Saturday, May 30, 2015

30. SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD





     I just had what I'll call a God experience.  It's been some time since I've been through Revelation, thought I should do a thorough reading.  With the understanding I've gained from Dr. Keyton's work on spiritual warfare, healing and deliverance, STRIPES, NAILS THORNS AND THE BLOOD, I'm sensitive to the word, "spirit."  REV 5:6 "...The lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth."  After reading this, I suspected these are God's angels so googled "seven spirits of God" and was referred to Isaiah 11:2.  I opened my Bible way back around Isaiah and hit the exact page.  God is with me as I'm writing this.  Verse 1 reads, "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.  2. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him - The Spirit of Wisdom and of Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and of Might, the Spirit of the Knowledge and Fear of the Lord - 3. and he will delight in the fear of the LORD."
     About verse 1., Jesse was king David's father, the Branch would be Jesus.  Joseph's genealogy differs in the 2 gospels where it appears.  It's argued that one of these, the genealogy in Luke is Mary's line so, since Jesus was not the biological son of Joseph, Joseph's genealogy doesn't really matter, but we see that through Mary, Jesus is from the line of David.
     Much as satan has his spirits or dark angels with manifestations obvious from their names, Jealousy, Gluttony, Anti christ, Lying, etc. so God has his also with their functions obvious from their names.  I've never seen it done but maybe we can ask Jesus to send us one of these spirits to help us in relevant situations, as Paul shows us in EPH 1:17 "I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation."  Revelation isn't on the list of Spirits but may be another or may be just insight we gain with the help of the Spirit of wisdom.  As in "Jesus, please give me the Spirit of Understanding to help me figure this situation out."  You can't just make up a name though as I've explained before, as in "spirit of alcoholism."  There's no such spirit.  Cast out the spirit of alcoholism and you haven't addressed any angelic being or demon under him by the same name, alcoholism is a manifestation of the spirit and his demons named Gluttony.
     God and satan's army are structured very much like our militaries.  There are angels of various rank, some under others and demons of varying size and power.  The demons hate their masters, the dark angels but are under their authority, like the private hating his captain.  They live in our flesh, and being from the evil Nephilim, enjoy tormenting us.
     Whenever we see a phrase such as EPH 1:20 "he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all RULE and AUTHORITY, POWER and DOMINION, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but in the one that is to come," rule, authority, power and dominion refer to classes of angelic beings, fallen or not.
     The names of angels, good or fallen may be thought of as military vehicles or vessels.  For instance while in the Marine Corps, I was deployed on a helicopter ship, LPH, (landing platform helicopter), named the Inchon.  LPH, Inchon.  So as with an angel and I don't know yet or if the Bible tells us, what class certain angels are from so this is just illustrative, Principality named Wisdom, or on the other side, Principality named Jealousy.  I'll repeat the preceeding paragaphs in the posting on angels

     I just cleared away a bit more dirt and rock in my quest for treasure.  I'll get there.
MORE TO COME

From wikipedia:

Seven Spirits of God

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The Book of Revelation 1:1-4 (with the first reference to the Seven Spirits) from the Bamberg Apocalypse, 11th century
In the Christian Bible, the term seven Spirits of God appears four times in the Book of Revelation.[1][2] The meaning of this term has been interpreted in multiple ways.[3]

Biblical references[edit]

The seven Spirits of God are mentioned four times in the Book of Revelation, and in the book of Isaiah it names each Spirit.[1][2]
Revelation 1:4 - John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Revelation 3:1 - And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Revelation 4:5 - And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
Revelation 5:6 - And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Isaiah 11:2 ( New International Version)
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—

Interpretations[edit]

The "Sevenfold Ministry of the Spirit" interpretation holds that the seven Spirits refer to Book of Isaiah 11:2. In this interpretation, "The "seven Spirits" represent the sevenfold ministry of the Spirit as depicted in Isaiah 11:2." [2] As it is written in the Holy Bible in the Book of Isaiah, 2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; Isaiah 11:2 (KJV). Including the Spirit of the Lord, and the Spirits of wisdom, of understanding, of counsel, of might, of knowledge and of fear of the LORD, here are represented the seven Spirits, which are before the throne of God.[4] The reference to the lamb in Revelation 5:6 relates it to the Seven Spirits which first appear in Revelation 1:4 and are associated with Jesus who holds them along with seven stars.[5]
In the New Testament, the term "Dynamis" (translated as Virtues) suggests a class of exalted spiritual beings; the same perhaps parallel to the "chief Princes" (Sar rishown) in the Old Testament, of which Michael is stated to be one (Daniel 10:13).[6]
Note: the word "Dynamis" means something closer to 'strength', 'power' or 'ability' not 'virtues', as examinations of a Greek lexicon or concordance would reveal. "Dynamis" is used by Paul to refer to spiritual beings in Romans 8:38, Eph 1:21, 3:10, 6:12, Col 1:16, 2:10 & 15. "Powers and principalities" can apply to both angelic and demonic beings, more often in the New Testament to demonic beings.
Sevenfold may also be connected with the Biblical understanding of the number 7 representing perfection. The "Seven Fold Spirit of God" could be the "perfect" Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit.[7]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Jump up to:a b The Book of Revelation by Robert H. Mounce 1997 Eerdmans Pub. ISBN 0-8028-2537-0 pages 46-47 [1]
  2. Jump up to:a b c Revelation 1-11 by John F. MacArthur (Apr 15, 1999) ISBN 0-8024-0773-0 pages 108, 151, 168 [2]
  3. Jump up^ Revelation by Craig S. Keener 2000 Zondervan ISBN 0-310-23192-2 Section 1:4 [3]
  4. Jump up^ Revelation (New Cambridge Bible Commentary) by Ben Witherington (Sep 15, 2003) ISBN 0-521-00068-8 page 75 [4]
  5. Jump up^ New Testament Theology by Thomas R. Schreiner 2008 Baker Academic ISBN 0-8010-2680-6 page 502
  6. Jump up^ Thomas B. White, The Believer's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, page 54 (Regal, 2011). ISBN 978-0-8307-5725-1
  7. Jump up^ Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary Revelations 1:4


