Thursday, 6 November 2008
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Google versus Creativity - Is how you title things important?
Calling All Bloggers - Fellow Bloggers of all persuasions and interests , have I got this correct? If you want to be found on Google, you have to title your piece with something that clearly explains and encapsulates your post!
I picked this up in passing from Lydia Joy the other day.
The literary device of creating a conundrum, which you later unravel, hopefully creating a greater satisfaction in the reader is not encouraged then.
By that I mean I tend to create headings out of puzzling statements which have little or no meaning until you have read the article.
Am I shooting myself in the foot?
Replies please!
I picked this up in passing from Lydia Joy the other day.
The literary device of creating a conundrum, which you later unravel, hopefully creating a greater satisfaction in the reader is not encouraged then.
By that I mean I tend to create headings out of puzzling statements which have little or no meaning until you have read the article.
Am I shooting myself in the foot?
Replies please!
Monday, 3 November 2008
Albert Camus speaks - a great one for artists and prophets
This is nicked from here.
It's an ideal quotable quote for one of Dan's sites.
Some of you know I studied German and French at Exeter University.
One of the spinoffs was getting intimate with Franz Kafka, Goethe, and many of the francais.
Like Albert Camus who said:
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that our very act of existence is an act of rebellion.”
It's an ideal quotable quote for one of Dan's sites.
Some of you know I studied German and French at Exeter University.
One of the spinoffs was getting intimate with Franz Kafka, Goethe, and many of the francais.
Like Albert Camus who said:
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that our very act of existence is an act of rebellion.”
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Havant,Parchment,Signing the register
Pictures and impressions that have both local and international resonance.
The purpose of this blog as a whole is not to share my own life , nor share details about my local church.
Its specific purpose is to share prophetically and by means of Bible teaching and revelation where the Body is heading. In my first post I said I needed room, more room than Dan's comment section, to systematically explore every thread and basis for a "third level" of growth.
Both corporately and individually.
You have seen that I am building off decades of revelation in the lives of many notable saints and forerunners. The Norman Grubbs, the Ern Baxters, the Ed Millers. You have also seen that from an intellectual, left-brain approach, I have not been that systematic. So, think of this a bit like the gospel of John, or some of St Paul's stuff....where the system is more thematic. Also, please respect that the most systematic description so far has been written down for us already in "Yes,Iam",Norman Grubb's last book.
I neither have permission to copy this out verbatim, nor would I wish to take away from Zerubbabel's bookstore, mentioned in the links section.
Today,however, I want to speak about some more personal and local stuff because I believe at least some of it will be relevant on a larger scale.
I refer to the Key of David meetings.
The church I attend was formed under Peter and Mariette Stott nearly 30 years ago. As they both were used farther afield, in Europe, especially Spain, also South America and America, the day to day church runnings were then managed by a good team ministry under the pastors John and Wendy Wilbraham.
A while ago, Peter felt to run "Key of David" meetings to which anybody could come. These sort of meetings are appearing the world over as the Holy Spirit directs. Locally, they are known as Key of David meetings...but many around the world would use lots of other titles. Peter has been in many. It was in such a meeting in the UK, known as "the Well" that he first met Todd Bentley.
Key of David meetings have no agenda. They come from King David's phrase "One thing I seek, to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life." The meetings centre on this seeking of God. With or without music,with or without teaching,maybe in total stillness prostrate on the floor, maybe dancing your socks off in violent praise.....in whatever form..waiting on God.
In 1973, when God led a few of us in Amersham into something similar...ostensibly to train up a local prophet...the teaching God used was from Psalm123:32
Behold, as the eyes of (C)servants look to the hand of their master,
As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
So our (D)eyes look to the LORD our God,
Until He is gracious to us.
ie unless you are ready, willing and concentrated on the slightest flick of your master's hand, you will have no clue as to what he wants you to do.
ie unless you are ready, willing and concentrated on the slightest flick of your master's hand, you will have no clue as to what he wants you to do.
And just as for us in the early 70s during these little meetings God was revealing huge swathes of revelation concerning
The Release of the Spirit
Discipleship
The Vision of the Triumphant Church
which then came out internationally 2-3 years later as taught by people such as Juan Carlos Ortiz and Ern Baxter;
So now, in these Key of David meetings, many of the bigger themes on an international scale are coming first as a "cloud no bigger than a man's hand" in these sessions.
One of these things was the 3-fold nature of Revelation 3:20 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door,
1.I will come in to him and
2.will dine with him,
3.and he with Me. "
I had never noticed this before and certainly not in a 1st level 2nd level 3rd level context.
I felt this applicable to us all in the charismatic movement....but I really felt it for a couple I shall not name. Here was a couple...(incidentally the same man who refused to take the 3rd level message tape into his hand 16 years ago....he reached out for it...then at the last minute withdrew his hand quickly. It was a really odd moment. He'd just prophesied over me that just as I was restoring a grand piano project, I would be a concert instrument before many people. So on the one hand prophecying, on the other, destroying any chance of it taking place. Torture.)
Anyhow this couple is representative of a generation that have asked Jesus in, that have let Him eat them out of house and home, and to whom God was now saying "Right. How would you like to come back to My place?"
This changed in the May Conference to the Father saying it. "Come back to My Place for tea."
And sure enough...that was also the burden of RiverCAMP through Mark Stibbe's messages.
Also through a ministry later in Shaftsbury, John and Wendy told me.
Another two of the Key of David themes , also taken up in Peter and Mariette's recent ministry...for example in Paduka, Kentucky....is one of legitimacy. Peter preached on this in the May Conference here...and more recently "shame" taken from Adam and Eve hiding.
I want to explore this because of last night's Key of David meeting.
It was outwardly quite a subdued meeting, but this was strongly contrasted by the deep sense of the Lord's Presence. And the worship and adoration. And the sense of looking into the face of Jesus.
Just about the time I was getting impressions that were the Kingdom equivalent of Dr Who's tardis....and science fiction portals and worm-holes....
translated, that is the sense of Jacob thinking he was in the middle of nowhere, with a stone for a pillow ...next he is having a dream as inGenesis28:12(S)He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, (T)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.Then in verse 17 "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
translated, that is the sense of Jacob thinking he was in the middle of nowhere, with a stone for a pillow ...next he is having a dream as inGenesis28:12(S)He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, (T)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.Then in verse 17 "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
And I was feeling all this about our little Havant. Just at that moment...I think at a point of high praise...Peter blurted out verse 17 as above.
And how often is that true of us in our little anonymous places all over the world. Like Ruth, (as in Book of Ruth)we literally sell all in various ways, only to find ourselves being woven into God's history of the world.
This is particularly true of Havant. Only notable as the former centre for Kenwood, Vogue Butterick patterns, Goodmans speakers,Scalextric, and Tam Brands (Tampax).
You know, not many in the Kingdom have Phd's like Mark Stibbe and Brad Jersak. But many move from humble surroundings to achieve doctorate status later. One such local lady pastor researched Havant's history and saw prophetic parallels. Havant's history revolves around it having the largest amount of naturally occurring artesian wells in the UK...22 or so.
The water is old water as in old and deep water so pure that Havant developed into a centre for extremely pure and high quality parchment. Parchment so fine that it was the choice for the writing of the Magna Carta.(1215) and last century for the Treaty of Versailles.
This is all extremely prophetically charged stuff for the nature of the church God is building here. And last night I saw more, which ties these strands together with what God is currently doing worldwide too.
In the more subdued setting of the worship. Subdued in volume...not subdued in Presence..
I felt I was present watching the signing of a wedding Registry Book, in the same way that this generally takes place to a background setting of music.
This registry book was the one officially and legally describing the marriage of Jesus and His Bride. In a local sense, there was an important resonance with it being signed on Havant Parchment....but this is for us locally...and again showing that our little church has a certain position and importance that goes beyond what you would assume for its size.
But opening out in scale....
you can see what the Holy Spirit is doing in the greater Body too right now.
