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Scriptural Blood Moon #1

2/22/2014

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Hi all,
Barb propped the side door part way open as she leaned in to yell, "John, where are the pots for the plants?" I was in the living room writing or Skyping or emailing someone, so doing the typical male thing, I listened with 1/2 an ear and responded, "What box for the pants?

She yelled a little louder (that always helps), "No, the pots for the plants!" I of course I replied a little louder, "What box for the pants?"

We garden and have clay and plastic pots scattered around various raised garden beds, a garden shed and so on, and she was trying to save time by asking me where I had stored the big ones rather than launch herself into a scavenger hunt around the yard.

In my mind, I thought she was doing a seasonal clothing swap from closet to storage and storage to closet, so asking about a box with pants seemed logical.

I got out of the chair to go to her, she stepped into the house to come to me, and we had a good laugh - well, I laughed, she mumbled something about me getting my hearing checked before letting a chuckle escape as she headed out the door.

Scriptural blood moon
We Christians have our own language. 2 Christians can be talking about the same phrase, but hear 2 completely different things based on what x teacher taught, what book has been written, or what video has been watched. Pretty soon emotions become involved, allegiances formed, and one says pots and plants but the other hears box and pants.

All prophecy revolves around what Jesus said. Jesus establishes original context. Not what a teacher, book, video, or conference said - but Jesus. So I'll start with Jesus so we can gain a common understanding where a blood moon and darkened sun fit in prophecy.

Jesus is ground zero
Everything in the epistles is based on what Jesus taught and can be traced directly back to Him. For instance, when I Peter mentions some 15 or 16 times about suffering persecution for doing right and being a disciple, he refers back to the example and teaching of Jesus in the gospels.

When Paul says in Romans 14 it is up to each of us to decide on what day we worship and what food we will consume for what we choose we do unto Him, we can trace that back to Jesus talking about how the Sabbath was made for man, not for God, and it isn't what goes in a person that defiles him.

And so it goes, all the epistles are derived from teachings by Jesus and can be traced back to what He said. The same is true with us today. Anything He reveals or speaks to us, can be traced back to Him as the Word and consistent with the gospels and epistles.

This is also true of prophecy. Much error has happened because someone bases their teaching on a single verse, maybe from the Old Testament or maybe from the Revelation, ignoring not only the Foundation of what Jesus said on the subject, but ignoring the rest of scripture on a subject.

All prophets and prophecy prior to Jesus - the Old Testament - answer to Him, and all prophets and prophecy after, including in our day, answer back to Him. They may add detail to His foundational truths, but they all trace back to Him. He establishes context and timing. And so it is we must turn to Matthew 24 to understand the original intent and context set by Jesus concerning the sun and moon subject of today.

When the blood moon happens
Matthew 24 is Jesus' teaching answering the question the disciples asked in v4: "What will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?"

In v15 He says this, "When you therefore see the abomination of desolations spoken of by Daniel the prophet, then let those in Judea flee to the mountains..."  His reference to Daniel is from Daniel 9:27 about a leader who comes into the temple at the midpoint of a 7 year peace treaty and betrays Israel. Called anti-Christ in the NT.

Jesus said in v21 that event starts what He called a time of 'Great Tribulation' whose days would have to be cut short or no one on earth would survive.

Then in verse 29 He closes that time frame with His return, saying: "Then immediately AFTER the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, for they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory and He will send forth the angels to gather His elect from one end of heaven to the other..." (Fortunately He doesn't say the elect are gathered from the 4 corners of the earth, but from one end of heaven to the other)

What other prophecy says - details added
Note the characteristics surrounding His return: Sun dark. Moon dark. Stars falling. Shaking of earth and universe. Mourning by people. This is AFTER the tribulation at His return.

We turn to The Revelation 6:12-17 to see what Jesus said with a bit more detail: "I looked when He broke the 6th seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places."

"Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

These events are clearly His return as noted in Matthew 24, but with more detail.

Same sun, moon, starts, shaking
Here John includes the moon becoming like blood, the sky rolling up like a scroll, a world-wide earthquake, and people hiding themselves from Him at His return in the caves and what we would call bunkers.

