Month: June 2018

Blessing of Stillness #14

The Stillness Before We Respond to an Increase of Testing or Trial
 
Beloved, I call your spirit to attention, in the name of Yeshua.
 
Listen to the word of G-d for your spirit for today.
 
The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, ‘You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.’ They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh;
 Exodus 5:19–20
 
Spirit, there was a moment after the king of Egypt died, when the children of Israel had a moment to cry out for rescue (Exodus 2:23).
 
Following that season where they were able to catch that breath to cry for rescue, they settled back into the rhythm of bondage and building in the brickyard of Pharaoh.
 
Then these two men showed up to advocate as servants of the Most High for the release of this nation in bondage.
 
Then the nature and difficulty of the task increased majorly.
 
Then, the sons of Israel had a choice as to how they were going to respond to Moses, Aaron, and G-d.
 
Spirit, there is a moment before you respond to the increase of adversity, where you have an opportunity to respond to the increase of the fire that you are in.
 
There is a moment for you to be still, if you take advantage of it.
 
It may not look like a moment because for a season the difficulty of your trial has increased, likely past what you consider your breaking point.
 
But it is a moment all the same.
 
So, I bless you to recognize that moment when it comes, as subtlely as it comes.  I bless you to stop before you respond to G-d, to discern whether this season is something akin to a contraction that will result in your delivery from the dark press of your slavery, or whether it is the result of something else.
 
I bless you, spirit, to recognize precisely when Father is attempting to deliver you from a place of anguish.
 
I bless you, spirit, to recognize the timing of Father’s deliverance, even when you can see nothing else.
 
I bless you, spirit to hope when there is not a logical reason to hope.  I bless you with a recovery of the hope that was first yours when you came to know the L-rd.  At the first mention of the recordance of your name in heaven’s books and in the book of life, I bless you with a deep recovery of, and celebration of, the hope that is now yours, and remains yours, even when you despair of hope in your immediate circumstances.
 
I bless you, spirit, with a raging defiance against hopeless.
 
I bless you with hope while you still are.
 
Yes that was a complete sentence.
 
You do not exist, spirit.  Rather, you ARE.
 
The Scripture in the Greek of Acts 17:28 says “In Him we live and move and we are.”  We do not merely exist, like a bump on a log, with no active principle.  Because we are in Him, We ARE.
 
There is a principle of being-ness that is not part of mere existence.  There is the capacity for active kenesis and the expression of potential.  Mere existence can be had without execution or movement toward an objective.  Mere existence can be had without desire.  But we have desire, and zeal, and passion for things and goals.  We do not merely exist, we have a movement and a motion and a flow in us that impels us toward various ends.
 
Therefore, I bless you with the movement, and motion, and flow, and desire, and zeal that comes with BEING beyond mere existence.
 
Spirit, you have been placed into the Fire of His Radiance and Holiness, as an iron poker in the fire.  And in the fire, you take on the characteristics of the fire, the light, the warmth, the power of the fire.  And yet, you are still unquestionably iron.  Even when the fires increase, it is to strengthen you for the journey ahead, for the wilderness that is coming.  Father knows what is required.
 
So, everyone who is born of Him, becomes endued with the potential to live and move and be as He is.
 
Spirit, I bless you with a revelation, even in your brokenness, that you are still endued with the nature of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Though it is days, weeks, months, or years since you might have been in the fire of his tempering and proving, or though you are right now in the midst of those fires, and feel like you may be falling apart into a million pieces, you are still full of his fire, zeal, and purgative strength.
 
I bless you, oh lovely spirit, with the revelation of his intimacy as you flourish in the midst of increasing trials, and as you are still to discern if this are indeed His contractions to propel you out of the situation you are in.
 
I bless you with discernment of the nuances of your situation, as many as Father needs you to have right now.
 
I bless you with the capacity to embrace the moment of stillness, as the sweat drips from you, as you consider the nature of what is happening to you and within you.
 
I bless you with shalom and stillness in the name of Yeshua.

