A heightened awareness

 A Quote from "The Ecstasy of loving God" by John Crowder.

"Today the world is in birth pangs, being shaken from a natural perception of things observable and awakened to a heightened awareness of things unseen. We are being awakened to the glory realm—the atmosphere of God’s tangible, manifest presence. The spiritual realm of Heaven is a greater reality than the known, material universe. One might say it is a meta-reality, for the spiritual always affects and overrides the physical. Things which are shifted in the spirit bring direct consequence to the natural realm.

These are exciting times as God shifts our concept of reality. He is preparing us for the phenomenal—angelic encounters, visitations of Jesus, bizarre miracles, and multitudes of souls coming into the Kingdom. The thing which most needs shifting today is us. God will not have an end-time church that is depressed, cynical, doubting, religious, or powerless. He will have a church that lives and breathes from a heavenly vantage point, even while their feet still touch the earth. This church will be filled with joy, faith, intimacy, and power like no previous generation.

In this day, God will not have for Himself a purpose-driven church, but a Spirit-driven church—an intimate bride who is moved and motivated by the cloud of His presence. He is looking for lovers, not do-gooders. A people who are enraptured by His fragrance and lost in the eternal weight of His goodness."

 A Quote from "The Ecstasy of loving God" by John Crowder.

Tomorrow, even less control......

Isaiah 9:7 (NKJV) "Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end."

If God's Kingdom is increasing on the Earth without end, then it must be true that the kingdom of darkness is decreasing without end. Each and every day the enemy's authority and hold on this world and its inhabitants is diminishing.

This week I have been speaking out this verse where ever I go. Lighting up the darkness. Flooding the streets with truth. Reminding the spiritual hosts of wickedness that Jesus is Lord and their days are coming to an end. Tomorrow they will have even less control.

Bob Lipsys,
Australia

There will be scars

I see a person standing tall. After the spiritual battle, they have stood their ground. There are signs of struggle, signs of a person who has stood against a great storm.

God often chooses the small and irrelevant instead of the great. The key is connectedness to Jesus. If you are connected to Jesus, you can be standing at the end, no matter how great the storm/enemy. Hold your position in God. Do not slink back.

Seek God and His Word. Find out where He wants the stand made and then stand with all the faith and energy God works in you. The enemy will not overcome and trample you. In the end you will be standing.

There will be scars from spiritual battles. Physical, emotional and spiritual.

In the battles to come I'm to stand. When all is thrown at me I'm to be standing. The scars represent previous spiritual battles where I stood my ground and in the end remained standing even though wounded in battle. The scars show where God has healed. The scar itself remains as a medal of honor.

I was reminded of "Shammah" in the Bible who defended a field of lentils when the rest of Israel fled. Because He stood his ground, the Lord brought about a great victory for Israel. There are many unnoticed heroes like Shammah. Sadly we do not even remember their names. But God does.

Bob Lipsys
Australia

Being Normal

"I have come to see that the normal Christian life means miracles, spiritual intervention and revelation. It means peace, joy, love, a sense of well-being and purpose - all these traits that ellude so many Christians. Written into the spiritual DNA of every believer is an appetite for the impossible that cannot be ignored or wished away. The Holy Spirit, the very Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in us, making it impossible for us to be content with what we can only see, hear, touch, taste and smell. Our hearts know there is much more to life than what we perceive with our senses; we are spiritually agitated by the lack of connection with the realm of the supernatural".

Bill Johnson - "The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind" - Destiny Image, Shippensburg (2005) - (p31).
See http://www.ibethel.org

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The statement “He / She lived a normal Christian Life” now has a much deeper meaning. Seek God so that this is how people will remember you.
Be Blessed in Jesus
Bob Lipsys

Time to dream again.

Welcome.
You are not at this blog by accident.
God has brought you here.
He wants to speak deep into your heart.
He has words to say to you that can and will change you destiny.
Words that bring life.

As I was praying for this blog (and you)
I believe God whispered into my spirit
"It is time to dream again."
I can feel the Holy Spirit tingling through me
as I write these words.

Broken one, crushed by life,
exhausted, weary, surviving.
God will raise you up to new heights.
Open your heart to Him.
It is time for you to dream again