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Blessing Meadows MinistriesHow To Line Up Your Perspective With Truth To Receive Your Miracle
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I believe miracles
happen when love is flowing in our hearts.
Sometimes people are so bitter, and so wounded, they can't believe that
God is all good. Many preachers teach
about God's angry side, His judgments and punishments. They speak of the law and try to frighten
people into loving God. It doesn't work
that way, in fact, it does the opposite. I'm going to
try to show you that God is not the one doing ANYTHING bad to us. It is a spiritual and physical impossibility
to get evil out of one who is all good.
But I have to show you that He IS all good. :)
Then your heart can open up and see the gifts He's placed around you and
enjoy them. All of the
evil and harm comes from a combination of the enemy's actions against us
because of his hate, and the natural consequences of choices made on the earth. One of the
truths of Christianity is that we get what we believe in, what we set ourselves
up for. Because God gave us free will
and some people just don't WANT God in their lives. So He's set up a system of blessings and
"cursings" that operate in the earth, and we "operate" or
"walk" in those systems ALL the time, regardless of knowing about it,
or wanting to do it. It just IS, like
physics and science. The sun rises and
sets, because the earth turns. On top of
the laws of physics (and the blessings and curses that just ARE), (meaning the
consequences of our behavior), there is God's Grace that works through
faith. It's a power that is above the
natural order of the planet and in this power is where miracles happen, and
where the burden is lightened. It's
Jesus telling us that His yoke is easy and His burden light. When you accept Him as your payment for your
sins, and really believe that God has taken them away, you gradually begin to
understand that if you are NOT under sin anymore, you are free. Freedom
brings relief and kindness, rest (Shalom - Peace) and then the truths of what
God said in His word begin to open up to you, as if they had been locked before
and now you understand. So the place
you really have to start is going back to your own personal Salvation. Let's look at what really happened, and why. We have to
start with seeing this all-powerful being, God the Father, and nothing else
existing in our universe. He is here,
the Bible says, with His Spirit hovering over the deep. He has a desire to create. He wants to create good things, people,
beautiful places and His own love fills everything! There is nothing right now except His
undeniable desire to bring us into existence.
It's not to be boss over us, because He has no concept of
"boss". There isn't such a thing;
can you see what I mean? He is ALL
powerful. There is none like Him. No competition. Nothing but "I AM". He is
expressing LOVE as He creates the worlds.
The Big Bang or however He did it, the planets forming and churning the
orbits and everything being put in its place.
But He didn't do it randomly. He
tells us that before He ever made the foundation of the world, He carefully
chose us and Jesus' sacrifice was settled back then before it ever
started. He knew the outcomes of
everything He made, every choice we would make, etc., and He prepared for
it. He prepared rescues and help and
guidance and every single thing we would EVER need. I'm not
saying that He did it all and is now inactive and sleeping. Time is not linear. It doesn't have the same structure off this
planet, so it all happens in an instant to God.
His character and His desire to express love is happening all the time,
all at once, HAS happened and WILL happen.
:) Can you kind of grasp that? So we are
guaranteed help, guaranteed His love forever.
But what we SEE here on earth is the physical structure of time and
distance here. We see cause and
effect. We definitely see the
consequences of the fall of man when evil and death entered the earth. As God
created it, the earth was perfect and man was meant to live with God
forever. Continually renewed by the tree
of life. BUT just as God foreknew
everything, He also (I believe) wanted to help us develop into something more
than just clay figures, or dolls, mechanically going about our business. So He placed this tree of the knowledge of
good and evil in the Garden of Eden. This was a
great risk for Him, but we can't understand that until we've grasped how much
we mean to Him. That He doesn't want to
lose ONE of us. But He had to give us
the choice to obey and serve Him (or not), and even more than that, to develop
a mind and personality that would be like Him.
