In October of 2004, I was in an intense time of seeking God and was given a dream where I saw people in San Francisco starting a new political campaign. They were clamoring about making a banner and they had several hats they wanted to attach to the banner. One of the hats was a WW1 army helmet and one was a top hat like the old politicians used to wear, they wanted to split one of the hats and decided on the cutting the top hat in half. Afterwards they commented how good it looked after they cut it in half  

The WW1 helmet represents and old world warring power and the top hat represents a political movement. The top hat being cut in half means the political power was to be shared between the east and west coast but the warring power was kept in one piece.

He was asked do you really want this power or do you just want to come out here and eat in our fine restaurants? He responded, “I want this position.” I was amazed that all the others present had turned this down but the religious leader wanted this evil power at all cost.

Then I taken by the Spirit to the upstairs landing of our home and was caught in between the powers of the principalities of the West coast and the East coast offering this evil power. When I took one step in front of a window at the top of our landing, I was immediately being sucked in by the powerful force of incredible evil. It sounded like a raging jet engine and it tried to pull me into its evil grasp.  I felt the sting of thousands of needle-like objects hitting my skin as I cried out to Jesus with all my strength! Then the jet engine revved up even harder,  I couldn’t get free from it and began to lose my strength to even speak.

Inside of my being I was crying out “Jesus, Jesus” and prayed in the Spirit over and over again yet there was no one to help me. I felt strength leaving my body and I knew if it did, I would be consumed by this evil power. Suddenly, I was thrown back into my bed with a bounce by the Spirit, I was startled yet glad to be free from that evil force. I looked at the clock and it was 3:16 AM, I began to quote John 3:16 over and over again.

If this had not have been a God-given experience, I would have to classify it as a horrible nightmare but with God I know I’m safe and He will not do anything to harm me. I told my wife, “You never know when you lay down at night what the Spirit of the Lord has for you but you can rest in knowing that He is Sovereign and we can trust Him always.”

In 2004, Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco gained national attention in 2004 when he directed the city clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and later that same year the California Supreme Court voided them. As recent as a few months ago, the California Supreme Court struck down the ban on gay marriages and the mayor quoted from the front of City Hall as a gay couple was married on June 16 of this year saying, “As California goes, so goes the nation!” Now the chant by many gay citizens in the streets of California is, “In all 50 states!”

Even before the official date of June 16, 2008, the governor of New York said that New York would honor the gay marriages in California. Truly they have been sucked into the power of this principality.

California has been the leader to this nation in trends, styles, laws, political issues, market place, media, movies, fashion and much more for many years and all of it is due to the principality, which rules over the region and wants to gain influences in all of America.

Now you know why!

Please don’t think I’m gay bashing by any means, I promise you I am not and never will. I am not talking about gay issues here at all but the result of the evil spiritual influences that all mankind have been up against and how they work to gain influences at the highest level of our governments just as they have always ruled this world since the fall of Adam.

Pray for our nation, pray for our leaders, pray that the church will wake up and come out from among the influence of evil and do as the word says in Rev. 18:4 “I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues.”

See scripture references:

Rom 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Eph. 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. v. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Col. 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Col 2:15 [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Eph. 3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

A few years ago while asleep, I found my spirit man sitting in a room in heaven. Directly in front of me was a large window and I could see the earth down below. I sensed Jesus was standing to my immediate right and slightly behind me. 

I heard Jesus say, “See the problem” as I was directed to look upon the earth, He then said, “This is my word.” He began to declare His word over the problem. When Jesus would say, “See the problem” I didn’t see any problem when I looked out the window at the earth below. It soon became apparent I was in a training class and the instructor was Jesus Christ Himself.

As He spoke His words, everything in my spirit man was filled with the most powerful anointing I’d ever felt, and as soon as He finished speaking, without hesitation, I stood up, pointed at the earth and shouted, “And I release that into the earth!” Then I sat back down and the sequence was repeated all night long as Jesus would point out problems in the earth. He would declare His word over it and I would stand up and release it into the earth.

