Hi all,
I'm sharing some details these last 2 weeks about the visitation with the Lord that changed my life the most. I had first seen Him in April of 1986, but on October 1st of that year He appeared to me saying, "I want to teach you how to hear the Father's voice." What He taught me wasn't like I would have thought up to that time - thinking the Father's voice was only to be heard as a loud speaker in my brain - He shared not only about the verbal, but many of the 'non-verbal' ways the Father communicates as well. That's the part that I am sharing.
 
In the middle of talking about the rich man and Lazarus...
He reminded me of John 16:13 which says the Holy Spirit does not speak of Himself, but only speaks what He hears and will guide us into all truth, and will show us things to come. He mentioned only 1 of the 3 (speak, guide, show) is verbal - speaking. Thus to listen for only a voice will cause us to miss much of what He communicates to us. 
 
He also reminded me of I Corinthians 2:9-16 which the same thing a bit differently: It says the things of the Father aren't communicated by what we can see, hear, or think in our minds (circumstances & imagination), but by the Holy Spirit who searches the deep things of the Father for His provision for our lives.
 
That revelation - not to read circumstances as His will or not His will - rearranged my theology greatly, yet it was as clear in the scripture He was quoting as the nose on my face: "Eye hasn't seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the imagination of man the things the Father has for them. But these things are revealed by the Holy Spirit who searches all things, yes the deep things of the Father."
 
His words were explosions of revelations within me - a personal revelation means it is nearly impossible to tell another person about all that you are suddenly understanding, for it all suddenly falls into place and is known within.
 
I can honestly tell you I must have looked confused because every book I'd read, every bit of church culture, was built upon the foundation of God 'out there' dropping circumstantial clues like a person dropping bread crumbs along my path in the hope I will desire Him enough to properly interpret each 'sign' - all of church culture made the Father the adversary, having to be convinced and manipulated into answering prayer and making each of us a code breaker of His cryptic ways of communicating.
 
Now Jesus was standing before me in pure light, quoting scripture point by point, causing me to remember instances in my life where I'd accidentally stumbled into listening to His witness, revelation, voice in my spirit...realizing when I'd followed my spirit and peace it all worked out, and when I tried to force it or force myself to 'hear' His voice nothing happened. It all suddenly made sense.
 
The conversation continues: The man let down through the roof...the scribes thinking...
I asked if body language helped in any way, and He said, "Body language can draw your attention in the natural to someone when the Father or I have something to share, though not always. I wasn't reading their minds." (The scribes thinking in themselves, 'Who does this man think he is, only God can forgive sins') But when I looked at them and the looks on their faces, I knew in my spirit by the Spirit what they were thinking."
 
"Remember reading of me going to Jairus' house and the woman with the hemorrhaging condition touched my clothes. (Suddenly that memory of Mark 5:30 & Luke 8: 46 was vivid in my mind)  The street was more narrow than what you are thinking. (I adjusted my thoughts down in size of the street) It was more crowded than what you are thinking. (I adjusted) That's about right. My physical senses were all going off - the crowd jostling me, the sights, smells, and sounds - but I was continually shifting my thoughts between my physical senses and spiritual senses. That's why Luke 8:46 says I 'perceived power going out from me.'" (KJV)
 
"You must train yourself to continually shift your attention between the natural world and senses, and your spirit man and the spirit man's senses. Again, they are connected, but unless you train yourself to respond to your surroundings and what you see and hear especially, by checking with your spirit, comparing those things you see and hear with your spirit, you will miss many things the Father is trying to communicate."
 
"Do you remember that store on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall? You went in looking for a gift but immediately sensed another spirit present. It wasn't until you looked at all the Buddhist statues and belongings and talked to the clerk that you realized what you sensed in your spirit and what you saw with your eyes confirmed one another, and you left the store."
 
"You know what the spirit associated with that religion feels like in your spirit, and your mind remembers that witness. This is how people who have experiences with spirits they grew up with - like addictions, lust, and other things - can now in Me immediately recognize a person with those spirits. They remember their own experiences and what they (the spirits) felt like, so when they come across someone with those spirits it bears witness with their spirit through the Spirit of Truth within them, and their mind 'picks up' on that witness, so they know what that person has."
 
