March 8. Day 22: Moving from Trauma or Failure to Healing and Success!

After Jesus was crucified, His disciples were traumatized. The trauma caused them to lose sight of the prophetic words that He had given about His resurrection. You find this account when He is walking on the Road to Emmaus, and the disciples walking with Him cannot SEE! Not until they commune are their eyes opened to SEE!Trauma imprints in your memory system. Trauma is processed deep into the tissues of your brain (processor) and affects your thoughts (heart). Trauma becomes the Flash Bulb that creates what you see and how you define the world around you. Traumas can produce LOCK-INS of fear, failure complexities, emotional distresses and anxieties. These “locked in” emotions can cause your organs to overwork (spleen, kidneys, and pancreas) and create adrenal failure. Every situation in your life can be “SEEN” through your unhealed and reconciled trauma. Trauma, when not processed correctly, will shape your world from the point of view of the hurtful situation and circumstance that you experienced.Tell fear and failure to go! Confusion and an unsound mind are results of a spirit of fear. The enemy does not play the game of life fairly. Trauma, when used by our enemy, will create a failure mentality, confused perspective producing dullness, deadness, lost hope, apathy and blocked emotions. Leave trauma behind and remove the dam on your BLOCKED emotions!The enemy’s goal is to VEX your spirit! You are created in the image of God. You are a whole person. He longs to sanctify your spirit, soul and body. Your inner most part is your spirit. Your spirit is your eternal part. Your spirit has three functions: Communion, Intuition and Testimony!Your conscience is the window between your spirit and soul. The conscience must be kept clean so you can SEE. During trauma, the enemy takes advantage of you so that you question God’s goodness. If he can make you say, ‘God is not good and He has withheld His promise and best from me,’ you will lose your power to see!Be healed of TRAUMA—shout today that GOD IS GOOD!Read John 5, Luke 24. Memorize I Thessalonians 5:23, Meditate on Matthew 6.

March 9. Day 23: His Word DIVIDES and WE SEE!

We are in a season where we must divide to see and multiply. What do I mean? There have been walls built, veils formed and curtains dropped that keep us from seeing. Walls have been built in relationships. Curtains have been developed to keep us from seeing the promises and blessings that await us. Veils and smokescreens have been released by the enemy so we only see half of what we should be seeing, so the question: “Behold I do a NEW thing—Do YOU not perceive it?” we may answer, “NO! I don’t see a thing.” We might say, “Everything looks the same as it last did.” Well, perhaps, everything looks even a little more blurry than before.What divides? The Word divides between the soul and spirit! Hebrews 4:12 says, “The Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword…piercing to the division of soul and spirit…and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” This is in my top ten Scriptures in the Word of God. Why? This statement defines the power, the energy and the purpose of the Word of God. The Word DIVIDES! The Word is working to separate our soulish desires, inhibitions and wounds. The Word cleanses the window of our conscience, the meeting place of soul and spirit. The Word gives us Light to see through our own personality and see the BEST that God has to offer us. The Word allows us to see into eternity. The Word produces faith.The Word divides the dichotomy between self and SPIRIT. Faith works along this dividing line. We must choose trust over mistrust (Psalm 37:3, Proverbs 3:5). We must have our belief system divided. We must make daily choices between belief and unbelief (Hebrews 3:12). We must choose between loyalty and betrayal (Luke 22). Our flesh will lean toward the latter, but His life can cause us to be loyal to those leading and the position of rule that He has placed us in.His Word is our covenant book and divides us between fidelity and unfaithfulness (2 Samuel 11). His Word reveals our dependence or independence (1 Corinthians 12). His Word makes us confident and divides our insecurity (John 5:14). His Word sets the standard for our obedience and makes our disobedience known to our conscience (John 3:4; 2:5). His Word divides our fragmentation (1 Thessalonians 5:23) and makes us WHOLE. His Word creates our testimony so that we witness or keep silent and deny Him (John 5:11, Hebrews 12:1). His Word is love which causes our heart to dethrone hate (2 Thessalonians 3:5, Galatians 5:6, 1 John 2:9) and think of others more highly than ourselves.His Word produces FAITH. Faith works from our LOVE. Without our LOVE, for Him and others, our faith and vision suffer. SEE!Read and meditate on the above Scripture references.

March 10. Day 24: How Long Will You Grieve? Put on a NEW IDENTITY!

Loss is part of life… We lose loved ones, relationships, financial strength and influence. One of the most difficult losses to overcome is expectation. We have hope that something will happen in a certain way, and what we hoped for is deferred to another season. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. Another way of saying this is postponed manifestation causes us to be weakened and unable to stand firm. We grieve when we lose.There is a process connected with grief. We first experience shock, and next, we enter into denial over what we are experiencing and try to determine if the event is really happening or if we are experiencing a bad dream. However, the pain of reality sets in and we grow angry, depressed, manipulative, and even turn inward. “Why me?” becomes the identity we wear. The last phase of loss and most dangerous of all is withdrawal and loneliness. To protect ourselves from more hurt and pain, we become our only goal.When Samuel anointed Saul as king, there were expectations for him to accomplish much for Israel. Saul put on the kingly robe but never wore the identity of God’s King. Eventually, the Lord determined that for the good of the whole of His covenant people, Saul must go.When the Lord communicated this with Samuel, he grieved over the loss. The Lord asks a question that rings through the ages in all losses: ‘How long will you grieve?’ This is a question that each of us must answer. Will you wear grief and trauma from the last season as your future or will you SEE that there is NEW waiting for you? Stop, be still, and ask yourself, “What am I wearing?” If your answer is “the residue from my last season with all of the loss attached” the time is now for change!Let’s change garments. First, put on a Renewed Mind! Then add Revived EXPECTATIONS! Next, receive the garment of AUTHORITY! Add Boldness to your new garment. Remove and leave behind your last cycle of FEAR! WEAR FREEDOM! Daily walk in the SPIRIT and declare that you are a SERVANT of CHRIST and not a SLAVE to the FLESH or a HOST for DARKNESS to DWELL! Adorn yourself with FAITH! Counteract Faith Destroyers: strife, procrastination, anxiety over the future, doubt, unbelief, anger, frustration, guilt, jealousy and envy! Wear OVERCOMING REVELATION that reflects the KINGDOM! To make your new garment radiate let the Lord pour Favor on you and a GLORY that produces Momentum and ACCELERATION!We are in a new season. This is a season to SEE! This is not a time to grieve! His joy will be your strength! See yourself being reclothed for the future!Read Isaiah 41, Ephesians 4-5. Meditate on Zechariah 3-4.

