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Thursday, March 31, 2016

I See the Door of Hope for Us in the Valley of Achor - Rivers and Streams Making the Heart Glad

You will no longer call me Baali but Ishi - Hosea 2:16


"It will come about in that day," declares the LORD, "That you will call Me Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali. 17"For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will be mentioned by their names no more.…  



Important distinction.

  

 

Husband   vrs    Lord and Master 

  





The Demonic always extracts from us.  Demands without filling us.  Takes but does not provide for us.   These are the elemental spirits - the base and common ways of the earth - passing away and pulling all in with it. 





God is not like that. 
He is like a Husband. 
Committed in covenant love.
Jesus made the way driven by love.  


Now a door stands wide open for all to come out from wrath, away from idols, and into the rooted and established love of Jesus. 


Sent by the Father,  Jesus was the first apostle of Love and redemption. 






The church needs to learn to both "speak the truth in Love" and believe in the "redemptive power of Love" at the same time. 



Love hopes all things.  Love believes all things.  All things that God originates in love never fail! 
Baali - requires prostitution - sexual distortion and unfaithfulness to God and all those around us. 
  • Idols only give when you follow the rules
  • Idols only give when you give them what they demand.
  • Idols only satisfy for a moment then they rule you for more.
  • Idols are dead and lifeless and only carry the hopes people place onto them - vain and worthless reflections of our own brokenness. 
  • Idols are created things, tangible things of this world.  Made by humanity they can only give back the fallen reality of the world in which their power resides. 
  • Idols are mute.  They only voice we hear in them is ourselves, our desires and our aches for THE voice of God.  It will never be heard in an idol. 
  • Idols are fantasies.  Vain attempts at making life something more but absolutely and totally lacking the power for anything transcendent.  
  • Idols are cruel masters.  They invite us into forms of worship that enhance our distortions and brokenness and suck blood from our wounds. 
  • Idols disintegrate over time.  They carry no intrinsic value of their own.  They are made in our image and in our fallen-ness.  Left to themselves they loose all power and crumble to dust.  
  • Idols only have power when humanity gives themselves over to them.  

 Baali - called Israel to worship in the form of prostitution.  
Worship was sex exchanged for the prosperity of the land, crops and animals.   Unholy, debased, unclean, prostitution never produces freedom or true enjoyment.  Sex created by Yahweh is found in covenant as a blessing on top of relationship; adding richness, enhancing intimacy and blessing and serving the other in love.  Baali enslaves to lust and calls people to worship as if sex is the relationship.  It sets up temple prostitutes and enslaves them to a cruel taskmaster god who requires them to give themselves to debasement and dishonor with strangers who have no covenant or love.  Just lust, bondage, stealing, and cruelty.  

 

 There I will give her back her vineyards,
    and will make the Valley of Achor[a] a door of hope.
There she will respond[b] as in the days of her youth,
    as in the day she came up out of Egypt.  Hosea 2;15



Ishi is covenant love.  Always there. Always hoping.  Always believing.  Seeing one in the true light of God's eyes.  This is the glory of the testimony of Jesus, the spirit of prophecy.  It is seeing with the eyes of resurrection and the ascension.  Seeing with the eyes of Jesus into the powerful and purposeful love of God at work in the lives of those around us.

Hosea was called to retain the covenant in light of his wife's unfaithfulness. To believe in love when it was not evident, responsive, worthy of love in response. 

Unfaithful we all were when Christ died for us. 
We were under the task master of Baali - the worship of idols and all things made - under the wrath of God which is coming upon the whole earth.    


Jesus triumphed over death, sin and the Devil and made a new way through his blood shed on the cross.  


That way is evidenced in the Resurrected Lord, the Firstborn over all creation.  Our Brother Jesus who is like us and overcame sin, death and the Devil.   We are alive in him with resurrected power and ascended with him into heavenly places.   


Love never fails because....
Love cannot be bought - no money no price   Isaiah 55:1-3 
Love believes the dreams of God over us.   I Corinthians 13
It is long-suffering and patient in believing what God calls forth. 
Love looks like God himself.   God is love.     I John 4:8
Love knows that HIS love will win the day and overcome evil, rather than being swallowed up by it.  This is the root of faith and zeal.
Jesus loved us with his life. 

