Days of AWE and WONDER
Here’s a challenge for all of us – being born into a Western world we like answers, science, understanding, GREEK thinking. We like to tick the boxes and know what’s going on around us. Explain this – explain that… explain explain explain! What ever happened to being like a child, enjoying the magic and mystery?
But the Bible says things like this -
“He (God) performs wonders than cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted!” Job 5:9
The truth is God bigger than our brains. He blows the grid. He is wonder- FULL.
“I am making an agreement with you. Before all your people I will do wonders NEVER before done in ANY nation of the world. The people who live among you will see how AWESOME is the work that I, the Lord will do for you!” Ex 34:10
He wants to startle and amaze us. Since when did church get so predictable and boring?
But check out the NEW testament – his wonders don’t stop in the old testament.
“Everyone was filled with AWE and many WONDERS and MIRACULOUS SIGNS were done by the Apostles” Acts 2:42-44
EVERYONE was filled with awe. Filled with AWE. God doesn’t stop showing off his goodness!
I like that word WONDERS!!! He he! I love it when Holy Spirit fries our minds and does unexpected, mind blowing things! Do you? Or are you a comfort seeker staying within what you know and can grasp?
In Acts 15:12 there is a fascinating gathering – Paul and Barnabas share in front of the crowds the stories from the road, the mission trip and what they saw and did. Wish I was there too. Bet it was one incredible meeting. But have you ever noticed what it actually says. It says they talked about the miracles and also the WONDERS. That word ‘wonders’ is TERAS from the word TERATOLOGY – which means the “Study of unexplainable phenomena”. So Paul and Barnabas came back sharing on unexplainable phenomena.
I think we are moving into that era again – an era of “TERAS”. I believe we are in DAYS of AWE and WONDER and it’s only going to become more interesting, more mysterious, more provoking. If we want a GOD we can understand we’ve reduced him to the size of the human mind! I think He’s much bigger than that! Listen to Bill Johnson -
“Mystery should be a continual part of your life. You should always have more questions that answers… A relationship with God that does not stir up that realm of mystery and wonder is an inferior relationship”
Wow! Papa Bill knows the stuff! I think we should embrace this truth. Make room for God to be himself and show off his style. He like to do that you know. He likes to be famous!
I’ll never forget the first time I had silver dust on my hands. I was shocked. The first gem stone I saw- amazed. The first time Angels came and touched me- freaked! The first time God took me in the Spirit to another nation. Seeing my own body from the outside. The first time I felt supernatural winds. Seeing lights flashing and flying around the room. The first time God took me to heaven.
I love it. I love the Gospel. I love that heaven comes down on earth. But that’s just the beginning. Rick Joyner says this -
“The Holy Spirit is about to move on the earth as He did in the beginning. He will take the chaos and confusion that are spreading across the earth & will bring forth the new creation right in the midst of it. You are about to enter the time when He will do WONDERS CONTINUALLY and the whole WORLD will be in AWE of his works.
Signs and wonders are not going away. It’s going to get stranger and more fearful. Days of pure bliss and wonder. Love it love it love it! Get ready to be stretched in 2012. A new era, a reformation has already begun.
Justin Abraham COBH
*NEW Podcast online: A brand new era
NEW Podcast online today – this is possible one of the most important messages we have released yet online. In this session Justin Abraham talks about the incredible challenge that signs & wonders have brought on the church, and how it has exposed many of the failings with our present celebrity orientated culture. But it’s also a message of great hope and joy that something entirely new is rising, a company of powerful ordinary unique people, pulling together in grace, full of honour and love who will be able to carry heaven on humble hearts. The Celebrity system is falling, the world facades are dropping, this is a new world- the world of heaven coming out and changing the spaces around us. It’s here and it’s beginning to shake the earth. Reckless love to the most lost and broken, messy love poured out on purpose, love that never fails and never gives us, love that doesn’t punish, love that points to the person who is Love. We hope you enjoy this and that it helps you become who you really are called to be- a powerful unique gift to this world. You are a blessing. Standing with you COBH team
Happy Streets! Duisburg Germany!
Holy Spirit is a never ending stream of creativity, fun and joy. Comedy was His idea. He likes to laugh. We’re trying to learn to let Him take over. He does it so much better than us. There is a different way, a better way of spreading the happy message- that’s with the embrace, sloppy kisses, and crazy passion of God. He is the most passionate person. He really does care. He never does the same thing the same way twice. He’s always pulling something new out of the hat. We never know what it’s going to look like. I guess that’s why it’s wildfire – unpredictable, burning passion.
Much Respect: Global Legacy & Bethel Church
Thanks for visiting the blog. I want to share a few God-thoughts with you today. Hope they resonate with you.
I want to talk about how we treat each other when things go wrong. Here we go!
Have you ever been through a crisis, a change, a storm, a situation that is difficult? I would imagine everyone has. It’s at times like that our friendships and culture is really tested. When things go wrong we see what we are like our mindsets, our insecurities and orphan issues. It’s when friendship is tested and you see how real the friendship really is. Friendships are easy when we get along. Often at times like that people will give up on you and distance themselves as a form of punishment. Withdrawing their love. As Danny Silk says they ‘Turn their love off’. Especially if you have broken their ‘rules’ or just screwed up because life is messy and you ‘poop’! Yep living things ‘poop’!
