MIRACLE WAITING BY LANA VAWSER

THERE IS A MIRACLE WAITING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HURDLE OF OFFENSE

Lana Vawser

www.lanavawser.com

As I sat with the Lord over the past few days He showed me a particular issue that He is raising in many hearts in this season, and it was the issue of offense. He was showing me many struggling in heart over the "questions" that haven't been answered. The questions of this season that have been birthed out of a 'long wait' and 'not understanding'. Out of disappointment and unmet expectations. The Holy Spirit is moving powerfully revealing offense that has crept into many hearts towards Him and towards others. I felt the heart of a good Father moving in love, exposing hearts, to bring healing and to teach His people how to live unoffendable. How to live in greater depths of revelation of His love and greater trust in Him and His timing. 

I felt the Lord saying that in this season we as His people are to echo the prayer of David in Psalm 139:23-24

"God, I invite Your searching gaze into my heart, examine me, find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test, and sift through all my anxious cares. See if there is any path of pain I'm walking on, and lead me back to Your glorious, everlasting ways - The Path that brings me back to You" (The Passion Translation)

I believe the Lord is asking for our "permission" for His searching gaze to examine our hearts, to test us and sift through our hearts and anxious cares and deliver us from any paths we are walking on. The Lord is not asking us to be "navel gazers" or to become "introspective' but I believe the Lord is looking for the permission for Him to go deeper into our hearts in this season to bring out anything that's in there that is not leading us in His everlasting ways. He is purging and sifting to bring the best, unique, beautiful, healed, whole you FORWARD to step into your next DIVINE OPPORTUNITY.

The Lord showed me that offense is hindering many. It's hindering many from the DIVINE OPPORTUNITY that's waiting for them on the other side of the offense. There is a miracle waiting on the other side of the offense. 

The Lord is not revealing the issue of offense to bring condemnation or shame, this is not of the Lord. The Lord is revealing it because He wants to LEAD YOU in healing. He wants to teach you to live unoffendable. "To be easily offended is immature love". (Danny Silk) The Lord is taking His people DEEPER into the revelation of His love. 

He wants to show you at a deeper level what a GOOD FATHER He is even when things are going on that you don't understand. He is not angry at you for struggling with offense, He wants to wrap His arms around you, and walk with you and bring you to the place of letting go.

Bill Johnson says: "Offense is sometimes the invitation from God for the very breakthrough you have been crying out for... Want to know how to keep an offence? Just rehearse what went wrong. Want to know why an offense hurt so much? Because you replayed it over and over in your head." 

The Lord is positioning His people as they give Him their YES IN the offense and not let the offense they are feeling to stop them from pressing deeper into Him. The Lord is going to encounter His people and BREAK the spirit of offense that has kept many bound and many will see SUDDEN openings of new DIVINE OPPORTUNITIES.

God will sometimes offend our minds to reveal our hearts (Bill Johnson) and to bring transformation, healing and a change of thinking. 

John Wimber said "When God offends our minds he knows that the righteous will patiently seek him for understanding regarding the circumstances that created the offense. "

Don't let offense stop you. Allow Him to embrace you, soothe you, as you move forward in repentance, great freedom awaits you. Offense is hindering clarity, it's affecting decision making, it's producing fruit in your life that is not God's heart for you. The enemy is looking for areas of offense in the hearts of God's people to bring a 'disconnect', to bring you to a place of withdrawal, a place of "sitting on the fence" when the Lord has declared a divine breakthrough, shift and 'taking new territory' over you in this season and offense has become the block, the hurdle you must jump over to get to it. 

He will set you free and bring healing to you, give Him your YES to help you deal with it and bring restoration to you. There is a great move of His Spirit happening right now in the body of Christ, where the Lord is restoring purity. Be encouraged, if issues of the heart are coming up, it's for you to be healed, and move into your next divine opportunity.

Don't allow the enemy to condemn you in offense, offer the Lord your YES to examine, test and try your heart and watch and see what He is going to do. Watch the healing, restoration, breakthrough and freedom blossom. Watch how He is going to position you into your next DIVINE OPPORTUNITY and you will look back and see that offense was attempting to keep you from this very next divine opportunity before you.