Believers today may be living in the Baal Master's mindset. 
Surrendering to the idols of the age.
Giving up hope over that which the Father is supremely focused on for redemption. 
  

Remember......

There is a Door of Hope in Valley of Troubles

 1. There are no DEAD ENDS in God.   He possess infinite plans to prosper us in Christ.    Isiah 43; Jeremiah 29:11-13

 2. There is no grater authority in HEAVEN or ON the EARTH - infinite power to see it accomplished in us.  Matthew 28:18-19   All authority!

 3. Troubles provide doorways to healing, transformation and expansion of our grace and glory.   Infinite victory for heart, mind, soul and strength in Jesus.  James 1   Put on some joy and victory as you see that God's love is in charge. 

4.Testing of our faith provides us with perseverance and endurance.  His word is infinitely efficacious, it possesses everything required to bring it to fruition. 
Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.  

2016  

Look forward, eyes filled with Abundance, Boundless, Victorious vision in Jesus.  

  Get a copy of my Prophetic Review 2016 - Salvation's Mountain Erupting with Open Doors, Shifts and Invitation.    
Encouragement, focus, wisdom and insight into the prophetic seasons of the new year. 
www.jeffreynoldsministries.com

 

Thanks for Reading!   


I love your comments. Ideas and thoughts.  
Please share em.
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1.http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/01/7-things-enemy-devil-doesnt-want-you-to.html
 



The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you. Testimonies?  Share em with me.   Re-Shares lov em.  Thank you!
With much love in Jesus

You can do this thing!  He's got you. 



Jeff Reynolds   ---

Brother Jeff

www.jeffreynoldsministies.com 
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Friday, March 18, 2016

Jesus Asks Us, "What do you want me to do for you?"

The people that stop Jesus in his tracks tend to get his full attention. 

And what they ask for!

 



Blind Bartimaeus did just that.  Outside Jericho. 

Jesus – “What do you want me to do for you?”  

Our answers tells us much about our 
treasure, 
our life desires, 
our understanding of the Kingdom 
and what is first in our lives. 

This is a profound question from the Lord.   IN a nothing is impossible mindset…..What does it mean to have Jesus ask us this question?
This miracle follows the one at Bethany – Raising Lazarus.




Jesus is the one who opens the eyes of the blind. 
They see him first!
Jesus is the one who raises the dead.
They find life in him alone. 







Hunger and desperation in request of Jesus always brought a response. 
Those who stopped him in his tracks found healing, sight, deliverance.  


Are you hungry enough to stop Jesus in his tracks? 
Are you willing to interrupt him while he walks with the crowds? 

In New Testament times Jericho stood some distance to the south-east of the ancient one, and near the opening of the valley of Achor.
Promise: I will make the valley of Achor a door of hope.

"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Bring her into the wilderness And speak kindly to her. 15"Then I will give her her vineyards from there, And the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. 16"It will come about in that day," declares the LORD, "That you will call Me Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali.… Hosea 2




 Bartimaeus said, "I want to receive my sight."  
And his first sight was of Jesus.  
When Israel passes into the land of promise she will see Jesus first. 
The strongholds of Jericho will fall to his love and power in the simple requests of those who cry out to him.  
He is the Father's sight to behold. 
Hebrews 1
There is much going on these days in Christian circles. 
Hopes of Revival. 
Tons of teachings.
Worship and Prayer in many forms. 
It seems the water mark has risen since the crash of 2008. 
With all that is happening, the ONE Desire of the hungry is Jesus Christ. 
There is only one to which we are called to abide. 
In all of the circumstances life throws our way......
There is ONE Desire in the Nations that can restore our sight. 
Jesus Christ.  

The real question is What do you want him to do for you??
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.…   Matthew 7:7 

 

 Then Jesus said, "Receive your sight."  

What are you asking, seeking and knocking for? 

Is it faith required?   Can you see?

