Kingdom thought for the day:
God could wipe out satan with a breath but He has instead chosen that the devil should be defeated daily by those who live by faith. The ultimate triumph of Christ is not that you gain victory over the enemy, but that you express victory already obtained.

Sozo Class Notes for October 21

- You were designed and created to live in the glory of God. Pa 84:2

- For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory. What does this verse tell us about God’s original target for man? Rom 3:23

- Your salvation has restored you to God’s original intent. Christ in you the hope of glory. Col 1:27

- Our ministry is actually to release the glory of the Lord. Learning how to host His Presence means that I have learned how to not grieve and not quench.

- We are to be trained by the presence. 1 Jn 2:27 says it's the anointing that teaches you. We try to learn in our head but it's the presence that retrains us on how to see and how to think and how to flow with the heart of God.

- Don't wait until you need a miracle or you'll develop a servant relationship because servants are task oriented. When He said I no longer call you servants but friends He was drawing them into a deeper relationship. The difference between the two is this. A servant is concerned about disobeying. A friend is concerned about disappointing. If my engagement with God is only for miracles then I have shown myself to be interested in service and not relationship.

- Ps 16:8. I have set the Lord always before me. I take God and put Him right in front of me all day long. Since I can't imagine a place where He isn't I might as well imagine Him with me.

- A goal for us in this day is to learn to carry the glory into public places to where your value of Him outweighs the grief of the sin of those who reject Him. Where your value of the Presence of the Lord is stronger than the weight of the sin of all the people in that room. If your value for Him outweighs the sin that grieves Him you change the atmosphere in that place.

Well it's finally happened. Shannon and I are back in ministry together. When I picked them up from the airport yesterday, it was to stay. He and Michelle and the girls are coming over to serve as Ministers of Youth and Family here at Grace Church and I can't begin to relay how thrilled I am. If you've ever had a surprise party and you're just elated with it all and then they add a surprise on top of the surprise that you just got, like an encore of a grand finale, you know how you just emotionally shut down because you simply have lost the ability to react with the appropriate amount of awe? If that's never happened to you, I pray it does someday soon. That's how I feel here with the Carriers coming.


We get a call to Maui. Amazing. We stumble into this conference at Church of the Hills in Austin that leaves me eternally transformed. Incredible. We begin to see miracles, signs, and wonders when we arrive in Maui and it grows. Wow! Shannon and Michelle move here. I'm running out of words... His plans are truly above all we could ask or think and I now know what it means when He said, "See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that you will not have room to contain." I really need a bigger container.


Here's why I write this openly today, for I could praise God privately for His blessings. I want every one of you who read this to experience the absolute wonder of God's promise to you of a hope and future that is blessed by Him. I declare that every person who reads this post will, today, experience the overwhelming goodness that flows from the heart of the Father, and that your household would be blessed, that your health would be blessed, that your labor would be blessed, and that you would find a greater revelation of love in your Heavenly Father's embrace today. May God grant to you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. Eph 1:17. I pray that God would assign to you an angelic presence whose sole purpose is to unveil in greater measure, Jesus Christ. That this angel, who has continual access to the mind of the Father would always draw you to the wonder and awe of what He's like and that the innumerable thoughts that God has toward you that outnumber the sand would be made known to you. That you would reflect in your life the price that was paid to redeem you and grant you access to His Kingdom that is within reach. I pray that in your declaration and through the laying on of hands that you would lay hold of that Kingdom and pursue those things once considered impossible for with God all things are possible! Amen.

We've seen some amazing miracles continue as the Spirit of God is poured out in Maui. A man who had a pain in the left side of his head and had been unable to work and sleep because of it, said that he was going to a specialist on Oahu, meaning that it was suspected that something was seriously wrong. He was prayed for and completely healed. A lady with constant pain in her feet, who had two surgeries to remedy it without success, felt a heat in her feet and the pain was gone. She walked with her husband on the beach with no pain. Supernatural manifestations have become a common cool occurrence. A lady with a spa type clinic in Kahului prayed for an unsaved client who accepted Jesus and asked God to fill her with His Spirit. Then, with no prompting, coaching, or previous experience, she began to speak in tongues. The whole office staff was literally intoxicated with the presence of God. The same lady reported that she prayed for another client who was an atheist and though professing not to believe in God, asked for prayer for her daughter who was on drugs and away from home. Soon after that prayer, that lady went to the front door of her house in the morning and her daughter was on her doorstep. The daughter accepted Jesus and was delivered from drug addiction. A lady in church had been praying for her son for two years to come to the Lord. Even after many invitations he wouldn't come to church. She took a small cloth and prayed over it and then tucked it in his wallet. On the Sunday after she did that, he showed up at church and was radically touched. Another lady in the church who suffered with asthma testified of her healing. Her lungs were clear and she didn't have to use her inhaler anymore. I could go on and on and on...

But last night was the apex of the movement toward revival that we've contended for since arriving in January. It was the unveiling of the Maui School of Supernatural Ministry which is a pilot branch out of Bethel Church in Redding, CA. The sanctuary was full of people from all over Maui who had one thing in common. A hunger for God. Even then, there were people who were drawn in by the Spirit of God. A young man walking by was drawn in and got his world rocked as the power of God overtook him in his seat. He gave his life to the Lord last night, simply compelled to come in. A young lady driving by, clouded by oppression, felt drawn into the parking lot and sat surrounded by a crowd of radical believers for the entire gathering. At the end she accepted the Lord for the first time in her life. It's interesting that we tone down services in a carnal attempt to insulate people from offense by limiting their exposure to the supernatural power of God. What gives us the right to hold people back from all God wants to release? I'll write more about this another time but I'm learning some things here.

