The other day I received a vision of Jesus holding a book, not the Book, but a book.  We had chatted for some time over it and He quickly flipped through it, as if showing me quite quickly what it was all about.  It was a bible study aide.  I got a glimpse of the cover and decided to abide in Him and try and retrieve it the next day.  I looked and searched for hours and could not be sure of the book I was looking for.  So I just sat back in my chair, asked God to help me find where this book might be.  Quickly I hear, “NCCA”…that was it.  So I emailed one of the members of that church and found out they DO in fact have a e-store that has books they recommend.  After a quick perusal of the site I found the exact book I’d been looking for!  If you haven’t checked out their Amazon e-store I encourage you to do so:

http://www.immersed-atl.com/E-immersed%20Store.html

Now just yesterday I received the book I’d been waiting for, again it is a Greek parallel word study aide for the bible.  I had looked at it briefly and one word kept jumping out at me, in the book as well as the Word.  Sanctify.  Now I won’t go into detail over that particular word as it was something for me to study upon.  However last night I went to bed and out of my skylight I noticed a white/purple glow come streaming into the room.  I’ve seen this many times before and it was no less beautiful this night!  As I lay in bed I see the beam go to the foot of the bed and I just feel this warmth and I can’t help but smile.  Suddenly I’m not in my bedroom anymore but I’m in a large white room with beautiful white columns here and there.  The floor was gold and glowed brilliantly all on its own.  The room had very high ceilings and it was a rather large room.  As I glanced around I noticed there were large tiles hovering above the floor, about the height of my thigh.  These tiles were white and about the size of a small two-person café table or some equivalent.  They floated stationary and each one was a couple feet from the next, but the room was filled with them.  On each tile were large orange-coloured Greek characters.  Now I don’t know Greek whatsoever but I’m learning however I could not distinguish what any of these characters meant I just knew they were Greek.  As I looked around I noticed the Holy Spirit tucked behind one of the tiles, as if playing a game of hide and seek with me.  The Holy Spirit was transparent bluish water but He also had a bit of purple in Him…like He was glowing purple.  I ventured over to him between these tiles.  As I went to touch Him he would move to another tile.  So I continued to chase Him to the next tile and as I reached out my hand again to touch Him, He’d move and I’d be stuck touching just the tile.  I looked up again to find out where He was and He was across the room, laughing at me.  So I started laughing and we continued to play this game for some time.  Then I asked Him, between laughing fits, “What are you doing?”  He said remember when you were a little kid and your favourite board game was Candy Land?  I was shocked because I’d almost forgotten about that…but He never does!  So He said, “Yyou loved it for the colours because you could learn them and you could count.  It was a learning tool for you.  As many board games are learning tools for children and help reinforce knowledge.  You are planning a life change and God is planning one for you too.”

This also made me think of Spiritual Gifts.  Many say that you should seek them out.  Yet I felt like chasing these “gifts” around the room made me think about my focus, because all the while I chased these gifts I never once noticed each tile He’d been by!  So it reminded me of the scripture:

1 Corinthians 14:12  Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

I had a vision last night that I’d like to share while I was studying.

Here, again, was this valley of lush green grasses that were surrounded by mountains.  Before me was a single path of red.  It was a beautiful red.  The path led straight ahead without varying in direction one bit.  As I walked it I noticed it led me between four pillars of light, like giant lamps.  There were two lamps on either side of the path.  They were huge, much taller than I and had four sides each made of alabaster coloured masonry.  They narrowed as they got taller and at the top was a large bowl of flame.  I could not feel the heat but I could hear the flame roaring like a mighty wind as it licked at the sky.  Within each of these four lamps were four beasts.  They were shaped with legs and wings and large heads but they did not look like anything I’d ever seen before.  They were all coloured as if gold yet they moved and flickered within the flame like they were standing guard.  As I passed by these four lamps with beasts I noticed right before my eyes there was one white church that suddenly multiplied into seven! 

The seven churches now stand in front of me, one beside the other, all identical, and all white.  The red path I’d been walking now split into seven paths.  Each leading out from where I stood to each church like a sunbeam.  I felt warm and I felt loved at that very moment, over joyed with love. 

