For me to just say “yes” is not a DO NOT GO TO JAIL pass allowing me to continue with life as I had been living it. Father might give me healing to demonstrate His love, but there is a need for me to desire and allow change. Otherwise, what’s the use? Why should God grant me my “wish” only to have me remain in the state in which I began? What good is that? How does that help me to remain healed?

I have found that my saying “yes” to God has two parts. The first is an expression of my desire. More importantly, it is permission for Him to be involved. The second aspect of “yes” is the desire to grow and change. I cannot overemphasize this enough; my life in relational-faith with Father God is a life of growth and change. That’s why I left the organized institutional church in the first place. There I found no impetus to grow. Here in relational-faith, I am loved by Him and He loves me. I want to grow out of love for Him.

No, this is not a free gift in the sense of me doing nothing to invest some of myself. I must float out of the way in yes and submission. In the midst of all of this work, I must continue to stay out of His way and keep saying, “yes.” I must do whatever it is that Father counsels me to do or invites me into. I must be proactive in this process. I must be willing to be transformed into the new, whole being that Beloved God designed me to become in the first place.

I have also discovered another fundamental aspect to this process of transformation. That is always the case. I must be willing to give up something I neither need or actually want in order to make spiritual room for what I do want. I’ve found that there is a need to let go of whatever it is that’s hurting me to make room for what it is that Father wants to give me. This too is a big part of saying “yes”.

There is a simple process of letting go that a friend of mine leads me through to help me. I’ve come to understand now that I can do this on my own in Father’s Presence. But at times, I don’t always see what is needed or how really very simple this release is, and so my friend’s help aids my focus.

What she has me to is in the Spirit. I see or visualize the thing that I am willing to release. I hold it out offering it to Father or to Jesus in both hands – palms up. I then see Him take it from me. I wait because His gift for me is then placed in my open, upturned hands.

Often I don’t know what it is that I’ve received. For me seeing in the Spirit is somewhat abstract. No matter, I almost always understand the precious power and significance of His gift to me. I know in my heart that this gift is many times more precious and more powerful than the misery that I’ve just let go of.

It’s interesting to me how all of this happens. On the one hand, God is willing and able to provide all that’s needed for my healing – spiritual and physical – but there is always something I must be willing to give up to receive what He has for me. I don’t always know what His gift will be. I am very often pleasantly surprised.

Release is the central aspect of the “yes.” I must freely let go of what it is that’s making me sick, spiritually or physically. I need to allow Father to make room within me for the new healed reality that He wants to give me – Amen.

God is not going to just zap me into becoming some new healed person so that I can just go out and destroy myself all over again. That’s not what will help me to become something new. That’s nothing more than codependency – He gives, I take, nothing changes. Nope, that’s not how love works.

Love offers the best of things, not items or objects, but things which empower us to become our true selves as God Himself designed us to become. That true self is a reflection of Him – period. That true self knows something of and lives in His Presence and His love. That true self loves to do what it is that it is designed to do and be – especially the be.

Always,

Lew Curtiss

(Part 2, Tongues and Meditative Prayer)

 

Can you improve your ability to see in the spirit? Can you improve your ability to travel in the spirit?  What’s the difference between seeing in the spirit and remote viewing? What’s the difference between traveling in the spirit and astral projection?  Should Christians open their third eye? … Wow, that’s a scary thought.

 

Some Christians are really afraid to face these issues. Some think it’s evil or demonic. However, I find that most believers who fellowship and associate with us see these activities as things that the Lord would have us do.    I am going to address these issues from the standpoint that supernatural activity is a part of a victorious Christian life.

 

You know that when we become born again, we receive the Holy Spirit. Simply, our spirit connects with God. Therein lies the difference to all of this.  If you are not a believer, you are using your soul to see,  or travel outside of your body, or prophesy, or participate in healing.  Several symptoms earmark the differences. If these practices are done by the guidance of Holy Spirit, we have peace and God’s love guiding us. People who do these practices by their soul say that it is uncomfortable. Testimony given says that it can even be painful.     But, as believers, we have very clear tools to guide our way. Galatians 5:22-23, ” The fruit of the spirit is love,  joy,  peace,  patience,   kindness,  goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control. Against such, there is no law.”  You should sense those attributes when you participate in supernatural activities. If you don’t, STOP!