Serina (pronounced with a flipped R) Fleck leads the Sapphire Austria office, out of Innsbrck. She has been in California recently and, in the course of a day’s activities, she and Arthur evidently made their way to Farrell’s Ice Cream (picuted above).
Now if you know anything about Prophets, they are really simplified in their worldview. There are heavy absolutes.
Binaries.
Black and white.
Good and bad.
Right and wrong.
In and out.
Up and down.
Quick to judge EVERYTHING, amd have a strong opinion about everything all of the time. They are usually very vernal-expressive
But if you really want to foil a Prophet, your best bet is a quick-on-the-draw Exhorter. Exhorters are presentation-driven, colorful, flamboyant, social, people-oriented, relational, and without something to say in response to anything, anyone, anytime. In fact, they usually habe an unused quota of words and anyone that will give them the time of day is in for a…ahem…treat.
Granted, these stereotypes are crude, but they will serve the purpose of this post.
Arthur writes:

DID SHE REALLY H.A.V.E. TO?
Serina and I were out running around this evening, doing some fathering stuff.
I recently found out about a facet of her design I didn’t know was there, so I was looking for a doo dad that might help her unpack her treasures.
Afterwards, I took her to California’s Ultra Exhorter ice cream parlor… .
She orders the Parlour’s Tin Roof. I ordered the Black and White.
She promptly made a snarky comment about Prophets.

During those many days the king of Mizraim (Egypt) died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help.  Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to G-d.  And G-d heard their groaning, and G-d remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.  G-d saw the people of Israel–and G-d knew.
Exodus 23:23-25 ESV

Let’s tease this one out a bit at a time:

During those MANY days…

That is to say, those days were not merely a few; the time between Moses’ fleeing Egypt and his return was 40 YEARS (Acts 7:30).  That is more than my lifetime, and more than half of some of your lifetimes.  This process is over in a few chapters for us, but for the sons of Jacob, this process was like the pulling of saltwater taffy, or the long drawn-out process of forging a strong sword.  Think Glamdring, or Narsil. Over and over the machine turns, and the taffy is stretched farther and farther.  Over and over the hot steel is reinserted into the flames and the bellows inserts more air into the process, stoking the coals that much hotter, to the place where more and more impurities are removed, yielding a weapon that will not yield when the battle gets hot and long.

the king of Egypt died

This says that the breaking point was the one who already had a motive for killing Moses died.  At that point, and at no other point.

and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help.

Finally, the Scriptures record, Jacob’s seed groaned.  Even in the bowels of a slave, something within intuitively, instictively knows when enough damage has been done.  This is a moment of stillness in the bondage, a moment to ponder because of the death of the Egyptian monarch.  Maybe they will let us go finally.  No Pharaoh to drive a building program, and no need to drive the engine of this Ruler empire.  And, in this moment, the groan and the sighs are released.

Their cry for RESCUE from slavery

They did not just want relief.  Isaac’s born wanted someone to rescue.  They wanted deliverance.  They may have not fully understood the implications, because they were being beaten in the brickyard, and building Pithom and Rameses, but they cried for RESCUE.  Something deep within the spirit of even the most broken slave knows that slavery is not right, and that LIBERTY is right.

Came up to G-d

It arose as incense to the ears of the One who could rescue them. G-d’s heart as Father is for rescue.  He is a compassionate Father.  He is an affectionate Father. He is a tender-hearted, not-distant, Father.

And G-d heard their groaning

It was in the moment of temporary transition, when the King of Egypt died, that the King of Kings, the Man of War, heard the groanings of his יחיד.

Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.”

