Another Coffee Break

Solutions! Salutations, too! Hey, you need solutions, don’t you? So, I’m declaring solutions to you. Hehehehehe………

All right. Good Morning! You DID sleep well last night, didn’t you?

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If there is anything I’ve learned throughout the years it is that dreams – and specifically, dreams from the Lord – are given to us for a variety of reasons. I marvel at the unique nature of the pictures and experiences that come this way. These dreams are intended to communicate the heart of the Lord in a visual way.






You understand, of course, that I’m not referring to the dreams that derive from eating chocolate-covered dill pickles or some strange combination of foods before we go to bed. I’m referring to the communication that is Spirit-driven.

Because we are first and foremost spirit-beings, then soul and then body, anything which is spirit-driven or spirit-motivated and/or has any kind of spiritual emphasis will be reflected in our dreams while we are asleep. Ever wonder why you have certain dreams that seem to lack logic or rationale? Ever wonder why you have dreams that communicate some kind of message? Ever wonder why you sometimes have nightmares?

Everything that happens to you during the day or over the course of several days is retained in your subconscious memory. Everything you hear and everything you see goes straight to your subconscious memory. Your dreams won’t necessarily come out of your subconscious memory – although some will be influenced by it.

Dreams are a form of spirit communication. When you watch certain television programs, listen to music or focus heavily on the news of the day, for instance, there is a constant level of spirit-communication taking place. Virtually all media is spirit-driven.

That may seem to be a stretch or an exaggeration, but as one who has both studied (and taught at the university level) and put into practice the art or science of subliminal communication, I speak from practical experience. I don’t want to get sidetracked on that subject today, but it is important to emphasize that we are constantly being communicated with on a spirit-level.

If our daily input comes from television programs, a barrage of negative news, or much of the popular music on the radio today, much of what goes straight to our spirit will be driven and motivated by demonic spirits with a demonic agenda.

If, on the other hand, the majority of our daily input comes from spending time in the Word, listening to and participating in praise and worship music, and simply enjoying the presence of the Lord, the Holy Spirit will be transmitting and imparting the very life-flow of God into us. The result will be that we will begin to have more and more dreams, visions and visitations from the Lord.

When the dreams took place that I’ve just described and shared with you on the night of August 7^th/morning of August 8^th, Della and I had just completed a period of some two weeks of literally soaking in the presence of the Lord. The River of Life Campmeeting that Peter and Cathryn Nash (Frontline Worship Centre) sponsored in Red Deer, Alberta was filled with praise and worship, revelatory teaching and prophecy (**not the so-called “End Time” prophecy that many Christians often think of), and miraculous displays of the presence of the Lord. We had seen non-stop signs and wonders accompanying the teaching and preaching of the Word.

You simply cannot be in that kind of environment without it impacting every part of your being. Your spirit is continually receiving revelation and impartation from the Holy Spirit. These dreams I’ve just described are only a tiny part of the experiences we had in God during this two-week period!

In the weeks since, I’ve had several more dreams from the Lord – some of which confirm these dreams and add to a collective experience. Why am I saying this? Many of you – my friends, my acquaintances and my Coffee Break readers – have been having dreams, visions and visitations from the Lord during the past months or even years; but the frequency of these experiences has increased and is increasing even more!

It is important to pay attention to what is happening. We are in the midst of the greatest world-wide harvest of souls in history! Despite all of the negative news that we hear and see on television and in the news media in general, spectacular things are taking place as we come to the end of this era.

What’s it all about? Jesus is coming back for a Bride without spot or wrinkle (see Ephesians 5:27). He is coming for a Bride who has made herself ready for Him; that’s to say that she has pursued Him with a fervent love, and has done all to respond to His every desire so that she reflects His glory, His nature, His character and His makeup. She is ready because she has done all to become His Counterpart, His Other Self!

Folks, right now the body of Christ is not ready for His return! Certainly there are many Christians who meet the criteria of Ephesians 5:27 and Revelation 19:7-8, but as a whole the biggest part of the body – those who profess to know the Lord and walk with Him – are not in pursuit of His presence in their lives, no matter the cost!

Many, many Christians are very passive about their Christianity. They’ve become religious instead of relational! They have the form of Godliness but they lack the power and authority that goes with a personal love-relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Because the Lord Jesus Christ is desirous of having a full house, a completed Bride, a readied Bride who is anxiously looking for Him to come and receive her, more and more and more believers are experiencing supernatural dreams, revelations and visitations as the Holy Spirit draws the people of God. God is revealing Himself in spectacular ways to His people. His objective is to inspire them, to draw them, to make them so dissatisfied with who they are and where they are spiritually that they begin to cry out with their whole being for His 24-hour presence.

