This Passover, the Bride is Being Expanded!

This Passover, the Bride is Being Expanded!

by | Apr 2, 2026 | Prophetic Words, Understanding

There has been a significant build-up in the spirit over the past few months. I have been sensing a great release on the way this Passover season. The spiritual atmosphere has been heavily pregnant, and I sense the waters are about to break.

The Bride is being prepared for something she has not yet seen.

Two nights ago, as our family was praying, we felt led to pray for the release of the breaker anointing. The breaker anointing of Jesus breaks the yokes and strongholds standing in the way of His victory for His people. I keep hearing this scripture in my spirit:

"The kingdom of God has come near." — Mark 1:15

Passover is known to be a season of fulfilment and new beginnings. In the book of Exodus, God instructed the Israelites to keep the feast of Passover, and declared that the month in which they kept it would become the biblical new year. (Exodus 12:1)

Again, we see in the book of Joshua that shortly after they observed the Passover, they took possession of the promised land by conquering Jericho. (Joshua 5:10)

Jesus was the perfect Passover lamb, and following His death and resurrection, a new era began. He was raised on the first day of a new week—or the eighth day, depending on how you look at it—which in Hebrew thought has always symbolised new beginnings, the start of a new cycle beyond the complete.

Passover is therefore a significant marker in the spiritual realm, defined by fulfilment, the breakthrough of the torn veil, resurrection, and new beginnings.

A Season of Circumcision of the Heart

Yet before every new beginning comes a cutting away—and this season has been no different.

This season, leading up to Passover, has been filled with various tests and trials—on a higher level and with increased intensity. It is designed to test the faithfulness of the Bride and to build endurance into her. God is purifying His Bride. He is unveiling the areas of her life that have not yet been subjected to the refiner's fire. He has been circumcising our hearts.

This season has required deep surrender and radical faith in the very areas of our lives we always hoped God would never test. The areas where we said, "Just not this, Lord." The areas we wanted to preserve out of fear. Those are the very places where God desires surrender, because He wants to show us that we can trust Him—especially there.

The purpose of this season of intense testing is so that God's sovereignty and glory can be revealed through our lives—especially in those very areas we never wanted to allow Him into, because we were too afraid. In the testing, God is showing up in those places and showing that He is God. Much like Elijah on Mount Carmel, God has been calling His people to a moment of public, costly obedience—where everything is on the line, and only He can deliver. Those who said yes to that call are now entering their showdown.

The Bride is not a passive observer in this hour—she is being called to her own Mount Carmel moment, and those who answered that call are now entering their season of expansion.

Giving Birth to the Overcomers!

Those who have faithfully endured the circumcision of the heart and showed unwavering faith in the midst of extreme difficulties are now having their obstacles removed in the spirit. You are attaining a new level of victory, and God is expanding you. This is what it was all about—expansion. God is expanding you and entrusting you with what you have been prepared for.

I want to make something clear: being faithful does not mean being strong. It simply means you keep showing up. You keep believing and refuse to give up—even when you feel utterly weak. It is the realisation that it is not on us; it is on Him. It is simply believing that He is going to do it.

In this birthing season of expansion, keep your eyes on Jesus. Stay focused. A woman in labour does not lose focus and return to the normal activities of life—she simply can't. One thing is required of her, and that is to give birth to new life. Do not let the enemy lure you out of the birthing room and distract you with the cares and demands of this world. Keep your eyes on Jesus and focus on the assignment.

The Bride who endured the refining is now being entrusted with greater influence, capacity, authority, and new assignments. This is what she was being prepared for.

"And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promise." — Hebrews 6:11–12

Part two is coming soon—and what happened while I was writing this will amaze you! God's expanding work is being confirmed in real time!

 

A Season of Shaking, Sifting, and Separation

A Season of Shaking, Sifting, and Separation

by | Mar 13, 2026 | Impressions, Revelatory Insights, Understanding

Globally, the body of Christ is in a season where God is shaking and sifting His church. On Sunday morning, I clearly heard the phrase, “the removal of things” in my spirit. I looked up the scripture, and it was in Hebrews 12:26-29:

“ …but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.”

The bride is being prepared and, in this shaking, the true condition of our hearts is revealed. Everything that cannot be part of the Kingdom of God is being removed in this hour. This shaking is much more intense than ever before.

