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1. Wendy February 1st, 2008 7:51 pm

   This is awesome! God is so awesome! There isn’t anything better than being one with him. Let his will be done on earth as it is in Heaven!! Let us be consumed with him and shine forth brightly into the darkness. Glory to God!!

   Many Blessings

2. Denise February 2nd, 2008 4:59 am

   Dear JohnPaul: I just wanted to take a moment to tell you how exactly true your comments are on the Spirit and the spirit man.
   I am a widow of 11 yrs. The Lord visited me when my husband died and to briefly state as much as possible: He visited me for a year— performed a huge financial miracle, gave me an anointing to prosper, sat me under KCM to become partakers of Kenneth’s annointing; gave me 3 dreams and spoke audibly about my destiny one time. He also put me to sleep once, the following yr, to give me partial understanding of 1 dream thru a Q & A of 3 questions.
   Much later in the 2nd year after my husband died, while praying about my purpose and His plans for me, unknowingly, a demonic presence came into the room and responded to me. I didn’t have a clue whatsoever…and so I responded. It remained dormant for yrs–until Nov, 2004, because it’s agenda was to discover the purpose in the Lord’s visitation and huge financial miracle He performed, what the annointing was for financially …along with His fortelling me the end from the beginning for my life (without the details in the middle.) The only way I knew it was finally there was from my prayer language; strange things started to happen. Because of one of the dreams the Lord had given me, I was able to ask Him why what was going on in my life was not that of what I had seen years before. It was then that He exposed the presence that had gained entrance into my soul (mind, will and emotions.) Although I was glad to repent for my ignorance I also began facing something I surely did not think would ever have happened to me. But, the Lord is greater…far..exceedingly.

   My point of this blog is to tell you that the Spirit of the Lord speaking into your spirit man through the RHEMA of God by His written word is bigger and more powerful than anything hell can throw at you, including a demon. Yes, they are real and they do have spiritual power…but even in its greatest endeavor to duplicate spiritual rhema from the Word, or any other experience one might have, there is always something missing, something is “off”. It has tried for 3 1/2 yrs to duplicate what the Spirit of God does and did (prior to) with my own spirit…and it cannot.
   Right before I discovered all this, one winter up here in N.E. I had an “impression” to get water. I thought my pipes would freeze and the Lord was taking care of me by telling me to get prepared. So I started to buy gallons of water. Then on a subsequent trip to the store I had an impression of “no”..so I simply stopped. And I forgot all about it.
   Your spirit man is crucial to hearing God, because at some point down the road whatever He has said to you will make sense. AFTER I found out there was a demonic presence, I began getting rhema from the written Word as the Lord carried me through this.
   I still didn’t know what water meant. I had forgotten about it. Then while filling up a basin in my kitchen I had the thought, “get water”… The Lord brought it back to my memory. I kept thinking that He was going to rebaptize me in the Holy Spirit, or that I would get my prayer language back. That is the direction I was headed towards until another December came and as I heard and watched a minister on TV preaching the Gospel, make the statement, “.. the water of the Word of God..” INSTANTLY I had a “knowing” in my heart of what the Lord had meant all along. He knew the day was coming.. He knew trouble was coming…He knew there would not be many ways He could speak to me— as in fellowship, communion on a normal basis that wouldn’t be highly contested (as being truth) under the circumstances:

   But the Word remains forever ! And His Spirit remains forever in the believer! Our spirit is the candle of the Lord. That is where we get our information from. The soul, (mind, will and emotions) simply “interpret,” or put “words to” what God has just impressed upon us. Generally speaking, it is not the means the Lord directly speaks to us—-for very, very obvious reasons.
   The 3 dreams, the “water” of the Word, all that the Lord did beforehand— before the weapon was formed— is what has sustained me–and is what will ultimately deliver me.

   Psalm 60: 4,5 was given to me on 8/2/07 I have been blessed with more favor in more ways than I can share…on a regular basis…it is a ‘banner’; a spiritual signal in the unseen, but very real world we live in– that I am marked for deliverance and no weapon, no matter where it is, formed against me can succeed: right in its face!! It is always by His Spirit to our spirit. That is the main point of this blog. The logos is essential, but your spirit is where He lives and from where He speaks. When it starts from there…….you can take that Word to the bank.
   Nothing is greater than He who is in you…..nothing.. Love to you JohnPaul and anyone who is blessed by this testimony.