Another example
"I'll give you another. Remember Paul in Lystra (again by the Spirit, the passage sprang to my mind fresh and crisp) and the man who had never walked? Acts 14:9 says Paul perceived he had faith to be healed after he had 'steadfastly' looked at him. Do you know what Paul was doing? As he spoke he was focusing on something he perceived in his spirit about the man and his faith, and it took that focus for him to correctly determine the situation. Paul had to stare at him while he spoke to perceive the man's faith. You must train yourself like that. When you sense something in your spirit, focus on that for clarity, otherwise you'll miss what the Father has." 
 
I've used that many time since, often looking over a congregation and sensing the Spirit more heavily on 1 person, so as I teach I'll keep coming back to them, making eye contact, sometimes pausing as I perceive what the Father has for that person. Often once I do focus, I'll see a mini-vision played out above or beside them like the visitation, seeing both in the Spirit realm and the natural at the same time. He continued...
 
"When you give a prophecy how do you do that?" I responded, "Well, I sense something in my spirit, like the first lines of a sentence, or have a sudden knowing of what you or the Father want to say to them, then I wait for an opportunity to share what I have." "Do you give that prophecy with your eyes open, or closed?"
 
"Closed." "Why?" He asked. "So I can concentrate on what is in my spirit. It helps to block out everything around me (suddenly I was getting His point) so I can concentrate what is in my spirit." "Exactly. You do what you can to shut out your physical senses so you can concentrate on your spiritual senses. As you continue in these things and become more experienced, you'll not only be able to prophesy with your eyes open, but I'll enable you to see both physical and spiritual realms at the same time - what you call an open vision or mini-vision..."
 
Flash forward
There was much more teaching but I don't have room here.
The rest you can read in Pursuing the Seasons of God, and I'm not trying to drum up sales, but I'm out of room here and had the realization that 30 years had passed since then, and some might be interested in the visitation that changed my life the most. The Lord is amazing, meek, lowly in heart, and He truly loves us. But He is strong in the sense He doesn't pander nor bend to our flesh - He is Truth - so if we want to grow in Him it requires us to live in Truth, because He will move on and go on about His business anyway.
 
But if we will grow, change, mature, decide for the fruit of the spirit and Christ-like character in all things, He is there to bring us along in sensitivity to His ways...I'm sure not perfect nor have I 'arrived', just ask Barb or our kids or daughters in law or CWOWI leaders (though I think most of our grandchildren are young enough they still think grandpa is pretty much perfect, lol) - but I have learned a few things. I hope to be a blessing. New subject next week, until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]
 

Hi all,
October 1 is the 30th anniversary of a visitation from the Lord that changed my life forever, and I want to share about the teaching part of that visitation over the next 2 weeks. Additionally, we've discounted some cd's and MP3's, and 1 DVD (US format) related to what He taught me if someone wants more detailed teaching. See the header above for details for those and the new series this month as well.
 
Laguna de Sanchez, a small mountain village in north-east Mexico
Carl, the missionary, Dora the interpreter who had only known the Lord for 2 months, and I were in the village because I was to minister at the little Assembly of God church that evening.
 
As the 3 of us walked the rocky streets while dinner with our host family was being prepared, I lagged behind, focused on what the Father would have me teach that evening. Suddenly in my spirit I felt an excitement of an intensity I'd not felt before. I'd had times when I wake up and my spirit is rejoicing, and I've learned that is often due to some yet unseen provision or spiritual victory that will become known in the natural in the next day or week, but this was different.
 
I was looking down at the rocks so I wouldn't twist an ankle and focused on why my spirit was so excited, when I heard myself say, literally coming up out of my spirit as I lifted up my head: 'It's Jesus!' And at that moment I saw the Lord. He was standing in a bend of the street not more than 15' away (4.5m) as Carl and Dora continued up the hill into the main part of the village.
 