In His service, a Misfit Child of God

Thursday, May 28, 2015

29. HE'S ASKING FOR A HARLOT





     I've been wondering, "Is this really happening, am I delusional, going insane maybe?"  I think my sons think so, same as the last time 3 plus years ago when I was having numerous supernatural experiences with God and had a blog.  However, I just got another message which was encouraging in a couple ways.  My prayers are being heard and maybe I'm not imagining what seems to be happening in my life.  If I'm getting messages from others, it's not all in my head and my go between just gave me another message from Jesus.
     She's a kind, God loving older lady and we've become good friends.  She's asked me to come in and share my opinions about God with her a couple Sundays when she's at work.  She was the first and biggest fan of my writing before I started the blog.  This began with the first 9 postings, "the bizarre experience and The Sad Lady, (Chris)."  I thought about writing a book but didn't feel I had enough material for one.  I might have doubled what I had there by adding more detail, but still not enough for a book, maybe a short story.
     Someone I do a lot of business with has been getting messages from God since she was a child she tells me. She said she'll never leave her home because she's buried behind it.  I said, "You mean you're going to be buried behind it?"  "No, I already am, from a past life or something."  "Whoa, we christians don't have past lives," I told her.  She couldn't explain it clearly.  I'm wondering what spirit she's listening to but I believe she's hearing from God though can't explain the burial thing.  She's in her late 60's, says she's always felt she lived through end times and I believe she's right about that.
    I have ongoing business with her so we've spent a good deal of time together.  God has put me back into business rather abruptly and the land was from a recent auction.  We went up to a field location today and were chatting in her office before we left.  She said she had a message for me and I always perk up when I hear that.  She said she hoped I wouldn't be offended by it and I told her not to worry about that but to please continue.
     The message was, "Be careful what you ask for."  "What?" I asked and she repeated, "Be careful what you ask for, that's the message."  The only thing I'm asking for is a woman.  God's had me blocked from them for a while.  I'm quite certain I want a wife.  I didn't get married to the last woman in my life because there were issues I couldn't live with and she wouldn't admit to them or get help.  I knew the relationship was displeasing to God, hoping He looks at mitigating circumstances so I was going to try real hard to do the next one His way.
     "He's asking for a harlot," she was told.  "No I'm not, certainly not specifically anyway," I told her. "Well  with my own history of getting into and out of several relationships with co dependent women, I ought to be forgiving and understanding of her history, I'll need her to do that with me."  "God can clean you up and make you righteous," she told me.  " Yes, but He can do that for her too, can't He?"
     Let's analyze this a bit.  You know she wouldn't make up something like that.  Jesus gave her that message.  Just getting such a message from a friend by word of knowledge was very encouraging to me.  Maybe I don't have to go through the tribulation alone. Hopefully, as soon as I turn this over to God, He's going to answer my fleece and some lady I may have never seen before is going to ask me a bit of a peculiar question, the question is on the back of a business card in my wallet.  I hope to be sharing it with you soon.
     Hearing that question will accomplish a couple things for me, first, I'll know I have God's choice for my life partner and second, it will confirm this assignment God seems to be giving me that I'm a bit incredulous about.
    Way back there somewhere I wrote that God seems to get a kick out of doing big things with messed up people.  I deleted something of an attempt at self deprecating humor writing that if his thinking is linear, the more messed up the bigger the accomplishment, then He may be flowing some miracles off my finger tips.  As yet I have no obvious gifts but an incredible healing anointing has been foretold for me.
     I have incredible compassion for the suffering.  Yesterday at Starbucks a young girl with serious congenital defects was waiting for her coffee.  I said something pleasant to her and chatted a bit, then turned away and had to stifle sobs in my compassion for her.  She tried to hide her defects but they were too obvious.  I won't mention them because she could become a reader.  Yes God I'd like miraculous powers and healing, not for my glory but for yours so I could change lives like hers.  I'd like to be able to put my hands on someone in a wheelchair and say, "In the name of Jesus, walk." and see them get up and walk out of their chair or grow hands or legs as Dr. Keyton has done in third world countries.
     I think we're just months away from all hell (I mean that literally) breaking out around the world and God is pouring out His spirit out on all people although I just know about my part and my friend from the mountains of CO.  Expect to be seeing much more supernatural from God starting about now.
     Don't be counting on pre tribulation rapture my friends, it's a concept that's only been around 250 years or so but has been latched on to by many churches.  I think we go all the way through and may get seriously tested, perhaps having to choose between beheadings or taking the mark of the beast.   Many will be beheaded but maybe they come to Christ during the trubulation still leaving the possibility that previous believers get pulled out of it.  A friend of mine told me the Elijahs go all the way through.  I don't know how he knew that.  Actually, a beheading should be a quick and painless death, gruesome to think about and look at though.
