subject: Blueprint for Revival: a vision for revival for churches & proper use of musicians & singers [print this page]
By Prophetess D
God gave me the vision and then gave me the scripture Habakkuk 2:2 "Write the vision. Make it plain on tables."
There are several elements to this vision: 24 hour worship, consecration of musicians & singers (and everyone else too) from sin & drugs & other openings for demonic oppression, removal of amplification and open doors, evangelism of musicians and singers and praying for the baptism of the Holy Spirit; Dissociating from the atheistic mental health system & their toxic drugs. REPENTANCE FROM SIN IS CRITICAL.
A KEY POINT TO REVIVAL IS THAT REPENTANCE leads to REVIVAL. God often waits to pour out his spirit on us after we repent of sin. This is true for churches that preach error in doctrine; when they repent, God pours out his spirit. The same is true on an individual level. When each of us repents then the spirit comes. Sometimes it is the spirits presence through the intercession of someone else that leads someone to re
The Power of Intercession - PEACE IN IRELAND - TIKKUN OLAM -
Healing the World
I had in April of 98 a powerful experience of being used by God as an intercessor.
I was playing the piano and singing in tongues, which is a private prayer language
given by God, for 8 hours. I was playing in a sanctuary at Boston Univ. used
by Catholics and Protestants. I heard myself sing "shalom" which means peace in
Hebrew, many times. I had no idea what God was doing, but I could feel the power
of the Holy Spirit on me. Sometime during this event a man came in and listened,
then came over and said to me, "Thank you. I feel like I can go home now." I asked
where he was from and he said "Ireland". The next day, the Boston Globe front
page said "Peace in Ireland'. They had just signed the Good Friday Peace Accords.
I asked God, "Did you use me to pray for that?", and the Holy Spirit fell on me with
power, which meant "yes!"
Being used by God for this type of work is important work. It requires that
a person be sanctified no sin, no drugs, such as caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, pot. Etc
or psych meds which would contaminate the Holy Spirit since drugs are an opening for
unclean spirits. If there is spiritual contamination, it transmits into whatever one is praying
into & this is notgood. One must bepure so only the Holy Spirit is invoked and
transmitted. Any time musicians play or sing, whatever is in or around them spiritually gets
transmitted to their listeners or the target of their prayers. This is true for all people
praying as well, or even talking. Spirits jump around thru contact, both physical
and verbal. God needs musicians or praying people to do this kind of work. It is
sacred and a blessing to be used this way. When we pray this way we are prophesying
things into existence by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is an example of how God
wants to use musicians to pray for healing and peace in the world.
Everyone who is born again, filled with the Holy Spirit can pray and sing in tongues.
You need to repent of your sins, accept Jesus as Saviour and Lord, ask to be filled
with the Holy Spirit (which testifies to Jesus as Messiah). Jesus said "unless ye be
born of water and of the spirit, ye will not see the kingdom of Heaven." John 3:3
and John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth on him would not perish but have everlasting life." John 1:1:
"In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was
God." 1:14: "And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his
glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth." 1:17: "The law
came by Moses, but grace and truth come by Jesus Christ."
1. 24-Hour Worship
I believe that it is God's intent for churches today to have continual prayer (24 hour
prayer ) which invokes his Spirit so that His spirit will dwell in church buildings
and then when anyone comes in, they will immediately be touched by the presence
of God. This is what happened to me in that Sephardic synagogue in Jerusalem.
God brought me to Jerusalem to experience this so I could testify to this vision; He
wants consecrated buildings, not just people. The Christians sometimes tell me that
at this time, WE are supposed to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, not the buildings.
But they are wrong. The New Testament was built on the Old, not to totally supercede
it but to add to it. Why would He talk about consecrated buildings in the
New Testament when it was already written about in the Old? Both are true. Now
He wants to live in us as temples of the Holy Spirit, but He also will bless buildings
where there is prayer.
Psalm 134 says "Bless you the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, which by
night stand in the house of the lord."
In the Old Testament the Levites who were the worshippers lived in the temples
and were free from other work because they did this work day and night
1 Cr 9:33.
In the New Testament, Luke Chap. 2 talks about Anna the Prophetess, who
stayed in the temple and didn't leave, doing fasting and prayers.
How I came to these scriptures is evidence that the Holy Spirit was leading me toward
this vision (to be explained shortly).
My vision for 24 hour worship is something that in the last couple years is starting
to be reinstituted in a few churches around the country. I have been talking about
it for the past 10 years. There is a church in Colorado Springs, that is now doing it.
There is a man in Kansas City, who used to be called one of the Kansas City
Prophets by the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, a charismatic non-denominational
church that is around the country, who has also instituted a 24 hour prayer church
(Mike Bickel - the International House of Prayer in Kansas City (IHOP) There are
now other IHOPs in other cities; Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, and more) so I am
not alone in my vision; the fact that others are also doing it is a confirmation that
what I have been talking about IS of God and I am also in a prophetic role in the
Church as a whole. The bible says that there are different offices in the church. In
1 Corinthians 12:28: "In the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second
prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing,
those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in
different kinds of tongues." Other churches have done this periodically over the
years and enjoyed revival. The United Pentecostal Church has done it.
My vision came out of my experience of living in a church for 2 years, worshipping and praying at night.
Subsequent to that experience, God released certain
scriptures to me that indicated there was a vision He wanted me to share for
this time. God works in strange ways to communicate; often using wierd coincidences.
Don Gossett, a Christian minister and author of a wonderful book on the
power of words and faith, entitled What You Say Is What You Get quotes a friend Sam
Feldman "Coincidences are the handiwork of God".