Spirit of Sonship

Do you have an orphan spirit or a spirit of sonship? Here are 11 ways to find out.

Ever since Adam and Eve were alienated from God the Father in the Garden of Eden, an orphan spirit has permeated the earth, causing untold damage! (By “orphan,” I am referring to a sense of abandonment, loneliness, alienation and isolation.) Almost immediately after the fall in Eden, the fruit of this orphan spirit resulted in jealousy, culminating in Cain murdering his brother Abel because God the Father didn’t receive Cain’s offering. To make matters worse, in contemporary society, with the breakup of the nuclear family, large amounts of people are not only alienated from God but are brought up without the loving care and security of their biological fathers.

I believe all of the emotional, physical and spiritual ills of society can be traced to humans feeling alienated from God and their biological fathers. Orphaned men have a hard time connecting to their spouses, their children, those in spiritual authority and their supervisors, and they have a hard time accepting and loving themselves. There are presently millions of incarcerated men who are acting out lives of violence and rebellion because their earthly fathers abandoned them. There are churches filled with pastors and leaders who use people and destroy relationships because they are driven to succeed, and it’s due to their need for a father’s affirmation—which is a hole too large for ministry success or performance to fill.

The only way to break this orphan spirit is for people to be filled with a sense of the Father’s love for them in Christ, which then enables them to become mature sons who serve God out of knowledge of His undeserved grace instead of trying to earn the Father’s love through performance.

The orphan spirit is perhaps the greatest curse on the earth today. It will take spiritual parents with great spiritual depth and authority to break and reverse this curse to perpetuate a generational blessing. Only when a person is healed of fatherlessness through the love of God is theorphan spirit broken so they can begin the process of entering mature sonship. Sonship is so important that all creation is presently crying out for the manifestation of the mature sons of God (Rom. 8:19)!

The following 11 traits contrast the orphan spirit from the spirit of sonship:

1. The orphan spirit operates out of insecurity and jealousy. The spirit of sonship functions out of love and acceptance.

Those with an orphan spirit are constantly battling jealousy and insecurity, since security originates in a secure relationship with our parents. Those with an orphan spirit are so insecure, they even have a hard time hearing a biological or spiritual father praise their siblings or co-laborers. But those with the spirit of sonship are so secure in the Father’s love and favor that they’re content to serve in any capacity needed, whether or not they are in charge or celebrated in the process.

2. The orphan spirit is jealous of the success of his brothers. The mature son is committed to the success of his brothers.

Those with an orphan spirit are happy when their brother fails because it makes them feel good about themselves. On the other hand, those with the spirit of sonship joyfully commit themselves to serve, celebrate and help their brothers succeed, since they don’t work for human accolades but out of a deep sense of the love and affirmation of Father God.

3. The orphan spirit serves God to earn the Father’s love. The mature son serves God out of a sense of divine acceptance and favor.

Along these lines, those with an orphan spirit are constantly striving and trying to earn the Father’s love through accomplishment in ministry or career. Those with a spirit of sonship already know they are accepted in Christ and serve others out of the abundance of this acceptance.

4. The orphan spirit tries to medicate its deep internal alienation through physical stimulation. The mature son walks in the joy and presence of the Lord for comfort.

Those with an orphan spirit are constantly trying to push down their sense of alienation, loneliness and lack of self-worth through constant work, going from one relationship to the next, physical gratification and a life of narcissism and self-indulgence. However, the more they indulge, the more addicted they become and the larger the hole in their heart becomes because only the love of the Father can fill the deep emotional needs they have.

Those walking in sonship bask in the presence and love of God and practice the joy of the Lord continually as their source of strength because they understand that grounding their security and self-life in anything other than God is like trying to build a house on sinking sand.

5. The orphan spirit is driven by the need for success. The Spirit leads the mature son into his calling and mission.

Many attempt to accomplish great things to satisfy the deep yearning in their hearts for their father’s approval. This results in them being driven to succeed instead of being led by the Spirit. Even many leaders get their churches into huge debt to build huge buildings, driving the people around them because they are blinded by their own innate feelings of inadequacy. They think they can feel good about themselves with great accomplishments.

