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Worth it All

“The price I pay to lay ahold of the price that Jesus paid for me, is the price I owe. And His grace is always enough for the price I am called to pay.” – Janet L. Smith


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Cry Out for the Fire of God’s Love and for FREEDOM – Minneapolis – St. Paul – Twin Cities

Word received by Janet L. Smith on 1-6-2010 regarding the coming Revival in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

The Word

“Just as the scales of justice have tipped in favor of the saints, to release the captives and to give strength to the weary, so has My word gone forth and will not return void. The word is: FREEDOM.”

What this FREEDOM Looks Like

All-mighty people consumed with and consumed by Almighty God, living out their faith and love with unprecedented passion.

What’s Different this Time Around?

The difference between this move of God and past “Reckonings” is that this move is both founded in and grounded by the Love of God. The Love of God is what makes it unshakeable.

What is Our Part in Bringing this Move of God About?

Intercessors (Note: everyone is called to intercession): Cry out for a revelation of the Love of God. Do not relent until the heavens are torn open; ripped by the bursting out, and the pouring down of heaven’s great Love. The GREAT I AM loves with an energy of passion and fire that is meant to utterly consume us.

What are the Signs and the Hallmark of this Outpoured Love?

Possessed by God, we are wholly and completely ALIVE. Alive to Love and good works. This is the good pleasure of the Savior; the work of His unending supply of Grace. And we know what “good works” are because we do them by tangibly loving others as God loves us. So let the Love of God come and consume us, head-to-toe, forever.

How Do We Connect to this Cry on an Everyday Basis?

Our Faith is the substance of what we are hoping for. And we are hoping for the Lord Jesus’ outpoured Great and Fiery Love. Everyday we cry out in faith, with the hope that the heavens will tear open and the fire of His intense love for us will pour out of heaven like a river and consume us, making us wholly alive unto Him and unto good works in the earth.

To quote an excerpt from our article Love and Fellowship; The Wineskin of the Holy Spirit: “In yielding to God during this last season of Divine preparation, God is also fulfilling His promise to give His Son Jesus, a pure and spotless Bride (us), cleansing us with the precious water of His fulfilled Word. Past revivals haven’t transitioned into a long-term, dwelling-place for God because our spiritual character was not first deeply invested in the Agape love of God (loving God and others at great cost to ourselves and not taking offense with God’s dealings with us). Without a deeply invested love for God-and-for-people anchoring our hearts, the old, dry wineskin of broken and wounded relationships can’t hold the continuance of God’s presence. The Spirit of God is attracted to the presence of His Love in and through us.”

By Our Faith We believe:

That God wants to and WILL pour out His fiery, passionate Love in such a way that we, being utterly possessed by it, are completely undone.

That all the years of enduring, of pressing in, and hungering after God, always left wanting, will finally be satisfied, once in the “now” and also, throughout eternity.


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Love and Fellowship – The Wineskin Filled With the Fullness of the Holy Spirit

© 2009 Garden Ministries – https://www.gardenministries.org

On November 24, 2009, while dreaming, George was shown that when God pours Himself out to us, unlike past experiences, it will be with the fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 12) AND the fullness of the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22). And when we, being filled with such fullness, say, “Come Holy Spirit!” He will actually COME—in FULLNESS.

The “fullness” referred to in George’s dream experience has not yet happened. Up to now, we have only seen partial fillings, which have been called Revivals, Refreshings, Visitations, Awakenings, Outpourings, etc. The Move of God that is coming “with fullness” is the answer to the prayer of Jesus found in John 17, “that they would be one as We (the Godhead) are One.” As God the Father answers His Son’s prayer “to be one as They are One,” He is creating an environment into which He will come and stay. God will literally DWELL with His people in the earth in His fullness. It is what Haggai 2:9 promises. “‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the LORD Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the LORD Almighty.” The peace of God will be needed in supernatural measure to maintain balance between heaven and earth while we house the very presence of Almighty God—both individually and corporately.

