Saturday 17th August 2013

• Ruth declared and prayed Psalm 118 over meeting, people there and region. We are in blood covenant with Jesus and under grace.

• Worship leader shared a picture straight away, of a potted plant that was being transferred to the ground; this is called “planting-out” by gardeners. Jesus said “God is the gardener”. There is a time, when God sees fit, to take us out of the greenhouse to make us “hardier”. Either our whole lives or aspects of it. The plants are transferred into bigger pots, to allow the roots to grow even more. Otherwise, the roots of “Pot bound” plants can strangle themselves. The gardener takes the old pot off the rootball and tweezes out the roots... some old soil will fall off the roots. It is then planted into a bigger place. This is like revelation of God’s word and an expansion of responsibilities before Him, that come with any revelation/understanding. It is uncomfortable, but necessary if we are to grow. We often like the rhetoric of "More Lord" - but grumble about the process! Go with it!!! Ultimately, when a plant become “hardy” to the environment, it is then placed in the best “aspect” the type of plant thrives in... acid/chalk soil; sun/shade; dry/wet soil etc... the position it is designed for. We are very much like this and need to be introduced by The Lord step by step, until we are "hardy" enough  (NOT hard-hearted!!! but spiritually robust) to be placed in the realms of life He designed us for - where we flourish best! We were repotted today, it seems. We are being changed.

• During worship the songs included ‘At the cross’, ‘It's your blood’, ‘I will follow’ and ‘Beyond these shores’ a few members sang prophetically about ‘men and women of freedom’.

• It was noted during worship that prophetic songs included the statements, “The Lord he stands”, “He flows, get out of the way” and “praise him as He moves through you to touch those He is drawing to Himself”; “The river flows out of you and me, living waters, break open the dams we put across what He wants to do”

• “The salvation of each of us, was His Promised Land. To pull down all dark places of your thinking and get rid of the squatters - liberation of heart and mind. Yeshua (Jesus) defeated Satan, in a way like Joshua defeated the “kings” of Canaan. So take the land!. Jesus died once for all, so you could live and come into His promises; promises which are yes and amen in Jesus Christ - So say yes. Take the land of your heart and mind and appropriate the once for all victory at the cross to the issue The Holy Spirit is raising in your life. 

• Let your light shine remove veil. Demons know Jesus’ name and they shudder! Draw near to God and He will draw near to you, resist devil and he will flee from you.”

• Others sang: “The Lord is with you, He took captivity captive so you could be free he made a show to all demons he made a public show of them and put a ring through their nose and led them captive. You are free men and women, they’re in chains, not you!. He led ‘captivity’ captive. You are a son, God’s glory in you, is being revealed - sons of god. The glory of the lord revealed, you are being revealed sons and daughters”

• Another had a picture of Jesus taking demon spirits into captivity - a trail of demon spirits in chains, which inspired her declaration song about Jesus releasing us into freedom - what Jesus has done for us.

• We prayed for some who felt oppression during this last week.

• One had a dream about releasing people from captivity in which she saw herself physically driving people in her car to the forerunners base, to a couple of the leaders because it was a safe house. Felt there was a financial situation coming, nationally, that was contrived! Need to intercede regarding this, in the next few weeks!

• A leader explained that leaders are usually hit first by any demonic attacks, but they have an anointing to stand in that position; and its foolish Christians who resist being accountable to God given leaders, not letting them pray for them. Also it’s dangerous to presume to stand and act like a leader when God hasn’t (yet) chosen you. You would be assuming the spiritual pressure and arena, without God’s permission/anointing for it. Many Christians open themselves and others to danger. As a picture to model this, the leadership sat in the front row seats - not in pride - in fact, it took obedience to God, to do this.

• A visitor saw lots of white hearts and felt moved to pray for hearts to be opened and captives set free.

• A member, saw the cross of Calvary and felt he heard Jesus say that, that was only a moment and he is now looking at him from behind that cross. He is risen!

• A visitor suggested we ask God for a specific fruit of the spirit, whatever fruit you want God to give you; we were to choose that night. i.e. Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithfulness, Self Control.

• One member testified, that in the week, he had experienced two separate people speaking negative/unkind words about others; and he wanted to rebuke those words and reverse the curse and pray on behalf of anybody else who may have had negative words spoken over them recently.

• Another talked again about Joshua and his leading Israel into the Promised Land; Jesus has defeated the enemy, so appropriate the cross, evict the enemy, take that victory, serve notice on the issues. The outworking of that is up to God but we think of Jordan as a great river to be baptised in, but it is filthy as a symbolism of death into life. It flows from a place in the North of Israel called “The Gates of Hell” in Caesarea Philippi (modern day, Banias). Joshua also cross through the Jordan River. We really do die to self and are raised into Jesus Christ and His resurrection.

• Go with God’s strategies for working out issues.

• A member recalled experiencing going “thru the veil”, in her recent trip to Ian Clayton’s conference in Wales. Using her hands to represent the veil and how to speak God’s Hebrew name and be in the centre of his name, north, south, east and west. It was a helpful illustration for understanding the biblical phrase ‘to be IN Christ”

• A visitor recounted a vision where he saw, within a rainbow, two people - one red with a sword and one transparent. He felt it was Jerusalem. He saw mountains, an altar smoke, worship up. The “dome of the rock was NOT there! Thunder, lightning, the battle prophesied at the end. What you carry within you, is given to you - who you are.

• Ruth Paddon preached and it was filmed. You can see this talk entitled ‘Lifting the Veil’ (SOON) in our Videos Section.