Only those with a strong sense of sonship will allow the Lord to direct them and bring opportunities to them without trying to drum up their own success.

6. The orphan spirit uses people as objects to fulfill goals. Mature sons serve people to bless the kingdom.

Those with an orphan spirit tend to use people as objects to accomplish their goals. Whenever we objectify people, we manipulate them with words threats, and anything necessary to have our way and control them. Mature people who walk in sonship don’t use people; they serve and release people to fulfill their destiny in Christ.

7. The orphan spirit repels children. The spirit of sonship attracts children.

Leaders and parents with an orphan spirit are constantly in turmoil, fighting and striving for their own way, which gives their spiritual children the sense that their leader is in competition with them instead of loving them. This results in repelling spiritual and biological children, which can forfeit influence over the next generation! Those who walk in sonship walk in the Father’s anointing and draw children toward them because their children hear the voice of a shepherd who cares for them.

8. The orphan spirit has anger and fits of rage. The spirit of sonship rests in the Father’s ability to control and guide the future.

Those with an orphan spirit have issues with uncontrollable anger, fits of rage and other forms of manipulation because they feel they must control others and their circumstances in order to fulfill their goals. This is because they lack the trust necessary in their heavenly Father to guide and control their future.

Those walking in sonship walk in the Father’s rest and have ceased from their own works so the Father can have His way in their lives.

9. The orphan spirit is always in competition with others. The spirit of sonship is always blessing others.

Those with an orphan spirit are always trying to outdo others in their church, family, business or denomination because they receive their identity through being better than everyone else. Those who walk in sonship are constantly seeing how they can bless others, since they already have the affirmation of God in their souls. They want to freely share His love with others.

10. The orphan spirit lacks self-esteem. The spirit of sonship walks in the love and acceptance of Father God.

Those with an orphan spirit have a hard time loving and accepting themselves. Those walking in sonship are filled with a sense of divine love and acceptance that enables them to walk confidently in the joy of the Lord in spite of the fact that all humans are sinners and fall short of the glory of God.

11. The orphan spirit receives its primary identity through material possessions, physical appearance and activities. The spirit ofsonship is grounded in sonship and the Father’s affirmation.

Those with an orphan spirit never have enough career success, material possessions, pleasure or illicit relationships to satisfy the hole in their heart related to their identity. Consequently, they are constantly striving to gain satisfaction through the use of various things or people in their lives. In many cases, even their form of dress—including an inordinate amount of tattoos, skin piercings and hairdos—can be their way of standing out as unique in a cry for attention due to a lack of self-esteem and fatherly affirmation.

Those who walk in sonship are so grounded in their divine Father’s affirmation that they can be satisfied serving in the background and can celebrate the success and attention others receive. The void in their soul has already been filled with the unconditional love of the Father.

In conclusion, the greatest gift known to humankind is to accept, receive and walk in the love of the Father, who so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that we may not perish or waste our lives away but experience the abundant life that only our divine Father can give.

This article originally appeared on JosephMattera.org.

Joseph Mattera has been in full-time ministry since 1980 and is currently the presiding bishop of Christ Covenant Coalition and the overseeingbBishop of Resurrection Church in New York, a multiethnic congregation of 40 nationalities. He has hosted his own radio show, Light Your City, and a weekly cable television program, The Ekklesia. He is the author of four theological books on the kingdom of God, entitledRuling in the Gates (2003), Kingdom Revolution (2009), Kingdom Awakening (2010) and Walk in Generational Blessings (2012).

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TRANSLUCENT

My faithful tried and true Gold Vessels will be translucent.

They will carry my fiery anointing to take to the nations.

They will be far removed from anything you have ever known.

All though I will male them known throughout the land.

They may seem within reach but they are from me.

Not to be considered common or moveable.

They will radiate with the Love of my Father and smell like perfume when they enter the room.

They will at times be unrecognizable.

I will foreshadow them to keep them safe.

They are my secret weapons.

When they come into view they will be completely translucent.

Almost seeming unreal or not of this world.

Do not consider them of this world.

They have been formed in secret in the womb of Love.

No man will take credit.

They will represent Me.

