Jesus is the complete DNA

Jesus is the complete DNA of an unfolding revelation that involves you and me.

The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.Rev 19:10

As we speak and share this DNA of the Son, the Spirit of prophecy takes over to unravel the code and say "what we're building today is...."

This is how it works in each of our cells

and it is how it works in the Spirit.

In meetings when a whole Body is doing this it is the most awesome thing, that is humanly impossible.

God loves meetings that are humanly impossible.

Key of David meetings work this way.

But otherwise,whenever we meet as 2 or 3 and our hearts burn within us, the same is occurring.

A Recent History of Psalm 24 - Part Five: The Movie

Music track excerpt by Jake Shimbakuro. I bought his mp3 album at emusic. "Gently weeps". This track is "Beyond the Break". He redefines Ukelele.

Christ Planted in Death by Daniel Yordy

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From: Daniel Yordy October 3, 2010

Note:
This is the seventh letter of a series I am writing entitled "The Unveiling of Jesus Christ." This series is the third of three in which I hope, somehow, to impart a measure of my present understanding of The Great Story of God.

I do not have the time today to place this article on my website or to create a PDF version of it. I will do that, hopefully next time I send an article.






Christ Planted in Death




The cross stands front and center in the fulfillment of the word God speaks - the unveiling of Jesus Christ. But we have never understood the cross. Our past understanding of the cross, whatever it might have been, was sufficient for God to draw us onward to Himself. The cross is absolute and it does its work for God whether we comprehend it or not. In other words, God is able to fulfill the purpose of the cross in our lives even if our understanding of the cross is limited or even incorrect.




But we are in an exciting time in the fulfillment of all that God speaks and as a result the lights are turning on. We are seeing, still dimly, yes, still through a glass darkly, but our realization of what we are looking at grows daily. We continue to be astonished and amazed at the profound depths of what both the cross and the resurrection of Jesus Christ mean inside of us.




And so I write, not because I know what I'm talking about, but because writing helps me to see more clearly. By writing, I discover wonderful things about what God actually says. So I write for myself in a sense, and it is my joy to share my ramblings with you.




But rather than the cross, per se, I want to know what God actually says, and what He means by what He says, when He talks about this thing called "death."





"You just need to die, brother," was offered to me as God's solution through many years of difficult and trying circumstances. I never had any idea what they were talking about. I did not know how to die, nor that anyone ever could "die," as they said. It made no sense to me. I believed it, yes, because I thought God said something along those lines. The problem was I would always wake up the next morning, and it was still me getting out of bed.




In a letter awhile back, I was talking about God speaking to me, and I received a reply stating, "I've got news for you, brother, you're a dead man walking." He meant, I assume, that since I am "dead" in Christ, there is no point in my talking about God doing this or that with me, since "I" was no longer around. But all this is just confusing nonsense. People throw these words around because it makes them feel religious. That's okay; Jesus inside of us takes care of all our mess.





[More than that, I just watched briefly a portion of "The Green Mile" with Tom Hanks. A convicted murderer was being led into the prison in chains while the guard escorting him was declaring loudly, "Here is a dead man walking." Christians who repeat these things are living under darkness. I am NOT an accused going to my execution. My God, that is the very opposite of the gospel! My death is behind me, on the cross two thousand years ago, and I - I am alive, born again, and looking towards a future of ever increasing glory and wonder.]



[Also - I am not contradicting the wonderful truth that we must discover - that we are truly dead, already. And that we do not need ever again to worry about ourselves. There is a plumb line dividing truth from error, even when they are worded almost exactly the same.]





The Greek word, "thanatos," in all of its forms, is found 132 times in the New Testament. It is always translated "death" in one of its forms (deadly, put to death, etc.).




But it is normal in human language for one word to have many different definitions. From one generation to the next, new definitions are tacked onto a particular word and older definitions fall into disuse. Sometimes it's as if you are dealing with two different words that are just spelled and pronounced the same. Try the South is north of Cuba, but Cuba is south of the South.




The word in English with the largest number of different definitions, 150 and counting, is the word "run." A motor runs quietly, a road runs up the hill, a jogger runs down the street, a lady has a run in her nylons, a card player has a run of bad luck. And that's only five. If I translate a passage from English into another language about a motor running poorly, and I use the word in that language for a "run" in a pair of nylons, I bring only confusion to my readers.





Translating from one language to another is not a simple thing. There is no such thing as one Greek word always being translated into only one English word. Language just doesn't work like that, at all. (The transliterate Bible tries to do that out of an ignorance of human language.) Greek words are just as capable of having several completely different meanings as are English words, and there is no rational matching between the differing sets of meanings. As with all words, meaning can be obtained only from the context. What did the author mean by that word when he used it in that context in the general language of his generation?




The Greek word "thanatos" is translated into the English word "death," but it is clear from the contexts that the word "thanatos-death" has very different meanings in different verses. If we tried to give one definition only to the word "death" as it appears in the New Testament, we would only keep ourselves out of the truth God is speaking.




Let's start with a first meaning of "death." (First to look at.)




"And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience . . . But God, . . . even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ . . ." Ephesians 2:1-5




Notice we were "dead" in what we used "to live." The difference between "were dead" to "alive with Christ" is known clearly in experience by every believer in Jesus.




Here are several more meanings of "death" all tacked together into one passage. Notice that it is clear that the word "death" is being used to refer to some very different things.




"For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death (the expiring of the physical body + death to sin), certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died (this is the putting to death of our fallen human spirit, the old man, when we are born again) has been freed from sin. Now if we died (obviously not physical death here) with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more (both are clearly the physical death of the body). Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin (clearly not the death of the physical body (only), but rather, death to sin) once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead (the same death to sin, not physical death at all, nor the death of the old man) indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6: 5-11




So far, we have four completely different meanings for the word "death." The most obvious is the physical expiration of the human body - death. But then also it is a way of "life" that is, living by the anointing of the spirit of this world. It is also the ending of the fallen human spirit when we are born again. And finally, it is the nature of being "dead to sin," which is the nature in which we presently walk.




There are other meanings as well, though it is not the purpose of this present letter to expand on all the meanings of the word "death" as found in the New Testament. I want to point out one thing, however, before I get to Christ planted in death.




"Dead to sin" is the nature of God; it is another way to say "incorruptible." God by His nature is "dead to sin," that is, sin is irrelevant as far as God is concerned, He is neither drawn by it, nor does He regard it. I am "dead to sin" in exactly the same way. But the only way I am dead to sin is by the incorruptible nature of God in me by which I am born from above. No created being can be dead to sin, even the angels who have not fallen; it is a quality enjoyed only by God and those who are born of God.




My present human task is to "reckon," that is "put to my account," that is, "speak with all joy," that I am dead to sin, that is, that I possess the quality and nature of incorruptibility that belongs only to God because I am filled with God. This is a quality that we do not "see" with our natural eyes, but that we are commanded to confess by faith.




However, I want to focus in on, to see dimly, to set our eyes upon in some way by God's help, the most incredible definition of the word "death" that there is. We are looking, here, at something so holy, so profound, so incredibly God; we have never seen or known such a deep and overwhelmingly meaningful thing, nor has creation, nor all the realms of heaven.




"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain." John 12:24




This word is found in a context, yes, and that context has meaning. But we have never known what Jesus meant, here, and all explanation of the context in the past has only served to sidetrack us away from this incredible and profound revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ inside of us.




This use of the word "dies" here is entirely different from all other uses of the word "death." We know that a seed does not die in the normal sense of the word, that is, the life that is in it does not cease. If that happens there is no plant and no fruit. Rather, that seed takes upon itself the appearance of death by being "planted in the earth."




This death is not "death to sin," it is not physical death, it is not the old way of living, and it is not the cessation of the old fallen human spirit that used to govern our lives.




And it is not the death of the cross. Jesus was not referring to the instance and circumstances of April 14-17, AD 29 - the week leading up to the Passover and His physical death and resurrection.





It is something far different from all of those other definitions of "death"; it is something incredibly profound and holy. Yet it is also a "death." Jesus was referring to something that would begin on June 5, AD 29, something angels cannot see or comprehend, something for which men will attempt to put us to death, if they discover we believe it to be true.




On June 5, AD 29, the Lord Jesus Christ, the risen Savior, the glorious and triumphant King of heaven, became a mess. On June 5, the Day of Pentecost, the day the church was birthed out of His side, Jesus entered into the earth and was planted in death as a seed.




Jesus became you, and Jesus became me. The Lord Jesus Christ is all of our messiness.




But let's build some points of understanding before we come back to consider this most impossible to grasp truth of the purpose and determination of Almighty God.




First is a simple comprehension of the metaphor Jesus used. This is something we have all heard and understood to some degree. A seed is planted into the garden soil; beans grow well in my backyard, so let's call it a bean seed.




I plant a bean seed into the dirt. It sits there, alone and in the darkness. It is surrounded entirely by dirt. Then, water seeping through the dirt begins a slow work on the outer shell of that seed. It softens it and penetrates into the inner core.





Before going further, a seed has three parts. First, there is the germ in the core of the seed that contains the DNA of the plant that will grow and the many more seeds that it will produce. Then, surrounding that germ of life is a substance containing food for the new little plant during the time before it can produce its own food. Finally, surrounding the food and the germ of life is a hard shell that serves to protect the life that is in it.




The water softens that shell and penetrates it.




We are not talking, here, about the redemption of man. We are talking about the Lord Jesus Christ planted in the earth. He is the germ of life, He is the food, He is the outer shell. You and I provide the dirt, though we are more than the dirt. We are also the air towards which part of the little plant grows.