When I awoke the next morning, my wife asked me if I had experienced any dreams during the night as we do most mornings and I told her that it wasn’t a dream but I was sitting in a room in heaven with Jesus in some sort of heavenly school with Jesus.

The next night I found my spirit man back in heaven sitting in the same chair I had sat in the night before, I was again gazing out the window at the earth. Then I heard Him say, “See the problem” as my attention was focused on the earth below. He then said, “This is my word.” Again when He spoke His word, everything in my spirit man was filled with the most powerful anointing I’d ever felt. As soon as He finished speaking, without hesitation I would stand up and point at the earth and shout, “And I release that into the earth.”

This sequence was repeated all night just as it occurred during the first night.

On the third night I was once again sitting in the same chair, looking out the window towards earth. This time Jesus began to speak and my spirit man was filled with excitement as the “Living Word” spoke. I was about to jump up out of my chair and release what He said into the earth when I heard Him say, “I release that into the earth”.

This caught me off guard because the other two nights I had done all the releasing of His word. I turned to look back to where Jesus was and I saw Him in a cream colored robe walking away from me, and as He walked, He turned His head back towards me and said, “That one was for you.”
That ended three nights of one the most amazing encounters with Christ I’ve ever had. About a year later, while my wife and I were sitting on the patio of a Mexican restaurant, I heard Him say, “Now you do it.” I knew He was referring to the heavenly encounter I had experienced a year prior.
God wants us to recognize the problems in our life, family, church, city, region and world and find out what He says about it in His word and then release the word of God over situations in order to see dramatic change in the earth.

On another occasion about a year later, I received an email from a man who worked at the same company I used to work, the email was very inspiring and I sensed the anointing of the Holy Spirit as I read it. I was very blessed by his words of faith and support and I said, “Lord, bless everyone who prays for us,” Immediately, I heard the Father say, “With what?”

This response surprised me as what I had just said sounded holy, yet God’s response made me pause for a moment as I realized that God can’t do anything with just the word “blessed.” Yes, it sounds holy to say, and we say it all the time when someone sneezes, or as we say farewell to someone, “bless you” or “be blessed,” but it doesn’t give God anything to work with. His word teaches us that we have already been blessed and by just saying, “Bless them” or “bless you” or any variable of these words, gives God nothing to work with in order to truly bless them. “Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ”. Eph 1:3

I began to form a prayer from Ephesians 1 where Paul was praying that we may receive a spirit of wisdom and revelation with understanding of God’s nature.
Eph 1:17-19 “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of our understanding being enlightened; that we may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,”

He once spoke to me in His authoritative voice early one morning while I was in prayer and slowly said, “My people limit Me,”! He used the voice like you heard used in the movie Ten Commandments.
As you can imagine I didn’t move a muscle nor utter a word, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and I was on a crash course in the matter. If you want to see your world change, then speak the word of God over every situation that concerns you and watch God get involved in an awesome way. The prophet Daniel was told by the angel in Daniel 9, “I have come for your words.”

God is waiting for you to open your mouth and proclaim His word over situations! Do it today and you will see God’s mighty right arm extend in the earth and things will change and they will change in a big way.

I pray this gives you some wheels to run on and begin to grow in the dynamic use of God’s word to become a more effective Christian in your community and in the kingdom of God.

In Christ Service
Bro. Bill

So what is the truth about storms that come into our lives and how does God fit into these situations?

Its human nature that when a storm approaches, we want it to go around us or when we’re in the storm we want it to stop and be calm again like before the storm. God knows that the storms in life will cause us to grow in Him. It’s like the body builder lifting weights; it’s the resistance of the weight that is making him stronger and stronger each day he works out. And so it is with the storms that come in our life, as we stand and weather out the storms we get stronger and stronger.

