Preparing the Bride of Christ For His Return By Janet Van Hierdan
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Another
Coffee Break:
Dealing With Fear, Part 1
June 27, 2014
Peter and Janet Van
Hierdan are friends we've known for the past nine years. We met under rather unusual circumstances
during a tour of the National Cemetery in Washington, DC. Peter was walking in front of us, engaged in
an animated discussion with a Canadian friend.
I couldn't help overhearing them as Peter was describing a series of
puzzling events that were taking place in his home with his teenage children.
It seems that they'd
been having Bible studies with other kids from the area. Peter and Janet had been supervising and
leading these Bible studies and things had taken a decidedly unusual turn --
especially for folks whose church and faith background was rooted in the
Netherlands Reformed Congregation. After
the time of Bible study was finished, the kids would get together and begin
praying. One evening without any
warning, some of them began speaking in tongues.
Soon those who'd been
baptized in the Holy Spirit began laying hands on others, and it spread like
fire. They started praying for one
another and seeing healings take place.
For families who had no background whatever in these kinds of displays
it was a source of consternation.
Overhearing Peter's
discussion during our walk in the National Cemetery and his puzzlement over
what he was seeing and hearing, I couldn't help but insert myself into the
conversation. It resulted in Peter and
Janet coming to our hotel room that night while Della and I shared with
them. We laid hands on them to receive
the baptism of the Holy Spirit that night, and while we didn't see or hear any
immediate manifestation of their speaking in tongues, the seeds were planted --
seeds that would shortly explode with humorous manifestation. All of us had been in DC for a conference and
when the conference ended, we shared telephone numbers and addresses (Peter and
Janet live in Lethbridge, Alberta), and we headed our respective ways.
A few days later Peter
calls me. "I just received a phone
call from my wife -- at least I'm pretty sure it's my wife -- but I can't
understand a word she's speaking!"
He explained that Janet regularly went on prayer walks just to be alone
with the Lord. On this occasion as Janet
had been praying, she received a royal download of her prayer language, to the
point where (as I shared with you in the last Coffee Break about my own
experience) she couldn't speak English.
I assured Peter that this was not unusual, and that he should expect
more of this.
In the weeks, months
and years that followed, Della and I were able to be with them in their home
and see the continual growth and the gifts and manifestations of the Holy
Spirit abound in their family to the point that their sons and their daughters
developed unusual prophetic giftings.
I've really only
scratched the surface of this story but my purpose in sharing is to introduce
Janet to you and to let you know that she has published a rather unique book
titled, Preparing the Bride of Christ for His Return. This book is a chronicle of her own experiences
and revelations developed during her prayer walks and times with the Lord. When Janet first began to share the book with
me, I saw it as an extraordinary and very inspirational daily devotional and
recommended that she chapterize it in that manner.
The book is currently
available at Amazon.com in both softcover and e-book form. A link is available on our website at www.RegnersMorningCoffee.com. Simply click on the photo of the book
cover. You won't be disappointed!
OK, my
introductions today got a bit windy, so let's see if we can get cracking on
this new series.
In the
thirty-plus years that have gone by since Holy Spirit first began to download
into me the revelation of the families of fear, my understanding has grown by a
quantum leap of just how pervasive these families are, and the extent to which
these wicked spirits conceal themselves as part of the character or personality
of individuals.
In 1981, I
was invited to speak on a Sunday night at the Presbyterian church in Fairbanks,
Alaska on the subject of deliverance.
One of the elders of the church was a gentleman whom I'd known as a
teenager, growing up in Barrow, and he'd heard me share in a Charismatic
conference on deliverance from fear. He
shared what he'd heard with the pastor, and as a result I was given the
invitation to come and teach.
When I
began to teach, I made the statement that "If you get stirred inside, if
anger rises up inside you or you get really fidgety while hearing this message,
that's a good sign! The Enemy who has
hidden himself inside you -- an enemy who has camouflaged himself as part of
your nature and makeup -- does NOT want you to hear and receive the truth that
you have authority over him, and that you can be rid of him." When I finished sharing that night, the first
person to the front of the church to receive deliverance was the pastor. More than three-quarters of the church
followed him to the front. As they
followed me in a prayer of deliverance, there were a few cases of folks who
began to cough almost uncontrollably, some began to experience convulsing as
though they were about to vomit and some made hissing noises but most of them
very calmly exercised the authority they had in Christ Jesus to receive their
deliverance.
My very
first experience with ministering deliverance from fear occurred a decade
earlier in Salt Lake City. An
18-year-old girl sat on the front row of the church as I was teaching, and when
I finished she immediately volunteered the fact that she lived her life in
constant fear, doubt, and uncertainty, reacting to sudden noises or events
around her as though something was going to kill or injure her. When I spoke to the spirit of fear and
commanded it to leave her, the sound that came out of her mouth was almost
unbelievable. It was akin to the sound
of a steam locomotive with a deafening hiss and something approaching a scream.