Because of the way that the Lord has revealed Himself to me throughout my life, and because of the constant sense of His presence 24 hours a day, I cannot imagine life without Him being there, living in me, living through me, demonstrating His Kingdom for so much as ten seconds. The longer I walk with the Lord, the more I desire of Him. The more I have His presence, the more I thirst after Him. The more He demonstrates His power and authority through me with signs and wonders, the more I realize just how little I have of Him and how much more awaits!

The things I share in these Coffee Breaks, the experiences that I’ve shared over the past seven years (and continue to share) are designed to inspire you, to prod you, to anger you if necessary, but mostly to encourage you to move on in God! There’s no such thing as standing still in God. If you’re not pressing in for more of Him, you’re going backwards and growing cold spiritually. If you’re not activating and operating in the Gifts of the Spirit with the Fruit of the Spirit in full attendance, you are dying a slow death spiritually.

Remember the parable of the ten virgins?

Matthew 25:1-13: Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

I won’t make this discussion a complete breakdown of this parable, but there are some really important elements of Jesus’ statements to consider and meditate on.

Let me begin with one of Jesus’ last remarks where He says, “Verily I say unto you, I know you not.” Ouch! These are virgins! These are folks who have gotten “saved.” They’ve repented of their sins, they’ve acknowledged Jesus Christ as their Lord, and they’ve led basically righteous lives. They’re dressed in white. They’re supposed to be awaiting the coming of the Bridegroom.

The announcement has gone out, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him.”

All of the virgins go to the assigned place of meeting the Bridegroom with their lamps lit, their flames burning, their passion and ardor for the Lord on display. The problem is, the Bridegroom doesn’t come when expected. Half of the virgins have taken extra oil so they can keep their lamps burning. Their passion and fire for God is clearly evident.

The other half has made no preparation for the Bridegroom delaying His coming. There is no foresight or expectation that He might … He just might not … come according to their timetable. What has happened? They’ve fallen into the trap of programming the Lord into a religious box. There is no pursuit of His presence. There is no thirst to really know their husband-to-be. There is no oil of anointing. (I’d really like to expand on this, but that will wait for another discussion.) There is no walking and living in the Spirit.

Here’s the problem, and this is a picture of a good part of the body of Christ today. Jesus has sent out an invitation to the world. John records Jesus as putting it like this:

John 3:16: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

All of the virgins believed on Jesus as the Son of God. Good, so far! But there’s a whole lot more. This is not an intellectual assent to Jesus being the Son of God. The Greek word translated “believed” in this statement is pisteuo. This is a whole lot more than simply “believing!” This is “to have faith in.” This is the result of hearing His voice, having faith generate within one’s being because you heard His voice, (see Romans 10:17) and then responding with your whole being to that voice.

The five foolish virgins stopped in their pursuit of the presence of the Lord. They ceased to pursue after hearing His voice in their being. They lost their passion for Him. Their flames went out, and there was no oil to restart the fire. They had ceased to “be filled” with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). The well of the oil of the Spirit had run dry.

Any personal and intimate communication by and through the Holy Spirit between them and the Lord had long since ceased. They didn’t “know” Him anymore, and when they presented themselves to Him – after He had already come and received those who were ready and waiting – His response was, “I don’t know you.” Jesus’ answer – literally translated from the Greek – was, “I don’t recognize you. I can’t see you. I don’t understand you.”

What a waste! To have come so far, and then treat the relationship in such cavalier fashion was a disaster. They were excluded from being part of the Bride. They were excluded from the personal and intimate presence of the Lord. Sure, they were “saved” from the fires of Hell, but they would never have the trust and confidence reserved for those who press into the Lord and seek after His best, no matter what it takes and no matter what it costs!

But here is the message of the Lord to all who find themselves in the category of the foolish virgins today. The call continues to go forth. There is a second chance for those who’ve blown it the first time around. He continues to seek after a people who will love Him with every breath of their being. He continues to look for those who will have His best in them no matter the cost. He continues to desire those who will not compromise His Word to them and in them.

There is still time – but very little of it!

That’s the essence of what happened in my dreams. There was a second chance for those in the cage who were biting and devouring one another. There was a second chance for the Russian officer. And they took it! There was repentance, and there was complete healing and restoration. There was deliverance for all. And Jesus received the Glory and Honor because of it.

For most of the past 20 years or so I have had a constant theme in my sharing and teaching. That theme goes like this: There is no substitute for the presence of the Lord.