His true offspring. You just
can't tell a child how to think, how to feel, how to perceive an event. They have to experience it for themselves and
then process that information and choose to act on it. Compassion and understanding and depth of
character come through experiences, some painful, so that we can share each
other's grief and love, and when WE create (as He's made us in His image -
Co-creators with Him) that we'll make the good choices, and create goodness and
mercy rather than evil. Where did
evil come from? I ask that
sometimes. I think of two
possibilities. One is that since we live
in a world that is more than just one dimensional, there is a top side and a
bottom side, a left and a right, a right and a wrong. There is no understanding of good, unless bad
was experienced at some time. Or it might
just have been the natural outcome of the angels having free will, and
self-awareness, and with that self-awareness comes ego. Ego making decisions that are not always
beneficial for others. So Lucifer,
the most powerful and highest angel, looked at himself and at God and now there
was competition for God. He desired
God's place, His power, His throne, the adoration of the other angels. When God
defeated him in heaven, he was humiliated and punished and he knows very well
what his end will soon be. So his wicked
heart, instead of repenting, turned to hate and a desire to destroy everything
God loves to try to hurt Him. He came to
the woman in the garden, knowing her to be intelligent, with a curious mind and
placed just a tiny seed of a thought in her mind. That God had lied. That He didn't mean she would die, she would
just become like God. That God didn't
want her to be like Him so He is keeping back the goodness of that tree's fruit
and what it could produce in them. :) What a HUGE lie. God DID want them to be just like Him but it
had to be according to His design.
Perhaps He was going to teach them more and when they were ready, give
them the fruit Himself. The damage
was now done, the people now understood sin.
Where there is no rule given, (don't eat this fruit) there is no
sin. If you do something you don't know
is wrong, it's not sin. They knew
shame. They knew their place, they
became self-aware and in that act of believing Satan over God, they entered
into a bizarre legal coup of the planet.
Satan had been thrown to the earth and God told him to be prince over
the lower things if he wanted to be a ruler so bad. So when the people chose to follow Satan,
they actually gave up their birthright to God's kingdom. It closed them off from fellowship with
God. It tied God's hands to some extent
in their lives, because they had free will.
He couldn't intervene and help them unless they asked Him. God still
owns it all. He made it and He can
destroy it, but the souls of the people can never die. What He made in us is forever. The angels are forever beings too. He had created hell to contain those angels
who had fallen with Satan, but after the people ate the apple, they were
included in hell as well. Not by God's
will, because He hates it so badly! But
because He gave them the gift of free will, and people had aligned their
allegiance and belief to Satan and his lies. It's very
much a matter of BELIEF, because to win us back, that's exactly what He
used. Belief in Jesus' work on the
cross. Since God
said "in the day that you eat of that fruit, you must die", God
immediately killed two animals and wrapped their skins over the people to cover
them with a sacrifice that kept them alive.
He taught them how to sacrifice animals and transfer their sins onto the
animal, and it would cover them for a time, but it never completely removed
their sins. It didn't forgive them. He told them
He would send a Messiah, who would completely repair the damage Satan had done,
and that if they believed this, and would follow His instructions, they would
live and work the planet, and eventually be restored. So here we
are, with a world full of bad things happening to "good" people. I put quotes on good because the Bible says
no one is good except the Father, even Jesus claimed He was not good. We all have our ideas of what is right and
what is wrong, so we see people as nice and doing the right things, not hurting
others, just minding their own business, and we think that should be enough to
get them into heaven. Especially if they
sacrifice their time and money to do good for others, that SURELY should buy
them a ticket into heaven, right? No. I hope I've
shown you that because of what happened, and the ONE rescue that was planned
and carried out by God's Son Jesus, we have to come in under the legal contract
Jesus made by His death. He had over 100
prophecies He had to fulfill to be qualified to be the lamb that would remove
the people's sins completely. There were
other requirements too, but mostly that He was not in the direct bloodline of
Adam. The sins are carried in the male
and passed down to the children through the fathers, so Jesus being born of a
human mother and a supernatural father, meant He COULD be pure and
sinless. He had to on purpose with His
will choose NOT to sin in His life too.