Have to
admit, the look of shock on her face and the faces of those sitting near her
was something to behold! But the
manifestation of her deliverance from fear and the boldness that developed in
her life in the years that followed was a story all by itself. Although I left Salt Lake City the following
year to minister with Dwain McKenzie at Long Beach Christian Center (in
California), events transpired which allowed me to see this young woman's life
unfold and keep track of her for a number of years to come. She eventually went on to become a stock
broker, an investment advisor, and -- eventually -- a managing director for
Smith-Barney (now Morgan Stanley Smith Barney).
With that,
let's lay some foundations from the Word.
II Timothy 1:7 (KJV): "For God hath not given
us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."
Let's
expand this a bit from the Greek text: "For
God has not endowed, or committed to our being and existence the spirit (the
very breath and speaking forth) of fear, timidity and faithlessness; but of
miraculous power, might and strength, and of agape love, and of a disciplined mind (under control and not
subject to "flights of fancy")."
(RAC
Translation and Amplification)
Then we
pick up with a verse shared in the previous Coffee Break from I John 4:18
(KJV): "There
is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath
torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."
Once
again, here is the same verse amplified from the Greek text:
"There is never any alarm or fright or excessive concern in
the love feast [we have with Jesus]; but completed and mature love throws out
any fright or excessive concern: because fright and alarm bring torment. He who
allows himself [the luxury] of alarm, or fright, or excessive concern does not
permit the finished work and maturity of God's love feast in Christ Jesus in
us." (RAC Translation and Amplification)
Now, take
another look at the way the Greek phrases II Timothy 1:7: "For God has not
endowed, or committed to our being and existence the spirit (the very breath
and speaking forth) of fear, timidity and faithlessness; but of miraculous
power, might and strength, and of agape
love, and of a disciplined mind (under control and not subject to "flights
of fancy")."
Do you see
it? God HAS NOT endowed us with any
spirit of fear. We were never given the
breath of an evil spirit at Creation.
Adam and Eve were endowed with and imbued with the breath of God, and
His breath became their spirit. For the
2,000 years or so they lived in the Garden, their lives exemplified what John
describes in his Gospel like this:
"In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without
him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the
light of men." (John 1:1-4 KJV)
When God breathed the breath of life
into Adam and Eve, He breathed into them HIS life, and that life was light --
both in the sense of what flowed in their veins AND in the context of the
revelation that filled their beings.
Adam and Eve never had to go to school to learn anything. They didn't graduate from Eden
University. They never had to attend
Garden Tech in order to learn how to tend the Garden. Eve didn't have a PhD in child-rearing or
home economics. Adam didn't attend four
or eight years at the Divine Institute of Technology in order to transition
between dimensions or to become expert in zoology.
OK.
You can laugh at me if you like, but you get the picture! The naturally supernatural ability to do what
they did came with the Breath of God being breathed into their beings. It brought all the revelation they would ever
need to fulfill every commission God gave them.
Oh, and by the way, when God
breathed into Adam, and then into Eve after He took a rib from Adam and made
her, He didn't conduct a ceremony in which He stood before them and performed
some kind of ritual. God blessed them
with His declaration, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the
earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and
man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and
over every living creature that moves upon the earth. And God said, See, I have
given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the land and
every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to all the animals on
the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the
ground—to everything in which there is the breath of life—I have given every
green plant for food." (Genesis 1:28-30 Amplified Bible)
What Adam and Eve received from the Lord with His
Spirit being breathed into them, AND the blessing He declared over them, was
total dominion over the earth.
David makes this clear in Psalm
115:16 when he writes, "The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but
the earth hath he given to the children of men." (KJV)
It's even clearer
when you read it in the Hebrew text: "The
Heaven, even the Heavens [past, present and future], are the Lord's: but the
earth has He appointed, assigned, delivered and charged to the sons [and
daughters] and descendants of Adam."
By now you
are seeing it, aren't you? What happens
when someone is given complete dominion -- full authority?
They are
given the control of things! No one, no
being, no entity has the power or authority to take it away. If the one with dominion and authority cedes
any part of that authority to someone else, then that "someone else"
has the ability to function or to exercise some rule in the stead of the
grantor.
Let's put
it another way. The grantor has the
final authority. He is a king. The one to whom some portion of power or
authority is granted is still subject to the king. That individual is regarded as a prince.
It may
seem like I'm really going around a 40-acre field but my objective is to show
you some contrasts, and in the process help you understand the nature and the
foundation for the creation of, or basis for fear.