Flash forward a few minutes...
For lack of space I will jump over the next few minutes of the visitations and get right to the teaching, which came after it occurred to me that Carl and Dora would want to know the Lord was there. I was about to turn my head and yell to them when suddenly Jesus was transformed before me from wearing 'normal' 1st century clothes to becoming pure light, and that light streamed from Him slowly outward, obscuring everything around us. As the sky, ground, village and Carl and Dora disappeared, it was just Jesus and me in the light: "I want to teach you how to hear the Father's voice."
 
"You'll remember the story of the rich man and the beggar Lazarus*" He began, and then started quoting it as within me those words I had read before at some point in my life, became as fresh as if I'd just memorized them for a class report. *Luke 16:19-31
 
The story (not a parable, but a story of 2 real men) is about a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus, the latter being laid at the gate of the rich man hoping to be fed scraps from his table, and dogs even came and licked his sores. Over the course of time the beggar died and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom, while the rich man also died at some point and found himself in hell.
 
The rich man called out, seeing Abraham and Lazarus 'far off', asking for Lazarus to be sent with water to quench his thirst. But Abraham responded there was a wide chasm between hell and Paradise and those from there who would go over to help could not, and those over there who wanted out, could not.
 
Foundational understanding
I already had the proper understanding of the places depicted so the Lord didn't correct my understanding as we talked, which is important to understanding what He said later. There used to be 2 holding places in the earth; Hell, and Abraham's bosom, or Paradise as it was also known. Hell is where the unrighteous people went, and Paradise was for the righteous people. It was said to be a park-like place with lots of grass, trees, water, and the ability to fellowship with all the righteous ones.
 
The righteous dead were held captive in Abraham's bosom/Paradise as they waited for their redemption. After the resurrection, Paradise, or Captivity, was carried by the Lord up to heaven, and has become part of what we today call heaven.
 
Paul taught in Ephesians 4:8-10 that Jesus first descended into the lower parts of the earth, and then ascended on high leading Captivity captive to Himself. It was for this reason the Lord told Mary at His resurrection to stop clinging to Him* for He had not yet ascended to the Father - He wasn't talking about His ascension 40 days later, rather He was ascending at His resurrection to bring Abraham's bosom and the Paradise saints to heaven and to present Himself before the Father as the last sacrifice for the sins of mankind.*John 20:17-19, **Hebrews 9:23-24
 
There remains 1 holding place in the earth, hell, where the unrighteous dead continue to go. Since the resurrection, believers now go directly to heaven as Paul said,*"to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord", and he was caught up to Paradise* or the 3rd heaven. (The 1st heaven being the air/sky, the 2nd being space.) *II Corinthians 5:8, 12:1-4
 
We have judged ourselves, taking the Father's remedy for our sin, Jesus, and will only be judged according to what we've done since being saved. The unrighteous have to wait in hell until they are judged at the end of the age*. *Revelation 20:11-15
 
I continue...
That was my understanding that day in 1986 and remains so to this day. After reciting this passage in Luke and by the Spirit making it fresh in me as if I was staring at the text, He continued: "Notice how they were dead, yet they retained their memory of this life, saw one another, spoke back and forth, heard each other, the rich man even felt the heat of hell and experienced great thirst. They continued to have what you call your 5 physical senses though physically they were dead."
 
He told me our 5 physical senses have their root in our spirit man and those senses actually flow out to the physical body, and are connected, and for those who want to be sensitive to how they function, they can learn. He said this is how people smelled a heavenly aroma, or even the stench of death and/or demons, and how others heard angels singing - He said that isn't with physical senses because physical senses only relate to the physical realm. 
 
I need chapter and verse on this!
I told Him, "Peter said though He saw you transfigured before him on the Mount, he said 'we have a more sure word of prophecy'*, meaning as great as that experience was, the scripture must always agree with any spiritual experience, vision, or dream or that experience has to be set aside as unscriptural - so I need chapter and verse on this Lord!" *II Peter 1:16-21
 
He smiled and then referred to examples from His own life: "I'll give you a couple of examples; You remember when I was in the house and the man was let down through the roof." Instantly by the Spirit I saw the passage in Mark 2:1-12 as fresh as if I'd just read it a minute before. I pictured in my mind what that scene must have looked like and He interrupted my thoughts: "The house was smaller than what you're thinking." So I shrunk it down in my mind, scanning in my mind's eye around the room from left to right, it all happening so naturally and so fast I didn't have time to analyze the conversation with the Lord. "That's about right, and there were people at the windows. That's close enough." as I adjusted my thinking to what it must have looked like.
 