     To back up my thinking, REV 6:9-11 "When he opened the fifth seal, I saw the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and the testimony they had maintained...they were told to wait a little longer until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been."  REV 20:4-5 "And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and the word of God.  They had not worshiped the beast or its image or taken the mark on their foreheads or their hands.  They came to life and reigned with christ a thousand years.  (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years had ended.)  This is the first resurrection."
     Ok God, let's get this clear, I'm not specifically asking for a harlot.  I don't feel I'm deserving of a chaste, pure woman but if that's what you'd like to give me, I'd prefer that.  Maybe I'd better clarify my list of what I want.  Some things will stay in my mind, between you and me, but here's the list I gave my connected lady friend who gave me my first message.  She told me to make a list so here it is:
1. Comparably attractive.  I keep myself fit, would like a woman who keeps herself in shape too, not necessarily muscular though but slender with the appropriate curves and bumps.  I've observed an unspoken rule of the human condition, even in the pastor who preaches about looking at inner beauty, that we tend to pair up with similarly attractive mates.  His wife was better looking than he.
     I'm not averse to gorgeous, not specifically seeking it though.  If she is gorgeous, I'd like her to keep most of that gorgeousness for my eyes only unlike many women, even in church, who highlight their finer points for admiration from men.  Don't women know what they're doing to men? Sometimes even in church leadership I see these voluptuous women wearing snug fitting blouses and tight skirts or pants which highlight their fine assets.  This makes it difficult for us men not to stumble in our thought lives.  Are these women guilty of the mental adultery they lead many men into with their dress, which Jesus warns us about when we lust?  There is a dark angel name Exhibitionism.
     I understand though, in keeping with Jesus's instructions to use rigorous honesty from my counseling with him a few days ago, I see some of this in myself.  It once worked for attracting women.  I'll wear tank tops and shorts to try to be comfortable for outside work in this hot, humid weather where I live now, and I'll admit to some pride in my physique.  A couple weeks ago at that same aforementioned Starbucks it didn't hurt my feelings at all when, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a sexy young woman in a short black dress giving me a good once over.  My second wife was a gorgeous woman with a Jezebel spirit who thrived on teasing men, I don't want to be married to another like her, but yes God, I'm ok with gorgeous.
     To sidetrack from my list, Dr. Keyton says many times, demons will set up behaviors in their victims and the victims will run with that behavior without a demon present, while the demons moves on to other assignments.  They'll return only if the person makes an effort to change through prayer.  It may take the victim a consistent effort over a period of time to make a change before the demon(s) give up and move on..  The scripture that supports this is James 4:7 "Submit yourselves then, to God.  Resist the devil and he will flee from you."  Again though it may take effort over some time for this to happen.
2. Compatible, we all have our quirks and issues, demons if you will, she and I would need to mesh.  This is a broad general heading for me.  I was once passionate about boating and wake boarding, then tore up what had been my good knee with a bad landing, and became passionate about long distance bicycling.  At present I have no passions, would be happy to try her interests, but not the feminine arts such as crochet, knitting, quilting, needlepoint, etc.
     If she doesn't have a career and can't contribute financially, I'd love a woman to join me on the job site for clean up and light work.  Once in a while I come across a lucky man who has such a mate.  I'm tidy and don't need a housekeeper, would be willing to help in the kitchen.  It'd be great if she'd join me with gardening and canning food and having her would motivate me in these areas.  That may become very important in the near future.
3. Willing or able to contribute financially or in other ways.  I don't want another woman who feels she makes all her necessary contributions in the bedroom and is free to go play while I do all the work and support her.  I'll soon be able to support myself without working, I've set one non working woman up for life and have had a couple others in my life with this attitude.  For the right woman I might be willing to keep working if she has no income or pension, but would expect her to be my helper, this ties in with compatibility.
     Not on my list but I'll toss in, I once knew a wonderful couple with a 20 year age difference. They'd raised 30 foster kids and filled two rows at church on Christmas service when all the kids came home.  He'd been about my current age and she about mid 30s when they married.  Now, though, she's still a vigorous woman able to do strenuous hikes in the mountains while he's hobbling around with a cane.  I don't want to be that old man with a vigorous wife so on my own, was looking for a woman my age.  With the short time we have left, I don't think that's so important so I'd be ok with a 20 year age difference.  I don't want a child wife though, I think some compatibility is attained by having had similar life experiences .
     Some other thoughts I'm going to keep in my head just between God and me as they're inappropriate for mixed company.  Just to make it clear though God, I'm not asking for a harlot.  I canceled my dating site profile and craigslist ad again so it's all in your hands.  I'm hopeful I'll be meeting my last wife in the next couple of weeks.   I'll keep my readers posted.
   