Do you know what I mean?
We give up on each other. We punish. It’s true!
But the life changing truth is that Papa is not like that. He never gives up. Jesus never quit on his nutty disciples. They betrayed him. Lied to him. Stole from him. Wanted to be in charge. Argued with him and each other. But that rag tag group of crazies through his unfailing love were changed into people who ‘turned the world upside down’. Just a few who lived in a culture of honour, a grace culture, a culture of love turned on always, changed their generation through the supernatural power of God. Eleven of the twelve were martyred and the other we don’t know what happened to him. Love culture does something radical to humans. It brings true radical freedom.
I really want to honour today Bill Johnson, Danny Silk and Kris Volloton and the culture they are modelling, the teaching they are bringing is an essential part of the supernatural reformation. I used to think we just need the glory realm and the supernatural. Now I know we also need a heavenly culture, a way of treating each other. Bill and the guys are carrying a wave of the Spirit through cultural change. It’s not an event, you can’t grab it, but it’s a way of living and thinking together that creates a great context for freedom to thrive and people to be powerful together.
This weekend I was in Leicester for the Global Legacy leadership advance. Kris and Danny were there. They shared on covenant and standing together like trees in a forest, taking the storms together. They talked about how they’ve worked through incredibly painful things, how they have kept ‘love on’ even when it’s been exceptionally messy and costly (and their stories were intense- they have seen some stuff over thirty years together). My heart melted. Seriously! I could hardly speak and left our team to spend time alone to recover. It challenged me to the core and cut me to the heart. It is so sweet. So precious. So penetrating.
I think in the mystic reformation, the incredible wine that is being poured out, the party, the gospel and joy, we must not stop also contending for a real culture of love – loving on purpose – not love based on thinking, acting and sounding the same. There is danger the ‘new’ movements are becoming clone factories. We need love that is real. Grace that is not just a saying -’Grace has to be drunk straight’ but also a way of living. I’d say also that ‘Grace has to be lived straight’ towards others. Not mixed with works.
I truly believe these last years a massive wave of God has been released and it is now taking the shape of many streams and people. Eventually it will spread and work its way through everything. The joy, the intoxication, the Presence is coming in a way that brings ecstasy, extreme gladness, being caught up into God, mystic union. A company who live it 24/7. Wild bunch! Born to be wild!
But in all of that we must not forget what love looks like. Love looks like bleeding for your enemy. Love looks like turning the other cheek. Love looks like sweat pouring out of ever pore. Love looks like arms wide open. Giving chance after chance. Love never fails, always hopes, always trusts.
We need each other. We can’t do it alone. None of us are the full picture. Every one screws up. We have to be able to go beyond that. Unpunishable. That’s my thoughts for today. Thank you our friends, family, team and partners for walking this through with us. It’s been incredible. And I know it’s only just begun. Thank you!
Thank you Jesus for Bill Johnson, Danny Silk, Kris and their families. You are hope, hope of a better way. Revival without end.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
Dreaming Papa dreams. “We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.” Wildfire generation burning. Justin Abraham
A look on the lighter side!
My ‘near death’ experience honouring Dafydd Morgan – the 1859 Welsh Revivalist! Hope you like it!
We believe in Holy Spirit WWF encounters. Bring on the wild wrestlers! Those that dare to believe and are up for the wrestle! Like our dear father in the faith Jacob -
Jacob was one crazy believer! The gospel demands a response! It’s not a passive sofa hugging waiting around doing nothing message. It puts fire in you’re belly and a sword in you’re hand! It compels you to arise and take action (Daniel 11:32b). It stirs you and makes you soar to breathtaking heights.
UK get ready for action! All of heaven is waiting and watching. Papa is cheering this generation on to see amazing things. Things beyond what we ask or even dare to think. Europe’s Day rising! Wild fires burning. We ain’t seen nothing yet!
Bring on the spandex! We’re up for it! In his intoxicationg joy, Justin Abraham
Can Jesus walk into the room tonight?
But Thomas, sometimes called the Twin, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples told him, “We saw the Master.” But he said, “Unless I see the nail holes in his hands, put my finger in the nail holes, and stick my hand in his side, I won’t believe it.” Eight days later, his disciples were again in the room. This time Thomas was with them. Jesus came through the locked doors, stood among them, and said, “Peace to you.” Then he focused his attention on Thomas. “Take your finger and examine my hands. Take your hand and stick it in my side. Don’t be unbelieving. Believe.” (John 20:25-27)
I’ve learned a little heavenly secret over the years- the law of FOCUS
The secret is this: a truth that you focus on and value starts to appear in your life. What has weight in your heart begins to move around you. What you desire and begin to engage with is what begins to function through you. In other words you are able to pull on certain realities when you desire them by faith and then they begin to happen in your world. Faith pulls the seen into the unseen.