And G-d remembered his covenant with his friend, his חיד, and his son, and at that moment of stillness, the plan of rescue went into motion.  And of all the people, G-d selected the man who lied about a speech impediment (more on that later), and who really did not want the job.  But G-d would not pick someone that was not able to communicate deeply the nature of G-d.  G-d wanted this unconfident Exhorter who was blocked and found himself on the backside of the desert in the Arabian Peninsula (Galatians 4:25), who could communicate the nature of G-d to this generation of slaves.  That is what it takes to break the back of slavery.  An Exhorter.
And G-d didn’t remember his covenant the way a man who forgot his appointment with his doctor suddenly remembers.  I say that when the text says, “G-d remembered his covenant”, what it really seems to be saying is that “G-d mentally, emotionally, and with the fullness of His Spirit dwelt on and obssessed over it.”
He brooded over it, just as the Sun of Righteousness arises and flutters over a sick, infirmed situation with healing in His wings, and just as the Ruach Ha-Kodesh fluttered over the chaotic, turgid maelstrom of defilement in the gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 (see what I did there?).  He brooded over the desolation of tohu ve bohu.
He brooded and knew.  It occupied his thoughts deeply.  And who thinks more deeply and comprehensively about the release than Father.  He thought of the days when a generation of sons would RISE from a generation of slaves, and of the days when He would be the one to RAISE them up.
And here is one of the reasons Deuteronomy is my favorite book of all and is the heart of the whole testament.  Here is one of the reasons Deuteronomy governs the whole canon, and why you should get INTIMATE with this book:

and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Deuteronomy 1:31

Father heart of G-d, gang. Period.  Eat that, breathe that, live that.  There is a compassion in the FATHER heart of Father G-d.
He is the G-d who remembers his covenant.

Many of you are no doubt aware that there are posts on Ezekiel that have begun to show up on my blog.  Posts not written by me.
First of all, if you have noticed, then here is the post that gives some small detail of the man behind those posts, all of which have been sanctioned for publication here on TPH.
Permit me to indulge a small blurb on him.
His name is Eric Hatch.
I first met Eric while I was sequestered at Evangel University during my season in graduate school (AGTS).  Back then, he was very passionate about things like Kazakhstan (if you do not know what Kazakhstan is, then it is part of a greater region that deeply has my heart, including a major swath of nations that constitute the lion’s share of the world’s global Muslim population), and well-considered communication, and a deeper relationship with our great King and Husband.  His heart is truly noble, though he might not admit that.
I reconnected with him regularly and more intentionally a few years back after several years of intermittent conversation.  I specifically reconnected with him because Father told me it was time to do so.  And the more I have talked with him, the more rich the conversations have become.  Much of our conversation on his part, has been framed with the cavernous wisdom he brings to the table as we discuss matters scholarly and theological, especially from the more Reformed sides of our like-precious faith.
His is the sort of Teacher that deeply considers the Scripture and methodically mines out and polishes nuggets and fathomed treasures.  These gems are then polished, lightly placed upon cashmere cloths, and then deposited in the accounts of his listeners.
Truly, when I talk about the Redemptive Gift of Teacher, this man excels many of them, and though he would never say it in light of the many tests, trials, and the ways in which Father has refined him in the crucible of the last 15 years, he truly has grown into a masterful Kingdom lapidarist.
Above is a true reflection of what this man’s friendship does to my spirit.  And, yes, that is my spirit shining through in the picture of us at Cracker Barrel.
Those posts on Ezekiel are things the like of which we have studied over a long course of Saturday mornings the last several months, and he has been the one to open my eyes to the gems that glimmer in the works of Ezekiel.  For the record, Chapter 23 is probably one of the more powerful gems in the book, as vulgar and pornographic as it is at time.  While I will not spoil the why of the pornographic language of Chapter 23 (I will leave that to Eric to expand upon), I will say it is worth due consideration.  The book is more than Chapters 1 and 37.
For those of you that are SLG tribesmates of mine, I would use the series of Eric’s posts to augment the way you read this second-favorite book of the Old Testament of mine (Deuteronomy is my favorite).  I would consider the various hard things which Eric brings to light.
And I would encourage you to drink deeply from my friend’s well.  His are thoughts worth considering, and I count his friendship among my most-treasured.
 
 

 
When G-d tells you to do something, it is because you can.
You may not have it now, but you can grow into it.
 
DID has been hugely oversimplified.
We need a larger grid.
 
Danger of being too narrow.
 
Suppose a hypoglycemic blacks out and a resta and does a whole lot of stuff.
 
What if her blackout is a DID blackout and not a hypoglycemic blackout?
 
There are an awful lot of AHS’s that masque as a part.
 
AHS’s do not take with spiritual cleansing.
Parts will take with cleansing.
It is nearly impossible to do healing or nurture with an AHS.
None of the tools work with an AHS.
Can’t get resolution.
 
One portion of the spirit that is engaged provides a safety net.
 