Ezekiel 16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

Now as I stared at this beautiful sight I noticed behind the white churches were the tall mountains and above them was a huge throne.  This beautiful white throne chair sat upon the clouds atop those mountains.  In it was light, so bright I could not see the face of who sat upon it, not as a human face.  Just as I bowed down before Him I saw the mountains being coated in gold…like a river washing over these majestic mountains only to be made even more beautiful.  This river of holy gold washed over the mountains and came down into the valley.  It washed over each of the seven churches, covering them in gold as well.  It was a preparation.

Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

That was the end of my vision.  I heard the Spirit tell me that I was invited in to see the preparation of the Wedding.  The day is coming when the Bride will marry the Bridegroom and the preparations are under way.  The covenant will be wed as it is told and He is pleased in the preparation of it. 

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

A vision I’ve been having repeatedly lastl evening is of a hot and dry place.

It is so dry even the river bed is just a dust bowl and on either side of it is dust and rock. Yet, as if I’m lying in the river bed, I see a torrent of beautiful clear water coming rushing over the river bed. It has such beauty. The water rushes around following the curves of the dry land yet soon it is overflowing its banks. The clear water splashes over the sides and saturates the dry earth. The land is engulfed by water, its people thirsty for His will.

Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

“Abide in me and thirst no more!” says He in a booming voice as I see His river condemning the cracked dry earth.

I hear in my spirit Him telling us to take command of those gifts which we have been given. Do not let walls contain the gifts which you have received, do not let people contain the gifts which they have received, do not let made-man contain the gifts which he has received. He is coming to remove the river bed by flooding the walls, flooding the people, flooding made-man, to bring about corrected anointing.
That which lay dormant on the river’s edge will now receive and become Holy.

Psalm 105:41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

I awoke this morning with a vision that started last night just as I lay down to try and sleep.  This vision has been heavy on me all night…

I am walking across a green pasture.  Walking with me is a pastor I’ve known for years, he is explaining to me, “when we reach the tent you have to do exactly as I say to enter, you have to  knock in a particular manner to have it open to you…”  Ahead of us is this large white tent with red trim.  It has one peak in the top of it and in the front of it the tent flaps are open but there is a golden wall that I cannot see past, blocking the entrance.  The pastor shows me in the “air” how to knock on the wall and it will be opened to me.  I follow his lead and copy his motions upon the golden wall.  Just as soon as I do the wall disappears and I enter the tent.  The pastor does not and I’m not sure what happened to him as I do not see him again in the vision.  As I enter the tent it was like entering a gold room not a tent at all.  The walls were glowing with gold light, the room was filled with this beautiful warm light.  Ahead of me was a large flame, much taller and wider than I.  Beside it was Jesus, waving me over to the flame.  He was dressed in beautiful white robes that had blue stripes around the edge with gold trim.  Though the room was gold and glowing with warm light the flame before me was this huge white flame, I was nervous but he waved me over to stand in front of it.  I bowed down and He said to stand and face to see the gifts before me.  

Out of the flames stepped two individuals.  They stepped out as black shadows from this white light.  As they stepped out the one to the left was Enoch and the one to the right was Elijah.  Enoch was in drab garments, a bit tattered and worn and he held out in front of him a small dark wood box with a dome lid.  The hinges and adornments were beautifully tailored out of brass.  He held the box out to me and I undid the latch and opened the lid.  Inside was lined in beautiful red and in the box was a tiny scroll, about the length of my hand.  It was gold on each end.  I picked it up and opened this scroll to read it.  The scroll had red and gold stripes running down either side of it and the writing was in some darkened red/brownish colour.  It said,

