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457. Transformative Brooding | Tuning in to Heavenly Frequencies

Mike Parsons

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1. Brooding with God: A Metaphor of Alignment

A brooding thing is like a bird sitting on a clutch of eggs—keeping them warm, nurturing them until they are ready to hatch. In the same way, brooding is a process of aligning with the Father’s heart, thoughts and desires. As He reveals them, they begin to change me. I am being entrained—brought into resonance—with the frequency of His thoughts, so that I become harmonised with Him.

When that resonance is complete—when what He has revealed is fully formed in me—then it is ready to move to the next stage. That process could take a minute, an hour, or longer. It depends on what God is revealing: is He sharing every detail, or is He giving the shape of something so that I can begin to creatively express it?

2. Becoming His Voice, Resonating with His Frequency

So, am I becoming a frequency? Yes—I am His voice. That means I resonate with creative energy. I may not hum, but others do, and that can be a way of expressing it. Some people meditate with sound, with chants, bowls or frequencies to help them focus—and there is nothing wrong with that. It is simply what works for each person.

For me, it is internal. I find my thoughts aligning and entraining to His. That may sound simple, and I have not really considered all the mechanics of it, but I do understand what frequency is. God’s voice is frequency. It vibrates with creative energy and has the power to bring about what He says.

3. Intention and the Creative Process

There is no exact right or wrong method—otherwise it becomes a formula, and people try to copy the method rather than embrace the process. The key is to allow the process to work through you.

If you hum and light responds—wonderful. For me, I focus my intention in thought. That thought carries creative energy, and then light responds. The wave function collapses, if you want to use quantum language. I understand the science, but for me, it is not about the mechanics. It is about engagement.

Now I know others do things differently. For example, when I have engaged with Nancy, she sometimes hums or makes unusual sounds. And when we did an activation around the energy gates during the Restoration of All Things conference, she used different vocal sounds and physical actions to help people tune in.

4. Diverse Expressions of Energy Engagement

There were seven different sounds and corresponding gestures—one for each energy gate. It was a bit like a line dance, with everyone moving and sounding together. For me, it looked a bit amusing, but I understood that she was simply breaking the process down to help people engage.

I had seen something similar in a TV series—I think it was The OA. In it, a group of people each produced a different sound and movement. When they combined them, it generated energy that opened a portal. I resonated with that because I had seen something very similar prophetically in real life.

Now, when I activate the energy gates, I do not need to sing or move—I just focus and intentionally activate them. That works for me. But again, the point is not to copy someone else’s way, but to discover what works for you.

Some people may need sound, or physical movement, or other symbolic actions to help them engage. And that is perfectly fine. It is all about intention—how we focus, engage and release energy. Each sound or movement can carry intention, and when combined with faith and resonance, they can open realms of experience and revelation.

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397. God’s Love Remains

Mike Parsons

What has happened and what God has done—he is the same God, and he hasn’t changed. He remains a God of grace, mercy and love. If Adam hadn’t followed Eve, God’s grace, mercy and love would still have applied to her, and she could have received that if she had chosen not to continue on her own path. God would have made a way for her to be restored because his desire is always for relationship. He desires us to come into that relationship, but it requires us to let go of our own way.

Adam wasn’t deceived, though; Eve was. She was deceived into letting go of what she already had to try and attain something she could never achieve. That striving, born of separation, left her and the rest of mankind worn out, trying to become something God already saw them as. The idea of “you can be like God” was redundant because she already was like God. But now, this had to be done independently of him.

Adam chose to follow her. Perhaps it was out of a desire to see her redeemed, though he didn’t understand what would come from that decision. In doing so, both lost their identity, and the struggle to regain it brought a flood of emotions: “Who am I? Why am I here? What is all this about?” This separation affected how Adam engaged with God, no longer able to connect with him as he once had. Yet, even then, God met them. While they hid in the bushes, feeling guilty, naked and ashamed, God came to them.

Throughout history, God has continued to meet us, drawing us back into relationship with him. If Eve had chosen to turn back, would she have had to wait for Jesus? No. The fiery sword was there, and she could have chosen to enter. Perhaps Adam might have helped her to do so. But, in the end, they didn’t. They chose otherwise, setting humanity on this independent path that so many still follow today.

Jesus came to fully undo everything lost through their choices. God has remained consistent—a loving, merciful God who has always worked to restore us. This is why I don’t believe Eve would have been banished forever or left without the opportunity to return. God’s grace and mercy would have triumphed over her mistakes.

Their choice, however, shaped human history. Their line brought forth the promise of redemption in Jesus, as prophesied. He overcame, undoing the enemy’s deception. The same enemy who had deceived Eve tried to deceive Jesus in the wilderness, offering shortcuts and power apart from God. But Jesus resisted, succeeding where Adam and Eve had failed.