The wineskin is our extravagant love relationship with Jesus expressed in and through our love relationships with others. Because God doesn’t dwell with darkness and can’t change who He is to be more like us and still be God, He changes us to be more like Him. Thus, God is relentlessly preparing extravagant lovers of Jesus to be the wineskin that holds the very presence of God in His fullness. The fire of God’s love for us is forging deep humility and persevering character that transcends even good intentions. It is a faithful love that cries out, “God is GOOD” and “Though You slay me, I will trust you!” (Job 13:15).

How do we know if God is getting what He is after in us during these intense times? Here are the character traits of loving devotion: We have not quit when our faith is tested to extremes and we refuse to take offense with the severity of God’s preparation. We sink into patient resignation to the Lordship of Jesus. We open our hearts and allow the Divine Heart Surgeon to plunge His sword of truth into our core where we feel the most vulnerable. We have asked Him to extract from us all that is not in union with Him. We have cried out, “Don’t relent until you have it all. My heart is Yours!” And so, within the anesthetic comfort of His divine and imparted grace, God has relentlessly culled from our hearts Fear, Anger, Pride, and Self-Reliance and sewn and sealed us up in His extravagant love for His Son Jesus. And best of all, we are seeing the fruits of the Holy Spirit’s love, peace, patience, long-suffering, goodness, kindness increase within us. This is the evidence of transformation. We want what God wants more than what we want and we have learned the difference between the two.

In yielding to God during this last season of Divine preparation, God is also fulfilling His promise to give His Son Jesus, a pure and spotless Bride (us), cleansing us with the precious water of His fulfilled Word. Past revivals haven’t transitioned into a long-term, dwelling-place for God because our spiritual character was not first deeply invested in the Agape love of God (loving God and others at great cost to ourselves and not taking offense with God’s dealings with us). Without a deeply invested love for God-and-for-people anchoring our hearts, the old, dry wineskin of broken and wounded relationships can’t hold the continuance of God’s presence. The Spirit of God is attracted to the presence of His Love in and through us.

On Sunday, November 29, 2009, George spoke at Garden Ministries House Church about the 4 characteristics of progression of preparation we are in:

1.) Agape Love (Gr) means “sacrificially loving and preferring others to ourselves.” (Matt. 22:37-40)
2.) Koinonia Fellowship (Gr) means “sharing in common, communion.” (Acts 2:42)
3.) Charismata Attraction (Gr) means “things given to us from the Spirit by grace that cannot be earned or bought.” (Zech. 4:6)
4.) Dynamis Power (Gr) means “dynamite power of God through signs and wonders.” (Acts 2:43)

The progression is this: Agape Love is required to sustain Koinonia Fellowship. This Fellowship of the body of Jesus Christ leads to the Charismata of God—the attractiveness of the Holy Spirit in us. God is attracted to His Charismata presence in us because it is born of His love in us and expressed through us. The Charismata of God leads us to the Dynamis of the Holy Spirit and when Dynamis occurs, miraculous Signs and Wonders occur. Many Moves, Visitations, Revivals, etc. have experienced the Charismata and the Dynamis of God, but because the wineskin of relationships did not have a deep enough foundation of Agape love and Koinonia Fellowship cultivated as Acts 2:42 and John 17 call for (i.e., heart-knit relationships of loving interdependence and becoming one as Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Father are One), the wineskin of relationships couldn’t hold the increase of God and it blew up.

God’s presence is always growing and increasing; it never “tops out” or stagnates. Thus, when the increase of God’s presence comes into a wineskin that is old and dry, it blows up. A wineskin that is deeply founded in the Agape Love of God and exercises such love through Koinonia Fellowship is supple and will organically stretch to accommodate the increase. This wineskin of Holy Agape Love and Fellowship is the loving environment that attracts the Holy Spirit and into which, He will come and fully pour Himself. And this wineskin of deep loving relationships will continually release its fullness to others and thus, remain intact. To this end were we destined—to be Glory Carriers of Almighty God in the earth—continually being poured into and continually pouring ourselves out in the sacrificial, Agape Love of God.