Jesus put it like this: And whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and [really] believing, you will receive (Mat 21:22). Or to put it another way: Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart (Ps 37:4)
I believe there is a God given desire in this generation to blur the boundaries from heaven to earth like no other has before
I keep asking – How much of heaven can we have? How much of heaven can we see? Can we meet with Jesus and angels everyday in a real present sense?
Prophet Bob Jones has said an amazing statement – that his ceiling – his top level of experience and revelation is supposed to be this new generations floor. In other words his height is our new starting point. Now that is an amazing statement if you think about it. Bob experiences the supernatural a few times a day. He has been to heaven many times, seen Jesus face to face, predicted with accuracy the future, walked with numerous varieties of angels. This demands a response!
So I can’t help myself. I refuse to live in less than we are permitted to have. Bill Johnson (Bethel USA) said something that shook me up the other day. He said that when we get to heaven one of the great surprises will be how much was available on the earth that we did not tap into. Kind of scary really! Provokes me. Recently the Lord spoke to me and said that I’m only walking in 40% of where I should be at this stage in my life. I’ve got some catching up to do!
It’s time! It’s time to hear God, see heaven, walk with angels, manifest a greater authority and power than ever before. It’s time to see the restoration of all things. It’s time for acceleration and change and breakthrough. It’s time to see Jesus.
I’d like to end today’s thoughts with a great story – something that really happened. It’s from Francis of Assisi, one of my favourite mystics. It’s a time when Jesus came in Person to meet with them. Maybe this will happen to you soon? I believe for some it will.
History CRIES OUT for us to BELIEVE for such things
“Once in the beginning of his ministry, St. Francis and his companions were gathered together to speak of Christ. He, in fervour of Spirit, commanded one of them that, in the name of God, he should open his mouth and speak of God, that which the Holy Spirit inspired in him. Now, while the friar was fulfilling the commandment and was discoursing marvellously of God, St. Francis imposed silence upon him and bade another friar speak in like manner. He yielding obedience and discoursing subtly of God, St. Francis, in like manner, imposed silence upon him and commanded a third to speak of God. In his turn, he began to speak so profoundly of the secret things of God that with certainty St. Francis knew that he, like the other two spoke through inspiration of the Holy Spirit. This also was shown by example and be a clear sign because, while they were thus speaking, Christ the blessed appeared in the midst of them in the likeness and form of a youth, exceedingly beautiful, and blessing them, filled them all with so much grace and sweetness, that they were all taken out of themselves and lay like dead men, wholly insensible to the things of this world.”
Immobilised by Love! This is the Mystic Realm – Really experiencing God.
On the Quest, Justin Abraham
Close encounters of the Jesus kind
How real can heaven get? Can it get so real that you live in the seen and unseen? It gets blurred into one. I believe so…
Joel and Peter spoke of a day of ‘divinely appointed appearances’ and an outpouring of engaging with God -
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels] and your young men shall see visions (divinely granted appearances), and your old men shall dream [divinely suggested] dreams.”
That’s for today. Religion keeps putting the good stuff in the future. God puts it in the present. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. People who are fighting this truth are like those who trying to stop the wind from blowing. It’s impossible! I’ve heard well known ‘new’ ministries urging people that experiences of heaven are flaky and that people who have such things have moved away from the simplicity of the Gospel. This is the exact opposite of the truth! The Gospel’s purpose is to bring you into a continual new reality. Experiential one-ness with the One!
Jesus said to Nicodemus (a so called expert in all things Biblical) -
“Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God.” John 3:3
The outcome of being born again is that we can SEE and EXPERIENCE the Kingdom of Heaven! Yeah God! We get in on the action! One of the most shocking elements of this NEW creation reality is we get to see on an ongoing basis. We get to see God!
“And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent” John 17:3
This is eternal life. Family! Family with Jesus, Papa and the Comforter. Face-time! History is marked with those who have seen God over and over again. It’s not meant to be a one-off event or something that happens just when you die. The Mystic Quest is to experience God on earth as it is in heaven and to go up into heaven & engage with that real place. “Come up here!” still resounds. A generation like John who blur boundaries.
I believe we are now seeing a great outpouring of the Spirit on the earth. It may seem hidden but in hiddenness God is drawing near to lowly, the longing ones, the seekers to show them His Person. In these days His presence is going to be personal. We are in the day of increasing ‘divinely appointed appearances’!
I’d like to end today’s blog with a story. I love stories. This one is about a man called Frank Bartleman who along with another fella called William Seymour saw one of the biggest most powerful moves of God in any generation. Encounters birth movements and revivals and nationwide change. In 1906 in Azusa Street through a small group of people God rocked the world!
“One evening, July 3, I felt strongly impressed to go to the little Peniel Hall. There I found Brother Boehmer ahead of me. He had also been led of God to the hall. We prayed for a spirit of revival for Pasadena until the burden became well nigh unbearable. I cried out like a woman in the birth-pangs. The Spirit was interceding through us. Finally the burden left us. After a short time of quiet waiting a great calm settled down upon us. Then suddenly, without premonition, the Lord Jesus himself revealed himself to us. He seemed to stand directly between us, so close we did not dare to move. I could not even look. In fact I seemed all spirit. His presence became more real, if possible, than if I could have seen and touched Him naturally. I forgot I had eyes or ears. My Spirit recognised him. A heaven of divine love filled and thrilled my soul. Burning fire went through me. In fact my whole being seemed to flow down before Him, like wax before the fire. I lost all consciousness of time and space, being conscious only of His wonderful presence. I worshipped at His feet. It seemed a veritable “mount of transfiguration”. I was lost in the pure Spirit.