We can integrate AHS’s into original self without realizing it.
 
A solution is the sword of the L-rd.
 
Leviathan residences
CSF
SINUS
LUNGS
CARDIOVASCULAR INCLUDING LYMPHATIC
DIGESTIVE
KIDNEYS
REPRODUCTIVE
 
Covenants
Something that is portable, with a tax collector
5 levels of holiness
 
Covenant on birthright
Simplest form is someone who cannot get justice
 
Curses
A Subset of the Covenant
 

• Victims can curse the perp
• Families of the victim
• Community of the victim
• Curses by G-d

 
Trauma bonds to time
 
German flavors of SRA, Germanic brand of witchcraft are the dominant
 
Structures that have to do with SRA
Burials
The most cruel artform of SRA is to bond the victim to the perp through a Mock funeral.
 
 
 

Lost time
Deleting a portion of time of our history can result in our disconnection from our timeline.
Arriving at the other side leading to us wanting to erase that time period from our timeline.
You can erase that time period, and it is effective, just like an amputation.
 
If you reject part of your time, you are rejecting part of yourself.
 
Which can create the doorway for synthetic time.
 
Rejecting a patch of our time, it has horrible ramifications for the cumulative nature of time.
 
When you are dealing with SRA, high probability of time.
Drowning
Strangulation
Purpose of death is to create a breach in your timeline, or replace the time with something else.
 
Three replacements

1. Synthetic time-blocks the flow
   1. Not found one good for this. But looking for a life that has absences of cumulative markers.
2. Someone else’s time-this person can control you through a piece of themselves that is in you.
   1. Diagnostics-if I ask the question of “do you ever feel as if you are completely not yourself, as if someone is living your life as you?” spirit goes positive or negative.
3. Reversal mechanism-siphoning out into someone else, and you feel drained in terms of resources.
   1. Diagnostics-frame it theoretically “if someone else was taking life out of your life, who would it be?”

 
When there is a trust relationship, you know there will be no judgment or ridicule. You can ask the bizarre questions and they can feel relief.
 
What is the repair process like?
 
We go back to Christ and G-d again and again.  The story of Christ is of his burial and resurrection.
 
Immerse yourself in the study of time when you are working with SRA DID survivors.
 
Look at the area of fruitfulness.
 
Approach every encounter with a sense of wonder.
 
Time is something to be sanctified and redeemed.
 
One other aspect that is fairly sophisticated.
 
Dealing with sexual intercourse with those who are trafficked.
 
Adam was imprinted with two messages
The first was abundance. Birds, mammals, fish, etc.
The second was beauty.
The creative power of G-d to make beauty.
 
It is fascinating that the Temptation for Eve was lack of abundance.
 
There was supposed to be a spiritual sync for Adam to give Eve the spiritual transfer in sex, so Eve’s spirit could bond with Adam’s spirit and receive not just love and oneness, but also the spiritual data of abundance and beauty.
 
Ask Jesus to use the Hebrews 4:12 sword to separate out with surgical precision of every part of that person’s humanity to the whole person and nothing besides the whole person, so that the person is restored to wholeness the way Jesus wants them.
 
G-d’s capacity to restore.
 
Not a question of G-d’s love.
A question of G-d’s ability to transform Saul of Tarsus.
 
Hezekiah could have been DID.
 
Immersed in your spirit in the understanding of G-d’s healing power.
 
G-d had Rahab married to one of the princes of the tribe of Judah, and had her delivered.  Rahab was cleansed in her spirit so she could be purified as part of Jesus’ family line.
 
