The Doorway of Hope Part 2 - the Lifting Up of Holy Hands

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD psalm 134:2

What is the lifting up of hands?

Lifting up of hands in the Bible always resulted in mighty miracles. Moses parting the water Exo 14:26. The battle were Moses had to lift up his hands from morning till sunset Exo 17:11

Body language says a lot. Although the mouth says nothing. Actions speak louder then words.. Everyone knows that, right? When we are open, our arms are open. When we are closed, our arms are folded.

Let me start by sternly saying that people who say they cannot lift up their hands to the Lord are in pride. Pride is evil in the eyes of the Lord. To lift up your hands is the simple action of throwing your hands in the air and holding them there for any length of time during worship, prayer or praise.
Imagine someone who falls into a pit. Its all dark around them. The only light they see is that above them. Will they not lift up their hands when someone stretches forth to pull them out? This is also our state in this world. We live in a dark world and the Lord is stretching forth His hands to lift us up. Will we not also lift up our hands to reach His? With this in mind, I can can also say that people who don't lift up their hands to the Lord, are basically saying that they don't need saving.

Why we should lift up our hands

Lifting up of hands also stands for surrendering. We surrender our life and heart to the Lord .
So when we pray with hands lifted up we surrender the situation to the Lord. Lifting up our hands also shows our longing for the Lord.
With the miracles of Exodus in mind, we can say there is a supernatural meaning behind lifting up our hands.
I once heard in a sermon that when we lift up our hand to the Lord it is also a sign to the angels working on our behalf to go forth for us. This is not a strange thought because we stretch out to the Lords salvation. It is also a sign of trusting in the Lord.

When I lift up my hands to the Lord, I believe my heart is saying to the Lord:

"I love you. I can do nothing without you. From you is my salvation. In you I trust. Help me! I long for you".

The Lord gives so many promises to those who trust in Him, wait on Him, cry out to Him. Because with our hands we lift up our heart. Something supernatural happens when we do this. 

The Apostle Paul is telling us in the letter to Timothy:
"I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing". 1 Tim 2:8
It comes to mind that when men do this they are pledging allegiance to the Lord with their heart. How many
people pledge allegiance to futile things like a flag. Why is it hard for them to do the same for the Lord? When we lift up our hand to the Lord we should be aware that our heart is praying a different prayer than our mouth is.  With our hands and heart lifted up to the Lord we can easily say, "THANK YOU LORD!!" - an even bigger sign of trusting the Lord.

Psalm 66:16-20
"Come and hear, all you who fear God;
let me tell you what he has done for me.
I cried out to him with my mouth;
his praise was on my tongue.
If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;
but God has surely listened
and has heard my prayer.
Praise be to God,
who has not rejected my prayer
or withheld his love from me!"

This passage shows the heart of one who was in a deep pit of trouble, and he chose to trust the Lord. This person surrendered to the Lord. He must have lifted up his hands to demonstrate it to the Lord; maybe even cried many tears without saying a word. However God saw his HEART! If he could have spoken beautiful heartfelt words, but cherished unbelief in his heart, God would not have listened. So what better way to speak to the Lord than with our hands lifted up and our heart surrendered?!!

Psalm 66:10-12
"For you, God, tested us;
you refined us like silver.
You brought us into prison
and laid burdens on our backs.
You let people ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but you brought us to a place of abundance".

Look at the trouble this person went through. One would think he would have every reason not to trust God and even to be angry with Him. But he did what pleased the Lord and so the Lord brought him out. Trusting in God is the place of abundace. The Word tells us "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you" Mat 6:33
and also:

"'If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes." ( trusts in God) Mark 9:23 I believe these promises are linked to trusting God with our life, and that without trust we cannot receive anything from the Lord.  So what a difference the small action of lifting up our hands to the Lord, to demonstrate our trust and surrendering to Him, can make in our spiritual growth. If this small action was of no significance, Paul would not have mentioned it. Let me end by challenging all believers to examine their heart when they lift and don't lift up their hands to the Lord. What are you saying with your body language? This will affect your spiritual life. The Doorway of Hope is in front of us, opened. What will we do? Let us allow the Lord to prepare us for the amazing things He has in store for us, by simply lifting up our hands to Him in worship, praise and thanksgiving.