There is no place for any false seed in the season we are about to enter. The seed needs to be sifted because the counterfeit seeds are the very things that will make us stumble and fall in the next season. These false seeds disguise themselves as truth, and without a shaking, their true nature won’t be revealed. Let me give you an example of what this looks like:

Earlier this year, I had the privilege of visiting a seed processing facility where seeds are cleaned and separated using air and gravity. You can’t imagine the complexity of the process to clean the seed and the machinery needed to do this. I was completely amazed. In the beginning phases, it is easy to distinguish the seed from the chaff and to clean it out. But as the process progressed, in the more advanced stages, you cannot differentiate the seeds by looking at them with your bare eyes.

The seeds with embryos and the seeds without embryos look exactly the same. In other words, the seeds which carry life inside of them look no different from the empty, unfertile seeds. Therefore, an advanced process of sifting is needed in order to separate the life-giving seed from the empty seed.

The seeds are placed on a gravity table, which is shaken vigorously. Through this intense shaking, those that are lighter, without embryos, are separated from the true, fertile seed. The separation is determined by the weight of the seed and is revealed through the shaking.

This is such a vivid and practical illustration of what is currently happening in the spiritual realm. The life-giving seed in our lives will carry the weight of God’s presence. The true seed obtained its weight because it had abided in Christ.  The false seed does not carry the true, fertile nature of Jesus Christ and His eternal word. These false seeds, which are essentially empty beliefs and counterfeit spiritual gifts, will result in crop failure. The longer the false seeds are held onto, the more deception they will cause because outwardly they promise new life, growth, and a harvest, but it doesn’t carry the true seed of Christ inside.

I believe this separation is twofold: On the one hand, the seed represents our individual lives, the beliefs and teachings we hold onto, as well as our spiritual gifts. God is causing this shaking to test the seed in our lives, so that His Holy Spirit can reveal to us where there is counterfeit seed that will not bring forth a harvest. We need to respond to the Lord in this process through yielding to His Spirit and humbling ourselves, and truly allow Him to separate the true from the false in our lives.

On the other hand, there is a great separation in the body of Christ as the wolves and workers of iniquity are being exposed globally. God is laying bare that which was done in secret. What was whispered in the dark is shouted from the rooftops. God is cleaning His house. His house lies in ruins, but before the rebuilding can begin it has to be cleaned out. Among the wolves, mixed seed, false beliefs, another thing being exposed is divination in the name of biblical prophecy. God is calling us to deep repentance and those who are not willing to repent will be removed.

The season of shaking has been a very long and painful season and the hardship we face feels like it is more than we can endure. The waves of tests, trials and disappointment keep coming one after the other. But this painful process is essential to reveal and remove what does not carry life. Many things and relationships have been removed from your life and it caused much grief.

The removal of things that can be shaken is not easy and it leaves us with a sense of loss. But we need to accept what God has removed from our lives because in the process of accepting His sovereign will, the traumatic severing caused by the shaking will start to heal. Accepting what the Lord is doing is a major key in spiritually surviving this intense shaking.

Remnant, hold fast, and allow Him to shake you and reveal what has no substance in your life. Abide in Him, because through constantly abiding in His presence, word, and truth, your life will carry the weight of His glory. Walk in the fear of the Lord. For our God is a consuming fire.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”

— John 15:1-2  

A Trumpet call to enter the Ark on the Feast of Trumpets

A Trumpet call to enter the Ark on the Feast of Trumpets

by | Oct 3, 2024 | Dreams, Prophetic Words, Understanding

It has been an intense season for many in the body of Christ. We had to endure intense fires of tests and trials.

Not only did the Lord test us, He also brought us to a place of complete death to self. The cross each of us had to pick up was tailor made for each individual. Each of us had to struggle through different things, but it served the same purpose: The seeds had to fall to the ground and die. We had to abandon all trust in ourselves. We had to surrender to the point that we wondered if we would ever rise again.

"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain." ~ John 12:24

"For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us." ~ 2 Cor 1:8-10

The season is slowly shifting. Seeds are sprouting again. We are still tired, some still carrying wounds from the past, unsure of what this new season will bring. But we are rising, God is raising us from the dead.

We need to allow Him to completely heal our wounds even if we don't have answers. Trusting that He is resurrecting something new in us: A pure seed for a pure harvest.

We are now in a transition season of healing. I strongly sense that we should not skip our healing process. You should not be too quick to try to enter the new season. You should allow God to heal you first, as He allowed you to be wounded for a season:

"And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives."

"Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it." ~ Hebrews 12:5-7, 11

Encountering the God of Comfort

God is a loving Father, who wants to bind up our wounds and restore us. He does not take pleasure in our suffering but He loves us enough to train us through suffering, for our own good. We need to run to the God of comfort and mercy. We need to yield our woundedness to Him, knowing that He alone is able to heal us. If we fail to do this, we might end up becoming bitter. The following verses in Hebrews 12, after speaking about God's discipline says:

"Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled" ~ Hebrews 12:12-15

The context of these verses is significant. Often God reveals what is still in our hearts through others that mistreat or disappoint us. If we do not forgive and let our hearts be healed, we will end up in enmity and bitterness.

If we do not draw on the grace of God to overcome these things a root of bitterness can spring up and cause our bitterness to spread and defile many.

Hebrews 12 ends with verses 28 and 29: "Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire."

Allow the Lord to heal you by drawing on His comfort and grace so that you can steward what has been given to you and serve Him acceptably.

A call to enter the Ark of His Presence.

I want to share a dream I received as a warning for the body of Christ. In the dream many believers were swimming in murky waters. The water was not very deep. We were careless and not aware of any danger.

The children also swam in the water, quite a distance away from us. Then, suddenly, the water levels rose, and it became very stormy. No one was prepared for this and as a result, some of the children drowned. It was too late and nothing could be done.

The murky waters are symbolic of unstable and nonessential doctrines, opinions of man causing confusion and judgments we have towards other believers. It is also symbolic of the murky waters of bitterness, unforgiveness and an unwillingness to try and understand the journeys others are on. It also points to the woundedness the members Christ's body have caused one another.

The children that drowned are part of our inheritance, the visions and assignments the Lord gave us to steward. We acted carelessly and didn't guard and watch over what God entrusted us with. Instead we decided to stay in the murky waters of our disappointments with others. Most of our inheritance is found in community with others. But we allowed the inheritance of community to be swept away because we cannot get over our silly differences, opinions and disappointments.

While I shared this dream with friends, my son came to show me a picture he was busy drawing. He said, 'Mommy you are talking about water and look, I am busy drawing Noah's ark.'

The moment he said this I felt the Lord telling me, 'You are not supposed to be in the murky waters, you are supposed to be in My Ark.'

We need to enter into Christ the Ark of God's presence and safety! We need to abide in Him - the Spirit of Truth, and not in the murky waters of unstable nonessential doctrines and opinions causing confusion and division in the body of Christ. If we stay there, the waters will rise, and drown what God has entrusted to us. It will cause us to lose our focus on Jesus, the High Priest and Head of the Body.

In the Ark of His presence, our perspective is changed as He heals our wounds and silences our turbulent hearts. We will no longer be tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine and allow bitterness to enter our hearts. In His presence our hearts will be established in grace, and as we repent we will be restored to love and in essential truth.

Let us take heed of this warning and listen to the trumpet call and enter into the Ark!

"14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love." ~ Ephesians 4:14-16

We THE PEOPLE of THE LIGHT

We THE PEOPLE of THE LIGHT

by | Sep 30, 2021 | Uncategorized, Understanding, Visions

After a long time of silence, I felt the release to start writing again. As I was praying about what I should write first, the Holy Spirit reminded me of an experience I had in early 2020.

I feel like it is a foundational revelation that the Lord wants to lay in our lives. We need to start cultivating this principle as a habit.

Willingly Position Yourself in HIS light
In early 2020 we went away for a few days. Close to the place where we were staying was these beautiful woods with very tall trees. One morning I decided to go out into the woods to spend time with the Lord. As I sat down and looked up a beam of sunlight shone straight into my eyes.

I was about to move because it was uncomfortable. But, at that moment, I clearly heard the Holy Spirit saying, “Willingly position yourself in My light.” As I looked around, I realised that there was ample shade around me and I was seated directly under the only spot the sunlight came through.

That morning the Lord spoke to me about intentionally choosing to position myself in His light. To open up the dark and hidden places in my heart and to allow Him to shine His light into every dark corner. To purposefully bring the dark areas of my heart into His light so that He can purify and transform me into His image.

There are many dark areas in our lives:  sin, offence, broken relationships, unhealed wounds, unresolved issues, unforgiveness etc. To bring these things into the light isn’t always easy. To allow our issues to come to the surface is uncomfortable and often painful.