Once
again, what was it that first happened with Adam and Eve? "And God blessed
them......." With God's Blessing came His
authority! With God's Blessing, Adam and
Eve had full revelation of God's plan for the Garden; they had all their needs
supplied; they had the creative ability to call each of the animals, the birds
of the air and the fish of the sea and endue them with their respective nature,
their character, their personality and their makeup.
Here's one
thing most folks miss in this picture: Adam had dominion over the serpent! The serpent was subject to him. The serpent was answerable to him. Despite the fact that Satan had entered into
the serpent, causing it to take on Satan's character and makeup, the serpent
still remained a serpent -- a reptile (or creeping thing), if you will -- over
which Adam had all rule and authority.
When the
serpent deceived Eve through cunning and subtlety into eating of the fruit from
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, he tricked Eve into violating God's
command and warning that doing so would induce death. Adam acted with purpose, not being deceived,
and he acted emotionally, not fully considering or comprehending the long-term
consequences of his action when he took the fruit from Eve and ate of it
himself. God specifically commanded Adam
and Eve not to eat of that tree -- NOT because He was trying to keep something
good from them, but because the human frame was never designed for any
knowledge acquired by anything other than revelation.
What Adam
did not comprehend was that when an individual eats of the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil, three serious consequences follow: (1) the
Knowledge of Good produces pride and arrogance; (2) the Knowledge of Evil
produces the Fear of Evil, and along with it a host of other fear families; and
(3) that kind of fear produces a chain reaction in human cells and human DNA
resulting in ultimate death.
Adam and
Eve were never designed to die. They
were created in the image and likeness of God, Who is Eternal. They had dwelled in the Garden for some 2,000
years (give or take), walking and talking with the Lord and functioning
inter-dimensionally between earth and the heavenlies. The fact that partaking of the fruit of the
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil began marking a point in their existence at
which life would terminate produced in them (and all their descendants) the
Fear of Death.
Next week
we will explore the events that unfolded in Scripture when Adam and Eve ate of
the fruit of that tree, and watch each specific event that followed, along with
a visual demonstration of the families of fear as they activated in both of
them.
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Another
Coffee Break:
Aphiémi Healing, Part 35
June 20, 2014
Earlier this past
week, I had an experience that has been an eye-opener. Some sixty years have gone by since I was
first baptized in the Holy Spirit. On
the night that I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues,
it was nearly four hours before I could speak a word in English. My brother tried to carry on a conversation
with me but I couldn't answer him in English.
Every response came out in some other language. Not until the following morning was I able to
carry on a coherent conversation in English.
In the years since,
while I take time to pray, to intercede, to decree and declare and to do
warfare in the tongues of men and angels, it hasn't been often that the flow of
tongues exceeds 20 - 30 minutes at a time.
Even in our daily time of prayer and intercession, I don't often exceed
15 or 20 minutes.
On Tuesday night just
before midnight, I was awakened by sounds I couldn't identify. In an instant I was wide awake and sleep was
totally gone from me. Della and I have
both learned that when these events happen, we generally put on our robe, go
downstairs to the living room, and pray quietly in tongues until the need for
prayer or intercession lifts. This time
was a bit different. For the better part
of two hours, I prayed in tongues non-stop.
It was like a river flowing out of me.
Some thirty minutes or
so into this flow of the Spirit, I said to the Lord, "OK, Father, what's
this all about? What are you wanting to
accomplish?" His answer was pretty
surprising. "I'm preparing you to
live and walk inter-dimensionally."
The pictures and
images that flashed past me in the next few moments left absolutely no doubt as
to what He meant. In Luke 4:30 we see
Jesus shifting dimensions when the angry mob wanted to throw Him off a cliff. He simply passed right through the
crowd. We see the same thing occurring
when He suddenly appears to the disciples (John 20:19) following His
resurrection.
I've twice experienced
this in years gone by. Back in the late
1960's I was driving in northern Utah with a business partner on our way to an
appointment. A heavy snowfall had left
the somewhat sparsely traveled highway with a single set of ruts in the deep
snow. Warming temperatures had melted
the snow just enough to create a glaze in the ruts making it extremely
difficult to get out.
Coming to a rise in
the highway with a bridge in front of us, we couldn't see what was on the other
side of the bridge. As we approached the
bridge we realized another car was coming right at us in the same ruts. Each of us were traveling at roughly 45-50
mph, and there was absolutely no chance we were going to be able to stop.
I did what I was
trained to do. "JESUS!!" I hollered it at the top of my voice. We shifted dimensions and passed right
through the oncoming car. The driver of
the other vehicle, whom we could see close-up, had utter terror on his face as
we passed through him. It took a minute
for both of us to stop and we stepped out of our cars and looked back at one
another. The other driver was wiping the
brow of his head trying to figure out what had just happened. It was one of the events in your life you
never forget, and when the Lord said to me, "I'm preparing you to live and
walk inter-dimensionally," I knew exactly what He meant!