He is setting on parchment for all to see
Our total legitimacy to be heirs of Christ as in Ephesians and Colossians and Romans
Our total legitimacy to be declared a race of co-sons as preached by Rob Rufus, Mark Stibbe, Peter Stott and simultaneous innumerable others
Therefore the total and legal declaration of the Abolition of the Shame we inherited in the Garden
A parchment set out before the principalities and powers, before any other claimants false or real on our lives. (Ruth had to go through this process before legally being able to marry Boaz. Is this not what has been going on with the New Covenant since it began? And it has passed through false claimants hands (the structured man-made church who tried to make it back into an old Covenant concern again)
The Body has never really known its legitimacy. And out of this lack of knowledge has moved in all sorts of falsified versions of legitimacy. But now is the time for this parchment to be brought out, with all the correct signatures, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
saints without number from beyond the grave
angel hosts.
I believe this is the gist of what Lydia Joy is trying to say here. I myself don't have any problem with the phrase "convicted by the Holy Spirit"...but it is more like Rob Rufus described recently when on 080808 Jesus came into his room. The thing is, as Peter shared this morning if shame has been dealt with at our deepest levels....the Holy Spirit's negatives do not have the same sting...in fact they are somehow filled with honour...
because God, the God of the Universe wants to interact with me....He loves me enough to tell me off but also as Lydia would say...point us in the right direction.
If you read the last chapters of Job you can see the same thing going on. God is economical in His acts. He does a whole host of things at many levels simultaneously. With Job, we are often told about how it was the Devil putting up the challenge in the first chapter...totally unseen by the human world...only to be totally proved wrong through Job's refusal to curse God. Actually there was something else going on too. There was some "independent self " thinking going on with Job, and you can read for yourself how God firmly, but graciously, and again in a totally honoring way,
says nevertheless " Job, kid, where were you when I set the whole kit up then!!!"
We need that. We need to know...to really know in our very fibres...that without Him we are nothing..........
But then we need to know as the Parchment tells us
Christ is now our life
Christ in us is the hope of glory
We can now do all things through Christ who strengthens us
It is not I who live , but Christ who lives in me
There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
While we are still hugging our proud and lofty speculations about being
successful or unsuccessful independent "lone " me's in the universe
we are hugging shame to ourselves
the shame, as Peter Stott was sharing, of being either over-projecting selves, to counteract the inner feeling of worthlessness,
or the shame of being the blushing buffoon who lacks confidence in many situations....as Saul first was when Samuel found him hiding in the baggage.
Dan was sharing about his feelings and fighting self-harm.....well if he can also start to withdraw from the fight....and see the Parchment declaration.....he should start to see that it is only
independent thinking that would drive him depressionwards.
Not that depression is not real....it's just that with any of the devil's stuff...(Since by the way, the devil is the Biggest Manic depressive ...he is the one with the biggest Bipolar condition...and really all we are doing is joining him in his condition)
whereas Christ is Hope.
His very Life lived through us is Hope. If by dying, Jesus nailed our manic depressed life to the cross, and plunged us into Him in a real baptism into His death and resurrection....it is accurate that we don't live this independant lie anymore....it's Jesus living His life through me.
Just as believing on Him for forgiveness was a step into the unknown
Just as receiving the Baptism in the Spirit was a step out on scriptures into the unknown, but richly rewarded
So it is into the 3rd Level....
It is cold. It is calculated. From the view of our former manner of life it is brutal. But when we are desperate enough, as I was....we say
OK Jesus. I believe your Word. It was not me that was doing all these things...although it suited my pride to believe that I as an independent being chose it all...like Romans 7 says...it was "never just me".....since I ,as a self-running being, is an impossibility....
I See....at last....it was SIN in me. This god-delusion thing of me running my own life has only led me into darkness, self-hatred and sin.....which is what You wanted me to see
so that now I can choose You. You are my Life. You don't get depressed. You may get aggrieved, as when John the Baptist was beheaded...but You don't drop into depression as a life pattern.
Therefore, coldly, as I chose You for salvation, totally based on Your Word...with not necessarily much feeling, I say now
The life I now live is YOU. And if I am tempted into sin, then it is me slipping back into "Just me" territory, and I will turn around and again begin believing Your Life in me.
I have no independent life, and since the Cross, on the new Marriage Parchment you have legitimately declared that my Life is now You as lived through MY SOUL
as lived through MY BODY.
My soul is OK and being renewed daily by your Spirit battery coming through it.
I do not need to be someone else. I only need to recognise that new SOMEBODY which is Christ living through me. Help me as I learn it, in the same way you taught me how to do Spirit-filled meetings. Do not let me bow to pressure to be someone different. I am me. And what you are currently doing through me is sufficient. As I believe you for more gifting, it is based on your Word, and not on some deluded self-effort thing as "an alone me".
Amen. This stuff works. And later, you may even be allowed to go to meetings and take them over for the glory of God! But for now learn how to pour out muesli into a bowl as Christ as you.
There are many testimonies of people with all manner of psychological stuff making this step in the oldest Intercessor magazines. Unfortunately only Vol 9 is now available - the latest ones containing little or no testimony.
Bring on the Body!
Friday, 31 October 2008
Rattling of the Bones: 2 blog posts of note

I have been away with the family. I have also been reading through some of the books in my recommended list. Some I have only skimmed before and am only now reading properly, others I am reading with great interest to see how I feel about them now.
In this blog I want to ignore these and recall a message by Alan Vincent to the church in Hazlemere, Bucks in the mid 70s. It was on the subject of the "rattling of the bones"in Ezekiel 37:7.
But first here are two outstanding blog posts of the last week or so.
The first from Jamie is an outstanding description of how grace works in our lives .
The second is from Terry Virgo on not forgetting the commands of scripture.
When I returned from RiverCamp (see link) Morris Cerullo had sent a brochure on the Names of God. John Paul Jackson has done a series on these names as have many teachers and preachers. When we receive the Holy Spirit at salvation and more so as He is released in our lives in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, unknowingly we find ourselves signed up to a Holy Spirit Training Course on the Names of God. This is the same course that the Israelites were on in the Wilderness after leaving Egypt.
- YHWH-Yireh (Jehovah-jireh) — "The Lord will provide" (Genesis 22:13-14).
- YHWH-Rapha — "The Lord that healeth" (Exodus 15:26).
- YHWH-Niss"i (Yahweh-Nissi) — "The Lord our Banner" (Exodus 17:8-15).
- YHWH-Shalom — "The Lord our Peace" (Judges 6:24).
- YHWH-Ra-ah — "The Lord my Shepherd" (Psalm 23:1).
- YHWH-Tsidkenu — "The Lord our Righteousness" (Jeremiah 23:6).
- YHWH-Shammah (Jehovah-shammah) — "The Lord is present" (Ezekiel 48:35).
But rattling alongside this is the substance of Terry Virgo's blog describing how God's ministries were sent in with apostolic commands and injunctions.
But I want to stress even more than Terry does various points.
Firstly...unlike today when we have Bible studies on these scriptures....
1. The substance of these commands was coming out of a warm , caring relationship of the Holy Spirit's Presence coming through the love, care and intercession of the apostles ministering the Word. Many of whom had been through this same living, breathing, process with Jesus Himself whilst on Earth. Initially in 3 years of ministry, plus 40 days of rather special ministration with the resurrected Christ, before His ascension.
2. The total understanding of these injunctions is that NO WAY, no ABSOLUTE WAY were the hearers going to fulfil this in their own strength.
3. If that was true under a Pentecostal Baptism in the Spirit understanding....it is a gazillion times more to be stressed in a 3rd Level approach.
Let me explain the last point.
Maybe the apex of "Holy Spirit and Me" technology was reached in the late 80s with Benny Hinn's book "Good Morning Holy Spirit"
This is Pentecostalism to the nth degree of intimacy. You can't go beyond this.
Jesus said about John...there is no one born of women greater....but the least person of the Kingdom would in fact be greater.