 

I’m going to divert from my train of thought for a moment and talk about the third eye. What is that?    Its when a nonbeliever forces open the pineal gland or force the pineal gland to function in the brain?  God gave us the pineal gland. It’s a little bitty cone-shaped gland that’s near the pituitary gland, the auditory canal, the top of the spinal cord, and the optic nerve. It’s at a transitional or pivotal point in the brain.  Opening it can be done by satanic ritual, new age practices, or other religious rituals done by groups such as the Hindus.  It is forced to work.

 

However, when we participate in supernatural activities through God’s peace and love  The organs and glands of the brain work as a symphony our spirit and Holy Spirit. Yes, you’re nervous system, your endocrine system, and your organs all support supernatural activity. God built us that way.   I think God knew what He was doing when he placed the pineal gland adjacent to those other glands and nerves.

 

If you haven’t read the first half of this blog, I encourage you to go back and do so.  Because, when we pray in tongues, or pray and meditate on the name of Jesus, or say the  YHVH, the pineal gland secretes Melatonin and the frontal lobe of our brain relaxes. Basically, we go into a receiving mode.  We hear God more clearly. We see visions. Some people even smell and hear in the spirit.

 

So here’s the $50,000,000 question. How do you feed your supernatural abilities? You make praying tongues, meditating on God and his word a continuing practice in your life.  Practice in one form or another improves your life. You become a better gardener when you practice gardening techniques. You become a better musician when you play your instrument daily.     You will improve your intuition, discernment, ability to prophesy, seeing in the spirit, traveling in the spirit, and more if you practice it. Once again, it begins with praying in tongues along with prayer and meditation on God and his word.

 

Let me know if this post helped you. I’d love to hear from you.

 

Abundant blessings,

 

Anna

Tongues and Meditative Prayer

(Is it really useful?)

The primary way God communicates to us is symbolism. You will find symbolism when you dream dreams and have visions. You will also find it in your daily life. Let me give you some examples.  You may wake up in the morning disturbed because your dream made no sense. I had one just recently. In the dream, I had taken a train trip. There were many people on the train that I knew. They were from my past. I used to go to church with them. In the dream, we all got off the train. We were stuck at a train station looking for a way to continue. The roads going away from the station looked like a maze. Most of my old friends didn’t know what to do. But I was waiting for my husband to come get me. He knew the way there and he knew the way out.

What was God saying to me? He was telling me that my old friends in the church hadn’t found their way yet.  But my husband who represented Jesus Christ knew the way. I was willing to go on. They were not, as yet. I can tell you what each symbol means the train the station etc. but you get the idea.

You will see this kind of symbolism in visions that you have while you’re awake and in daily occurrences. I have a friend who watches everything that goes on around about her. I live on the coast of Puget Sound. She is about 25 miles south of me. We both can see islands across the water from our homes. She was telling me about a time when almost every day eagles would fly and swirl in circles just off her front porch. Eagles tend to be solitary creatures. You will see one or two flying. But rarely do you see a group of them? She called me up and said I think God is speaking to me. She was correct and we deciphered what God was trying to say to her. A couple of months ago, God did it to me. Everywhere I turned I saw the number 50. I knew he was talking about the Gathering and it was supposed to be small. So those are some examples of God’s language. Rarely ever does he speak in a language and give someone full sentences. He can say more to us with a picture than He can with words. Every letter is a picture in the Hebrew alphabet. As man invented other languages we lost most of the symbolism. We know that in English an A is an A. It has little meaning until it is combined with other letters to make a word.

Symbolism is received and perceived by our brains. Did you know that our ability to receive from the Lord it also improved by praying in Tongues? Praying in Tongues, and meditative prayer in various forms such as repeating scripture, Jesus name, and YHVH calm the frontal lobe of the brain. We gain a greater sense of God’s peace, how we receive from him, and how we create in him. Two activities started me on this path. Back in the 70s,  I started speaking in tongues when I was 14. I had a high school girlfriend, Alicia, that continually nagged me about speaking in tongues and the baptism the Holy Spirit. She was at my house one day after school, nagging me again. I finally got mad. I said, “Alicia if God wanted me to do that, he’d just drop it on me.” She left with hurt feelings. Later, I was helping mom cook dinner no one was in the kitchen and, all of a sudden, these words started falling out of my mouth. I know, you are thinking that is very easy compared to what you went through. But my challenges came while increasing my language. I realized I was saying the same thing all the time, I wanted more words. Then I felt like an idiot. When I hear something simple like bababa. It took me a while to learn just to say it.

The other experience was learning to sit in silence. I read practicing the presence by brother Lawrence, also in the late 70s. So, at that time I knew two things (praying in tongues & silence) helped with peace in the presence of God. What I didn’t know is how much fruit those two things would bear in my life.