Here are two examples of my own:
I shared my testimony one night of playing in the church all night with another
Christian woman. She went home and opened her bible randomly to Psalm 134;
"Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who minister by night in the
house of the Lord."
This was God's way of confirming that what I had been talking about was from Him.
Months later, I was travelling around the country. I had had the intuition that in the
Old Testament times, the Levites, some of whom were musicians and singers (others
were porters in the temple and judges) were doing worship 24 hours. I had
never found a scripture to support this, and had asked rabbis who knew of nothing
either. As I was traveling, all of a sudden there was a sign that said "Exit 134"-and
immediately after that, I heard "Psalm 134" in my mind. I remembered the scripture.
I immediately looked it up in the bible I had with me, and found a cross reference
to another scripture that I had never seen before. (Not all bibles have cross
references). The other scripture was 1 Chronicles 9:33 which says "and these are the
singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites who remaining in the chambers were
free: for they were employed in that work day and night." In other words, they lived
in the temples and worshiped day and night.
After living in the church for 2 years I ended up, a while later, living in a synagogue
all fall and winter, playing the piano there at night. One night the spirit reminded
me of Anna the prophetess. This was a reference to the book of Luke ch 2, New
Testament. Anna was a woman who, it says, "departed not from the temple but
served God with fastings and prayers night and day." Luke 2:37 It was warm and
there was no snow that entire fall and winter. The city was blessed because of my
being "on duty" - one watchman . He had given me 2 scriptures in prayer - Ezekiel
3 and 33, calling him a "watchman" to the house of Israel.
2. Consecration of the Musicians and Singers and all Believers who
worship (which is everyone)
The scripture in the Old Testament in Leviticus tells us about how God did not
want his priests to be under the influence of alcohol when they ministered in the
temple. This is another example of a principle in the Old Testament which is true
for us now; He does not want us to be under the influence of any drugs when we
minister to others or to Him. Those influences bring other spirits into the worship
and can transmit to others, which is not what God wants. We need to be holy so
that only God's Holy Spirit transmits when we pray or worship and minister to
each other. The New Testament says "Be ye holy as I am holy." 1 Peter 1:16. This
includes cigarettes as well as alcohol, and any kind of psychiatric drug. It also includes
caffeine, which includes coffee and tea and sodas with caffeine. I have felt
unclean spirits around me, a fogginess around me when friends of mine drank coffee
or smoked and then prayed with me. Worship leaders have to be consecrated.
It is an important responsibility. I knew someone who was on the worship team at
church who was on lithium. Every time she was singing, I felt a spirit of confus
around me. She was in a fog from the lithium and that spiritual contamination was transmitting
to the whole church. I prayed for God to consecrate the church and the pastor removed
her from the worship team.
Worship leaders also need to be mindful of the music they subject themselves to.
For example, if they listen to blues, that can put a negative spirit around them that
depresses their mood. I know people this happens to. It is not constructive. If they
listen to music that invokes unclean spirits, it will be around them and can transmit
when they worship. Working in businesses where there is continual pop music being
played is not constructive for those called to lead worship; it puts spirits around
them that are not from God. I have experienced this first hand. Before worshipping,
they need to pray for God to make them holy and wash away anything not of God.
"I pray for the blood of Jesus to wash me" is a prayer that works. They need to pray
this prayer before they go to work, and when they leave, to protect themselves and
their thinking from bad influences. When I am around a lot of music I feel unclean
spirits. In the hospital the influence is obvious; many times when certain music was
put on, it set off all kinds of problems between the patients, who were being influenced
by the spirits being loosed by the music. Mick Jagger testified to the fact
that every time their band played a song about the devil, violence broke out. Rap
music also invokes a lot of bad spirits and that is why there is so much violence at
their concerts. A person who is called to serve God with their music needs to purify
themselves so only God's spirit is around them. The more pure they are, the more
anointing, or power, they will have from God.
Musicians are called to be Prophets
Musicians and singers, because they are spiritually sensitive and prophetically gifted,
have a big responsibility to develop a relationship with God and make sure that
what they are writing and singing IS inspired by God and not a familiar spirit. That's
why it is so important for them to consecrate themselves from using drugs, which
are an opening to other spirits. They also need to assess whatever they expose themselves
to, whether it is from God or not; the music, the books, TV. all of these
bring spirits around them. God has said, in His word, that there is an office of
prophet in the church, and. He wants the people with these callings to be used to
build up the church, not negatively influence the society by being used by the wrong
spirits. Musicians and singers need to renounce any involvement in their past or
present with any occult or new age practice; remove any books or paraphernalia associated
with it, renounce any false spirits from having read occult or new age
books; these all are openings for false spirits, which will pollute their channel to
God.
In the Old Testament times, the musicians and singers were prophets and prophetesses.
They pray and worship and get words from God to transmit to others and
sing prayers back to God, inspired by the spirit of God. Musicians and singers in
today's time are also called to operate prophetically in today's church to do the same
thing. As the musicians and singers invoke the Spirit of God, the Spirit touches
others as well and they also can prophesy, or hear and sing words from and to God.
There is a story in the Old Testament where the prophet Samuel tells King Saul that
he will come across a band of musical prophets and he will be changed. It happens;
he comes across them while they are singing and prophesying, and a new spirit
comes over him, and he starts to prophesy, and the other people say "Is Saul also
a prophet?' The prophet Joel, in the Old Testament, writing about the end of days,
which is now (since Jesus is coming back very soon, many of us believe) says "In
the end times I will pour out my spirit on all flesh and your sons and daughters will
prophesy, and your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions."
Joel 2:28 I have heard of a lot of people having prophetic dreams (dreaming
something that then happens). I have had them too.