A seed can sprout without dirt, but it cannot survive long. Seeds are made for dirt.





The human frame in all of its weakness is 100% compatible to the Lord Jesus Christ. He "became" flesh, yet He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is Jesus human in His eternal existence with the Father? Is man created in the likeness of God?




So the germ of life inside the seed is also softened by the water which dissolves the elements inside of it, bringing oxygen to the molecules of the seed. The germ begins to grow, but it grows in two different directions, both at the same time. It grows down into the dirt, and it grows up towards the sky and the sun.




The plant looks nothing like the seed. It is not the same body!





When I look at the bean vine growing up the string, and the bean seed in my hand, they are not the same thing by almost any definition - except one. They share the same genetic code. All that the plant is in all of its form was inside that seed in pattern form, in genetic code, in a written language.




But that plant has two very large parts of equal size. It has the leaf half that grows in the heavens and draws into itself light from the sun and minerals from the air and is seen by those who walk in the heavens. And it has the root half that grows into the earth and draws into itself water and minerals from the earth and is seen by the denizens of the soil.




Both halves are part of the plant and both are essential to its life. In fact, the part of the plant that lives in the heavens is made up in part of stuff drawn from the earth. And the part of the plant that lives in the earth is made up in part of stuff drawn from the heavens. There is no dividing line. The roots in the earth are as much a part of the plant as the branches in the heavens.





However, the plant is an in-between state. It does not exist for itself. Yes, parts of it are eaten and bring life and blessing to others. And we eat both root and leaf from different plants. But the purpose of a plant is neither root nor leaf; its purpose is to produce many more bean seeds, identical in every way to that seed that was originally planted in the dirt.




And those new seeds are 100% of heaven, and they are 100% of earth.





Christ is the union of heaven and earth. Without the earth, there is no Christ. But the purpose of Christ being planted in our earth is to reproduce Himself in us.





Then, every single one of those brand new seeds is capable of being planted again in the earth, they are capable of growing up into a plant, just like the first plant that bore them, and they are capable of each producing from themselves many more bean seeds just like the original seed out of which they came.




The plant is the in-between state between seed and seeds.




In our lives and experience right now, Christ is in the form of the plant. The fullness of the new seed is shown to us in Revelation 12:5: "And the woman brought forth a male child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and her child was caught up to God and to His throne." We could just as easily say, "And the plant, the Lord Jesus Christ in us as us, brought forth many seeds that contain in themselves the life of the original seed, Christ, the One who reveals the Father, and the Gardener harvested the seeds and found them good for planting anew."




I want to bring in two other verses here. The first is found twice in Isaiah, this reference is in Chapter 59.




Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him
That there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no man,
And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.
17 For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
And was clad with zeal as a cloak.




And then, "For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." Romans 5:10




We are not saved by the death of Jesus on the cross. All Christians are reconciled to God through the sacrifice of Jesus (actually all men are.) But no Christian is yet saved. Salvation and redemption are two totally different things. Redemption puts Christ in us as a plant. Salvation is the fully mature seed harvested from the plant.




We are saved by His life inside of us. His life separate from me cannot save me. Jesus - back then, up there, some day - cannot save me. Christ in me is the only hope I have of knowing salvation, which is glory; that is, becoming all that God has appointed me to be.




So let's look back at the dilemma God faces in Isaiah.




Salvation is entirely beyond man. There is no man who is even inclined to seek after God. Even our redemption apart from His life in us doesn't change that reality.





Some Christians have the idea that we are "able" to keep some requirements of God that will satisfy Him. They have not yet faced their utter failure. They will never please God. They cannot. No matter how much devotion, how much dedication, how much obedience they are able to exhibit, they will still fail to measure up. They will not "make it." They may bluster and pretend that they don't know that and put on a good outward show, but deep in their hearts they know the truth. They do not and will never measure up.





So God said, "My own arm will bring salvation."




When Jesus prayed in Gethsemane, He was facing obedience to God's request that He Himself become that salvation. Jesus was not struggling over the outward physical events of the cross; neither was He sweating drops of blood over the issue of becoming the offering for sin for all mankind. He was struggling with the reality of becoming salvation. He was wrestling over the day of Pentecost.




Jesus was sweating it out over becoming His church, over being planted into the earth for 2000 years - and being raised again at the dawning of the third day.





When Jesus said, "Not My will, but Thine be done," He had yielded to the reality of spending the next two thousand years being all the foolishness and weakness, all the sinfulness and clamor, all the deceit and offense that is His church. He agreed to become you, and He agreed to become me.




Salvation can come no other way. We can be redeemed, yes. We can be reconciled to God, yes. We can even be happy in heaven, yes. But we can never be saved; we can never be what God created us to be, unless Jesus becomes us.




It is His life that saves us.




It is an amazing thing. We Christians find it easy to accept the idea that Jesus bore our sins in Himself upon the cross 2000 years ago. But we imagine the idea that Jesus becomes us right now in our present state of weakness to be heretical, blasphemous, and impossible to accept.




It is God's own arm inside of us that alone fulfills all salvation for us. We can work out only what God is (continuously) working in.






The death of Jesus upon the cross brought an end to everything in me that was not of God. My earth is of God. My humanity is of God. The plant of Christ growing up as me MUST draw from all of my humanity and it must draw from all of His divinity to be the plant that is Christ. But the whole purpose of that plant is to produce the new seed that is identical in every way to the original seed that was planted in my earth.




"We shall be just like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."




"We are just like Him, for we see Him as He is.




The whole purpose of Christ in us and as us is the unveiling of Jesus Christ; it is the birthing of the manchild; it is the manifestation of the sons of God.




"Then Jesus said to them, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.'" John 6: 53-57




I, me, Daniel Yordy, I am His flesh. Paul said that I am in Ephesians chapter 5. No one can rob me of that most precious of truths.





I began to write these letters immediately after God showed me that I am not separate from the Lord Jesus Christ, that I am fully swallowed up in full union with Him. Before that time, I did not know what Jesus meant by these words, since that time I do. To look at every part of myself, of my humanity, of my weakness, of my earthiness, and to know that it is Jesus is to eat of His flesh; it is to drink of His blood. He is so close, this One upon whose breast I lean my head. For the first time in my life, I have no "self" to concern myself with. Every time I "feel" human and earthy, I am He. Every time I "feel" divine and heavenly, I am He. And I am both at the same time all the time regardless of what I "feel."



To eat His flesh and to drink His blood is to know Him in an intimacy and fellowship and closeness that knows no shadow of separation between Him and me.





But when Jesus said, "And I will raise him up at the last day," He was referring to a plant bearing seed. He was talking about the unveiling of Jesus Christ, the birthing of the manchild, the manifestation of the sons of God.




This is the only way it can be done. You and I will never be what we are right now before God, except that Christ Jesus is our life. To say, "I am what You are," is the purest surrender to God I have ever known. I have never known cleanness as I know it now. I have never tasted an intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ in the way that I taste it now. And I have only begun to know Him.




There are those who would suggest that knowing Christ is to know only that which is heavenly. This cannot be true. Christ is as human as He is divine. The plant draws itself out of the earth as much as it draws itself out of the heavens. There is not one moment of my life on this earth, not one event, not one circumstance, not one element of my humanity, not one pain, not one suffering, not one tear, that is not holy and eternal, that is not the revelation of Christ in me in this earth.




There are those who would say, "Forget about the past." In the sense of forgetting about that which was wrong thinking, yes. But I will never forget one moment of my life, not in a million years. All of it is Christ and every moment of His revelation within my humanity is precious to me. If this is not true, then God is a jokester, there is no purpose for any part of life on this earth; He's playing games with us.





But we know that He is not.




And I would see Christ in every circumstance, in every painful moment, in every tear, in every dark and lonely place through which I have walked. All of it is Christ, all the earthiness, all the humanity, all the weakness! And inside of all of that is all that is heavenly, the perfect union of heaven and earth.




And when I see Christ in ME, I, in all my broken heartedness, am healed. It is He alone who has wounded me, and He is all of my healing. I magnify my Lord; with all of my heart I magnify Him in every moment of my life.





Christ is planted in my earth. And Christ growing up in me is fully human and fully divine. Fully of earth and fully of heaven.





And by this means alone, God brings salvation to Himself by His own arm.




I am saved by His life.




I become that which I am.




I am the revelation, the unveiling, the apocalypse of Jesus Christ.




As the revelation of Jesus Christ, as the salvation of God in the earth, I am sent by God to fulfill His purpose and His will. I am not being redeemed; redemption is behind me. I am here to fulfill my Father's business and to prove His will in the earth.




But Christ is a many-membered man. And as the revelation of a many-membered Christ, I myself have a portion, an appointed task, one of many, given specifically to me by God. My task is unique and different from your task, and yours is unique and different from mine. Yet they are one, and they move together as one. My task fits my heart; your task fits your heart. We were created specifically for that place and that task. It is the only thing that makes us sing.




To fulfill, to prove the will of God in the earth, is not a hardship, it is certainly not a "cross" in the way we once imagined it when we thought we were separate from Christ. It is our joy; it is what makes our hearts sing.




"Who, for the joy set before Him, endured the cross and thought nothing of the shame."




It was not a hardship for the Lord Jesus to become you and to become me, in spite of appearances in Gethsemane. It is His joy. We make Him sing, all that we are, in our spirits, in our souls, and in our bodies, it is He singing in us. Our divinity, that which is born of God, and our humanity, that which is born of Jesus, all of it is a song to Him. All of it is Christ proving the will of God in the earth.