For some time He remained with us. Then slowly He withdrew His presence. We would have been there yet had He not withdrawn. I could not doubt His reality after that experience… We were almost afraid to speak when we came back to our surroundings. The Lord had said nothing to us, but only ravished our spirits by His presence… The sun was up the next morning before we left the hall. But the night had seemed but half an hour. The presence of God eliminated all sense of time. … For days the marvellous presence seemed to walk by my side. The Lord Jesus was so real. I could scarcely take up with human conversation again.
Daring to believe for more than we can ask or dare to think! Justin Abraham
Blog: Seeing Jesus face to face
Several years ago a friend said to me “I believe Jesus could appear to us now!” “What?” I replied “Right now?”
Honestly, I was more than a little perplexed by this statement! How could Jesus come to us right now? Surely He’s in heaven retained until the day of His great return? If He came now that would have to be the second coming! My friend’s comments were outside of my mental grid at that moment in time, drawing outside of my tidy lines. It made me wonder- can we really talk with Jesus face to face? Can Jesus really come on the earth to visit us?
I look back at this moment now and laugh. I’ve changed a lot thank you God! We knew so little back then. It’s incredible how limited we can be in our understanding of the Spirit realm. Back then I hadn’t really engaged with the unseen realm, the real world all around us just beyond our human sight. I was still thinking in natural physical seen dimensions. In the limited natural world you’re body can only be in one place at a time. It’s just pure logic rammed into our Western minds from a young age. So you think if Jesus has a human body as the God-Man, he must be stuck in heaven right now waiting to return!
But the ways of the Spirit realm are another thing altogether to the natural world. They don’t work on the basis of the same rule system. It is an expansive and unlimited reality as I was about to discover in the following years. It is a different world that overlaps our world but works in a very different way to the earth realm. It is super-natural – it is above and beyond the natural.
The truth is that Jesus does come and visit people on earth all of the time even though he is in heaven. He is able to be in more than one place at a time and make himself visible. Thousands of people see him every year. Entire churches in the Muslim world are full of people who became Christians through encountering the person of Jesus directly. I remember hearing Todd Bentley say that he’d just been in a church in Asia that had 7,000 people and almost everyone was there as a result of direct personal encounters with Jesus. He visibly stepped into their lives and turned their world upside down. Amazing! If it’s happening there in Asia my question is ‘Why not here!’ We are a family and Jesus is our Elder Brother. Healthy families see each other! They interact!
Church history is full of post-ascension visits from Jesus, starting with the Apostle Paul along the Damascus Road. He was blinded by the Light naturally so he could then see spiritually. He saw Jesus and everything changed. He became a different man, a different name, a new voice, a prophetic oracle to his generation and every generation since. Encountering the person of Jesus lifts you off the ground and gives you a new perspective. It’s impossible to see Him and not be changed. Seeing him commissions you into destiny.
In future blogs I’m going to share with you some gems… stories I’ve been collecting for years on face to face encounters with Jesus which I hope to use in a book. Some of them will blow you’re mind – from Branham seeing a levitating Jesus in a field at night, to St. Martin sharing his only cloak with a poor homeless man who turned out to be Jesus in disguise.
Jesus is with you now. He’s all around us. He’s everywhere. He said He’ll never leave you (Mat 28:20). You just have to open you’re eyes!
Happy days, Justin Abraham
Book: Face to Face Appearances
For the last year I’ve been sharing in Spirit School on encountering Jesus and blurring the boundaries. I’ve talked about getting a welcome mat and slippers for Jesus. Making space for him in you’re heart. Expecting him to come. Someone took my advice and got the slippers and mat in Hong Kong (they heard the Podcast) and Jesus actually came to visit them. She told me it was life changing encounter.
This stuff is so real. It’s the real world- the unseen is where we live from to the seen. It is where Paul said we are to fix our, desire, affections and sights (Col 3:1-2) on things above. To live in that reality.
I believe God is in our generation blurring the boundary. Things like feathers, manna, gold dust, jewels and visible clouds are all hints are a greater truth – we can see and encounter God and heaven now. We’ve had a man come to the door walking past the window five times and then vanish. One time a guest in our house actually opened the door for this fella but he was gone! There’s somebody knocking at the door-
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” Rev 3:20
Who’s coming for dinner! Could Jesus & angels eat with you just like Abraham (Gen 18:7)?
This is eternal life- to know through intimate experience for yourself God the Father and Jesus Christ who he sent (John 17:3). We get to be friends with God and enjoy him forever. A family. Jesus our brother. God our Papa. Access to him without shame. Friends.
The bible promises that Jesus would come and manifest (reveal, come out from hiding, appear) himself to us (John 14:21). Bill Johnson (Bethel USA) says this is nothing less than a promise that we would see Jesus over and over again. Every scripture is an invitation to an experience, an encounter. It’s a living breathing word.