     A brief unrelated observation.  We're told Jesus would have spoken Aramaic but in many  messages given me and others, he seems to be stuck in the King James translation.  Harlot is an archaic word from middle english.  My lady mentor from years ago I refer to as Lady Barnabas said God wanted her to write a scroll.  This is a little embarrassing but in a prophetic reading, with 3 people with the gift of prophecy, I was once told Jesus was going to take my filthy robes and dress me in clean white ones.  Not related to the language but also quite embarrassing as the meaning was obvious to those present was a message that Jesus was going to take all the broken pieces of my soul and make a beautiful mosaic.
     If you haven't picked up on soul ties from previous postings, the meaning is that since a piece of our soul breaks off and is shared with each of our sex partners, all in that session knew I'd had quite a number of partners, I couldn't list them all, for the breaking of soul ties, I'd guess 25 - 30.  Jesus told me to be rigorously honest in our counseling session a few days ago.  Is that what you're looking for Jesus?  We might hide our sin from the world but not from God.
     The role modeling I'd grown up with was that a man should sleep around every chance he had, then beat his wife if another man flirted with her, a spirit named Jealousy causes this behavior.  As a young man, I was after numbers, not relationships, with the perverse thinking that whoever got the most numbers won the game.
     I've mentioned that I see 2 levels of christianity in this country, mainstream where the power of God is never seen, 98% of the message is correct but the 2% error satan has brought in leads most astray, and this deeper level with a language all its own.  Much is taught by Jesus to those with gifts.  I'd never heard of soul ties or demon transfer during sex until stumbling into this other level but it's common knowledge here.
     One thing to look forward to with the beheadings to come from Revelation 20:4 - 5, the only place in the Bible the thousand year reign of Christ is mentioned, is the time with Christ we'll have.

Edit:  After a couple hours away mulling this over I think I figured out what God did here.  At present I have a trickle of readers, a hand full to a dozen a day, but if things keep progressing as I'm suspecting they will, it could explode.
     I was questioning God's intelligence with that, "He's asking for a harlot" business but God knows good and well I don't want a harlot.  It delighted and encouraged me to get another personal message from Him though and I think He wanted me to put some messages in that posting.  It also motivates me to keep working on this breakthrough I've been promised, keep moving dirt and rock.  Further, it motivates me to give Him a little bit more time for sending me the woman of His choice, maybe 2 or 3 more days, all in His timing, and not to do something He wouldn't approve of.  A couple of those women at the flea market seemed to like me this morning.  I wouldn't want to marry them but if I were rigorously honest about that...
     He knows just who will be perfect for me.  A couple more items I need in a perfect woman that I'm sure God knows, but I'll spell it out just in case.  She needs to be intelligent enough for me to communicate with without getting exasperated.  That's been a problem for me.  Bad grammar in a mate annoys me too, but God knows this.

Edit:  - By the way, I edit these postings all the time without doing what I'm doing here so if you find something interesting, you might check back later.  When I do it this way, with a space above and below the body and the word "edit", I'm making the point that this is something after the original writing and I want it known as such.
     In keeping with rigorous honesty per Jesus from my counseling session with him, another criteria I'd like in a lady is one who doesn't smoke and will motivate me to finish giving up this habit vs. buying one or 2 a day from strangers as I've been doing.

     I'm sure He's got her tucked away somewhere and has been preparing her for me as He's been preparing me for her.  I need to relax, don't need to try to put myself in busy places so she can find me and help God, He'll bring us together when and where He wants to when we least expect it.
     As I mentioned, Jesus told me in my counseling session with him this week to use rigorous honesty.  Ok but I'm not going to share this with friends any more, you've got to get it out from here, Jesus.
     Physical abusiveness was never a problem for me but as I shared earlier somewhere, the role modeling I received from my father was that a man should sleep around every chance he got, then come home and beat his wife if another man had flirted with her.  At some point I have to take responsibility for my behavior and stop blaming my father, which I did many years ago on most issues.  I'm still cleaning up some wounds though, many never get them healed.
     I saw identical behavior to my father's in my last companion, the Sad Lady who'd rage at me for imagined transgressions often jealousy related, then occasionally post herself in craigslist personals looking for someone better.  It's caused by the spirit named Jealousy.  Fortunately I outweighed her by 80 pounds so she never beat me up but she'd have liked to a few times.  Don't try to tell me you can't have the Holy Spirit and a demon.