I found meditation in the 80s through a crazy nun named Sister Mary Joseph. However, I didn’t know it was meditation. She got kicked out of her Convent because they called her a Jesus freak. She was sent to live on the Peninsula of Washington state with two other nuns. She would hold the most amazing prayer retreats. Only just a few people were allowed each time. I was privileged to attend once. It was small.  I think there were only 5 of us. She taught us to say to prayers with long slow breathes. The first prayer was the Lord’s prayer. The second was this combination of simple phrases. Lord Jesus, son of God, have mercy on me a Sinner. I was in a horrible marriage at the time. My husband was a master manipulator and had to have control of everyone and everything around him. That simple prayer was my moment’s respite from his grip. I had mental arguments over the prayer. Because it said I was a Sinner. I was taught that once you were saved, the Lord saw you whole and complete. Therefore, in his eyes, I was no longer a sinner. But I prayed it anyway because it gave me such great relief and peace.

Through my friendship with Dell Hungerford, I learned that value and power in frequencies. I had already learned that what I was doing back in the 80s with those chanted prayers was a form of meditation. I found myself writing declarations getting up in the morning and breathing and praying most declarations while listening to dell’s music. It helped to decrease stress and give me clarity of mind. Somehow, that once again led me back to the gift of tongues.

As of this year, I have prayed in tongues for 50 years. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve used it in surges. There are segments of my life where I’ve walked away and come back to it. But, looking back on my life, I can see the effect of its use. For 15 years I was the executive of a social services ministry. There were many times when we were facing difficulties and I didn’t know what to do. You know scripture says if you don’t know what to say, pray in tongues. I’d go to bed praying in tongues. I was pleading beseeching the Lord. I was desperate. I’d wake up in the morning with answers and I’d know how to solve the problem.

I did a lot of research on tongues. Believe it or not, there have been some scientific studies. It was found that people who will pray in tongues as they go to bed at night sleep better, sleep more deeply, and dream well. It also has been found that if people will pray in tongues for 20 minutes every day they react less to daily stressors and their bodies function more peacefully.

Next week I will post part 2 of this blog. But for now, try praying in tongues for twenty minutes either when you go to bed or get up in the morning. I encourage you to observe the changes in your life.

If you don’t have the gift of tongues. Contact me through this blog and I will pray with you.

Abundant blessings,

Anna

In a previous post, I shared my vision of seeing and receiving my Crown of Thorns. At that time Father God had given me a spiritual tool to help me endure life’s challenges without feeling a desire to give up. My Crown of Thorns enables me to keep moving into creation, life, and light. It reminds me that I am loved and am not alone.

Since then Father has also revealed a good deal more about the significance of the crown and how, at His crucifixion, instead of mocking the Christ, it was actually one of His highest honors. So too can it be for each of us as well.

First, Christ went to the cross out of love for us. He went to restore us to full relationship with Father God.

Second, any mockery from the Liar toward Christ that came through His executioners was foiled by God’s love for us and by the truth that indeed Christ is King.

Christ’s Love for Us

Christ – to my way of looking at it – went to the cross entirely out of love for the children of God. It was out of love for all persons that empowered the Christ to say, “Father forgive them for they know not what they’re doing.” Christ loved even His persecutors, so much so that He forgave them.

The purpose of Christ’s sacrifice was not – first and foremost – to save us from our sins. For me to think so, I would actually be living in a spirit of fear – fear of hell and damnation. If there is anything to fear it would be separation from God. If you know anything about my life story, separation from God was not what I wanted.

Christ’s sacrificial gift is a gift of life. It is a gift of restoration allowing to move us back into deep, personal relationship with God the Father. The sin issue is minor when compared to our full and complete restoration into relationship.

Christ’s example is a love that we know almost nothing of here in this world. We live in an eye for an eye culture that demands vengeance and retribution instead of forgiveness. In our human condition, we prize justice instead of righteousness. I am convinced that most of us don’t even know what justice and righteous actually are. Most of us in this world seem to believe in a resolution of violence, however mild or severe as if they will solve our problem and make the world a better place. Personally, I’m not convinced that any of us even know what that so-called better place would look like. We’re so profoundly governed by our own self-interests which affect our grasp of these concepts.