Does it originate at the Throne of the Alpha and Omega? 

 

 

 2016  

Look forward, eyes filled with Abundance, Boundless, Victorious vision in Jesus.  

  Get a copy of my Prophetic Review 2016 - Salvation's Mountain Erupting with Open Doors, Shifts and Invitation.  
www.jeffreynoldsministries.com

Thanks for Reading!   


I love your comments. Ideas and thoughts.  
Please share em.
Re-shares are great. thank U.

 Here are some other blogs posts that may interest you. 

1.http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/01/7-things-enemy-devil-doesnt-want-you-to.html
 



The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you. Testimonies?  Share em with me.   Re-Shares lov em.  Thank you!
With much love in Jesus

You can do this thing!  He's got you. 



Jeff Reynolds   ---

Brother Jeff

www.jeffreynoldsministies.com 
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Forging Personal Unity with Jesus - Stopping Fragmentation: The Flesh - Spirit of Adoption - Walking in the Spirit

Walking in the Spirit -One day we seem to soar the next we are on the floor.   



The on and off again nature of walking in the Spirit without a root or foundation causes us to win one day and feel like utter failures the next.  

So, when....Everything about the Lord calls us toward deeper peace, trust and rest, why is it we have such up and down walking?  

 It seems that our walks with the Lord reflect rest, peace and trust in limited quantities.  When the reality of what Jesus speaks about...

 Abundant -
Rivers of living water
Life - erupting in us.. 

 is not flowing, 
the natural drift toward asking questions 
may be the Spirit's lead back to life. 


 Again.  What is missing when we feel Christ is missing?

  The center, the foundation ground appears to have eluded us.  


The very nature of the call toward peace and rest in Jesus is counter to a fragmented life. 

So, what is the missing link?  What is the part we have lost? 

Is there something missing?  

Is this the way we are intended to walk in the Spirit?

Life for Americans is fragmented. 



Life for American believers can be astoundingly fragmented. 

  






Fragmented means:
...existing or functioning as though broken into separate parts; disorganized; dis-unified:




Hundreds of denominations and cultural expressions of Christianity flood the landscape. The smallest details taking on vast importance, we fracture and fracture into smaller and smaller parts.  How does the average believer even walk in such a landscape?  

We are in relationship with vast numbers of believers but we do not carry a bond of peace or the depths of love.  It is lost on a million parts and pieces looking to align or fit together.  When our energies are dolled out to a 1000 different divergent groups, the effect is lost.  

he[a] made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.  Ephesians 1:9-10 


 It is important to note that Jesus is not gathering everyone together and helping us get along in our fragmentation.  He himself is our unity.  Alpha and Omega, he is the start and ending of everything known.  Every knee bows to him.  Not every faction comes into agreement with some plan he has fronted.  Every plan comes from him if it is part of his Kingdom.  He begins all things and ends all things.  None of the plans in the Kingdom contradict or conflict or compete with harmony, unity and love rooted and established in Christ himself.   

The elemental spirits of the age fill everything outside of Christ.  

Jesus is the unity that pours peace over fragmentation.  He is the rest that centers dis-unified relationships.   Everything will one day find it's place in him.  His Kingdom is arriving each day and growing.  Believers can start today.  With each other.  With Jesus front and center of our worship, devotion, love and service.   Then we turn toward each other and offer the same in HIS NAME. 




We fight on so many fronts at once.  Time to focus the battle.

I'm making a proposal.  I believe the way to rest and peace is found in something much more rooting than a performance based "walking in the Spirit".    I believe it may be focused in the Adoption as Sons, in the Spirit of adoption through the Holy Spirit.  Rom 8:14-15

  
  For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.[a] And by him we cry, “Abba,[b] Father.”



The flesh - fallen, sin affected, unable to please God.  In fact at war with God,  is clearly not a pathway to rest or peace.  Romans 8:7-8

Walking in the Spirit - one day we seem to soar the next we are on the floor wailing in failure.   The on and off again nature of walking in the Spirit without a root or foundation causes us to win one day and feel like utter failures the next.   This is a tough way to live and definitely hard to maintain joy. 