This might have sounded very strange at the time when Jesus said this. I am going to say something just as strange. What I am saying is this.
The next generation in God will go way beyond Benny Hinn's book.
Why.
Because it was always prophesied so.
Psalm 110:3 Your (F)people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power and
Psalm 24:4-6(He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to an idol
or swear by what is false.
He will receive blessing from the LORD
and vindication from God his Savior.
Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek your face, O God of Jacob.
whose total way of existence is summed up in a delusion of separateness.
He catches us up in his lying existence to make-believe that we as him can
live as self-running beings, with no need for a spirit battery!!!
When really in the background he swapped our God linkage in our spirits for
a permanent devil linkage. Only Christ's cross has severed this link.
But throughout history until the present day, this has not fully come to the fore.
So to this day Christians are running around as "separate " beings
trying to focus on Christ
trying to pray
trying to work miracles
trying to preach a message of salvation
even....and listen to this....trying to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit.
Now in the best light that Benny had at the time, he saw himself in a dual relationship with the Spirit. The Holy Spirit and Benny.
But from now on the Holy Spirit does not even allow us this luxury.
He is saying in Psalm 24 verse 4 "You have spent your entire lives
living by what is false. You thought you were gods in your own right.
Then you tried to live your renewed lives in this same old revelation...as separate beings in your own right. I have overlooked this since the Pentecostal outpouring in the 1900s, but now
is my time for a generation who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Who experience within themselves this Name change. Not Benny and the Holy Spirit. Benny is dead. Now it is Christ Benny and the Holy Spirit.
So you see the generation that is now emerging and is to come will be a totally new type of believer. Totally identified with the death of Christ
And consequently because of the Jesus words "if you abide, in my Word,then you are Truly my disciples, and you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free."
Now.
On Earth.
Not in some heavenly future.
AS real as we experience the outbreak of the Presence of God in meetings now....so this will become our every day experience together...all day long. And the apostles were the prototype.
Yup, they had disagreements. They were slow to grasp that Gentiles were included in the deal.
But they didn't lie.
They didn't go off with other women.
They didn't grasp money to themselves.
They were submissive one to the other.
Not one was on a power trip. And they had raw POWER!
So don't any of you dare talk to me about the sweet by and by. About some Feast of Tabernacles in the future, as if it can't be lived today. (Joseph Prince I've got your number) It is in the future...but only if it is now...if you see what I mean. My heaven in the future is dependant on me getting heaven now by asking Jesus into my heart. It's like that.
Don't give me that rubbish about putting up with one another's sins til we limp into glory.
Don't give me that grace rubbish which never actually cleans up our lives.
Grace is like honey. But is also like fire!!! Just you wait and see!!! You won't know what's hit you.
Well actually you will. Because of this very blog.
But listen!!!You're going to be OK.
Jacob was OK after his wrestling. God let him live.
You and I are going to live too. On this earth.
So back to Alan Vincent.
You will notice there are 2 stages to the revealing of this glorious Body in Ezekiel 37.
The one prophesying assembled the bones. Called them together. Then they began rattling.
If you put all our blogs together there is a tremendous rattling.
Some are more Calvinist. Some are more Armenian.
Some are more grace...some are more like Janelle
Some are more individual in outlook. Some are more corporate Body of Christ
Some are more faith and here and now, some are more glorious Hope of our Calling
Well I've got some good news.Whatever you currently are becomes irrelevant in the 3rd level.
Why. Because as Paul says in Corinthians they were immature, saying we are of such and such a ministry. In the 3rd level we get the LOT. Everything we are now missing.
Evangelicals who currently get the exchanged life thing, the "I am dead with Christ thing" but have no clue about moving in the Spirit....Guess what!!! they're going to get particularly soaked!!!
Charismatic Christians, who love the gifts of the Spirit, but who haven't the first clue about living a normal every day life in God...guess what.......they're going to carry their giftings and anointings right into family life, creative life, work life, educational life....and God's going to especially bless them at that, because now everyone is laughing at them.
The 3rd level is the 2nd prophesying. How do I work that out?
Well in the first level the Body of Christ as lived out corporately was impossible.
It's the release of the Holy Spirit. The baptism in the Holy Spirit that makes Body life a reality.
This is represented by the Holy Place and the Holiest Place. The outer courts was about us cutting covenant as individuals. The Holy Place and Holiest Place is about corporate life.
Particularly in the 70s the first prophesying was taking place as described by Maurice Smith's prophecy.
Now I believe is the time for the 2nd prophesying. The rattling was about assembling everything together. It was never meant to look good folks. It's a skeleton!!! Actually the Bible says skin and tendons came on it. But it was still a dead body.
Have you noticed the world has not been attracted by us so far!
Do you think there may be possibly another stage!!!!
Well that's what the 2nd prophesying is for!
This is the gist of Alan's word...but he didn't add the 3rd level bits.
So I believe that the 70s impartations were real. The visions were real in the same way that the Bible passages are real. But at that stage we did not have the Holy Spirit technology.
Our vision was a vaguely warmed up version of the church life as we knew it back then.
But the Way of God is a heart thing. David was the prototype of this.
Psalm 84:5 How blessed is the man whose (H)strength is in You, In whose heart are the (I)highways to Zion!
Later it is still my intention to do a summary on my thoughts about ministry, as affected by the revelation that a mature level, a third level, a father level as experienced by the Early church fathers, does exist. And it affects every single aspect of
1 the way we do church and
2 the way we do or don't do seminaries.
You don't getPsalm 84 " the strength" or "the internal heart highway" to Zion in a seminary.
You don't get it necessarily in a Morris Cerullo school of ministry or Youth with a Mission training centre. Perhaps you get an earnest...or a downpayment....
Jesus knew how to bring forth ministries by the power of His Word, all while they were sharing in ministry with Him. How cool is that? Maybe Rob Rufus is on the way to this. Maybe Peter Stott is also.
More on this later............
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Chris's Pre Blog in Dan's Vaults(Now with Links)
These are the dates and times and a summary of the subjects coveredin the comments sections buried below Dan's main subject posts in
Life On Wings between February and August 2008 prior to
commencing this blog.They are listed either under chris or 07000intune. Hope it's a resource.....
