The Truth

Sometimes you stumble upon things, sometimes they hit you in the face. Either way, LOVE.

Decree
by Graham Cooke
April 2009


This is a great moment for you. This is about favor and it’s about vengeance. Lets just wait for a moment.

Father, I thank You. Holy Spirit, You are such a genius at life, and I know right now You are rubbing your hands with glee. I want to say to all who hear this word, this is your moment to turn the tables on the enemy, to live the life of instead. So, Father, we just wait.

I want you to sense the Holy Spirit brooding over you. Is this too good to be true? You betcha, it’s the good news. Does He border on fantasy? You betcha, it’s the gospel. Glad tidings of great joy, heaven has come instead of hell, Jesus has come instead of the devil. You can have the life you always wanted, instead of the life you have always had–instead. That is possible because of the absolute, incredible, incomparable favor of God.

So I declare to you in Jesus’ name, you have entered this evening. I am not prophesying something that is to come, but something that is here and now present. You are in it. God has created an atmosphere in your heart, in your life, where now the favor of God lives as a tangible reality. You are going to discover in these next days, weeks, months and years,=2 0the power of that favor. The power of moving in the opposite Spirit, that God grants you things instead of what the enemy would purpose. God is an alternative for you to have instead. And it is rooted in the favor of God.

And so I declare to you in the name of Jesus by the authority that God has given me as a prophet in the kingdom, I declare to you, this day marks the beginning of a life of unprecedented, unparalleled favor of God. That the favor of God is upon you right now, even as I speak. That you are going to learn to bask in that favor, to think in that favor, to live in that favor, to see from that place of favor, to move out in that place of favor, to proclaim rather than to pray. To proclaim favor upon yourself, favor in your circumstances.

You are going to learn how to fight in favor so that you may get vengeance. You are going to learn how to overcome, you are going to learn how to be more than a conqueror. You are going to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, you are going to see the goodness of God in such ways that are unprecedented, unparalleled, that everyone around you will notice there is something different about you, there is something on you, there is something happening. What happened to you? What changed in you?

And you are going to say, I have learned an alternative lifestyle instead of the one I had, I have learned an alternative lifestyle, I am a different person. I am not living that life, I am living a different one, I have the favor of the Lord. So I declare to you in Jesus’ name, this is a time and a season of unprecedented, unparalleled favor of God that has come upon you.

God’s favor will stay with you and will remain with you all the days of your life. You will abide in this favor because I have sent My Holy Spirit to teach you how to stay, to teach you how to dwell, to teach you how to remain, to teach you how to focus, to teach you how to pray, to teach you how to see, to teach you how to speak, to teach you how to walk and how to move, and how to live and how to have your being in My Son.

This is the favor of God upon your life and it will never go away. It is eternal, it is everlasting to everlasting, it is an eternal favor, it has no time-frame on it, it has no time-frame on it, it has no time-frame on it. It has begun now, and it will stay with you forever and ever and ever because it is everlasting, because I am your favor, I am your favor.

It's Me, it’s Me, says the Lord. I am your favor, I have always been your favor, I will always be your favor, I am the instead, I am your instead, I am your promise, I am your prophesy, I am your blessing, I am instead, I am your instead. I am, I am your instead. I am, I am, My presence shall go with you.

I am with you, I will never leave you nor forsake you and My favor is wrapped around you like a cloak. It is in your breath, it is in your lungs, it is in your heart. Every thought you have will be wrapped in favor. Every word you speak will bring favor to somebody. You will be favorable because you are highly favored. The favor of God is on you and it will never leave you.

So I say to you, says the Lord, trade on My favor, trade on My favor. Do not look at Me as though I am reluctant to bless you. I am extravagant, test Me, I am extravagant, and I am teaching you how to move from measure to fullness, how to live in abundance. I will teach you how to live in a place of abundance that’s beyond your ability to think. You will need to dream, you will need to use your imagination, just to keep on conceiving about the goodness of the Lord and how strong it is and how powerful it is.