God Bless!!!

The Doorway of Hope

" There I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt " Hosea 2:15

This is such an amazing promise to all children of God.  However there is so much that can be said about this because I believe there is a red cord that ties all promises in the bible together. It is like before you can have one you have to do the other. Every promise is linked to another. I believe it takes many stages of growth  on our part before we will see these promises manifest. God promises to do something but it does not mean that we just lay back and see it happen. I always wondered about that. The Word says this, but my life shows that..and I ask why my life is not in line with the Word. I will try to explain how I now understand that all promises are linked and it takes action on our part.

We have to remember that we are Spirit first and then flesh. The invisible comes first and then the visible.
The state of mind comes first and then the action. The first battle ground and valley there is, is that of our mind. First we are defeated in our mind and then this defeat is seen in our life. We have to guard our heart and mind with the word otherwise we will be defeated in life.We don't have a physical valley of trouble but it is visible in our life's circumstances. Also the doorway of Hope has many layers.
First of all is that God gives it. He gives it by faith. In your heart and mind you know "It is done." When we have prayed for something we know in our heart that God has heard and answered our prayer.
The second layer for me is based on other promises in the Word "It is written." Because you know it is written you also know that God has already said "YES".  For example, you can pray for healing, but you can also say,  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed "Isa 53:4-5.

So it is written, so it is done.

This scripture will turn your valley of Achor in your healing into a doorway of hope, if that is what God intends for you.
If a situation you find yourself in is designed by God for your growth then it will be as He leads, but if a situation is caused by our enemy, it changes when we overcome with the word and the power of our testimony.

The doorway of hope is also found in the verse “In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.”  Phill 4:6

Thanksgiving is the doorway of Hope. When we give thanks we demonstrate our faith in God; that it is done, according to His Word. We show our trust in Him. And He does say that without trust ( faith) it is impossible to please Him. And in fact we receive nothing ( in our heart first). The Lord Jesus performed many miracles, but in the places where the people did not believe He could not do any. Although they needed healing they did not receive it.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

So God gives the doorway of Hope, but we have to enter it. It takes action on our part othewise we will stay in the valley of Achor with the doorway in front of us. I have the image of a doorway that opens in this dimension and leads to another dimention but the door is made from glass. The password is: THANKSGIVING.

When we enter that door with thanksgiving we then start to adjust the eyes of our mind to the new sorroundings. Our mind gets renewed and this has effect on our physical life. We are seated with Christ in the Heavenlies in the spirit and in the physical we walk on earth.
" for as he thinks within himself, so he is"..Prov 23:7.

From our mind (thinking), to our heart ( believing)  to our mouth ( confessing), to our reality ( salvation)

"For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."Rom 10:10 

Many people pray for a lot of things God has already said "YES" to. In these last days we have to step up our game. We have to get familiar with God's "YES" in order to have "the power of our testimony." When we have experienced something once it is easier to experience it again. It becomes our natural state. The supernatural becomes Natural. We need this state of mind and heart to see the promises that God has made to manifest. There are still so many promises unrealised. The greatest manifest of power has yet to happen. How will we see if our hearts are blind?

The rest of the teaching I leave to the Holy Spirit in your heart. May He enlighten the eyes of your understanding.

God Bless!!!

A thought on anointing

Just a thought on anointing....

I don't think I have the complete revelation yet, but bit by bit it comes through...

I think God is using my everyday life and the things that I do to teach me about His Kingdom.

I love haircare and today the thought came to me that "anointing" is like carrier oils on hair. Carrier oils are nourishing and penetrate deep into the hair shaft.

In the same manner the anointing (spiritual oil) nourishes our spirit. It goes deep into our being.So let's say there is an anointing on a sermon, then the Holy Spirit nourishes us deep within our spirit, soul and body. That is why we feel refreshed and nourished after meetings, sermons, worship service and every time we glorify God.