It takes courage and vulnerability. We need to allow ourselves to be vulnerable before Him. Vulnerability leads to freedom. He can only work with that which we bring into His light. The parts that remain in darkness will remain unfruitful and we will never gain victory in those areas.

“God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

~1 John 1:5-7

It’s All About Reflecting HIM
As I was seated in His light that morning, I felt that the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings (Malachi 4:2) will arise over me and that He is faithful, to not only purify me of my sin and unrighteousness but also to heal all my wounds.

It is in His light that He frees us of sin and binds up our wounds, so that we can become a victorious people, a pure bride! This is how we are transformed into His image.

“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

~ 2 Corinthians 3:18

As we are being transformed into His image, we are becoming a transparent bride that reflects His nature.

If I choose to remain in the shadows, I cannot reflect His fullness.  The only way I can reflect Him is when I sit in His light and allow it to transform me into His image.

Christ our Inheritance
In 2019 I heard a beautiful teaching from a friend about bringing every part of ourselves into Christ. Every part of us that we bring into Christ will gain an inheritance. The parts that remain in darkness will gain nothing.

When I heard these words, I felt my spirit longing to become fully one with Christ. That every part of me is destined to be one with Him and that no part of my inheritance in Christ should be wasted!

This is what Jesus prayed in John 17. That we should be fully one with Him and His Father:

"That they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.  And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.”

~ John 17: 21-23

This is the desire and prayer of our Lord: Oneness with Him, gaining the full inheritance that He paid for on the cross.

Preparing the Highway of Holiness
One day while I was praying, I saw a vision of people coming out of the woods and they went to stand on both sides of a road. I knew that these people coming out was going through a process of repentance and choosing to abide in His light.

As they were being transformed, they came out. As more people came out, they formed a line next to the road. It was like they were preparing a way for the return of the Messiah. I got the impression that the people were becoming a highway.

I then understood that as we repent, come out of darkness and are being transformed, we join to form part of the Highway of Holiness. The Highway of Holiness that will usher in the return of the Messiah.

“Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert
A highway for our God.”

~ Isaiah 40:3

”Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, Lift up a banner for the peoples! Indeed the Lord has proclaimed To the end of the world: “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Surely your salvation is coming; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.’” And they shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord; And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.”

~ Isaiah 62:10-12

This Highway of Holiness that we will be a part of, is a path of light! This path of light is so pure and so transparent that it only reflects the Son.

On the one hand, the Son of God is being revealed in us, for the world to see Him (Joh 17:21). On the other hand, it also stirs the Bridegroom to fetch His bride! Finally, after much purification, she will look like Him, a bride that reflects His image.

This bride will carry the gentleness and meekness of the lamb and the intensity and boldness of the Lion. Nothing will stop her from preparing herself for the One that values her the most. This is the hour she has been waiting for.

Let us align our hearts with Christ, let us push deeper into His presence, abiding in His Light. Let the cry of our heart be: LORD, REVEAL YOUR SON IN US!

“The Bride has made herself ready.”

~ Revelation 19:7

 

Radical Obedience

Radical Obedience

by | Aug 12, 2020 | Understanding, Visions

We are entering a time where radical obedience is more important than ever before. The Spirit is leading me to do a series of blog-posts on obedience since it is a topic that He has laid heavily on my heart.

Before you continue to read, remember that the motivation behind everything God does is always love. He loves us and therefore calls us to obedience (more on this in the next blog post).

The Obedient Will Enter into Higher Realms of Authority
In 2019 I had an experience that the Lord used to teach me the importance of walking in obedience. As I was spending time with Him, I felt He was calling me to enter higher realms of authority.

That day I was struggling to breakthrough deeper into His presence, but I felt a prompting in me “to press towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil 3:14).

The Lord showed me layers of victory in the spirit, and only when we have broken through one layer, we can enter into the next level. This is how we train ourselves unto godliness (1 Tim 4:8).

I kept pressing in and eventually, I felt the perfect peace of the Fathers’ presence. I saw a vision of a Lion’s face and I heard the words “The spirit of Elijah.” I then saw mantles of Elijah being released from heaven. It was such a heavy weight in the spirit that I could barely keep standing.