In the past months, I’ve realized that there is one more element to this that needs to be added and it goes like this: There is no substitute for the Glory of the Lord being revealed in and through us.

Why do I add the second statement? Follow this if you will.

If we live in His presence, and continually respond to His voice, He will reveal His Glory in us. If He reveals His Glory in us, He will have received His inheritance in us – and that’s what this is all about! (See Ephesians 1:17-23)

Next Series: Heaven: A Trip to the Future.

The Holy Spirit is moving and operating in this day and age in non-traditional ways; and any attempts we make to box Him in or try to second-guess Him are doomed to failure. Those who are willing to hear what He has to say and are ready to “operate outside the box” will see and experience the Glory of the Lord!

Blessings on you!

Regner

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Good Morning, y’all! Up and at ‘em, yet?
I’m just getting my coffee started. yAWN!! Trying to wake up this morning. Della is off to a Ladies’ Retreat at Banff Springs, Alberta, so I’m on my own.

If you haven’t had your cup of Java yet this morning, hang on, this French Press will be ready in a couple of minutes. Grab a chair and have a seat.

We’re less than 48 hours away from the elections as I write this, and I need to share with you a dream that came to me a few days ago. This is out of sequence in my dream sharing. I have already completed Dreams from the Lord IV, but because of the nature and urgency of this new dream I felt the necessity of getting this out to you for your prayerful consideration.

In his letter to the Romans, Paul makes a remarkable statement concerning Abraham that we tend to forget or overlook.

Romans 4:17: (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Isaiah 46:9-10: Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

This may be a stretch for some folks, but I believe that dreams are given because the Lord is giving us the opportunity to declare the end from the beginning and call those things that are not as though they were. Why? What was it that Jesus instructed in what we often refer to as “The Lord’s Prayer”?

Matthew 6:9-10: After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

When the Lord gives us dreams, I believe that He shows us His heart’s desire. I believe that He shows us those things which are His will and purpose in Heaven, giving us both the opportunity and responsibility to call them into being here on earth. That said, consider this dream.

In this dream, the elections were over, and a few days had passed. I was at the White House having a conversation with Barack Obama. The conservative Republicans had swept the elections taking both the House and Senate majorities away from the Democrats. It was an electoral sweep of historic proportions and historic consequences.

Obama was visibly shaken. Somehow he had never believed that this kind of changeover in power could or would happen. The fact that his policies and agenda were so thoroughly repudiated by the voting public literally stopped him in his tracks.

It was a golden opportunity for me to share with him the difference between the wishy-washy, “inclusive” religion he had called “Christianity” and a true relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. He hung his head in his hands and covered his eyes. I shared with him the fact that literally tens of thousands of Christians had been praying – many of them fasting as well – for a Great Awakening in this nation not unlike the one that took place in the 1700’s and 1800’s beginning with Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.

America was born as a nation during that first Great Awakening, with most of our early presidents having a genuine faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and leading this nation in a Godly way.

Last year during the Prayer Mountain gathering in Branson, Missouri, the Lord spoke to Billye Brim and told her that it was not a change of political parties or leaders that would bring change to this nation – righteous change, that is. It would only come with a new and fresh awakening in the hearts of people to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

To that end we have been praying, as have literally hundreds of thousands of Christians across this nation, and around the world. The electoral sea change taking place in this nation is the result of those prayers and the awakening that has been taking place.

America was founded for the purpose of providing a haven for Christians who could teach, preach and spread the Gospel of the Kingdom around the world with complete freedom, and the backing of a nation that would stand behind them. That purpose is instilled in virtually every state constitution. The First Amendment to our Constitution was designed to keep the government from infringing upon our Christian liberties in any way.

As I shared in the dream with Barack Obama, he began to shake and tremble as the Holy Spirit brought deep conviction to him, and an awakening to who Jesus Christ really is. Revelation began to pour into his being, and for the first time in his life there was a recognition and realization of the Truth of the Gospel. With that revelation came an understanding of how he had been duped throughout his life and misled into believing an agenda that was – in reality – opposed to everything Jesus Christ preached and provided.

He dropped to his knees on the floor and began to weep almost uncontrollably as the Spirit of the Lord washed over his being. Finally he got to his feet. He was quiet for a moment, and then said, “When I ran for the presidency, I campaigned on a platform of change for this nation. The “change” I’ve been trying to push has been wrong. Now we will see some real change as I move to right some terrible wrongs I’ve done to this nation.”

I said to him, “Mr. President, you are certainly aware of the fact that there are a number of lawsuits making their way through the courts challenging your right to sit as president because of your not being born in the U.S.”