March 11. Day 25: Reordered for Victory!

I have learned through the years that if I order my prayers, He will order my steps. Order is a mathematical sequencing term as well as a military term. No matter what wilderness dimension is attempting to hold you, you can SEE the order of your release and victory. “Lift up your eyes and see” (Psalm 121). You can see the victory ahead. Resist religion. God has promised that man is able to surpass himself by entering into a relationship with the One who created the world. Man, who is part of this world, can have relationship with the One who is greater than this world. He gave His Son to reveal relationship and restored access to us. We must have this sense of awe and MYSTERY as we seek the Lord, to know Him and the power of resurrection that raised His Son from the dead and seated Him in heavenly places. All of our blessings dwell with Him.There is a new order to see in worship. This is a time to rebuild the altar. Many are being repositioned to find their new place of worship.SEE victory over past structures that captivated your family. There is a new freedom coming in our lives. His BLOOD can overcome the war in your blood. Ask the Spirit of God to penetrate and remove any deep, anti-Semitic root in your bloodline. SEE a divine recovery occur in your life. Break any power of scattering. If you have been uprooted from your inheritance, ask God to sovereignly set your course of return. If your thoughts are scattered that is a curse working. Reverse the curse and plant your feet like a tree by the waters of life and be healed. Remove and break any power from past words that have been linked with fear.If you have withdrawn from warring for your promise, repent. Do not slander the land of which you have been given or make light of the promise waiting for you (Numbers 13:32–14:5). If past generations in your bloodline were confronted by God and resisted advancing into the fullness of His destiny, repent and then move forward. You are the remnant that remains to pursue, overcome and restore all.Review and meditate on these Scriptures: Ecclesiastes. 7:23-24, 8:16-17, 3:10-11 (implanted in the hearts of men the mystery), Daniel 2:27; Isaiah 40:12; Proverbs 30:2-4; Job 28:12-14, 28:20-22. Read Psalm 1, 121 and 1 Samuel 30.

March 12. Day 26: See the Miracles that are Pressing You into a Greater Glory!

My wife recently made this incredible statement: “Expecting the miraculous is one of the childlike characteristics that have to be cultivated and protected in a world full of cynicism and disappointment.” Miracles and faith must go hand and hand. Faith is related to every part of our Christian lives. By faith we receive salvation (see Ephesians 2:8-9). Faith is associated with our experiences of sanctification (see Acts 26:18), purification (see Acts 15:9), justification (see Romans 4:5; 5:1) and adoption (see Galatians 3:26; Colossians 3:24). All are dependent upon our faith. Faith comes by hearing. Hearing by the word of the Lord! There is a war of faith to hear and stand that we must enter into at times if we are to see our promises manifest. In the book of Haggai, the people began strong to rebuild but got distracted and discouraged from the warfare.The word MIRACLE is linked with the principle of WONDER! Wonderful events only God can conceive in Heaven for us to see in earth, is really what a miracle is about. A miracle (or miracles) is a supernatural manifestation of divine power in this atmospheric world that we live where special revelations of the presence and power of God are displayed. All physical events become subservient and aid His power from the Throne Room as released in and through us here in the earth realm. Once His power is released, He establishes and preserves His will and the life processes of human flesh in the world. A miracle, or His power, extends eternity into the atmosphere we live and walk.This power aligns with “the Spirit of the Lord” so “the Finger of God” (Luke 4:18; 11:20; Acts 3:12) can have His work. Miracles are “powers”, “mighty works”, “wonderful works”, and “manifestations of the power of God”. He uses His finger to touch, paint and work His will like the mighty Molder of Life that He is! He creates a new order out of a mess. He enters the natural laws of earth and redirects their actions. The supernatural finger of God rearranges what seems to us as a natural world. The whole world is filled with wonders to those who have eyes to see. The natural world everywhere is full of marvels, but we must look for the Finger that makes the natural wondrous and alive with GOD.There is a GREATER GLORY! See and enter into the NEW! Shake off all discouragement, disillusionment, and disinterest from the last season that have caused you to shrink back! If the war from the last season turned you away from pushing back completion of any project, regroup and ‘GO UP AGAIN’. Tell your EMOTIONS not to hang on to past hurts! Do not be afraid that your last pain will recur again in the NEW! Believe that your Latter can be GREATER than the former! Come UP into a NEW Spiritual Realm! GO BEYOND! A Fresh Anointing is being released as we CROSS OVER! Let go of trauma and release forgiveness! Begin to WORSHIP in a new and fresh way and interact with the angelic hosts! Decree that a NEW WAVE of Holy Spirit will overtake you! Declare the SEEDS that you have sown in the past seasons will begin to multiply and your storehouse will fill again! Recognize spiritual forces around you that have blocked the flow of the river of life!Read Haggai 1 and 2. Meditate on Joshua 3.

March 13. Day 27: See Miracles as they Happen!

