, a big state, or a state that is mainly farmland. So it is not easy to make these connections, but it is far from impossible.

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544. The Cloud of Witnesses: Alive, Active, and Cheering Us On!

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The cloud of witnesses: what do they do, what role do they have?

Part of the problem is that religious people will say, well, you cannot talk to dead people. But they are not dead to start with. They are alive in the spirit and they are in that realm. They are the church of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, as it says in Hebrews, and we can engage them. And when people say, well, that is necromancy, you are trying to speak to the dead, the answer is no: I am speaking to those who are alive, and Jesus did the same. On the Mount of Transfiguration, Jesus spoke to Elijah, who never died physically, and he spoke to Moses. So Jesus validated the reality that we can engage the cloud of witnesses.

494. What Enoch Teaches Us about Readiness and Change

What role do they have? They are surrounding us. They are not visible most of the time, so they must be in the spiritual realm around us, observing, cheering us on, perhaps encouraging us to finish the race that they started. Hebrews 11 talks a lot about those who died in faith not having received the fullness of the promise, and they are part of those who are cheering us on. The illustration of a relay race works well: you pass the baton to the next generation, and then they pass it to the next runner. They have literally passed us their baton to finish the race. But they are not just sitting on a cloud somewhere playing a harp. They are active. They are the church enrolled in heaven, functioning as witnesses in that realm, and God has many things that they do.

When I first went into heaven in 2010 and 2011, I met a number of the cloud of witnesses. They came to me with a message. Jesus obviously sent them. Jacob was one of the first ones I met. He came to me, and I was there, and he spoke to me. And he was digging, which was symbolic of something he was trying to convey. I said, what are you doing? He said, I am digging a well. And I had to think: Abraham dug wells, Isaac reopened them, and what did Jacob do? Well, Jacob’s well is the well of the Samaritan woman, the well that would become that well we could drink from. So Jacob was trying to convey to me, look, this is symbolic of the life that you have received.

And then he said, go and read my story about what happened at Bethel. So I went to read it in Genesis, and it was an open heaven, angels ascending and descending, which is in John as well: none other than the house of God. And all of a sudden it was like, I am the house of God! Angels are ascending and descending, and there is an open heaven over my life.

That changed things significantly for me, into realising that this is not just a one-off event. This is a living way we should live, engaged with the angelic realm who are bringing messages from heaven, guiding us, directing us, protecting us.

But also it is more than that: heaven is open. We have access not just when we die, because we do not need to die. We have access now to dwell in that realm because we are seated with Christ in the heavenly places. Where is Christ seated? On a throne, next to the Father. And we are also seated on thrones next to the Father.

422. From Rejection to Acceptance | Understanding Your Identity in Christ

I have had a number of encounters with the cloud of witnesses. A couple of them were by my own desire. I wanted to talk to Adam. And then Esther came to me once in a meeting, and I thought, what do you want? And she said, I have come to remind you that you are called to the kingdom for a time such as this. I then thought, well, I want more than that. So I went into the cloud of witnesses, into the court of the upright, and I asked to see Esther and said, can you tell me more? And she went to her life being prepared and said, I did not want what was my destiny. I resisted it because I thought it was a bad thing for a Hebrew girl to be given to a foreign king as a concubine. She said, I was prepared, but I then recognised that God had prepared me for that to save my people. So she said, do not resist what God is doing in your life. Quite interesting.

I have had many encounters, with David and others, but also with some people who have died more recently, like Bob Jones. Bob Jones died on a Thursday. On the Sunday, I was in a meeting in worship, and Bob Jones turned up in front of me with a big scroll in his hand and said, will you receive this scroll? I said, well, what is it? He said, this is the scroll for the billionfold harvest. And I said, yes, I will receive it. But it became clear that that was about raising up a Joshua generation to be ready for the harvest that is coming, ready to disciple the harvest that is coming, pointing them into a supernatural lifestyle.

271. Being the Joshua Generation

So it was not that it was just given to me and I am this great person who has a scroll. It was a responsibility. You have been called to participate in preparing to receive a harvest. And there are a lot of people embracing that, thousands upon thousands figuratively, in that they are embracing their identity as sons of God, as part of the Joshua generation, who have a different spirit, who function in a different way, and who are called to be ready for the harvest, to receive it and help it come into an intimacy with God in sonship.