I’ve often said to God I don’t want to wait until heaven until I see you. I want to be you’re friend now not a stranger. It strikes me often when I hear people preach and teach about God week in and week out in church, that they don’t really know him. They have not stood in his council (Jer 23:18 and Jer 23:22). They’ve not seen or heard him experientially. They are just saying what they think he thinks. But they don’t really know him directly. I think in this generation that is changing.
In light of this great subject (yummy) I’d like to mention a book to you today that I’ve just started digging into – it’s called “Face-to-Face Appeareances from Jesus” by David E Taylor. I was told about it a few weeks ago so picked it up of Amazon.
It’s a book about David Taylor’s life of meeting Jesus face to face from the age of 17. It reminds me in style of ‘Good Morning Holy Spirit’ by Benn Hinn – I guess you could call it a kind of ‘Good Morning Holy Jesus!’ It’s a simple book and it comes with a promise from Jesus that everyone that reads it will begin to have a greater degree of encountering him personally. That’s a good promise!
It’s worth checking out if you’re on the same journey as me that you- “may become progressively more intimately acquainted with and may know more definitely and accurately and thoroughly that mystic secret of God, which is Christ the Anointed One” Col 2:2 AMP.
Justin Abraham
Europe’s Day Rising…
Revival with a Smile! Our recent journey to Duisburg Germany with the COBH wildfire team
the ladder to heaven is connecting to earth
Are we seeing a new revival rising in Europe? A joy revival?
What does it look like when heaven really shows up? Can we contain it?
Seems to me something supernatural is going on and then some. You can’t make this happen.
Are we on the verge of a great awakening? Is the future like the past?
Will the traditional church be offended by God when He comes in power? Do they want God to be God?
What would that look like and who would dare to let it happen?
We don’t know but I have a feeling we’re going to find out.
The future belongs to the courageous!
*NEW Podcast online
Walking with Angels
The Bible is full of stories of angels interacting and moving in the lives of people and world events. Could it be today that God is looking again for a company that walk with angels? A company who live in two worlds – the seen and unseen together?
In this session Justin Abraham begins to expand on this subject sharing from the lives of Teresa of Avila, Columba of Iona and William Branham. Recorded at the recent ‘Heaven on Earth’ event in England hosted by Spirit Body Soul.
We hope this message will release you into a greater dimension of the supernatural. Days of pure amazement and wonder… http://companyofburninghearts.podomatic.com/
Spiritual Hunger
“Hunger for God is one of the greatest signs of life a person can have. It reveals an inner awareness of a greater destiny” Bill Johnson
Today I am writing from the heart once more. Today I want to discuss supernatural hunger. That ache that blissful longing that Jesus puts right in the core of you’re heart.
Hunger is Supernatural Bliss
I value hunger. It’s one of the greatest motivating forces you can ever have. When people get hungry watch out! Something is going to happen. Hunger is a gift. It is something God does inside of you to create tension and faith to pull on the unseen realm until it become a reality in you and around you.
“When we take away hunger from people – when we satisfy people’s hunger often times we take away the motivation God was using to make them move forwards” Kris Vallotton.
When I was a new Christian I encountered God night after night in my bedroom. It was a season that lasted a year where I wept at his feet with joy for hours at a time. During that time I kept crying out “Make me hungry Lord, make me hungry!” I remember hearing myself pray this and thinking “Why am I saying this?”. It was a Holy Spirit led prayer. He was burying something deep inside me that gripped me for the rest of my life. I later realised what had happened. He supernaturally put a desire in me that would never be satisfied. A desire for Him that motivated me to pray day after day, and to seek Him and engage with Him. It was a supernatural fuel to the fire. Even today in a day of encounter and bliss and joy, I find I am still hungry and daring to believe there is so much more coming in our time. I have realised like Bobby Conner’s says “He is the one feeding the dissatisfaction.” He is stirring something deep inside of us. Longing. It’s a bliss.
John Piper believes that longing and hunger is a part of the circle of bliss and is part of our lives as Christians. He writes-
“The Bible teaches us to desire God and to have joy in God, or delight in God. It illustrates both. Godly people are seen longing, hungering, thirsting and fainting for God. They are also seen enjoying, delighting in, and being satisfied in God.” John Piper
This is a wonderful paradox. A wonderful mystery. Being found yet wanting. Being complete yet desiring greater depths. It is a mystery that man would rather sweep under the carpet but to the mystics it was the world they lived in. French mystic Jean Guyon said she tasted such a sweet and powerful wine in the heavens that it consumed her with desire for more. There is a drink that satisfies but also makes you thirst. John Piper says that even int he age to come we will still be desiring and longing for more but it will no longer be subject to frustration. We will forever be exploring Christ.
Heaven responds to hunger
I believe God is stirring such hunger in out generation. People travel from all over the UK to gatherings where God is moving. People are connecting, seeking, looking for something that is real. God is the One doing it!