Miracles happen! I pray that you are seeing your miracles as they happen! A miracle is not only wonderful but has the sense of being a “new thing”! This new thing awakens us to a Divine Power that our eyes were unable to see. His Finger and working power has an appropriate place in the great plan and purpose of lives that have been knitted together in Him. Miracles produce revelation. What we could not normally see, we now see!Faith sees when miracles happen! Faith was one of the main thrusts of Jesus’ ministry. In the Gospels, we continually find statements such as “Your faith has healed you.” In Jesus’ hometown, He could not do mighty miracles because the people there lacked faith. He wasn’t powerless to do so, but the atmosphere in that place prevented our Lord from exhibiting the power of faith. However, when He found men and women of faith, He released His power, and miracles took place. God assures us that if we believe, then nothing is impossible, and He withholds nothing.Move into the next season with a mentality of increase! Miracles happen! Expect visitation! Remove all distractions! Choose the one thing! (Luke 10) Let the Lord REORDER your day! Meditate day and night on His Word! Meditation produces success! Find your place in God’s Kingdom government plan! Ask Holy Spirit to reveal your new supply lines! War with prophetic words that will unlock your seeds sown in the Kingdom!Review these Scriptures: John3:3-5; Luke 17:21; Matthew 13:11; John 18:36; Luke 11:1-4; 7:21. Meditate on Luke 10, Hebrews 11.

March 14. Day 28: Going Beyond!

I hope you are now seeing in a new way! The past 28 days have been about seeing. Recently Tiffany Smith came forward and prophesied, “There is power in son-ship. I won’t relent until you get to the place I’ve destined for you. I won’t relent. I am committed to you.” Until the day Jesus returns, He is committed to you—every day, every step, every purpose. There is a place called “Beyond” that the Lord is calling you to. See your place called “Beyond” and start pressing toward that place.These are some Key Principles to understand so you can SEE Your Promises Manifest:• The Voice WHO CREATES order from chaos!
• Our call to DOMINION! Man’s call to watch, multiply and worship!
• The serpent’s subtle voice!
• Abraham’s Covenant and testing on Mount Moriah! Your covenant rights!
• The Burning Bush! The Call to Cleanse the Heavens!
• The Power of Passover! The Blood!
• Seeing Abundance! The Journey to the Promise land!
• The Restoration of David’s Tabernacle! 
• The Celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the Feast of Trumpets).
• The Virgin Birth of Jesus, our REDEEMER! The WORD becoming flesh!
• Jesus’ sacrifice and Surprise of the Cross creating the enemy’s defeat!
• The Demonstration of the Power that RAISED JESUS from the DEAD!
• How to see and co-labor with Angels! An Open Heaven!
• The Lion of Judah and the Triumphant Remnant!“Follow ME!” These two words will cause you to SEE! Do not be afraid to come and see your future! Surrender to the Lord, receive His Spirit, and follow! 

March 1. Day 15: “Cycles of Infirmity Must GO!”

This is a time to break destructive cycles. A “cycle” is an interval during which a recurring sequence of events happens. A cycle can also be a periodically repeated sequence of events, something that happens over and over at a certain time. A cycle can be linked with a time or an event and orchestrated supernaturally so that a repeating wound or injustice occurs from generation to generation. Satan loves to keep us going around the same mountain or hold us in a cyclical pattern. But God has a remedy for iniquity. By embracing the Blood and redemptive sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, we can break out of any old pattern.As we prepare for a new level of freedom we must deal with forces that wish to keep us captivated in an old season. We have looked at how poverty attempts to create a stronghold to keep us from seeing our prosperity. Now, let’s look at how infirmity, from wars, tries to keep us from standing strong. Infirmity is a term that encompasses more than just sickness and disease. Infirmity is also related to suffering and sorrow. Matthew 8:16-17 states that Jesus “cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who \\were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: ‘He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses’” (see also Isaiah 53:4). Infirmity can also refer to a disability of one kind or another. Infirmity can occur as a result of moral or spiritual defects that cause our will to stray from God. Infirmity can be related to the influence of an evil spirit (see Luke 13:11).Infirmity can also be linked to an overall weakness in our bodies or with anything that created the weakness, such as grief. Romans 15:1 states that those “who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength” (NASB). This weakness is infirmity. Not only did Christ bear our weaknesses and infirmities, but we are also called to bear the weaknesses and infirmities of our brothers and sisters in the Lord. This is called intercession. Romans 8:26 says, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered” (KJV).We have been called to intercede for the sick, which allows us to bring before the Lord someone weaker than ourselves. As we move into this season, we must start addressing those forces that have been sent by satan to hinder us from seeing our destiny manifest.Read Luke 13, 18. Memorize Psalm 107:20. Meditate on Psalm 103:1-6.

March 2. Day 16: “A Generational Understanding!”

Infirmity can be a generational issue. I know in my life the Lord had to show me this by His Spirit. People are often confused about how generational iniquity works. In Possessing Your Inheritance, there is a great chapter on this. If you do not have that book, I strongly suggest you purchase it. I believe that a brief overview of this subject in the context of the cycle of infirmity might be helpful here.To fully understand generational iniquity, we need to first understand how DNA makes the blueprint of our body. DNA causes traits from one generation to be passed on to the next generation. As the cells in an embryo divide and multiply, they do so according to the structure of the base pairs in the DNA. The combination of these base pairs provides the hereditary instructions for how each cell will be coded in order to accomplish that cell’s specific purpose. As cells continue to multiply, groups of cells come together to form tissues. Tissues, in turn, form organs. Blood cells are pumped through the body, providing oxygen to each organ to enable it to survive. The cells in our stomachs work together in digestion. The cells in our brains work together as we study and pursue knowledge.When the sperm and egg unite and a new life is formed, already programmed into the makeup of that person is God’s redemptive plan. However, we must remember that we are born in iniquity, so the iniquitous inherited traits that will resist that plan from coming into fullness, is already programmed in us. But God!Our blood begins to war with itself from the time of conception. Since cells are dynamic, an iniquitous pattern in a cell’s DNA can affect our entire physical and mental makeup. If something is passed on in our DNA that has been “twisted” or linked with iniquity, that message is multiplied wrongly in our beings.The Spirit of God can come into our lives so that we can become sons of God (see Galatians 3:26). As we submit and yield our lives to the Spirit’s work, He flows through our blood and cleanses our consciences from the thought processes linked with the iniquitous patterns in our bloodlines. Hebrews 9:14 states, “How much more, then, will the Blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!” (NIV)In my case, there was a generational weakness that had aligned itself with loss and trauma. But God! Once I began to see those weaknesses and define the losses that they were attached to, I could then pray and break a power that had me “bent over” and unable to stand fully. I confessed those patterns as sin. You might say, Well, I had nothing to do with these sins. However, we must understand that repentance is a gift and grace of God that causes us to turn from one way of thinking and be transformed to think like Christ. Once you repent, you renounce the power of its effect. In my own life, this set me on a new road to health.I have had trusted doctors and praying friends who have helped me greatly in developing a new order in my life. Each doctor played his role in diagnosing my condition. However, it was the Spirit of God that had begun to change me greatly from the inside. He is there now to start revealing things to you and cause you to “see” how weakness and loss are related.Read John 5. Read Mark 2.