In His service, a Misfit Child of God

 

Monday, May 25, 2015

28. COUNSELING WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, CODEPENDENCY





     Apparently God must think I'm pretty good at figuring things out since He led me to write this blog.  I've been struggling for some peace but have been in turmoil wondering what I'm supposed to be looking for, "digging for treasure," according to the Healing House prophets, "digging into my Bible and expecting a breakthrough on the order of Elijah," according to Dr. Keyton.  I've been looking for some coded way for more effective prayer, like we bind good things to ourselves and loosen evil things, so if we ask just right, do we get to heal people every time?  Satan has the deed to the earth since Adam gave it to him so do we have to figure out some way to exploit loopholes in the figurative contract?
     Then there's that woman thing.  God seems to have blocked me from them for a while, maybe to heal me from co dependency, but I've had the notion that maybe if I hurry up and figure this out for Him, He'll let me have a date.  Then after a lot of dates, maybe I'll get to have a wife again and then I'll get to have..., but that could take months, years even and I don't think we have much time left.  I'm allowed to have online conversations but they aren't going anywhere.
     I figured a round about way to ask Jesus what He wants me to do.  We know from John 16:13 about the Holy Spirit, "He will not speak on his own, he will speak only what he hears and he will tell you what is yet to come."
     I'm getting some use out of all that digging into my Bible stuff.  I don't have all this memorized but I know it's there so like just now, I looked at my notes and as He often does, God just showed me right where I had it written.  If I don't have it in my notes, I'll google the phrase and there I have it, but I have to know the phrase.
     So my last companion, Chris, the model for the Sad Lady is the only person I've come across who not only prays in tongues but also has the gift of interpreting them.  We know Jesus intercedes between us and God, the Holy Spirit doesn't speak on his own so he must be relaying the message to and from Jesus, so why don't I ask Jesus what I'm supposed to be looking for?  Jesus hasn't changed much since the new testament, he may give specifics about the present but speaks symbolically about the future.
     On a side note, most christians will be mortified by the fact that Chris and I were living in sin. What are 2 baptized in the spirit christians doing living in sin you might ask.  Well, we both were co dependent from demonic strongholds that formed during childhood abuse.
     Yes people, you can have demons and the Holy Spirit at the same time so quit listening to your pastor, he doesn't know what he's talking about, statistically speaking, probably not even baptized in the spirit so according to the Bible, ought not to be preaching for a living, (1COR 2:10-14).  Go get them prayed out of yourselves and get better and quit believing satan's lie that's keeping you in bondage.  To my ears, most mainstream preaching is about 98% correct, 2 % lie from satan.  That also describes rat poison and you die if you swallow that too.
     Here's a challenge question for you to present to your pastor if he says you can't have the Holy Spirit and a demon.  If a man in the congregation, baptized in the spirit with the gift of tongues for instance proving he's baptized in the spirit, has sex with the pastor's wife, do they remain demon free?  They still have the Holy Spirit, did they get a demon from the sin? Will we remain pure and demon free with any sin we christians might want to commit?  Remember now it's sin and emotions incompatible with the christian walk that let them in, fear, trauma, anguish, hatred, etc.
     I know this kind of sin happens all the time.  A former A.A. sponsor had an affair with the wife of one of his former pastors.  I once received a lot of admiring glances and slightly inappropriate complements about my physique from a pretty pastor's wife.  I wasn't happy at home and if the right opportunity had presented itself...
     We christians sin just like everybody else, we're supposed to try not to though.  The Holy Spirit mingles with our spirit, demons are from the flesh of the Nephilim so they are comfortable in our flesh, we are three part beings, flesh, spirit and soul.  I detail all this earlier but am repeating here for readers of just this posting.
     About praying them out, make sure that whoever's doing it is prayed up and in the spirit or he or she may get them and go insane as a former partner of a friend of mine did.  I'm not certain if "in the spirit" means baptized in the spirit or not, but I've seen that the only people who can safely do this must be "in the spirit." I'm not joking here, this could be dangerous if you try it at home, professional help would be a good idea, but all the professionals don't think you can have a demon and the Holy Spirit so I guess you're stuck, so am I.
     As deep as I'm in with God if I go meet certain needs, something bad might happen to me again, so join the club.

Edit: That last sentence is biblical thinking.  2 Peter 2:21: "It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and turned their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them."  and
Luke 12:48: But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows."
     Extrapolating on that just a little bit, since I'm having indirect conversations with Jesus, if I go out for some indulgence of the flesh, I'm afraid I'm going to get a bad whipping and I don't want another, the last was 3 years long.
     I'm just going to give up on getting a date and try to surrender.  God seems to have some sort of force field around me right now that deflects women.  I think multiple things are happening simultaneously, when God gets through  healing my childhood wounds, He'll be able to use me for some purpose He has in mind and I'll become ideal husband material.
     I'm going to try to get consolation out of the fact that God is preparing me and a special woman right now to be the perfect mates for each other and hopefully in the not too distant future, He'll bring us together and life will be more wonderful than either of us could have dreamed.