They will be Kingdom authority and bearer’s of my word.

They will carry swords that are meant for all.

They will go with my message to the nations.

They will diffuse my Glory.

They will be light bearers, message carriers and builder’s of my Kingdom.

They will be held in high regard and represent me.

They will carry the image of my Father.

And bear the marks of their molding and forming.

They went like sheep to the slaughter.

Silently.

For I will vindicate them and display them.

I will send them to the ends of the earth.

They will establish my Kingdom here on the earth.

My hand will be all over them.

Make no mistake.

Man had no part in them. 

They are wholly sold out to me.

There will be no place on earth untouched by them.

They will leave their mark for all to see.

Watch for they will be My sons and daughters.

Love Letter to the Fatherless Generation by Sharon Luzzi

April 10 , 2013

To the Fatherless Generation who I have My Mighty Hand on.


Your place in History is a great one.

I had to have a Fatherless generation to put my imprint on..........
My character, My love, My very proof of My love.
A chosen Generation to to bring My Love on the earth
A Generation without the imprint of a human father.

So I could breathe the breath of My life into them.
The DNA of my essence.
My complete person.
All that I have to to impart, You were given to cover the nations.
A Love that is full and complete in Me.
No one can change what I put into you.
No one can claim that it was otherwise.
I will manifest myself in you for all to see.
You had no other training except by Me.
You are formed and molded by Me.
My hand scooped out the areas that were not of Me.
Areas that were left undone, My Mighty hand formed your heart to conform to mine.

Your heart looks like mine.

No malice, no rudeness, not hate, not impatience, not vanity, not self seeking, not evil,
not doubt or fear,not proud, not boastful, not destructive.
Your heart doesn't remember when it has been wronged.
It is pure and has innocence.
My Mighty hand has kept you and protected you.
I have brought you into that place with  Me in perfect Love.

Your heart looks like mine.

This Fatherless generation is mine and no one can have credit.

Man has abandon his relationship with Me.
So I have picked it up in My Great and Radical Grace and Mercy to bridge the gap, the breach of My covenant with man.
I have produced a generation who will smell like Me, look like Me, taste like Me, act like Me,
Love like Me, and show all the kindness to all people like I would.

There will be no mistake who My Fatherless are.

Because they are no longer Fatherless, for I have not abandon them or left them by the wayside.
I have healed them, delivered them and prepared them for the age ahead.
The New Day.......The Reign of My Son.
So once again, My ways of Love will be seen and felt.
Where man has abdicated his role with Me, I have kept My word, of My covenant and picked up where man has laid down his participation in My covenant.
I have raised up Sons and Daughters to reaffirm My covenant and My Love for My people.
I have this Fatherless generation to be My brand, My fiery brand on My Beloved.

They have gone thru more than anyone can bear.

They have suffered greatly for My names sake. Their faith has brought them through.
The crushing they have endured has brought forth the fragrance of My Love.

My Love to be presented to the world.

The crushing wiped out all of themselves and allowed Me to be fully present in them.
You will know them by their Love for each other.
The fragrance of their Love will permeate the world.
They truly are the heart of their Father.

Their absent father's, father's who abandon them, hurt them , who mistreated them,
who they never saw, who left them, who didn't affirm them, who tried to destroy their own flesh and blood, their father's who did every evil thing to them and did not succeed and keeping them from their destiny.

This Fatherless generation has been born with tender hearts toward Me that the enemy has tried to destroy.
The intimacy that is within them the enemy has tried to fill with every sexual sin, tried to destroy any hope of knowing their identity, tried to destroy with all of the death culture, fill their hearts with every kind of lie about who I am.

The lie of self leading to narcissism.
Every lie regarding worship of Me. Every man made part of idol worship.
Every place in a man's heart to be turned elsewhere.

I am coming to bring out all the lies especially about intimacy with Me.
I am raising up those who have overcome.
They will rule and reign with Me.

I will bring them soon to fruition to expose the chains and lies holding back My
Presence.

My Glorious Presence.
My Glory which will permeate the earth, no longer will the physical and the flesh hold back My people.
I will uncover the shame covering up My Glory.
I am calling to those shredded hearts by the enemy to become whole in My presence.
All the pain will lift and the restoration will begin.
My people's hearts will be restored to Me.
Their then will be Fathers connected to Me.