The Lord showed me that these mantles will be given to very specific people in the body of Christ. I received the scripture:

“Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things,
which you do not know”

~ Jeremiah 33:3

These great and mighty things are found in higher realms of authority. We will access it when we call on the Lord’s name and set our heart’s desire on Him.

The Lack of Obedience in the Body of Christ
Immediately after I had this intense encounter, I had a very strong feeling that the body of Christ greatly lacks obedience.

A strong conviction came over me that we do not listen and obey. We hear His words but we do not put them into practice. According to scripture, this is what a foolish man does, and his fall will be great on the day of testing (Matt 7:26).

I realized that we are so eager to receive the supernatural gifts and that everyone wants these mantles but God simply cannot entrust it to people of disobedience.

I saw a vision of what this looks like in the spirit. I saw people with layers of cement all over their bodies. Each time they hear the Lord speak and they do not obey, a layer of cement flows out of their hearts.

This then forms a thin layer over the body of that person. The more the person ignores the voice of the Holy Spirit the more cement is being secreted from the heart and the thicker the layer of cement becomes over their body.

This vision reminded me of the verse in Hebrews:

“Today, if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion”

~ Hebrews 3:15

All of a sudden, I saw what looked like an army of people that were completely stuck in cement and I heard: “THEY HAVE BECAME IDOLS OF THEIR OWN WAYS.”

These words pierced through me because I knew that most of us are guilty of this. The people in the vision could not move because they were idols of cement! I felt the grieving of the Lord Jesus over these people because He could not use them as a result of their condition.

God can only use those who walk in HIS WAYS and these people were walking in their own ways. They have stopped their ears and they cannot perceive His voice. I heard the Spirit say: “They cannot walk in their destinies because My Spirit cannot move them”.

This Condition is Not Incurable
This looked like a hopeless situation but the Lord said:

“You need to see your condition so that you can come to Me to fix it. Come to Me with a contrite spirit, ask for My Spirit of repentance to come upon you. Humble yourself at My altar and allow Me to crush the idols that you have created. Allow My Spirit to anoint you with oil so that I can flow through the cracks of your self-made idols to destroy it”.

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”

~ 1 John 1:9

Repentance is a beautiful gift! The Lord longs for us to repent from our wicked ways and to start walking in greater authority. He desires that we become good stewards of the mysteries and He longs to reveal them to us.

How to Gain the Mantle of Elijah
We will gain the mantle of Elijah in the same way Elisha gained it – through responding with immediate obedience!

I love the way Elisha responded when Elijah threw his mantle on him. We read in 1 Kings 19:21:

“So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and become his servant.”

Elisha immediately recognized the upward call of God! When Elisha uses his livelihood to host a farewell celebration, he openly declares that there is no turning back to his former way of life. What a beautiful and inspiring way that Elisha responded in. He gave himself as an empty vessel to the Lord.

While not everyone is called to receive the mantle of Elijah, the Lord is calling everyone to a higher life, by receiving the upward call of God in Christ Jesus and to walk in new levels of authority. Whatever the Lord’s call is on your life, it will require sacrifice and obedience.

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me”

 ~ Matthew 16:24

I pray that these words will penetrate your heart and minister to you and that you will present yourself as an empty and useful vessel to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Casting the Lord’s Presence Over Your Problems

Casting the Lord’s Presence Over Your Problems

by | Aug 2, 2020 | Understanding

This blog post is somewhat of a follow up on the previous blog post: An Urgent Word: PUSHBACK!!!

I promised that my husband will share a bit of his experience with a “higher truth” namely how to cast the Lord’s presence on your problems or attacks until it is resolved in His presence.

This is that blog post. Over to Gideon:

Warning!
I want to issue a warning upfront: this isn't a quick four-step process. You have to build up your spiritual capacity gradually. You have to put in the time to learn how to do this.

Although it's a very simple process it isn't necessarily easy. It's simple to lift a heavy weight, but you need the capacity to do so.

This process takes time to learn. Please do not continue with the next step in this process if you haven't built significant capacity with the previous steps.

Stage Zero, Building on the Right Foundation.
Make sure you know the presence of the right Jesus. Paul outlines the way of salvation in Romans 10. He says:

“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? …”

~ Rom 10:14-15 NKJV

This is very important. My point in quoting this scripture is this: If you haven’t heard the right gospel, how then can you believe in the right Jesus? What do I mean?