The bridge = The spirit of Adoption as sons and daughters?????

 The depths of abiding rest and peace reside in the reality put in motion that we are sons and daughters.   We are family members with, through, in Jesus Christ.   This is by grace through faith.  This is by faith through grace.

We can find a whole different dynamic to walking in the Spirit when it is rooted and established in love and informed as family members with Christ.  All who call on his name are family members.   

 Sure, we all cause some friction and are pretty interesting in and of ourselves much of the time....especially as family members.   Yet we are united in the ONE LORD who is setting all things in order.  He is our peace, who has broken down every wall, every hostility, every division between us.  

 Sons and Daughters as members of the family focus on:

  • Abiding, love, welcoming, and receiving the Lord -  Rev 3:20
  • Prayer shifts from a job and work to the center of knowing and being in the presence of God.   John 15
  • Prayer affirms our standing and enlivens our spirits before the Lord.  Hebrews 10:19-24
  • Fellowship - as those saved by grace and the love of God they see each other as members of the one family.   We bring grace with us.  We sow love.  We believe the best and hope for breakthrough.   We walk together in Jesus expecting his victory to bring lasting change to all of us.  

"And as you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' 8"Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.  Matthew 10:8-9
 

Adoption is permanent inclusion into a family.  Taking on the NAME.  Receiving all the benefits of the Family.  Rooting and establishing in the family life and ways.   


Take a closer look at sonship in Scripture and the adoption we receive as followers of Jesus.  It is a powerful and rooting reality that may put some level paths on our journey in becoming more like Jesus.   



2016  

Look forward, eyes filled with Abundance, Boundless, Victorious vision in Jesus.  

  Get a copy of my Prophetic Review 2016 - Salvation's Mountain Erupting with Open Doors, Shifts and Invitation.  
www.jeffreynoldsministries.com

Thanks for Reading!   


I love your comments. Ideas and thoughts.  
Please share em.
Re-shares are great. thank U.

 Here are some other blogs posts that may interest you. 

1.http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/01/7-things-enemy-devil-doesnt-want-you-to.html
 



The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you. Testimonies?  Share em with me.   Re-Shares lov em.  Thank you!
With much love in Jesus

You can do this thing!  He's got you. 



Jeff Reynolds   ---

Brother Jeff

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Friday, March 11, 2016

What is Shaping Your World? Victory and Good News in Jesus PT.II

There is a narrow way, a door, open to all but missed and overlooked by many. 

Everything in the world is linked to elemental spirits. 


Vain, fallen, empty, shadows. 
Unable to satisfy fully or completely,
these elemental spirits fill up the cultures of the world enslaving subtly with captivity. 
We learn the ways of these basic principles.
It's the water we are born in.
We breathe it freely but it enslaves with each breathe.
Tightening the grip. 
Sowing deeper the mindsets of slavery.

When the elemental spirits say "we are free" they mean free to follow the liar.  Free to indulge the flesh and sin at the core of fallen humanity. 






One person, One face, is linked with the narrow way.  
Jesus. 
The LIGHT 
He is the alternative VOICE.
He paid for a path to freedom with his own blood.
His Kingdom is a rule and reign of loving kindness. 
He opened a new and living way for us that allows us direct access to the depths and riches of the Father God.



We can be shaped by sin, the world or the Devil or

We can let someone else shape us.


 This identifying with ONE in a world filled with millions of elemental choices other than the ONE makes us feel as though we are strangers, aliens. 

There is an open door.
There is a King standing and knocking.
Heaven is open to your deepest desires to know God.

Yes. 
It can look like a war sometimes.
Yet in the midst of battles, we see his face. 
We walk with him.
We become like him.

Becoming like him is the heart cry of every one touched in the core by the love of Jesus. 




We face off every day with elemental spirits.  Three entrenched enemies.


Here is a quick breakdown on what they are. 