© 2009 Garden Ministries – https://www.gardenministries.org


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The Upcoming Move of God that Reveals the Father

By George R. Smith
© 2009 https://www.gardenministries.org

The purpose of the Jesus movement of the 70’s and the Holy Spirit/Charismatic movement of the 80’s was to prepare and lay the groundwork for the upcoming move of God revealing the Father.

This outpoured revelation of our Father God will do two things:

1. Confront. Many traditionally held perceptions of the Father will be confronted. Only the humble in heart will perceive and accept it.

2. Heal and restore. The Father will reveal his deep and powerful love and will fill the holes in our hearts. When the Father fills these holes with his powerful love, our fears and insecurities will fall away. The Father himself will completely heal broken hearts. People will experience wholeness like they never imagined possible.

Spiritual Fathers (not just men, but both men and women who have matured in their Heavenly Father’s nature) will soon emerge, carrying this message and the revelation of the Father to the broken-hearted. As Isaiah 61 says, they will “bind up the broken-hearted and proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.”

Not only will broken hearts be healed, sicknesses and diseases caused by suffering from depression and a broken heart, will also disappear.


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We Are What We Believe

By Janet L. Smith
© 2009 https://www.gardenministries.org

We believe what we WANT to believe so that we can DO what we WANT to DO.

In order to keep doing what we’re doing everyday, we have to believe in what we’re doing and believe in who we are as we are doing it.

If we believe that we are helpless to change our addiction to emotional pain, anger, and unforgiving bitterness toward those who have wronged us, then we will do what those powers compel us to do every day and justify our actions because we BELIEVE we are helpless to change them. If we will not forgive AND FORGET (hold no record of wrong in our heart-felt thoughts), and if we are not open to repairing a broken relationship, then we are choosing to stay in our emotional pain, anger, and unforgiving bitterness. We may think that we are helpless, but in fact, we are choosing to be helpless.

If we believe that we are sons and daughters of the Most High God and heirs to the kingdom of heaven through Jesus Christ our Lord, then we will act in accordance with that belief. We will believe that the power of Love and forgiveness will help us overcome our addiction to emotional pain, anger, and unforgiving bitterness toward God and toward those who have wronged us. We will be open to taking action to repair broken relationships. We will be willing to listen and learn. We will stop relating to people from a hurt and offended broken heart, and start relating to them from a place of compassion—knowing how deeply we are loved and cherished by the living God who has forgiven us as we forgive others.

If we believe both—that we are sons and daughters of God AND that we are helpless and addicted to emotional pain, anger, and unforgiving bitterness—then we are double-minded, unstable in all our ways.

Ask God for the wisdom to be single-minded and to fully believe in his outrageous love for you, and who he says you are. Keep asking until you finally believe his words. Then Do what you Believe.

James 1:5 The MESSAGE version “If you don’t know what you’re doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You’ll get his help, and won’t be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who ‘worry their prayers’ are like the wind-whipped waves. Don’t think you’re going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.

James 1:22-25 NIV “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.

James 1:5 NIV “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord, he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.”


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Jesus is the Only Way. There is No Other Way to the Father and Eternal Life.

Commentary by Janet L. Smith © 2009
Scriptures NIV: Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

Why People Don’t Believe in Jesus

The reason people hold to other named beliefs (Atheism, Buddhism, Islamic-Muslim, Hinduism, etc.) and place their deity’s or their intellectual conclusions on the same level of, or above the eternal achievement of Jesus, is because those same people have no comprehension of what Jesus did for them or who Jesus is, namely, the Divine Son of God and the Son of Man. In his humanity, Jesus lived out the divine nature of God perfectly—even when faced with every temptation ever offered to mankind, and perfectly when under the duress of unimaginable torture and unjust human meanness during his scourging and crucifixion, and in perfect trust in his Father’s love while suffering the horrific torment of hell itself.