He had all the human temptations and struggles with His purpose
here. I don't think anyone knows how
completely He was aware of who He was in heaven, when He was born, or if the
full revelation came to Him in the wilderness in that 40 day fast. I believe He
willingly went out into the wilderness to sort out the conflict between his
human nature and spiritual nature, and to choose the path He would follow. He received supernatural help out there, and
soon after, the infilling of the Holy Spirit at His baptism. (Also He may have been prompted to go out
there after the death of His earth daddy Joseph. He may have been greatly grieved by the loss,
but we aren't told that, it's just speculation.) I don't
think there was ever a time that He would NOT have gone to His death for us,
because He knew that was His purpose, but it still had to have been hard to do. God says
Satan's goal is to rob, kill and destroy, especially anything that loves God or
that God loves. If you see any of these
things (theft, killing and destruction) operating in a person, that is their
unredeemed natural instinct that is following the result of sin in us. We don't
stop sinning automatically when we accept Jesus. That nature is always with us, but we can on
purpose rise above that nature and choose God's ways and thoughts, once we have
the Holy Spirit in us. When we accept
Jesus, (believing with our hearts and then confessing with our lips to someone
that we believe), instantly the Holy Spirit "quickens" or brings back
to life the spiritual part of us that was dead since Adam's fall. He is SEALED
inside of that space, that vessel for God's Spirit near our physical heart in
this body. He cannot leave if you're
really saved. He then goes to work in
your life, nudging you gently to make better choices, to know when you're about
to do something you shouldn't, and keeping God on your mind, so that even if
it's been a few years since you go to church or pray, there is a drawing - a
coaxing that brings you back to Him. When you are
saved, in that one instant, ALL of your past, present AND future sins are
forgiven. They are wiped out on the
cross that happened 2000 years ago. God
in effect chooses to look at you through the right standing of His Son, the
RIGHTEOUSNESS that is His, that He gave us at the moment we chose Jesus. Remember
when God wrapped the animal skin around Adam and Eve to keep them alive? Jesus at the cross, gave us His holy garment
of righteousness to wear. The Bible says
we are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ. In another verse it says that Jesus imparted
His righteousness to us at the moment of our belief. There are
also verses about the Bridal garment; nobody enters the wedding feast without
being clothed in a proper garment. So now God
NEVER sees our sins. When you do
something bad today, it's not that He isn't aware of it, the Holy Spirit is in
you and sees it, and deals with it.
(Remember the verse that says don't grieve the Holy Spirit with our bad
behavior?) But we CAN'T stop sinning
even after we're saved, by our own efforts.
We have no power to do anything, apart from God. The more you point out a person's sin, or
accuse him of it, the more fully he sinks into that sin. It makes sin grow. In the Bible
it says that when the law was given, then sin abounded. I need to pull out all these verses for you,
but it says that sin grows under the law, and righteousness grows under GRACE. Grace is the
undeserved favor and blessings of God.
It's also the POWER to become like God, to live without sin and act like
one of God's children. Grace comes
through faith. So the trick to becoming
separate from the world and being able to do right, is to keep our eyes and
minds focused on Jesus. This is also
part of the trick to receiving our miracles.
It's through Grace that they come, and that by our faith in God's word
and in what Jesus did on the cross. He
took with Him into death all of our sins, and all of our sicknesses, griefs,
burdens, sorrows and every illness known to man. He
"LEGALLY" defeated them, but we don't receive that victory in our
personal lives until we each individually put our names into that New Testament
contract that says "I (Lisa Tyler) believe that Jesus died for my sins on
the cross and I choose to follow Him as my Savior." Then your name is written in that book of
life, and you are pardoned of all your sins, past present and future. You are given a new birthright, and everything
is restored. You are now a child of the
creator of all things, and it says we are also kings and priests with Jesus,
joint heirs in God's kingdom to everything He owns. This won't
make much sense right now, but it refers to your having the authority to work
supernatural miracles now, by using Jesus' name and your faith in His blood. It also refers to the time coming when Jesus
reigns on the earth for 1000 years while He cleans things up and destroys evil
forever. So, here you
are today, wondering where your miracle is.
Why is God not showing up, why is He not answering you? Are you sure
you are saved? If not, ask Him again,
it's as simple as believing that He died on the cross 2000 years ago to purge
the earth of sin and forgive those who choose to follow God through Him, and
then to confess with your mouth to anyone else in public that you believe Jesus
is the Messiah who did just that - for YOU personally. It doesn't
help to believe He is the Savior, all the demons and the devil know and believe
that. It must be your heart linking up
to the idea that it's YOUR rescue and you are now forgiven. Once you
have that settled, go and be baptized, as a public confession of your
faith. It's not going to keep you out of
heaven if you don't, but Jesus commanded it.