He answered me, “Yes, I know that. If those lawsuits are heard by the Supreme Court, I will lose and be forced from office. I may not have a long time, but what time I do have I intend to use for good.”

Again I said to him, “Mr. President, this nation needs to hear from you. They need to hear your confession and your conviction that Jesus Christ is indeed Lord of your life – and furthermore, that He is Lord of America!”

He nodded his head and replied, “You’re right. There is nothing more powerful than an honest and forthright confession.”

I awoke from the dream as Barack Obama prepared to make his announcement, realizing that the Lord had shown me something that can be! This is not an illusion. It is not simply a flight of fancy. This is a change that can take place in this nation.

We have been praying daily for change – righteous change. We have been praying daily that the Holy Spirit would cause the removal of all those from office who follow their own agenda instead of listening to the Lord, and replace them with people who would lead and govern in righteousness. What better change than to have those in power – such as the president himself – publicly repent and confess Jesus Christ as the head of this nation.

It hasn’t happened yet. There are others within the prophetic community who have seen this kind of change taking place – and with Barack Obama! This can happen, folks! But it can’t and won’t happen unless the people of God pray and intercede as never before.

More than ever, we need to assemble as the people of God and cry out for this kind of change. In the remaining days and hours before the elections take place (and many folks have already voted early) I urge you to join us in prayer and intercession for this nation.

Beyond that, I urge you to set aside any prejudice or bias or ill feeling you may have towards Barack Obama because of the choices and agenda he has pushed forward and intercede before God for an awakening to take place in him. This man is in trouble, people, and he needs the Lord in his life. He needs the reality of relationship with Jesus Christ instead of the dead religion that has been foisted off on him since his childhood.

He needs an awakening to the purposes of God – not only for himself and his family, but for this nation. If that awakening takes place, we will have a harvest of souls like you can’t imagine!

Buckle your seatbelts!

The Holy Spirit is moving and operating in this day and age in non-traditional ways; and any attempts we make to box Him in or try to second-guess Him are doomed to failure. Those who are willing to hear what He has to say and are ready to “operate outside the box” will see and experience the Glory of the Lord!

Blessings on you!

Regner

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Salutations and Blessings upon you!

The coffee is brewing…uhh…steeping in the French Press. Ready for a cup? I believe we’ve got some of those smaller “vitamins” sitting around the kitchen, too. You know…those things they call “donut holes”? Vitamins! Right!

Let’s get right to it this morning continuing with the prophetic picture and significance of what I saw in the dreams.

DREAM NUMBER ONE, Part One

Returning to the person in the dream who was a Russian FSB officer, he represents an authority-figure and someone who has the power to influence and control the lives of many people. I noted in the previous Coffee Break that he was a type of the “leader” who has charge over folks, but has no personal relationship with the Lord. He was austere, legalistic, demanding and thought he had the right to rule over them and say what they could believe and not believe. Because he had no personal relationship with the Lord, anyone who talked about such a thing was a heretic and a fool.

He is the classic picture of leaders who have the “form of Godliness but lack the power thereof.” (See II Timothy 3:5) I say that because when he first met me at the airport, his demeanor and appearance was that of a well-polished, seasoned minister. He had the appearance of being a Godly man. He had the ability to put on a show – a façade – that was anything but real. His ultimate repentance at the end of the dream is indicative of many leaders I’ve met throughout the years who have been Bible College or seminary-trained – highly educated, if you will – but whose knowledge is all academic, not revelatory.

There is a huge difference between acquired knowledge and revealed knowledge by the Holy Spirit. Acquired knowledge is what you get through book-learning and academic pursuits. Revealed knowledge is what comes directly from God in an instant. It is a “download” if you will. You instantly have the answer or the solution to a situation that didn’t come through hours or days or weeks or months of study, research and experimentation.

Let me digress a bit to give you an example.

Back in 1988 when I was Chief Engineer for KTBY (the FOX TV affiliate) in Anchorage, I was called in for an emergency in the wee hours of the morning. The transmitter had failed and the station was off the air. The transmitter was an archaic relic of WWII-era design – an old Black and White RCA transmitter that had been converted to color sometime in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. The thing should have been retired to a museum many years before. There were no schematics that covered the modifications, and many changes had been made to the transmitter that weren’t recorded. When I walked into the transmitter room, the place smelled of molten metal. The high-voltage cage had literally melted and the final output tube was almost welded into the High Voltage cavity.