I am stepping up the gap between Myself and My people.
Those who have suffered greatly at the hands of the enemy will have much restored to them.
Restored in such a way that they will be renown.
They will also trusted with My Kingdom.
For they know Me.

For those who have suffered at the hands of the enemy from sexual perversion the call is great......
Your heart was called to carry a large capacity of love to My people.
The enemy stepped into fill it with the wrong information to subdue the Kingdom
with a message of subjection to the FLESH.
You are credited with great ability to carry the Love of My SPIRIT.
Satan has unduly attacked you so as not to be able to produce the Love you were created to carry.
You are overcoming generations of strongholds(lies that we believe) about the outpouring of True Love.
Satan has not succeeded.

For some of you I am finishing your healing and will expedite it in this season.
I will finish you in due season.
I have started the surgery. It will soon finish so the healing can begin.
Your hearts will be ready to bring forth the Love designed to change the world.
Your hearts will know
Your hearts will know for sure that it is Me working in you.
Not something superficial or half way.
It will be a permanent work in your heart
For some of you it will seem a little strange at first but I will make all things clear and distinct.
This will be a defining moment
You will not be foggy anymore
It will come forth with clarity
The Love is designed to bring others thru the same darkness you once knew or experienced.
They will carry their Daddy's heart
His fury will be unopposed in the coming days
Great healings and restoration will come upon the people
Something they have never experienced before.
Their love will far surpass anything that has ever been seen or will ever be seen again.
For they will truly carry their daddy's heart.

This generation will overcome the workings of the flesh and show the overcoming in the Spirit
shown with  HIS GREAT LOVE.


Overcoming the WAYS OF MAN AND THE WORLD.

No More Waiting

December 29, 2011

Greetings,
     Today is a very special day for me as my youngest child, my son is 25 years old today.
When I prayed about getting pregnant with him, I told God I did not want him to be a child like that as from Hezekiah. I wanted God's perfect will.
I was never about gender when asking for my children but always knew he would be a boy.

The most special part is that he was 13 weeks early. A true preemie.
There are more miracles about his birth  and survival than I can describe .
Neither one of us should have lived. I had an extremely rare condition and as a boy he had  all odds against him. Plus many other factors(such as family abandoning me during this very difficult time).

He today has no ill effects from being that premature. And today he himself has gone thru much of life that is so difficult.  He has so much in him that God has done. And like the word God gave me last night , there is NO MORE WAITING.

NO MORE WAITING

12-28-2011
I am pouring out my spirit like a flood.
It will not and can not be contained.
Can you hear it?
Can you hear the rain?
Come, it can not be contained.
Stand and watch what I will do.
It will be soon filling up the earth.
Uncontainable.
With it brings  peace , harmony, joy,judgement.
It will not be disguised.
It will flow freely and fully.
It is crystal clear, the River of Life.
Just like from the throne of heaven.
It will be given freely and satisfy all who drink from it.
All who are thirsty come and drink.
It is life everlasting.
Come stand in the showers of my Love.
Come deep within you shall draw from the wells of salvation.
Come and Drink.
You shall be fully satisfied.
Completely.
No more disappoint.
No more lack.
Completely full.
The first wave is here to be followed by two more.
The fullness is here.
The fullness of my son.
My Word made Flesh.
Come and see the goodness of the Lord.
Taste and see.
My Glory shall fill the earth.
Not one drop less.
The least to the greatest shall know Me.
Not lacking any good thing.
Come and see.
Come and see.
I am about to reveal My sons and daughters.
My Bride whom you have been waiting for.
In all Her Glory.
Ready to display My works to all.
Come the one who has followed Me closely and at a cost.
She has paid the Price.
She will be shown throughout the world.
She will be revealed to all who will accept Her.
Come now is the time.
Now the time has arrived.
The longest awaited time in History.
The time which My Father has waited for.
The time that all creation has been longing for.
It has been released into the atmosphere.
No more waiting
No more waiting.
No more waiting.

Sharon Luzzi
prophgirl@hotmail.com