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MINDSETS - A SEASON TO BREAK STRONGHOLDS 3/01/13
VISION:
I saw a ladder leaned up against a massive semi
truck. Wayne was already on top looking around. I had
papers regarding the Words of the Lord in my hand and
was starting to climb up. However I saw something on
top of the truck fall down on one of the workers on the
ground level. It hit the top of someone’s head and
broke through his helmet. It was a very strange helmet,
made of a square concrete block. It looked like a
concrete box over his head. The person did not know
what hit him and acted stunned and was feeling his head
to make sure he was OK. He discovered a large chunk of
the concrete had broken off the top and back of his head
and he could feel his head and hair. I immediately went
to the person and showed him the Word of the Lord,
saying it was good that this was foreknowledge and
happened in the Spirit and not in the natural.
Therefore we could take the foreknowledge the Spirit
provided and pray that he would not be literally hurt by
this event.
2Co 10:3-5
For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not
carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using
mere human weapons. For the weapons of our warfare are
not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are
mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction
of strongholds, [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments
and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty
thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge
of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away
captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the
Anointed One)…
COMMENT:
After praying about this, I realized the concrete helmet
was a mindset, because when I saw blocks fall away, it
exposed his clean, unharmed head. He was stunned and
didn’t know what hit him and was touching the top of his
head. I was very concerned this could have damaged him
and so that is why I prayed for him that he would not be
hurt in the process.
AH CONFIRMATION 3/04/13
I then turned with anointed hands to the following Word
to Ponder:
THE MINISTRY OF THE CLOSED DOOR 5/17/12
For decades, I have been knocking on the doors of
hardened hearts to yield, become tender and heed My
Word. With urgent, loving appeals and strong knocking I
have faced these hearts with bold, kind Words and yet
they remain blinded by their opinions that gridlock
them into unbelief.
Mindsets have locked their ability to receive past their
own fortified strongholds and they grow increasingly
numb to My knocks.
In order to save
these from further grieving and quenching My Spirit
through their controlling ways, there is coming a day
when I will no longer be knocking. Eventually these
hardened ones will face the quiet and they will begin to
turn towards Me. I AM calling this the ministry of the
closed door.
Rom 11:22 AMP
Then note and appreciate the gracious kindness and the
severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen,
but God's gracious kindness to you — provided you
continue in His grace and abide in His kindness;
otherwise you too will be cut off (pruned away).
1 Sam 16:1 NKJV
Now the Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn
for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over
Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending
you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided
Myself a king among his sons."
EXPERIENCE:
I have had some issues with people feeling offended when
their posts don’t get approved at the moderated forum.
I have been praying over the wisdom of getting into
conversations with people about this when I do not know
if they are teachable or argumentative. Sometimes I
have felt the my silence is better than the weight of
the truth, not being assured of their maturity receive
it.
CONFIRMATION:
Today I posted about how to get Words approved, and
connected it to the boundaries for giving rebukes and
warnings, etc. I was hoping this would help quietly
teach those who might not receive it directly from me.
After I posted, a friend told me she saw a white
semitruck this morning and thought of the Word the Lord
gave me about
pink Mack truck!
The pink mack truck was about learning to give gracious
corrections, because the Lord is wanting to increase the
authority that accompanies our Words.
She mentioned that trucks have to make sure they had
papers for their load in weight and freight. I thought
of how the heavier, more weighty the Word we are given
from the Lord, the more gentle we need to be in the
flesh.
THE WEIGHT OF OUR WORDS
I heard John Paul Jackson say that he quickly learned
that when his authority in God increased, he could
barely just twick his finger and a person would feel
like they were blown away with something he said. He
said he had to learn extreme discipline in what he said
and how he said it, because of the impact and influence
his words were having on people.
Luke 4:22
So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the
gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth.
SEMI TRUCK CONFIRMATION: PASTOR JAMES 3/05/13
http://highercallingministriesintl.com/
This morning the Lord gave me an open vision. I was
carried outside somewhere and watched as a larger 18
wheeler truck with an open flatbed trailer pulled up in
front of me. Tied down on the bed of the truck was a
large conference table with a top made of pure gold.
Around the table were many chairs with very high backs
made of pure gold and looking almost like thrones. I was
somewhat amazed by the appearance of these items. The
backs of the chairs were made up of something like a
maze of very thick and
heavy gold wires or chords (I’m not sure
which is more descriptive). Each chair looked exactly
like the other and they were magnificent. As I looked at
these items on the truck I wondered what this could
mean? The table and chairs looked like something which
would be in the palace of a very wealthy monarch like
Solomon.
As I stood looking at these things, I asked the Lord for
wisdom and understanding. He did not answer immediately.
I believe He waited for me to really take all of this
in. Then He said, “It
is time for us to sit down and reason together.”
This was obviously meant for many people because there
were so many chairs. I was amazed that He was bringing
all of this to us rather than expecting us to come up to
Him. But, isn’t that just like Jesus (to bring things to
us). I was just in awe of Him and what He does for us
continually.