OK, that
bit of sharing took more time than I planned, so if as a result today's Coffee
Break runs a bit longer than usual, please excuse me.
One of the
issues that affects many Christians today when it comes to receiving their
healing -- no matter what kind of healing is needed -- or their deliverance
from oppression is that they have been programmed through either religious
doctrines or societal traditions with a mindset that places them in opposition
to the Word and to what Jesus has done for them.
I've
addressed this issue in the past, but let me re-emphasize this again. We have a covenant -- one made available to
us by the Lord Jesus Christ. He didn't
provide that covenant for nothing! When
Jesus took our sins -- past, present and future -- on the Cross; when He took
all of our diseases and infirmities by subjecting Himself to the extreme lashes
that ripped his flesh into shreds; when Jesus died and then rose again from the
dead, there was nothing left undone for us.
For us to
receive what Jesus has paid for is to simply believe and accept what we need by
faith: NO begging, NO whining, NO hope-so, think-so, maybe-so, NO "if it
be your will" baloney! He's
already paid for us to have it! Where do
we get the idea that it may not be His will for us to be healed, to be set free
from oppression?
Let me
take this another step -- and I know that as soon as I say this, somebody is
surely going to accuse me of being one of those "blab it and grab it"
types, or -- worse (!) -- "one of those terrible prosperity
preachers."
(And
that's OK, folks! I'll admit to being
guilty of both -- although not perhaps the way you think. I "blab" whatever Father says to
me, and then I grab hold of what He says I can receive. I am violently, outspokenly standing in
opposition to anyone who says it is God's will for me to live in poverty and
constant need. Last time I checked, the
Word clearly states that "My God shall liberally supply all your needs, your requirements and
your demands out of and in direct proportion to His riches in Glory by and
through the anointing of the Anointed One, Christ Jesus." [Philippians 4:19, RAC
Translation & Amplification]
Hmmmm...
then there's this one: "But you shall without doubt mark, remember and mention the LORD
your God: for it is He who gives you the capacity, the means and the
ability to get wealth and riches, so that He may establish his covenant and
confederacy with you by which he swore an oath unto your fathers, as is
evidenced before and among you this day." [Deuteronomy 8:18, RAC Translation
& Amplification] Sorry for the
rabbit trail. Let's get back on track.)
Will
somebody please provide me with even one scripture that specifically states --
no guesswork, no "assuming," -- that it is the will and purposes of
God or His heart's desire (never mind the fact that Jesus paid for our
deliverance from poverty) for us as believers to live in poverty, dead broke,
struggling to pay our bills, just barely eking out a living? How, pray tell me, does that show the world
at large our covenant? How does that
demonstrate Father's love? How does that
draw a picture of a God who owns all the cattle on a thousand hills? Who is it that is suggesting that God is very
greedy, and that He intends to keep everything all for Himself so we can live
like poverty-ridden slaves? (OK, I'm
done. I'll leave this alone for another
time.)
Any
doctrine or teaching which proposes that we have to beg God for anything
whatsoever is a flat out lie! Any
doctrine or teaching which suggests that any part of our spiritual growth, our
maturity in God, our responses to the quickening of Holy Spirit are optional if
we're going to receive all that God has for us, or if we have any expectation
whatever of being incorporated in the Bride of Christ is pure heresy!
Christians
have been literally peppered for centuries with teachings and doctrines that
make God into some kind of super, terrible, mystical being who's created this
incredibly difficult way to live, putting us on some kind of performance
standard if we are going to be pleasing to Him.
The problem today, even for Christians who have walked with the Lord for
many years, is that Father is still unapproachable, that we have to walk on
eggshells if we are going to come before Him and ask for anything.
Let's
revisit the scripture from Paul's letter to the Romans that we talked about in
last week's Coffee Break:
"Let me conclude what I've been saying by putting it this way; there
are no adverse sentences or verdicts hanging over those who are IN the
anointing of the Anointed One, Jesus.
For the Law (and principles) of the Spirit [the breath that God breathed
into us when He raised us from the dead] of God's life in the anointing of the
Anointed One, Jesus has liberated and exempted me (us) from the Law which
decrees judgment and execution for the sins and offenses (willful and
unpurposed) resulting in death." (Romans 8:1-2, RAC Translation & Amplification)
If indeed
we have been set free from the Law of Sin and Death with all of its consequences,
the diseases, the sicknesses, the infirmities, the poverty and the death that
all are a part of it, what is it that we need to beg for? Why do so many Christians not believe that if
they speak, decree, declare and receive the healing that Jesus has already paid
for, they're not going to get it? Why do
so many Christians think that there is still something they have to do in order
to "deserve" healing, or deliverance, or provision for their needs?