Through Jesus, we now have the opportunity to experience what Adam and Eve were originally designed to enjoy. God’s loving kindness never changes or fails, and whatever it would have taken for Eve to be restored would have been possible. His grace, mercy and love would always have been sufficient. Although they didn’t make that choice, Jesus came to undo the damage, restoring our vision of who we are so we can live in that truth.

386. The More You Try, The Harder It Gets

Mike Parsons

When your faith seems weak or compromised, what do you do? Well, I think it goes back to the concept of labouring to enter rest. Now, you don’t actually labour to enter rest. That concept, shared in Hebrews, refers to the Old Testament and the old covenant, where people were striving to enter rest but were not succeeding. What it really says is: don’t do that. Don’t try to enter rest in the way they did. The reality is that you are in rest because rest is about trusting in the completed work of Jesus and living in that reality.

When you look at Hebrews and the message it conveys, it’s clear. Essentially, it’s addressing those who were still adhering to Old Testament, old covenant practices. They were striving—striving to enter rest, striving to take the land, fighting for what was promised. All of that was under the old covenant. But in the new covenant, we are already in rest.

Hebrews says: “Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. For indeed, we have had good news preached to us, just as they also did; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.” For we who have believed, we enter that rest.

So, if we are operating with a new covenant mindset, we are already in rest. Jesus said, “Come to me, and I will give you rest.” Rest isn’t something you have to achieve or do; it’s something you receive through your relationship with him. And that’s the key many people miss—it’s already happened. Jesus has finished the work. It’s complete.

When your faith feels weak or compromised, you don’t have to do anything because it’s not about your faith—it’s about his faith. “I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” It’s his faith in me, who he believes me to be. When I’m faithless, he remains faithful because he doesn’t change. The truth is, everything has already been accomplished. It’s not about me having enough faith; it’s about recognising that he has enough faith in me. If I can accept how he sees me, then that’s how I’ll live.

The relational aspect is simple: come to Jesus. Keep coming to Jesus. When you feel doubts or struggles, it’s often because you’re trying to set your own agenda about how things should be. Instead, just engage with God without any agenda. Don’t try to see anything or understand it visually. Instead, enter into a realm of perception where you know—you just know—the reality of the rest in him, a rest you’ve already received because of what he’s done.

I would encourage you not to focus on what you need to do but allow him to do what he wants to do. Create space for that relational connection where he can work in you. Look at Psalm 23: “He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside quiet waters; he restores my soul.” You don’t have to strive for rest; it’s already there. Just come to him, and he will give you rest.

Take his yoke upon you, learn from him. He is gentle and humble in heart. Being gentle is about knowing who I am in him, and being humble is about accepting who I am in him. I don’t have to strive or fight for it—I just have to be with him. Jesus says, “Come to me, and I will give you rest.” So, if you’re struggling with doubts or questions, forget about trying to figure it all out. Just keep coming to him.

When you surrender—when you let go of all your agendas and come to him as a living sacrifice—he will do what needs to be done. You don’t need to try to do anything. Trust him to restore you, to enable you. Life has its stresses, but you can choose to create space for God. Let go of your own ideas of what you need, and surrender fully. Say, “Here I am, Lord; you do what you need to do. I’m entering into your rest.”

As you stop trying to receive it and allow him to unveil it to you, you’ll begin to experience the reality of it. It’s already accomplished. You’ve already been included in him—actually, from before the foundation of the world. He simply wants to bring you into an experience of that rest. Stop trying to figure it out or work it out. Just come to him and surrender.

Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that I am God.” In some translations, it says, “Cease striving.” Stop your works, and let him do his. The more you try, the harder it seems to get. God’s invitation is simple: stop, be still, and know that he is God. In that stillness, you’ll know by experience who he is and, in turn, who you are. Stop striving and let him work. The rest is already there, waiting for you to receive it.

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357. Faith IN Christ, or Faith OF Christ? What’s the difference?

Our True Identity

I believe our true identity comes from God’s faith in us, not our faith in God. So, what about the faith needed for our salvation? Where does faith come from? How much faith is needed? Whose faith saves us? These are all valid questions that many people ask, but I think they ask them because they don’t fully understand the reality of what God has done. They think we need to do something to make what God has done work for us.

I believe God wants us to understand that the very fabric of the universe is founded on grace and faith—but not ours, His. His grace is limitless. Ephesians 2:8 says, “By grace, you have been saved through faith; that is not of yourselves.” It’s very clear here: the faith through which we are saved is not ours; it’s the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

So, I can’t come to God and say, “Look at my great faith that saved me,” because I never had that measure of faith—and I don’t think anyone does. What we do have is the gift that enables us to come to the realisation of what the truth is, so it’s not by works. This is what defines the difference between the Old and New Covenants: how faith worked in the Old Covenant and how it works in the New. The key question is whether faith is a gift from God or something we try to generate ourselves through works or effort. The reality is that it has nothing to do with what we do at all—by grace, through the gift of God’s faith, not by our own faith or works.