God Bless!!

Lydjus

Spoiled Child of God

Today is a day of blessing.

A lot of blessed thoughts passed through my mind this morning, and I had to write them down. They were certain scriptures that had been spoken to me on my birthday, and others that we had shared with each other during worship practice.
These scriptures have now landed as blessings in my heart. They are among other blessings the Lord is giving me today. Only I don't know what they are yet! Like gifts that need to be unpacked. But I thank FATHER for them already!

This morning as I lifted my hand up to Father while praying in tongues to worship and give thanks, I realised I had lifted up my left hand. The hand that receives. The thought came to me that I was lifting my hand up to receive from Him my daily portion. I was also thinking, "I am not giving Him anything"...and then I thought, "Well I am giving the fruit of my lips", as I was praying in tongues....
I was thinking, "Oh how spoiled am I?", and at that same time I was thinking, "Is that not what God wants from us?" That we daily stretch out to Him for our portion? Because He gives daily to each their portion.

In my heart I am thinking, "How cheeky of me!!!",  but to who else can I go? I felt such a joy in my heart, and at the same time I prayed forth in new tongues with new syllables to me.. and suddenly I felt this joy that made me want to cry tears of gratitude, and for intimacy with the FATHER.

What a blessed feeling it is to know God is so close. I felt touched and I felt it in my emotions.
FATHER THANK YOU FOR POURING YOUR BLESSING INTO ME TODAY...
I know that FATHER LONGS TO GIVE BLESSINGS TO ALL OF HIS CHILDREN, if we but only ask and lift up our hands to receive them.....

God Bless!!!!

The End of our Time through the eyes of Enoch

The following is text from the book of Enoch. It is availeble online.

I have added comments of where I think we are in this timeline. Each week stands for a 1000 years.

I wish the church would pay more attention to this book.

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XCIII. XCI. 12-17. The Apocalypse of Weeks.

p. 132

CHAPTER XCIII.

1. And after that Enoch both †gave† and began to recount from the books. And Enoch said:
'Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect of the world,
And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things,
Yea, I Enoch will declare (them) unto you, my sons:
According to that which appeared to me in the heavenly vision,
And which I have known through the word of the holy angels,
And have learnt from the heavenly tablets.'

3. And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:
'I was born the seventh in the first week,
While judgement and righteousness still endured.
( the book of Genesis before the flood,  )

4. And after me there shall arise in the second week great wickedness,
And deceit shall have sprung up;
And in it there shall be the first end.
And in it a man shall be saved;
And after it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up,
And a law shall be made for the sinners.
( The flood,  )

5. And after that in the third week at its close
A man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement,
And his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness for evermore.
( the time of Abraham)

6. And after that in the fourth week, at its close,
Visions of the holy and righteous shall be seen,
And a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made for them.
( the time of Moses and the Israelites)

7. And after that in the fifth week, at its close,
The house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever. p. 133
( Salomon builds the temple)

8. And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be blinded,
And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom.
And in it a man shall ascend;
And at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire,
And the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.
( The time of the Lord and Irael is scatterd)

9. And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise,
And many shall be its deeds,
And all its deeds shall be apostate.

10. And at its close shall be elected
The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness,
To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.
( our time ( the time of the chuch) before the coming of the Lord)[11. For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled? And who can think His thoughts? and who is there that can behold all the works of heaven? 12. And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and think them or do like them? 13. And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of all of them? 14. Or is there any one who could discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest?]

XCI. 12.-17. The Last Three Weeks.

CHAPTER XCI.

12. And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of righteousness,
And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement may be executed on the oppressors,
And sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous. p. 134
( The greath Tribulation, the 1000 year peace Kingdom. The reign of the Lord)

13 And at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness,
And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,
(The new Jerusalem)

14d. And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.
14a. And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement shall be revealed to the whole world,
b. And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the earth,
c. And the world shall be written down for destruction.
(The last stand of satan and judgement day for mankind)

15. And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,
There shall be the great eternal judgement,
In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels.
( Judgement day, Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 2 Cor 6:3)

16. And the first heaven shall depart and pass away,
And a new heaven shall appear,
And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light.