"It says the scribes were reasoning in their hearts when I told the man his sins were forgiven, and that I perceived in my spirit that is what they were thinking. I didn't read their minds, I perceived it in my spirit. The Word uses several words to describe the process by which the mind picks up on the senses in the spirit: Perceive, discern, witness, among them."
 
At this point I'll interrupt due to the fact I'm running out of room. Several times in the teaching He said, "You must train yourself in this." He likened the soul/mind as the middle point of a teeter totter, first looking one way to the flesh on one end, and looking the other way to the spirit. He talked of the power of agreement, that if the mind and spirit agreed the body would follow, and when the body and mind were in agreement the spirit would follow - sometimes being grieved by the decisions we make. He spoke of living spirit outward to soul outward to body, and to continually switch my attention between physical senses and spiritual senses.
 
He used examples from my own life, one of them being when I was in a store and noticed an older woman who by her body language just seemed depressed. When I paused to sense in my spirit her condition, I got exactly that - depression and poverty. I helped her get something off a high shelf, but she wasn't open to conversation. The Lord reminded me of that event and walked me through how I noticed her body language which caught my attention, then I paused to check spiritually what was going on.
 
I'll continue next week. The last thing I'll say is that praying in the spirit/Spirit is the #1 best way I've found for being sensitive to the things of the Father. I do so under my breath all the time, sometimes reminding myself if I get lax that I need to pick it up again - when you pray in tongues as Paul said, your spirit is active, and that life flows outward to your mind - if you let it - if your mind is thinking in that direction...more next week, until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]
 
 

Hi all,
I've been talking about light - We are citizens of a city of light, the heavenly Jerusalem, a city which will one day come down to earth so God can live among men.
 
When I went to heaven
In about 1990 I was praying in our church one afternoon and suddenly in the Spirit, and saw my angel's arm appear in the air above my left arm. I heard him say, "Take my hand", and I did so, watching in fascination as my spirit man's left hand and arm came out of my physical arm and when I grabbed his hand I was immediately taken away in the Spirit through space...
 
...I felt us slowing down and I turned to see us coming upon a huge city suspended before us, with bright glowing white walls about 20 stories tall and about every 300 miles or so (my eyesight was as good as I needed it to be so distance wasn't an issue) were big tall gates at the base with each side seemingly made of 1/2 a pearl or mother of pearl in appearance. I was amazed because there was no place for those gates to open to but the emptiness of space...but I didn't have time to think about it then...later I realized the city we call heaven will come to earth*, and at that time those gates will be of use. *Revelation 21:2-3, 25-27
 
What amazed me was the pure white light emanating from the walls of the city, yet it didn't hurt my eyes. I found when I focused on the light and looked directly at the walls, I could see myriad other colors - when I looked away or was not focused on 1 spot all I saw was white, but when I focused it was like seeing what made up that white light and all the colors of everything was suddenly seen. I suspect those colors are the rest of the light spectrum that cannot be seen with earth-eyes - thus my chart from part 1 of this series.
 
The walls had jewels of different colors in them and many of the jewels were huge and almost had an extruded look to them, not cuts like jewelry worn on a necklace or ring today. Many were smooth and long and of various colors and shapes imbedded in and part of the walls. Many of them at least 3 feet (1m) long. What an amazing city I was about to get a tour of! (You can read more about this in Pursuing the Seasons of God and the sequel, Knowing the Ways of God, both available as e-books)
 
We are that city!
"Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife*: And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and he showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God...prepared as a bride adorned for her husband..." *Revelation  21:2, 9-27
 
Most people don't realize when they make the decision to grow in Christ rather than succumb to their old nature, those victories carry more weight than merely making us a better and more mature person in Christ here on earth. The larger truth is the bride of Christ's lives are turned into heavenly building material, into a great heavenly city that we call heaven - and as we live our lives in Christ those decisions for God's way, those victories and sacrifices, tears and prayers, are made into heavenly material.
 
