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DATA FOR THE THIRD DAY
The number two shows up a lot in the third day. Some data to consider, gang.
There are two types of roots among the multiplicity of plants from the third day: taproot and fibrous.
There are two types of stems: woody and herbaceous.
There are two types of trees: deciduous and coniferous.
There two types of broad leaves: opposite and alternate.
There are two types of both opposite and alternate leaves: simple and compound.
Beyond the needles/scalelike/broad leaves, there are two types of other trees: palms and cacti.
There are fruits and vegetables.
There are seeds and stones.
There are monocotyledons and dicotyledons.
There are lemons and limes.
There are annuals and nonannuals, and the nonannuals divide into biennials and perennials.
There are clusters and singles.
There are running root systems and single-rooted individuals.
SO WHAT?
The purpose for this is that we need to articulate the concept of the pattern of two in order to see that the Teacher is designed to deal with a whole host of issues that come in pairs.
For example, the first articulation of male and female also came on the third day. The plants themselves, have male and female parts, and the idea of sexuality came into being on the third day.
Dealing with the binary of male and female and for dealing with issues of human sexuality.
This is part of the domain of the Teacher: to deal with providing a solid response to the homosexuality argument and to bring reconciliation between the gay community and their identity and their G-d.
Thoughts?

I think I know now why Leviathan responds strongly to the Ancient of Days in the context of warfare and deliverance when it comes to his response to the strength of our will.
I was listening to Sixth Head of Leviathan by Arthur Burk, and Arthur said he had no idea why Leviathan doesn’t respond the way standard demons do, to authority, but rather responds to the Ancient of Days.
Leviathan backs down in response, not to our authority and to legal disputes of how the King beat the Prince of the Authority of the Air, but more to the strength of our will, as we bring the name and reality of the Ancient of Days to bear on dealing with Leviathan.
The Ancient of Days is tied with G-d the Father. That is, G-d the Father is the G-d of Time.
G-d the Father is the the Giver of every good and perfect gift. He gives life. Furthermore, it is he who gives life and vitality to our will.
To the degree that we are refusing to walk with, (not to the level that we have bound or cast out) or to the degree that we have actively made a lifestyle of rejecting influence of Spirit of Poverty…

Definition of the Spirit of Poverty: the spirit that causes us to believe that G-d has not given us gifts. This has nothing to do with how much money we have, but rather is more tied to our ability to see and utilize the resources that we do have. He walks in deep fellowship with the Spirit of Slavery. Slaves demand finished products. Sons see and transform raw materials into finished products. Sons create. Those with a SOP do not see raw materials and are therefore in the mindset of the Older Brother (Parable of the Prodigal Son).

…we can then embrace the Ancient of Days, receive the Life that will strengthen our Will and the root of our spirits as gifts of G-d, and can then more forcefully bring the reality of the Ancient of Days to bear in resisting Leviathan.
So, let’s take it from the top. See resources. Relate to the Giver of Life. Receive life and vitality. Reject the Spirit or Poverty, which has NOTHING TO DO WITH MONEY. Receive deeply the Anicent of Days. Walk in the gifts that the principles are. Resist Leviathan.
Happy resisting, gang.

CONCERNING WHOSE AGENDA

If the devil is allowed to set the agenda for warfare…

If you leave the door open for him to set the time, schedule, and timing for warfare, he will.

Too many believers do spiritual warfare as a reaction to the devil rather than a response to the L-rd.  Too many believers hear of a bad situation happening and instead of checking in with the L-rd, they “bind the devil in Jesus’ name”, when they should be asking Dad if He wants them to fight, or if He wants them to be restrained because the bad situation is meant to be a trigger from the L-rd to transition the person away from a chronically bad situation into one that is better.  We too often address the devil while simultaneously neglecting to consider either the open doors or the other options.

CONSIDERING RIGHT TIME OF DAY AND TIMING

If the devil cannot decrease your effectiveness, he will be content with your exhaustion.

If you are effective as an exorcist but you insist on leaving time for ministering exorcism from 10:30 PM and finishing around 2:00 AM, the devil will be content with you chronically getting 4 hours of sleep, which will ultimately decrease your effectiveness in the long run.

Timing and schedule your ministry of exorcism ought to be reserved for a more appropriate hour of the day fall for this trap.

Devils are like the Kardashians.  Good press, bad press, any kind of press, they just want press.

Arthur Burk

If you want demons to perform in a deliverance because that is what you look for regularly, so you can have a good fight, they will perform for you, and they will give you a full three-ring circus.  But I despise demons performing.  “The only good deliverance is a boring deliverance”.