Religion
puts people on a performance basis with the Lord. Covenant with Jesus Christ puts us on a
friend-to-friend, elder brother-to-brother family relationship in which love --
agape
love -- is the determining factor. If
indeed love is the governing basis for our relationship with the Lord, then there's
no place for fear, for doubt, for unbelief, for trepidation of any kind!
Let's
see.....how was it that John put it when writing his first general letter to
the body of Christ?
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us." (I John 4:18-19)
Let me
amplify this a bit out of the Greek so as to clarify things more fully:
"There is never any alarm or fright or excessive concern in
the love feast [we have with Jesus]; but completed and mature love throws out
any fright or excessive concern: because fright and alarm bring torment. He who
allows himself [the luxury] of alarm, or fright, or excessive concern does not
permit the finished work and maturity of God's love feast in Christ Jesus in
us. Our love for Him must be
unconditional because he first loved us [unconditionally]."
You
see it don't you? We've been brought
into a love-relationship with Father through Jesus Christ! Everything we have need of has been paid
for. Because of His love toward us,
Jesus stands next to us every second of every moment of every day with His
hands outstretched waiting for us to receive whatever we ask for, be it healing
from terminal diseases, sicknesses, infirmities, chronic health problems or
whatever!
He
stands next to us with His hands outstretched ready to deliver us from
oppression. He has given us ALL authority
over the power of the Enemy. I continue
to repeat what I've said for many, many years: the weakest Christian has far
more authority over Satan than he has power to exercise against us. Unless we believe that, however, and walk in
that authority, he continues to lie and deceive and entice us to believe that
we are namby-pamby nothings next to him and that he has the right to do
whatever he chooses just because he's "the prince of the power of the
air."
Bahh.....Humbug! A prince has greater authority than a
king? A prince has more power than a
king? Not the last time I checked! Satan is never -- and I repeat, NEVER --
referred to, anywhere in the Word, as a king.
Four times in the Word, Jesus is referred to as THE KING OF KINGS! That makes Him -- and His Throne --
Supreme! It also makes us -- as John
describes it in Revelation 1:6 -- "... kings and priests
unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
Amen."
Allow
me to share some things as a lead-in to the next series of Coffee Breaks which
will be titled, DEALING WITH FEAR. The
last time I did a series on the families of fear and the dominant spirits of
fear was probably back in 2005 or 2006, and it's time to seriously update those
teachings.
When Jesus visited that day with the
Samaritan woman at the well, and she began to talk about worship, relating to
worship in a physical sense with physical acts in a geographical place, Jesus
stopped her with the statement, "You worship that which you do not know.............But an
hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the
Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His
worshipers. God is a spirit, and those
who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth." (John 4:22-24, NASB)
The point He makes is that worship is
neither a physical act, nor a function in a physical or geographical
place. Worship is not the doing of
things. Worship is not something
which occurs in a church or a synagogue.
Worship is not even the doing of things which please the Father. Although true worship will certainly result
in our doing things which please Him, it is a place of union, a place of
intimate love in the Spirit.
Again, without belaboring the point, Jesus
went beyond just saying that those who worship God must worship Him in
spirit. He added the phrase, "and in truth." In so doing, He pointed back once
again to that place where Adam and Eve had once lived in the Garden. So long as they were clothed in the
absoluteness of the onoma of
the Lord, so long as they lived enveloped in that place of Truth -- that place
where His Word, His Rhema, His revelation (they are all one
and the same) formed the very essence of their existence -- His throne was
operational in and through them. They
lived worship.
Jesus was saying to the woman of Samaria
that relationship with the Lord, that worship, that intimacy with Him has
nothing whatever to do with human reasoning, thought processes, or the
knowledge of good or evil. He was saying
that "worship" and "knowledge" are not compatible. Everything which occurs outside the realm of
the Spirit functions in the place of intellect, reasoning and knowledge. Worship -- which can only occur in the Spirit
-- must be in Truth.
As previously noted, Truth vanishes with
knowledge, whether it be the "knowledge of good," or the
"knowledge of evil." If Truth
disappears, the Throne goes with it, along with all the authority and power of
the Throne. Worship, therefore, "in
Truth," needs no help. Worship in the
Spirit, and in Truth, is the sum and substance -- the totality, if you will --
of being One with the Lord Jesus Christ, with the Father, with the Holy
Spirit. To worship "in Truth"
is to worship in the totality of Jesus' onoma -- the very essence of His
being. He is that Truth!