March 3. Day 17: “Jesus Heals—Press Through and SEE His Power!”

I wish I could say that I have never been sick again since I started “seeing” how infirmity works with loss and trauma. However, since that time, a power to resist sickness has become resident within me. When the power of infirmity comes against me, I submit to God, resist the devil and watch him flee.Jesus healed sick people. This was one of His major ministries. He dealt with many organic causes of illness and individuals affected by madness, birth defects and infections. The blind, the deaf, the lame and others who suffered approached Him for help. I especially love the story of the woman with the spirit of infirmity who “pressed through” in Mark 5:25-34. She is an incredible example of personal overcoming. She overcame the religious structure of the day, the reproach of being a woman and the stigma of being unclean. She pressed through to touch the Lord. This caused the Lord to release “virtue” (King James Version; “power” in the New King James Version) from His own body that healed her condition.In the Hebraic culture of the day, most people believed that illness was the direct consequence of sin (see John 9:1-3). However, Jesus shifted this concept by healing a blind man who had been sick since birth. When Jesus’ disciples asked, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered that the sickness was not related to the man or his parents, “but that the works of God should be revealed in him” (John 9:3). Many wrong choices produce consequences that affect our body, but Jesus came to extend grace to bring us out from the bondage of the punishment of sin and into healing and wholeness. He had the power to both forgive sin and to heal (see Matthew 9:1-8; compare Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:17-26).On several occasions, Jesus used His own saliva as an ointment or anointing (see Mark 7:32-35; 8:22-25; John 9:6-7). I find this fascinating—one of the primary ways that DNA is collected for testing is through saliva samples. Jesus took His own saliva, placed it on the eyes of the blind and watched their eyes form. He also healed those who suffered from mental illnesses and epilepsy—sicknesses usually associated with demonic powers (see Mark 9:18). The Lord addressed issues of fever and dysentery (see Matthew 8:14-15). Sterility and barrenness were also major issues in Biblical times. Regardless of the cause of their distress, people found that Jesus could truly help.He is there for you. Be like the woman above and “press through” all the structures stopping you from experiencing freedom and “seeing” a new wholeness and peace that is waiting for you.Read Matthew 9. Read John 9.

March 4. Day 18: “Get Off Your Treadmill and Enter the Field of Prevention”

One key to overcoming any strategy of the enemy is discipline and prevention. Prevention was the most important dynamic of combating disease in Biblical times. Many of the laws that the Lord established in Biblical times actually aid in preventing and combating various illnesses. Diet is one of the most important facets of health, which is why we find a number of laws relating to diet (see Leviticus 11). Wine was also used to help stop problems and alleviate pain and discomfort (see 1 Timothy 5:23). We also find the use of ointments and salves in Biblical times that were used for healing (see Isaiah 1:6). James instructed the combined use of oil, confession of faults and spiritual authority to produce healing (see James 5:14).In a world of chemical stimulation and overwhelming stress, it is a wonder that any of us remain healthy. Stress has such impact on our bodies—both physically and spiritually—that without the Lord as our strength, it would be impossible for us to live in this world. Jesus told us to be in the world, but not of it (see John 17:11, 14). Do we need doctors? Yes, we need anyone who has developed specialty in understanding. Doctors are trained to understand dynamics of the world that can give us wisdom on how to be in the world.Most doctors understand cycles. If medical doctors begin to take a Biblical approach toward an individual—that of seeing the individual made whole—they will be able to find the root cause of that person’s problem and not only help to heal that individual, but also help to prevent disease in the future. With doctoral skill in prevention and advances in medicine, individuals can better reverse deficiencies that have created paths of decay. Why do we need doctors? Because they can validate what God is doing in a skeptical world.One of my favorite books is Dr. Gallagher’s Guide to 21st Century Medicine: How to Get Off the Illness Treadmill and on to Optimum Health. In this book, Dr. Gallagher says, “The body is a miraculous system equipped with an innate ability to achieve balance and health. We have, within each of us, the ability to work with, and nourish, this God given gift.” Dr. Gallagher suggests a healthier diet, nutritional and herbal supplements, identifying and eliminating hidden food allergies and chemical sensitivities, a simple detoxification program to get rid of harmful toxins in the body, chiropractic manipulation, and following sensible health rules.He also gives instructions on how to break an old cycle, or “treadmill,” which he defines as: Something that you run or walk on and get nowhere. An illness treadmill is something that snares you in an endless web of diagnoses, tests, prescriptions, and procedures and gets you nowhere, or even makes you sicker… Once you are on the treadmill, you may get some temporary relief from symptoms. But all too often the cause of your problem is ignored, so things just get worse. Meanwhile, the treatments used to suppress the symptoms often cause side effects and new symptoms. Dr. Gallagher suggests finding the root of the illness and breaking the cycle.My prayer for each of us is that we get off any treadmill holding us captive. If we are on a “treadmill,” we can only see from the perspective of the treadmill. I declare that we break old cycles and begin running and jumping in a wide, enlarged field of freedom.Read Leviticus 11. Meditate on 1 Timothy 5:23. Memorize James 5:14.