| 03/02/2008 10:18 | True leaders as taxi drivers to the throne |
| 06/02/2008 08:15 | A clear example of how we are spirit soul and body |
| 10/03/2008 21:20 | The Cry of desperation opens doors for servants of the Lord. |
| 31/03/2008 19:25 | The two watchmen references in Song of Solomon. How I first discovered about 3rd Level |
| Confusion of different voices and streams. Ern,Ruth Heflin,Ed Miller | |
| 04/04/2008 17:59 | Ern's photo not Dan's |
| 04/04/2008 21:55 | Chris's connections with Dunstable |
| 07/04/2008 21:37 | Wheels within wheels view of history. 1st important mention of how God still intends to |
| | carry out what Ern Baxter was preaching about in the 70s.Jesus speaks strongly to Martha |
| 11/04/2008 07:37 | Melchizedek order living.1st mention. 70s biography, Amersham and France |
| 1st real experience of 3rd Level power and anointing | |
| 24/04/2008 17:50 | Florida Outpouring Ist mention. Gutenberg Press |
| 28/04/2008 13:07 | Shaftsbury prophecy regarding Outpouring and England. Havant starts changing |
| 30/04/2008 10:30 | Holiest place and its different features from the Holy place. Important 1st mention |
| 05/05/2008 22:08 | 1st reference to Key of David. Southampton brother returns from Florida. |
| 10/05/2008 09:58 | George Warnock Ist mention.How Chris differs from Rob.Important post on: |
| The reality of the 3 growth stages. The different growth waves of the 20th Century | |
| 17/05/2008 06:17 | Global Outpouring here to stay. Bob Jones 1st mention |
| 11/05/2008 09:19 | Synchronicity as both I and Rob talk about the Prophetic fulfilment of Feast Of Tabernacles |
| How different ministries talk about different Holy of Holies aspects | |
| 11/05/2008 16:45 | Repro of letter to IMA and Zerubbabel attempting to introduce them to each other. |
| May? | The difficulties of dealing with Zerubbabel IMA etc"All servants of God are mine" |
| Ryan Rufus nutshell.Brett Burrowes and sarx - how Augustine steered us right off course | |
| 15/05/2008 00:05 | God meets us when we are real. |
| 15/05/2008 10:20 | Answering criticisms of Todd and rough style of ministry with example of Jesus |
| 15/05/2008 11:30 | The two conferences Eastbourne and Havant |
| 15/05/2008 12:31 | Chris only really able to operate in 3rd level type meetings. |
| Natural recurring patterns in our lives, unique to us. | |
| 15/05/2008 13:59 | Natural recurring patterns II |
| 15/05/2008 18:28 | Leader's wife's dream like Ryan's phrase. All of Him in all of me . |
| Whole document "Letter to the Charismatic Movement 1990" | |
| 21/05/2008 23:23 | Florida Outpouring and Feast of Tabernacles. Aeroplane before takeoff illustration - so IMPORTANT |
| 04/06/2008 23:32 | Michael Hammond on Cindy Jacobs meeting |
| 14/06/2008 | Jaqui on hospice work like Dan. Moving as One Person on Dan's blog - Juan Carlos Ortiz 1977 |
| explanation of 07000INTUNE | |
| 16/06/2008 00:45 | ms dos and Windows. Charlie Chaplin and the drawers.Bob Dylan, |
| Romans 7 and independent self 1st mention | |
| 16/06/2008 18:02 | Left-brain struggles. Testimony mid 70s. Maurice Smith - Glorious Church Prophetic Vision Highly recom- mended if you are unfamiliar. It is One of the prophetic wayposts. |
| 18/06/2008 00:02 | Difference between doctrines and getting in Christ's Presence. The effects of John 7 :17 "If a man's will |
| is to do the Will of the Father……… The speed at which spiritual downloads can happen. Chris' 80s testimony | |
| Deeper Yes's for each stage of growth. MS DOS and WINDOWS | |
| 21/06/2008 07:04 | Assessment of the Jesus Generation and the Kingdom. |
| Shall I do a blog? Synchronicity IS the Kingdom Way. Maurice Smith:20th Century Pilgrim Chapter 1 | |
| 21/06/2008 | The prophetic illustration of the Frigate propulsion burners and the igniter burners |
| 23/06/2008 19:03 | The ability to debate without mudslinging. More on 20th Century Pilgrim |
| 23/06/2008 22:44 | Ern Baxter:Covenant Love Message and Agape love feasts |
| 24/06/2008 07:34 | How discerning Christ in Schlink, Wurmbrandtand Ed Miller changed the course of my life |
| 29/06/2008 21:03 | Growing Impatience with evangelicalism. The joining of Word and Spirit |
| 03/07/2008 22:26 | If we used the same logic to dismiss the reality of the born again experience, that evangelicals use to dismiss us |
| 06/07/2008 21:36 | The last Days qualifications for the Kingdom….. Peter Stott and Genesis 24 may Conference message |
| 07/07/2008 14:34 | My water baptism testimony and hearing Polish |
| 08/07/2008 16:10 | Roy Field preaches.My book is on this blog! Pacing ministry.Misgivings with English ministries. Only Fathers can father. |
| 3 levels brief description. Bob Dylan mention. | |
| 08/07/2008 20:33 | The Apostle Paul using 3rd Level Intercession tools. 1st mention |
| 13/07/2008 18:06 | relating to Shawna about Body of Christ entering into 3rd Level phase.The same Jesus operating through |
| us as soon as we are saved… Florida Outpouring description testimony(Nicholas and Pam) | |
| 20/07/2008 23:38 | celebrate recovery - Derby. More on Florida. |
| 22/07/2008 13:20 | Running Churches in the Melchizedek order.How new physics is a pointer |
| 22/07/2008 22:22 | Further description of How God runs His Church by the Holy Spirit - recent history |
| 23/07/2008 16:55 | Warning to Todd Bentley not to be seduced to tone down. Isobel Chapman example |
| 24/07/2008 00:01 | my personal testimony and my views on a more correct view of MINISTRY TRAINING |
| 24/07/2008 13:56 | very special summing up by Don on our current position in the Body of Christ and maturity |
| 25/07/2008 19:42 | My uniqueness for 10minutes: Linking up various teachers that none have linked so far. |
| recommendation of Alphabet soup. Song of Songs gives us the pattern of how we grow. | |
| 26/07/2008 21:06 | God's Divine strategy through history: Give everyone little bits. Norman Grubbs potted lifestory |
| 27/07/2008 09:48 | Shawna and the Bomb. |
| 27/07/2008 21:57 | Havant Church changes. Discerning of spirits - an amazing tool |
| 28/07/2008 22:39 | How many more 2nd levellers have to fall through lack of knowledge of the existence of a 3rd level |
| God is at work to WILL…………….1 1st mention | |
| 29/07/2008 23:04 | Ryan Wyatt's preaching. What the Church will increasingly enjoy….comment on Mark Driscoll's messages |
| 30/07/2008 12:59 | Michael Hammond sends J.Matutis' Prophecy about an incredible explosion |
| 30/07/2008 17:56 | Some Jesus type descriptions He used when He was around 1st and 2nd level types |
| Stereo sound example. | |
| 07/08/2008 17:25 | Various Kadesh-Barnea moments in recent history when people refused to go forward and a door was |
| closed for decades.We have to Act on what we hear by faith. Abraham example of how he fluffed things. | |
| 08/08/2008 09:32 | What to tell your left-brain when it thinks it's so clever. |
| 09/08/2008 15:31 | The other side of the grace coin. A very important post which does not negate the grace message. |
| The Word as a suspended orb descriptive picture. | |
| 11/08/2008 17:23 | Would Jesus make the grade by contemporary seminary standards? |
| 12/08/2008 15:41 | Dan's explanation of Ministry gifting. Excellent. |
| 12/08/2008 19:13 | Shawna's testimony about her husband Brian's escapades |
| 12/08/2008 22:17 | ref www.exchanged life.org and how this message needs joining to the Baptism in the Spirit message |
| 13/08/2008 14:57 | Sheila's excellent reply and similar example to the orb picture |
| 13/08/2008 17:23 | Sheila defines true success and Kingdom Life |
| 14/08/2008 16:44 | Music that really blessed me at a time of transition Body of Christ get ready - IDENTITY plus FUNCTION for the first time in recent history Havant's first healing rain meeting |
| 14/08/2008 1:02 | LYDIA JOY's blog comments section: Don on NehemiahYou get one or the other, but the 3rd level is both. |
| Also excerpt from Norman's book Who am I : The Total Remedy | |
| 17/08/2008 19:09 | More than grace. The power of an Exchanged life. My 1980s testimony |
| 31/082008 10:57 | very important post defining what I feel is the truth concerning the Romans Chapters as opposed to |
| Ryan Rufus's explanation. | |
| 31/08/08 11:55 03/09/2008 14:02 | Lydia Joy on no indwelling sin. So what happened when the 3rd level message began to be pro- claimed in England in the 80s |
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Basil De Souza reports tonight on Orissa

I felt to pray prophetically that a whirlwind of prayer be stirred up in the Body of Christ worldwide,
to cover, to empower, to heal, to bless, the saints in the decimated region of Orissa. That, just as the Church rose up in revulsion at the murder of James in Acts, to pray for Peter who was imprisoned....in the same way a mighty whirlwind of prayer be stirred up all round the world to see a deliverance on a regional scale. Just as Peter's case was a test case for the Body of Christ...to stand up as one and resist the inevitable murder of Peter also, so may we stand up in the Spirit and through prayer effect a deliverance and mighty victory on behalf of a region. For what we are seeing is nothing less than a story from Acts, be it Jerusalem or Ephesus with Paul.