17. And after that there will be many weeks without number for ever,
And all shall be in goodness and righteousness,
And sin shall no more be mentioned for ever.
( the new Heaven and the new Earth)


Feel free to comment,

God Bless!!!!

It is the anointing that breaks the yoke

"And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing"  (Isaiah 10:27).

Wow... we had an anointed church service today. The worship was awesome. I could swear we were joined by angels, because all voices sounded heavenly. This must have stirred up the anointing, or the anointing had made all voices sound more beautiful. What ever the situation is, it was a powerful service. I sensed the Lord doing restoration, healing and breaking work a few weeks now. Today during the worship I sensed that there was a presence that dripped down on the people. Like rain. It could also have been oil, because anointing is being done with oil. A member of the church went forward to tell the people what she sensed in the spirit. We as a gathering were entering the precence of God in Holy of Holies.

However, I felt like I had to release the words in the church, telling them the anointing that breaks all yokes was there and that the Lord was present to heal all who needed healing. Whether emotional or physical or however. If i did not do that I would be disobiedient and the people might miss what the Lord was doing.

I obeyed and released the words and contiued worshipping. At the end of the service people confirmed that they experienced something and some were prayed for. The anointing was still present.

 I now realise the importance of releasing the words we have on the inside of us, because "Faith cometh by hearing". The level of faith rises up to receive what the Lord is giving. Faith is spontaneously maturing and released.  People are healed, yokes are broken, and people touched by the presence of the Lord, even without them being personally ministered to.

I feel privileged to be used that way. The past week I kept hearing in my spirit the question, "how can the Lord use you?" Not knowing that He would use me today to release the anointing that breaks all yokes and heals people.

The Lord is awesome, and I feel very blessed. I did not even feel like going to church today. I decided to go after I heard in my spirit, "If you want to meet the Lord, where do you think the best place is to meet Him? Is it not where two or more are gathered in His name."

So I went anyway, and this is the result.

Disobedience would have meant that people would have missed out. Praise God that He knows all things and included me in His work today......


God Bless!!!!

Why Faith is Important

Before I talk about why faith is important I want to look at what faith is.

Hebrews 11:1  

The bible says that faith is the substance of the things we hope for and the things unseen.

Let start by looking at the substance.( that of which a thing consists;  matter or material: form and substance) I guess, without being a scientist, that a substance is the small particles of what something is made from. Lets say the molecules that form the thing.

The molecule. (The smallest particle of a substance that retains the chemical and physical properties of the substance and is composed of two or more atoms; a group of like or different atoms held together by chemical forces).

Faith is the substance of the thing, the combining of all the molecules. It is the thing we hope for within us. We don't see it.  Therefore faith is the spiritual substance. It is just as real as the DNA of a seed. When you plant that seed in the ground, although you cannot see its interior, you know that seed will grow and be that thing it is programmed by Father to be.

Let's take the seed of an apple. In its DNA (DNA is said to carry the genetic ‘blueprint’ since it  contains the instructions or information. The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes )  is programmed, the tree, its apples and their seeds. This is what faith is. It is the substance, the DNA that  will form the things that it will become.

That is why faith is within us. That which we have faith for is the product, the image of the full grown thing within us. Like the earth is the birthing place for the seed, so is our mouth the birthing place for our faith. With our mouth we confess what our heart believes/sees.

Our inner eyes are like the womb in which our faith grows as we continuously imagine that which we desire. All things have their origin in the unseen. The visible world is created from the unseen. God spoke it into being. God is challenging us to do the same - to grow faith and speak it forth.

Many people are disappointed because they have done what they were told through confess and possess preaching, but they have not been taught to grow faith, before confessing it. I am not claiming I am there yet either, but I have come to realise that the confess and possess theory has not worked for me either. The Word of our Father says that, "We desire but have not, we ask but receive not."  What does this mean? Because it also says that, "When you ask you should believe that you have received it and it shall be yours". Is this a casual believing or is it the belief that comes from the faith? The absolute certainty that has grown within us? Like the absolute certainty of the interior of an apple seed.