All those who are part of the firstfruits of Christ, who are members of that manchild caught up to God and to His throne, who are among the sons of God bringing joy and liberty to this earth as well as to heaven and to all creation, all of those will know Christ as themselves in all of their humanity. They eat His flesh, and they drink His blood. They sit with all confidence and joy upon the throne, the mercy seat of God, and they show God Himself to creation as themselves, as the revelation of Jesus Christ.



Be blessed in the Lord,


Daniel Yordy

Dad,Can we go again? A study in the life of Paul.

by Chris Welch on Sunday, 03 October 2010 at 17:34 Facebook
So you're in a theme park . Your eight and ten year old looked up at the rollercoaster in terror, especially as their friends had told them that somewhere in the middle of the ride the Egyptian boat turns round suddenly and drops backwards down a gulley into a splashpool.
Eventually with firm encouragement you all go together on the ride.Because you are older and bulkier, the twists and turns are felt more violently and you're not sure you want that experience again, but as you leave the exit doors, your kids bounce up and down and shriek those dreaded words ......
DAD, CAN WE GO AGAIN?

My point is this. Is there a point in our third level life where we become sufficiently numb to the actual intercessory process, that literally all we can think about is "the hope that is set before us", the fruit from the last "ride of destruction" and what can we do next to detonate a bit of Satan's lying kingdom off the face of the Earth's surface.

James seemed to get here. "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance." It also produces fruit. New birth.Life out of death. New churches.

Facebook readers and God's church in general seem to be divided on this passage:
Acts 21:10After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11Coming over to us, he took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, "The Holy Spirit says, 'In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.' "
12When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. 13Then Paul answered, "Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." 14When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up and said, "The Lord's will be done."
15After this, we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

Those that "have a thing about " Paul , probably because they are encouraged to think this way by modern secular teaching, call him arrogant at this point. Those that have any inkling about how 3rd level living works just roll around the floor laughing.
Those that build their tabernacles around the charismatic experience and particularly prophetic gifts are horrified by Paul's unsubmissive behaviour. He clearly needs to send for Rick Joyner's or John Paul Jackson's Prophetic DVD series.

I love that phrase "Why are you weeping and breaking my heart?"
Can I open up my present position to everyone? I am part of and serve a very good church in Havant. There is tremendous flow in the meetings. The participation level is among the highest I have seen anywhere in 38 years. This morning was no exception as people gathered round the senior leaders Peter and Mariette Stott. After 28 years (the C of E is just 7) they are taking a sabbatical. Not because they think "enough is enough. Blow this for a lark!" But because God has specifically revealed they should. Simultaneous with this God has indicated that the revival they have been seeking for 50 years is poised to occur, gathering forces just off most of the South Coast of England.
But here am I watching this flow...but with the same sort of detachment that Paul experienced above. I'm not denying the flow. I'm not saying it isn't of God. I'm not even denying that there will be revival. I'm not even denying that there's so much more 2nd level anointing to be had...gifts of healing....abilities to pray for other believers....pastoral understandings......

But I feel worried. Why? I suppose in the same way that Moses felt when God said "You shall go up to the land , but I will not come with you." Moses said "What d'you mean you won't come with us? You've got to come with us. I'm not going anywhere unless You go with us."

For 50 years we've prayed for revival in the UK. The last one was 1949 or something in the Hebrides, followed by thousands upon thousands converted in one way or another through Billy Graham. God might just answer our cry for revival.
But it might not be at a level that God is currently moving. In other words it could be another rehash of a first or 2nd level revival, but God's Now Presence, and His Now revelation of Him living in us as us....without the Genesis 3 separation...might not even be a feature.
So again we produce a generation of half-baked Christians, who haven't a clue of what God has done within them, and so spend another 50 years meandering around wondering what on earth this Spirit Life is all about, until the birth of another future revival.

Paul didn't deny that a prophet had spoken. He didn't deny "the flow of emotion" among those gathered...
he just said STOP! (sound of record needle scratching in a groove followed by silence)
"I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem..."
In other words...forget the 2ndlevel crap(I count all things as dung remember)....it's the 3rd level now. It's the father stage where we lay down our lives for others in order that we see real supernatural and swift growth in the Earth. Kindly shutup please while we pack up our bags!
Acts 14:19-21 had already described this incident:
But some Jews arrived there from Antioch and Iconium; and having persuaded the people and won them over, they stoned Paul and [[a]afterward] dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.
20But the disciples formed a circle about him, and he got up and went back into the town; and on the morrow he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.
21When they had preached the good news (Gospel) to that town and made disciples of many of the people, they went back to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,
So you've got the disciples knowing the power of gathering round people in circles. Witches do this too. But in the Holy Spirit it is like creating a glory forcefield around someone in the Name of Jesus. So Paul gets up, ready to testify in the quiet of someone's household meeting about how he had been raised up. Not a bit of it. He went back into THE SAME TOWN ready for his next missionary trip to Derbe.

So here we have one particular man getting to grips with the 3rd level and how it works. As we glean from the letters and Acts there is pacing. There are periods in jail. Periods of glory where you go around commanding the shots. Like the two occasions Paul produced his trump card according to the flesh. "I am Roman, so what right have you to judge me?" he even demanded that the leaders who had imprisoned him, escort him out with apologies." Ofcourse if you are still stuck in 2ndlevel religiosity you mistake this for flesh life. But then you've been playing religious games so long you wouldn't know about the other side of the Cross, when you get your life back, and you bounce back, twice as much "there" as you were before, much to everyone's consternation. http://080808onnowto.blogspot.com/2008/11/wahoo-zowie-i-get-myself-back.html
3rd level Kingdom of darkness sabotage operations aren't like the 2nd level sit down and plan it all out evangelistic campaigns.
For a start we know very little about the Father's larger operation. He keeps doing new off the wall things. About the time everyone has caught up He's long moved off doing something else entirely. When Jesus said to his disciples I nolonger call you servants but friends,He was inviting them in to share His own walk. But His own walk was limited. Right now Jesus is in His "4th level", He has graduated with honours from His earth walk to a position of glorified man (the first of many brethren) who is seated at the right hand of God the Father, running the whole show from there. His earthly walk was limited in the sense that he had to continually be open to what His Father was doing next and flow with it. This is our "3rdlevel" mature walk now....seeing what Jesus is doing and flowing with it. We are not just servants, we have been called into Union. His life has become our life. We are wombs for His next operations.
2ndlevel intercessory activity means nights of prayer rattling off in tongues at some Holy Spirit inspired target.
3rdlevel activity is when the Enemy comes for you, and anything you do causes ructions.
We have an example in Acts 16:16-19 16 It happened that as we were going to (AK)the place of prayer, a slave-girl having (AL)a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.
17Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, "These men are bond-servants of (AM)the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation."
18She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, "I command you (AN)in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out at that very moment.
19But when her masters saw that their hope of (AO)profit was gone, they seized (AP)Paul and Silas and (AQ)dragged them into the market place before the authorities.
In different cycles and forms right through Acts, and gleaned from the letters, we see Paul learning the pacing and cycles of " deaths and resurrections" in order to bring forth life in others. There is the gift of utterance. There are the manifested gifts of the Spirit.There are the kickbacks. there are even the times of just "running for it and getting the heck out of there". There is the preaching into the religious settings and there is the preaching opportunities set up by God as a result of extraordinary events...or there are the Christ inspired opportunities created through Paul himself : for example thinking up the ruse of the "Unknown god" in Athens.

I want to finish this post by repeating what I have recently written about the gift of utterance. In my last blog post I make reference to 3rd level ministry/father stage ministry role of sharing Christ with those in the "young men" stage of development. This is typified by the shewbread around the fellowship table in the Holy Place. When we are young in the Spirit we shoot our mouth off. We rattle off scriptures. We mix worldly wisdom with godly wisdom. We share natural light with supernatural revelation.Our time is our own . We preach whether God is in it or not. Watchman Nee covers this in detail in the book of his notes : "The Release of the Spirit"
Psalm 42 speaks of "Deep calls unto deep". That which is Spirit, reproduces. Human waffle does very little.
Jesus said to His brothers in John 7, "Your time is always with you."
Jesus didn't move according to human timing and expectations....but often times He was bang on time for a prophetic Feast fulfilment.
In the first and second level Christian environments it's easy. You draw up a plan of sermon subjects and get different people to deliver them. In the 3rd level Christ is speaking by a gift of utterance precisely the Kingdom Word that addresses the particular spirit of darkness that is currently manifesting. It is much more like the pattern of Genesis 1 where God the Father and the Son speak into a situation of total chaos and darkness Light itself. This is the pattern of 3rd level preaching. It is on a completely different suoernatural level from anything our minds could come up with of themselves. This is truly why the Word says we have the mind of Christ. Bryan Coatney's poem describing this captures it superbly in One Million Thoughts.
http://080808onnowto.blogspot.com/2010/09/poetry-break-coatneyvelveteen.html
As soon as we engage with the kind of life decision that is described in Romans 12 :1-2, we become that "rollercoaster ride" that is the very womb of the Kingdom itself. What God is raising up however is a generation, a network of such Kingdom operators to co-work all over the Earth. We know what was accomplished by anointed single men, (fire-starters,ignition burners) in times past, we can only imagine what happens when teams of such 3rd levellers begin moving together. See the Ship Propulsion Unit vision here: http://080808onnowto.blogspot.com/2009/03/comparing-how-ships-are-powered-with.html

The Meaning of "Being Yourself" by Fred Pruitt

I really recommend you following Fred Pruitt's blog
It has only recently come to me in a deeper way how much the words, “be yourself,” cause a stir among people who consider themselves the “redeemed” of God.