Our
salvation, and everything that goes with it, has been paid for! Our deliverance from oppression has been
accomplished, both at the Cross and at the tomb when Jesus rose from the dead. Our healing has already been finished. That's
the truth!
Is it
not time for us to change our confession to agree with what the Word declares
-- NOT the "facts on the ground?"
Our confession MUST agree with what Jesus' blood provided. John saw the finished work and described it
for us in the Revelation.
"The [accused] conquered, subdued, overcame and defeated Satan
by the redeeming blood, shed by the Anointed One in His anointing as the
[once-and-for-all] sacrificial Lamb, and by the documented decree written and
declared in God’s Word as it was spoken and agreed with and confessed by
those who testified to the [redemption of the] Blood, even at the point of
death or the threat thereof."
(Revelation
12:11, RAC Translation & Amplification)
Let's
finish up this series on Aphiémi Healing with Paul's statement to
the Romans:
"For all have erred, missing the mark, being deficient in
manifesting the glory, the honor and dignity of the Lord God; Being regarded
and freely proclaimed and rendered innocent by His grace – His divine influence
and changing power – through the full ransom and riddance [of our error] that is in [and comes through] Jesus, The
Anointed One and His anointing; Whom
God has exhibited and set before the world to be our Mercy Seat and
reconciliation [with God] by our exercise of faith and trust in His
blood; to declare His righteousness and justification by His acquisition
and taking possession of sins that have transpired (throughout the ages)
through the lovingkindness, tender mercies and endurance [in the meantime] of
God." (Romans 3:23-25
(RAC Translation & Amplification)
Understand? Our sins, our diseases, our sicknesses, our
infirmities, our oppression by the Enemy, our poverty -- ALL -- have been
eradicated by the Lord Jesus Christ!
See you
next week as we begin a new series.
Again, if you are in
need of healing -- especially if you have some terminal disease or prognosis of
a very short time to live from the doctors -- please join our prayer conference
calls on either Monday or Wednesday of each week at 7:00 PM Eastern. Once again,
the number to call is (805) 399-1000. Then enter the access code: 124763#. To get into the queue for prayer, when Randy
opens the call up for everyone, hit *6-1 on your keypad. Let us minister to
your need for healing!
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Email Contact: Admin@RiverWorshipCenter.org
Our book, A
Tale of Two Brides, published by Destiny Image, is now available on
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Saturday, June 14, 2014
Another
Coffee Break:
Aphiémi Healing, Part 34
June 13, 2014
We were doing a bit of
reminiscing in the past few days about some of the rather humorous events of
our childhoods and I was sharing with folks an event that took place in the
winter of 1947 in Nome, Alaska. We'd had
a rather spectacular snowfall resulting in snowdrifts anywhere from 7 to 20
feet deep. Being both the son of a
preacher and a missionary, and having a call myself -- even at age five --
imbedded in my spirit by the Lord to the ministry, it was perfectly natural for
me to be a preacher so I did what came natural in that environment.
I dug out a room in a
big snow bank, cut a window, put a candle in the window for light, made a bench
from compacted snow and had myself a "church!" Preaching to my friends and playmates was the
logical thing to do, and of course, I led some of them to the Lord. They knelt down at that snow bench and
accepted Jesus Christ.
Well, what do you do
when you first accept Jesus Christ? You
have to be baptized in water. In case
you hadn't noticed, that's a problem when the outside temperature is minus 20
degrees. So we waited until Spring. When the temperatures began to warm and the
snow began to melt mud puddles were the natural result. As soon as the snow had sufficiently melted
that we had some fairly deep mud puddles, I started baptizing my friends. We thought nothing of it! My friends' parents might have wondered at
their coming home all soaking wet and covered in muddy water, but we never
heard anything from it. And -- after all
-- when I was baptized in water, it was in the Nome River in the early summer
when ice cakes were still floating in the river.
You see, none of it
makes any difference when you are obeying the Word of the Lord and acting in
faith! (OK, now you can smile!)
During the
past couple of weeks, Della and I have been discussing a trap we've seen among
believers in which they get focused on the "facts" of their
situations and completely miss the promises God has made for us. People get caught up with the pain, the
suffering, the needs that they have and fail to appropriate for themselves the
truth of what Jesus has said concerning their needs, and what He has done.
Receiving
our healing, our deliverance from oppression and our provision for every need
comes as we differentiate between the "facts on the ground" and the
Truth.
"The
facts on the ground" is a technical term often used by the military or by
police and security people. It refers to
a state of acknowledgement of situations as they presently exist, or are
unfolding in front of you. The societies
of this earth have been bred and immersed with the philosophy that you first
acquire, then assess the facts; and then you make a decision based on those
facts.