I must admit that I don't have faith for a lot of things, because they are not within me. I cannot see them with my spiritual eyes. The eyes of my imagination. But the things I do have faith for I can see with the eyes of my imagination. It then does not matter if I own them right now or not. I know I already have them. It is just a matter of time before i will see them materialise. Like that seed that is planted in the ground; or the baby growing in the mother's womb.

So Faith is not some casual word that we can throw at anything and it will automatically work for us. Faith needs to be cultivated and grown and when it is complete it will bring forth that which is in it.

Doubt is not a part of faith. As long as doubt exists within us for something, that thing will not come forth. Our father says when you ask and doubt it will be as the ocean that produces waves, unstable.  "But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind " James 1:6. Waves are also a symbol of rebellion. the going against that which God has said. (rebellion is organised resistance or opposition to a government or other authority) If God promises to provide for us from His Glory, which He does, "And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus" Phil 4:19 but we then doubt, we are actually telling Him we don't believe him, we don't trust him. How is that pleasing to God? But when we have faith, it means we have no doubt. We believe that we have what we have asked for, that it is a done deal. Like the Word states, because without faith it is impossible to please God or to even receive from God.

When we accept Jesus, because we believe, in that moment we are absolutely sure of Him and that which he has done for us. We do not doubt. That is the moment we have faith and our spirit is reborn. Well so it is too with whatever we birth from the spirit through faith. It comes from that place of absolute certainty.

You will probable now have the question, so how do I grow this faith? This complete faith without doubt. Well faith comes from God. It is God's faith. It is not our faith. It makes sense because God is the creator of everything. He has the substance of everything. He gives us faith. This is were the Holy Spirit comes in. From our self we don't have faith. The Holy Spirit helps us to build that faith. The very substance is given to us by the Spirit of God. That is why praying in heavenly tongues is so important. Like Paul says, it builds up our most holy faith. "But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit"Jude 1:20 .  I believe we who desire more of Father should surrender to the Holy Sipirt and allow him to pray to the Father for us, building up our most Holy faith, even if we don't understand  what He is saying. I also believe that when we are in prayer in tongues, when we are tuning into our spirit we may detect what the spirit is praying. We might not know the details, but we may have flashing images of things, sceneries, maybe even of people or a situation. Most times we just utter the syllables that come forth. After a while we see things form and we get ideas, promptings or we get aware of giftings etc.

Faith is the substance of things unseen. It contains the creatieve power of Father. Father wants us to create with Him. He made us in His image. From time to time when we have faith for something and we go for it, we work it out one step at a time. We are in the creatieve process of seeing something come to being, that first was not. That which is now comes from the unseen; grown in someone's imagination and grown and nourished to what it is now.

This is why faith is important. It is that thing we hope for in its spiritual form.  Although we don't see it with our physical eyes, we know with certainty that we have it because it is just as real.

Those preachers who say just confess and this will produce that which you want are fooling the masses, because they don't teach to first posses that thing we hope for within us and many leave empty and disappointed. God's word is true and if we look at how God works we can rest and trust Him more. God does not just drop something from the sky. Like a baby in the mother's womb, there is an order of things that takes time, before you see the baby born. Then there is the nourishing part, the teaching part, the growing, testing, failing, maturing... Although we don't see the baby yet, we know for certain it is in the mother.

Romans 10:17 states: "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." 

I think this process is like the Holy Spirit  praying to the father and  translates to our spirit. Who then translates it to our soul in the form of thoughts, and ideas; this then grows within us, until it is matured and then it is released by our mouth and actions. There is a process involved in seeing that which God has for us come to pass. I have had to learn this the hard way! But by the grace of God, I know He is in control and I also know that I can honestly say what I have faith for and what I do not. I depend on Him.

So I continue to pray in tongues and I am excited about what God has in store for my life. His word says we will walk in the works He has propared for us. So I want to yield more to the Spirit, to bring in me what God has for me...

God bless!!!