“Christ,  Oh Lord, cometh with me and share the fruits of your throne.  Bear with me witness to Gods Love.  Fury not will fill This House.  Celebrate the Valley of the Church forever and ever.  Amen.  Your doctrine will succeed all of which rises and falls from day to night to day again.  Christ, Oh Lord, cometh with me and share the fruits of your throne.  Bear with me witness to Gods Love.  Fury not will fill This House.  Celebrate the Valley of the Church forever and ever.  Amen.  Your doctrine will succeed all of which rises and falls from day to night to day again.  Christ, Oh Lord, cometh with me and share the fruits of your throne.  Bear with me witness to Gods Love.  Fury not will fill This House.  Celebrate the Valley of the Church forever and ever.  Amen.  Your doctrine will succeed all of which rises and falls from day to night to day again.  Christ, Oh Lord, cometh with me and share the fruits of your throne.  Bear with me witness to Gods Love.  Fury not will fill This House.  Celebrate the Valley of the Church forever and ever.  Amen.  Your doctrine will succeed all of which rises and falls from day to night to day again.Christ, Oh Lord, cometh with me and share the fruits of your throne.  Bear with me witness to Gods Love.  Fury not will fill This House.  Celebrate the Valley of the Church forever and ever.  Amen.  Your doctrine will succeed all of which rises and falls from day to night to day again.”

…it read this way, repeating on and on about the length of my arm.  

Elijah stood there with beautiful white robes and blue trim and he held a staff in his right hand.  He too had a box but it was not adorned in such a beautiful way but rather it was a plain dark wood box, crudely constructed and it was already open in his hands.  Inside was a beautiful gold piece of wood.  -As if a mid-section of branch was cut and placed into the box and made to gold.  Yet as I reached in to grab this second gift and remove it from the box it turned to wood in my hand.  Elijah held his staff out at me and I saw it was from the bottom of his staff this wood was cut.

Early this morning I awoke and as I made my way outside to run errands before I was to attend electric church at New Covenant Church Atlanta (that’s live church via the internet!) I noticed the sky full of angels.  Now these weren’t just swirls of humanoid forms filling the sky no but Holy Angels instead.  The sky was filled with small grey clouds, all uniform, and beyond them bright white light.  The contrast was beautiful; the grey against the bright white.  As I stood staring at it for a moment I felt His presence, warming me, tingling my entire feelings throughout my body.  I smiled in response to His touch.  As I felt this warmth I noticed the clouds become shapelier and familiar…God’s Angels were amassed all over the sky!  As I got into my car I heard Him say, “Get to church today.”  

So I ran my errands and got home just in time to enjoy my electric church via online.  The particular sermon I watched was from today, 11/20/11, you can view it here:

http://www.newcovenantatlanta.com/NCCAtv.html

During the first part of service the congregation was singing and during the last song before the sermon actually began…I noticed something amazing.  The air was filled with flutter and light.  I was listening to the singing but was now seeing angels with beautiful wings flying around the heads of the music  staff and setting down right in front of them as if children listening to a grande story.  As I continued to watch the video, at one pointe the congregation held hands with one another and the angels all knelt and bowed their heads as I could see blue light glowing in each coupled pair of hands.  This brilliant light stayed as long as the hands were held.  It was brilliant, electric.

The hand of God is so heavy and instrumental in the New Covenant Church of Atlanta I would encourage everyone to watch this sermon…or any sermon given through NCCA to experience for yourself the amazing presence of God.  

Nothing replaces a church full of people experiencing God together but if all you have is electric church it is no less blessed!  Thank you God!

There is a vision I have had repeating today.

I am in white clothes, maybe robes it is hard to tell but they flow around me as if perhaps robes.  Before me is a billowing white cloth, like a tunnel.  Did your parents ever hang the sheets to dry outside during a warm sunny day with a gentle breeze swaying them?  Then when your parents left you ran outside to run between and under the sheets?  They were like tunnels to me as a child.  This is similar to what I see before me yet still the tunnels walls and ceiling are made up of this cloth, light linen cloth that billows and balloons up and down, in and out with the wind.  It is very peaceful and calm as I suddenly feel an urge to run through this cloth tunnel as I had when I was a child through the clothes line.  I can make out images through the cloth, on the other side as I’m running to find the end.  I can see mountain peaks, some forests yet as I run I notice the cloth beneath me has split and I’m now running barefooted on bright green grass.  It is cool to the touch and feels so soft under my feet.  The tunnel starts being blown from side to side in a gentle sway and so as I run I have to constantly adjust my stride and be ready to turn with the tunnel to follow it lest I run into the wall.  As it so happened at several points I did not turn in time and ran into the soft linen sides of this tunnel and once I looked up and could make out the beautiful sun being filtered in through this loose linen.  The breeze is outside but not inside the tunnel, running, laughing now with the end of this tunnel in sight I see the end, a tiny hole of green coming at me quickly.  I rush out of the tunnel and I am standing in the familiar valley.  It is beautiful all around me.