One of my heroes John G Lake saw God move in extraordinary power in his generation. He was hungry! He had the type of hunger we need. He cried out for nine months for miracle working power. He was already seeing the ‘stuff’ but it wasn’t enough. One day he was struck with what he called the lightnings of God. From that time on raw power went through him and in a short time the world was feeling its impacts. He left a mark on history. Very few have come close to the raw power he walked in. He said it was a result of spiritual hunger. He said “one thing matured in my heart, a real hunger”
In his biography he writes this -
“God’s purpose come to pass when your heart and mine get the real God-cry and the real God-prayer comes into our spirit, and the real God-yearning gets a hold of our nature. Something is going to happen then.”
I like that. There is a ‘God-cry’ that is a gift. It is supernatural. It is not self-effort. It is Spirit inspired. It is a wonder!
I believe God is stirring up hunger even in our bliss and satisfaction with Jesus. His work on the cross is finished and we walk from that rest. But our work here has only just begun. He wants to work through us to do the good works He has prepared in advance for us to do. He is feeding the hunger. He is calling us into new dimensions of experience and encounter. This is a truly amazing day to be alive.
RICK JOYNER says there is an incredible promise on our generation:
“There is a door standing open in heaven, and there is an invitation for us to go through it. Those who answer this call will be caught up into the Spirit, with the result that they will always be seeing the One who sits on the throne. This is the ultimate purpose of all true prophetic revelation- seeing the glorious, risen Christ and the authority that He now has over all.
He continues “Never has the Lord been as personal & intimate with His people as He will be in these days. Believers will be in awe continually wondering each day what great new things they will see.”
Don’t you want that? Blessed are the hungry for they shall be filled (over and over again).
In His bliss Justin Abraham
Revealing Heaven
One of the greatest shifts in our generation
…is learning to live from HEAVEN to EARTH. Living from the perspective and reality of that place. Living in the unseen realm hidden in Christ. Or as brother Paul puts it – “Set your sights on the realities of heaven where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Let heaven fill your thoughts” Col 3:1-2. I love that verse – Let heaven fill your thoughts. Hmmm!
I love engaging with heaven. It’s where the action all happens. It’s where my life is. I also like reading books on people’s visits to heaven to see what happened to them there. I read a book recently that I liked a lot. It fills your thoughts with heaven. You might like it. It’s called Revealing Heaven. It’s about an American called Kat Kerr. It’s really quirky.
Well worth getting. It’s on Amazon or you can check out www.revealingheaven.com.
As the years progress visions and encounters are going to greatly increase. Who knows you may be writing a book like this in the future! We are the generation who will blur the boundaries.
If you like this you may also like to keep your mind on things above by reading some other great books on heaven-
Roland Buck – Angels on Assignment – All time classic on angels
The Final Quest – Rick Joyner – Inspiring will change you’re life
We saw Heaven – Roberts Liardon – Great collection of first hand encounters
The Lost Book of Enoch – David Humphreys – One of my all time favourites
Visions beyond the Veil – H. Baker – Incredible story written on the missions field
Love it! Drink it. Eat it. Live it!
This year in Spirit School we’re going to continue to encounter and unpack this realm and journey into it together. Next school starts at 6th February in Cardiff. If that’s the kind of school you want to be a part of come along. Details are below -
Speak soon Justin Abraham
Holy Ghost Hijacking
God wrecks our plans!
But we like it that way!!
Check out what happened when our team went into town!
Great stuff. Wreck these islands with love! Make us lovesick Jesus!
Join us in 2011 as Papa says ‘The gloves are coming off!’
More events scheduled. Keep watching the site for information.
This song says it all…
We hold you in our hearts UK- you are loved
Blessings Justin & Rachel Abraham
A new culture…
Cultural Shift
“A culture of honor will be messy at times, but ultimately exquisite in God’s sight, because we are valuing the power He’s put in each of His creations.” Danny Silk
Love it! We need a culture that will sustain revival beyond one generation. That culture is a culture of honor – which is effectively a culture of grace and love lived out on purpose through choices that make people powerful. It is a culture really being pioneered within Bethel in Redding USA. Their teachings are changing a generation. This is key part of the supernatural reformation that is taking place globally. It is a cultural change.
This posted blog is about Confrontation and Honor. It’s from Danny Silk’s website Loving on Purpose. Juicy stuff when you want to know how to get along with people but still work through the stuff that doesn’t go quite right. Check it out -
Have you ever wondered what a culture of honor really looks like? On Friday morning at the School of Transformation and Strategy in Anderson, CA, Danny Silk shared a key message to understanding and maintaining a lifestyle of honor.
“The heart of honor,” Danny said, “is to take the strength of my life and pour it into you.” We honor our children by giving them powerful choices; we honor our friends and spouses by helping them maximize their potential; we honor our leaders by supporting and strengthening them. It is all about empowering the people around us, whether man, woman, young, old, leader, or follower. And we do all this because of love. When we honor, we’re protecting our connections with each other, not controlling each other. My relationship with you is more important than you doing what I want you to do. The result of a culture of honor is powerful
people running together, all bound together by covenant relationships. Sound good?