     Back to my topic, just keep living with your addictions, hangups, etc. or find somebody who knows what's really going on.  A word of caution, do not take on any dark princes or satan himself alone.  2 Peter 2:10 -12 warns that we better not "heap abuse on celestial beings, yet even angels although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when they are bringing judgment on them from the Lord."
     See what happened to me in BIZARRE EXPERIENCE CONCLUSION for trying to take on satan.  As I 'm learning things, it seems the dark princes live in the "heavenlies" wherever that is and may have demons by their name, such as Fear, the name for the dark prince and his demons.  You can name most negative emotions and get the demon but you can't put the phrase "spirit of" in front of anything you want and address the evil.  There's no spirit of alcoholism, obesity or drug addiction for instance, they are all manifestations of the spirit named Gluttony.  Depression is a manifestation of the spirit named Heaviness.  If in doubt, better address "whatever evil is causing" such and such.
     If you do get them out, a couple tips, put something good back in or like Jesus knew from the pre Bible tome, the book of Enoch which satan hid until 1948, Luke 5: 24 - 26, to paraphrase, the demons will wander about arid places seeking rest, won't find any, will go back to the house they came from, find it swept clean and bring in 7 others more wicked than themselves and that person will be worse off than they were before.  Jesus was almost as bad as I with run on sentences, wasn't he?  They came from the flesh of the Nephilim and are comfortable living in flesh.
     Read your Bible and pray a lot, develop some good habits.  It'll take about a months effort, then become a part of your life.  I let myself go while in the pit, stopped working out, put on weight and let my old addictions back in.  I kicked alcohol and marijuana over 3 mos ago at this writing and almost have the cigarettes gone, it took some effort to make the gym a habit again, but after about a month's effort it became a regular part of my day.  Eat right and start exercising.  Paul tells us physical training is of some value.  Find some verses you like and repeat them several times a day.
      Be aware that these things can pester you from the outside making it feel like you still have them so politely ask them to leave you alone, IN JESUS'S NAME.  That's important.  Don't forget that. Your only authority is from Jesus.  You can't use his name too much but you sure can use it too little.
     I'm back after a night's sleep.  I had a little wrestling match with God a couple paragraphs back.  I'm doing a good bit of that these days.  What He's doing may be for my own benefit but I don't like it.  I want a wife and I want her now, I'm trying to follow the rules this time, just got a bad spanking for breaking them 3 years ago.
     You may not feel a thing as evil is being cast out, but some people feel a tingle.  All the activity is happening in another dimension.  The verses that turned my life around, which I repeated 3 times, 3 times daily were:  "I can do all things through christ who strengthens me," "If God is for us, who can be against us," from Isaiah, "Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will mount up on wings and soar like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint," and I made up, "Jesus wants me to live life, and live it abundantly."
     I got this idea from Norman Vincent Peale's book, Power of Positive Thinking and took his challenge.  I didn't believe anything would happen but within a week, my life started to change for the better.  It's good advice for anyone but especially for someone who's just been emptied of demons.  Bind the fruit of the spirit to yourself daily, 9 of them, love, peace, joy, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, patience and self control, in Jesus's name.  Do a little memory work and change your life, friends.
     Chris and I parted as friends.  We didn't work as a couple,  She wanted to come with me to GA but I was afraid of the same craziness as in CO, would have let her come but she couldn't work out the logistics with her shared kids and God made it clear I needed to make the move.  I gave her some money and she was in a new relationship within days of coming out for a visit to sort through what I'd brought of hers here and say "goodbye".  I might have done the same given the opportunity but I wanted to try it God's way this time and He had some plans for me and is keeping me pure.  Thanks again for the help God.  She says she's not happy though, still misses me and would like to be with me.  She's had an informal wedding with her new man, but still loves me.  I told her if God gave her the question from my fleece, I'd marry her, though my romantic feelings for her have gone.  It's up to God for the time being.
     This is why sex sin is so important to God.  He knows how bad it is for us, how it can tear us up. Soul ties are formed during sex as well as demon transfer.  With soul ties, a piece of the soul is broken off and shared with our sex partner, great in a marriage but not so good with multiple partners.  That isn't in the Bible, but Jesus tells us that so it's common knowledge in some circles.  I was torn up for a while too but know it's for the best that we parted and have gotten busy with God and business so am at peace now about the relationship ending.
     Chris has an incredible gift and could do much good for humanity with it, but hides it because of skepticism and unbelief from the world.  There's a dark prince named Unbelief, incidentally.  She's poor and has to work to get by, needs some support from a man but doesn't want to be with her estranged husband.  There's a good chance you may have a gifted person as a co worker who may be hiding his or her gift.  The person next to you may have the gift of healing or prophecy. It's end times and God is "pouring out His spirit" on all people.
     We prayed together, she'd go into tongues, then take a break and interpret for me.  I sat down at the land I was clearing of slash and wrote as fast as I could.  I caught most of it and think it's good advice for all those suffering from co dependency:

     Father forgive us, we are so sinful.  I include myself and my brother ******.  Give us peace, help us focus on you.
     We long to be held and touched...on earth.
     Thank you for your word.
     Forgive our trespasses, lead us not into evil.
     He wants you to stop rushing, you go so fast you miss the blessings in front of you.  You're like a rushing wind, she told me.
     Then she said, "I see a whirlwind with leaves and dust."  She gets visions as she does this.
     An unpleasant vision I think applied to her was that of an empty weathered gray shack.  She's concerned about her wrinkles, was in another man's bed within days of leaving me but isn't fulfilled.  I on the other hand have been cramming myself with God's word in my quest for treasure and a breakthrough and almost have the body back from my bicycling days.
     Have your mother pray with you for a companion.  (My mother is a God connected woman, who's had some word of knowledge from God here and there, like the time He told her to change lanes NOW then a piece of furniture fell out of the back of a truck she was following).
     Be holy.
     Rigorous honesty.  (What have I left out?  I'm baring all to the world here though mostly anonymously.)
     Clean up spiritually.  ( I know just what you mean Jesus.  A wife would help with that issue.  Pass that on to the Father please.)
     "Zephaniah 3," she said, "I think your answer is in Zephaniah 3."  She had me pull out the Bible I have in my truck and read Zephaniah 3.  It didn't mean anything until I got to verse 17, "The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves.  He will take great delight in you; in his love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing."
     She said, "Stop there, go back and read that again, I think that's it."  Then she asked if I longed to be held and I started crying as I am doing now as I write this.  Yes that's it.  I long to be held.  I have a serious lack of love wound I've been trying to fill with sex and snuggling.  I think that's the problem for all of us co dependents.
     My mother is a fine Godly woman, her kids are her life, but she had 5 of us and a monster of a husband to try to keep happy so I must not have gotten enough love growing up.  I'm 57 years old, semi retired, I've got my body back, good abdominal definition and I can bench press a 100 lb. barbell in each hand but I'm a broken, hurting child.  I didn't get enough love and I grew up in fear.
     I was angry at God last night and pushed Him away but I need to let Him hold me now.
     She reminded me of how I was when we first met while I was still riding high.  At the charismatic mega church we attended for a while I would dance to worship music as was encouraged there.  She told me I need to start doing that again.  Let in God's love and praise Him with singing and dancing.
     How about that?  I'd been wondering just how a person gets cured of co dependency because what the world tells us sufferers is terrifying to us.  Learn to live alone for a long time.  I'd rather be dead. I just saved many hours time and a lot of money in therapy, got right to the point in a quick, free session with Jesus, the Holy Spirit and Chris.

Edit:  Yesterday while working alone back in the woods, a good praise song came on and I danced like David to it.  Something good came in.  I would feel like a fool doing that in most churches I go to though.  It ought to be encouraged.

     Unfortunately, not many people know a person with both gifts, she's the only person I've met who could interpret tongues and I don't know if she can interpret others.  She could do an incredible service for others but she has to work.  Perhaps if some place gave her a salary she could be a counselor.  Jesus gave me the message I am to be a communicator and consultant at the bottom of posting #12.  I suppose I'm doing that right now.
     I vaguely recall something like this happening before when I went to Jesus with a question.  This time I was asking what I was supposed to be looking for and at first it seemed he avoided my question, but on reflection, he gave me direction for what I need to do regarding it.  I need to follow this advice for healing from co dependency which I suspect will lead to the connection I have to make for finding the treasure I'm looking for.  I think God will be giving me advice I'm to share with others in end times or maybe the prophecy doesn't come back out and I get advice through Chris.

In His service, a Misfit Child of God

27. PORTAL TO HELL, COMING IN SEPTEMBER?






     I felt a bit silly writing that the Hadron collider is going to be opening a portal through which much evil will come and it's going to happen in September.  What will those crazy conspiracy theory people come up with next, I wondered.  After mulling it over though, combining what I know of God and the Bible and science, it just might be possible.
     I explained earlier about Stephen Hawking's M theory, a modified version of string theory which comes up with a cohesive theory of how the universe holds itself together and assumes 11 multiple unseen dimensions to our world.  I'm no expert just got the basics from a bit of research and my high level mathematician son.  You can find anything online, do it yourself portal creation at home, (I wouldn't recommend it folks, no telling what evil you might be letting in) and I found much about physicists researching this.
     The Hadron collider is a 17 mile circumference tunnel built for testing theories of physics.  The billions spent on this are puzzling to us lay people but top scientists seem to think it's important. They are tinkering with God's building blocks, creating new particles and testing theories.  Some of the dimensions of Hawking's theories are at the atomic level.  Here's a paragraph I lifted about the Collider, note "evidence of other dimensions."

If theoretical particles, antimatter and dark energy aren't unusual enough, some scientists believe that the LHC could uncover evidence of other dimensions. We're used to living in a world of four dimensions -- three spatial dimensions and time. But some physicists theorize that there may be other dimensions we can't perceive. Some theories only make sense if there are several more dimensions in the universe. For example, one version of string theory requires the existence of no fewer than 11 dimensions.