It says in 1 Corinthians 12:28 that God has set prophets in the church. There is a
certain hierarchy, it says "in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second
prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of
healing, those able to help others, administration, and speaking in different kinds
of tongues."
To have the anointing of God these musicians and singers need to do only God's
music. If they are engaged in other types of music as well, they will be polluting
their channel and bringing other spirits into the worship they do in church. I have
experienced this first-hand. I know of musicians and singers that were doing worship
and simultaneously doing other types of music; I felt the other spirits present
in the church service. And the more pure a person is, the more anointing of the
Holy Spirit he will have.
The creative process, of being inspired, is such a natural high that many people
who are creative get wrapped up in the process itself which is a form of idolatry
to God. They need to use that talent to serve God, not as an end in itself. Musicians
and singers and writers all need to address this issue. I once had a music professor
tell me "Music is our god." A few years later I called him and said, "Music should
be our channel to God." The music schools really reinforce this idolatry; that is
why it is so important that their students be evangelized and have their talents channeled
in the right way. With such a pool of talent, it is a mistake for the churches
to ignore what is going on. If God doesn't use these people, the devil will. And they
will be tempted to be used in the world and that is why the world is so corrupted;
the devil pays well. The music business siphons people into it because the church
is not reaching out to draw them in.
3. Evangelize and Disciple Musicians and Singers in Music Schools
and Professional Musicians and Singers
This is a big job, but the church needs to get on the ball and do this. They need these
people. In Boston where I lived for 30 years, there are several music schools with
multitudes of talent. There are also a lot of musicians and singers starting up their
careers in music, forming bands. This is a huge untapped resource that the church
needs. I would like to see an organization start to do this and connect these people
to the churches. But the churches have to be ready for them; they have to be open
to the vision of using them in a more serious way than they do now. There needs
to be 24-hour worship, and letting some of them work full-time even living in the
churches. Not since the time of Bach have the churches really supported musicians
and singers full time as creative people. Worship and intercession is a creative
process. There are many choir directors in churches and some full-time worship
leaders; but what I am talking about is full-time intercession. There needs to be
more full-time worship leading and intercession. Worship leaders now spend a certain
amount of time rehearsing for Sunday rather than just in prayer and intercession
full-time. In my 24 hour model, someone can be doing intercession and
worship while someone else is rehearsing somewhere else. A lot of churches have
part time music directors who direct choirs and lead worship. Let them continue
these duties, but let them work full-time, doing intercession the rest of the time.
Even if you only have one full-time musician in a church, that is better than nothing.
24-hour can be added later.
4. Removing of Electronic Amplification or Using it Very Sparingly
will result in more spontaneous worship
Instruments should be used to support vocal singing, not drown it out. This way,
the Spirit will fall on the whole congregation and they will be inspired to sing forth
prophetically and to inspire and catalyze others in worship. I have been in a lot of
churches where I have seen that there is another spirit using the amplification to
drown out the Holy Spirit. These churches are not catalyzing the Holy Spirit being
in authority. Where the Holy Spirit IS in authority, prophecy is encouraged. That's
why God's spirit is so grieved by all the amplification; it is going in exactly the opposite
direction the Holy Spirit wants to go. The Holy Spirit is gentle and wants to
use all of us prophetically to catalyze the Spirit on each other. God wants the lead-
ership to be patient and wait on God and let the Spirit use others. A good prayer
is to pray for the Holy Spirit to take authority in a service. Interestingly, a few times
I have prayed this and then watched as the mikes don't work.
When I lived in the church for 2 years, I kept invoking the Spirit of God and I believe
it was there a lot because of my worship. Sometimes when other musicians and
singers came in to set up for worship using microphones, I would feel the Spirit of
God shrivel up and leave with me. The amplifiers and microphones in a lot of cases
are being used against God. They play too loud and quench the Spirit of God rather
than invoke it. God's spirit is very gentle. He wants his entire congregation to participate
in worship and the leaders need to catalyze this. Sometimes they play so loud
with all the amplification that they actually inhibit that participation that they are
seeking to catalyze. God wants His spirit to use all his people; and he wants others
to be able to hear them if the spirit of God is moving on them to sing or prophesy
to the church. Playing too loud blocks the Holy Spirit from using other members
of the congregation, this is actually quenching the Spirit, and the word says not to.
"Quench not the spirit" I Thess. 5:19.
The Holy Spirit often doesn't bother to fall on someone in the back to sing something
forth, because no one would hear them due to the microphones up front
which make it impossible for the worship leaders to hear anyone but themselves.
So the spirit doesn't fall on the others like it would. I was on the worship team of
a Brazilian church and one time all the mikes were stolen. At the next service, the
spirit fell on many of the congregation and they were inspired and singing things
out loud. This was evidence of what I am talking about.
God tells us in the psalms to SING .A NEW SONG. He means to make up spontaneous
musical prayers. This will happen with the whole congregation if the Spirit
is allowed to take authority and not be quenched by those in front. God wants the
worship leaders to flow in the spirit and make up spontaneous new songs; He also
wants the congregation to mature and also do this. Sometimes the leaders hold the
congregation back by being too much in control. They need to yield more to the
Holy Spirit, because the spirit is trying to do more than they realize. Minimizing the
use of amplification plays a big part in this.
When the Holy Spirit is in charge and there is spontaneous worship, people
sing different things, as the spirit leads, but the Spirit is directing and they
end up singing in harmony with each other. This is awesome. The Anointing
can fall on anyone and use them this way. More on this later.