The apostle describes the foundation walls having the names of the apostles written on them and decorated with all kinds of precious stones. How did the sacrifices of their lives get transformed into the foundation walls of the city? We don't know, but the Lord did say He was going to prepare a place for us.
 
Each of the 12 gates are named for a tribe of Israel. Paul told the Corinthians* their envy, strife and divisions were wood, hay, and stubble that would be burned up (though they would make it to heaven) and told them to build things on the foundation of Jesus Christ like gold, silver, and precious stones. *I Corinthians 3:3-15
 
Peter said we are living stones* being built up as a spiritual house as we offer spiritual sacrifices to God, and that Jesus is the Corner stone of the construction. *I Peter 2:5-6
 
Consider the angel told Cornelius* his giving and prayers were 'come up as a memorial before God' - a memorial is something solid placed as a reminder of an event or events worthy of remembering. David said* God put his tears in a bottle and wrote them in His book, and John sees* vials of incense in heaven which are the prayers of the saints. *Acts 10:4, Psalm 56:8, Revelation 5:8
 
Paul further stated* our lives are built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ and the apostles "in whom the whole building is growing up into a living temple for a place for God to live..." *Ephesians 2:19-22
 
He takes our tears, our sacrifices for Him, our victories over the lower elements of human nature, and turns those physical and soul-realm acts which are our lives, into spiritual material which is part of the building of the city we call heaven. Somehow the Father takes decisions in Him, acts of kindness and tears, and changes them into heavenly material. In the same way there is a link between the Father being light in the Spirit realm and physical light came from Him, there is also a link going the other way - the realms of our soul and this physical life are transformed into material in His realm.
 
Matter cannot be destroyed, and that includes light beams (photons)
One of the laws of the universe is that matter cannot be destroyed, it merely changes form. The body of Julius Caesar still exists in the form of dirt and minerals in the soil somewhere. The food you ate was digested to become part of you, and that which was waste has changed form yet exists in chemical form in the soil or was treated and flushed into the ground or a river or ocean...and on it goes.
 
Those leaves that fell from the trees that you burned last fall, changed into ash which becomes part of the soil. Much of it went flying into the air in tiny particles of smoke, around which water molecules formed to make clouds, that eventually rained onto land or sea...but they still exist.
 
And light - that flashlight beam you flashed into the night sky when you were a child, is still racing at the speed of light through the universe, diluted and absorbed by the rest of the light that is invisible to our eyes, having become part of the larger bright light that fills the universe. Technically speaking, the photons that made up that light beam are either absorbed and become part of what it hit when it hit something, or is reflected back into space...but those photons still exist in some form.
 
And that means the reflections of all the events of our lives still exist. When you skinned your knee on the sidewalk when you were a child, you saw that through the light of the day, and as such that light is still in existence, somewhere, scattered, absorbed in the universe, but still there. That's how spiritual light is and one reason we will be able to give account of our lives to the Lord - in His memory all things in Him still exist.
 
This gives us a clue to the fact He can save earth tears in a bottle in His realm and record the anguish in His book. This is how He turns prayers and worship into heavenly incense. This is how giving money and prayers on earth come up as a memorial before Him in heaven. This is how your sacrifice, your victories, become living material by which He builds the city and adorns her as a bride on her wedding day.
 
He alone has the ability by spiritual laws we can only glimpse but not yet understand, to wipe away memories of past sin, past trauma, past life before we were in Christ. He only remembers what we've built on the foundation of Jesus Christ - it all continues to exist and will either survive the day as precious stones, gold, and silver, or as Paul told the strife filled Corinthians, some will be burned as wood, hay and stubble.
 
Let us be over-comers, choosing the more difficult path to walk in love, to forgive, to leave past lusts and childishness in favor of love, joy, peace, consistency, godliness, faithfulness, honesty, and the other godly character traits and fruit of the Spirit/spirit. Let us build gold, silver, precious stones as we remove the wood, hay and stubble of envy, strife, divisions and loving this world and the things in it.
 