     Now let's switch over to God.  Almost by definition, christians believe in these multiple unseen dimensions.  That's where the angels and demons come and go, somehow exerting influence in our dimension.  I've had several acquaintances, as previously described in the blog, get a glance into an unseen dimension to see what some of these beings look like.
     Biblically, this is called the gift of discerning the spirits, one of the 9 supernatural gifts described in 1 COR 12, wisdom, knowledge, faith, miraculous powers, prophecy, distinguishing between spirits, healing, different kinds of tongues and interpretation of tongues.  These all have a supernatural component, that is require action from God, and are given believers after experiencing a baptism of the spirit and the "Holy Spirit distributes them to each one just as he determines."  I personally have experienced prophecy and word of knowledge.  All one needs to do to see tongues is go to a Pentecostal church.  The gift of tongues, proof of baptism in the spirit and better understanding of the Bible, is a requirement for all Pentecostal pastors and leaders.  I disagree with that policy because I was baptized in the spirit and didn't get tongues, but I'm not looking for a church leadership position.  The principle seems wrong.  Tongues seem to be the most common gift from my experience and according to Paul, the most worthless unless an interpreter is present.  True, but I was fascinated the first time I saw them, unexplainable by science, proof to me of God's existence.  See my next posting on counseling from the Holy Spirit by a person gifted in both tongues and interpretation that happened the day I'm writing this.
     I don't believe we have all the equations yet that fully explain God but we're getting there.  Einsteins theory of relativity explains how he moves around in time, thereby knowing the future.  Here's the reply from my math genius son to my question, "Can we explain how a day is like a thousand years to God and a thousand years are like a day?":

Hey Dad,

Einstein's theory of relativity has alot of interesting implications, including time dilation.  Check out this wikipedia article:


Do you remember that Ender's Game book series we got for you a while ago?  There was some discussion in one part of the book about how people aged at different rates because of space travel, and that part of the book was actually true, not just science fiction.  We've just never really experienced it in reality because we travel at really low speeds (in that wikipedia article, they note that some astronaut holds the current time travel record.  And, with all of his spaceflight, his time dilation is on the order of milliseconds).

Things travelling at light speed cause alot of equations to "break" (divide by zero or other such problems).  But, the math suggests that in the limit as velocity approaches the speed of light, the time of the moving object would dilate to 0 (i.e. you could jump infinitely forward in earth time).  So, my personal belief is that God is like light, and physics can thus (kinda) explain how he exists outside of time.  In that sense, a thousand years is like a day and a day is like a thousand years.

Josh

I refer you to 1 John 1:5 "...God is light..."  How about that?  They didn't know calculus and physics when that was written but that explains God's time travel and knowledge of future events doesn't it?
     In 2 PETER 2:4 "For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment." and JUDE 1:6 "And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling-these He has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day."
     A bit of repetition here for anyone reading straight through but I want this posting to stand alone, some of the angels were the watchers, angels given human form to teach humanity who, way back in Genesis had the same problem I do.  They craved the flesh of women. "And the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful and took them for their wives."  Their offspring were the Nephilim or giants, mighty men of renown, bastard creatures not in God's plan, half angel, half human.  When they died, their souls had no place to go so they were left wondering the earth as our modern day demons.  More detail on that back in the posting about source of demons and where I got that information, (not in the Bible.)
     God was unhappy with these naughty angels and chained them with some others but He didn't get them all as many are still with us as generals in satan's army.  From Ephesians, "our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against PRINCIPALITIES" or RULERS...(fallen angels).
     Where exactly did He chain them?  A bit more science, we know that black holes suck in light and warp the space / time continuum.  They may be the abyss or bottomless pit because that can't be on earth.  Perhaps God chained these dark angels in a rift He created in outer space.  A third of the angels fell with satan, many were chained up somewhere, we're tinkering with things we weren't meant to with the Hadron collider.
     We can learn much about the Bible from other sources.  For instance it always puzzled me why Noah was so mad at Ham for coming into the tent and seeing his nakedness that he cursed Ham and his lineage.  I have learned though that from Jewish oral tradition, Ham committed something of a homosexual crime against Noah.  So if Noah woke up from his drunk and found a stick or something where it ought never be, that could explain his rage.
     On many topics, I'm way ahead of the Bible scholar who wrote the explanatory notes in my Bible.  About the sons of God taking the daughters of men as wives he says angels can't have sex with women so that must mean something like...I know though from the book of Enoch which Jesus had and satan hid until 1948 that it was angels given human form, called watchers sent down to teach humanity that messed up God's plan and took women as wives.  It seems to me that God gave us males a bit too much sex drive.  Demons from the souls of Nephilim, half angel, half human who didn't fit in any afterlife place, left roaming the earth, weren't in the original plan.  (See pics of their bones in posting #16. SOURCE OF DEMONS.  Fallen angels taught man how to work with metals and make weapons of war I've learned from some pre Bible works.
       It's quite possible satan has been patiently bringing us along with technology and may have us to the point we can blast through another dimension so he can bring in his chained up troops.  After some reflection it no longer seems ludicrous to me that we will be making a portal for the chained up angels to come into our world through.  We probably won't see them coming in, it's happening in another dimension but many bad things may start happening around the world after it happens.
      I've been told the event is scheduled for late September but haven't verified.  There's that month again, blood red moon September 28, the pope visiting the white house in September, Jade Helm 15 ending September 15 and I'm not sure yet what else.
     I doubt it the Hadron collider experiment will be announced as "Satan's creation of a portal to bring in reinforcements," but there may be some experiment scheduled for that time.  I just emailed my son who's working as a statistical analyst for the U.N.( that organization scares me a bit) in Rome Italy asking if he knows of anything big with the collider for September.  He's visited it and into that level of math.  I do believe we have big bad things coming in our near future.  Stay close to God my friends.

In His service, a Misfit Child of God