People can read and read and read and never understand until they ask the Holy Spirit for an understanding of who Jesus is. Because this understanding transcends natural human comprehension, the inspiration must come from God himself, by his Spirit. So if a person wants to understand God’s love for them and they open the door of their heart to the possibility that Jesus is who he says he is, they simply need to ask the Holy Spirit for an understanding of who Jesus is and the price of love that he paid to gain their eternal salvation. If people understand who Jesus is and the price he paid to save them because he loves them, they will believe in him.

In order to believe in Jesus, we must be given divine understanding that he is the Son of God and that he loves us like we couldn’t have ever imagined without divine understanding. And knowing how incredibly profound his love for us is helps us trust that what he says is true. When people understand the price that only Jesus could and did pay for them, they would naturally give him the place of exclusive honor in their hearts and everyday actions. They would gladly call Jesus their “Savior” and “Lord.” They would also accept that the hardcopy of eyewitness accounts, i.e., the Bible, is true and all that Jesus said about himself in the Bible is true.

When we finally understand the incredible price of love that only Jesus could and did pay for us as the Divine Son of God, we would never consider putting anyone in the same sentence, let alone the same galaxy of comparison to Jesus. He truly is the Name above ALL names. Only Jesus could and DID pay the price described in Philippians 2:5-11 which says this: “5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Jesus is the Only Way to the Father: John 14:5-10
John 14:5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

Isaiah 43:10-13
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed– I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that I am God. Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

Believing in Jesus Saves Us from Eternal Death and Gives Us Eternal Life: John 3:16-18
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Why Jesus is Qualified to be Called the “Only Way”: Philippians 2:5-11
The three things that qualify Jesus to be the only way to eternal life with the Father are because:

  1. Jesus is the Son of God (John 3:16).
  2. Jesus paid the extreme price of love that was necessary to save us (Philippians 2:5-11).
  3. Jesus is the only one who could, would, and did pay the necessary price (Philippians 2:5-11).

Philippians 2:5-11 describes in detail the outstanding accomplishment of Jesus and confirms that Jesus is the only one qualified to be called by the names of Savior and Lord. Furthermore, the Father whom Jesus exemplified, backed up everything that Jesus did and endorsed every word that Jesus said about himself, said about the Father, and said about the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Mark 9:7 Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!”

The Validity of Jesus’ Testimony: John 8:12 – 59
People who believe in Jesus do not have to prove that he is God. Indeed we cannot make people believe something they cannot comprehend. Beyond our own experiential testimony of knowing and understanding the truth about who Jesus is, we cannot prove that what Jesus said about himself, about his Father, and about the Holy Spirit is true either. It is God’s responsibility to prove himself as the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Those who believe in Jesus can simply point people to the Bible to read about what Jesus said about himself there, pray with or for them, and let God do the work of proving himself.

If we don’t open our hearts to receive the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit, we cannot blame God for not answering us when we ask to understand his love and how he expresses it through the divine nature of Jesus. We must blame ourselves for not being open to the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the change of mindset and lifestyle that may occur make once we encounter and understand the love of God.

In the following scripture (John 8:12-59), you can listen in on a heated conversation between Jesus and some determined-to-be-proven-right intellectuals and religious leaders. Their motive in engaging Jesus in a Q&A conversation was not to understand his answers but to invalidate his spiritual authority and to make him fit into their system of rules, regulations, and beliefs. Unless the people asking the questions were open to understanding what Jesus was actually saying, it was impossible for them to comprehend his answers. And so it is with us.
John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

13 The Pharisees challenged him, “Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.”

14 Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going. 15 You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. 16 But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me. 17 In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid. 18I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”

19 Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”

“You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 20 He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.

21 Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”

22 This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?”

23 But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be,[a] you will indeed die in your sins.”

25 “Who are you?” they asked.

“Just what I have been claiming all along,” Jesus replied. 26 “I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is reliable, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”

27 They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. 28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. 29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.” 30 Even as he spoke, many put their faith in him.

31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”

34 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word. 38 I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

39 “Abraham is our father,” they answered.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do the things Abraham did. 40 As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 41 You are doing the things your own father does.”

“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”

42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

48 The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”

49 “I am not possessed by a demon,” said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. 50 I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge. 51 tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”

52 At this the Jews exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that if anyone keeps your word, he will never taste death. 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?”