Let us live our lives knowing when we choose to grow in Him, those decisions are turned into heavenly material which build up the heavenly city of light. I long for the day the city will be done, for each life who will grow in Christ will be complete, that the completed city may be adorned as a bride on her wedding! Christ is all in all! God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all, and we are now light. Let us live as people of light.
 
New subject next week, until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]
 
 

Hi all,
Continuing about light...
 
As part of New Testament truth we are told* 'you were before darkness but now you are light', and not to err in what we believe, for when we fall into tests, trials and temptations it isn't God doing it to us*, for from Him flows only every good and perfect gift for He is the Father of lights (us), and there is no variableness nor hint of shadow (duplicity/ulterior motive) in His character. *Ephesians 5:8, James 1:1-18
 
These and many more verses throughout the Bible blur the lines between the spiritual truth that God is light and the physical light we see with our eyes (and those wavelengths we can't see):
 
Moses' face shone after spending 40 days and nights on the Mount with the Lord*, when the angels announced the birth of Jesus to the Shepherds* 'the glory of the Lord shone round about them'. When Jesus was transfigured* before Peter, James, and John a bright cloud overshadowed them and Jesus became bright light, and the Lord said He was going to return to the glory He had with the Father before the world was.*  (*Exodus 34:29-35, Luke 2:9, Mark 9:3, John 17:5)
 
The unseen point where spiritual light and physical light meet is found in the person of Jesus Christ:
 
"...Who (Jesus) being the brightness of (the Father's) glory, and the impressed image of (the Father's) person, (Jesus) upholds (carries) all things by the Word of (the Father's) power, when He had by Himself purged out sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high..." *Hebrews 1:1-3
 
(Note: That is not 'the power of the Word', but rather the 'Word of the Father's power'. Perhaps a future 'Weekly Thoughts' about the difference is in order?)
 
And this: "...for by Him (Christ Jesus) all things were created, invisible and visible, and in Him all things consist." (Greek, 'in Him all things stand/are held together). Colossians 1:16-17
 
And: "For by faith we understand the worlds were framed (fit/put together) by the Word of God, so that things that are seen were not made of things that are visible." Hebrews 11:3
 
Look at this as more than figurative speech and metaphors
There are 94 uses of the root word 'light' in the New Testament (KJV), the vast majority are about either God's light, us being light, letting our light shine, or something related to those 3 subjects.
 
What if for instance, in Matthew 5:14-16 when Jesus tells us we are the light of the world, and that no one lights a lamp and hides it under a basket but rather lets it shine to give light to their whole house, and that we should let our light shine so that others can see the goodness of the Father God - what if that is both figurative speech and at the same time a spiritual reality in the unseen realm?
 
Our light shining and how demons work
I was in worship one night when suddenly I was in the Spirit, and the Lord stood before me: "I want to teach you some things about how demons work." Immediately we were standing in the dark maybe 20 feet (6m) behind a Christian man who was unaware we were watching him. He was looking straight ahead, and was encased in a sphere of light that was emanating from him, extending out about 10 feet (3m) in all directions. It resembled a fuzzy white light rather than intense bright white, more like a glowing fog.
 
The light was an unbroken sphere extending into the darkness that I knew represented the spiritual darkness in the world, and though we were standing and walking, the light did not stop at the floor. I say floor though I had no idea if there was one as Jesus and I could walk around and beneath and at his 2 o'clock level above his head or at waist height or below him looking up at the soles of his feet at will. In fact the Lord and I walked all around the man while the Lord explained to me many things about how we are born of the Father by the Spirit and are therefore beings of light, and what that means in real life experiences.
 