I notice the crisp blue sky, the lush green grass that surrounds my feet and the beautiful mountains all around me.  Standing before me is a male angel.  He is holding a beautiful gold box of an odd shape.  He is dressed in white robes with blue trim, very tall, as if I myself am a child this entire time.  In his hands is cradled this long box, it is not very wide or thick but it is rectangular.  It is beautiful shiny gold.  As he bends down to hand me this box I notice the little white church behind him standing there, glowing so white it is almost blinding.  The angel smiles at me, hands me this box, and says, “You have made it through the Bride’s veil and here is your reward.”  I grab the golden box, unlatch the latch and inside it is a scroll.  I unroll the ornate scroll and upon it is written with black and red ink,

Dear Christ,

Oh, my brother where have you been, I have not found you on the countertops or the floor, not behind the cookie jar, not behind the toaster, my mom says you can see me in the closet if I hide there and she says you are in everything around me but I do not find you anywhere.  She says you are in the trees around the house where we play hide-and-seek, but I never find you there.

As I look up at this angel He says it is a reminder of how you once sought so hard to find God.  He saw you through the window looking into your backyard, past the stone wall and into the woods and you thought you saw Him too.  You ran outside and spent the day seeking Him just at the age of 8.

That is the end of the vision.

Now as a young child my mother did in fact tell me that God is everywhere, in everything, and can see me even if I hid under the covers or in the closet.  I was probably about 8 or 9 when I was going through the house after she told me this, looking for Him everywhere, in the kitchen, under my bed, even in the closet.  And as I sat on the couch looking out in the backyard I thought I did see Him behind a pine tree in the woods.  So ran out quickly thinking I’d finally catch Him.  I spent hours in those woods looking behind every tree, calling for Him, and I never found Him behind one of those trees.

I’m not quite sure of the entire significance of this vision but clearly those actions at such a young age are immature for today but the concepts are not.  I’m still seeking Him in everything I do.

Do you remember your First Love and what actions you took to find Him?

This morning I had a vision:

There was a big tree with low branches, the branches were unruly and somewhat homely but a full tree it was with leaves and limb.  Beneath these branches were two people, a man and a woman.  They stood flocked with branches and leaves but otherwise were not clothed.  Wrapped around this tree trunk was a black snake, the serpent, talking with them. 

 Beside them was this beautiful tree, well groomed.  In front of this tree stood a man and a woman, both dressed in business suits with briefcases walking out from the tree.  Wrapped around the trunk of this tree was a snake, a serpent, the same colour as the tree bark itself.  It did not speak at all but as it moved the man and woman quickly turned to follow it. 

That vision ended and I quickly saw a word, a VERY large word covering my vision…

 RESTORATION 

I saw both trees, of life and knowledge, in my vision.  The serpent is working hard on leading people away from Him. 

The Spirit tells me that the tree of life is being restored do not walk away from it!

The serpent will work on leading you astray, not by simply talking to you but by mimicking that which you seek, a copy but it will not be authentic.  I see pastors and deacons and other leaders in church ministry canceling flights to evangelize, cancelling reservations because they’re tired, leaving services, avoiding calls, and taking aim at people rather than aiming for the Word that comforts.  It is not the congregation itself that will be led first but who will follow those led away from the tree of life.  I see “WARNING” –  the serpent will only lead you further from righteousness and knowledge and life. 

Those Hungry will find Fruit and ward off the serpent.

I’m praying for all those in ministry today and I ask you to pray along with me. 

I’ve had a vision the last couple days that has been but a flash in my eyes and I’ve not been able to rest upon it and pray about it as much as I’d like until He caught me this morning.  