So we see the blood moon during the return of Christ. I shared last week how anytime the moon is low on the horizon and there is dust in the air it can be a blood moon. But we are looking to tie a particular combination of events to a particular blood moon. Notice the sun, moon, stars, earthquakes, sky rolled up - all happen at this particular blood moon event at the return of Christ AFTER the great tribulation of which Jesus spoke.

Now that we have context set by Jesus with additional detail provided by John in The Revelation, we can move on next week to what Joel and Peter said, which also confirm the blood moon context of Christ's return. We don't want anyone saying pots and plants but hearing box and pants.

Until next week then...blessings upon you and yours,
John Fenn

www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com

Just FYI
I have a series on The Revelation focusing on the natural events of that time, complete with booklet which lays out what each seal, trumpet, and bowl mean.

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4 Blood Moons

2/15/2014

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Hi all,
I've had a lot of people ask about the 'Four Blood Moons' teaching, based on Mark Biltz' 2008 theory that became the title of a best selling book, co-written with John Hagee, which I've also read. Several have said they are asking me because they know I'll tell them the truth of what scripture says, so I take their trust quite seriously.

Where is that Island?
In the year 1879 an Italian Captain sailing the ship Barone Podesta, discovered a small island nearly 1400 kilometers (870 miles) west of the nation of Chile. He named the island 'Podesta', and the Captain received acclaim as the discoverer of new land, though he faced scrutiny from the start because others couldn't find his island.

The island was on every chart for that section of the Pacific Ocean for 56 years, until 1935 when it was finally removed. Most suspected he wanted to make a name for himself as the discoverer of new land in that age of exploration. Though the Captain repeatedly claimed it was real, it has never been found to this day.

The Italian Captain's name was Pinocchio, and within a couple years of his unverifiable claim, Italian author Carlo Collodi wrote a series of children's stories about a boy named Pinocchio whose nose grew each time he told a lie.

Now I'm not saying Pinocchio's nose grew each time he affirmed its existence, but it shows how something if repeated enough, becomes true to a lot of people until proven otherwise. Some are like,  'Don't confuse me with facts because my mind is already made up', but others want the truth.

It was only after people carefully researched the location where Pinocchio said the island was that his claims were proven untrue. Perhaps he so wanted it to be true he reported a half truth here, conveniently left off some facts there, or maybe he was confused and innocently made wrong calculations.

And so I critique, not criticize the 'Four Blood Moons' teaching, for we must believe the best of the authors.

Questions related to the book
The most common questions that I've received revolve around the 'rapture' happening this September or next, or the Ezekiel 38 war between Israel and her allies against Russia and her allies happening this fall, or the US abandoning Israel with tragic results for the USA.

The subtitle of the book is 'Something is about to change' and because many of us do have an abiding sense in our spirits that things are changing, we wonder if their book details what we sense.

Are there significant events ahead for Israel and the world? Of course. So anything I share below is not to say there won't be dramatic things this year and next - The Father has told me and others many things, and the Lord has told me some things He is doing in the body of Christ as well, so I know there are some major things happening this year through 2017 (He hasn't shown me beyond that).

The questions I've been asked to answer relate to the claims of the book, so I'll keep my focus narrowed to that.

First - What is a 'blood moon'? 
The basis for the book is that the moon turns red during lunar eclipses as it passes into earth's shadow. The moon is called a 'blood moon' when this happens, thus the title. 

A blood moon is also a harvest moon, full and bright, and due to dust rising from the fields at harvest time turns red in appearance when low on the horizon. This turning red or orange can happen anytime due to atmospheric dust, heat waves, and other atmospheric factors. It is also a common occurrence any time the moon is low on the horizon. The sun also turns to blood in the same way, and anyone reading this has seen sun and moon rises, and sun and moon sets that qualify as turning to blood in appearance.  

What does the book say?
The book is based on Joel 2:31 which states: "The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible Day of the Lord."