5. Open Doors to Churches
A lot of churches close their doors these days because they are afraid of their equipment
being stolen. There are two answers to this; first, if they had 24-hour worship,
the musicians and singers would protect what is there by being there. Second, if
they give up the electronic and the amplifiers and mikes and just use acoustic pianos
and guitars, there would be nothing to steal and they could leave the doors open all
the time for anyone to come in and pray. Acoustic guitars are portable and few musicians
and singers leave them in the church in the first place. Acoustic pianos are
not portable. I've never heard of one being stolen. I think a lot of the break-ins that
I've heard about of musical equipment being stolen are signs from God that they
are grieving his spirit away by using this equipment. The church needs to understand
this and change their attitude about worship. The musicians and singers will develop
loud voices like I did if they consecrate themselves and trust the Holy Spirit for
power to sing loud. If I can sing, anyone can sing, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
As He healed me, my voice got louder and louder. This will happen for anyone
who embarks on the path I am describing. Some of the psychiatric drugs constricted
my voice again; that's how I know the drugs are not from God. He would
not want to take away the testimony He gave me to his healing power. Only the Adversary
would inspire that. The bible says "The gifts and calling of God are without
repentance." Romans 11:29. He would not take away what he gave me. It is inconsistent
with His word.
I spoke to churches about leaving their buildings open at night for worship and
many of them said to me "Our insurance won't cover it." The answer is, "live by
faith". You're a church. If you're doing God's work, HE will protect you. I testify
to this. Nothing ever happened to me while I lived in the church at night. On the
contrary several times when they made me leave, there were immediately break-ins.
God was trying to show them that I had been protecting the church and they
were driving away their protection. One time a man came in while I was there alone
in the church. God had given me such authority in that place that I accused him of
having robbed the church previously and I knew I was right. He denied it at first
but what then transpired was that we both ended up praying for each other and I
was blessed. Whatever he had had in his mind to do again, left. God took over and
converted him. ( Actually, I think he was an angel that had removed things God
wanted removed from the church)
My vision for revival includes 24-hour worship, and open doors in the churches so
that anyone can come in and pray while this is going on. After I left my church I
moved to a university chapel which had the doors open all the time during the day.
I was playing one day and praying for "fire" to come down, meaning God's fire to
pour out. A little while later 3 student-age people came in and told me that they had
been sitting on the steps outside and suddenly felt fire, so they came in. It is evidence
that my vision works. The Holy Spirit Himself will draw people into the
church; all we have to do is worship inside and leave the doors open. If churches
are concerned about the cost of lighting these places they need to live by faith;
people will make donations that will cover this expense. One can leave a donation
box in the church near the door and whoever comes in will contribute. This will
cover the building and the musicians and singers, if they are working full-time. The
Levites in the Old Testament lived on the tithes of the congregation. This could
work again. If people want to play in shifts and work other jobs too, that is also possible.
But I believe that some of us are meant to do this full-time and God will
cover us. I used to come out of the church after playing all night and by divine appointment
run into people that would give me money. This was God's way of supporting
my ministry work. Personally, I solved the problem of needing expenses for
the building by not turning on the lights; I played in the dark all night: I also wore
a coat and didnt need the heat on. So I cost the church nothing. But I can remember
sometimes getting too cold and leaving or my fingers getting too cold to play.
If the church had totally supported my efforts and provided a space heater, I would
have been more blessed and so would they. The minister had gotten sensitive to the
fact of the cost of keeping on a light, so I stopped using the lights. But if he had
supported me and trusted God, God would have provided for his and my need. If
I needed one, I, could have bought a little battery light to put on the piano to read
music. I played without sheet music, so I didn't bother.
6. Let Musicians and Worshippers Live in the Churches if Possible
The support for this is the Levites in the Old Testament, who lived in the rooms
of the temple 1Cr 9:33 and the New Testament, Luke chapter 2; where Anna the
Prophetess lived in the temple with fasting and prayers and didn't depart. Why
should a worshipper work 40 hours just to pay rent somewhere, if they are going
to be in the church worshipping full-time? If there is room, let them stay in the
church. I used to worship at night in the church and rest there, and then go out during
the day to do something else. I evangelized in the subway with my music. I also
taught in the schools and used it for evangelism. I think it would be a real blessing
to be able to rest in the presence of others who are still worshipping, continuing
the 24 hours shift. God's presence would remain strong and give the person many
prophetic dreams from Him.
MANY MUSICIANS AND SINGERS ARE NIGHT PEOPLE. There is a
spiritual reason for this.
They are called to pray for others, through worship, at night when others sleep, and
for people all over the world who are awake. God uses us here to pray for people
in China. God often uses me to pray for Israel. They are 7 hours ahead of us. Their
day is our night. He needs people on the night shift. Things are going on all over
the world and we need to be used to pray for others. Sometimes when you pray at
night, the people you pray for are having dreams from God, because they are too
busy during the day to hear from Him. So as you worship and pray for them, God
is talking to them. This is one way He uses nighttime worship. Churches are safe
sanctuaries to pray in for situations that are volatile. It would be good to have a
safe place here to play in, to pray for Israel, as a rest from or preparation for going
there. I think there are some musicians and singers who are being misconstrued as
being mentally ill, and being told to just sleep at night and work regular jobs, rather
than being encouraged to use their talents as prayer for God.
7. Dissociate from the Mental Health System
Any musicians and singers or prayer warriors and worshippers who have any connection
with the mental health system need to get out. They should not be taking
any drugs, which inhibit the power of the Holy Spirit and are an opening for other
spirits. I knew someone on the worship team of a church who was taking lithium.
Every time I went to church, as soon as I went in I got attacked by a spirit of wooziness,
or confus. This was because she was in a fog from the lithium, and when
she sang, that spiritual contamination transmitted to the whole church. The thinking
of the mental health system is polluting their thought life and prayer life as well;
that's why they need to dissociate from it. This is because the mental health system
is premised on atheism, which sees biblical thinking and experiences as symptoms
of mental illness. Christians are slandered by the mental health system and labeled
psychotic. Hearing God or demons are considered to be auditory hallucinations;
seeing or feeling angels are considered visual hallucinations, which are considered
symptoms of psychosis. Hence they get labeled Schizophrenic or Schizoaffective.