Logically, the first step was to rip everything out, clean up the mess and rebuild the HV section. OK, so far. But what caused the meltdown in the first place? What had failed in such a way as to cause such catastrophic damage? I didn’t have a clue, so I did what I knew to do: lay hands on the transmitter and pray. (By the way, this is something both Della and I have done on numerous occasions with many different things. (Grin)

You can laugh if you want. If some of my engineering friends had been there to see, they’d have known I’d absolutely lost it! There’s a spiritual principle here, however, that many believers miss in crisis situations. James put it like this in his epistle:

James 1:5-6: ⁵If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. ⁶But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.

I needed wisdom and understanding and the Lord gave it to me – in immediate download fashion! In an instant, the Holy Spirit gave me a vision of an old oil-filled capacitor in the HV power supply and told me it was shorted. When I opened up the back doors of the HV cage, there was the capacitor just like the Holy Spirit had shown me. A quick test showed that it was indeed shorted out. I scrounged up a replacement, installed it and fired the transmitter up. Presto! Just like that we were back up and running.

I didn’t need an engineering degree (and truth is, I still don’t have one despite international recognition for some achievements in science and engineering) – just an impartation of wisdom and understanding from the Holy Spirit. My achievements in the field of electronic engineering haven’t come through book-learning; they’ve come as a direct result of revelation from the Holy Spirit. Folks, it works, and it works reliably. But it only works when you have the reality of a relationship, a personal love-relationship, with the Lord Jesus Christ. There’s no form about this. It isn’t religious at all. And there’s both power and authority that backs it up.

Didn’t mean to get so sidetracked, but the personal illustration is a picture of the difference between “the form of Godliness” and living and operating in the power of God. Throughout the years, I’ve met many “pastors” who had the title and fair-sized church congregations to accompany their title. When I’ve asked them how the Lord called them into the ministry, they’ve given me a deer-in-the-headlights stare. Some have stammered and stuttered around looking for an answer. Others have simply responded dryly, “I just wanted to do something to help my fellow-man.” Still others have answered, “It seemed like a good thing to do.”

Duhhh….. No concept whatever of the voice of the Holy Spirit or having a commission from the Lord!

Dad used to say (and I think he was repeating something he’d heard throughout the years), “There are lots of people in the ministry who simply “went” – but they were not “sent”!” When that’s the case, you have the perfect picture of the Russian officer in the dream: a person who exercises power, influence and authority without wisdom and understanding.

But here’s the best part of this picture: when folks like this come in contact with real authority and power – that which comes by and through the Holy Spirit – and they see miraculous events take place which defy all their logic and learning resulting in real change to people, desire leaps within their being for the “real.” For many there is recognition – whether ever voiced or not – that what they’ve operated in was “will power” and not some God-given, Holy Spirit-anointed dunamis power and authority. Like the Russian officer in the dream, reality sets in, repentance takes place and there comes a yielding to the Lord Jesus Christ.


DREAM NUMBER ONE, Part Two

Jeremiah 12:9-11: ⁹Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. ¹⁰Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. ¹¹They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

In our previous Coffee Break, we talked about Paul’s statement to the Galatians; and I will expand on that for a bit because it bears directly on the prophetic picture in these dreams.

Galatians 5:13-26: ¹³For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. ¹⁴For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ¹⁵But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. ¹⁶This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. ¹⁸But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ²⁴And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. ²⁵If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ²⁶Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

In Jeremiah’s prophecy, he lays the initial blame for the “biting and devouring” upon the pastors – the shepherds – saying, “They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.”

Paul takes it further as he writes the Galatians, however, and makes clear that each individual who engages in “biting and devouring” one another lacks love (agape) and is engaging in one or more of the works of the flesh. He describes the “works of the flesh” with the following list of activities: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like.

Pretty graphic, don’t you think?

I don’t remember who first said it, but Neville Johnson recently restated a spiritual principle which accurately describes the condition of the body of Christ today. It goes like this: What this generation tolerates, the next generation will accept as “normal,” or acceptable.

We’ve seen that in a growing tolerance and acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle within this generation. In the previous generation, one didn’t even mention the topic because it was so abhorrent and aberrant to human behavior. Without an awakening in the hearts of God’s people in this generation and a refutation and absolute rejection of homosexual activity as some kind of “norm” we will see this sin quite accepted within the body of Christ in the coming generation. The consequence will be exactly what Jeremiah prophesied: “The whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.”

This is the condition that prevailed in the lives and hearts of the “believers” who were biting, devouring and cannibalizing one another in the cage. They were desolate. They had no hope. They had no manifestation of love between themselves. They had lost the authority and the power that comes when folks walk in communion with the Lord. Had that communion been present – the intimacy of a love relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ – the authority and power to deal with the crisis they found themselves in would have easily been accessible and operational!