Here are the facts as I remember from what Basil was sharing.
India is experiencing a mighty growth of Christian faith.Many individuals are receiving supernatural visitations of God. Some are experiencing a healing anointing, praying for folk, then only weeks later asking Jesus into their heart. This is God out of the box. This is God pouring out His Spirit on all flesh. Messy. Not how we'd do it...but nevertheless God. Basil is from Mumbai, but has close links with the Christians in Orissa.
Basil has known anointing in a powerful way for years...but nothing like since Florida. He took a whole new level of anointing back with him to India. Whole swathes of people being zapped by the Spirit in huge numbers. One person was propelled backwards into the air as if levitated. He came back from Florida, whereby just gazing upon people, fire would come out of his eyes and people would be baptised in the Spirit, healed and delivered. So this was happening in his area but also Orissa.
Unofficially the conversion rate in India may now be as high as 10%. Certainly some 27% of the Orissa area are Christian. Now, like Ephesus, this area traditionally is inundated with temple trade. There are temples everywhere. With the huge increase in Christians this has affected the region's temple trade.
Since late summer, the Hindus have risen up and hordes of demonically inspired young men have been committing the worst crimes against the Christians. And in many cases right in front of the local police stations. The authorities have stood by and done nothing. Hundreds and thousands have evacuated as if overnight to try and find refuge in woods and forests , or local refugee camps.
Basil's experience is similar to the heaviness Jesus must have felt when John the Baptist was murdered. It was all just too much and Jesuus had to go away to pray.
DK, an apostolic figure in Basil's life, and one who has raised up great works in Orissa, just looks on bemused as the churches are all burnt and the members vanished. Their homes destroyed, and their crops harvested by the Hindu locals.
Tonight we managed to raise £2000 to send out with Basil. Seeing as no one was particularly prepared to give a special offering this was encouraging.
In addition a rare form of malaria has just taken and killed DK's beautiful 20 year old Christian daughter. He has also had to try and encourage pastors who have had their wives and offspring hacked to death in front of them. One girl tried to escape into a house to hide. They dragged her out, repeatedly raped her, then stripped her naked to walk unclothed in the streets. A fellow Hindu girl who was helping in a Christian orphanage was burnt to death by the mobs, too.The tremendous envy of the Christians by the Hindu locals also arises because the gospel and the changed lives have been producing a relative prosperity among the Christians.
An aid agency has conducted a fact finding report and heartily condemns the regional authorities.
They report on the appalling lack of food and shelter, and criticise India's Government for not taking action.
Despite all this, Basil had taken time to come over to the Christians in our area, holding leadership training among some in Southampton, and encouraging us with the might and power of the Lord, from various teachings of Paul in the latter chapters of Romans.
Truly an outstanding brother in the Lord.
I submit my prophetic prayer to any who feel this to be of God.
Sunday, 12 October 2008
Books and Messages that have helped me

Dan Bowen on Life On Wings will help out with many older books of note. Lydia Joy, Dan and Julie, list or frequently mention new books, some of which we are wading through also. Books by Bill Johnson, Mark Stibbe, Joseph Prince. This list I realise contains some teachings in specific areas, but largely they are testimonies of the growth of faith in a believer, or describe the growth of the Life of Christ in a believer. Some of them describe lives lived on the cutting edge of God's purposes.....truly the Melchizedek order. This is a list to dip into , and reference for some time to come....not to get a hemorrhage over.
There is a balance between"Those who do not read, can have little to think, and far less to say...." Jane Austin andmy Christian friend who hardly reads a single Christian book, she is too busy hearing and obeying Christ in the minutiae of daily living, showing hospitality to the Body of Christ.If books are out of print, you can usually find them on the UK or USA http://www.alibris.com/ sites.Where possible get them in the same country. Or you may be paying twice as much for postage as the book itself!
The Holy Spirit.....
Dennis and Rita Bennet The Holy Spirit and You - Shawna says it now comes with 9 0 clock in the morning
Don Basham - Face up with a Miracle
Benny Hinn - Good Morning Holy Spirit, The Anointing
Claudio Friedzon - Holy Spirit I am Hungry for you
The Fatherhood of God.......
Dennis and Rita Bennet The Holy Spirit and You - Shawna says it now comes with 9 0 clock in the morning
Don Basham - Face up with a Miracle
Benny Hinn - Good Morning Holy Spirit, The Anointing
Claudio Friedzon - Holy Spirit I am Hungry for you
The Fatherhood of God.......
Floyd McClung: The Father Heart of God
William P Young: The Shack
Mark Stibbe :Orphans and Heirs
William P Young: The Shack
Mark Stibbe :Orphans and Heirs
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Ruth Heflin : Revival Glory.
Ruth Heflin : Revival Glory.
George Warnock:The Feast of Tabernacles
Juan Carlos Ortiz : The Call to Discipleship. (pub.Logos) written with Jamie Buckingham, the latter by the way was another man who only came to world prominance and effectiveness after a dizzying crash in his pastoral ministry through adultery. This was the book that described what was happening with us young people in Amersham, after the school revival had waned. It wasn't a text book for us.....it rather helped explain this new way of the Spirit that we were already on.Cry of the Human Heart is a brilliant evocation of the true meaning of the New Covenant. It is the forerunner of the current revelation to do with the outworking of grace in the Body of Christ. Both books are so important.
Dr Larry Lea: "Could you not Tarry One Hour"? Messages on the Our Father prayer and in mid 90s was used to break open the whole area of Shame, such that he even earnt a parody on The Simpsons.
Books by Spurgeon. 12 specially produced book on Spurgeon's sermons recently given to Morris Cerullo partners. That by the way is how I got to receive many useful books during the period of my exile from 2nd leveldom in the late 80s and most of the 90s. These Spurgeon books such as "Spiritual Warfare in a Believers Life" come in two 6 part series: Believer's Life series and Life of Christ Series. They are available from Emerald Books. If not Christianbook.com does others
Juan Carlos Ortiz : The Call to Discipleship. (pub.Logos) written with Jamie Buckingham, the latter by the way was another man who only came to world prominance and effectiveness after a dizzying crash in his pastoral ministry through adultery. This was the book that described what was happening with us young people in Amersham, after the school revival had waned. It wasn't a text book for us.....it rather helped explain this new way of the Spirit that we were already on.Cry of the Human Heart is a brilliant evocation of the true meaning of the New Covenant. It is the forerunner of the current revelation to do with the outworking of grace in the Body of Christ. Both books are so important.
Dr Larry Lea: "Could you not Tarry One Hour"? Messages on the Our Father prayer and in mid 90s was used to break open the whole area of Shame, such that he even earnt a parody on The Simpsons.
Books by Spurgeon. 12 specially produced book on Spurgeon's sermons recently given to Morris Cerullo partners. That by the way is how I got to receive many useful books during the period of my exile from 2nd leveldom in the late 80s and most of the 90s. These Spurgeon books such as "Spiritual Warfare in a Believers Life" come in two 6 part series: Believer's Life series and Life of Christ Series. They are available from Emerald Books. If not Christianbook.com does others
George Mueller: The Life of George Mueller His amazing life of faith .Free downloadable mp3s.
Larry Christenson: The Renewed Mind...Using Romanas12:2 as a spring off point
Watchman Nee: Normal Christian Life(Probably only superceded by Norman's book Yes I am),Release of the Spirit,Song of Songs, Sit,Walk,Stand, What shall thisMan Do?
Graham Pulkingham : Gathered For Power. The testimony of Church of The Redeemer,Houston. (Or how God starts to invade denominational churches.) They Left Their Nets. (Testimonies - plus contains one of my alltime favorite poems by Martha Keys)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship. As you have experienced ,a difficult read but you will look back and it will grow increasingly precious.Praise and worship...see also Ruth Heflin
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship. As you have experienced ,a difficult read but you will look back and it will grow increasingly precious.Praise and worship...see also Ruth Heflin
Ed Miller: Thy God Reigneth, The Flaming Flame. (Testimonies of Argentina)
Judson Cornwall:Let us Praise Greatly influenced by Ed Miller. Took my German friend Martin Franke around with him for a month in 1976. The real deal. See also a superb study on true faith, written in response to American 80s TV faith ...well the worse kind : Unfeigned Faith
Merlin Carruthers Praise series. Especially - Prison to Praise.