Being "hyperreligious" gets them labeled bipolar, since hyperreligious is defined as
a symptom of mania. So then they are assumed to be manic-depressive or bipolar.
It is all false logic, nonsense. The labels are nonsense. Christian counselors that
have books using psychiatric terminology need to get rid of them since they bring
false spirits around them since the books are based on lies. People that go to counseling
for anyone who thinks this way or has these materials in their office can be
afflicted by bad spirits just being in the office. I went to someone's office who was
a Christian counselor. I felt oppression around my head as soon as I walked in the
door. The counselor said she didn't think the books could affect her, but it was affecting
me. (It was affecting her too, but she just didn't realize it). I believe that
other counselees who went in there and didn't know to pray for the blood of Jesus
to protect themselves, were also being afflicted.
We need to pray for the mind of Christ. God's ways are not our ways,
"My thoughts are not your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8
"Be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Romans 12:2
A good prayer to pray is "Lord let your thoughts be my thoughts, let your heart be my heart."
The more spiritually mature a person who walks with Jesus is, the less their thinking sounds like
the world. Understanding of spiritual things is a kind of wisdom that comes with
experience with God. Without that relationship, one cannot achieve this. The natural
unspiritual mind dominates the mental health system, so those called to serve
God need to remove that influence from around them. The churches will become
the healers, by invoking more of God's power. I know that as I played the piano and
sang, God was doing healing in my emotions without my talking about it to anyone.
Talking is not necessary for healing. God already knows what is hurting us; His
spirit goes right into our minds and emotions and does healing by His spirit. There
are many stories of people being "slain in the spirit" - falling down under the power
of God, and waking up completely healed of the effect of some trauma or delivered
from a besetting problem. I believe that the talking of problems often keeps
the person stuck in it; it re-releases the problem onto the person and can keep them
stuck, because of the negative power of words. That's also why praying in tongues
is so powerful; it is using a prayer language under the power of the Holy Spirit and
God uses it to pray for us and others by His Spirit. It doesn't release problems back
into our lives by re-speaking the problems in our language; it just takes care of
them. I was having a bad situation one time and a whole church prayed for me in
tongues; no one told them what was going on; the situation stopped immediately.
God knew exactly what was going on; and having them all pray by the power of the
Holy Spirit took care of it.
"MENTAL ILLNESS" is often really misunderstood SPIRITUAL BURDENS
A lot of people that are called "mentally ill" are actually spiritually sensitive healers
themselves, many of them gifted in music, who are "called" by God to heal others
through prayer and worship. Unfortunately, a lot of them don't realize this, and the
society doesn't realize this, and the churches need to realize this. Their value in the
society is not understood and not being used. This is what needs to change. Putting
them on drugs is exactly robbing them of the abilities to minister and pray for others.
They need to establish a right relationship with God so they know how to pray
and use their talents effectively to help themselves and others. For example a spiritually-
sensitive person feels the pain of others around them much more around
more than some other people. Or they just feel pain, and don't know why. Often it
is precisely that they are spiritually sensitive, feeling the pain of others. It is not a
chemical imbalance. It is a sensitivity given by God so that they will pray for others,
and the others will be healed. This then lifts their pain. This is especially true of any
person that has been born again, filled with the Spirit of God. And many of the
mental patients I have met, are Christians who HAVE been filled with the spirit of
God. So they suffer because they are feeling God's suffering and the suffering of
their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Let me explain this. Any person who has
the Spirit of God living in them is connected to EVERY OTHER Spirit-filled believer.
There is only ONE HOLY SPIRIT. It lives in all these people simultaneously, interconnecting us. OF COURSE we feel each other's pain! God cries withus when we suffer and we feel His grief for our suffering.
God's purpose in interconnecting us is to get us to pray for each other, to lift each other up. He doesn't want us to go on drugs that block the pain and get us individually to feel better, numb
to the suffering of others. That is not God's intent. He wants us to learn to pray
so that whatever is causing the pain, whether it is just emotions or sin, is dealt with.
God gave us His spirit to create relationship between us and God, and us and each
other. The drugs block our connection to God, and block our connection to each
other. It is oppositional to the purpose of God. Another patient told me that the
drugs made him numb. This is exactly what I am talking about.
I lived in a synagogue for 7 months after living in the church, praying for Jews. One
night I started to weep, and I heard the Holy Spirit say "I am weeping for my people".
That was God letting me feel his burden for the Jews. It was definitely not my
own emotions.
A note to churches that send their sheep to psychiatric counseling
This is a tragedy because the mental health system, rooted in atheism, pulls them
further into lack of faith and uses drugs which further impede their relationship
with God. I know people this has happened to, and the church is guilty of sending
them there, both indirectly and directly. The churches that counsel their sheep to
go to psychiatric counseling are directly guilty of doing this and are in big trouble
with God. Woe to the pastors that slaughter their sheep.
Psalm I: Blessed is he who does not take the counsel of the ungodly. The
psychiatry system is ungodly rooted in atheism.
MENTAL ILLNESS is caused by BAD SPIRITS, NOT CHEMICAL
IMBALANCES
All diseases, both physical and mental are caused by spirits that have assignments
which can attack our bodies, thoughts or emotions. They can be rebuked in Jesus'
name. I have rebuked illnesses. I had a spirit of depress- jump on me twice when
I touched someone who had it. I was crying for no reason. God wasn't speaking to
me about what it was about, so it wasn't a spiritual burden. One time someone
prayed for me and it left. The other time, I spontaneously coughed and it left. (self
deliverance). Another time I was feeling that spirit for some reason. I said "why am
I so depress-? God said back to me, "you know what to do." So I rebuked it, and
it left. I was healed spontaneously of a sexual disease when I repented of sexual sin.