The World - The Fallen and Fading World order  - A new heaven and new earth are on the way.   Isaiah 9:7

 

  • Kosmos - Greek word for world and world order   I John 2:15-17 
  • World Order - the order of things of the world, culture, nations, enslaved in the flesh and the bondage's of sin mindsets.  Passing away.  I John 2:17 
  • Strongholds - structures of captivity in culture, family, government that consistently enslave people, put out the fires of first love and advance of the Gospel and keep people in sin struggles.    2 Corinthians 10:4
  • Thoughts and mindsets of fallen humanity- The "ways" of the flesh, fallen mindsets and sin informed and distorted vision. Galatians 4:3
  •  Patterns and ways of acting and living with sin at the root enlivened and held up by elemental spirits.  Galatians 4:3   Everything outside of love and devotion to Christ and doing the will of the Father is elemental spirit controlled and informed.
  • Babylon - the economic fallen order enslaved to prostitution -
    After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illumined with his glory. 2And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. 3"For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality."… Rev 18:2f
The Father is seeking to fill the world with wisdom from above.  James 3:17-18
Measure what you are connecting with in the world through the eyes of wisdom and fruit it brings.  It is a much sweeter fruit than anything you've ever tasted.

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.



 

The Devil- Destined for Lock Up - stripped and defeated.  Col 2:15


  • Fallen Angel - sinner - liar -  I John 3:8
  • One being - One location - One understanding - lies and half truths - deceiver - 1 Peter 5:8  The Devil is not like God.  He is created.  He is limited.  He is overwhelmingly consumed with being a criminal. He cannot think outside the box of lies, deceit and destruction.
  • The Great Accuser of the brethren     Revelation 12:10   Accusation is his breathing apparatus.  He speaks lies about everything and everyone.  Learn to discern the truth by walking in the Spirit and richly dwelling in the Word of Christ.  Col 3
  • Out numbered - Limited number of demonic agents with him - 1/3 Revelation 12:4  
  • Defeated - Stripped - headed to destruction and judgement - Revelation 20:1-3

Sin - Crucified and defeated with Christ on the Cross - and so Death lost it's sting. 

"who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, 10but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.… 2 Timothy 1:10-11  

Sin is dominion.  Power.  Held up by the world's fallen strongholds.  
Jesus destroyed it.  It has no power any more.  

The end result of sin.  Death.  Is defeated as well.  We go into life with Christ forever. 

 Many believers focus their identity as Sinners saved by grace.  And we have been saved and are being saved by grace through faith.  

Our core identity is not the past slavery we lived in.
Israel carried a slave mindset out through the Red sea.  Then into the desert. 
They saw miracles galore. 
They heard the Voice. 
But they did not mix the message with faith. 
Don't be like them in this way. 

We are invited into Promise in the face of Jesus. 
Called to walk in Promise by faith. 
Invited to explore the depths and riches of God in Trust.   
 





We passed from the dominion of darkness into the freedom of the Kingdom of light and love. 

Our new identity is through adoption as sons and daughters.
We are called into ruling and reigning with Jesus.
We receive a Kingdom, which the Father is pleased to give us, and bring it forth to a world devoid of the reality of the LOVE that shapes eternity. 

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;   

Col 1:13

 

You can do this because Jesus is with you and he has already done all of it!  

He did it for you and I.  

That is enough for a worship time anytime.  

This Kingdom we are part of is 
Righteousness
Peace
Joy 
in the power of the Holy Spirit.  

2016  

Look forward, eyes filled with Abundance, Boundless, Victorious vision in Jesus.  

  Get a copy of my Prophetic Review 2016 - Salvation's Mountain Erupting with Open Doors, Shifts and Invitation.  
www.jeffreynoldsministries.com

Thanks for Reading!   


I love your comments. Ideas and thoughts.  
Please share em.
Re-shares are great. thank U.

 Here are some other blogs posts that may interest you. 

1.http://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/01/7-things-enemy-devil-doesnt-want-you-to.html
 



The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you. Testimonies?  Share em with me.   Re-Shares lov em.  Thank you!
With much love in Jesus

You can do this thing!  He's got you. 



Jeff Reynolds   ---

Brother Jeff

www.jeffreynoldsministies.com 

 

 

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