The thought process was to ask what causes the sun to go dark and the moon to turn red, and their answer was lunar eclipses. Then they looked for eclipses during Jewish festivals and found tetrads of eclipses, which is a set of 4 lunar eclipses, occurring within a 2 year time frame. (2 one year, 2 the next - a tetrad)

With 2 sets of eclipses/blood moons nothing of note happened, so they conveniently leave that off, but with the others they found world events around the same time. The eclipses they mention and world events they tie to them are these:

1493-1494 - the Spanish Inquisition, removing Jews from Spain
1949-1950 - the establishment of the nation of Israel
1967-1968 - the Six Day War (June 5-11, 1967)

Then they noted that 2014-2015 has another set of 4 eclipses, and so conclude that things are about to change for Israel and the Jewish people this year or next. This is the whole basis for the book.

The trouble is...
The Edict of Expulsion was in March 1492, but the first eclipse didn't occur until the year after, and the last eclipse in the tetrad over 2 years later. (Additionally, the Inquisition went from 1478-1834)

Israel's Statehood was May 1948, but the eclipses didn't happen until a year later, in 1949, the last in 1950.

The 1967 eclipses didn't start until many months after the war had ended and the last the year after that.

Yet because some so willingly accept what a 'name' writes without checking basic facts, some in the body of Christ are in near panic about the 2014-15 tetrad of eclipses. Will the rapture happen this fall or next. Will the Ezekiel 38 war happen this fall or next. But it is clear these eclipses do not predict events, they came AFTER events related to the Jews or Israel.

All these events and more COULD happen perhaps, but the 'blood moon' eclipses don't predict them.

Other factors the book leaves out
Israel uses a lunar calendar for their festivals, so there will be eclipses. In fact, in the 20th century lunar eclipses occurred in 37 of 230 festivals it is such a common occurrence. (www.answersingenesis.org)

The authors had to dismiss all those eclipses in just the 20th century and many more through 19 other centuries to find 3 that came near these 3 events related to the Jews or Israel.

They built the whole book out of these 3 that came 1-2 years after events related to Israel, and then turned the 2014-15 eclipses into predictors for you and I for this and next year.

To stay with their logic, because the eclipses will happen in 2014 and 2015, we need to look back to 2012 and 2013 for significant events for the Jewish people on the same scale as the Inquisition, establishment of Israel as a nation, or the Six Day War. Hmmm...nothing of that scale happened. So dismiss the claims of the book.

It sells well, and they got my $7.74 for the Kindle version, but their teaching and logic are totally flawed. Sad. I'm a stickler for the Word and Spirit and truth, and when such a poorly done work has much of the body of Christ quivering in fear and confusion, I can't ignore it. (And don't get me started how they pulled Joel 2:31 out of context to make it fit their theory)

Of course if something happens this year or next to Israel, the authors will most likely cry out, "I told you so", but as you've seen above, that would be akin to saying my team won the big game because I wore my lucky underwear. Believe the best of Pinocchio, but his island doesn't exist.

Blessings!

John Fenn

www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com


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The Way the Father & Lord Think #4

2/8/2014

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Hi all,
How to walk in His thoughts
I want to walk you through a recent situation in my life to give you an example of how I get the Father's thoughts on a subject rather than share chapter and verse. Sometimes more can be gleaned from a story.

In our backyard is a large but very dead oak tree. It is tall by Oklahoma standards at about 40' (12m) with a trunk at the base of about 3' (1m). Some of the dead branches hang over the swing set our grandchildren play on, and if it fell the wrong way it would fall on the garage and our garden area, so it has to come down.

I thought of hiring a tree service, but their estimate was $1000, so I shifted my attention down inside my spirit to see what the Father thought about it. If He gave me an extra $1000 would I hire them to do the job?

This is the first step of getting His thoughts about an issue in life: Do all you can in the natural, all that is within your power first. I reasoned if I had $1000 to spend on a tree service, I wouldn't spend that money on it as we are saving towards a remodel for Chris' room with a handicapped equipped bed and bathroom. So I had to be honest with my own heart and Him, telling Him this: "Father if I had the $1000 I'd spend it on the remodel, not on future fire wood, so don't bother, and you know I like cutting trees anyway."