There is no place of despair because you live in the land of blessing, you live in the land of goodness–it is your inheritance. I am your inheritance, I am your territory, I am your promised land, I am your Canaan . I will give you houses you didn’t build, I will give you vineyards you did not plant, to drink from wells you never had to dig. I am your inheritance, this is your day, this is your time. But you must take advantage of the goodness of God.

Beloved, this is not a concept, it is a tangible reality and you must now step into that place. You must cross that Jordan , you must enter into this space, you must occupy this place of favor until I come, because this is never-ending. And so says the Lord, I challenge you, I challenge you. I challenge you to believe, I challenge you to live, I challenge you to face everything in favor. I challenge you to position yourself before Me in every situation, in every circumstance.

There is always an instead, there is always an instead. And I am teaching you a life that is lived from heaven rather than from earth, instead. I am your instead and you have entered this place and now I am teaching you the joy of staying, dwelling, abiding.

Every problem, every bill, every situation, every circumstance, there is an alternative, instead. Beloved, it is important for Me, says the Lord, that you learn to live in My fullness, because the more fullness you draw from Me—the more fullness I will have to give you, because what works for you, it works for you because it works for Me. I give and it is given back to Me. It works for you because it works for Me.

Pull favor out of Me and more favor will come. Pull favor out of Me and glory will come back to Me. So I challenge you, pull favor out of Me, pull favor down into your circumstances. I touch your eyes this evening and I give you a prophetic ability to see in the Spirit to see the opposite, to move in the opposite, to turn your problem into a prophesy, to turn your passivity into a promise. I give you an anointing to see the way I see and to speak the way I speak.

And beloved, I am so challenging you. Come after Me, come after Me, bankrupt Me if you can. Listen, I need, I need My people living in abundance, I need it, I need it. I don’t have a budget. The enemy has a budget, I have abundance. I need you to flow in the abundance of heaven. It is critical to what we are doing on the earth. It is critical that you become a people of abundance, of fullness, of favor, that you know how to get revenge, so you will learn to be more than conquerors, you will learn to be overcomers.

There are high places available here, beloved, come up, come up, come up. This is the year of your rising, this is the year of your rising. This is the year when you become untethered and unfettered. This is the year when impossible things will begin to occur around you because you are living in the power of instead. So I say to you, make a covenant with Me even as I have made a covenant with you. Make a covenant with Me, that you will follow through and partner with My Holy Spirit in these days. That you and I would have the pleasure together of working through your list. And know that we shall enjoy ourselves with you as we teach you to be unfettered, unbound, untethered, and you shall have your freedom.

You shall rejoice and you shall become worshipers. Your very life, your very breath will glorify Me. This is My will. My will is your instead, I am your instead. Make a covenant with Me even as I make a covenant with you for your good, to do you good, to do you good. That you would live in the goodness of the Lord, that you would overcome evil with all the good that I intend instead. And that you, beloved, shall live in a place of high favor and high renown and that you should have your vengeance, you should have your vengeance.

Father, we pray, we say amen, we say yes to You, Lord. I am in, I am in, I am tired of this life, I want another one instead. I am in, Lord, for Jesus’ sake and for His honor, that He may look back on the travail of His soul and be satisfied. This is what He saw, this was the joy that was set before Him. His people, living in a difference place, instead. So, Father, we say yes to You, for the sake of Jesus and for His honor and glory. Amen.

Flow like Rivers

Words flow like rivers,
upwards current pushing,
logs lean sideways, blocking paths;
undeterred water surges,
swirling darkly,
'til light be revealed in the inner man.

A short story

So here's what I'm thinking. In an effort to clear my mind and process my feelings, I have decided to write. It's been a long journey for me to finally share what's going on inside. Tinker Toy thoughts build Colossal Colosseums, Kingdoms of Creation, Fit for a King; but where to start with me?

So, today for instance.