3. renea February 2nd, 2008 9:23 am

   So many times i have heard many people say that Our thoughts are not his thoughs and his ways are not our ways ( old test ) but didn’t jesus come to join us back together with our father in oneness of spirit ? The bible says we have the mind of Christ. Not we as in ourselfs but our spirits when we tapp into his spirit which dwells deeply inside of us ? I don’t think theres 2 much of anything that is more wonderful than to have God himself live and commuicate ( i know i spelled it wrong ) with us. Don’tcha just LOVE our daddy. Much love in Christ ! “`renea

4. Dennis Preston February 2nd, 2008 10:13 am

   John Paul,

   Okay, I’m feeling like a spiritual Sargeant Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes - I know nothing! It’s mind-boggling for me to think that I can/have gone down a certain path for so long, thinking it’s spiritual. It’s almost like the times I have stumbled into spirituality are almost just an accident, and not because of any intentional effort. I wonder if that’s because the Lord wants me to know that it’s of Him and not of me, otherwise I might take credit? That I can’t make it happen?

   Blessings to you and thank you for the help and encouragement. Thanks especially for your work on dreams, I’m listening now to your 3-CD set.

   Dennis

5. David In Louisiana February 2nd, 2008 11:07 am

   I feel like I am in the School of Holy Spirit!

   I love this blog.

   I also believe that breakthrough is coming (like a crashing wave) where we will have greater understanding of Him and who He is for each of us.

   Oh how I love Jesus, because He first loved me!

   God bless
   David

6. Mike in OHIO February 2nd, 2008 11:08 am

   So the Holy Spirit communes with “our spirit” by Natural Osmosis (i.e., from High to Low concentration) but also the Holy Spirit to our spirit and our soul (mind, will, emotion) via transfusion (which is not natural) by His Word transforming our thoughts within our mind to His (i.e., photosynthesis where the light and carbon dioxide meet to create food); which assumes we actively seek His Will thru His Word to transfuse our soul(2 Tim 3:15-17.

   4-HIM Mike

7. Emily February 2nd, 2008 10:58 pm

   Thank you for sharing life and freedom about true, pure, life giving Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a great comfort for me to know freedom that is only found in Him.

8. Will February 2nd, 2008 10:59 pm

   I like this:: “Spirit to spirit understanding has little to do with the mind in so much as the mind cannot make us spiritual. If it could revival would have begun in the seminaries hundreds of years ago.”

   Hahahah that is sooo true. In fact, I have come to learn that God doesn’t even want revival, at first I Was shocked to learn that man wants revival, but that GOd wants us to live in complete and total habitation of heaven on earth every day forever and not in special waves like much of the church taught me. I was offended at it, bothered, but knew that if God was telling me it that it was surely true. Then over time when God changed my thinking about it I realized how chasing after revival was like chasing after hte acknowledgement that something in me was dead. Because only something that is dead needs revived. oi. gross realizations.

   I like to think of my mind as a radio. Depending on what station I am tuning in to, will determine what processes flow out of my natural body or my ’speakers.’ if I tune into the frequencies of heaven (which is a more literal statement than what some may realize) than I am picking up on a higher, more pure sound. If my dial has dialed into the thinking of man or philosphy/theology, then I am tuning into a middle road frequency. If i tune into darkness, well then i just get distorted outcomes.

   first AM radio, then FM radio, then digital, the more we move closer to the LIGHT and its frequencies, the purer the sound….

9. Ginger February 3rd, 2008 12:12 pm

   I’ve often wondered if I am indeed communicating with other believers by spirit when we sleep. I’ve had conversations with Pastors and wake up wondering if we really had the conversation or if it was just something God wanted me to know. You have to ask yourself, what is the purpose for this and what am I to do with this information– if anything.