In the interest of full disclosure, cutting down trees and cutting up firewood is something I really enjoy. In fact we have a rule around the house that Barb be present when I prune any tree - that goes back to early in our marriage and a tree that was so overgrown it looked like a 1968 hippie from San Francisco, but when I was done it looked like a new Marine recruit. Barb was horrified, I replied 'It will grow back', and the 'Barb will be present when pruning' rule went into affect from that day forward.

So, what do you think?
I asked Him - "What do you think about that? Will you guide me to bring it down safely with no damage to me or anything else?" I didn't hear anything, but I didn't sense a 'check' or 'hold' or 'grievance' down in my spirit either, and I've walked with Him enough to know that means proceed using common sense. I'm praying in the spirit/Spirit as I do all this, keeping 'the motor running' so to speak as I commune with Him, my mind focused on anything in my spirit.

So with the choice of hiring it done removed, and no direct word from Him not to, I began seeking the Father as to how I might bring it down.

The branches
As you can see by the fresh cuts in the photo there are (were) 3 large branches on the house side and the rest of the branches on the other side. I have prayed about that tree for months, keeping it on 'simmer' in my mind and spirit, looking at it and saying, "Let me know your thoughts Father about taking down the tree." and "Let me know the day you have determined for me to cut that tree down safely."

Thoughts of 'Is my life insurance enough for Barb if I die doing this?' went through my mind, along with 'what if' scenarios - What if it falls on the garage. What if it falls on the garden area. What if Barb plays filmmaker, hovering in the background narrating a 'Here is John cutting down that big tree' movie for all to see. All sorts of things passed through my mind, trying to figure every angle, every possible scenario, and if any of those scenarios gave off a 'witness' in my spirit good or bad, I'd stop and examine why - but I got nothing - so I knew to use my own judgement and moved forward with confidence.

I also told the Father I didn't want to cut it down if the temperature was below freezing, as equipment works better when warmer, and I didn't want to deal with myself being cold, and I needed no wind - so I asked Him to pick a calm day when it was at least 50 degrees (10c).

Months have passed at this point
I focused on my spirit by trying to sense any thoughts He may have had, but I got nothing, just silence. So I knew to wait for the right day, until it felt right (peace) in my spirit.

Often He is silent because He has no particular thoughts on a matter if the answer is before us and we know what we need to do in the natural - even if that is a difficult decision. I've seen people put off doctor's, business deals, bills and other painful things because they can't get a single thought out of the Father, not realizing that usually means we are to do what we need to do in the natural, walking with Him making point by point decisions together as we go. Sometimes we are too eager, as I was here, and have to wait.

To the tree
Mentally I worked through the order in which I'd cut the tree and what equipment I would use at each step. Finally I saw the weather forecast, sensed in my spirit the day was approaching, and had peace about it.

I had to move the swing set the grandchildren play on when they visit, which I did, then I started work on the branches. The first 2 came down where I wanted them, and now I set my eyes on the uppermost branch.

I have an electric pole saw with a 9 inch chain bar (23cm) on the end of a 9' (3m) pole. I am 6'6" tall (2m) and I put a ladder against the tree which I climbed up about 6' (1.8m). Just so you understand - I'm 6' up the ladder, extending my body and arms fully, while holding a pole saw to the upper branch you can see in the 'after' picture - some 20' (6.5m) off the ground.

Barb pretended to focus on planting her flower bulbs, but out of the corner of my eye, I could see she was playing documentary filmmaker as well, which if you knew her, is completely normal for her to document everything. This is great when everything works like clockwork, but that wasn't the case that day. Aren't I glad she got it all on video!? lol.

The branch was nearly 1' (30cm) around, and the pole saw was about 2/3 of that. So I cut through part of it, but I would have to move the ladder to the other side of the tree (pictured) and try to cut through the rest of the way from there.

The squeeze
As I was cutting the branch it sagged a bit, squeezing the saw as the full weight of the branch closed the gap I had cut. And there it hung, 20' above the ground. I couldn't believe it. I've had chain saws get pinched like that before when cutting trees - but usually you can either work the saw out or insert a wedge to force the gap open a bit - but this was 20' above the ground so there was no way to remove the saw.

It was 5pm, the sun was low and so was my energy. I knew accidents happen when a person gets tired and grumpy and I was both at this point. So I said, "That's it!" I'm done for the day. I said, "Father, I've done all I can do and now my saw is hanging 20' above the ground. You'll just have to bring the branch down because I've done all I can do. Thanks." And that was that.