One of the most lasting things the Lord said to me as we circled the man was this:
"Notice how he is of light and is bathed in light, but he barely recognizes who he is in Me. Watch and see how easily he is distracted from the light and life in him:"
 
Just then I noticed a demon coming out of the darkness and he began circling the sphere of light, looking so intensely for a way through he didn't even notice the Lord and I standing some 10' (3m) behind him. The demon was about 2 1/2 feet tall (0.76m) and looked like a small person or perhaps a monkey - his face was smaller than a toddler's as was his whole build - thin and no fat at all on his wirey naked frame. He circled the sphere as we did, top to bottom, side to side always looking at the man, like a lion might stalk an antelope, probing for a weakness.
 
The Lord continued: "The man walks with Me, but about every 2 weeks or so he starts thinking about a favorite sin, for he has not disciplined himself to control his desires of the flesh. He knows his tendencies and weaknesses, and so does the demon who has watched him for years, who therefore entices him. And because his flesh likes the sin, he entertains thoughts and imaginations about that sin."
 
Just then the man started looking around instead of straight ahead, which reminded me of Peter walking on the water who broke his eye contact with Jesus to look at the wind and waves and began to sink. I knew somehow the man was turning his eyes from the Lord in this one small area and thinking about that sin, and again somehow I knew the process was going on over the course of several days in the man's life - like he started thinking about it on a Monday for the plan to do it on Friday, sort of thing. The Lord continued: "Now watch what happens when his desire for sin combines with the enticing:"
 
Sin enters
Just then a piece of the sphere of light pulled back, opening up in shape like a slice of pie from top to bottom, about 2 feet wide (0.6m) at the equator on the outside and narrowing to maybe 6 inches (15cm) at the man's shoulders. It was the man's doing as he entertained thoughts on the sin, allowing his light to withdraw in this one little area of his life.
 
I could see this man's imagination racing with thoughts of his sin as the demon turned sideways as he edged closer to the man, careful to not allow the light of the sphere to touch him - and just before reaching the man he made a leap onto his shoulders and started talking to him. 
 
As the demon sat on the man's shoulder enticing him, one of the things the Lord brought up is that is when you are aware of your light and you come across a person with a demon, you become aware the demon in them knows you know who you are in Christ and they don't want to be exposed. The demon becomes afraid of you, but as long as the person wants them there, you can't cast it out, yet they fear.
 
It often manifests in that person not wanting contact with you because the demon inside them doesn't want to be around you (meaning it would be cast out/the person would have to deal with their issue). That person may only know why on a subconscious level, though they will often make up a childish excuse or accusation against you in the natural, but they know and have to make their own way.
 
The Lord taught me how most people are delivered simply by walking with Him and hearing His voice only, and even long time in the family demons will then find no opening and so go off looking for another prey. But how at first it can be a battle of wills; how much does this person want the light of righteousness vs how much do they want the known and comfortable sin with associated demon, and so much more.
 
He talked of how darkness and demons retreat from the light and how a believing spouse influences their unbelieving family, how families can affect neighborhoods, and much more, all related to spiritual light affecting the darkness and demonic realms. Let your light shine...a reality in you!
 
"For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness', made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the Father's glory which is displayed in the face of Christ." II Corinthians 4:6
 
Next week part 3; the light of heaven. Until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]
 

Hi all,
I've long been fascinated by clues in scripture about the interface between the invisible God and the physical world. We are told the worlds were framed by the Word of God; the invisible created the visible*. Paul observing creation teaches* us the things of God. (*Hebrews 11:3, Romans 1:20)
 
"God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all." I John 1:5
 
That dark night sky isn't really dark at all - the universe is bathed in light
You may not realize how full of light you and I are, in fact the whole universe is full of light. We look into the night sky and see darkness, but that isn't the truth because we can only see a tiny sliver of the light spectrum that is sandwiched between infrared and ultraviolet. Below (see picture above!) is the full spectrum, with the part of light we can see with our physical eyes being that very narrow part in the middle, highlighted in full color.
 
All we can see with our physical eyes is within the narrow band of visible light, though I've been in the Spirit and have seen colors beyond earthly colors - more on that next week. When the sun goes down and the daylight fades and there is no moon, we talk about how dark it is. We get up in the middle of the night when no lights are on, and feel our way to the bathroom. 
 