It is – in fact, it’s heavenly! But like everything in God’s kingdom, there’s a divine tension. “Having a culture of honor is like having a whole stall full of Clydesdales (big horses)!” Danny laughed. “Big butts and big shoulders… and it hurts when I step on you! There are messes everywhere!” When you give the people around you permission to be powerful and control themselves, there’s the definite possibility that they will use that freedom to excuse selfish behavior. Because of
that, Danny pointed out that the skills of confrontation are indispensable.
For most people, confrontation of sin is very scary, possibly even disastrous in their experience! But it doesn’t have to be that way. Danny said, “Confrontation is strategically applied pressure to expose areas that need strength and grace.” When we confront someone, we’re letting them know, “When you do this, it scares me,” not, “Stop doing that, or else!” When we confront, the goal is to find the problem (if there is one), not to get a confession.
Danny gave an example from his years of working at an auto shop: when a tire came in with a leak, he would hold the tire under water until he saw bubbles rising from the tire, showing him where the hole was. Yelling at the tire, threatening to throw it into the fire, or dashing it into pieces was NOT going to help Danny find the problem. So what is the problem? Until we know the problem, the healing can’t start. So rather than using judgment or punishment to gain control of a mess, we
honor each other by “restoring gently” (Gal. 6:1). To dishonor someone is to say or imply, “I have all the power – you have no power.” Jesus doesn’t use his power to control us, nor does he want to. “If you want to be a control freak, control YOU!” Danny said. When we confront, it must be motivated by love and a desire for the success of the other person, not a need for control of the situation.
A culture of honor will be messy at times, but ultimately exquisite in God’s sight, because we are valuing the power He’s put in each of His creations. Are we all about seeing the success of the person next to us, no matter who they are or where they’re at? What will honor look like for you?
If you’d like more information about honor and confrontation, check out Danny’s
messages, “Keys to Confrontation,” “Community of Believers,” and the “Honor Among Us” series. You can find them at the www.lovingonpurpose.com store.
Stephanie Foster
lovingonpurpose.com
Love it- We want not just the power but also Papa’s heart!
Justin Abraham
Spirit Bay Revival hits UK press
UK national newspaper Daily Mail reports…
“It’s a miracle! After 23 years in a wheelchair, woman walks again and says it is all down to spiritual healing”
The revival in Bay of the Spirit USA has hit the national news today. The Daily Mail newspaper reports…
“I wasn’t going to let anyone take this away from me and I knew this was my night to walk out of the chair.
‘I walked and walked and walked and felt I had entered another realm. I ended up on the floor and someone was touching my legs and I could feel my knees for the first time. They were bending and clicking into place.’
The footage, which has been viewed by 200,000 on YouTube, shows her being prayed for and lifted out of the wheelchair by the healer during a visit to the Bay of the Holy Spirit Revival in Mobile, Alabama.
People weep and clap as she stands up and independently moves her legs to make her way through the crowd, her steps steadied by two suited men.
A later video shows her walking unaided. The gospel artist, who lives in the U.S., now rarely uses her wheelchair. Her husband, Bishop Levy Knox, said: ‘What has happened to my wife has changed our lives.’”
The knowledge of the glory is going to go global! Yeah Daddy. The lame will leap like a dear. I love miracles! Praying for more than ever before in 2011!
Merry Christmas!
Invisible becoming visible
Jesus is going to be FAMOUS worldwide!
Technology is enabling the church to record the activity of heaven like no generation before us – heavenly jewels, glory clouds, gold dust, joy breakouts, angelic activity, miracles are all being caught on camera for the world to see. It’s a God plan to make Jesus famous through all the earth. Remember what the prophet Joel said there would be signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. This isn’t a day where Papa is being hidden but he is jumping out from hiding saying a big warm “Hello!” to the hungry God seekers. Over the coming years heaven is going to be come more and more evident. There’s no pulling this thing back. We’re heading to a massive harvest of lost souls who are going to come in waves to the loving arms of grace. This truly is the day Isaiah spoke of emerging where he said to us to “Arise and shine for your light has come and the glory of the rises upon you… and will be SEEN upon you!” There’s no hiding the kind of glory that’s coming. Eventually the knowledge of the glory will cover the whole world and touch everything to some dimension (Hab 2:14). Like Joel said God is going to POUR out his Spirit. This isn’t going to be a little drop. It’s a deluge of heaven invading earth. The media are going to love it!
Jesus isn’t coming back for a feeble sick Bride but a supernatural army of Lovers who are filled and flooded with Papa’s burning heart showing signs and wonders. The best days are here and truly yet to come. We go from glory to glory and the most powerful outbreaks and invasions of heaven are yet to come. You won’t want to close you’re eyes as we rocket into 2011. This decade is going to explosive. Strap yourselves in! We’re in for the ride of our lives…
Here’s some fun supernatural videos for you to enjoy today!
Josh Mills covered in visible glory dust
Jeff Jansen rebukes a Tornado
Angels join in with the worship (this is the real deal)
Something great is happening!! Don’t miss it!
Riding on Papa’s waves Justin & Rachel
Dreaming!
Dream….to create, to bring to life, to envisage, to imagine….
Do you dream?
Do you let your imagination run wild?
Do you have crazy ideas?
What do you do with them and who do you share them with?