It was funny to look out the window and see the saw stuck in the branch in the setting sun (and thanks to Barb we have the video to prove it), with the pole dangling it's full 9' length but still some 10' above the ground. Barb asked, 'How are you going to get it out?' I said, "I don't know, that's the Father's business. I'll pray about it and see if He has a solution for me, but right now I'm taking a shower."

Flash forward 5 hours to a little before 10pm. I'm in bed reading while Barb is in the living room doing the same - every muscle in my body ached from the day's activities and I was about to turn out the light. Suddenly a rushing wind could be heard outside, and twigs and acorns began hitting the side of the house just on the other side of the headboard. Instantly we heard a loud CRACK and the sound of a crash. Barb yelled out, "I think there went your branch!" I said, "Yep, I guess that's how the Father decided He was going to get my saw unstuck - He brought it down Himself."

At first light I surveyed the scene: There lay the branch exactly where I had intended it to fall, and my saw laying next to it as if I had absent mindedly laid it down the night before and walked off - it wasn't even banged up by the fall. "Thanks Father, now let me know when it's time to bring the whole tree down." And the tree stands to this writing, waiting for the Father's day to bring the rest of it down.

Hope my story was a blessing and insightful,

John Fenn

www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com


 


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What Father thinks #3

2/1/2014

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Hi all,
We were hiking in Colorado's high prairie south of LaJunta. Back then I could carry Chris piggy-back while the younger two boys scrambled up small cliffs and down canyon walls. We found lizards and tarantulas, hawks, and this day, something that took us totally by surprise.

With Chris on my back I climbed a mesa (flat topped hill common in the US west) while the others followed - not too steep that Barb and the boys couldn't make it but enough that two boys ages 4 & 7 would be challenged. Out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of a black speck low on the horizon coming towards us fast. It was a B-1 bomber with wings swept back. The B-1 can sweep its wings back for high speed flight, and they use south east Colorado as a training area for high speed ground-hugging flights.

"Boys! Look! A B-1 bomber is coming right at us!" We'd laughed and joked as we climbed, imagining buffalo (bison) herds, Indian war parties, prospectors and settlers in covered wagons, so when I said a bomber was heading towards us, their reply was 'Ha ha dad'.

I said, "No really, look!" in an urgent 'hurry, hurry' voice that finally got them to look up. We were near the summit of a mesa just off the road which seemed far below, and just as we looked up, almost eye to eye with us, a B-1 bomber flew by - with not a sound until it passed. Then suddenly a deafening, bone

rattling roar shook us it continued along its zig-zag path between the mesas. We were dumbfounded, and thanked the Father for allowing us to experience such a thrill, amazed at His sense of timing.

Believing His Word and Spirit instead of popular church culture
And so it was I was telling a class at the World Prayer Center in Colorado Springs they already have an open heaven, and the then-current fad teaching was error and not what the Father thinks about it. At first they sat in stunned silence when I told them the Father says we already have an open heaven.

I told them - You have peace with God the Father! He is at peace with you. He not only loves you, He likes you. He recreated you, birthed you, then adopted you all in one motion. He thinks He is at peace with you and you have full access to Him, why do you think otherwise? I quoted this passage: "Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ...by whom we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand." Romans 5:1-2

Then someone said, "Ha, ha, right John", as if I had just said a B-1 bomber was coming at us.

"No really! Look!" I insisted they follow me through the pages of the New Testament, and as we read verse after verse one lady got angry as if the B-1 had just flown by and she got blind sided by the shock wave.

She took it personally, saying, "Are you telling me I'm wrong!?" as she stood up with a 'You want to fight?' stance and all the finger pointing you would expect. "That I've spent thousands of dollars going to conferences and airfare and hotel bills and offerings and cd's and you are saying you are right and all of them are wrong? No offense, but who are you?"

I told her it wasn't that I was right and they were wrong: "I am telling you what your Father thinks on the subject, and you are unknowingly committing idolatry by elevating man's teaching above His thoughts and His ways as revealed in balance of the Word." That didn't go over real well with her. I can't imagine why.  