March 5. Day 19: “Broken Spirits Can Be Healed!”

Illness and infirmity were a pattern in my life. Growing up with weakness and sickness was a way of life for me. Severe allergic reactions, bronchial asthma, stomach ulcers, and overwhelming migraines became the norm. Doctors tried many things. I was actually taking Valium by the time I was in the 4th grade. From the time I became filled with the Spirit, I had learned how to resist the power of sickness. Yet, I had never really overcome the power of infirmity in my life. In the early 1990s, I received some bad reports concerning my esophagus and colon—they were damaged and creating a very dangerous situation in my life. The Lord took me through a series of bad diagnoses from doctors. Then, because of my internal situation, my body began to reject anything that entered it and to treat it as an allergen. I began to experience anaphylactic shocks. I was miserable! At this point, I was very concerned about my future.At the National School of the Prophets that was being held in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2001, Cindy Jacobs, a friend of mine, shared with me that she believed my sickness was related to the trauma I had experienced while growing up. She believed that my father’s decaying leadership in our family and his premature death still held power over me. My first impression was, “How could this be? I have gone through so much deliverance. I have even written a book about overcoming the loss that had occurred in our family.” I came home from Baltimore very ill and unable to digest any food. My brother, Keith, was teaching Sunday School and gave me a call after his class. He said, “While I was teaching my class, the Lord told me that the sickness that you are experiencing is related to the loss of our dad.” I thought to myself, “Why isn’t my brother ever sick? My dad was his dad also.” So I asked him this question. He responded, “You had a different emotional tie with Daddy than I. His loss wounded and affected you in a way that it did not affect me.”This was an eye-opening statement for me. I fell before the Lord and began to ask Him how to break this generational iniquity of infirmity that was linked with the trauma of loss that I had experienced in my life. Since that time, the Lord has led me on a journey of understanding how trauma affects our DNA and weakens our spirit. One verse that has become a life verse for me is Proverbs 18:14: “The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but who can bear a broken spirit?” A broken spirit occurs when life’s difficulties crush our abilities to resist. Jesus came to heal our bodies. However, we find that His desire for us is to become whole in body, soul and spirit. When the Lord showed me the power of trauma, I could SEE how my past was continuing to hold this infirm spirit in place.Whatever way you choose for healing as you follow God, find the root cause of your infirmity, and press through into the healing process. During my time of infirmity, I had to make a choice to follow the Lord to Nigeria. Dr. Peter Wagner was leading a gathering there with key apostolic leaders from the nation. I always serve Peter whenever he requests me to be somewhere, but the thought of traveling to Nigeria in my condition was difficult to reconcile. Yet Peter encouraged me to go. He even said, “Because of how the power of God is moving there, perhaps you will get healed.” He was right. I overcame my fear of going to a foreign nation while I was ill. I went to Nigeria, and during a prayer meeting (of 10,000 people), the Spirit of God came. When communion was served, those who were sick were invited to come forward. I was the first in line. When I participated, I felt a curse of infirmity leave my body.With all disorders, we must seek the help of the Holy Spirit for wisdom. There are times when a person is in such a state of depression or agitation that he or she is unable to receive ministry until medication is administered. I have dealt with people who refused medication because they believed it meant they didn’t have faith. I have talked with ministers who refused to minister deliverance to someone who was on medication because it was mind altering. If it is altering the mind to be able to think coherently and focus, then they should be able to receive ministry. The good news is that there is help for people with emotional and mental problems. Look for the cycles and be prepared to break them. God can break through any structure and start mending your broken spirit. Let’s ask Him to show us how trauma is affecting our ability to SEE the future!Memorize Proverbs 18:14.

March 6. Day 20: “SEE—The New is Beginning! You Will BE!”

We have entered a time to see, gain sight and vision! Light comes! When light comes, we see! Light is truth and revelation that causes our destiny and the world around us to unfold. Once we enter into acceptance of the revelation that is coming, our path gets brighter and brighter! Light rises on you and causes you to get up! Glory and light align to cause you to rise above depression and oppression that have caused you to NOT SEE your new day form! Where despair was, hope springs forth! Hope leads to faith! Faith sees! Your conscience sees. Light floods your body! Faith overcomes!The eye of the Lord is watching. This is a time of seeing eye to eye…face to face! This is a time to look again! Things become seeable! The Word is Aperture! There is a flash of light that causes your way to open. Like a camera, you capture God’s vision for you. You see your identity as you were meant to be. The flash is quick, but you see for a moment and you see enough to grab the best you were created for!From your new place of faith you walk forward! You enter the race! You press toward the mark! You cross the line to enter again! This becomes your cycle of life. This is how you keep operating in a new, fresh identity. You never grow old in the Spirit. Your spirit remains renewed.This is a time to transform—to metamorphose. Where you could not SHOUT, now SHOUT GRACE at the top of your lungs. Grace becomes the key to your life. You are energized! This shout of grace addresses mountains that blocked you in the last season. You leap to the top of those mountains that blocked you, and you thresh them until they become a plain. You become!Read Isaiah 41. Memorize Isaiah 41:15. Meditate on Zechariah 4.

March 7. Day 21: “I Will Surprise You as You Follow Me and Worship!”