Jesus taught us that there are two foundations to build upon, one is rock and the other is sand. He went on to say “And when the storms come, the house that is built on the rock will stand.” There is a great emphasis on “when” the storms come, not “if” the storms come. “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and {yet} it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.” Mat. 7:25  Over a year ago, the Father gave me a revelation on one of His secrets dealing with the storms of life.

One morning in my quiet time I heard the Father say “I give you a three day fast.” That’s all He said and that was all I needed to hear, I immediately accepted the fast and began to notice that during this time, I was never hungry or cared about food. I didn’t have to avoid being around others when they were eating or cooking, it just didn’t bother me.

Exactly at high-noon on the second day, I was in meditation and I saw a vision of a beautiful nebulous which was pink ion color like one of those NASA images from the Hubbel telescope. I heard His voice say; “You are half-way there.” I knew this voice was speaking about the fast I was currently on, and by the clock and the calendar, I had indeed been fasting exactly one and one half days. I didn’t know why I was fasting but I knew at the end of the three days it would be revealed. This was a supernatural fast and as I said before, during the three days I didn’t get hungry or crave food even while my wife was cooking or eating her meals. When I completed this fast, Holy Spirit gave me Psalms 107-23-31 and Matthew 8:23-28 and said, “They are the same event!” The, He said, “I also created the storm as well”.

 “Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business on great waters; they have seen the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep. For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea. They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths; their soul melted away in {their} misery. They reeled and staggered like a drunken man, and were at their wits’ end. Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distresses. He caused the storm to be still, so that the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad because they were quiet, so He guided them to their desired haven”. Psalms 107:23-31

 “And when He was entered into a ship, His disciples followed Him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but He was asleep. And his disciples came to [Him], and awoke Him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And He saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then He arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marveled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him! And when He was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes”. Mat. 8:23-27

What is the Father saying here? He’s saying that while Jesus was asleep, Jesus spoke to the sea and Jesus called up the storm to be with its winds and rain that tossed the boat and caused the disciples such distress. 

When you are asleep, your spirit man is awake; He’s always awake. I have many experiences while asleep where my spirit man is speaking forth the word, declaring in ways that I understand and that I don’t have the natural ability to perform. There have been times where I was sitting in a desk in a heavenly classroom, being taught secrets by Jesus all night without even remembering what was said the next morning. On two occasions my spirit man left my body to engage in spiritual warfare with various spirits in the earth. The bible has many stories where a particular person’s spirit man was awake and in ministry while asleep through a dream, a vision in the night or caught up in the spirit. 

My wife and I were on a cruise and I experienced an occurrence.  I had completed twelve weeks and was in the thirteenth week of a “Holy Ghost school” that the Lord had instructed me to do, in which I was to get up and be in quiet time from 3:00 -6:00 AM, 5 days a week.

I read the all the prophets in the Old Testament, prayed and then I would lie down and meditate the last thirty minutes of my allotted time. Now while on this cruise, during my sleep, I heard my spirit man declare, “You are the light of the world!” It had all the force of the Godhead behind that statement it seemed. Suddenly, in a flash, all the cabin lights came on in a brilliant display of power and light. We sat up in bed startled, blinded and with few words to say. I didn’t tell my wife until the next morning what really happened in the spirit when the lights came on. 

What the Lord is teaching us here is that the storm which so frightened the disciples came to them by the power of God, not by Satan, as most people have been taught to believe. How can we can believe that Jesus calms the storms but not that He can cause the storms to blow in our lives to test our faith?  Jesus said, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” It’s safe to say that God allows everything to come into our life except sin and sickness.

The disciples marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the winds and sea obey Him?”

