The past weekend has been a time of personal transformation. Every time God has summoned me to a new level of breakthrough in my spiritual pilgrimage, it has been accompanied with a challenge that threatens to set me back. This time, however, I will continue to contend for that breakthrough. We attended a series of meetings led by Pastor Bill Johnson of Bethel Church in Redding, CA. I have never heard revelation like I heard this weekend. This is the message I have been waiting to hear my whole life. I appreciate Pastor Johnson for his willingness to be an honorable steward of the revival that has been the mark of their house for in recent years. Rather than keep it contained in a central location, they have chosen to take the revival out of the building. I don't believe I ever saw him pray for a person (though he may have at the end or afterward) but more than 200 people were healed over the course of three days and most all of them were in the audience at the time. My children will be forever impacted by the things they experienced. I'm going to record some thoughts and impressions and quotes here over the next few days. I want to look back upon this in the years to come as it was a time of prophetic significance for my family.

- Jesus curses the fig tree because it doesn't bear fruit 'out of season', because, in His economy it's a requirement to bear fruit of the impossible. For too long the church has done what is humanly possible and called it God. God is inviting us into a lifestyle where we pursue things we cannot accomplish.

- It's impossible for a true believer to be put into a place where the answer to your biggest problem is not within reach.

- True repentance is changing the way you think. It's not a mind over matter issue. It is a transformation of mind that lets you see reality from divine perspective.

- You may not understand what's going on or what the answer is but if you don't surrender to fear and anxiety God will reveal to you the tools that He has put in your life for the present situation. God never leads you into a battle that you are not equipped to win.

- If the enemy can get me to surrender to fear and anxiety he has brought me into agreement and he is empowered by agreement. Jesus said, in Matt 28, that 'all authority has been given to me in Heaven and on Earth.' That means that satan has no authority for if Jesus has all, apparently somebody has none. Where does satan get his authority? He can only take from those who have. How does he do it? By decieving those who have been delegated that authority to come into agreement with him through fear and anxiety.

- Overexposure to the things of God without surrender will destroy you. The same sun that melts ice hardens clay.

- Revelation (to lift the veil) doesn't create truth. Revelation exposes what was already there. God doesn't hide things from you but for you.

- Much of what you need in life will be brought to you, but most of what you desire you will have to go get. The children of Israel were led to the promise land, it was not brought to them. God brought them to the promise but they (empowered by Him) had to take it. Many prophetic words you've received are descriptions of your potential which is the fruit of your obedience to steward the promise. God will bring you to the promise, however, God is not obligated to fulfill your potential.

- When the disciples were in the storm, they asked Jesus to save them, He calmed the wind and waves, and then turns to rebuke them saying, "How is it that you have no faith?" Notice the pattern. There's a crisis. They pray. God answers. (So far this is the normal Christian life.) But then there's a rebuke. Why? Sometimes we pray as a substitute for radical obdience.

- Why is the antichrist not called antiJesus? Jesus is the name. Christ is His title, annointed One. The antichrist spirit is opposed to the annointing. People don't mind Jesus the Son of God, as it relates to His character. It's the anointing and power that stirs up religious opposition.

- When you don't see a breakthrough the two worst things to do are blame God and apply guilt and shame to yourself. Both of these will hinder your growth.

- In Mark 9 the disciples ask Jesus why they couldn't cast out a particular demon. He said, "This kind only comes out by prayer and fasting." Jesus cast the demon out but neither prayed nor fasted for that situation. How? We tend to pray and fast for a situation instead of for a lifestyle. That way we're fully equipped to see a breakthrough nomatter what situation we face.

- Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.

- Experience is the beginning of inheritance. God does not take you into an anointing to observe or visit.

- Jesus did what He did (fully the eternal God) as a man rightly related to God. If He did the miracles as God, I'm still really impressed. I'm compelled to observe but I'm not compelled to follow. If He did miracles as man rightly related to God, then I'm suddenly completely dissatisfied with life as I know it. For me to walk in that anointing, sin has to be dealt with and I must be empowered by the Spirit. The blood of Jesus dealt with the sin so that one is settled. The only other question then is how dependant upon the Spirit of God will I be?