“I will surprise you as I begin to manifest Myself in the month ahead. I will cause something that seems dead to begin to burn again. Turn and see. Turn away from your agreement with what you thought you were caught in, and TURN TO ME. I am burning again and you will be ‘uncaught’ and hear your next word from Me.”You thought you were going to worship in one way, but I had to open a gate in Heaven to create a different way of worship in you. There is a sound in you. Let the sound rise to Me on a daily basis as I begin a new movement around you. This sound will create movement and you will SEE Me in a new way. If you had remained in last season’s worship, you would have grown cold. Now, a new way of worship in Heaven is opening up and My people will worship Me in new ways with new sacrifices in the month ahead. You will shout, ‘Let me GO that I might worship in a new way.’ Throw your hands out, for I AM going to fill them in a new way. You were tied up one way, but I am beginning to let you go free. Follow Me and you will SEE!”Listen carefully, for your rams are already positioned in the bush. Listen carefully, for you will sacrifice to Me differently. This is where you are held captive. You will sacrifice to Me in a new way. There is a trumpet blowing and announcing. Hear your ram in the bush. It will be the sound of your sacrifice. When you sacrifice the fat of a ram, and you begin to sacrifice what I bring to you, it will open up the sound and give you the trumpet that you need to speak to set your course in the Heavens for the future. Get ready, for the fire gate is now opening.”As you take every assignment you’ve been given, you will begin to open up in a new way. Whatever I tell you to put your hand to, do that with all your heart. I will then add more and more for your hands to use.”The pupil of your eye is opening so it can receive more light. The way you were seeing is opening so you see more light, rightly dividing to see what you did not see before. I AM is opening your eyes so you see the doors and entryways that were hidden in the last season. Your eyesight is adjusting now. What you need to see is already caught and waiting on you. Your eyesight is adjusting. Things have narrowed your vision and you have not seen or ordered things to move on you the way I want to move. Because you are going to worship Me in a new way and bring the fat to the altar, when you still your heart and emotions, I will allow you to hear the new sound that is waiting for you. I will allow you to see and hear the supply that is caught up in the bush. Bring the fat to the altar and the supply in the bush will come alive and rattle. Bring the fat to the altar and that which is in the bush will come alive.”Read Genesis 22 (again). Read Exodus 2, 3, and 6. Memorize Hebrews 4:12. 

FEBRUARY 22. Day 8: See, Turn, and Hear Your Way out of Captivity and into the New

When Isaiah heard the Lord make the statement and ask the question, Behold, I DO a NEW Thing! Can YOU not SEE or perceive what is new around you? (Isaiah 43:19), the people were in danger of not shifting their sight to SEE their way into their future. They were a people going into captivity, but He was promising them that He would show them their way out at the perfect time. However, they would have to SEE the opening and opportunity to change their identity for the future. In this season of 5770, the Ayin Season, we must see our way out of our past captivities.We Are Shifting from Hearing to SEEING! In the past, we have heard a “word from behind us telling us which way to go,” but now HE will manifest in a way that we have to notice Him, turn and look, and then hear His word telling us which way to go. We have a great example of the time to shift and the pattern for the season ahead when we look at Exodus 3:1-4:Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the west end of the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. The angel of GOD appeared to him in flames of fire blazing out of the middle of a bush. He looked. The bush was blazing away but it didn’t burn up. Moses said, “What’s going on here? I can’t believe this! Amazing! Why doesn’t the bush burn up?” GOD saw that he had stopped to look. God called to him from out of the bush, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Yes? I’m right here!” (from The Message).The heavens had changed because the cry of the people of Israel in their slavery had reached His throne room. He responded and remembered His covenant that He had made 400 years prior. His response came in the form of a new manifestation. Moses recognized the new manifestation. This caused him to stop his normal daily activities. He did not just see the manifestation. The word above says that “He stopped to look.” He turned from his past and present to “see” his future. When Moses saw, he then heard his calling to advance.The Key is LETTING GO of the old duties, routines, thought patterns, emotions, relationships and ambitions. When we see, then turn (the same word for change), we will hear transition and be repositioned out of last season’s captivities and into next season’s freedom. Be willing to see and then say “Here I am.”Meditate on Exodus 2:24-end of the chapter. Read Exodus 3-6.

FEBRUARY 23.Day 9: The Voice of God is Like a GPS Navigator

Penny Jackson, a very good friend, teacher and minister in Houston, wrote the following to me: “I used my new GPS to get to downtown Houston for jury duty. I was struck by how much God is like this GPS system in my car. First of all, the GPS tells you what to do when you are a short distance from your shifting turn. The voice of the GPS then grows more urgent as you get closer to your needed turn. However, the voice does not give you too much information too far in advance. If you miss the turn to your destination, the GPS recalculates and gives you another way to the destination. Isn’t that like God? He forewarns us of how to get to where we need to go. The Spirit then gets stronger when we get close to the perfect timing to shift. Then, even if we ‘miss it’, He is longsuffering and recalculates our path into victory.”May you see and hear every turn on your path as you press forward. If you miss a turn, may you find grace and find your way.Memorize Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the [uncompromisingly] just and righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines more and more (brighter and clearer) until [it reaches its full strength and glory in] the perfect day [to be prepared]. (Amplified Bible)Meditate on Psalm 16. Read 2 Samuel 23, Matthew 5.

FEBRUARY 24.Day 10: See, Say and Profit, and Pastors Become Seers

When the Lord is doing a new thing, we have an opportunity to leave the old. We see our way from Destructive Workings and Old Cycles in our past and into the new! Our Emotional Instability breaks and we find our footing for the future. The Flesh Rule from the past has to let go as we move into a new Spirit realm in the future. We must leave one season of warfare in the past and move into a new war for the future. This gives us the strength for God to move each of us into the Building Plan for the Future.You will begin to SEE in a new way but WHAT you SEE you MUST SAY! The Seer Sees and actively announces and pours forth the declarations of God. Ro’eh (the seer) and (c)hozeh (the vision), are used to designate the prophet, both meaning “one who sees,” and sometimes rendered “seer.” This is a season where the pastor will change drastically. The old way church has been run and the way the sheep have been communicated with will now change. The Pastor will become a seer and the sheep will receive fresh vision from Holy Spirit. The Pastor will be sharing what is being seen and developing key vision.The Holy Spirit’s voice will manifest to direct us in a new way. This will cause you to decree that Jesus is Lord! Holy Spirit will create many different ministries in days ahead. Holy Spirit will create diversities of activities. Holy Spirit will manifest the voice of God in us through prophecy, faith, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, healing, miracles, discerning of spirits, tongues and interpretation of tongues. This will cause poverty in us to break individually and corporately. This will cause us ALL to PROFIT in a new way. Pray that Holy Spirit has His way in your life and in our church gatherings.Read I Samuel 3. Meditate on I Corinthians 12. Memorize Psalm 23.