54 Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. 55 Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”

57 “You are not yet fifty years old,” the Jews said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”

58 “I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” 59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.

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All scripture quoted in this article is from the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible.
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society


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A Unified Church: John 17, Psalm 133

I (Janet) love it when God clearly speaks something to me and someone else I highly respect writes all about it and posts it online so all I have to do is cut and past the link and I’m done. Here it is from Rick Joyner, Morningstar Ministries:
http://www.morningstarministries.org/
Publisher/Article.aspx?id=1000043515


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The Dance of the Father – The Holy Spirit is the Dance.

By Shawna K. 1-11-2009
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This is the Dance
This is the Dance
This is the Dance
This is the Dance of the Father
The Holy Spirit is the Dance of the Father.

Take all the love you have ever felt and experienced as a father, mother, son, daughter, lover, sister or brother, and multiply it into infinity; now set it to music and DANCE.

THAT is the Holy Spirit, the Dance of the Father. He is about to release the Holy Spirit in a Dance that will consume you. The Dance is tribal, exotic, immaculate. The Father longs for you to Dance before him. The Remnant will DANCE!

We wonder if we will be a part of the remnant?

We try to live according to the Father’s will today, but when the Remnant is torn to shreds, will we be able to remain standing? If you want to know, answer this:

Will you dance? Because the Remnant WILL DANCE!
Will you put aside the ego of your humanity?
Will you make yourself a fool in the eyes of those around you?

He is about to set this Dance upon your feet, but you have to CHOOSE, as a mortal woman or man to receive the DANCE He wants to give you. He hopes so, because it will be so SPECTACULAR!

The DANCE is the penultimate (second-to-last expression of) worship in the Father’s Eyes. He is waiting for it. The anticipation is mounting. The Angels and the Inhabitants of Heaven are preparing. The Excitement is palpable as they know that The Father is about to pour out the DANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

The Song and Dance of the Remnant will rise and the Glory of the Lord will fall and the collision will be a CATACLYSMIC REACTION, the magnitude of which the world has never seen, or could even have imagined.

Now is the time, do not delay. Today is the day to begin breaking the bonds of your human ego and societal expectations and go against the grain. You do not want to miss a single colossal moment of the Dance because you weren’t prepared.

Start Dancing now–Today!
He wants to know.
He wants to Know!
Will you DANCE with HIM?


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SONIC BOOM FAITH, by Nick Cruze

Our Father is calling His people to a Sonic BOOM Faith! When a jet reaches a speed faster than sound, a BOOM is heard because the sound barrier has been broken. Imagine a faith with this kind of speed and power. Walking in intimate union with the Father will naturally produce an abundance of the fruit of the Spirit who indwells us and who imparts Faith to us. Sonic BOOM Faith is a new level of faith and union with our Father that reaches a power and speed from the Holy Spirit that literally breaks barriers.

Since our intimate union with the Father is formed in the secret place of prayer, it will help to gain fresh insight on what this prayer relationship is so we can stop relating to God in boring and mundane, religious or traditional ways, and start relating to Him as our living and active Almighty Father who loves to give us powerful encounters of His active and loving presence in our lives. And our prayer relationship with God is the key. It is how we nurture our relationship of intimate union with our heavenly Father.

So what does a “prayer relationship” even mean? In 1st Timothy 4:4-5, it says, “food is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.” The Greek word for prayer here is “enteuxis.” This term is only used twice in the New Testament, once for intercession and again in this passage.

Thayer’s Lexicon reveals its expanded meaning to be: “a falling in with, meeting with, an interview, a coming together, to visit, converse or for any other cause. That for which an interview is held, a conference or conversation, a petition, supplication.”

Food is not sanctified by the act of any required religious or traditional prayer, it is sanctified as a result of the abiding presence of the resurrected Christ with whom we are in constant coming together with, conversing with, i.e. we are in enteuxis-prayer with. Spending quality face-time with Jesus literally means that we are falling into Papa’s arms (even while we eat), and as a result of our intimate fellowship with Jesus, His divine presence not only is experienced in our hearts, it also extends beyond ourselves and sanctifies our surroundings (i.e., makes holy, separated unto Him), like our food, our marriage, our homes, our relationships.