Christ as King

In a way, it’s funny how often the Liar tries to mock Christ, God, or the Holy Spirit because he reminds me so much of Wiley Coyote from the Warner Brothers cartoons. Everything that the coyote tries in order to catch the Roadrunner literally backfires on him. That, of course, is what’s so funny in the cartoon and the unmatched futility of both the coyote and the Liar are what amuses me. Mocking God however is not a laughing matter even for the Liar.

At Jesus’ crucifixion, I’m guessing that the Liar thought that he had won. After all, he was killing the Christ, the very Son of God, whom he knew full well had come to save the world. But as it is stated in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, the White Witch had forgotten the deep magic.

So it was that the Liar lead the Roman executioners to mock the Christ with a crown of thorns instead of giving Him the usual gold crown of laurel or oak leaves. Both were traditional in those days.

I firmly believe that Christ wore His crown of thorns joyfully, maybe even with modest pride. That crown spoke truthfully of His Kingship. I’d like to believe that angels by the thousands were singing songs of praise and honor to Him, and perhaps He heard them.

I’ve come to see more in my own Crown of Thorns. For me, my Crown of Thorns is far more than just a wondrous tool that helps me to endure hardship. It is indeed a celebration of my own son-ship as a prince of the heavenly realms – one among billions. My Crown of Thorns reminds me of and reinforces my own identity in Christ, my Lord, and my Brother.

Lew Curtiss is a facilitator and artist with NW Ekklesia. To read more of his story click on the link here; http://nwekklesia.com/artists/lew-curtiss/

 

Pardon me I haven’t visited with you and ever so long. I saw how many people had subscribed to our blog post and I felt remorseful for neglecting you. It’s been over a year since we visited. Last year was a very challenging year. My husband was critically ill. He had heart problems and was in the hospital seven times. He almost died on a few of those occasions. In fact, we thought he only had about a year to live. But you know our God. He is in the miracle business. In October, the doctors called us in for an office visit and told us that his health was much improved. His medical tests are increasingly improved with each test. I think I may have him around for another 10 or 15 years.

Now that the reason for your neglect has been discussed, I’d like to tell you a little bit about myself and why we have this blog. The reason I say “we” is because there will be several contributors to the blog. I am the main contributor. However, you know that this is the NW Ekklesia website. One of our beliefs is that every member is responsible for his or her own spiritual growth. We encourage those in our fellowship to share their wisdom and revelation. We’ll be posting some of those musings here from time to time.

I am almost 64. I grew up in church. I learned all the basic stuff that you may know. Jesus is my savior.  He died for my sins. I believe in confession and repentance. I have been water baptized and the baptized of the Holy Spirit. I speak in tongues. Need I continue? I have served on staff at four churches. I am an ordained minister. As I said, I have done all the basic stuff.  Except, my family will tell you that from birth I was different than them. Before the age of ten, I would have spells of quietude. I would sit quietly and sense God’s presence. My mother worried about me and asked if I was OK. I would tell her yes and that I sensed God or Angels or something. I just wanted to be quiet with them or him. I would tell her when people died. I couldn’t feel their presence here on earth anymore. I knew when women were carrying male or female babies in their wombs. I started having visions in my twenties. I got in trouble and almost got kicked out of my church over that. It was too much for them.

I then swung the other way and tried to get away from my crazy superspiritial side. I got highly involved with the church. I thought the depths of spiritual maturity would be tied up in service to him. It wasn’t. I might as well have been working a secular job. It was full of stress and did nothing to increase my relationship with our creator. It was other parts of my life that increased wisdom from Him and my relationship with Him. Times of solitude, seeking His presence, independently studying topics of faith and the depths of worship revealed more to me than going to church or serving in a church. In fact, the cry of my heart became, “Please dear God, don’t make me sit through one more programmed service.”

In 2012 some of my friends and I started meeting at coffee shops or homes. Eventually, we named the group NW Ekklesia. Ekklesia is the Greek word for believers who come out of a call from God. What do we come to? Genuine relationships and fellowship. We find their identity and purpose. We learn to live from a Kingdom perspective which is an ascended position. (Do you know how to ascend? We’ll teach you.) We learn not to live by the logic. But out of Holy Spirit’s guidance. I could go on and on. and I will.

This brings us to the reason for this blog. We are going to touch on everything related to your growth and finding ekklesia for you. We’re going to talk about the supernatural, Christian mysticism, dreams and visions, and much more. You’re going to read about the pineal gland. New agers and eastern religions call it the third eye. We’ll talk about how God really meant it to be used. We’ll discuss radical healing through entering heaven and trading our problems for God’s gifts. We’ll also talk about sounds and frequencies in new forms of worship. Something that is near and dear to my heart is the current move of God. The age of the organized church is fully realized. Home fellowships (not house churches) are increasing at a rapid rate. If you go to our resource page, you will see some books about it.