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Heaven and the Glory - People who have been there. The great thing about these testimonies is, like the gospels themselves, they are different enough to know they are not cloned, that they contain new information, but they tally enough with all the rest...and some contain such striking similarities...while all bear out the scriptures on heaven in our Bibles.Here's looking forward to what's in store Kings kids!!!!
Percy Collett: I walked in heaven with Jesus. 12 cassette series of a 3 day trip to heaven by an American missionary to South American indiginous peoples. Had prayed for decades to be able to see heaven (In my possession - pressed into my hands at Martin Franke's wedding by a little South Korean lady, who said she had prayed who to give this to.)
Roberts Liardon: We saw Heaven. Also 2 other extremely important items. Liardon's God's Generals series, which Jesus specifically commissioned him to complete when he went to heaven. Also Smith Wigglesworth : His Complete Life and Teachings.......a collection in the same vein as the John G Lake book.
Jesse Duplantis: Close Encounters of The God Kind 2 DVD set. Again an amazing testimony.
Ian Mc Cormack A Glimpse of Eternity - free download. You may want to donate a gift to his work
Judson Cornwall:Let us Praise Greatly influenced by Ed Miller. Took my German friend Martin Franke around with him for a month in 1976. The real deal. See also a superb study on true faith, written in response to American 80s TV faith ...well the worse kind : Unfeigned Faith
Merlin Carruthers Praise series. Especially - Prison to Praise.
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Heaven and the Glory - People who have been there. The great thing about these testimonies is, like the gospels themselves, they are different enough to know they are not cloned, that they contain new information, but they tally enough with all the rest...and some contain such striking similarities...while all bear out the scriptures on heaven in our Bibles.Here's looking forward to what's in store Kings kids!!!!
Percy Collett: I walked in heaven with Jesus. 12 cassette series of a 3 day trip to heaven by an American missionary to South American indiginous peoples. Had prayed for decades to be able to see heaven (In my possession - pressed into my hands at Martin Franke's wedding by a little South Korean lady, who said she had prayed who to give this to.)
Roberts Liardon: We saw Heaven. Also 2 other extremely important items. Liardon's God's Generals series, which Jesus specifically commissioned him to complete when he went to heaven. Also Smith Wigglesworth : His Complete Life and Teachings.......a collection in the same vein as the John G Lake book.
Jesse Duplantis: Close Encounters of The God Kind 2 DVD set. Again an amazing testimony.
Ian Mc Cormack A Glimpse of Eternity - free download. You may want to donate a gift to his work
Don Piper: 90 minutes in Heaven ISBN 1 84291 227 5Angels.....Charles and Frances Hunter : Angels on Assignment
HA Baker (Roland Baker's grandad) Visions Beyond The Veil
Terry Law :The Truth About Angels
Mother Basilea Schlink : Realities. (Describes Life on their Canaan Community - everything from walking in the Light together to how God blesses the very fruit and produce of the land)Repentance - The Joy - Filled Life, ( I'd now describe this as the secrets of living a life not hooked into the Devil, but hooked into Christ full-time), Those Who Love Him - (will inspire love for Jesus), Lo He Comes (an example of an earlier book heralding the sort of signs that indicate Jesus' soon Coming) She was Lutheran. Very Lutheran in style. Very very Lutheran! Be warned. But if you are listening in the Spirit you'll catch the heartbeat of God...and many of the Kingdom tricks that make Jesus life work in our lives, and in our Christian communities.
Mother Theresa : Transforming Love . An amazing and hard-hitting book which will show how a 3rd leveller goes into operation. In her case she spent some 40 years being established in her identity in Christ before she received her full call to go to India's slums. Great for Protestants to get their heads round. This is someone who takes the Eucharist in faith. She experiences the Presence of Christ in the Bread and the wine...in the same way that say, many experience the reality of the Holy Spirit's anointing going through a Fire Tunnel. You see once we've got the Realities of Jesus...Prots can start really communicating with Catholics...and if they still don't like us....well...it's not because we're not oozing Jesus....which let's face it ...is probably the main reason why the Northern Irish were beating each other up...in Jesus Name, by the way!!!
Jorge Pradas : Congregados Para Darle Gloria Spanish PDF download . Free. Use Google Alta vista to translate it...badly....or perhaps you speak Spanish. Apostle of the Vision of Living and worshipping as the Body of Christ...and being transformed in a step process into the image of Christ corporately. The vision was correct. Just needed a few 3rd level extras!!! Which we've now got hold of!!! His life message was also "Unity In the Body of Christ" mp3 Spanish message free download. You can hear his spirit of gentleness and firmness...even if you can't get the Spanish!!! I have very little time for 2nd level tunnel vision. Especially when I've had my spirit ripped open by the extremes of the Kingdom as expressed in this book and message list. The Corinthians had tunnel vision and Paul writes to them in a similar vein to Jorge's burden here.
Lee Strobel : The Case for Faith. The Case For A Creator. The Case For Christ. 3 books by this ex-legal journalist. Really absorbing fact-filled books....also introducing you to some of the main Christian intellects around the world today.
Sadhu Sundar Singh: A converted Sikh Sundar, wise holy man. His extraordinary story, his visions
Grant Jeffrey: Is a very prolific author providing much information on how the world is getting ever nearer to fulfilling the very prophecies they scorn and laugh about. Covers a whole variety of topics such as Jewish background, Prophetic fulfilment, how the Jews want to rebuild the Temple, even practical Christian issues of how to manage finance. Probably have received over 10 quite lengthy tomes through Morris Cerullo. Good to be informed on what secular media never tell you.
Bill Cooper: After The Flood. Tries to explore some of Biblical history outside of the territories delineated by the Bible itself. Why are so many of the geographical names derived from Hebrew names? How Israeli artefacts have turned up even in Japan. Some of England's pre Roman history. In a word, don't let the secularists snatch all the real details just cos it doesn't fit their worldview. Let's try and tease out real history.
Bert Ghezzi: The Angry Christian . Ann Arbor Michigan was the epicentre of Catholic Charismatic Renewal and produced some fine Bible teachers and worship music. Bert Ghezzi goes into this thorny area of the different ways unprocessed anger can seep out of a Christian's life, souring all those in his/her immediate environment. Often the Christian is absolutely blind to it. Probably similar to Griff Rees Jones' recent TV Programme. I had a baptism into this subject with the many related anger verses mentioned in Proverbs.
Colin Whitaker Rheinhard Bonnke: A Passion For the Gospel. One of the best biographies of the fellow-countryman the German's ignored for many years as he started to storm through Africa. Lessons in boldness! Like Morris Cerullo.
Maurice Smith - in particular..."20th Century Pilgrim". Why. Because although 5-5-55 and Amazing Grace detail his initial revelation of the Grace of God, this latter takes him further through a virtual breakdown, which was hugely worrying to many other key leaders in the UK, into an understanding of what I call the 3rd Level which Norman describes. I believe this is a fuller more accurate revelation than his previous writings which only went so far. I am biased because I experienced a similar breakdown in my more sheltered context. I was never a high profile conference speaker!!! Actually no kind of speaker at all.
Norman Grubb : Yes I am, (The most complete of all his books studying how Christ's life works in a believer ) CT Studd(How a top cricketer is turned into a fiery missionary), Rees Howells Intercessor, (Indepth biography describing God's training steps for a mighty national intercessor. I would call this 3rd Level Intercession. More on this later.)