"Without You"

I was on the phone with AT&T because I had just switched my plan. When I did, they told me I would have the 9,000 minutes or so transfered over to my new account. My latest bill showed they deleted both the rollover accounts. I called and spoke with Henry, a cool guy originally from Albany, GA.

He tried to get my minutes straightened out, but could only credit 1,000 back because you typically loose your rollover minutes changing to a lower price plan. I told him as part of our negotiation, was to keep the larger portion of minutes from the two accounts and transfer it over. He spoke with his manager and came back, "2,000 is the best I can do." I was cool and level like, "That's no good, I was promised the full amount transfered, and instead they deleted it."

"Hang on," he said. After a long hold, the response came, "I have to file a form, but we are going to give you the full 12,000 minutes back."

I'm thinking like, "WHAT!? I just wanted what was promised..." Kinda caught off guard, I answered the rest of his questions and knew this was God.

Here's the meat of the story:

I get off the phone and walk inside and the Lord speaks to me, "Nothing that is yours can ever be taken away." Meaning, John 3:27

Now that's what He's been saying for the last week or so; really driving at this root of self preservation and fear. Like what are we so afraid of? He promises this time won't be like last time. Why? Because He says so... HA, Imagine that!

So, with that I leave you, to ponder and pry, deeper into His heart. LOVE

Daily Manna -- Visionary Wisdom

Operating with the Word of Wisdom
Jason Robert Vogt 7.27.09

Wisdom's Dream
Today I had a dream with a word of wisdom; someone I was going to touch had a broken wrist. I wondered what that was about and immediately had another dream.

I randomly met a girl at a ski mountain. We rode up on the lift together and jumped off just before the top. We walked through the woods and came to a small cabin where she worked. It was a pro shop at the top of the mountain. There was a large guy and small guy there, by small, I mean thin in stature.

The small man shook my hand and instantly I knew his wrist had been broken. So I asked, "Has your wrist been broken?” He looked at me funny and said, "Yes, how do you know? It never healed correctly and has a limited range of motion."

I said, "God sometimes shows me things before I go places for people He wants to touch. He's about to heal your wrist!" I took it in my hand and thanked Father for what he was doing. I felt energy release and then heard, "When he least expects it, he will be healed and full movement restored." So I told him just that.

The others had felt the shockwave of energy released so they knew something happened. I said my goodbyes, gave high fives and left.

I returned sometime later and the man greeted me shaking his wrist and smiling, "ALL BETTER!" He continued, "One day I was at the house, I went to reach for something and my wrist moved, Praise God!" “Praise God”, I responded, “PRAISE GOD!!”

The other two in the store were almost glowing. Through this man’s encounter, they had also come to receive Jesus. I was overwhelmed with JOY; what a feeling of family permeated our hearts. We all hugged smiles with tears and said goodbye. Time to move along, another house, another home, an apostle's road is often alone.


Patience is the Key
Sometimes you will not see an instant healing or an immediate salvation, that's fine, don't rush it. God's Wisdom is much greater than ours and often you are planting a seed for a stronger testimony down the road. Be faithful to play your role and YOU WILL perform greater works than these.

As with Naaman and the blind man sent to wash in the pool of Siloam, often there are accompanying actions that must be completed before the miracle can be released. As with the man blind from birth, it is "All for the Glory of God", in sickness or in health.

So when you are ministering, remember -- stop, look and listen; hear what the father is saying and be obedient. In essence, "Fruit picked before maturity is the same as fruit rotten to the core; both are lost."

God is doing much more than simply performing, He is preparing to touch multitudes through one man's testimony of FAITHFULNESS. Will you be that one man?

Daily Manna -- Revelation 20

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Rev 20:4

So Many Things Inside

Awash with Glory,

wave after wave,

exploding upon my mind,

without which,

I would be unable to stand,

the great pressure and weight,

of fear, doubt and unbelief,

destroying lesser men,

lest they stand the test of time,

and see the salvation of the Son.

Paying more attention,

to critics,

than lovers,

fills with excess baggage,

to solid to soar.

Focus on Christ and Fly Free!