Deliverance does not necessarily have to be a messy affair all the time.  Their job, once the legal right has been addressed for their being there, is to just go with a word (Matthew 8:16).  Period.

For a good and extensive treatment of many issues in warfare, consider the following record by Arthur Burk.  It will be well worth your time, and he is exceptionally even-handed and non-drama when it comes to deliverance.

https://theslg.com/content/spiritual-warfare

Not that I necessarily celebrate Christmas, but in case you are wondering what to get me.

Gang, this one jumped out at me when I was talking with Isaac.
He was doing his Bible Homework and asked the question.

In how many days did G-d make/create everything?

And most of y’all know the answer, the usual answer.
Six.
And yet, the first record of rest did not happen until the seventh day.
Ther for, G-d created everything except for rest in six days.
But G-d did not create EVERYTHING in six days.
Rest was his idea and thus, his creation.
So, I answered him, G-d rested on the seventh day, and so given that, the answer is actually seven days.
Granted, this is a simplification of my views, given I am an old-earther. But, fascinating point. Seven days, because the seventh day was in fact a day of creation. He created the reality of alignment through rest, refreshment, and also assessment of what he had done.
Days and seasons of rest are also opportunities for us to “occupy” in active rest through evaluation, shifting, realignment with Dad’s purposes and prepping for the next week.
#sevenrthdaycompletion
A SOUND BYTE ON MERCIES AND WARFARE

Mercies do not enjoy warfare. Mercies like to avoid warfare.
And other like statements.

And I have a couple of thoughts for that sentiment.
Actually, one.
Bull.
Now that I have said that, consider the following
Three words.
Man of blood.
Look at the life of King David, the merciest of Mercies, and Joshua, another Mercy say that with a straight face again.
Granted, I think there are some Mercies that run from the donneybrook, but I think greater is the number that runs to the donneybrook.
So, thoughts.
For a definition of “donneybrook”, see below.

There are some who would laugh at the social butterfly that is the Exhorter.
There are some Prophets who might be tempted to laugh AT the Exhorter’s anger, or fail to take their anger seriously, precisely because, so frequently, the Exhorter is saddled with a “life of the party” stigma.
But nothing could be further from the right way to handle the Exhorter, epsecially when their anger is rightly-weighed and placed.
Let’s read the following text from Exodus 32.

As soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hand and broke them at the foot of the mountain. He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.
Exodus 32:19-20 (ESV)

Gang, make it your aim to refuse to stereotype any one of the gifts.
Just because the Exhorter can be so fun-loving and given to people and possibly some glad-handing, does not mean their ire cannot be drawn and their zeal for the L-rd’s honor and holiness cannot burn fiercely.
Just because a Prophet, for example, can make fun of an Exhorter’s anger, does not mean it is not incredibly stupid.
Just because an Exhorter is angry at something does not mean it is time for another colossal joke or that we should not take them seriously.
G-d made the gifts all good.
Moses lost it and forced the idolaters to drink ground-up calf idol.
Sounds like a Prophet, right? Reminds me personally of Elijah.
Nope. Exhorter.
Each of the gifts can manifest a zeal for the L-rd of hosts.
Then, on top of that, the Exhorter Moses said.

Levites, start a massacre.

Again, Exhorter.
Granted, some stuff is Exhorter ego, and we should feel a safe place to call it out when it is off-base.
But that is why discernment is so critical, gang.
And we should be aware of when the Exhorter really is desiring others to take them seriously.
Just because one gift typically presents one way, does not mean that they always present that way.
Handle the Exhorter, and handle them well.
Make sure you can have a strong exchange with them when necessary. They need people to help them come down when they are burning with Reality over some issue.
Thoughts?

‘And it is also said,’ answered Frodo: ‘Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.’

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, One-Volume Edition, (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1999), 83.

And I know this is in the free stuff on Sapphire Leadership Group’s Spartanburg website.  But there is a value here.  And Arthur enjoys reviews of his material.

THE PHYSICS OF THE MATTER

First, the concept of light and sound being part of the same spectrum is only partially true.  Starsongs, Sound Portals, lights do carry frequencies, and, as a result, you have these waves that move back and forth.  That said, sound that emerges from non-light sources, as in the case of vocal cords, is not tied to light.  That is, my perscepctive, this teaching is not arguing that all light and all sound are part of the same spectrum, but rather, there is a frequency that emanates from light, a sound (for lack of a more precise word) if you will, that is something that can actually be heard.   Not all sounds are tied to or sourced in the concept of light.

Light itself is both wave and a particle (a phenomenon called wave-particle duality), and therefore, as a wave, light can be the source of something that is akin to–and actually–a sound.

Separating from the sound and frequencies that emanate from light sources, sound that emanates from non-light sources is a wave of pressure that disrupts the particles in its vicinity.