HA Baker (Roland Baker's grandad) Visions Beyond The Veil
Terry Law :The Truth About Angels
Mother Basilea Schlink : Realities. (Describes Life on their Canaan Community - everything from walking in the Light together to how God blesses the very fruit and produce of the land)Repentance - The Joy - Filled Life, ( I'd now describe this as the secrets of living a life not hooked into the Devil, but hooked into Christ full-time), Those Who Love Him - (will inspire love for Jesus), Lo He Comes (an example of an earlier book heralding the sort of signs that indicate Jesus' soon Coming) She was Lutheran. Very Lutheran in style. Very very Lutheran! Be warned. But if you are listening in the Spirit you'll catch the heartbeat of God...and many of the Kingdom tricks that make Jesus life work in our lives, and in our Christian communities.
Mother Theresa : Transforming Love . An amazing and hard-hitting book which will show how a 3rd leveller goes into operation. In her case she spent some 40 years being established in her identity in Christ before she received her full call to go to India's slums. Great for Protestants to get their heads round. This is someone who takes the Eucharist in faith. She experiences the Presence of Christ in the Bread and the wine...in the same way that say, many experience the reality of the Holy Spirit's anointing going through a Fire Tunnel. You see once we've got the Realities of Jesus...Prots can start really communicating with Catholics...and if they still don't like us....well...it's not because we're not oozing Jesus....which let's face it ...is probably the main reason why the Northern Irish were beating each other up...in Jesus Name, by the way!!!
Jorge Pradas : Congregados Para Darle Gloria Spanish PDF download . Free. Use Google Alta vista to translate it...badly....or perhaps you speak Spanish. Apostle of the Vision of Living and worshipping as the Body of Christ...and being transformed in a step process into the image of Christ corporately. The vision was correct. Just needed a few 3rd level extras!!! Which we've now got hold of!!! His life message was also "Unity In the Body of Christ" mp3 Spanish message free download. You can hear his spirit of gentleness and firmness...even if you can't get the Spanish!!! I have very little time for 2nd level tunnel vision. Especially when I've had my spirit ripped open by the extremes of the Kingdom as expressed in this book and message list. The Corinthians had tunnel vision and Paul writes to them in a similar vein to Jorge's burden here.
Lee Strobel : The Case for Faith. The Case For A Creator. The Case For Christ. 3 books by this ex-legal journalist. Really absorbing fact-filled books....also introducing you to some of the main Christian intellects around the world today.
Sadhu Sundar Singh: A converted Sikh Sundar, wise holy man. His extraordinary story, his visions
Grant Jeffrey: Is a very prolific author providing much information on how the world is getting ever nearer to fulfilling the very prophecies they scorn and laugh about. Covers a whole variety of topics such as Jewish background, Prophetic fulfilment, how the Jews want to rebuild the Temple, even practical Christian issues of how to manage finance. Probably have received over 10 quite lengthy tomes through Morris Cerullo. Good to be informed on what secular media never tell you.
Bill Cooper: After The Flood. Tries to explore some of Biblical history outside of the territories delineated by the Bible itself. Why are so many of the geographical names derived from Hebrew names? How Israeli artefacts have turned up even in Japan. Some of England's pre Roman history. In a word, don't let the secularists snatch all the real details just cos it doesn't fit their worldview. Let's try and tease out real history.
Bert Ghezzi: The Angry Christian . Ann Arbor Michigan was the epicentre of Catholic Charismatic Renewal and produced some fine Bible teachers and worship music. Bert Ghezzi goes into this thorny area of the different ways unprocessed anger can seep out of a Christian's life, souring all those in his/her immediate environment. Often the Christian is absolutely blind to it. Probably similar to Griff Rees Jones' recent TV Programme. I had a baptism into this subject with the many related anger verses mentioned in Proverbs.
Colin Whitaker Rheinhard Bonnke: A Passion For the Gospel. One of the best biographies of the fellow-countryman the German's ignored for many years as he started to storm through Africa. Lessons in boldness! Like Morris Cerullo.
Maurice Smith - in particular..."20th Century Pilgrim". Why. Because although 5-5-55 and Amazing Grace detail his initial revelation of the Grace of God, this latter takes him further through a virtual breakdown, which was hugely worrying to many other key leaders in the UK, into an understanding of what I call the 3rd Level which Norman describes. I believe this is a fuller more accurate revelation than his previous writings which only went so far. I am biased because I experienced a similar breakdown in my more sheltered context. I was never a high profile conference speaker!!! Actually no kind of speaker at all.
Norman Grubb : Yes I am, (The most complete of all his books studying how Christ's life works in a believer ) CT Studd(How a top cricketer is turned into a fiery missionary), Rees Howells Intercessor, (Indepth biography describing God's training steps for a mighty national intercessor. I would call this 3rd Level Intercession. More on this later.)
Gene Edwards: writes on historical figures who have ploughed the furrow of the depths of Jesus Christ. Also the vision of Body Life,how the Church functions or doesn't....then also several novels on Bible events. Christian Classics Transcribed:100 Days in the Secret Place featuring Guyon ,Molinos and Fenelon, Practicing the Presence of God Brother Lawrence and Laubach in one volume by Edwards publishing name Christian Books,Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ (Teachings of Madame Guyon); Three Kings - had me in tears, about Saul,David and Absolom , Divine Romance (The Whole Bible as love story) , Our Mission - how to handle splits and disagreements in the Body.
Ern Baxter: Study Books :The Beginnings of Christian Life. The Beginnings of Church Life.His greatest influence on me has been his messages.
Dan's the man to sort you out on these. see also New Wine articles/ many other things.Key Messages
1975 series "The King and His army" On Saul and David.
"Going Into The Land "series on the people in the Wilderness.
Dales 1976.
"Thy Kingdom Come " Kansas City Shepherd's Conference 1975. Door opening Word on how the Church does the stuff now...not relegating everything to Jesus some time in the future.
"Jonathan and David" - Covenant Love - a vision for how we now should live in the Body of Christ. 1976 Capel Bible Week. Devastatingly moving. You will never live the same again.
Richard Wurmbrandt: "Christ on the Jewish Road" (restores the Jewish content in Jesus story )"Tortured for Christ" "Marx and Satan"0-89107-379-5 This latter book gives lots of background details that are hardly known, and together with the secular book on Mao by Jung Chang and others by Solzhenitsyn will help fill you in on how evil this spirit of so called "secular independence" that we hooked into in Genesis 3:5 really is when allowed free reign, manifesting in the form here of Communism. All this info should serve to wake you up to what according to The Book of Revelation., is around the corner, in the battle to see God's reign come to Earth. I lived in a second level Christian Community. Second levellers are not defined on who they are. They slide in and out of Christ dangerously. Like Peter, they will stab you in the back without thinking about it....until Christ has pinned them down and prepared them for 3rd Level living. Paul's decription of the Corinthians captures 2nd levellers perfectly. Unbroken saints in community together can be at times nearly as bad as any socialist/communist state... or maybe in extremis worse. Unfortunately we have to pass through the 2nd level to fully understand our need for the 3rd Level, and Christ's free and flowing grace.
Brother Andrew: "God's Smuggler", and "Light Force". It's not just what he is doing. It is about who he is, who God has made him. Hears God and gets on with it.Often a decade ahead of the general Body of Christ. Light Force is about his 90s Muslim work. If the Body had listened to him, if USA had listened to him, it is unlikely 7/11 could have happened in the way it did.
John G Lake : "His Life, His Ministry and Sermons" A collection of writings and sermon transcriptions. This man was a pioneer on every level. An apostolic breakthrough ministry in South Africa, then after returning to USA and to Spokane, Washington, is on record for making this town the healthiest in the nation...as a national statistic. He started sketching out many spiritual and Biblical principles which describe life in the Spirit....principles we are building on and seeking to fill out in many of today's writings and messages, including Bill Johnson and RobRufus.
Steve Lightle: "Exodus II". Life and ministry in the Melchizedek order.Probably the true value of this book will only be seen in the difficult years ahead.