Take for example, the story in 1 Samuel chapter 21. Picture David. He has just left all he has known because of his King Saul’s demonized and unjustified attacks on his life and he comes to the tabernacle in Nob where David speaks to Ahimelech the priest. David is hungry so he asks for bread but all that is available is the showbread, which is consecrated (or sanctified) to God; only priests could eat it.

Because of David’s relationship with the One and only God, he walked in a faith that broke barriers. He wasn’t boisterous or arrogant, he was living in fellowship with the Father and that enabled him to be wherever God led him. David even took Goliath’s sword, which was also consecrated to God. If someone else not in the same level of communion with God were to do the same thing he/she would have been struck dead right then and there.

All that to say is this: in the same way, “Sonic BOOM Breaker Faith� enables us to live life like David did—and even more so—because in and through faith in Jesus Christ, we have become a living temple where God Himself dwells by His Spirit. When we walk in true intimacy with our Father God, we are separated unto Him so no matter what the circumstances, He feeds us from His holy provision and equips us for battle with weapons from the storehouse of Heaven!

Meditate on this truth: Papa God delights in you (Song of Solomon 7:10). He downright enjoys spending face-time with you and the flag He flies over your heart is entitled, “My Beloved.” It is a banner that all heaven and earth encounters when you walk into a room. Now go and burn in the secret place with Papa God, as a lovesick warrior in pursuit of your lover God (Song of Solomon 2:5, 5:8).

From this place of intimate union, you will release to yourself and to those around you, the mercy that washes you clean and the grace that enables you to enter His presence through the mighty Name of Jesus. Awake and burn in the flame of the Lord (Song of Solomon 8:6) and watch the overflow of your faith bring you places in God that you thought was only for “those other guys.” We are priests and kings to our God and Father forever—Amen.


General

The New Wave of Church Leadership — the Move of God on Women, Youth, the Poor

God’s Promised Help in Troubled Times
As natural and human-induced disasters and wars increase, so will the profound and tangible presence of Jesus be experienced in the earth. In Joel chapter 2 of the Bible, even though global upheaval is occurring, God promises an abundance of spiritual and physical provision, protection, restoration, and supernatural revelation.

Jesus said (Luke 21:9,10), “When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.”

The Move of God on Women – Youth – the Poor
Four major population segments are about to experience a profound move of God upon them. This move of God will not be defeated because those affected by it will experience first-hand, the supernaturally profound love of God as they never imagined possible before. It is His love that they have longed for and finally found. It is His love that changes them forever and for good.

These major population segments are:
– Women
– Youth
– Minorities and their Civil Rights
– The Poor and the Oppressed

The Inversion of Church Leadership Structure
In preparation for the harvest of souls for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, God is leveling His church by inverting the pyramidal, corporate-like structure of the church. Those in church leadership, who receive God’s input, will experience a paradigm shift in their understanding of what “effective leadership” really is. They will come to understand that church leaders can best and most effectively lead purely by serving, empowering, and supporting others rather than the other way around.

Because the number of people turning to Jesus as their Lord and Savior will be too great for the current pyramidal structure of church leadership to handle without great loss, God is inverting and creating His church leaders to walk “shoulder-to-shoulder and arm-in-arm” with each other, much like a loving family would relate to each other within their varying roles. This side-by-side servant attitude within church leadership will create a sturdy net strong enough to hold the abundant end-time harvest.

When the inversion is complete, all leadership, whether they are male or female, young or old, whatever their ethnicity, and no matter whether they are rich or poor, they will see their role strictly in the context of serving and supporting those they lead. Money or fame are not motivating factors. God’s end-time leaders will honor the dignity and excellence of Jesus in every person no matter what their circumstances or position in life may be.