In certain
situations -- in fact, in many of life's situations -- that philosophy
works. The problem is that this is not
how we are or were designed by the Lord when we were first created, and for
those who become "new creations" in Christ Jesus. Where it falls down and fails us is when we
try to apply those processes to the things of the Spirit. Over the past twenty-plus years it has become
more and more clear that, for us as believers who are being re-created and
transformed into sons of God, heirs and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ, the "assess
the facts and make a decision" philosophy comes straight out of eating
from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Let me
explain.
"Truth"
does not come by eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The knowledge of "good" does not
necessarily produce truth. In fact it often
creates an arrogant and insensitive attitude.
The knowledge of evil, on the other hand, produces the Fear of Evil --
and that's a topic we won't try to explore today because it would take us in a
totally different direction.
"Truth," my friends, is not a
collection of facts. And yet it can be.
"Truth" is neither the reciting
of history, nor a compilation of events which have occurred. And yet it can be.
"Truth" is not the quoting of
scriptures. And yet it can be.
Facts.
History. Scriptures. They can all be a portion of truth, but in
and of themselves, they are not -- by any stretch of the imagination --
The Truth.
Facts can be twisted by The Spirit of Error
and become a lie. History can be
distorted -- and often is -- so that historical facts are taken out of context
to present a false picture. Personal
experience, left to stand on its own, can bring wrong conclusions. Scriptures can be taken out of context and quoted
to support virtually any stance one desires to take.
Truth, therefore, is not just facts,
history, personal experience, or scriptures.
Truth -- the genuine
article -- can only come by the Spirit of Truth, which is one of the seven
Spirits of God. The Spirit of Truth
takes facts, takes history, takes events which have occurred -- either in our
lives, or in the lives of others -- or, takes verses of scripture and applies
them in a manner which brings life. The
Spirit of Truth takes that life and transmits it into the core of our beings. Truth comes by revelation -- NOT by the
studious acquisition of "knowledge."
Truth -- the very
essence of Jesus' onoma -- is that which He was clothed
in. It was the life which went forth
when He spoke the worlds into existence.
It was the spirit which went forth when He breathed into man the breath
of life.
Because
everything He spoke was founded in Truth, there was an absoluteness to
everything which occurred. The very
foundations of the Universe rested upon that Truth. Consider how Paul describes it as he opens up
his general letter to the Hebrews:
"[But] in the last of these days He has spoken to us in [the person
of His] Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also
by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of
space and the ages of time [He made, produced, built, operated, and
arranged them in order].
"He
is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or
radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of
[God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and
propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by
offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and
riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on
high." (Hebrews 11:1-3,
Amplified Version)
Truth,
therefore, is a part of the invincible foundation of the Throne.
Consider these aspects.
Adam
and Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and thus were separated
(evicted, actually) from the Garden, and from their place of intimate relationship
with the Lord. That removal condemned
their seed to being perpetually infected with the "Knowledge Virus,"
and with it, the death incorporated into its very essence.
Until
Jesus' birth, no human being on the face of the earth had ever been born who
was not infected. Jesus, by virtue of
His spiritual genetics, although He was born of a woman, did not carry in His
flesh the proclivity for "knowledge."
Being
born of a woman qualified Him as a genuine member of the human race. Having the genesis of the Holy Spirit in His
DNA, He also had -- in His human form -- all of the qualities of His Throne in
the Heavenlies, and the rulership and authority which went with that place of
dominion. It was imperative -- for the
sake of His Bride-to-be -- that this dominion be worked in His being as a
human. It was critical and necessary
that He put down the knowledge of good, and the knowledge of evil, and that He
rule over the tendency of the flesh to be lured by the lust for knowledge.
He
must of necessity squash "under His feet" human reasoning -- facts --
and rationale by responding only to the dictates of His Father. And He did!
Jesus could therefore freely state, "I do nothing of myself;
but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And He that sent me is with me: the Father
hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please Him." (see John 8:28-29)
This
word, "please," is of great significance in the Greek text. The word used here is: arestos. We define arestos (which
comes from the root word, aresko) as much more than just to
please. It means: to be in agreement with; to accommodate one's self
to the opinions, desires, and interests of (the intended individual).
Hence,
"to please" is not to merely acquiesce to someone's wishes and
desires -- even if you don't necessarily completely agree. Arestos is to be in a place of complete unity and agreement, and
to therefore "please," or "bring pleasure," through the
active fulfillment of those opinions, desires and interests.
Being
in that place of complete unity and agreement with the Father meant that He was
in complete agreement with the Throne of the Universe, and was therefore acting
on its behalf. As a result, He could
walk and talk -- in human form -- and at the same time function from the
Throne, ruling, and overruling the flesh, the emotions, the lust for the
knowledge of good and evil, that old serpent Satan, and every evil spirit
pitted against Him.