Arthur Blessitt: "Turned onto Jesus". Evangelist to the Jesus People. This is a testimony book of these times...but important because He too had a real encounter one night with Jesus Himself.Preached in Trafalgar Square to us all in Summer 1972 at London Festival For Jesus.
Graham Cooke: Develop Your Prophetic Gifting
Sentinel Group Transformations I and II DVDs. Check for your area whether to order PAL or NTSC. If you've not seen these examples of how whole areas and regions can be released by the power of the gospel. Should be seen by every UK Town Council before planning anything.
Fasting and Intercession.....
Arthur Wallis God's Chosen Fast. Perhaps THE classic on this.
Derek Prince: Shaping history through Prayer and Fasting
Cindy Jacobs:Possessing The Gates of The Enemy. A training manual for Militant Intercession. I think this book is a great 2nd level book....but bet you anything you like it will all be revisited at a deeper level as the 3rd Level breaks out.
Lydia Prince: Appointment in Jerusalem Third Level intercession fore runner in the same vein as Rees Howells see Norman Grubb.
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Morris Cerullo : Just about any book is worth reading. A Fore runner general in the Body of Christ. I have supported him and his operations with thousands of pounds over the years. He is both the best of what there is, but alternately drives me nuts as well. Has brought a lot of stuff /paraphernalia from his conversion time (1950s America) with him to the present day. The closest I have seen him to the 3rd level message in print was (absolutely surprisingly for its subject) a recent booklet on Generational Curses. In general has great revelation on 60 whole years of subjects including for example "God's Covenant Anointing". "You can know How to Defeat Satan" Life testimony book "Son Build Me an Army". Has absolutely awesome authority in Christ, but probably needs a few other 3rd Levellers to tell him some truths. Probably surrounded by too many that are overawed by him. Americans are very pragmatic. I am called such and such. I have a ministry. Therefore my ministry is called "Kenneth Copeland Ministries, or Morris Cerullo Ministries, or Kenneth Hagin Ministries. They haven't a clue how offensive that is to the rest of the world....saints such as Mel Tari of the Indonesian Revival. Best things you can learn from reading Morris and watching him move: how revelation is an advanced burst of supernatural knowledge. He runs all his meetings and big operations on this principle. His God is a big God, so he expects the projects he undertakes to be on an absolutely massive scale. Has operated like this for 60 years!!!! His sons in the faith are legion and work on similarly massive scales.
Mel Tari : Like a Mighty Wind, and Gentle Breeze of Jesus. 2 books by this gentle forerunner ministry with the vision of the Body of Christ on the outbreak in the 60s in Indonesia.
John Rea: Mel's father in law. Great and exhaustive learned tome on "The Holy Spirit". American Professor does Holy Spirit studies. My Dad liked it when nothing else was learned enough. Very similar to Dr Heribert Muhlen's effect on Germany in the Paderborn seminary when I was with Martin Franke in Paderborn in 1977.
Bob and Rose Weiner studies. 1980s.Quick way to learn about Jewish subjects and end-time revelation in the Bible from a Holy Spirit perspective. Had to tone down their message for 20 years to wait for America to catch up. But contains a lot of 3rd Level details way ahead of time.Haven't wasted their interim years though, moving at very high levels with Harvard students and mobilising Christian political activism. Studies include: Overcoming Life parts 1 and 2. Bible Studies for the Preparation of the Bride - a study of the Song of Solomon.
Yonghi Cho -"The Fourth Dimension". And "Prayer:Key to Revival" The former is an attempt to describe through biographical testimony the actual practics of how faith works. This marries up with details in Norman Grubb's books about the use of faith, and the training that Rees Howells underwent. The annoying thing to an artist is it can seem a bit deluded in its conceit. Though if you read the terrible things that Cho experienced en route....you can see his way through to the Tree of Life was very much through the double-edged swords of the angels guarding nearby.(Genesis reference). Probably needs a bit of balancing with Judson Cornwall's book "Unfeigned Faith"
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Brad Jersak Can You Hear Me (developing listening prayer) Kissing the Leper (seeing jesus in the least of these. Both excellent. see blog Links section
Brad Jersak Can You Hear Me (developing listening prayer) Kissing the Leper (seeing jesus in the least of these. Both excellent. see blog Links section
Corrie Ten Boom The Hiding Place. Her wartime autobiography in a labour camp. Tramp For the Lord. Amazing Love. Was truly an apostle of Love.
Jessie Penn Lewis War on the Saints free. Awakening in Wales.(1906 revival) . Thy Hidden Ones (Song of Songs...influenced Watchman Nee's book) Life in the Spirit (Ephesians)
Israel......Basilea Schlink - Israel My Chosen People
Neal W May - A Biblical Tour of The Holy Land
Michele Guiness - A Child of the Covenant
Muslim subjects..........
Don Richardson - Secrets of The Koran
Bilquis Sheikh I dared to call Him Father
Doctrinal Struggles.....................
Using the example of predestination v freewill in this case, but could be anything.
The sort of destruction it can cause:
Roy Hattersley:A Brand from the Burning - The Life of John Wesley, and containing the struggles with Whitfield.
Roger T Forster and V Paul Marston - God's Strategy in Human History. More of an Armenian balance to the Calvinist tendency of Freezing solid into a Que Sera Sera attitude to the Church moving forward.
The Blood Of Jesus and Truths about what Covenant is........
Benny Hinn Power in the Blood
Andrew Murray The Power of the Blood of Jesus. (See all his other books too)
Kenneth Copeland The Blood Covenant
Copeland is half Cherokee and understands the old covenant rituals of blood covenant, which reflects on the absolute binding nature of Christ's Covenant. The CD message. If you can ever get to see the old 80s DVD message....you will be marked for life!!!!
Israel......Basilea Schlink - Israel My Chosen People
Neal W May - A Biblical Tour of The Holy Land
Michele Guiness - A Child of the Covenant
Muslim subjects..........
Don Richardson - Secrets of The Koran
Bilquis Sheikh I dared to call Him Father
Doctrinal Struggles.....................
Using the example of predestination v freewill in this case, but could be anything.
The sort of destruction it can cause:
Roy Hattersley:A Brand from the Burning - The Life of John Wesley, and containing the struggles with Whitfield.
Roger T Forster and V Paul Marston - God's Strategy in Human History. More of an Armenian balance to the Calvinist tendency of Freezing solid into a Que Sera Sera attitude to the Church moving forward.
The Blood Of Jesus and Truths about what Covenant is........
Benny Hinn Power in the Blood
Andrew Murray The Power of the Blood of Jesus. (See all his other books too)
Kenneth Copeland The Blood Covenant
Copeland is half Cherokee and understands the old covenant rituals of blood covenant, which reflects on the absolute binding nature of Christ's Covenant. The CD message. If you can ever get to see the old 80s DVD message....you will be marked for life!!!!
Two books on the secular shelves.............
M.Scott Peck The Different Drum . The one on everyone's shelves is "The Road Less Travelled". This guy is a respected Christian psychologist counsellor. But this book again helped shape my understanding of how we grow internally as we get older. The sort of transformations that we go through in our different growth stages, which help again re-define the growth stages listed in 1 John 2:12ff.
Jeffrey Satinover - The Truth Behind The Bible Code.0-283-06335-1 Grant Jeffrey also covered this subject, to do with the way that God seems to underline the inspiration of the Bible in the very warp and woof of its internal structure. Kaas is even more sceptical in his approach than Jeffrey....but at the time of writing he had become at least a believing Jew, and was noting how scores of high level Jewish mathematicians the world over have been converting back to Judaism or Messianic faith and were becoming increasingly excited by the mathematics in the scriptures. EW Bullinger, a Unitarian, and Bible Scholar has also researched scriptures along similar mathematical lines...as well as doing a treatise on the Gospel themes as written in the stars....basically God knew how the universe would look from our little old planet, so allowed constellation shapes to declare pictures of His Truth....like the Water Pourer for example. Jesus pouring out the Holy Spirit.
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