It is time to dream! It is time to birth those ideas, that have been bubbling inside of you. It is time to create the space and the time for these dreams to come to life! I found this amazing quote on the internet ‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams’ – Eleanor Roosevelt. Wow!
Daddy has been bringing to mind to me recently, about dreaming with Him, somebody recently sent me a card with writing on the front that says ‘hope, dream, believe and the possibilities are endless’. I love it when God does that, starts up a conversation with you and then gets somebody else who knows nothing about your conversation to send you a card with words on it that is exactly what your conversation was about! haha! God also told me that one day on our holiday that I was going to see a sign that says dream on it, I said ok and kept an eye out, I saw in fact 2 signs with ‘Dream’ on it. I had not seen these before, I had seen ‘Home’ signs, ‘Love’ & ‘Hope’ signs but not ‘dream’. I bought one of them so that I can have a daily reminder of what Daddy is saying right now. I have seen more signs since, the message is getting louder.
Daddy is sooooooo for us, He wants us to have fun learning with Him, He loves it when we go for it. It’s like when a young child tries to play an instrument for the first time, or play a sport for the first time, it doesn’t matter whether you succeed or fail He loves you just as you are and is very, very proud of you for stepping out and giving it a go! After all isn’t that how we learn, through our mistakes!
When you start dreaming with Daddy you are going to have the ride of your life. It is time to forget past failures and fears and move on, time to have adventures with the King! hahaha, can you imagine what it’s going to look like, partnering with the Creator of the Universe! There are no limits. It’s time to spend time with Him, to look into His eyes and see what there is for you to do with and through Him. It could be starting a new business, writing a book, praying for the sick in your local hospital, travelling the world and meeting Jesus’s friends. He could start showing you an absolutely huge idea that blows all your boxes, but don’t discard it, hold it in your heart, pray into it and let Daddy breathe life into it, let Him give you the blueprints.
Some of you might need to ask forgiveness of the past fears and failures, maybe some of you have not forgiven yourself. There is freedom and Daddy is cheering you on!!!
Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4
Time to believe! Be wild! Be free! Do some crazy things with Jesus! Who knows what might happen……
Rachel x
Hidden Mystics
BLOG: There’s more going on than we realise…
I had a cool dream recently that implies God is moving more than we know. I had a dream a housewife stood up in a church gathering and said with a weight of glory “I am a housewife and today I’m allowed to share my story. These last seven years I have been encountering God secretly at home. Today I want to teach you what I’ve learned about the Mystic Realm of God.” It was so powerful. She then began to share incredible encounters and mysteries…
There are many around the globe who are normal everyday people living ordinary lives who are now being invited to feast on heaven. Great adventures are waiting for the willing Jesus lovers. Doesn’t matter how busy you are – who you are or how limiting your situation. Like the famous monk Brother Lawrence the cook who practised the presence of God whilst washing dishes – many will become intimate friends with God and carry his atmosphere around them. The mysteries of heaven are going to be revealed, the ways of the Spirit, enablement of supernatural knowledge, power to heal and bring change. It’s wide open with limitless possibilities. A big beautiful unknown country waiting for you and I to explore…
It’s for kids, families, business people, officials, artists, everyone – and it fits in with you’re life as you are. You just have to want it and like the Bible says “Since you were raised from the dead with Christ, aim at what is in heaven, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Think only about the things in heaven, not the things on earth.” (Col 3:1-2). One Bible version says – “Let heaven fill your thoughts.” I love that. It’s just about desire and focusing you’re heart on it. Do you want it?
Jesus is coming for dinner (Rev. 3:20) if you’ll let him in. He wants to show you his wonderful hidden world.
Eating from the Feast, Justin Abraham
Mystic Clusters
I had an amazing dream this week. Wow it was a heavy duty rush. A supernatural encounter in my sleep. Without going into the details here ‘cos you’ll think what I saw is nuts, all I want to say is that it’s time for Mystic mentoring. For the grapes the emerging mystics to cluster together and let the sweet juice escape!
We’re going to learn to shine! Like giant bulbs we’re going to shine with heat and fire and holy light. Children of Light from a Kingdom of Light.
The exploits awaiting you are like nothing we’ve walked in before. God has truly saved the best wine until last. If you could only see what is through the door you’d give you’re whole life for the call. It is a realm no eye has seen nor did we dare believe for. A company of burning hearts deeply intoxicated by the Fear (intimate love & understanding) of God, living in the unseen to the seen, friends with heaven, breaking the rules of possibilities and showing that truly nothing is impossible with God. Demonstrating the true government and authority of the King.
Most of what is happening now is still hidden (like Moses when he was hidden away from Egypt). But something new is most certainly here and growing. In due time it will emerge with such power and glory, like Elijah and Moses they will shake entire nations. Elijah’s first prophetic word was before the King and he stopped the rain. Such things are going to come again. It is here and rising. The land is crying saying “We’re making space for the Sons of God- Rise and Shine out!” God is calling us deeper than we’ve ever known and once you’ve tasted this wine, this intimacy, this reality, this power, this union there is no looking back. It is ecstasy.
The future belongs to the Courageous, Justin & Rachel
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