It may be that it is another form of legal evidence that quiets the
enemy when he accuses you to God. God
can then shut their mouths and say you are not only written in the book of
life, but you have obeyed unto baptism and you have risen unto a new life with
Christ. Now to make
a miracle work. The entire
Bible is a collection of promises God made to man, and the historical record of
His dealings with man throughout time.
It's also a book of "magic" words and symbols. Not like witchcraft, but it is alive and
powerful, with the authority and will of God at work in it. The Words
God spoke, (from the first - let there be light) all of His words have gone
forth with power and He said CANNOT return to Him without accomplishing the
purpose for which it was intended. These
words cannot be destroyed. They are as
much a permanent fixture as the sun that shines and the tree you park your car
under. The Bible
says these Words became flesh and came to earth to save us, and were given the
name of Jesus. Now, this is a great
mystery and I don't know all the answers here because Jesus and the Holy Spirit
were with God when He created it all, so I don't know the order of things, but
like I said, time is not linear to God. I believe
the Holy Spirit resides in the Word also, and enforces them. So when you pick up a Bible that is just a
thick mass of paper and ink, and dead until you open the pages and begin to
read, when you read them out loud with understanding and intention, you set
into motion the things you ask for. God gave the
promise of our healing. He gave it hundreds
of times throughout the Bible, and we can choose any of those verses to
speak. When we speak the verse out to
the universe, with conviction in our heart that it is true, and that it applies
to US, and WILL come to pass, then it becomes a legal and physical reality for
us. We are told
not to waiver or doubt, because that weakens and fades the power that comes
through us into the world to materialize things from God's reality (in Spirit
in His kingdom) into our physical world here. In our world
today, not doubting is very hard. Even
back in Abraham's day, when the angels told him that Sara was going to have a
son, and Sara laughed, it was very hard for her to believe that word. She was nearly 100 years old and had been
dried up and past childbearing age for years. When we're
born as babies, we are still aware of the spirit world where we came from. You hear stories of children being able to
see ghosts, demons and angels and tell of the angels helping them and keeping
them company. They can still see
them. As we grow older, our eyes adjust
to the physical world, all that we hear, the constant negative stream of
information we're given, that THIS is hot and will burn you, that THIS is a
rock and if you hit your head on it, your head will break not the rock,
etc.! LOL We are
trained all of our years to ignore the whisper of the spirit world that is
actually HERE with us, but we can't see it. God says we
have to use our imagination. He gave us
examples. He said Abraham took His word
about the baby and used his imagination to agree with God, believe that it was
going to happen, and then he acted on it.
He "called upon those things that were not (in the physical sight)
yet, as though they were." This
accelerated the manifestation, and helped him prepare for what was to come. He changed
his name from Abram to Abraham, meaning father of nations, although he had not
one son yet to back up that promise. This belief
thing is the hard part, it's the WORK that Jesus said is for man in his stay on
earth. To develop the ability to
believe. Jesus said
the whole work of man was to believe ON the One God sent. Jesus.
The Savior. The High Priest who
makes intercession for us day and night before God. The Lover of our Souls! Sounds
easy? I wish it were so easy. If we were still children and hadn't had so
many failures under our belt to refer back to, it might be. It takes our
lifetime and our full attention to this to keep ourselves walking in the Spirit
and in the Kingdom of God, protected and rising above our human nature. That doesn't
mean God's angels would not protect us if we aren't remembering to believe in
protection. They still do. God tells them to watch over us and
especially to help us when we speak His words.