But the truth is the night isn't dark, nor is your home in the middle of the night. The truth is our physical eyes are designed to only see that narrow part of the light spectrum highlighted in the chart. But that doesn't mean light isn't all around us, in fact our bodies (and spirits) emit light and we even have light beams passing through our bodies 24 hours a day, every moment of our lives. The universe is bathed in light and it is in fact never, ever dark.
 
Infrared
Moving to the left of visible light is infrared. Infrared includes heat. Your body emits light in the wavelength of 10 micrometers. That's right, just sitting there you are a being of light. Your body heat is light and you've seen soldiers, law enforcement and others use infrared glasses to see light emitted by living things. That oven you heat food with is light. You cook your food with light whether on an open fire, an oven, or....
 
Further left on the chart - microwaves
When you use a microwave oven you are using light, for microwaves are light too. The inside of that oven is probably lit by a light bulb that gives off light, so your eyes can see the food you are cooking with light.
 
Furthest left are radio waves
Radio and TV (and wifi) waves are light. As you switch from radio station to radio station, or turn your TV from channel to channel all you are doing is changing from one light beam to another light beam
(wavelength) within the radio wavelength. If you have an antenna on your TV it is a device to see light (radio/TV waves) that we can't, and convert them into sound and pictures.
 
All those beams are shining all around us and through us 24/7 - through the walls of your home into your radio and TV which have been built to 'see' each individual wavelength of light and convert them into speech and pictures.
 
When a TV light signal is produced at (for example) a sporting event and beamed up to a satellite, the satellite relays the beam of light (signal) down to the earth, bathing the earth with that light (signal). Realize we have thousands of TV and radio stations beaming signals at the same time, and all those beams of light are shining all around us and through us - plus all those occuring naturally in nature by stars and galaxies!
 
If you have cable, a cable company has many satellite dishes picking up various wavelengths of light (signals) from hundreds of broadcasts, and sends that light through glass tubes called fiber-optic cables which carry the light to your home where it is converted to various TV station signals on your TV. (Or by copper wire called coaxial cable) It is all light!
 
X-rays, the right side of the spectrum
As we move now towards the right side of the chart: Visible sunlight contains UV or ultraviolet light, just outside our visible range. It is UV rays that damage our skin (burn or tan us) and fade fabric and cause plastic left outside to become brittle. 
 
Moving further right are the x-rays we get at the hospital - invisible-to-us beams of light aimed through our bodies, used by doctors because some of that x-ray light is stopped by solid things like bones and more dense tissue and can be seen on special x-ray film. And the universe is filled, literally filled with x-rays and gamma rays and radio waves (and infrared) as well as a lot of visible light - even when we can't see light when we look into the night sky, if we could see invisible light we'd need sunglasses because it is so bright. The universe is literally, lit up with light. Your body emits light. Light fills the universe.
 
Think of that - the universe is full, absolutely full of light - but all we can see of that light is just that tiny sliver on that chart, so when the sun goes down we think it is getting dark - it isn't - it is just as light as before, merely missing that very narrow bandwidth of light we humans can see.
 
The great I AM
He is light in the realm of the Spirit and He made physical light. So by looking at physical light we see characteristics of its Creator.
 
The Father is light and Jesus said He is the I AM, meaning the ever-present One. Those are spiritual truths. In the physical realm Einstein calculated as you move towards the speed of light mass becomes infinite and time stands still.
 
Mass becoming infinite at the speed of light explains how the Father is everywhere by His Spirit - His mass is infinite because He is light. It also explains why Christ is the ever-present One, the I AM, because being light it means time stands still for Him - there is no time.
 
Time to Him is like a table top. He is standing above that table top looking down and can see from one edge to the other and everything on the table all at once. He is able to move freely from one end to the other - it is all the same to Him as He is above the table/time and is therefore ever present at all parts of the table top at the same time. He is the I AM, the ever-present One.
 
In Ephesians 5:8-9 Paul writes this: You were before time darkness, but now are you light in the Lord...live as the light...Daniel 12:3 says "Those that are wise will shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever."
 
I've run out of room today and will make my larger point next week..until then, consider what we don't see, and that we are beings of light...until next week, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]