Saved by Our Faith?

So, we are not saved by our faith in God but by the faith that comes from God. The meanings are slightly different. The faith of God means God has enough faith for our salvation, and the faith from God means He gives us the faith to come to the realisation of how He feels about us. It’s often translated as “our faith in God,” but it isn’t actually our faith—we didn’t create it; it was freely given to us by God.

God has an amazing way of looking at us, filled with wonderful thoughts, and each one of those thoughts is good. In English, it’s usually translated as “faith in,” but in Greek, it’s more accurately “faith of” or “faith from.” That small change in wording can make a huge difference to our experience, understanding, and daily walk with God.

One perspective drives us to constantly strive to have enough faith, often leaving us afraid we don’t. The other invites us to simply receive faith from Him and rest in the fact that His faith is enough for us. We don’t need to strive.

Let’s look at some Bible verses that address this. Philippians 3:9 says, “And may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ.” That’s the usual English translation. If we read it as “faith in Christ,” it suggests that righteousness comes from my own faith. But if we change the wording to “faith from Christ,” it reads: “And may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but that which is through faith from Christ—the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of the faith that comes from Christ.” That makes a huge difference in how we understand righteousness. It’s no longer based on our faith but on the righteousness Christ imparts to us.

‘In’ Fits a Works-Based Theology

The word ‘in’ fits with a works-based theology, but “of” or “from” fits with a grace-based understanding. Galatians 2:20 is another scripture: “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Now, how many people have tried to crucify themselves daily, taking up their cross, trying to follow Him, and living in misery, wearied and burdened by the attempt to be good enough to please God or earn His love? So many are still caught in that trap.

We were crucified with Christ because when He died, we died with Him—not because we did anything, but because He did it on our behalf. It’s no longer I who live; Christ lives in me, and I now live as a new creation in Christ. The life I live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God—or, more accurately, by faith from the Son of God. This changes everything. My relationship with God isn’t based on how much I can believe, but on His faith and the faith He gives me to enable that relationship.

The King James Version gets this right: “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” It’s all about the unconditional love of God and the gift of life through Jesus. Through Him, the world can rediscover its lost identity as children of God.

Who Is More Faithful: God or Me?

So, whose faith saves me and sustains me: my faith in God or God’s faith in me, given to me? Definitely the latter. Am I relying on my small measure of faith, or am I trusting in God’s faithfulness? God is faithful to do what He promised. He predestined us to a face-to-face, restored relationship in love, and this has always been His intention for each of His children.

So, does “in” or “of” really matter? Absolutely, it does. It makes a huge difference in how we live our daily lives. One places the burden of faith on us; the other reveals faith as a gift, enabling us to rest in God’s grace and faithfulness. So, who do you think is more faithful—Jesus or us? I know the answer to that, and I’m sure you do too.

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25. Who Can Live With Consuming Fire?

Mike Parsons
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rootoutidolsAre we willing to root out of our life the idols that would otherwise keep us blind, deaf and dumb in the things of God? We saw what some of them were last time. The reason they would keep us blind, deaf and dumb is that they themselves are blind, deaf and dumb. A carved image has no life, it has no voice, it has no vision. So we will be aimless, powerless and ineffective if we do not deal with our soul. This is what God is saying to us right now.

Consuming fire

There is a verse which asks, “Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning?” (Isaiah 33:14b). It is a good question: can we live with consuming fire? The answer is, we can’t, not without being continually burned. If we are to live with the fire then we will be continually changed and purified. “Who among us can live with the consuming fire?…He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, he who rejects unjust gain and shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; he who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil…” (Isaiah 33:14-15). We will need to not only be righteous but to walk in righteousness; there are things we will have to stop looking at, things we will have to stop our ears from hearing, because we must be found willing and ready.

Fix our attention

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you (Romans 12: 1-2, The Message).

We are to fix our attention on God. His eyes are fixed upon us, and those eyes of fire can see right through us. When we have God in our spirit, and the glory of God coming through our spirit, it will restore our soul. We will be changed from the inside out, as it says in this passage.

I have said before that the gathering angels are here among us. There is a time very soon, in fact it is about to come upon us, when the true church is going to be separated: there are things which are going to be taken out of the church, but the world also needs to come out of our lives. Then we will be able to shine like the sun, transfigured with glory; able to be true sons of God, revealed to the world in which we are living.