   When reading your blog, I remembered one particular time in which there was a “knowing” in a dream. In all strangeness to me, God used a popular hispanic singer to show me just how much God loves me. He didn’t say one word– just looked at me. It was in a way that I couldn’t humanly describe. It could only be understood through ones spirit. It was like something was piercing my heart and the look on his face and in his eyes was like a longing for me…. When I woke up, I could see a glimse of the depth of just how much God’s love is for us….. just amazing.

   I was once told awhile back that Japanese people who are in love traditionally do not tell each “I love you”. Rather, they just look deep into one anothers eyes and “know”. If we could just look into the spiritual eyes of God everyday and “know” His love for us….What a bride we will become!

10. Nina February 3rd, 2008 10:30 pm

    So glad to be back. I just came back from a conference in Austin, TX. I needed to get away to receive from God, I have two small children and I felt the need to be fed instead of feed. I quit smoking on Thursday b/c I know I need to and I want to. So, I felt the Presence so strong and felt so full of light. I could feel the Spirit surging through me and I just really felt connected to the Source and well….YEAH GOD!!! So now I am sitting here at home and I want to smoke again. I am one messed up girl because I do not want to give in to my flesh and know that I must resist, but I feel like my bigger battle is the fact that I think if I do smoke that God won’t love me as much, will be mad at me, or can’t use me. I need the Father’s will to be done in me as it is in Heaven.

11. David from Louisiana February 4th, 2008 9:27 am

    JP, cannot find the scripture reference, help!

    Your quote

    There is a point in which God’s Spirit actually joins us to Him, and in this joining we become one with God (Acts 6:17).

12. Robert Winkler Burke February 4th, 2008 11:46 am

    Consider, if you will, the three X-Men movies. Mutants have greater powers, ditto TV taught Christians. Magneto panders to the mutant’s self-ish desiers: “You are a god among men!” Christian TV viewers are pandered to with fear (rapture/dispensation), greed (prosperity give-to-get) and giddiness (rainbow prophecy or huzzah self-improvement.) Xavier bolstier’s each mutant’s inner best to have victory over the inner worst. Magneto does the opposite. Each leader vies for the coming mutants, whose powers are above regular humans. Ditto for Christianity. Magneto believes his plan is best, but he is clearly self-seeking (self on the throne.) Magneto’s followers are deluded. Xavier’s X-men (actually, men of the cross, Christians) wear leather (showing sacrifice) and then perform selflessly (Wolverine always sacrifices himself but is ressurected.) The battle is ongoing. Xaavier welcomes friendship with the misguided Magneto (who has a false, magnetic personality. His is a personality cult, actually.) John Paul, here in this blogosphere, is like Xavier. Trying to understand his higher consciousness, as he (I assume) is watching the multitudes of higher consciense Christians (higher evolved by mutation beings) now deceived by the Elmer Gantry/Magneto televangelists who pander nothing so much but self-on-the-throne. Into this crazy mess we bravely try to sort out deception (always doctrine-based) and truth (always doctrine-based.) But Magneto/Elmer Gantry/telvangelists have a trump card. It is: Don’t discuss or fix the root problem: DOCTRINE! But Xavier, being the leader, thoroughly knows doctrine. His school for the gifted is entirely about doctrine and teaching the gifted the REAL lay of the land, not the Elmer Gantry gospiel. (Hope this helps!)

13. Tom Zawacki February 9th, 2008 4:12 pm

    I am loving this blog, preach it John Paul!

    You might find this interesting, there is a great Greek word translated “knowledge” in Ephesians 4:13

    “…until we all reach unity in the faith and in the KNOWLEDGE of the Son of God…”

    The Greek word is epignosis it’s made up of two words

    EPI meaning “by”
    GINOSKO meaning “A Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman”

    The knowledge of the Son of God we are to reach for is a knowledge that comes by experience, by intimate experience.

    I for one am no longer content to live an intellectual and academic faith only. I want to experience God and know Him intimately.

    Z

14. Kristin February 10th, 2008 9:46 pm

    Thank you, sir! I’m thoroughly enjoying your blog — growing and stretching. Your spiritual points on transformation are incredibly wise — Posted them on the ‘fridge! God bless you –

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