FEBRUARY 25.Day 11: See Your Path and Cycle of Prosperity

As a child there were several Bible passages that many of us were taught. Psalm 23 was one which we memorized and was used for comfort in distress and affliction. However, most of us never realized that this Psalm really says, “I will lead you in your path of prosperity through paths of righteousness for MY name sake.”In Hebrew, the word Path is ‘agol, which means to “be round or a cycle.” The Lord guides us in the cycles of righteousness. The enemy hates the thought of us staying on a path of righteousness because he knows that we will SEE the fullness of His plan for our lives. God already has our path of prosperity in place. This path or cycle is linked with the yearly return received from the Feasts of Yahweh. Chag, or festival, means to make a cycle. If we understand the feast, then we understand cycles. We can be led properly, begin to prosper, move into abundance and have no lack. “The Lord is My Shepherd, I shall not WANT because He leads me in the cycle of prosperity. I will see My blessings wherever I walk. Even through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I can celebrate Him and not get out of time, and See my blessings!”Read, memorize and meditate on Psalm 23.

FEBRUARY 26.12: Be Lavish! Follow Hard and Gain Momentum! Celebrating Firstfruits Keeps Us SEEKING!

By understanding, celebrating, and giving at Firstfruits each month, you gain momentum in the spirit and eventually God’s blessings overtake you. This produces a Kingdom mentality in you. You learn to give your best each month. This is so different than tithing. This concept builds within you the call to SEEK HIS KINGDOM FIRST and then WATCH ALL ELSE BE ADDED.When we quit seeking Him first, we lose momentum! This is a time to Gain Kingdom Strength and Momentum NOW! Matthew 11:12 says, And from the days of John the Baptist until NOW the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. This was the statement that the Lord made to John the Baptist’s disciples. John, who had chosen not to move with Jesus in His three year ministry of revolution, was now imprisoned. During this time, he had begun to question the One whom he had paved the way for to produce the redemption of mankind. Jesus’ ministry was gaining momentum and John’s ministry was coming to a close.JESUS had just finished His charge to His twelve disciples and left there to teach and to preach in their Galilean cities. Only Philip and Andrew had left John’s wineskin and transferred to keep following the Lord and seeking the Kingdom.When John heard about the activities of the Lord, he sends some of his remaining disciples to question Jesus by asking in Matthew 11:3-6, Are You the One who was to come, or should we keep on expecting a different one? And Jesus replied to them, Go and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed (by healing) and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have good news (the Gospel) preached to them.] And blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is he who takes no offense at Me and finds no cause for stumbling in or through Me and is not hindered from seeing the truth. In other words, believe and SEE what you prophesied in the past manifesting now. Follow hard. Do not get offended and stumble over something that I am doing differently.The same is with us. This is the time that many prophesies from the past season are manifesting. We must not look away and quit following because they are coming about in ways we did not expect. We must not get offended by the changes coming into our methods, messages and worship structures. We must keep seeking first and not get shaken and lose momentum.You are in a KINGDOM that cannot be shaken (Hebrews 12:27-28). Unspiritual and carnal MAN cannot understand or SEE this Kingdom. We become carnal when we lose the process of seeking Him first. Jesus taught and imparted an understanding of Kingdom. Kingdom manifestation has a perfect timing.Read Matthew 11, Luke 11. Memorize Matthew 11:12. Meditate on Proverbs 3:5-12, Hebrews 12:27-28.

FEBRUARY 27.Day 13: Be Swift to Praise! Remove the Mask of Sadness and Turn to Laughter!

Be blessed and filled with the Spirit of God. May you have favor with the Lord and favor with all that are in your path. This is the Month of Adar. The Lord designed time with a built-in blessing for us to claim and walk in. I want to bless you as you enter into the last month of the Hebrew Year. Next month we will fully “Passover” into this season of AYIN. There is great power in blessing. If you will receive the blessing of God each month, the power of the blessing will begin to work in your life and develop your identity. You will eventually go “from blessing to blessing until blessings overtake you.”Be swift to praise! Every month is linked with an understanding of one of the twelve tribes. Each tribe has a redemptive blessing. We are grafted into the blessings of Abraham and his descendants. This is a month linked with the tribe of Naphtali, “a deer (hind) let loose.” The blessing of Naphtali included the concept of being swift and the ability to harvest quickly. The crops of the allotted land for this tribe would ripen swiftly. During the war with Sisera under Deborah’s leadership, the valiant warriors of Naphtali were nimble, quick and played a leading role in Israel’s victory. Naphtali was filled with praise because of the abundance of produce from its tribe’s crops. They were more quick and agile than any other tribe and their communication secured Jacob’s inheritance. On Galilee’s mountains, this troop “brought good tidings” of Jesus (Isaiah 52:7).One of the best verses to shout out loud this month is, The Lord will make my feet like hinds’ feet (Psalm 18:33). We should decree that we will skip and jump on the mountains of the circumstances in our lives. We should decree that our fortunes can increase and become strong. This is the month that joy must increase so we are propelled into a season of deliverance.Remove the mask of sadness and turn to laughter! This is the month of the sense of laughter, abounding joy, the power of barrenness being broken, the advantage of light over darkness, and witnessing how light and revelation break the power of darkness around us. Decree any curse that has been spoken and set against you will be overturned. Declare the bitter will become sweet. Shout,- “My fear shall laugh!” This is a month to celebrate. Declare deliverance from any deep hidden grief. Ask the Lord for joy and laughter to arise in your emotions. Declare your emotions are healed and restored.Firstfruits Celebration for Adar: MY FEAR SHALL LAUGH! The FUTURE calls! This is the month of endings and beginnings. One of the reasons I am asking you to fast with us is so we are properly prepared for Passover, which falls in the “first of months.” This is also the month of Purim, when the Jews celebrate their deliverance from Haman. After Esther’s fast, she gained favor with the king and eventually saw the plans of the enemy turned back upon himself!