When I have written those words in the past, I don’t think I really realized how they hit people. It seems, to some, to be the philosophy of “the world.” Indeed, it is the modern cry of the more psychologically astute society we live in. Asserting one’s “self” and not letting others drag or tear us down is a personal theme of these current times.

But that needn’t lessen the meaning of those words to those who have inwardly received, through Jesus Christ, the “Divine Nature.” Because hearing the words “be yourself” and to, as a Christian, be afraid of them as if they are somehow license to sin, is to completely miss the meaning. The fear in being troubled by those words presupposes that one’s “self” in Christ is somehow wrong, and a thing to be avoided and nullified if possible.

The opposite of “be yourself” would be to “be something you’re not.” Wouldn’t it?

To be something we’re “not,” would, then, necessarily, involve putting on some sort of mask or costume, to appear as if we are not really who we are. We don’t like our “real self” as we perceive it, and therefore seek to put forth a “better” representation of ourselves, playing a part we think others, including God, want to see.

That’s what “the law” is all about. The “law” involves “putting on” something from the outside, a set of rules or goals, that we think by putting on and acting as if this is really us, will somehow grease the wheels and get God into action.

Years ago I was traveling on business. I was up for a break from driving and I saw a Christian bookstore in a little strip mall, so I decided to stop and check it out. I went into the little shop and started browsing the shelves, when the lady-owner came over and stood beside me. Instead of just greeting me and asking if she could help me, instead she clasped her hands in a “holy manner” and said, “May I say that God loves you and I love you in Jesus Christ?”

Now, there’s obviously nothing wrong with that statement. A Great statement! But there was something in the way the woman said it, that seemed forced, or false, and all I could think about was getting out of there. Not that the lady didn’t mean it in the sense that she WANTED it to be true — she WANTED it to be true that she loved me in Christ — but the statement was almost screaming to me “this isn’t really true, but I’m saying it to you in hopes that it is!”

Now of course, the joke is, the statement WAS true! If she was indeed in Christ, and I had no reason to think she wasn’t, then she DID love me completely in Christ Jesus. She didn’t have to say it or prove it. It simply was the fact between us! But, my impression was that from her perspective, she didn’t KNOW it was already fact, and she was trying to make up for it by this forced, insincere-sounding statement.

Crazy, huh? Trying to be Who we already are?

Comment by Chris Welch
Somewhat puzzled I heard Mother Basilea Schlink say Go the way of the Lamb , it is a way of great power. This was Lutheran speak, or perhaps Older saints speak for one of the greatest truths in the universe. Forget Superman, although even he had his Clark Kent….the most powerful force in the universe, (a bit like the unstoppable grass stalks that dislodge huge slabs of concrete)is the naked life of Christ. We, as Christ did with His Father, go around as ourselves, without flash add-ons, “helpful extras”, nope….just naked…just us….but conscious of Him living His life as us….and we follow that life through all the rat holes,all the situations that very life causes us to be in….like a helpless Lamb to the slaughter….but somehow God does this crazy superman stuff around us…currently opening the world up to this new idea of Christ living as us….maybe opening cities up…maybe the odd individual here and there suddenly in the Kingdom. And we have this deep knowing that it is Christ working this stuff in us. Why are we so sure? Because…everywhere…just everywhere right through the New Testament epistles it says this is how things will be. Its running right through like lettering through a stick of Blackpool rock

Poetry Break: Coatney,Velveteen Rabbi,Welch,Keys

WEANING



You push me away
and reach for the bottle.

Once in Scotland I parted
spongy turf with my fingers

and water welled up like sorrow
its source unknown.

In my childhood playhouse
the table was always set

for guests who never came.
Already my body is shrinking.

You settle like a little king
into the crook of my arm

one hand seizing
the plush belt of my bathrobe

the other splayed
across the warm cylinder.

Your lashes drift down
and your restless legs still

exactly as they did
when I was everything. Velveteen Rabbi

A Million Thoughts



When a million thoughts

go through your mind,

catch them like butterflies,

so the thinking goes,

bringing every thought captive.



What about those thoughts that

aren’t butterflies though?

Ah ha, to make them into such

takes magic we don’t have

but think we should,



if not to the end of what a soul is,

that butterfly catching and making

is not the doing of us doers,

but the being of the is-er.



This is-er, we find, doesn’t even

catch or take a thought, much less

a million , and morph them

into butterflies, or ask us to.



But in the mystery of the new mind,

not I but Christ, and His

silky, linen effortless way,

powdered wings float everywhere.



This might be in the midst of

all that is excruciating,

but simple it is, and sweet.

And there is where we meet.


Brian Coatney/9-26-10

Whimsical Muses or Musical Whimsies by Chris Welch 25/09/10

It's not the thought that thinks.

It's not the window that views.

It's not the spire that inspires.


It's not the wind that winds ... a clock

It's not the pterodactyl that pterorises

It's not the alone who are lonely


It's not the sandwich that is sandwiched...

It's not the moon that is a crescent

It's not the crescent that is a cul de sac


It's not the dead end that is the end

It's Life that is the end

after the dead end

has died.


Other Poems so far......
Bryan Coatney

Play

Chris Welch
Supposing I jumped in with both feet

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Martha Keys
Seeds of war and Seeds of peace
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A recent History of Psalm 24:Part 3 by Daniel Yordy

My note: Daniel's Parts one and two come from his own numbering. In my series they are Part 3.

Open Ye Gates: Part 1 Daniel Yordy

I am so very excited this morning. Over the last several days, God has given me one of the most important keys for the unveiling of Jesus Christ that there is. I want to carefully share that key with you.

The central point, the way of seeing that opened the door for me, came out of a recent exercise of contemplating and drawing out a corrected (Chris Welch called it "More Accurate") diagram of the spirit-soul-body of the believer, along with something Annie Schissler said, something Chris Welch said in an email to me, something Joel Osteen said last Sunday, and a whole lot the Lord showed me in the middle of the night and in a victory over the weakness that has sat upon my physical body for many years now.

If you are serious yourself about being part of the unveiling of Jesus Christ at this beginning of the age to come, I would strongly urge you to print out this document and spend time with it until you understand what the Spirit of God is speaking to you personally through it.

A Corrected Diagram of Spirit-Soul-Body (pdf)

I am convinced we are in the first years of the age to come and my faith that God has chosen to include me in the revelation of Jesus Christ grows stronger and clearer. It is with great joy that I am also convinced that He has chosen you as well. When I say, "God has given me a key to share with you," I am being bold, on the one hand, yes, but I am also convinced that you are in no way dependent on "me," but that Christ is revealing Himself through you right now as well.

We have viewed ourselves and Christ in ourselves completely backwards and inside out. Previous diagrams of spirit-soul-body, put the inside of us on the outside, put the outside of us on the inside, made the largest part of ourselves the smallest and the smallest part of ourselves the largest. No wonder our Christian lives have been such a mess, our thinking has been all screwed up.

Let's look at the previous model of how we saw ourselves and how we saw Christ in us.

According to the backwards way of seeing ourselves, the outer circle is the body. I made it brown to represent the earth out of which it came. The second circle, the grayish-whitish one, is the soul. We used to believe that all Christians ARE double-minded, that we have to accept the hard reality that we have two minds. No one can deny that we have the mind of Christ, since God says we do so clearly. But everyone is convinced we also have a carnal mind and that we go back and forth with every part of our soul being at least a touch of gray, with parts of it being much darker.


According to the backwards way of seeing ourselves, the inner circle is our spirit. That spirit is tucked deep inside, somewhere in the inner parts of ourselves. Now, we admitted that our spirit was made clean, that it was born again. But we placed two definite hearts inside that inner circle. We were convinced, not only that all Christians are double-minded, but that all Christians are double-hearted as well. Yes, we had to agree that Christ lives in our heart because God says He does, but we also believed that inside our human nature was also a heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked.

And so Christ lives in a tiny little room deep inside ourselves somewhere, and that little part of us certainly is redeemed and contains goodness and righteousness. But there were a whole lot of other things inside of our makeup that we were convinced are certainly not Christ.

But that whole way of seeing ourselves and of seeing Christ in us, also required the invention of a third little guy. That third little guy is ourselves - the guy with the blue face, the me that always bobs around no matter how hard I try to die to me. You see, we were blue in the face because we were always running so fast back and forth between Christ and that evil guy called SELF. Back and forth between the red heart made clean by the blood and the black heart still wicked and deceitful. Up and down between a "spiritual" mind and the carnal mind.

And so the Christian life, in this inside-out way of seeing, just wore us out. There was certainly no rest for the blue-faced me, all the days of our lives. Christ in us was limited entirely to that one red heart. And it was up to us to bring every other part of our makeup into obedience and submission to Christ, something the blue-faced me, never knowing for sure if he was red or black or simply blue, could never succeed in doing.

Now, isn't this the way you used to see yourself? And isn't this the way most Christian teaching about the "Christian" life came to you? This was certainly how truth was applied in the move of God I used to be a part of and how I saw myself for many years.

I do not want to repeat here what I already wrote in A Corrected Diagram of Spirit-Soul-Body. So if you have not read it yet, please do so now.

All through the Old Testament, especially the Psalms, and in anointed songs we used to sing are the words "Open ye gates, and the King of Glory shall come in."

Open ye Gates,

and the King of Glory shall come in!

This is what we want; this is what all creation is groaning for; this is the only answer for any and all of the problems in this world - the entrance of the King of Glory. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, this is the beginning of the age to come.