I rebuked can-, a life-threatening disease, and it left. James ch 3:15-17 says there
are 2 sources of thought, above and below. Wisdom from below is "earthly, sensual,
demonic." Wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield,
full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality or hypocrisy."
Bipolar Disorderis a label that is way over-diagnosed. It is just the "disease du jour
of psychiatry today; 20 years ago, their favorite label was schizophrenia. Christians
sometimes get labeled bipolar because they consider "hyper-religious" a symptom
of mania. Then, according to their logic, if the person is manic, they must get depress
too, hence manic-depress., or bipolar. It is from faulty deductive reasoning.
People who really have this condition (manic-depress) most likely have brought
the condition on themselves by using drugs (caffeine, alcohol and too much sugar).
Caffeine is an opening for spirits of manand alcohol is an opening for spirits of
depress. Caffeine can make people hyper and can cause anxiety. Alcohol is a
known depressant. Changing one's diet will remove one cause of the problem.
The most important thing is addressing one's spiritual condition. Being saved and filled
with the Holy Spirit brings peace and stability to a person. The Holy Spirit brings
peace. Jesus said "My peace I give to you, not as the world giveth, give I to you."
John 14:26. After I got saved people said I was more peaceful. This makes sense
because being saved gives one assurance they are going to heaven, which removes
the anxiety people can have on a deep level about what will happen when they die.
I think people have anxiety because on a deep level their spirit KNOWS they will
go to Hell if they don't get saved. This is not neurotic; it is truth. The problem is
sin. When a person gets saved, their sins are forgiven, erased. God's peace comes
to them. Once they are saved, if they stay in sin, they may not feel God's peace
until they repent. Taking care of the spiritual level needs to be the first order of
business. Sometimes people have anxietyor depressbecause they are living in
sin or have unrepentant sin. They use drugs to treat their condition. Taking psych
meds no more addresses the spiritual level than using caffeine, sugar or alcohol. It
is a mistake, and can mask the real problem, which is spiritual. Repenting of sin and
getting right with God will bring God's peace. Repenting doesn't just mean asking
for forgiveness, it means changing direction. A person should ask for God's help
to resist sin. The Lord's Prayer says "lead us not into temptation". Sometimes when
I had a problem and asked why, God said to me, "you didn't ask for my help". He
doesn't impose his will a lot of the time, He waits until we ask for help.
Psychotherapy is not generally speaking, going to be helpful unless it addresses
the person's spiritual condition and their need to repent of sin and be saved. The
bible says "blessed is he who does NOT take the counsel of the ungodly." Psalm 1
Since the majority of psychologists and psychiatrists are atheists, their counsel
would be counterproductive. Christian counseling is the best choice. But
beware of those who work with psychiatrists.
The Holy Spirit can inspire anyone,no matter what they believe, to say something that is
from God. One time at a hospital, I was talking to a shrink who HAD read the bible but said
he was an atheist. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will bring all things to remembrance that he
had taught. Since this man had read the bible, the Holy Spirit inspired him to suggest
something to me about a particular sin. God can speak through anyone, but so can
other spirits. The head of the World Federation of Mental Health, George B.
Chisholm, in 1947, said the purpose of psychotherapy is to eradicate morality. This
type of atheistic therapy is very destructive and just leads a person in vicious circles.
Long term psychotherapy is really just a trap. Knowing one's problems is only the
first part of the problem. You need to know how to solve them, and the only real
solution is with God and Jesus. My mother once said to me "Freud takes you to a
wall and leaves you there." This means, to me, that psychotherapy is a dead end.
Dwelling on one's past can be very counterproductive. It can invoke bad things to
repeat. It is the devil who tries to get us to look backward. God tells us to look forward.
I heard a prophetic message one time in church: "Look not to the past". A
person who is saved and has accepted Jesus has their sins and traumas washed away
by the blood of Jesus. This makes them a new creature in Christ. Freud was the father
of psychiatry. His atheism and drug addiction are the root of what psychiatry
is about, and both are dead ends.
Sometimes there are food allergies involved. God can cure a person of those. Artificial
food additives can cause problems as well. Melody Petersen in her book Our
Daily Meds (2008) makes the case that aspartame, common in sodas, is causing
problems. It is poison. I have felt the Holy Spirit leading me to avoid artificial food additives.
One should ask God to lead them as to what to eat or drink. One should be especially
careful not to eat blood. The bible says the life of the animal is in the blood.
The Kosher laws forbid eating blood. There were 4 laws given the gentiles in Acts
ch 15: one was not to eat blood (the others are not to eat food sacrificed to idols,
food strangled, or to fornicate). Eating fruits and vegetables gives a person more
energy. Fish and vegetarian protein is a better source of protein, which stabilizes
the blood sugar. When a person needs energy to wake up, it makes more sense to
eat fruit or drink juice, than to drink coffee. Juice immediately releases sugar into
the blood, which goes to the brain to wake it up. Caffeine is less direct anyway; it
affects the pancreas, which affects the blood sugar mechanism. Overworking the
pancreas with drugs can wear it out, causing diab . The brain needs oxygen to
function too, so the best thing is to get exercise, which brings oxygen to the brain.
Then a person can fast and not necessarily need to eat or drink something. Doctors
typically say that one can cause kidney damage if they go more than 3 days without
water. But with God's help people can fast longer with no bad effects. I have gone
6 days and not had any problem. Fasting is a valuable tool to deliver oneself from
spiritual oppression.