But our own negativity and evil comes through and hinders us. We get mad
at people and our unforgiveness stops our prayers from being answered. I wonder if
I can describe this to you. We believe
that He forgave us and we are out from under the law of sin and death, and are
operating at a higher level, under the law of Life in Christ Jesus. That is the highest law on earth and the one
where miracles happen in. We have to
understand this is a universal forgiveness for ALL who call upon Jesus to be
their savior. Even when they go back to
doing wrong things or hurt us. We also
do wrong things still, but God has chosen to call our sins forgiven. Theirs and ours. When we hold
something against another person, we are denying them the forgiveness of the
cross. We are trying to hold their sins
to their body, and not let God dispose of it. If Jesus'
work on the cross is held back for one, it is held back for you too. God wouldn't
let your unwillingness to forgive someone stop His great work for the whole
world, but in YOUR case, you won't see the blessings of that forgiveness
because you've taken your BELIEF system and unhooked it from truth. You are denying the work at the cross, and it
becomes sin and death for you. It goes back
to your individual belief. I deal with
this daily as I hear people rant and yell about the guy in the car in front of
them, or the foreigner family on the news that might be taking our country's
health benefits and using it all up so we don't get them. There are a million examples of this. From not
liking our president and harboring harmful thoughts in our hearts towards him,
to building imaginary walls between us and the drunk on the street, where we
call ourselves better than them. These
are all forms of unforgiveness that separate us from that first great expression
of love God poured out into the darkness when He formed the worlds, and is
still pouring out towards us today. Our job is
to get into that flow of love, and through it, receive the anointing of the
Holy Spirit, which comes on us and is very tender and fragile. You can stop that flow all too easily. Hearing other people's words of anger and
hate, or watching a TV show, are things that can stop the work of God in your
life because every single thing you hear and see affects your belief system and
becomes what you will experience in your life. Our hearts
are gardens of good soil and the things we are exposed to by our ears
especially, and our eyes, are the seeds that are planted there. They produce after their own kind. If you plant much sickness (by viewing it or
hearing of it), you will grow a crop of sickness. If you plant harsh words and judgment against
others, you will grow a crop of self-condemnation and judgment against others
and yourself. This is an anointing
killer! You have to
protect the anointing and nurture it, by spending time in God's presence,
reading His word, (out loud especially) and praising God. There is a
"place" or "function" of our brain, or way of thinking,
(very difficult to describe), where we become still and reflect on God's
goodness and His presence inside of us. When we
practice using that, we transfer the good things we ask God for in our prayers,
into our heart’s belief system, so that they manifest in this world. It’s almost like using your imagination but
it is not false in any way. It is
establishing a "Peace" in our soul, a feeling of faith. Psalm 91
describes a person stating that they depend totally on God and trust completely
in Him, and then God tells him back what He will do in response. This is the
"standing in faith" we talk about.
Not "waiting" without evidence or hope. It's using that part of your believer and
finding the place in your soul where you can be at rest, at peace, knowing that
God's promises are for you, that they will come true, that He cannot lie and
you acknowledge and receive it from Him now. Then go
about your business and nurture the love and anointing of God as you go,
through frequent praise and worship. He
will hover over you, hearing your praises and pouring out blessings on you. But your eyes need to be willing to see them,
to acknowledge them. Don't live in
bitterness, seeing everything as evidence that seems to say God wants us to
suffer. It's not from HIM! He's done everything He can do to prepare a
way for us to receive His blessings.
It's entirely up to our actions and attitude as to what we will receive. You've heard
the saying "Submit to God...resist the devil...and he will flee from
you..." Submit your heart to God,
be willing to believe in His goodness and He will rush to show you His power and
mercy. He IS a good God. I hope this
helps you. My advice is to go back to
the basics, the first love you had for God and seek Him with all your
heart. Don't demand that He materialize
and show Himself in person, or that He do signs and wonders to prove Himself to
you. Instead say,
"Lord, I have heard that you are real.
Lisa says she's seen you, she's received many miracles from you, and
others all over the planet are receiving.
Please open my eyes and heart and let me see you working in MY life, and
let me honor and worship you. I want to
worship you Lord, and follow you all the days of my life, with joy and
thanksgiving. Please help me Jesus. Thank you Father. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Holy Spirit. Amen!" To God be the praise and glory! In Jesus’ name I send out this teaching and ask that the Word bless and heal all who read or hear it. God bless you all. God bless you! Keep looking back here
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forgiveness, restoration to God in a way that will change your life and
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