The vision was of a green valley.  There was in the center of this valley a white river flowing.  I followed this meandering river back to where it came from and realized there was a white church that was spewing forth this river, right from it’s doors.  That was the vision I’d been receiving (well this particular vision anyway).  Sometimes I receive too many visions at once, like He’s showing me different parts of different movies all at once.  

So this morning I was awake at an early hour and sure enough this same vision cast again in my sight.  So at that very moment I prayed for Him to let me see what He wants me to see right then and there.  And He did.

I saw this white river flowing in a valley and I again followed it up to the door of this beautiful white, glowing, church.  The doors were open and inside the church was empty save for the pastor.  He was smiling and standing at the door waving at the people.  Inside the church was all white except the pews were a dark wood, they looked pristine and brand new.  Where are the people you ask?  The river I saw in the valley was made up of people that were flowing out into the valley.  The mass of people were all holding onto this white sheet.  The sheet was unbroken but all had hold of it over their heads as they moved out of the church and into the valley like a river.  That was the end of my vision.

He told me that this represents the Bridal Veil over them as they go out into the community.  His people out of the church represent Living Water, flowing like a river.  That this can be looked at in two ways: that the main body of believers in Him are pouring out, going forth into the land.  The pews are beautiful and shiny because they are not used.  The other way this is meant is that the smallest church, in the furthest reaches, has as much Living Water in it as the larger congregation.  -Do not take being left in a corner of the world as being “out of touch” with His grace and mercy and practice.  A church of one can overcome as much as a church of many.

I feel strongly this is a continuation of visions recently past and of things to come.

Proverbs 24:13-14  [13] My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: [14] So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

  I went for a run today, as I often do, and something unexpected happened.  I had a jogging partner for the first time ever.  As soon as I opened the door it was sunny and I was excited about the sun, it was warm and inviting and just made me want to run even more.  As soon as I got across the street to start my run I noticed the clouds moving in.  I went along my route anyway.  I had my ipod going full blast and just as I turned the first street I noticed the clouds going crazy in the sky and they started speaking to me!  Immediately I felt my body trembling and I could not help but smile and almost laugh as I jogged on by all sorts of cars and people.   Every song on my ipod seemed to have something to do with Him, and I don’t even have the songs memorized or anything they just play but every song had lyrics that jumped out at me though I’ve heard the songs before.  The Holy Spirit spoke and told me, “Church is coming to Lowell.”  I looked up and I saw the clouds moving frantically around as this same sentence was repeated, “Church is coming to Lowell.”  As loud as my ipod was I could hear this booming voice drowning it out completely.  I started wondering what could that mean?  I didn’t even speak what I thought just then but He answered me with a vision.  The clouds will be settling in while their work (His work) is being done.  It will be for a short time but it will change the very people beneath it.  Signs and Wonders will become clear to many in the area and where this Holy Cloud moves will affect the next area as well in the same way.  Many areas will be affected and thousands of people will have life changing experiences.  The cloud represented His Blood and Fire.  We need to live by Blood and Fire to quench the thirst of the Spirit Man.  I had planned to run for a short time but instead We ran for MUCH longer than I had planned and I never wanted to stop.  I never ran out of water, though I should have, and I never ran out of breath but I should have.  He supplied all my needs.  While we shared for the ENTIRE run,  much of it for my own personal journey, I just wanted to share this bit with you. 

  So what does any of this have to do with a carrot you ask? 

  Two Brothers in Christ, Dale T. and Bobby C. have inspired me greatly.  Both men of God.  One has overcome  a lot in his life and continues to reach out to people and to God through it all.  The other always kindly reminds us to work on bettering ourselves physically, to better do His work and allow Him to do His work in us.  I prayed for them today because the Spirit told me to. I initially was not going to run today but I had because those two had inspired and motivated me so much.  God brought two strangers to motivate me and ultimately to experience His presence in a completely new way.  Had I not ran and sat at home instead I would have missed the opportunity to hear from Him in such a way.  My carrot was to try and not be lazy today when I started out running this morning.  However my carrot quickly changed to being closer to Him and experiencing Him in a whole new way…and I got the carrot!

  What’s your carrot?