I am concluding this post with a request to you. I want to hear from you. Let me know your experiences and questions. I want to help you grow. I will also add a disclaimer. I detest unsolicited advice. If you think I am a heretic, so be it. You are entitled to your opinion and so am I. If you don’t like what I am writing, it’s Okay. But, please don’t think arguing or telling me I am wrong will change anything. Just, save yourself and don’t read any further.

I think we are going to have a great year. I am up for the adventure God has for us. I pray that you are blessed by this blog.

See you soon,

Anna

In my teenage years, I attended a strict fundamentalist church. I read a lot of material that was considered taboo by them.  Just because it isn’t included in the Bible doesn’t mean it’s evil. The book of Jubilee is a great one. It’s the Hebrew oral traditions and stories put in writing. The Book of Giants is one that will cause you to pause and think also. But, my favorite is the book of Enoch. In it, he gives a prophecy of ten weeks. The first seven weeks have manifested. Therefore, I have chosen to give the rest of the prophecy some credit.

 

We are now considered to be in week eight. It reads as follows:

WEEK 8 A sword (91.1213) New house, new heaven & earth future time. The 91.12-13 is where you will find the prophecy in the book of Enoch. The title for the week is “A Sword.” What will happen is a new house, new heaven and the future time of the earth.

 

In early summer of this year, 2017, Michael Danforth said that the time of visitation is over and the season of habitation has come. It rang true in my spirit. But then, like most revelation, I had to wait for the revealing. I started seeing the difference between the two. What happens during a visitation? You are the company at someone’s home or you are on holiday somewhere. The care and maintenance of the places you visit aren’t your responsibility. When you inhabit that changes. Basically, you need to make sure your home is in good repair and hospitable for visitors. It’s also your responsibility to do upkeep on the landscape and ensure no predators are trespassing on our land. Instead of a party, it becomes work.

 

Dean Briggs, in the book Ekklesia Rising, says, “Possession is nine-tenths of the law.” is more than a proverb, it is a spiritual truism. We must not allow the enemy to possess our land by default. Briggs says:

 

“In the final apocalyptic closing of the age, when evil is entirely called to account and meted the justice it is due, God’s retribution among the nations will be swift and shockingly complete. Yet both now and then, our weapons are the blood of the lamb (not the spilling of blood), combined with confession even to the point of martyrdom.  Once more, Lord Sabaoth will stride forth, no longer a babe, nor a crucified Messiah, but with armies from heaven and roaring lambs on earth, to rescue those this world had crushed.”

 

 

We are called to strategically participate with the host of Heaven. God’s mighty army is waiting for us. A story will help. September 9, 2017. Hurricane Irma was preparing to roar up the east coast of the United States. We had already seen it hit the Caribbean. The storm devastated the island of St. Martin. We were told it would take months to rebuild. That day, I was on video chat with my friend Paulette from Anchorage Alaska. She told me that she had seen a wall built in the spirit. It ran from Florida to New York. Angels were leaning into it with their shoulders and holding it up. Paulette told me that God said to stand on the wall and pray. She said that people were to minister peace to the storm and love to mankind. Her description rang true in my spirit. I asked if I could post this information on Facebook. She said yes. People across the U.S. and up and down the east coast responded. Many people told me that they had seen the same thing. One person had drawn a sketch of it. People across the USA were having that vision on Thursday and Friday and praying. I got up Saturday morning and the storm was downgraded to a 4 from a 5. On Sunday it was considered just a tropical storm.

 

 

Mike Parsons says that he has seen the Chancellor’s houses in Heaven. One of them is a house of weapons. There’s an arsenal of love bomb, joy grenades, and peace bazookas.

 

Why did people standing on a wall in the spirit praying work so well? Because Dean is correct. “Possession is nine-tenths of the law.”  It’s our land. Genesis 1:26 says that “He has given us authority over all the earth.” We used God’s weapons from the Chancellor’s house, love, and peace because we have the authority to do so.

 

Personally, that was a lot more fun and effective, than “I come against you in the name of Jesus.” (I used to do a lot of that at one time.) Standing and praying over the storm was real intercession. I am kind of jazzed to see how God has us do it again.

 

This form of supernatural warfare leaves us feeling whole and at peace. The testimony from it gives us hope. To effectively dismantle the enemy through love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness and self-control is so much fun.