What He thinks
As long as I was offending religious spirits masquerading as cutting edge charismatic revelation, I thought why not continue. "You think you have to yell and scream and gather thousands to convince God to open the heavens for you because that's what you've been taught, making Him your adversary. Imagine His surprise that He has been wrong this whole time and ____ _____ is right."

"Funny Father God! He thinks He has blessed you with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. He thinks He has adopted you by Jesus so that you are His kids and part of a royal family, having full access to all that is His. He thinks He has seated you together with Him in heavenly places in Christ. He thinks you are a new creation in Christ and you now have access into this grace." (Ephesians 1:3-6, 2:6, I Peter 2:9, II Corinthians 5:17, Romans 5:1-2)

"All you have to do is just turn a thought towards 'Father' and you have His ear. He is in you. So who do you believe, your favorite teacher and church culture, or what our Father thinks and says on the subject?"

What really bothered her
After a coffee break she calmed down and returned to class. She told me what bothered her is that I was speaking with authority, as if I really knew what I was talking about. She said I wasn't talking about Him like the others, I was talking from Him. She felt fooled by the hype, but now she could see the truth in the verses.

She 'got it' - A light dawned, and for the first time she knew she had been believing doctrines of demons and/or man, and now she had great peace and joy, "The Father really likes me, not just loves me, but likes me, and He lives in me as proof...wow. I can rest in what I have in Him. I know now I live in an open heaven."

Lighten up - the art of knowing
In the same way Jesus turned water into wine but said nothing about it to draw attention to Himself, so too is He working today, humbly, meekly, with a lowly heart - but people's flesh want the spectacular so they tune out His thoughts as they run for the spectacular. His thoughts are just that - thoughts - unseen, quiet, revealed to us personally in our spirit - so that is where we must look for them.

Hebrews 4:6 lists several elements of Christian life, the first 2 being: - "...enlightened (Had the revelation from the Father that Jesus is Lord), have tasted the heavenly gift (born again)..."

Enlightened. Also translated as illuminate, in Greek this is 'photizo', from 'phos', meaning "light". It means down inside a person 'a light goes on' to shine revelation into their spirit and soul. This happens before we are born again and leads us to Christ, and it should be a way of life after we are in Christ. My life revolves around enlightenment - this is where communion with the Holy Spirit is found.

Peter's exclamation in Matthew 16:16 that "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God", was the result Jesus said, of the Father showing Him that fact. Revelation came first, then the act of confessing it.

Jesus spoke of 'enlightenment' in John 6:40: "And this is the will of Him who sent me; That all who (1) sees the Son and (2) believes on Him, will have eternal life." First you see Him inside, then you act on it, believing. That 'seeing' takes place in your spirit & soul, and we all went through that time of enlightenment.

Jesus continued in verse 45 saying, "Everyone (1) who has heard, and learned of the Father (2) comes to me." The Father first starts dealing with you inside - enlightenment - and THEN you believe.

I live for and in illumination - revelation. It is the single most important element in my walk with the Father. I want to know His thoughts on all things. Paul prayed for 'enlightenment' for the Ephesians and Colossians:

"For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that He would grant you the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of Him, that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened to know..." and "That you be filled with spiritual wisdom and spiritual knowledge..." (Ephesians 1:15-18, Colossians 1:9)

These are the 2nd most common prayers I pray for myself, the 1st being: "Who or what do you want me to pray for Father?" and "What do you think about it (anything in my life) Father?" and/or "What are your thoughts Father?" (When someone expresses an opinion). These are by far the most common 'thing' I pray.

Forsaking our ways and thoughts and accepting His invitation to come up to His higher ways and thoughts in Isaiah 55, means enlightenment and then taking that revelation and changing our thoughts to His. It means change, rearrangement of what we believed and why. It means going against the grain of popular church culture if that culture thinks contrary to His thoughts.

This cannot happen as a matter of just book knowledge. Knowing His ways and thoughts comes from personal revelation - actually knowing Him, letting His Life change us from the inside out...next week, how to do that, as I'm out of space for today...until then,

Blessings,
John Fenn

www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com


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