8. Pray for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit Jesus called this "power
from on high".
He told his disciples to tarry in Jerusalem for power from on high and when
it came, they talked in tongues and prophesied. All Christians need this
power and should pray for it.
The bible also warns us to avoid churches that have a form of godliness but deny
the power thereof. Therefore churches that deny the Power from On High need to
repent. They need to pray for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, as in ch. 2 of Acts,
as evidenced by talking in tongues and prophesying.
Whether talking in tongues and prophesying is evidence of having the Holy Spirit
in a person, or whether it is simply more POWER, all Christians need it.
Every person should pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is evidenced
by talking in tongues and prophesying, according to Acts ch. 2.
Fasting is important to receive the Baptism. When we fast our spirit is lighter
and we pray with more power. To pray for someone else, both people need to fast. I say this
about fasting by my experience and what the Holy Spirit has shown me.
There is an even more fundamental issue. Christians disagree about whether a person
has the Holy Spirit in them. Pentecostals often think that the evidence of a
person having the Holy Spirit in them is that they talk in tongues. Some people
don't know if they have the Holy Spirit in them. If they have spoken in tongues,
they have received the Holy Spirit. I knew that I had received the Holy Spirit after
I received speaking in tongues, because I started to feel a witness in my chest if
something grieved God. Previous to receiving the baptism of speaking in tongues,
this hadn't happened. If they haven't spoken in tongues, they may not have received
the Holy Spirit yet. Before the day of Pentecost, in Acts ch. 2, when the disciples
were told to tarry for "power from on high", Jesus breathed on his disciples and said
"Receive ye the Holy Spirit". The question is, Was it IN them or ON them? Some
believe that the people had it IN them at this point, that what happened later was
more POWER of the Holy Spirit. That is the witness I get from the Holy Spirit.
I think the real evidence of the Holy Spirit being in a person is Love. I have met
Christians that don't talk in tongues, but they have love. I would' hesitate to Say they
don't have the Holy Spirit in them. Maybe it is true that they don't have "power
from on high" yet, as evidenced by the baptism of the Holy Spirit which results in
talking in tongues and prophesying.
We all need more power from on high which Jesus told his disciples to tarry for.
How that manifests, is the real question. In the Book of Acts, chapter 2, Jesus had
told his followers to tarry in Jerusalem for "power from on high" and the Holy
Spirit came and filled them, and they spoke with other tongues. In chapter 19 in.
the book of Acts when they received the Holy Spirit it says they spoke in tongues
and prophesied: I do both. Some people may have received the baptism and have
prophesied but have not talked in tongues. They need to speak in tongues by faith,
and the Holy Spirit will take over. See next paragraph.
Sometimes I pray in tongues and then God talks to me and gives me the interpretation.
All of usneed this "power" from God to do the miracles that He has called us to do in this
time to heal the church and to heal the world. A lot more people would talk in
tongues if they believed in it. One has to believe to receive, generally. And sometimes
a person has sin they haven't repented of, which is blocking them from receiving
it. Some people say to me "If God wants me to talk in tongues, I will" but
some of them are missing out on the fact that theyneed to seek God more on the
subject and pursue it; they need to ask God to reveal what, if anything, is blocking
them. It is not enough just to ask. Many people ask once and if nothing happens
they assume it is not God's will: This is false. It happened to me when I repented
of some sin; I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit before I was baptized in
water, just like the gentiles in the book of Acts. I have prayed for some people to
receive tongues and the spirit has expressly told me that, they need to repent of
something.
I read a book called Power in Praise by Merlin Caruthers. This man says that a person
should ask for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and believe they have received it,
and just start talking in tongues by faith; The Holy Spirit will take over and give the
person the witness that the Holy Spirit is doing it, not just them. I asked God if this
was correct I got a witness by the Holy Spirit that he is. My witness is that one
should fast to speak in tongues the first time. If a person has the Holy Ghost, then
by faith he can talk in tongues.
After I received the baptism (it came over me and I had the sensation that it was
not me talking but the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues. This didn't just "happen"
again. Someone told me to start praying in tongues by faith and the Spirit would
kick in. I tried it and found this to be true. Initially it may seem like a person is
doing it by themselves, but the Holy Spirit will make its presence felt to let you
know that He is really operating.
There are multiple purposes for speaking in tongues; some of it is for edifying
the church; this type is spoken loudly at a service, and then someone else is
supposed to get the interpretation and tell the church what the Holy Spirit is speaking.
I think there are many times in churches where someone speaks in tongues
but the person who is given the interpretation is too shy to speak it; they may not
be sure they are hearing from God, as a result others are left wondering what was
going on. We all need to act in faith for God's process to work for the group.
Another purpose for tongues is a personal prayer language where the Holy
Spirit directs our spirit what to pray for. This is not for prophecy for the
church, it is intercession by the Holy Spirit for whomever he is using the
person to pray for. Praying in tongues gives privacy, the person doing it does
not know what the sins of the other person are, yet they can be used by God
to pray for them. There is a certain logic to this.
Paul also says to pray for God to tell our mind what our spirit is praying for.
Sometimes God does reveal what the Spirit is doing; but not always. God
uses us to pray in tongues for others that we don't even know, and for situations
in our own lives that we don't even know about yet; He is taking care
of our future without telling us, which might cause us to have worry if we knew it.
So He just takes care of it by having us pray in tongues.
Another reason for tongues is that it appears that the Devil cannot understand
it. My testimony, and others have told me the same thing, is that prayers
seem less hindered when we pray in tongues; the devil can understand our language
and try to intercept us if we pray aloud, since he can hear us, but he can't understand
tongues. So sometimes instead of asking others to agree with us on a prayer; it is
more effective to just pray together in tongues, and the Holy Spirit creates the unity
between our spirits.