This word is not just something found in the pages of the Old Testament that's nice to sing. This is a clarion call, a command, sent forth by the power and might of the Spirit of God, resounding from eternity to eternity. "Open the gates!" It is a word on par with, equal to, the word God spoke in the beginning, "Let there be light," a command that birthed the universe and all things that exist - The Lord Jesus Christ issuing forth from the Father.

Open the Gates.

What are those gates? There are three of them, to be exact. And who opens the gates? Who is entrusted with this greatest of tasks, this greatest of responsibilities? Who gets the honor of being the one who opens the gates to allow the King of Glory to ride through and into every part of the earth?

Here is the backwardness turned around. My spirit is the largest part of me, literally and actually. My human spirit extends far beyond my physical body. I will not spend time discussing how far, except to say that since my human spirit is one spirit with the Holy Spirit, my human spirit literally fills and extends beyond the universe. That's not our concern right now, however; our concern is to open the gates. This is the great privilege that you and I have been given by the Father.

Not only is my spirit the largest part of me, but my heart, which is the anchor and center of my spirit inside my being, is the portal, the front room, the vanguard of heaven. My heart, then, is much larger than my body, even though it is the center of me, of who and what I am.

The physical body and the earth is the smallest part of this equation. The King of Glory already fills heaven. He fills my spirit; He lives in my heart. I am not opening the gate to let Him into me. That happened when I was born again. The King of Glory is on the outside of the earth, looking in. He wants to enter out of heaven and into the realms of the physical, into the earth, into this planet. And I am not talking about present evangelism. I'm talking about the whole creation being set free into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. I'm talking about the unveiling of Jesus Christ.

Now, Annie Schissler, in her 2006 vision that I included in my last letter, shared that the elect ones must open the gates for the mighty moving of God to enter into the earth and to reach all those who are precious to Jesus beneath the storm. She shared that this opening of the gates included two specific things: a cleansing and purification greater than anything known before, and a deeply increased personal intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord has shown me over the last few days exactly how the opening of the gates is both of these things at the same time.

Let us anchor ourselves into the One who alone keeps us true and with God.

Jesus.

"He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him."

My spirit is one spirit with the Holy Spirit. The union of my spirit and the Holy Spirit is called "Christ." But there is a huge difference between the Christ of God and the "christ" that is the new age spirit of Satan. God is always personal. Satan denies personality and comes in as an impersonal "force" just like the "force" on Star Wars. That is why I refuse to write "Satan" with a small letter. A capital letter in English grammar denotes personality, the name of some one. Satan wants to be known as an impersonal force. He is not; he is a person who will bow his knee to the Lord Jesus.


Jesus is God present personally in the human realms. I am not filled with a "force" called "Christ." I am filled with the Lord Jesus Christ. A person.

But the nature of the Spirit of God and of the personality of the Lord Jesus Christ means this.

He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. He that is joined to the Lord is one person with Him. He that is joined to the Lord is one heart with Him. He that is joined to the Lord is one will with Him. He that is joined to the Lord is one mind with Him. He that is joined to the Lord is one set of emotions with Him. He that is joined to the Lord is one body with Him.

"For we are of His flesh and His bones." Ephesians 5

I read recently a rebuttal of the claims of Christianity. The writer said, "If two people say 'I am Jesus,' we know one of them is lying."

The world and the spirit in this world demand that Jesus, the Messiah of God, the One sent into the world, be one individual person, quantifiable, and therefore excludable. God wants Jesus to be many. Jesus said, "If I enter into the "earth," into the humanity of the body of Christ, and "die" there in them, then I will come alive in them as many, many more of Myself."

Jesus is a Person, my elder Brother, my Savior, my Friend, the One upon whose breast I lean my head.

I am a person, conscious of myself as a living being, with a mind, a will, and emotions, and with a heart stretched and filled with hope, forged in affliction, in beauty, and in love.

Jesus and I are one person together. We walk together in sweet communion with no distinction of separation between Him and me. It is by this anchor alone that you and I walk forward boldly into the mind-blowing stuff God is releasing into this earth without being afraid of going off the deep end. We already have.

My spirit, Christ in me, is the largest part of my being. My spirit fills and pervades every other part of me. My spirit fills and pervades my will, my mind, my emotions, and my body. The vibrancy and frequency of my spirit, joined as one with the Holy Spirit, reverberates through all of my makeup.

But there is a barrier, a door, a gate, three to be exact, placed by God into me as the entrance of the King of Glory into the physical body and into the earth.

The first gate is my will. The second gate is my mind. And the third gate is my emotions. The first target of the entrance of the King of Glory through these gates IS the healing of my physical body.

"But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you." Romans 8:11

We do not distinguish between His Spirit and our human spirit; they are one spirit.

But just as we had the view of ourselves all mixed up, inside out and backwards, so was our understanding of the opening of these three gates.

Of these three gates, the largest and most important GATE, through which the King of Glory issues forth into all the realms of earth and of this world, is the mind. And I, me, Daniel Yordy, I have complete and total control of my own mind at all times. In God's order, there is never one moment nor any way in which another force separate from me, ever takes control of my mind. If that happens in someone, it is demonic; it is not Christ.

My mind is the central gate, and I, me, my mind, is the only keeper of that gate, the only one who must by willful and deliberate practice, open that GATE of heaven for the King of Glory to ride triumphantly through. God will have it no other way; God will never, ever violate me or remove from me the power He has given exclusively and only to me, the gatekeeper of the House of God, the gatekeeper of heaven invading earth.

But first is the opening of the will. And this has been so very, very backward in Christian teaching. Here is why.

The garden of Gethsemane was at the end of Jesus' work and ministry in this earth. It was at the end of the career of a manifest Son of God revealing the Father in the work the Father sent Him to do. The prayer of Jesus in John 17 comes BEFORE Gethsemane. Jesus said, "I have finished the work You gave Me to do," BEFORE He prayed, "Not My will, but Thine be done."

Jesus is the pattern. But foolish teachers of the word have taken this final work of a mature Son of God and placed it entirely upon babes in Christ. That practice is so wrong it is wicked. Yes, in the pattern of Jesus revealed again in our lives as sons of God, there is a fulfillment of Gethsemane once again upon the earth in the second witness of Christ. That fulfillment of Gethsemane finds its place inside of Revelation Chapter 11. I see what that is (dimly) and how it will work in our experience; I may share that in a letter before I have completed this series on the Unveiling of Jesus Christ, but God continues to surprise me on where He wants this series to go.

But the opening of our will to allow the King of Glory to come through into our minds, into our emotions, into our physical body, and through us into all the earth, is something quite different.

Let me explain.

We had a dog a few years ago. This dog, Jack, was skittish and fearful. I got it for my son, but it proved to be a poor choice. We had it in the back yard, but we had to confine it. We put up a wire with a pulley to which he was attached. He could run back and forth, which he did, barking and whining, pulling against the chain all the time, wearing a muddy track in the yard. This went on for months until we were beside ourselves. When Jack was off the chain, though, he always wanted to come into the house. Finally, we gave up. We removed him from the chain and brought him into the house. He made a mess, yes, but the most amazing thing happened. Jack was transformed in a moment. The chain made him rebel. Freedom brought him peace and he lay quietly for hours on end, content to be in the presence of his master.

Those who understand natural freedom and prosperity and how they work in the earth say this: "Freedom is the mother of order, not its daughter." Now this statement is in full agreement with the word of God, but not with Christianity. Christianity wants to claim that the only way we can know freedom in this world is to first impose order. Then, when everyone is in order, we will know true freedom.

That argument is false. It is Satan's way of control. But to the religious mind, the belief that freedom, setting someone completely free to do good or evil as they wish, is the only thing that will birth order into the universe, to the religious mind, that idea is heresy. How can order come out of freedom? But man on this earth has proven over and over that the more order is imposed, the more chaos results. The more people are made free to do whatever they want to do, as in the early years of America, the more orderly society became and the more prosperity everyone enjoyed.

The increase of externally imposed "order" in America today in the guise of "security" can only result in an ever increasing loss of prosperity and freedom and an ever increasing chaos, thus requiring more "order."

In Europe, they tried an experiment in different places recently. They removed all traffic signs and lights from a small town. There were now no laws governing traffic, none. What happened? Accidents decreased sharply, the traffic flowed much more orderly than it had before, and people began to acquire a deeper appreciation for the other person than they had once shown.

Law always inserts itself between people. When law is imposed, relationships go through the law before reaching the other person. When freedom is released, people relate to one another as people. The argument that freedom only releases "the beast," is not true. The Beast released in history has always come through those nations that practiced the strongest and most forceful "ORDER."

The chaos we see growing in America comes entirely through the increase in laws. The more things that are made illegal, the more crimes must be committed. Paul said that the knowledge of sin comes through the law; without law, we would not know sin. Freedom comes through Christ and through the presence of His Spirit, completely separate from outwardly imposed law.

Let's bring this discussion back into the will of a believer in Jesus Christ. I was taught and believed that my will was not, in itself, submitted to God's will. I was taught that I had to "learn" to obey. I was taught that God spoke, I heard, and then I was to do what God told me to do. If I didn't want to do what God told me to do, if I refused, then I was in rebellion against God.

[I came to the place that I rejected instantly any thought that could be "God" telling me to do something. My gut always told me that to "obey" something that "came" to me was a violation of my person. My theology said the opposite. I learned to live in an unnatural contradiction - not a good idea.]


I was taught that I needed to seek God's will all the time, because God's will was something quite foreign to my will. I was taught that God's will and my will were two different and opposing things. I was taught that I needed to continually seek "confirmation" to determine if I was continuing to do "God's will" instead of my own will. I was taught that my will was always at odds with God's will, that my will, if it asserted itself, would always chose a way that was not God's way for me. I was taught that my will, by its very nature and essence, was always opposed to "God's will," that my will was always at war with God's will.