Jesus
walked as the personification of perfect agreement, perfect sumphoneo
-- perfect accord -- with the Father, and with the Holy Spirit, Who would
shortly come to fulfill His bidding in the preparation of His long awaited
Bride. How did He do this? It was simple! Though He walked in human flesh, He lived in the realm of the Spirit.
That
union, that accord, that agreement -- that place of demonstrated authority --
all existed because He lived
in the realm of the Spirit.
This,
folks, is the conundrum of so many Christians.
We've been born again by the Spirit of God. In Christ Jesus, the "old us" hung
on the Cross with Him. In Christ Jesus,
the "old us" died, along with our sins and the curse imprinted in our
old DNA. When Jesus rose from the dead,
we rose with Him. We were made alive
with Father's DNA. We've talked about
this repeatedly, but let me share from the Greek text of Paul's statement from
his letter to the Roman Ekklesia: (See
Romans 8:1-2)
"Let me conclude what I've been saying by putting it this way; there
are no adverse sentences or verdicts hanging over those who are IN the
anointing of the Anointed One, Jesus.
For the Law (and principles) of the Spirit [the breath that God breathed
into us when He raised us from the dead] of God's life in the anointing of the
Anointed One, Jesus has liberated and exempted me (us) from the Law which
decrees judgment and execution for the sins and offenses (willful and
unpurposed) resulting in death." (RAC Amplification)
You see it
now, don't you?
Then let
me illustrate what I'm saying with a humorous illustration from and event that
happened many years ago when Bob Mumford was invited to perform a wedding for a
young couple.
The
wedding went off without a hitch. The
ceremony was perfect, the bride was elegant, the groom swept her off her feet
with a kiss when Bob said, "I now pronounce you husband and wife." The resulting clamor from the guests in
attendance slowed the couple from exiting the church.
Amidst a
hail of rice and shouts from the guests, they finally made it out the front
door to the front steps of the church.
The waiting limousine driver saw them and opened the door of the vehicle
for them. Making their way down the long
staircase to the sidewalk, the bride paused to gather the long train of her
wedding dress. The groom stood there for
a minute taking everything in, trying to absorb the transformation that had
just taken place and then said to his new bride, "Honey, I don't feel
married yet."
You can
imagine the look on her face. She
responded quickly and said, "Then, Sweetheart, you'd better adjust your
feelings to fit the facts -- and the truth!
We're married!"
So it is
with many Christians. The past life with
its sins, its mistakes, its having been subject to sickness, infirmity,
disease, poverty and death has been eradicated.
The past life has been put to death.
We've been raised from the dead.
The "new us" has Father's DNA, and that DNA is not subject to
the Law of Sin and Death.
The fact
that we've been redeemed from sin and now have access to eternal life in Christ
Jesus registers somewhat for most believers.
The fact that we are no longer subject to sickness, disease, infirmity,
poverty and dying still has a long way to go to register in our
consciousness. We've become so
"fact" oriented that we fail to see and hear and receive the truth! We've tried to adjust the truth to fit our
feelings and our circumstances instead of realizing that we are continuing to
eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Just
because a person is fighting with cancer doesn't mean they have to accept the
prognosis of the medical profession.
Just because someone has Alzheimer's, or arthritis or heart problems
doesn't mean that those issues have finality in their lives. These things are all a product of the
environment in which we live, the corrupted diets and foods we eat and a host
of other things over which we have been given spiritual authority. It's time for us as Christians to begin to
speak the truth about ourselves and stop speaking the facts about our
situations as though those facts were the truth.
Isaiah,
seeing into the future, prophesied of Jesus: "But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed." (Isaiah 53:5)
Isaiah
saw the healing as something taking place in the present -- and that was some
700 years before Jesus actually went to the Cross.
Here's
how Peter puts it, however: "Who his own self bare our sins in
his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (I Peter 2:24)
Peter
puts it in a finished context. Our
healing has already been finished.
That's the truth! It's time for
us to change our confession to agree with the Word!
See you
next week.
Again, if you are in
need of healing -- especially if you have some terminal disease or prognosis of
a very short time to live from the doctors -- please join our prayer conference
calls on either Monday or Wednesday of each week at 7:00 PM Eastern. Once
again, the number to call is (805) 399-1000. Then enter the access code: 124763#. To get into the queue for prayer, when Randy
opens the call up for everyone, hit *6-1 on your keypad. Let us minister to
your need for healing!
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Email Contact: Admin@RiverWorshipCenter.org
Our book, A
Tale of Two Brides, published by Destiny Image, is now available on
Amazon.com as an E-book: http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Two-Brides-Relationship-ebook/dp/B00BSV6HZC/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1363139096&sr=8-8&keywords=A+Tale+of+Two+Brides#_
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