I’ve said all that to say this: The “works of the flesh” Paul lays out in Galatians, when tolerated within the body of Christ, leads to the breakdown of relationship between God’s people, and a breakdown in the level of leadership. The more a society tolerates, the more those who are trained and groomed for leadership positions tolerate. It’s one of the reasons why we have seen some major church denominations “ordain” homosexuals and lesbians to pastoral positions.

There has been a breakdown of the moral and spiritual standards once held within these organizations – so much so that people who don’t even know the Lord are being elevated and “ordained” to ministerial places when they don’t even have a call or beckoning from the Holy Spirit. As I’ve already said earlier, this is the picture of the Russian FSB officer in the dream.


DREAM NUMBER TWO

Throughout most of the past forty years, if there’s one thing that both Della and I have learned, there is no quicker way to demolish and remove a yoke of bondage than through prayer and fasting.

In the first dream, it was very apparent that a trap had been set for me by the Enemy – a trap designed for my destruction and death. My spiritual antennae had been alerted before departing on the trip. It was a good thing that I responded to the quickening of the Holy Spirit and instructed Della to wait until she heard from me before coming to Moscow. Being “instant in season and out of season” (II Timothy 4:2) applies to every part of our responsiveness to the Holy Spirit.

In this instance, there was no time to stop and consider the check from the Lord. If I hadn’t responded instantly and Della had gone with me, things could have turned out very differently. As it was, she was prompted by the Holy Spirit (in her dream) to be fasting and praying for my deliverance and restoration.

That prayer and fasting became corporate. The spiritual principle of corporate prayer is revealed in Matthew 18:16b and Matthew 18:19-20:

Matthew 18:16b: …In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Matthew 18:19-20: Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Understand?

There certainly is power and authority through prayer; and the prayers of any righteous individual, praying according to the heart and will of Father God, are certainly heard. However, when you add the agreement – the sumphoneo (symphony) – of individuals there is logarithmic multiplication that takes place. It’s almost like a row of bulldozers (or tanks) coming at the Enemy. Take a look at the following verses of Scripture.

Deuteronomy 32:30: How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?


Here’s how Solomon put it in Ecclesiastes:

Ecclesiastes 4:12: And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

It was obvious that I was up against a force of the Enemy that required greater power than I could release by myself. I had authority – all the authority I needed against Satan – but there was a need for the hosts of Heaven to be released against him and to wage warfare in the realm of the Spirit.

That took place as Della gathered with others on a daily and consistent basis.

I have a few other comments and observations to share, and in the interests of not making this Coffee Break overlong, I’ll save them for the next one.

The Holy Spirit is moving and operating in this day and age in non-traditional ways; and any attempts we make to box Him in or try to second-guess Him are doomed to failure. Those who are willing to hear what He has to say and are ready to “operate outside the box” will see and experience the Glory of the Lord!

Blessings on you!

Regner

Regner A. CapenerCAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Prosser, Washington 99350
(509) 515-0133
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Salutations and Blessings upon you!

The coffee is brewing…uhh…steeping in the French Press. Ready for a cup? I believe we’ve got some of those smaller “vitamins” sitting around the kitchen, too. You know…those things they call “donut holes”? Vitamins! Right!

Let’s get right to it this morning continuing with the prophetic picture and significance of what I saw in the dreams.

DREAM NUMBER ONE, Part One

Returning to the person in the dream who was a Russian FSB officer, he represents an authority-figure and someone who has the power to influence and control the lives of many people. I noted in the previous Coffee Break that he was a type of the “leader” who has charge over folks, but has no personal relationship with the Lord. He was austere, legalistic, demanding and thought he had the right to rule over them and say what they could believe and not believe. Because he had no personal relationship with the Lord, anyone who talked about such a thing was a heretic and a fool.

He is the classic picture of leaders who have the “form of Godliness but lack the power thereof.” (See II Timothy 3:5) I say that because when he first met me at the airport, his demeanor and appearance was that of a well-polished, seasoned minister. He had the appearance of being a Godly man. He had the ability to put on a show – a façade – that was anything but real. His ultimate repentance at the end of the dream is indicative of many leaders I’ve met throughout the years who have been Bible College or seminary-trained – highly educated, if you will – but whose knowledge is all academic, not revelatory.

There is a huge difference between acquired knowledge and revealed knowledge by the Holy Spirit. Acquired knowledge is what you get through book-learning and academic pursuits. Revealed knowledge is what comes directly from God in an instant. It is a “download” if you will. You instantly have the answer or the solution to a situation that didn’t come through hours or days or weeks or months of study, research and experimentation.