As I continued to seek revelation, the Spirit led me to
Isaiah 1:18-20, “Come now, and let us reason
together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like
scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are
red like crimson, They shall be as wool. If you are
willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the
land; But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured
by the sword”; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
As I continued to seek revelation, two very powerful
feelings came over me. I felt more awe about what the
Lord is doing for us, and I also felt that there was
something ominous in this message. It speaks of
grace and judgment.
Which we receive is going to be dependent on our
response. Are we “willing and obedient” or will we
refuse and rebel?
“Hebrews 10:23-25, “Let us hold fast the confession of
our hope without wavering, for He who promised is
faithful. And let us consider one another in order to
stir up love and good works, not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of
some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as
you see the Day approaching.”
Are you ready to sit down at the conference table and
meet with the Lord? Now is the time to get ourselves,
our plans, and our directions lined up with what the
Lord is doing, and He has made the first move to help us
get where He wants us to be. It is an honor to be asked
to sit at the table with the Lord! It is an act of love
and grace which brings Him to this place and lift us up
to a new level of anointing with a more focused
understanding of His calling on our lives! Amen and
Amen!
James
Pastor James Durham
Higher Calling Ministries, Intl
EXCERPT FROM ANNIE’S VISION REBELLIOUS ONES
Then He took me to another place where He showed me a
certain group of people who were His but had risen up in
rebellion against Him. I wondered greatly why His own
ones had become so rebellious against Him until He
showed me the cause of this rebellion.
He showed me that He had set forth a truth to them, but
because they were already filled with a truth that they,
themselves, had developed and brought forth from their
own understandings, they could not receive the truth
that He was sending to them. Because they could not
receive the truth that He was sending to them. Because
they wanted to remain with the truth they already had
and did not even desire to receive the truth He was
sending them, they had therefore risen up in outright
rebellion against Him.
Not only had they risen in rebellion against Him, but
they had also risen up in fighting and battle. They I
saw that the Lord sent forth and enclosed them like
in a solid fence or wall. (This He did in their minds,
enclosing their minds in their own errors.) After
this He sent forth
against them special forces which began to strike and
beat against their enclosed minds. Blow after blow
these forces beat against the errors that they had
brought forth as truth. This process
continued until those errors were destroyed in their
minds and they were freed from those inhibiting
understandings.
This was His way of recuing His own ones. When this
happened, these turned back to Him and received Him.
Their rebellions were over.
{End Annie’s Vision}
QUOTE JOHN PAUL JACKSON: MENTAL STRONGHOLDS
http://www.streamsministries.com/
“Strongholds are not demons. Strongholds are areas of
the mind where darkness reigns. Strongholds are a
foothold, or a place of access that satan has to us.
Are you continually misunderstood, depressed, fearful or
find yourself in the same predicament over and over
again? The kingdom begins in you. Therefore if the
kingdom is going to begin in you, if it’s going to
suffer violence, that’s because you are going to have to
take something that is trying to be violent against you,
and with violence - with that type of ferocity address
this issue.”
{End John Paul Jackson quote}
INTERPRETATION:
As I pondered the concrete block broken off the person’s
head, and the maze of thick cords on the backs of the
chairs, I understood the Lord is going to take us
through a season of breaking our mindsets. I went
through this experience twice in Feb-Mar 2013 and the
results can be shocking and also painful. This season
needs prayer as we go into it.
WORD TO PONDER: MINDSETS - A SEASON TO BREAK
STRONGHOLDS 3/01/13
Beloved child do you trust Me? My Truth shall set you
free. I have promised you that whom the Son sets free,
shall be free indeed. And when I come even with a
hammer, it is to set you free. You have begged and
begged to be set free and time is running out dear one.
Due to certain mindsets that have locked your way of
thinking into a certain pattern and groove, you are
unable to be set free in those areas until I break the
strongholds within your mind. I certainly do not want
to clobber you over the head with My Word. But I love
you so desperately, I will do anything needed to answer
your prayers and your loved ones prayers to release you
from the beliefs that keep you from receiving My truth.
Trust My love for you and trust that My truth will set
you free.
No sooner will you be set free, but I will use you to
set others free. I have not called you to argue and
convince. Your weapons are not carnal. Rather present
My Word, it is the final authority. They do not argue
with you precious one, they are arguing with Me. They
are wrapped in a maze of logic, reason and debate that
causes them endless patterns and cycles of captivity and
endless sidestepping issues. Let Me convince them of
their need to change their minds. Simply pray first for
their protection and then graciously share what I have
spoken in the Word regarding their argument. Place the
truth in front of them and then let Me follow up with
influence and impact.
2Co 10:3-5
For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not
carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using
mere human weapons. For the weapons of our warfare are
not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are
mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of
strongholds, [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and
theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing
that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God;
and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into
the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)…
Jer 23:28-29
"The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And
he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?" says the Lord. " Is
not My word like a fire?" says the Lord, "And like a
hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
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