Paul speaks in 2 Corinthians 11:4 of the possibility of another Jesus being preached, which leads to receiving a different spirit and believing in a different gospel.

Many Christians today haven’t received the right or the full gospel. They are saved into a prosperity gospel, Santa Clause type Jesus that just want to bless them, make them happy and make their life work.

This is not the Jesus of the Bible that says: “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me… (Mat 16:24)”. In the world you will have tribulation (Jo 16:33). And, through His Apostle Paul: “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory (2 Co 4:17).

The following stages in this process are dangerous if you don’t know your Bible and don’t know the Jesus of the Bible.

If you are a new believer this process is not for you (yet). Please first take the time to get to know the Jesus of the Bible.

If you have been saved some time but you don’t know scripture well enough rather take the time to familiarise yourself with scripture before you continue.

First, Learn to Super Focus on the Lord's Presence.
This stage presupposes that you know how to enter into God’s presence. Actually, we are already in His presence (Act 17:28; Rom 10:8; Eph 2:6). We just have to learn how to become consciously aware of His presence.

What works for you? Putting on worship music and singing along? Praying? Meditating on scripture? Use what already works for you and try to use it as a way to “get into” the Lord's presence.

Use whatever works for you to become aware, but then learn how to stay in this atmosphere of awareness without the “props”.

How would that look? Say you are singing to a song. When you have become aware of His presence, slowly turn down the volume and just stay focused on Him. It helps to continue to say a few words of adoration to the Lord: “Lord Jesus, I love you. Lord, you are good. You are beautiful Lord….”

Now become silent, still keeping your focus and awareness on Him. Keep silently gazing at the Lord in adoration. Stretch yourself to keep doing this for longer periods at a time each time you practise this.

How to Overcome Distraction?
The best way to deal with distraction is to not give much attention to it. You have probably heard the example: “Don’t think of a pink elephant. What did you just think of? Yes, a pink elephant”.

The more you try to fight the distraction the more it will just absorb you. So, what do you do? You treat it as an old friend, that you are very comfortable with, coming to visit you.

You tell this “old friend” that they can sit next to you and chat away, but you are busy with something else and you are not going to give much attention to them. This sounds counter-intuitive, but what you are doing is, you are making “the issue” a non-issue.

What do I mean? You are treating the distraction as something small and insignificant. This causes it to lose its power. When you fight it, you are actually making it big and powerful in your mind. When you get comfortable with it, it becomes small in your mind and it releases you to focus on the Lord. It will still be there, but it won't be an issue.

The more you train your mind this way, the less distraction there will be and the more you will be able to focus on the Lord in any situation regardless of distraction.

Second, Learn to Rest in and Enjoy the Lord's Presence.
This sounds easier than it really is. There was a season in my life where my goal was to spend time with the Lord like this for three hours a day. After about six months of doing this, I only did the three hours successfully for about a handful of days.

During this time, I repeatedly heard the phrase: “learn to become a happy prisoner” in my spirit. This was probably the most important lesson the Lord taught me.

While you are resting in and enjoying the Lord's presence, your flesh isn’t happy at all. There is such a paradox in this state of being.

Your spirit man is enjoying this so much and it feels like you want to explode from God’s fullness, love and joy. While at the same time your flesh is rebelling and objecting to every second it has to endure this torture.

Your flesh feels trapped. Imprisoned! It tries to convince you that this is a waste of time. It wants you to go and check your phone to see what time it is, if you haven’t received a message or if someone isn’t maybe “urgently” looking for you.

You have to essentially learn how to be happy on the one end while feeling trapped on the other end. You have to become a happy prisoner.

Third, Learn to Stay Longer and Abide in His Presence.
Most of what I said above also applies to this point. What I would add here is, now you should learn to stay aware during the whole day. It won't necessarily be as intense as when you have your focused time with the Lord but you will still be aware of His presence.

A mistake we make in our relationship with the Lord is to compartmentalise our lives. When we stand up from our time with the Lord in the mornings it's like we make a mental switch: “Lord, your time is up, now it's my time”. We don’t consciously say this but this is actually the attitude of our hearts.

This is our flesh trying to gain control again. To escape its prison. You don’t have to let your flesh out! Learn to keep this awareness during your day. A great resource to gain inspiration and to learn how to do this is a book by Brother Lawrence: “The Practice of the Presence of God.”

