Yesterday was a great school day. We had an awesome worship time with Chris and Brian had an amazing vision. Then we sang Holy God over and over as we sang for the people and the nations who could not sing for themselves. It was amazing. I started out on the London Bridge, and then every time I sang Holy God I switched to new places. I went to the streets and saw the sex trade happening around me with children. Drug deals happening, Children being kidnapped in the Congo, Bullets flying by me in Iraq, and as I kept singing the Lord took me to dark, scary places and all these things were happening around me and I was singing Holy God. It was amazing. It was awesome. I also asked God what orange was and I kept getting purifying and refining.
Dan McCollam had a wonderful discussion that I recommend everyone watch. It is free on ibethel.tv from 7-7-10. It talked about the 3 types of heaven we know about. And what we do with them. It was awesome to understand the scriptural basis for where we get the idea of heavens. A quick rundown in 1st heaven is the heaven Jesus paid the price for and bought back for man. 2nd heaven is the realm of the fallen. 3rd heaven is where God dwells. I loved this class. 1st heaven is we need to saturate the heaven with the glory of the Lord, 2nd heaven we need to displace the atmosphere and 3rd heaven is we delight.
Then I took the worship big class and it rocked! Practical application of worship in the heavens.
We need to remember that our battle is for the atmosphere.
1) Establish and practice your internal atmosphere. We need to become a tabernacle.
- Practice connecting with God in non-church settings
- Practice connecting in dark places or scary places or places of stress
My authority over the external realm is in direct connection to my internal realm authority.
Many people have learned to ride a wave of he spirit but the time has come to make a wave of the spirit. We carry the kingdom inside of us. Peace, righteousness, and joy. I can carry these things into any situation. I am looking forward to learning better how to do this.
So to do this I will be taking captive every thought against the fact that I am righteous. Don't try to do righteous, be righteous. And of course this works for anything don't try and do holy things be holy.
Do not adjust your expectations to the atmosphere.
The scripture in James "count it all joy." Count it means a military term: general. Meaning let joy be your general. If you can maintain this joy, peace and righteousness it is easier to hear God's voice.
2) Establish and overthrow the atmosphere. Maintain your internal kingdom. This is how we worship to the size of our room. The devil likes to magnify himself and we can add to it if we are not careful. To magnify the Lord you need to take a magnifying glass and look close. Believe that where there is a demon there are at least 2 angels in the room waiting for assignment. Let's not allow them to continue to sit idle. We need to focus not on what was but what is there. A simple example is this. Let's say you go into a hotel room and you feel a nasty presence don't focus on the old presence focus on the fact that you as a person who carries the kingdom and glory are now changing the atmosphere and you feel sorry for the next person in the room!
Some ways to do this is praise in place, proclamations, impartations, fruit f the spirit, prayer and intercession, repentance and gifts. These are ways to release the kingdom into the atmosphere. Once you have a handle on this you can begin to worship bigger than the room. You need to adjust the measure of your receiving. Example. You want to make a lunch for 1 person you would not make 12 sandwiches. So you need to make enough for the amount of people you are feeding. So I want to receive enough for 100 people because I know that is what I will be praying for. I receive and then I take more. Then I need to learn to give my praise an assignment. So case in point would be if I was at a church and they were singing a song that did not pertain to me at the time I would ask the Lord who this song is for and who should I be singing for. So we need to have a vertical track going with the Lord and then a horizontal assignment. Now this does not happen every time but is good to know about and understand so we don't miss opportunities to make change. So worshiping bigger than the room means worship for more than just yourself.
I hope this all makes sense. I am sorry if this is disjointed but I am feeling very ill. I have graduation tomorrow. All main classes have ended and this will probably e my last blog about school. There are a few of the teachings online in the free media on ibethel.tv and you can watch the graduation service for free at the same website tomorrow evening. I hope this blessed you and gave you a little hint of all I am learning.
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