I was taught that I needed to die to my will, die to doing what "I" wanted to do, that I always needed to do something other than what I wanted to do. I was taught that obeying my superiors was the stand in for "God's will," since they represented God's spiritual authority in my life. I was taught that a "strong-willed" person (such as I was charged as being) was always walking in resistance to God. I was taught that I always needed to have a "submissive" will if I ever wanted to know Christ or to move in any kind of spiritual authority in the body of Christ.

All this was fine for me, from age twenty to age thirty-three, as a single man. But then I married. I now had the responsibility of a wife and a son. And something shifted inside of me. I had fully embraced "submitting to the elders." That was how I lived. But now that I bore a responsibility before God for others who were dear to me, I found that "submitting to the elders" was a continual denial of my God-given place - as if it was not important.

I will not go through the agonizing experiences that locked me into a deep and all-pervasive sense of powerlessness, of rightful power denied without hope, that sat its dark shadow upon my soul. That dark shadow of powerlessness worked its way into every cell of my physical body over a period of some years.

I became sick.

For twenty years I have labored under that sickness, that weariness of body and heart. All of His ways concerning me are perfect. God made me weak. But He did not make me weak for any other reason than to bring me to the knowledge of His power and His glory released through me. And for that I give Him thanks for every dark and lonely place I have ever known.

I am now an enemy, a ferocious enemy, of that false teaching concerning the will of the believer and that teaching's dark and vicious repudiation of the gospel and salvation of Jesus Christ, the thing that whines "Dead men have no rights."

Let's root ourselves in something specific God says.

"Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." Philippians 2:12-13

When Paul says, "For it is God who," he is making it clear that what God does comes first before anything we do. What we do comes only out of what God Himself does. And what God does is that He creates His will inside of our will and even the doing of His will in our will is of Him.

Now to the beginning and the essence of the gospel. "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." Romans 5: 1-2

Peace with God is the very first thing that comes into the life of the new believer who is first justified by faith. I am not at war with God. My will is not opposed to God's will, and God's will is not opposed to my will. War is something that can be conducted only in the will. There is complete peace between my will and God's will. I, me, Daniel Yordy, I am at peace with God.

That is basic gospel truth.

The opening of the first gate is the acknowledgment, the acceptance, that the cross of Christ is enough for me. It is finished. The opening of the first gate is the revelation that Christ is my life, the acceptance of Paul's words, "I am crucified with Christ. But I'm still alive, only, it's not me, it's Christ." The opening of the first gate is the acceptance, the surrender, the yielding, that I am not a self separate from Christ, that I, joined to the Lord, am one spirit and one person with Him.

It is those believers who see themselves as separate in any way from the Lord Jesus, who believe that they have a will that is contrary to God's will, and that they must force their own will into submission and obedience to God's will, it is those believers who remain at war with God and in rebellion against the Lord Jesus Christ.

But when I surrendered to the certain conviction that Jesus and I are one spirit and one person, that I am in Him and He is in me, all struggle vanished. All contention between "my will" and "God's will" just disappeared. I know that I can do whatever I want. I know that all things are lawful for me. And I also know that I love Him; I know that the only place I want to be is to rest quietly at His side, with my head leaned against His breast, just like Jack!

I do not seek God's will for my life; my life IS God's will. Inside of that certainty, I follow the peace of God, knowing that He directs my steps. And I never, ever worry about whether I am doing "my will" versus God's will. I am always doing both. If I do what I want to do, I am doing God's will. If I do God's will, I'm doing what I want to do.

I am one spirit, I am one person, with Him.

Over the years, I have often "surrendered" my will to God's will. Those places and times were deep and penetrating. God never concerns Himself with our limited understanding of Him and His ways, but He always comes to us in tenderness and great kindness, no matter where we walk. But I have never known a deeper or sweeter surrender than to stop trying to call myself a "self" separate from God.

The prophet Joel said that multitudes of people are thrust into the valley of decision. He said that the day of the Lord is near the valley of decision. He was not talking about me.

My decision was made long years ago, I can take you to the very moment and the very place. It was a most unlikely place, a toilet stall in a Greyhound bus station in Prince George, British Columbia. I was twenty one years old. The fear and presence of God came upon me and I went into the stall so that other people would not see me tremble. God said, "Will you surrender yourself as a son to me?" I answered, "Yes, Lord." God sealed me in that moment into that decision and has never paid attention to anything else I've said since.

I follow Jesus. The GATE of my will stands wide open.

But I have passed page 8, and I have much yet to write about the opening of the primary GATE of the mind and the opening of the gate of the emotions to the King of Glory who fills our physical body with the presence of His healing virtue and moves out from us bringing life and healing to the whole earth. So I will have to call this Part 1 and write another Part 2.

Blessings in Christ, Daniel Yordy

P.S. I don't usually throw something like this in, but I urge you to read and understand this article.
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Open the Gates: Part 2
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"Lift up your heads, O you gates!
And be lifted up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The LORD strong and mighty,
The LORD mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O you gates!
Lift up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The LORD of hosts,
He is the King of glory." Psalm 24:7-10

"But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him." 1 Corinthians 6:17

"Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place." 2 Corinthians 2:14

The unity between ourselves and Christ is complete. We have an eternity to discover more and more what it means, but nothing can ever be added to the unity with the Lord Jesus Christ that we presently enjoy; it is perfect and complete.

I must confess an "error" in my last letter, Open Ye Gates: Part 1. I have set myself not to bend or twist Scripture in order to "back up" what the Lord is teaching me. "Open the gates" is from Isaiah and is followed by, "that the righteous people who keep the truth may enter in." The reference to the King of glory is here in Psalms 24 and is prefaced by the phrase, "Lift up your heads, O you gates!"

We sang both phrases in gospel songs. As I considered what Annie Schissler saw in her vision, that the sons of God needed to open the gates inside of them, and as I considered the role of the mind in the salvation of God, that we are being renewed in the spirit of our mind, that song came into my heart in full force, only it put the two phrases together, "Open ye gates - that the King of glory may come in." Combine that with seeing our spirit as the largest part of us, and knowing that from God's point of view, the Holy of Holies fills the universe and that the outer court and the earth beyond it are tiny in relationship, it is apparent that the King of glory is coming out of that which is heaven and entering into that which is earth.

I must be honest, then, in sharing with you that the line, "Open the gates, that the King of Glory may come in," comes from prophetic utterance, not from the actual Scriptures. We can move forward with that because Jesus said, "He that believes in me, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water." Those rivers of living water are the King of Glory entering into all creation, bringing into the earth the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

I found this explanation on the Internet: "The words 'lift up your heads, o ye gates' can also be translated, 'Yield, you princes at the gates'." However, the phrase "lift up your heads" is a wonderful phrase. To lift up Christ in every possible way inside of us IS the entrance of the King.

Now, when we lived as if we ourselves were separate from the Lord Jesus Christ and were required by God to bring ourselves into alignment with His word, we sought for the Lord with all our hearts, yes, but we lived always under a shadow of condemnation and all of our teaching came out of that shadow of condemnation.

But now everything has been turned around for us. We know that we are not separate from the Lord, but that in God's incredible plan, Jesus Himself entered into the earth and became us, the human us. Now He is rising up in us, in our humanity, transforming us from the inside out. Our part is to rejoice with all expectation, to keep our confidence high, to sit boldly upon the throne, the mercy seat of God, and to speak all that God speaks as Christ made personal in us.

Our part is to lift up our heads, which is lifting up Christ.

It is the reckless confidence of David that alone pleases God. Our joy and our freedom are what makes us pure.

The responsibility granted to us by God, to open the gates for the King of Glory, is no longer an obligation as we once thought it was, but it is an honor and a privilege that God has extended to us. There is no greater honor in the universe save that which belongs to Jesus alone, and all honor and glory that belongs to Him, He says that He shares it fully with us.

For those of you who continue to read these letters, there is no doubt in my mind, the gate of your will has been swung fully wide for the King of Glory for many years.

The opening of the Gate of the Mind is the essence of sanctification, redemption completing its work in the salvation of our souls. The opening of our mind to the Lord Jesus Christ is not the obligation or duty it once was, "Stop thinking, you sinner, you're mind is carnal!" It is the incredible privilege given to us who, as God says, "have the mind of Christ."

The confusion through the years concerning my own mind and its role in my life was almost as great as the confusion concerning my will that I shared with you in Part 1. I will not go much into the details. But discovering that I am Asperger's has answered all the questions (and accusations) concerning my mind that I could not understand for years. Asperger's do not have the normal human quality of intuitively knowing how to respond and communicate with people in a social setting. That is the primary definition of Asperger's. It is different from normal shyness or being introverted.

As a teenager, I liked to be around others my age, yes, but I learned quite soon to keep my mouth shut - always. No matter how reasonable I thought my words would be, they always turned out to be the completely wrong thing to say. The only way an Asperger's can know how to communicate in a difficult or "political" setting, that is, dealing with authority, is to figure it out mentally. But that takes time and you have to rehearse what things may or may not result in unexpected pain hurled back at you. You have to figure out what was said, what it meant, how you should respond, and all that takes place some hours after the event.

Meanwhile, the outward appearance of one who is Asperger's (a form of autism) resembles "pride." Those who are Asperger's are almost always defined as "proud and unsubmissive," even though they are often pouring out their hearts in giving, happily tootling along in their own little world of serving others, without any knowledge of how people are defining them. And when those definitions are thrown back at them, they have no idea what it means or how to answer.