Let me digress a bit to give you an example.

Back in 1988 when I was Chief Engineer for KTBY (the FOX TV affiliate) in Anchorage, I was called in for an emergency in the wee hours of the morning. The transmitter had failed and the station was off the air. The transmitter was an archaic relic of WWII-era design – an old Black and White RCA transmitter that had been converted to color sometime in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. The thing should have been retired to a museum many years before. There were no schematics that covered the modifications, and many changes had been made to the transmitter that weren’t recorded. When I walked into the transmitter room, the place smelled of molten metal. The high-voltage cage had literally melted and the final output tube was almost welded into the High Voltage cavity.

Logically, the first step was to rip everything out, clean up the mess and rebuild the HV section. OK, so far. But what caused the meltdown in the first place? What had failed in such a way as to cause such catastrophic damage? I didn’t have a clue, so I did what I knew to do: lay hands on the transmitter and pray. (By the way, this is something both Della and I have done on numerous occasions with many different things. (Grin)

You can laugh if you want. If some of my engineering friends had been there to see, they’d have known I’d absolutely lost it! There’s a spiritual principle here, however, that many believers miss in crisis situations. James put it like this in his epistle:

James 1:5-6: ⁵If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. ⁶But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.

I needed wisdom and understanding and the Lord gave it to me – in immediate download fashion! In an instant, the Holy Spirit gave me a vision of an old oil-filled capacitor in the HV power supply and told me it was shorted. When I opened up the back doors of the HV cage, there was the capacitor just like the Holy Spirit had shown me. A quick test showed that it was indeed shorted out. I scrounged up a replacement, installed it and fired the transmitter up. Presto! Just like that we were back up and running.

I didn’t need an engineering degree (and truth is, I still don’t have one despite international recognition for some achievements in science and engineering) – just an impartation of wisdom and understanding from the Holy Spirit. My achievements in the field of electronic engineering haven’t come through book-learning; they’ve come as a direct result of revelation from the Holy Spirit. Folks, it works, and it works reliably. But it only works when you have the reality of a relationship, a personal love-relationship, with the Lord Jesus Christ. There’s no form about this. It isn’t religious at all. And there’s both power and authority that backs it up.

Didn’t mean to get so sidetracked, but the personal illustration is a picture of the difference between “the form of Godliness” and living and operating in the power of God. Throughout the years, I’ve met many “pastors” who had the title and fair-sized church congregations to accompany their title. When I’ve asked them how the Lord called them into the ministry, they’ve given me a deer-in-the-headlights stare. Some have stammered and stuttered around looking for an answer. Others have simply responded dryly, “I just wanted to do something to help my fellow-man.” Still others have answered, “It seemed like a good thing to do.”

Duhhh….. No concept whatever of the voice of the Holy Spirit or having a commission from the Lord!

Dad used to say (and I think he was repeating something he’d heard throughout the years), “There are lots of people in the ministry who simply “went” – but they were not “sent”!” When that’s the case, you have the perfect picture of the Russian officer in the dream: a person who exercises power, influence and authority without wisdom and understanding.

But here’s the best part of this picture: when folks like this come in contact with real authority and power – that which comes by and through the Holy Spirit – and they see miraculous events take place which defy all their logic and learning resulting in real change to people, desire leaps within their being for the “real.” For many there is recognition – whether ever voiced or not – that what they’ve operated in was “will power” and not some God-given, Holy Spirit-anointed dunamis power and authority. Like the Russian officer in the dream, reality sets in, repentance takes place and there comes a yielding to the Lord Jesus Christ.


DREAM NUMBER ONE, Part Two

Jeremiah 12:9-11: ⁹Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. ¹⁰Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. ¹¹They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

In our previous Coffee Break, we talked about Paul’s statement to the Galatians; and I will expand on that for a bit because it bears directly on the prophetic picture in these dreams.

Galatians 5:13-26: ¹³For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. ¹⁴For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ¹⁵But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. ¹⁶This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. ¹⁸But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ²⁴And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. ²⁵If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ²⁶Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

In Jeremiah’s prophecy, he lays the initial blame for the “biting and devouring” upon the pastors – the shepherds – saying, “They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.”

Paul takes it further as he writes the Galatians, however, and makes clear that each individual who engages in “biting and devouring” one another lacks love (agape) and is engaging in one or more of the works of the flesh. He describes the “works of the flesh” with the following list of activities: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like.

Pretty graphic, don’t you think?

I don’t remember who first said it, but Neville Johnson recently restated a spiritual principle which accurately describes the condition of the body of Christ today. It goes like this: What this generation tolerates, the next generation will accept as “normal,” or acceptable.