So, you have sound frequnecies that come from light.

And you have sound frequencies that are not tied to or rooted in light.

Where light and sound meet, for the purposes of this teaching is the wave aspect of light that creates pressure and therefore emanates sound.  So, we are describing both/and here.  But there are sounds created that are not sourced in light and therefore are not part of the Electromagnetic Spectrum, because sound does not have the property of mass, as does light. 

Now, that we have the physics out of the way, let’s consider the teaching.

Arthur begins this concept with the idea of generational memories and he pulls from the idea of “you have made me to trust at my mother’s breasts” (Psalm 22:9).  He moved from this passage and made known the concept of eye contact, given light flows into our eyes and is therefore reflected back out, and with the concept of fiber optics, light is capable of therefore carrying data.  And the eyes of our primary caregivers help either root and stabilize us or uproot and destabilize us.  The light that flows from our eyes carries with it data of some form, either data that says we can trust in this life, we cannot trust in this life, or we are in for a life that is a mixed bag.

From there, Arthur moves to reframe Jezebel and Ahab from this issue of trust.  Most people who develop Jezebel and Ahab spirits do so because a lack of trust was fostered in them either because they were wounded, or because their primary caregiver was wounded.  And when we make an agreement that we are not going to trust or take matters into our own hands, we open the door for a perversion by a demonic entity to mess with us, oppress us, control us, or subvert us.

This is a quick two-disc shot and it carries some very brightening truth that will help us place our light sources in the right roots and right soil, and it is good for us to take hold of and hear Arthur out and work at making Him our root, and choosing to be intentional when it comes to by faith appropriating trust in Him by turning to gaze at Him and into His eyes.  

Seriously, go grab this set and listen to it, and ask Him to give you new memories and to reframe the old ones, or to get rid of those memories that traumatize you.

Ask the L-rd to show you His eyes, and see His eyes, for if you are His, then:

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go and I will guide you with My EYES.

Psalm 32:8

So, I was going to take my sons to feed the ducks.
The across-the-street kids were not home when we got out.
Then, as we walked down the street and across a major road to a different neighborhood to feed the ducks at the local pond, Isaac made a comment:
“They are following us, Daddy.”
The kids from across the street know our timing, evidently, and even though I have no relationship with their parents, evidently, we have some free-range kids that deem us safe enough to tag along.
And so the five of us fed ducks.
And I am shaking my head.
I am safe enough, that my home and my sons have become a haven for more kids.
And…sure, they can tag along.
But I still shake my head.
And, bonus. I got to pet some wild ducks. And these kids with me as well. My rambunctious sons as well. Petting wild ducks.
Go figure. I absolutely had a blast with this day.

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This, right here, gang. This is on-point and outstanding.

Reposted from a comment on a friend’s post:
In this season, there is a very not-quite-so-profound realization that we are, hopefully, coming to realize.
It is not just about integrity or skill in preaching taken alone.
And people are smarter and they yearn for more than than well-crafted, apologetically-driven, eexceptionally-studied spiritual mugging after the fashion of Ray Comfort or RZIM.
The accurate defense of the faith means nothing if people cannot discern the tenderness and affection of the Father of Lights strawed through our exposition. There has to really be a sense that we have been with Him more than we have been with the text.
It is not even about the tired maxim of “people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”.
The bottom line: in this season, people have to be able to smell the fragrance of Christ on our lives in order to know that we do, indeed, “have the goods”, and therefore, be finally given a reason to “pay for the goods”.
We have to have real skin in the game, not merely five hours of good study and at the top of our preachcraft expositionally.
You can preach till the cows come home verse-by-verse, but people will not invest their own skin in the game in the walk after and with Christ until they know your skin is first in the game.
Have we been with Him, or have we merely been with IT?
Are we merely pennywise because we have only been with the text, or are we exceptionally wise because we have marinated in The Only Wise (Jude 25)?
If, on one hand, people smell the fragrance of Him, they will at least have no excuse for not coming.
If, however, on the other hand, people do not smell the fragrance of Him, we will have no excuse, and they will be fully justified in ignoring us.
We must invest that time in having been with Him in order to be clothed with His fragrance. And before we will seek Him rightly as it comes to expanding the kingdom, we must have the right affection for them.
There is that intangible quality of tenderness toward the people not yet of G-d, in order for them to respond well.
Preachcraft alone forces us to rely on cunning speech and persuasion.
Fragrance on the other hand will yield the fields that are white from season to season.
Psalm 91 shows us part of this dynamic of how to avoid mere preachcraft.
#secretplacesofelelyon
#shadowofthealmighty
#preachcraftalonesucks