Teaching school, in my own classroom, behind my teacher's desk, is a safe place for me. If a student says something personal, I can always respond with the safe and easy, "Is that so?" They think I'm weird, but at least it's okay.

So all the preaching against "the carnal mind" or "that peanut brain that thinks too much," could only confuse me. I was nearly thirty, in college, when I discovered that I was fairly intelligent. (I did not understand other people until I went to college, therefore I could in no way understand myself.) My naïve, joyous amazement at that discovery, you can be sure, did not go over very well.

But the defining moment came several years later in an elder's meeting, sitting next to another elder who turned to me and said, "Daniel, your problem is you think too much. You need to stop trying to think everything through." He repeated himself several times, with all the other elders in the circle nodding their agreement. I sat there like a rabbit caught in the headlights. I had no idea what he meant. I didn't know, then, that everyone else in that room had a normal human capacity that I did not share. I might have thought, having just gone through the exercise together of burying "under the carpet" a disastrous business start-up, that their problem was that they didn't think enough. But I didn't say anything; I just walked home that night totally confused, convinced that there must be something desperately wrong with me.

So when I discovered that God says that I have the mind of Christ, but He never, ever says that I have a carnal mind, rather, He says that I am not in the flesh, I am in the Spirit - that discovery was such joy and freedom for me, a truth I latched onto with all my strength and commitment.

I absolutely do not like preaching against "the carnal mind." It is pointless, it takes no one anywhere, it does nothing for anyone. No one has ever been delivered from "their carnal mind," from any and all of the boatloads of worthless exhortation in that regard. Preaching against the carnal mind has never brought anything but confusion to anyone. We do not preach against, we preach Christ. We lift up our head!

Christ is my life; I have no other life. When I am preached against, that preaching is going against something that died and was buried long years ago. What a waste of breath! To preach Christ is to fill people with hope and expectation, with confidence and joy. Christ is well able to save to the uttermost.

God will never violate your mind. He will never ask you to put your own mind on hold. To violate your mind or your will is to violate your person, it is to rob you of your conscience, it is to deface the very image of God. Only Satan would ever do that.

Your mind, my mind, is so precious to God, that He honored it with the most important task given to anything in the universe, outside of the task given to His Son upon the cross.

David said, "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness."

My mind has been given the honor and the privilege by God to open the way to the King of Glory, that He might enter in to the full possession of all that belongs to Him. I am - my mind is - the doorkeeper of God's house.

Our previous view of our mind was that it was the thing that needed to be renewed. Our present view of our mind is that it is the thing that releases the Lord Jesus Christ into all the world. That is what a renewed mind means.

The union between the Holy Spirit and our human spirit IS Christ in us. Our born-again spirit is the largest part of our makeup. It fills and pervades and gives life and energy to every part of our soul and every cell and organ of our body. If you remove the frequency, the life, the energy, which the spirit imparts to the physical body, the body itself instantly ceases to live. Jesus did not die because His body ceased. His body ceased because Jesus willed His spirit to depart. Many saints do not die because their body fails, their body ceases because they lift up their arms with joy to the entrance of the Lord Jesus into the room, and they leave the body because they have somewhere better to go right then.

"But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you." Romans 8: 9-11

Now, the fact that the body cannot live without the frequencies of the spirit energizing the cells and organs is equally true of the unregenerate. Only, their spirit is still fallen, still the old man. Yet that fallen spirit, that "old man" in them, gives the same life to their bodies as we who are believers seem to experience in our bodies.

Paul, here in Romans 8, is suggesting that as believers, we have a far greater power giving life to our mortal bodies than the unregenerate have. Our spirit is joined in a fused union with the Holy Spirit; our human spirit is the Spirit of Christ in us. Therefore, our spirit, energizing our physical bodies with its frequency, is something so far beyond that which keeps the bodies of the unregenerate alive that there is absolutely no comparison between the two.

So what is it that keeps our own physical bodies operating at the same low, sick frequencies as the bodies of the unregenerate?

Our minds. Our minds remember the wrong things. Our minds remember what ought to have been forgotten, and do not know the truth of what God says, so clearly, in His Covenant with us.

Life, immortal life, eternal life, abundant life, is in our spirit. Everything pertaining to life and godliness is in our spirit, everything. God Himself is one Sspirit with our Sspirit. Yet our mortal, dying bodies live only because our spirit energizes and gives life to the cells and to all the operations of the body. From whence come the low frequencies, the sickness, the death? Those things do not come from our own spirits, they do not come from the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. How do they get into our bodies?

Now, someone might think, "Well, this is all focused on our own bodies and not on all the needs of people in the world out there. Shouldn't the focus be 'unselfish' and on how we can help others?"

There is the statement, "Physician, heal thyself," that has some merit. In other words, God has given us our own physical body to practice on. As we learn to open the gates of our mind to the Spirit of Christ in our spirit that it might bring life and healing first to our physical, mortal, dying body, then we will also know how to bring life and healing to all things in creation.

Before I talk about how we do that, I need to lay two foundations. The first is the most important.

I am not separate from the Lord Jesus Christ, and He is not separate from me. When I am doing something, He is doing that same thing. When He is doing something, I am doing that same thing. "In that day you shall know that I am in the Father and you are in Me and I am in you."

It is impossible for us to arrive at the end of what that means. There will never be a moment in all of the ages to come when we will arrive at a wall and God will say, "Well, I guess your union with the Lord Jesus Christ stops here. Jesus continues on the other side of that wall, but you do not." All of His glory, all of it, He shares fully with us; He can do nothing else, for Christ and we are one.

When we get excited about the meaning of Christ revealed as us in our humanity, we can fall into the deception of thinking, "Well, I'm just little old me, and if something wondrous is going to happen, it will be God doing it." But when we get excited about the meaning of Christ revealed through us in His divinity, we look at ourselves and see the tiredness, the sickness, and we moan, "Oh you of little faith," and soon fall under condemnation.

Neither of those two ways of thinking have anything to do with Christ. Let's leave them both in the dustbin of what must be forgotten by our minds.

When I open the Gate of my mind, so that the power and glory of God can move out of my Sspirit into my body, and through me into all the earth, bringing life and healing to all - that "I" operating my mind is the Lord Jesus Christ, AND that "I" is me, Daniel Yordy.

My will has already been opened without reservation to the Lord Jesus. The gate of my emotions swings wide open with joy, with confidence, with overflowing peace and love, once my mind is opened to Jesus. The issues involved in the opening of the emotions are healing and restoration, for which we must extend full and total forgiveness to all others. But it is the operation of my mind upon which God has hung the wheels of the universe. It is through the Gate of my mind through which the Lord Jesus Christ rides into the possession of all His inheritance.

Now, listen, I am sitting here with the full awareness that I have gone off the deep end. I am saying things that are so far beyond me that I am aghast. "Yordy, what are you saying? Have you lost your marbles?" Our problem is this. For us, at this time in our lives, in this day in which we find ourselves, there is NO standing still. We either go forward, wherever going forward takes us, or we draw back. And we know that God takes no pleasure in those who draw back.

So, it's over the cliff for us. Saw that limb off behind you. Leap for the stars.

But again, our SAFETY, and we do need safety, is this - the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, My Savior, the One upon whose breast I lean my head. He is my life; I have no other life. I cast myself entirely upon Him and I know that not only will He keep me, not only will He save me to the uttermost, but that He seats me with Himself upon the throne of His Father. There, and only there, am I safe. I cannot, I dare not, tarry anywhere else. Let us run into Him with all our heart.

And let me open the gate to Him, for He will pass through me into all of this world. He will come no other way. He cannot; for what He does, I do, and what I do, He does. (And whenever I use the word, "I," in these confessions of faith, I know that you use that word to speak of yourself as you read them. Better yet, as you speak them out loud. - And that you replace my name with yours.)

Second, I want to speak briefly of the emotions, which are the third gate through which the King of Glory comes. All the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, all these are expressed through the emotions. God is a very emotional person, and He formed us the same way.

Our emotions are on the side of our soul next to the body. Now, our spirit gives life to our body. James said that the body without the spirit is dead. A corpse has the outward appearance of the person that once lived there, but it is clear that when the spirit let go of the body, the person departed as well. Since the body gets its energy from the spirit, one could surmise that spirit-body is all there is. But this is not true.

When spirit comes into union with body, it gives energy and frequency to that body so that the body is alive, yes. But something else takes place right at the junction, that union, between spirit and flesh, between pneuma and soma. That something is me, my soul, my will, my mind, and my emotions. That something is the psuche. But there is no such thing as a line where the spirit ends and the soul begins or another line where the soul ends and the body begins. That's not how it works at all. Rather, the soul is found all through the merger and the union between the spirit of a man and his physical body.

Modern medicine is beginning to discover (though most won't admit it) that the human personality is found inside of organs besides the brain. That part of our person is found, literally, in the physical organ of the heart. Those who receive the heart of another into their physical bodies, receive also a part of that other person's personality. The Bible suggests that more of our personality is also found IN the kidneys, the pancreas, and so on.

While our will is more involved with the spirit side of things, the emotions are more involved with the body side of things. In other words, emotions are tied up in the condition and functioning of the cells and organs of the physical body, and vice versa. The physical body responds directly to the condition of the emotions.

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine," is not just a nice saying, it is literal.

When the cells and organs of the body are operating at a low frequency, when they are out of balance, when they are sick, the emotions "feel" very low. At the same time, when bitterness and anger and resentment and unforgiveness grip the emotions, the frequency of the cells and organs of the body lowers, and we become sick in some way or another.