God Fathers a Loving Family, Not a Corporation
God wants His church to be an intimately loving FAMILY–not a Corporation. Women will be given an expanded and vital leadership role of serving within this Family structure. NOTE: This inversion of leadership is NOT a power swing from a Patriarchal to a Matriarchal-based church system. This inversion will achieve balance and unity because the balance of power will rest solely on the manifested authority of the Holy Spirit within the male or female leader of various ages and not by their own personal authority or position-by-title.

The Emerging Wave of Church Leadership and the Move of God on Women and Youth
God is raising up an army of women who will walk arm-in-arm-with and side-by-side-of each other in their passionate pursuit of Jesus and His Kingdom. They will be known by their love for Jesus and how they focus on what’s right about the other instead of what’s wrong about them. Their loving and supportive attitudes will be effective because they will actively prefer the other women in their lives to themselves while actively pursuing the other’s good. When another women is given an opportunity to shine, these women will ask themselves how they can help and support her. Conversely, they will not be presumptuous toward their supporters but be genuinely thankful for the support they are given when it is their time to shine.

Never will the world have witnessed women so free of competitive attitudes and free from inhibiting insecurities. They will love, respect, and honor each other like never before. Wherever they had fear and suspicions in their heart, they have aggressively faced these fears by engaging the Biblical principle, “lose to win.” (Matthew 10:38-40) These women are now willing to lose it all for the sake of Jesus. They implicitly trust that in His deep love for them, Jesus Himself will guard their hearts (Psalm 91:4) and heal them when they are broken (Isaiah 61:1). These women will boldly carry their crosses forward in belief that the King of kings is with them.

The Wave of New Leadership
A wave of new leadership is rising; building in power and momentum and is about to crest and break. Past and current leadership stands ahead of this wave but at the bottom of the rising new wave. The old leadership is to step back a few steps toward this wave. Those who humble themselves and step back into the wave will gain a position that allows them to enter and be caught up into the rising power and momentum of the new wave and thus become a part of the cresting new wave.

Those who refuse to step back into the wave stay positioned at the bottom. When the wave crests and begins to break, it crashes on top of those refusing to step back and the wave crushes them. The pressure is too great to withstand and those under it are lost to the wave.

Here’s how that scenario plays out in the inversion process: The up-and-coming new wave of leadership will carry an abundance of the new wine of the Holy Spirit, thus establishing their relevance within the inversion process. These emerging leaders will in turn honor those who have gone before them and, with a spirit of respect and appreciation, accept and treasure their predecessors and their important place in God’s Family.

To enter into and rise up with this emerging new wave, past and current church leadership must step back into the emerging leadership. They will “step back” simply by recognizing, listening to, honoring, serving, supporting, and releasing the emerging leaders, many of whom are Women and the Youth.

Thus “heard, honored, and released,” these Women and Youth from all races and life circumstances will in turn honor, respect, and support the leaders that have gone before them. Those who have humbled themselves and “stepped back” to serve and support the new wave of leadership will also gain the emerging leadership’s deep respect and admiration, along with their servant-hearted support, thus accomplishing the “shoulder-to-shoulder” leadership God is weaving into a strong, end-time harvest net.

This move of God will witness Worshiping, Warring Women and Youth who dance and sing for Jesus in an abandoned state of praise and adoration. They don’t care what anyone thinks about how they look when they are caught-up-in-love with Jesus as He leads them in His dance and sings over them with His love. (Read Zephaniah 3:9-20 and Jeremiah 31:4,10-17)

Personal Experience
For years this dance has personally happened to me (Janet) from time to time and always surprised me when it caused so much “trouble” in the church. Maybe it’s because it is a warrior’s dance and perhaps the concept of Women Warriors was hard to grasp? I’m not sure of all of the “whys.”

I recently saw an example of a woman of God dancing a Worshiping Warrior dance. I am posting the link so you can see one of the ways we will see God release women. The Dancing Worshiper in this video is Heather Clark whose powerful worship ministry is impacting people all over the world. Heather experienced this spontaneous dance during a recent ministry event in Florida. You can see the dance on YouTube by clicking this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ACWzbuMBU


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