Christian are living lives today in which they are trying to avoid the storms in life, and when they encounter them they want the storms to stop. We’ll stand up railing at the devil for this and for that, rebuking him thoroughly, when in fact, God has allowed the storm to blow into our life. Such storms show our frailty and make us turn to God in an amazing way, and during these events God allows us to be sculptured into something beautiful in His eyes. When your faith and will are being tested, know that there is a sculpture at work in your life. The sculpture may take the form of a person or even a group of people that God will use to chisel away all that doesn’t look like Jesus.

Some storms that come into your life may not have anything to do with you at all, but are about the other people involved. Once again God doesn’t bring sin or sin-related illness on anyone to teach us, but He will allow all manner of situations to come our way in different packages to teach us certain things.

I was in a situation a few years ago in which the company I was working was bought out by another company. Months before the new owner began to replace my management team with theirs, I knew my life was about to change in a really big way. I knew I was in trouble, I was heading into a storm and there wasn’t anything I could do about it.

I wanted to run, but I sensed God had some things He wanted to teach me. I knew I had to weather through the storm and learn now, the first time around the mountain, so I didn’t have to go around again and again. I am pleased to say I did learn what God wanted to teach me and in the process the Kingdom won a great victory in my obedience to stay in the storm and weather it out until it was over. It lasted about nine months but eventually, I was delivered safely to my destination, I made it to shore! I passed the test and I am a stronger, more stable, more effective Christian today because of it. I learned in a few months what many Christian never grasp hold of in a life time, for in the storm we press into God, and we cry out to survive.

An immature Christian only wants to get delivered from the storm, and as soon as he does, he soon goes right back to the way he was living before. The word says “My people perish because of lack of knowledge because they reject knowledge.” Hosea 4:6

There’s no short cut with God, if you quit at any phase in your walk and later come back to God, you will start right up where you left off. You must complete every part of the exams before you’re fully qualified. Indeed, when you have been fully tested, tried, battle hardened, purged, purified and refined, and then you will be as His bridegroom. (Dan. 11:35, Dan. 12:10, Rev. 19:7-9)

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 1 John 3:2

Bro. Bill

Is there proof in the scriptures that God has a sense of humor?

In Exodus 32:7 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted {themselves.} In v.37 Then Moses entreated the LORD his God, and said, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

It appears that the LORD was messing with Moses’ head by not claiming any responsibility for these people. A study of the entire history of this story it is quite evident that the miracle of deliverance from Egypt was scripted and empowered by the LORD.

Read some of the humorous stories that clearly show our God does indeed have a sense of humor. Thanks to those who submitted their funny testimonies for this blog.

On one trip my wife and I had spent most of the day in waiting line either to eat, park our car, at customer check in or boarding the vessel. Once on board an in our room I said to God, “This would be allot more fun except for the lines” He immediately responded with, “There’s even a line to get in heaven”. BN

A lady caught me in the hallway of the church and excitedly began to tell me this story about what God had done and all the things that were happening in her life. As she spoke I listened carefully but didn’t hear where God was in anything she had said. After she walked away I said to God “I didn’t get much out of that!” I heard Him say “Me either!” I just laughed as I walked away. BN

At church one night, the preacher seemed to me to be quite ‘flamboyant’ and I told the Lord, “He really is a show-off.” After service, I climbed on my Harley motorcycle and as I left the parking lot, I ran through my five gears as loudly and as quickly as I could. I heard Him say to me, “Is he a show-off, sort of like you?” JN

God had been training me for some time about speaking into people’s lives…He said “It’s very important that you not only SAY the specific words I said…but that you say them IN THE WAY I SAID THEM. If you leave out the compassion or the authority, the message won’t have its full effect in their lives.” I said “Yes, Lord, but I don’t ever want to be SO COMPASSIONATE that I don’t speak tough words when I need to! I don’t want to go too far on the side of gentleness!” He said “You’re not in ANY danger of that!” I laughed because I have never been known to be TOO GENTLE…quite the opposite at times. WM