There is a direct connection between bitterness and unforgiveness held strongly in the heart and certain physical diseases. There are times when a person forgives from the heart and the disease disappears. And that happens to the unregenerate as well as the believer, the healing has nothing to do with a "miracle." The miracle was the forgiveness that came.

But physical sickness can come from emotions that are not unforgiveness, it can come from deep unanswered pain as well. Natural health, which tries to understand how God created us, - contrary to allopathy (modern medicine) which loves to drug and cut the body with human invention - is convinced that viruses and bacteria do not "cause" sickness, they only take advantage of sickness that is already there. An un-sick body, operating at its normal high frequency, easily throws off invading viruses.

Demon spirits, external low frequencies casting their shadow upon our bodies and souls, work the same way. When I am always putting everything I find inside myself into Christ and Christ into everything, by an act of my mind, demonic spirits bounce off me like water off a duck's back. But when people sees themselves as separate from Christ, when they live under a shadow of condemnation, then the voices of other spirits sound reasonable to them; they view those "frequencies" as their own, as belonging to themselves, and they become sick.

So, here is what I am saying. We know from Romans 8:11 that the Spirit of Christ is always giving life to our mortal body by the power of the resurrection. Now, I have read those who try to limit the meaning of that verse. Yes, people actually do think they have the gumption, the ability, the crassness, to limit God. Look back at the verse and tell me if you can find a line, a limit, a boundary by which God says, "This far and no more." They try to say, "That's not talking about the transformation of our body into incorruptibility, into immortality, into LIFE."

Anytime anyone puts the lie to God by limiting Him where He never limits Himself, they have set themselves up, not only for a fight with God, but for a stunning and embarrassing defeat. (Jesus calls it "weeping and gnashing of teeth.") God, by His very nature, must defeat those who put the lie to Him, He must prove them wrong. "Let God be true, and every man a liar."

I think I'll stay with, "Yes, God. Let it be to me according to all that You say."

It's the most dangerous thing that we can do as far as this world is concerned, but let's do it. Let's commit ourselves not ever to limit God or ever say to Him, "You can go this far, God, and no more." It is Jesus alone who keeps us safe.

[Let me throw this in. Jesus said, "The words that I speak are Spirit and they are life." By that He meant that the power of the Holy Spirit makes the words God speaks life and reality inside of us. We also know that God speaks to us through many metaphors and symbols. But the mental practice of "spiritualizing" the things God says can also be an effort to claim that God can do it in heaven all right, but He sure won't do it in the earth.]

So now, let me arrive at where I've been going.

I have been physically weak, a debilitating emotional and physical weakness, for eighteen years. I have learned to live with it. I eat healthy; I have explored every natural health avenue and have learned much about how the human body actually works, but though I have found ways to maintain, I have never really gotten better. Doctors have never given me an answer, none at all. They won't even say anything useful, except, "Here's some drugs, be stoned." (Not quite their words, but to the same effect.) I have pursued every form of Christian healing, and have found much blessing from the Lord, but no relief.

The last year has been too much; I simply have not had the stamina to produce half of what even a physically simple job like teaching requires. I gave the little strength I had entirely to my students, with none left over for the school's requirements. That didn't go over too well. Yet I can still function well enough that I appear to be fine.

I refuse to condemn myself. I have closed my ears to many "Job's comforters" over the years. I will not condemn myself; there is no life found in that. I justify God in all things; I am weak, that I might know His power in me.

A few days ago, I picked up a book on adrenal fatigue that I had read before. I have known for some years that my adrenal glands do not work, but there is no "cure," and the medical system does not even consider such a thing.

I read these words. "A sense of powerlessness or helplessness is the most debilitating and stress-inducing emotion there is. Any situation, no matter how bad, is more tolerable and less stressful when you feel you can do something about it." And "the particular kind of rest you need when you have adrenal fatigue comes not so much from lying down, but from standing up for yourself."

I shared with you in Part 1 of this title, concerning the first years of my marriage when I felt completely powerless in every aspect of my life and responsibility towards my wife and my son. I will not go into particulars only to say that indeed, it was a most difficult valley of the shadow of darkness. Yet, in all things, at every step along the way, I justified God and gave Him praise for His goodness. I failed, badly. But He said to me, "Son, you passed the test." I said, "How can you say that?" He said, "In all things you justified Me. You blamed no one."

I carefully select the things I share with you about the places my Father takes me through only because I think that those things can be useful to you to understand the great joy and wonder and power of the glorious and holy thing God is doing now in you. I expect that you apply the truth to your own experiences in life.

I sat there in my chair, a few days ago, and remembered, fully, that debilitating, crippling sense of powerlessness, with no ability whatsoever to stand up for myself or for the integrity of my person. I felt it as fully in that moment as I felt it through all those years. But that was not all that I felt. Much more than that, I felt the power and love of My Savior, filling my heart with Himself. I then took Him, my spirit, stretching His kindness in my heart, with my MIND, I placed the life and goodness of Christ over that pain, that feeling of powerlessness. I placed, with my MIND, that feeling into Christ; and I placed Christ into that feeling.

That deep-rooted, pervading emotion vanished, and I cannot find it again. Its memory is gone. A couple of days ago, I sat and visited with one whom we knew from that time, and I could only remember good things about those who were part of that time. More than that, the sense of fatigue that sat upon my body has lifted. That doesn't mean I'm running laps today. But healing is taking place. I'll explain more of that in a bit.

What happened?

The cells and organs of our body have "memories." That is, the electrical frequency by which they operate picks up and records the various deep emotions that we experience through life. A bad experience will lower the frequency of the cells and organs. Just like a magnetic strip carries information recorded on it, so our cells carry information recorded on them. That is easy to understand.

What I did was use my mind to open the gate so that the resurrection power of the Lord Jesus Christ that fills my heart, that is one spirit with my spirit, could move upon the literal cells and organs of my body and erase the bad frequency that had lodged itself inside of them, erase it with the love and presence of Christ. That is literally how it works.

This is not mind over matter. It is the mind opening itself as a Gate so that the King of Glory, who fills my heart with Himself, can bring healing, that is, the erasure of negative frequencies and the re-writing of the frequencies of life and peace and joy upon the cells and organs of my body.

The power of God and natural science work together in complete harmony. We are not talking about "miracles," we are talking about the normal Christian life.

Here's the point. Why stop there?

Christ fills my heart. As I rest in His joy and peace, using the gate of my mind, I open my heart to extend His life and goodness upon every feeling of pain I have ever known in my life, both emotional pain and physical pain.

I see, with my mind, Christ in that pain and that pain in Christ. Some might call it visualization. But we do not take our definitions from those who climb over the wall apart from Jesus. We see Jesus, and He lives in our hearts. I call it:


Open the gates, the King of Glory comes into His own!


I can take every particular lack in my body and place it into Christ and Christ into it. Or whatever pain or emotional or physical affliction that you might know. And I can see healing.

Even modern medicine is beginning to realize that physical healing comes from the mind. That if you see yourself whole, you will become whole; and if you see yourself sick, you will become sick. I was sick because I could see no way out. That sense of powerlessness was so strong and went so deep into my cells that it takes the present revelation of Christ God has brought me to in order to finally provide the answer.

My will has opened itself wide open to the Lord Jesus because I have stopped trying to exist as a self separate from Him, trying to line up with what I think God expects me to do. My emotions still go up and down, sometimes simply because of something I ate, but as the King of Glory rides through, that gate swings wide open in joy and in peace. Forgiveness is a way of life that became part of me many years ago.

But it is by my mind that I open the door to Him into every part of this world. As I see Him in all things, as I mentally place Him there, the Lord Jesus Christ in all things and all things in Him, the King of Glory rides through and takes possession of all that belongs to Him.

God always leads me to lift up the victory of Christ in every situation. That practice is an exercise conducted by the mind.

And it extends far beyond healing for our own emotions and physical bodies. When my son is troubled, resulting in disturbance with his mother, can I not place my hand upon his shoulder, open my own heart to reach out over him and place the Sspirit of Christ all around and through him and to place him into that same Spirit? And if I see him in Christ and Christ in him, can I not believe that the frequency of the spirit of Christ IS, in that moment, erasing the negative disturbance?

That is the application of grace, and it comes through the gate of my mind. It is Christ, and it is a thousand times superior to the application of the law through punishment.

But the mind does not work alone; it works hand in hand with the tongue and the voice box. When I speak Christ, that is an exercise of the mind.

The mind has been given the great task of opening the GATES for the entrance of the King of Glory into all His inheritance. It is the Spirit that flows through as rivers of living water, but it is the mind that opens the floodgates.

Jesus said, "Whatever you ask the Father, believe that you have received it, and you shall have it." He said, "If you have faith as much as the very tiniest of seeds, you will move mountains."

We have made that into an abnormal, spiritually "deep" occurrence given only to a few particular mighty men and women of God. But Jesus was saying that the entrance of God into the earth comes so simply and so easily. Releasing God into creation in power is a simple, normal part of the normal Christian life.

It is as simple as giving a cup of cold water - and seeing Christ move in power with our minds.

And here is a critical point. We neither "expect" to see nor "not expect" to see a physical change in that moment. We know that God is working in power the moment we speak Christ into anything. That is an absolute given. And we know that what we have asked for is absolutely coming into creation. The moment of its appearance, whether immediate or delayed a short time has no bearing on the fact that good things are the path of our future.

We know it is happening because we believe it to be true. We have lifted up our heads and opened our minds to the entrance of the King of Glory, and He is riding through!

Be blessed in the Lord, Daniel Yordy