We’ve seen that in a growing tolerance and acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle within this generation. In the previous generation, one didn’t even mention the topic because it was so abhorrent and aberrant to human behavior. Without an awakening in the hearts of God’s people in this generation and a refutation and absolute rejection of homosexual activity as some kind of “norm” we will see this sin quite accepted within the body of Christ in the coming generation. The consequence will be exactly what Jeremiah prophesied: “The whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.”

This is the condition that prevailed in the lives and hearts of the “believers” who were biting, devouring and cannibalizing one another in the cage. They were desolate. They had no hope. They had no manifestation of love between themselves. They had lost the authority and the power that comes when folks walk in communion with the Lord. Had that communion been present – the intimacy of a love relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ – the authority and power to deal with the crisis they found themselves in would have easily been accessible and operational!

I’ve said all that to say this: The “works of the flesh” Paul lays out in Galatians, when tolerated within the body of Christ, leads to the breakdown of relationship between God’s people, and a breakdown in the level of leadership. The more a society tolerates, the more those who are trained and groomed for leadership positions tolerate. It’s one of the reasons why we have seen some major church denominations “ordain” homosexuals and lesbians to pastoral positions.

There has been a breakdown of the moral and spiritual standards once held within these organizations – so much so that people who don’t even know the Lord are being elevated and “ordained” to ministerial places when they don’t even have a call or beckoning from the Holy Spirit. As I’ve already said earlier, this is the picture of the Russian FSB officer in the dream.


DREAM NUMBER TWO

Throughout most of the past forty years, if there’s one thing that both Della and I have learned, there is no quicker way to demolish and remove a yoke of bondage than through prayer and fasting.

In the first dream, it was very apparent that a trap had been set for me by the Enemy – a trap designed for my destruction and death. My spiritual antennae had been alerted before departing on the trip. It was a good thing that I responded to the quickening of the Holy Spirit and instructed Della to wait until she heard from me before coming to Moscow. Being “instant in season and out of season” (II Timothy 4:2) applies to every part of our responsiveness to the Holy Spirit.

In this instance, there was no time to stop and consider the check from the Lord. If I hadn’t responded instantly and Della had gone with me, things could have turned out very differently. As it was, she was prompted by the Holy Spirit (in her dream) to be fasting and praying for my deliverance and restoration.

That prayer and fasting became corporate. The spiritual principle of corporate prayer is revealed in Matthew 18:16b and Matthew 18:19-20:

Matthew 18:16b: …In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Matthew 18:19-20: Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Understand?

There certainly is power and authority through prayer; and the prayers of any righteous individual, praying according to the heart and will of Father God, are certainly heard. However, when you add the agreement – the sumphoneo (symphony) – of individuals there is logarithmic multiplication that takes place. It’s almost like a row of bulldozers (or tanks) coming at the Enemy. Take a look at the following verses of Scripture.

Deuteronomy 32:30: How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?


Here’s how Solomon put it in Ecclesiastes:

Ecclesiastes 4:12: And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

It was obvious that I was up against a force of the Enemy that required greater power than I could release by myself. I had authority – all the authority I needed against Satan – but there was a need for the hosts of Heaven to be released against him and to wage warfare in the realm of the Spirit.

That took place as Della gathered with others on a daily and consistent basis.

I have a few other comments and observations to share, and in the interests of not making this Coffee Break overlong, I’ll save them for the next one.

The Holy Spirit is moving and operating in this day and age in non-traditional ways; and any attempts we make to box Him in or try to second-guess Him are doomed to failure. Those who are willing to hear what He has to say and are ready to “operate outside the box” will see and experience the Glory of the Lord!

Blessings on you!

Regner

Regner A. CapenerCAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Prosser, Washington 99350
(509) 515-0133
All Coffee Break articles are copyright by Regner A. Capener, but authorization for reprinting, reposting, copying or re-use, in whole or in part, is granted – provided proper attribution and this notice are included intact. Older Coffee Break archives are now available at http://regnersrangers.multiply.com/journal/ and are being slowly added at http://www.AnotherCoffeeBreak.com. Coffee Break articles are normally published weekly.

If you would like to have these articles arrive each morning in your email, please send a blank email to: Subscribe@AnotherCoffeeBreak.com. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to Unsubscribe@AnotherCoffeeBreak.com.
CAPENER MINISTRIES is a tax-exempt church ministry. Should you desire to participate and covenant with us as partners in this ministry, please contact us at either of the above email or physical addresses, or visit http://www.RiverWorshipCenter.org.