Fourth, Learn to Cast His Presence unto a Situation.
Now finally the last stage in this process. If you have learned to cultivate an awareness of God’s presence in your daily life, then you can start learning how to cast His presence.

What is casting His presence? His presence is like light flooding your heart. You can now learn how to reflect His light unto a situation. There are two ways of doing this.

Communing His presence.
The first way is to commune His presence. Communing is deeper than communication. Communication is done with words; communing is done as a spiritual transfer.

2 Corinthians 13:14 speak of “the communion of the Holy Spirit”. This is to fellowship with the Lord: to draw from the Lord’s presence through the person of the Holy Spirit. It’s what you have learned to do so far. To sit, receive and enjoy an infilling of God’s presence.

Now you simply commune His presence (the flowing river of the Holy Spirit) to someone or something else. Send it in in a direction. How do you do this? This is covered further down under the heading “The Key of Faith and Prayer”.

Taking your Situation into His Presence.
The second way is to take your situation into the Lord's presence. In the Old Testament, we have a wonderful symbol pointing to this principle. The Priestly Breastplate.

The high priest would wear this breastplate when he enters God’s presence once a year to make intercession for the children of Israel on the day of atonement.

This breastplate had twelve stones on, representing the twelve tribes of Israel. He was symbolically carrying Israel on his heart before the Lord.

This is the highest form of intercession. It is interesting, my wife is now busy reading the book “Rees Howells: Intercessor”. These are basically the same principles the Lord has taught him.

He speaks of abiding for someone else. It’s literally like you are spending time on behalf of someone else while the Lord's presence starts working in their lives.

There is no concept of time and space in the spirit realm. When you hold someone or some situation in your heart before the Lord like this, His presence is literally cast over that person or situation.

My wife mentioned how she was struggling with an attack in the previous blog post. I must admit I don’t use this as often as I probably should. But I have learned a valuable lesson.

Charmaine was struggling with this attack on her mind for a few days. I assumed that she is as “proficient” in this as I am and I just told her what to do. She was still struggling a bit, so I decided to just do it on her behalf.

It wasn’t 10min when she looked at me and asked: “What did you just do, I felt it lift”. I’m being vulnerable by writing about this. I have never really taught on this subject, publicly, but I believe it’s time for the body to start moving in these higher truths.

So here is exactly what I did, and what went on in my heart as I did it:

I held Charmaine’s mind in the Lord’s presence. I pressed in deeper so that I could sense in the Lord’s presence by the unveiling and exposing power of His presence what the cause of the problem was. This is not always necessary.

Most often than not The Lord's presence will just dissolve or resolve the issue. Where His light is, darkness must flee. Where His healing power is present, heartbreak or physical sickness gets minister to.

The Lord and His presence in the situation are in total control. Your job is just to hold the situation there by your intercession.

This is on a need to know bases. If the Lord needs you to know something, He will let you know. If you need to repent for something, His light will show it to you. If you have to pray something specific, His light will reveal it to you. But most of the time the Lord just needs you to hold this situation in His presence so that His glory can work on the situation until it is resolved.

The Key of Faith and Prayer
So, to put a finer point on it. How exactly do you do this? Simply by faith and prayer. What does that mean?

In the Greek, the word prayer when broken down actually means, desire towards. To pray means to put your desire towards God. You do all this by desiring it from Him in prayer. His presence (Holy Spirit) might communicate a stop or go ahead in your heart. Listen to these promptings. Don’t do things that you can’t feel God’s peace on.

This once again presupposes that You are familiar with the awareness of His presence. The presence of the Jesus of the Bible. He will not lead you into things contrary to His Word.

In all this we need faith. Faith is not something you work up. It’s to simply trust God, to do what He says He will do and to believe that He is who He says He is in His word.

In closing. If you are looking for additional resources that can help you go deeper with the Lord, I suggest you read three books. I suggest you read them together. It is “Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ” by Jeanne Guyon; “The Normal Christian Life” by Watchman Nee and “The Practice of the Presence of God” by Brother Lawrence.

Most people miss the depth and richest in “The Normal Christian Life” because they read it to gain head knowledge rather than to gain experiential knowledge. Therefore, I suggest you read “The Normal Christian Life” in the way and “spirit” of “Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ”.

When read and applied correctly “The Normal Christian Life” will help you overcome most issues in your life. “The Practice of the Presence of God”, serves as both motivation and practical tips on your journey.

May you grow deeper in the Lord.

Gideon

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