 
 
 

 
Terms of Engagement
The social contract that people bring to the table
 
Four Types of Social Contracts That Are Unhealthy

1. People who do not want help, but rather legitimacy from having a therapist.
   1. They say or imply with their actions, “I am legitimate because I have a therapist”.
2. Denial: Called by G-d and working through denial.
3. BEWARE People who have a problem already diagnosed.
   1. They run their whole psych profile through with you.
   2. The trap you run into is when you work on what they want you to work on, it is not going to work. Then you get the blame because the problem was not fixed.
   3. “I have been to another therapist and they could not get it.”
   4. Some of these individuals are allergic to responsibility.
   5. They may have critters.
   6. Ask them if they are open to you doing your own diagnostics.
   7. Many times, people of Asian descent can have that issue, because of the dragon, and they want to boil everything down to Leviathan.
   8. Negotiate for right to rediagnose. Negotiate for the opportunity to run you own set of objective diagnostics.  What if the issue is somewhere else?
   9. You will have to ask them for the right to look somewhere else.
   10. And honestly, this will boil down to Yes or No.
       1. If they are willing, move forward.
       2. If they are unwilling, there is room for little else.
   11. The Religious spirit. Boiling G-d down to a formula. They say something like, “I checked the boxes, and G-d, you are responsible to meet me”.   They are convicted that therapy or the way forward is supposed to look like one particular way, when there may be a different path that is better for the partnership of clinician and client.
       1. If they will entertain a discussion of G-d having multiple options for His agenda, then you can move forward.
       2. When they have a baked-in commitment that G-d has to meet me this way, then there is an issue.
       3. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego is a solid example of someone who did not have a baked-in commitment that G-d had to meet them in a particular way. If we are willing to run with the conviction that G-d’s care for us may take any number of different forms, and we are willing to walk in flexibility with how G-d meets our needs or brings good out of a bad situation, and thus leave the solution up to Him, we run a high risk of having a really neat glory story.
       4. If it begins with the presupposition that they have to get to peace, or calm, or [fill in the blank], when G-d might want to grow a number of other areas, even if such growth results is a more messy SEASON, then we need to wait on working with them.

 
See if someone came in under one of those four frames.
 
Looking at Robert’s individual.

1. Progress that has been lost.
2. No progress at all.

Sometimes we get temporary progress that gets lost.
Robert has authority to push the enemy back.
It also says that the critters have protection.
 
 
Covenant with an Organization that leads to others paying taxes. Moabites and Ammonites.
 
Look at Psalm 106 as a point of reference for discerning whether a Covenant with an Organization is present.
 
The spine is the firstfruits.
Damage along the spine through structures, that protect covenants, that protect critters along the spine.

 
Arthur writes:

TESTING THE LIMITS
I know a number of people who have a fragrance anointing (See Mercy Season album for a description). They cook, and their cooking releases some spiritual dynamics.
I have someone who clearly has this anointing, but they told me an interesting story about sending a recipe to a non-believer who was having a tough time with her family.

DID PART 2 Session 2

There is a better way…

Your spirit was designed to lead.

The specific process of counseling.

The fractal of four

Father Son Spirit Kingdom

Bring that fractal into your counseling.

Each of these has a particular application in our daily life.

Father is about community and people.

Jesus Christ is about reconcile all things, not people. He came to change us from victims to dominions

The Holy Spirit is about nature.

Not often talked about.

Look at these as a facet of

When a client is able to be life-giving to someone else, is the kingdom.

Kingdom is about your legacy

Connecting with others. Was that a community, a dominion, a nature, or a legacy component?

Dominion, is the issue of the Son. Celebrating the power of Jesus as dominion.

With the creation stories, it is the people that G-d meets with in the context of creation.

That was a Father moment, that was a Jesus moment, that was a Creation/Spirit moment, that was a legacy moment.

Savoring moments.

Intentional about savoring the fractal of four.

G-d is at work helping us with our spirits, if we will deepen and engage.

The discipline of savoring in three parts: thinking, speaking, or writing. Where is your strength?

When you move into a counseling situation, your soul often steps to the front. When you move into the place that during the session, G-d is going to meet you, that is where the power, presence, and glory can surprise you. ANTICIPATE.

The primary purpose of meeting with an individual is to encounter G-d.

The new is more invigorating than the old.

The bigger the problem to solve, the more G-d can show up and the greater the playing field.

If you are engaged as a healer, it is an unnatural for your soul. You will turn to meds or sour, unless your spirit is awakened, and unless you are encountering G-d.

If I can identify it if I can define it, I can be much more effective in being intentional at putting together a strategy for solving the issue.

We have been fed a lie that hearing G-d’s voice equals maturity.

Seeing is a possible way of his voice.

Permission to lead visually.