A related situation is that sometimes there is no way to talk about or pray
about a situation in English without having the words actually invoke the
problem to re-occur. In such situations, talking in tongues is the only way
to address it and solve it. I had a situation like this one time where I couldn't
discuss the problem. The pastor told the whole church to pray over me in
tongues. Nobody had any idea what the problem was. It got solved by their
praying in tongues.
There are some types of prayers that seem to need the power of tongues to bring them
about. Sometimes I pray for something, and then the spirit falls on me and start praying in
tongues. I keep praying until the spirit tells me "it is accomplished."
An important theological point about tongues is that some people believe that it is
a gift - only for some people. I want to address this. In I. Corinthians 12 it says
there is a different gift..."divers kinds of tongues." It doesn't says tongues, but "different
kinds of tongues". Some people, when they pray in tongues, speak in different
types of tongues, that sound like different languages. Other people always seem
to sound the same. So I am making the distinction by saying that the gift spoken
about here is different types of tongues, as opposed to just one type. I think everyone
can potentially have a personal spiritual prayer language. Not all speak in
tongues in church, for the purpose of prophesying to the church, but all can pray
in tongues for their own edification and to pray for others. Some tongues are for
the purpose of being interpreted in church, other tongues are personal. People can
pray quietly in church, in tongues, and not speak it loudly to the whole church. This
happens a lot. In a book that is free on the Web to read titled The Walk of the
Spirit, The Walk of Power by Dave Roberson, he talks about the ability to talk in
different languages while praying in tongues. He has preached in languages he did
not know. I spoke in Hebrew while praying in tongues.
Singing in Tongues
One of the greatest joys I have ever experienced is singing in tongues. Anyone
who has received tongues has the capability to do this. Anyone, even before
they have received tongues, can be inspired by the Holy Spirit and sing under the
anointing of God, without tongues, in their own language. I have experienced several
people all singing together in tongues with no instruments, and we all felt the
gentle peace that accompanied the presence of God. It was a very gentle, Holy
presence. Loud amplification of instruments tends to drown this out; that's why
worshippers need to be sensitive to the Spirit and let Him be in control. The experience
of this sort is probably what Heaven feels like. One time I was in the church
praying with 2 friends and suddenly all 3 of us heard singing, high up in the sanctuary.
There were no other people in the church, so it had to be angels. It sounded
like they were singing in tongues.
One of the most dramatic experiences I had of singing in tongues as intercession was in April of '98.
I was playing the piano and singing in tongues, which is a private prayer language
given by God, for 8 hours. I was playing in a sanctuary at Boston Univ. used
by Catholics and Protestants. I heard myself sing "shalom" which means peace in
Hebrew, many times. I had no idea what God was doing, but I could feel the power
of the Holy Spirit on me. Sometime during this event a man came in and listened,
then came over and said to me, "Thank you. I feel like I can go home now." I asked
where he was from and he said "Ireland". The next day, the Boston paper front
page said "Peace in Ireland'. They had just signed the Good Friday Peace Accords.
I asked God, "Did you use me to pray for that?", and the Holy Spirit fell on me with
power, which meant "yes!"
There is a difference between a group of people singing in tongues and talking in
tongues. A bunch of people talking in tongues together may invoke the Holy Spirit's
peace, or it may not. Sometimes it seems like confusion. But the singing in tongues
experiences I have had seemed to invoke a gentler holy peaceful presence. The
Holy Spirit was directing our spontaneous worship into an amazing unity that made
us all sing in harmony. There was no discord. No one knew what they would sing
next, yet, because the Holy Spirit was in charge, He was directing all of us simultaneously
in spontaneous worship.
I have had experiences where several of us sang together both in our own languages
and in tongues, going back and forth. We spoke a few different languages, and we
all spoke in tongues as well, so we were going back and forth between singing in
our own language and using tongues. At any given moment it would be hard to tell
if the other person was singing in their own language or tongues. Both were happening.
I have had experiences where I sang a song in English and others sang the same
song in their own language, and we felt the Holy Spirit. I have also had experiences
of spontaneous worship where I sing one thing and someone next to me sang
something else, like adding a part in counterpoint. I think God wants the whole
church to join in and all do this together. The Spirit on one catalyzes others to also
go into spontaneous worship. The bible tells us to sing a new song. This means
spontaneous songs. Spontaneous worship really invokes the power of God to do
healing and whatever He wants to do in people. When we allow ourselves to do this,
we are letting Him direct us, instead of Us directing the worship. The more we let
the Holy Spirit direct us, the more He will do in us.
To receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit a person may need to ask God to reveal
any doctrinal error they may hold. When they repent of it, the Spirit comes. There
are churches that have false doctrines that don't have the power of God because
of this. We are told to worship God in Spirit and Truth. So God wants us to seek
His truth.
If a person believes that praying in tongues is not for today, as some believe, that
is doctrinal error that can block it from coming.
If a person believes that those who pray in tongues have a mental problem, they
need to repent. They are actually attributing to the devil what is from the spirit of
God, which is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
If a person thinks it is only a gift, and not everyone is supposed to get it, this may
be doctrinal error that can block them from receiving it. One needs to have faith
to receive it. They need to repent of not believing, and ask for it. They can pray
Lord if my doctrine is error, forgive me'. The error is that the scripture says the
spiritual gift is "Speaking in different kinds of tongues" in 1 Corinthians 12:10. It
doesn't say "speaking in tongues". That means each person should pray for tongues
and expect to receive a heavenly prayer language. Often this gets released after the
person repent
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