Ancient anointings

And I believe that all the ancient anointings and mantles that God has released in history are going to be released in these days, and restored to the church. The mantles of authority and power of every revival there has ever been are going to be conferred upon the church in the last days.

We can be eager for that, but if you have listened to and read the stories of revival, you know that virtually every one of the people who were involved in leading those revivals eventually fell into sin in some way. They ended up either dying early, or their ministries fell; and this happened to them because they were not pure and holy. God is not going to trust people who are not pure and holy with the mantles and the anointing that he is going to release in these last days. This is the reason He is wanting us to prepare our lives: if we are to carry this anointing and these mantles – and not fall – then we have to do now what is necessary in order to be ready.

Be hungry and thirsty for more. There is more to come, therefore be changed. God is wanting to  prepare us,  to equip us, to empower us; He wants us to truly be sons of God, to be superheroes of the faith. That is what God is looking for in these days, and we cannot afford to hold on to anything that will keep Him from finding us prepared and ready.

If He says to let it go, we let it go.

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3. Choices: Constantly Connected?

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Amos 3:7 tells us, ‘Surely the Lord GOD does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets’.

God is speaking today: the key question is, are we hearing his voice? Jesus said “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now” (John 16:12).

Parables

Until the Holy Spirit came, Jesus couldn’t reveal everything because he was speaking about spiritual things his hearers couldn’t understand. He used parables, but today God is using parables of a different nature because we have a different measure of understanding: ‘But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come’ (John 16:13).

All the truth: that’s a lot of truth. Ian Clayton said he picked up a blade of grass in heaven because he wanted to know all of God, but the amount of information that was in that blade of grass made him drop it because it would have fried his brain. Because God is infinite, there is so much truth.

But still, the promise is ‘all truth’ and that means that everything is available to you: within ‘all truth’ God wants to reveal all that you need for your life and destiny. God wants to disclose what is to come for us as individuals, for our life, for our destiny in God; he wants to reveal the things he has already prepared for us before the foundation of the world. As that scripture tells us, the Holy Spirit came to reveal to us those things that are to come.

Your future destiny

Now the choice is, are you listening to Him? Have you seen your future destiny? If you have seen it, you can have it, that’s how it works. In fact you have to see it in order to have it, and you cannot have it unless you have seen it. ‘Faith is the substance of things hoped for’, that is to say, the things you have seen in the spirit. In the realm of the spirit, God wants to show all of us the things that are our destiny. He wants to show us what was written on our scroll in heaven before we were even thought of in a worldly sense (although in God’s thoughts we are eternal, we have always been with God, because he breathed his essence into us).

Constantly connected

Jesus was constantly connected. He only did the things he saw the Father doing and he only said the things he heard the Father saying (John 5:19). He was constantly connected to the realm of heaven and he has given us the opportunity to be connected too.

So what realm are you connected to? Are you connected to the earthly realm most of the time, and occasionally a little bit of heaven? Or do you constantly live in two realms? Can you be connected to both every minute, every fraction of a second, of every day? Twenty thousand times every nanosecond, Planck’s constant blinks us in and out of that spiritual realm (and a nanosecond is one billionth of a second). That’s a bit hard to get hold of but the reality is we are constantly connected – or we can be.

So what are you seeing? Whose voice are you resonating with? Who are you listening to? Are you listening to the voice of God or are you listening to other things?

4 sources of ‘wisdom’

James tells us there are four sources of ‘wisdom’ you can be listening to: wisdom from above (heavenly wisdom), earthly wisdom, natural wisdom, and demonic wisdom (James 3:15). Which of those are you resonating with? Who or what are you coming into agreement with? Because when you start to agree with the frequency of heaven, when you start to resonate with the heart of God, then heaven comes to earth through your life. So are we resonating with heaven (where God’s throne is), the atmosphere of the earth (where the battle is waged between the devil and the angels), this physical realm, or ourselves? Those are the basic choices, and the choice is ours.

Ten little 2-letter words: IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME. God doesn’t force it, he has given us free will to choose Him. In all of heaven and earth there are only two power sources: God’s and ours. The devil has no power source other than what we give him. And if we choose to agree with the enemy we choose to empower him, rather than God. Every time we say ‘yes’ to God we empower God and enable Him to operate. That is why he speaks prophetically. It enables Him to operate, because when we speak out of the prophetic realm of heaven, it can manifest on earth. That is because God has chosen to partner with us. It’s an amazing thing: God, the creator of the whole universe, has chosen to partner with us – and we have been given free will to choose to partner with him or not.

So what are you going to choose? What realm are you going to listen to? I would encourage you to listen to the realm of heaven, because what you see and hear there will engage you for your future and will reveal that future to you.

But the choice is yours.

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