FEBRUARY 28.Day 14: Do Not FEAR: See Your Promise from God’s Perspective!

When the people of Israel decided to move by sight and not faith, the Lord allowed their leaders to go over and view the Promised Land that He had made covenant to give to Abraham’s descendants. They saw the abundance, they saw the richness, they saw the development, but they also saw the warfare. The vision of the warfare in the form of giants caused one generation to reject the promise and postpone the manifestation of the blessings that had been offered.In this season DO NOT LET FEAR win the battle! Fear is a spirit that attaches to our emotion and clouds our thinking process. Fear causes us to withdraw into poverty and a mundane lifestyle. They saw the abundant crops that had been offered but rejected their moment of prosperity. One grapevine’s yield was greater than an entire vineyard. DO NOT REJECT the YIELD and INCREASE.The leaders’ confession empowered by fear bred unbelief through the entire nation. They were convinced that the giants were more powerful than they. They saw them from their perspective rather than through the eyes of the One who was giving them the land they ruled. They revealed a fear in their heart. They actually believed God was capable, but they did not believe they were worthy of His miracles and thus rejected their new identity and longed to be slaves again. They preferred returning to captivity. They passed their own sentence (Numbers 14:2), that they would die in the wilderness. They slandered the promise that God had offered and were therefore cursed in the process. They longed for their last season and rejected the new season ahead. This set the course of their undoing. It was 40 years later before this window reopened for them to return (Numbers 14:34). They refused their return to the “Garden” that God had provided for them.War for the Promise! He has your Garden of Restoration and abundance. Don’t be afraid to leave the past season behind. Remove any root of abandonment in you and strengthen your faith to go up against an enemy that appears stronger than you.Joshua and Caleb responded with a different spirit. Ask the Lord to break vexation from your spirit based upon wrong perception of the war ahead for your blessings.Read Numbers 14; Deuteronomy 1, 2; Genesis 3. Meditate on 2 Corinthians 10. 

IN LINE WITH OUR SERIES ON LEARNING THE PRINCIPLES OF WEALTH CREATION AND TRUE PROSPERITY, HERE ARE THE GUIDELINES FOR 7 DAYS OF PRAYER AND FASTING THAT CHUCK PIERCE INTRODUCED THIS WEEK.

It is truly amazing how this came out in line with what we are learning and applying in our lives. Please use these devotions as we pray as a church joining thousands of Christians all over the word declaring the Word of God against poverty and the plans of the enemy.

As we enter this season of SEEING, let us be like Jeremiah as the Lord asked him, “What do you see?” He answered, “I see an almond tree!” Look below…start this season by seeing the almond tree and watching for the performance of His Word! Below is the first day of devotions. 

The Lord instructed me to help us “see” better. In the process of seeing, we see our enemy in a new way. He showed me a three-fold spiritual force set against us! This evil structure consists of poverty, infirmity, and self-pity. These spirits work together in an attempt to blind and stop us from seeing the Lord’s best in our lives. Let’s begin to SEE, and then turn aside to LOOK as the Lord manifests Himself to us in a new way. Enter into Day 1!

Click > GNCC PRAYER AND FASTING GUIDELINES to download file.

SECOND, WE NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN PUTTING THE RIGHT PEOPLE INTO OFFICE. God gave us a tool to do this through our votes and support.

 After much prayer, research, study and discussion, the leadership of the Good News Community Churches strongly endorses asking for your support and votes for the following who we believe as the most qualified to be in office. 

1. For President – Bro. Eddie Villanueva

2. Vice President – Mar Roxas

3. Local Councilor – Pastor Poppo Cosalan 

 Other Candidates for Baguio City are still being studied and discussed by the leadership. We respect your own opinions and preferences. Our declaration of those we want to be in office is based on our stand as a Church, as one for the benefit of our nation and community. 

God bless us all and may we stand together as one! 

Bishop Oscar Y. Magallanes, Senior Minister -GNCC 

The Lord says “In everything give thanks”. No matter how things went, positive or negative. No matter how situation went, wrong or nice. We are always victorious through Christ Jesus who loves us!  For the past six months, I was not able to send any news or updates for some unavoidable reasons and I would like to thank God for your  continued love and care. I’m still alive and keep going on because I do feel that you are praying and will continue praying for me! I praise God for some changes, for the many challenges and for the exciting moments I am experiencing till now.

Last February and March, even though I was not able to join 3 big gatherings of dance worship (Blessing Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Breakthrough, and one in Amphur Omkoi Breakthrough gathering),  I believe God led me to rest after the last year events. God was able to use me to conduct 3 training seminar workshops aside from the dance training and practices in our church every Saturday and Sunday (Creator’s Church). These activities led about 90 young people and adult to worship through dance. I was also sent 5 times out of the country (Kuala Lumpur, Australia, Macau, Hongkong and China).  I believe the best is yet to come. Hallelujah! Amen!Rest is to come into His secret place where we can find real rest (physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually) and where we can find extraordinary strength in His presence alone. It was a great honor to be at the feet of Christ Jesus. Listening and talking to Him. It was a great joy, too, to see those local Thais lead and worship the Lord through dance. Another blessing that came along was that my sister Marie decided to stay with me and worked here in Chiang Mai as an English Teacher at Sarassat Witted School and helped me in some areas like sharing the gospel to the children, parents and teachers. Another blessing is Nida’s decision to be a full time missionary here in Chiang Mai.    

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