Then the testimonies of healings began. Here's how it seems to go. As worship happens, and the message of the Kingdom is declared, a wave of anointing sweeps across the room. We asked anyone who felt a heat or unusual sensation in their hands to raise them. Hands go up all over the room. They begin to lay hands on people around them. A man in the center of the sanctuary with a heart condition falls to the floor in the center aisle under the power of the Spirit of God. A lady from Egypt who couldn't raise her arms above her head because of joint problems with her shoulders was totally healed and raising her arms high in praise to God. So many things happen as people begin to give words of knowledge and prophecy over one another. All over the room the Spirit of God is moving. It's hard to keep up with it all. And then, in the middle of all of this, an older Hawaiian man, very nicely dressed in local clothing with a very native decoration around his neck, stands and wants to testify. The room gets quiet, really quiet. He simply turns to the sanctuary and testified that he came with pain in his knees and as those around him were praying, his knees began to pop and the pain was gone, healed by the "power of Jesus". The room erupts! I figure, this is a nice testimony but the reaction of the people seemed more intense. I found out later who this was. I'll refrain from publishing his name here because I don't have permission to do so. But he is known as the father of the local Hawaiian people. His influence in the preservation of the culture and the heritage of the Hawaiian nation, is enormous. To the highest seat in state government, he has affected policy on a variety of issues, speaking out on behalf of the Hawaiian people. It was told to me following the service (because I didn't know any better) "Every local Hawaiian will soon hear that this man was healed by Jesus Christ." The word I get over and over again from people calling about this is that you have no idea how huge that is. Perhaps not, but we serve a huge God who has all authority and is in a really good mood and huge things are on His heart so they should also be on ours. Raise your expectations to the place where the discipling of a city, a state, and a nation is totally within reach. Because it is.

The normal Christian life is to invade impossibilities. When Jesus described the Kingdom He said nothing is impossible with God. Everything else is made with restrictions and restraints. Everything else is finite but Him. Then it's as if Jesus says I want mankind to know what it's like in my world where there are no impossibilities so He adds this phrase saying, "nothing is impossible for those who believe." This is amazing revelation since we all recognize that human nature is so contradictory to God's divine nature yet we're invited to a place of access to His world.

Now here's a thought that should shake up whatever religious spirits you've been shacking up with in your Christian life because any use of the word 'contradiction' makes people nervous. God gives revelation to us and then prunes it by giving a contradictory revelation. To Abraham He says, sacrifice your son, don't sacrifice your son. You have been predestined, yet you are a people of choice. It's appointed to man once to die but He raises the dead. Sacrifice sheep, don't sacrifice sheep. Eat My flesh and drink My blood or have no part of Me. He challenges you to come to a place where your Spirit says amen to that which offends your mind. To a place where your heart can wrap itself around what your mind cannot.

Human nature is that we are prone to rally in groups based upon points of doctrinal agreement. That's how denominations come to be. Denominations form when people come into a revelation of truth and agree on it, but what happens when He unveils more revelation? Theologians will stand and say that God doesn't do that not realizing that the denomination that they adhere to was likely formed based upon a revelation that contradicted the revelation of the group that they were previously a part of. Since doctrinal agreement is the rallying point, when disagreement arises they can no longer belong to the group. To make it simple, when your point of unity is doctrinal agreement, disagreement means you can't belong. What's happening now is that God is gathering people together, not around points of doctrinal agreement, but around Fathers in the Faith. The structure of the Kingdom is patterned after family. In a family brothers and sisters can disagree all the time but it doesn't mean you're kicked out of the family. Why? Because the rallying point is not that they agree about every subject but that they have the same Mother and Father. There is a new day of unity coming where we rally around the presence and not merely the principles.


This is not to suggest that we embrace opposing doctrines. It's to reveal that our determination of who a brother or sister in Christ is must be based upon our recognition of the Spirit of God within them. When Jesus was resurrected He appeared to the women who told the disciples who didn't believe them. Then the Bible says He appeared "in another form" to two others whose testimony was also rejected by the disciples and when Jesus showed up to the disciples, they were rebuked because they didn't believe another person's experience. The Holy Spirit in John 16 is said to function in the role of guiding us into all truth therefore if you have the Holy Spirit resident within you one of the evidences must be that you recognize truth when you hear it. The disciples could not recognize truth because their experience was clouded with factual events that contradicted the testimony of their friends. Jesus was tortured and died and they saw it. These people were questionable as sources. The first, Mary, had been washing Jesus feet with her hair, a strange expression of worship at best. Hygienically questionable and wasteful at worst. It was not normal and neither was her past so her testimony counted for little. The others had a conversation with Jesus that lasted for quite some time and then when they finally recognized Him, He disappeared. All kinds of problems arise logically with these testimonies making them easy to reject. Yet they were one hundred percent true and accurate as they were told and when Jesus showed up He told them so Himself. When a revelation comes to you regarding what He's like, and your hearts says Amen, but your mind cannot understand, don't reject it. That may be the moment you are most in tune with the Spirit of God, for He (while not opposed to the mind) will not gratify the ego of the intellect when the Spirit is supposed to be in charge. This is how the mind gets renewed for the mind is a brilliant student but a poor leader.