I was praying for a girl I had been spending some time with that was making poor choices in her life. I was very fervent in prayer, crying, speaking Word over her. I said, “Father, I have such compassion because I WAS THAT GIRL! I remember being where she is & making those choices she’s making! I have felt WHY she’s choosing it and I understand the bondage involved. OHHHH I REMEMBER HOW THAT FEELS!” He said, “Well, you should! It wasn’t that long ago!” I cracked up because He is so funny! WM

For a period time God would wake me up at 3:33 AM and I would seek Him as to what I He wanted me to do. One morning He woke me up at 3:22 AM and I was puzzled as to what this meant. I asked God “Father what does 3:22 mean to you?” I heard Him say “Its eleven minutes before 3:33AM!” I cracked up at His humor. The next morning He woke me up at 3:44 AM. I starred at the clock and just burst out laughing and said “God I don’t even need to ask.” BN

When in a Prayer Service & saw a vision of myself standing with my arms held out behind me. There was a thick substance dripping off of me. I said “OH wow….Lord, is that ANOINTING dripping off of me?!” He said, “No…not yet….that’s the OLD MAN!” WM

On the one anniversary of my survival of a motorcycle accident, where I should have died but miraculously walked away, I just wanted to honor God for His mercy and faithfulness in a very special way. Should I go into my secret place to pray and praise Him? What should I do? So I said, “Lord in ten minutes it will be one year to the day that I survived that awful wreck. I want to honor you in a special way so what would you like me to do?” I heard Him say “I want you to out to the garage in ten minutes and start up your bike and rev it up three times as loud as you can just to let the Devil know you’re still alive and well”! That’s exactly what I did. I rejoiced and praised Him for being the awesome God we serve! BN

About 8 years ago, after a long 5 years staying in offence and reaping much pain and loss in spiritual growth……..and in a “financial hell”….I had occasion to “go there” (to “offence”) again. God said to me as clearly as He has ever spoken to me. He said….”that is an expensive trip…and you can’t afford it.” Oh, how very true….I’ve never forgotten it…..and thankfully have chosen to never make that “trip” again! Hallelujah! B

I was moving a small podium from where it was placed and as I lifted it and sat it down I said, “Father, holy righteous hands have touched this podium” and then I heard Him say, “And just did”. BN

I had been hearing allot of things from God over a period time years ago and one morning during quiet time I asked God for a scripture. I was all excited when I heard Him say Proverbs 12:3. I hurriedly opened my bible and turned to the verse to see what God was saying to me. Proverbs 12: 3 reads, “A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, But {even} the compassion of the wicked is cruel”. I cracked up laughing because I had promised God I would feed the fish in my fish tank the night before and forgot and went to bed. So a righteous man must take care of his animals…BN

Well a few things really stick out more than others so I will tell those. During a time in my early walk with the Lord, Jas and I were living in the little church we pastored. I was in a time of really seeking who God was in my life cause I had always know him (in religion) to be this strict deity who was just “waiting” for me to fall so he could put some disease on my or something…shabush….He was showing me a side of Him that was quite the contrary. In quiet time, I would hear him chuckle…then I would chuckle because He was chuckling. I learned to have fun in the presence of God and laugh with him in those times. During that same time I was asking about moving out of the tiny little Sunday school rooms and perhaps find an apt or house to rent. Wanting to stay in His perfect will for my life I went to Him. In tears I sought His face for guidance and finally, ever so gently I heard him say, “Psalm 23″. Being a familiar passage I began to quote it and he said, “No, read it…” I was obedient and quickly looked it up and my eyes were lead to the bottom part of the passage as it reads,” 6Surely* goodness and mercy* shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.*

I actually heard him giggle inside and say, “Not really….” We moved the following week….JS

I heard one speaker recently tell of how once told him while he was in the pulpit preaching to “livening it up at bit down there, you’re boring us up here!” His method of delivery changed from that day forth.

God’s not religious, stuffy, boring or any of those kind of things. He’s alive, refreshing, vibrant and He has a great sense of humor.
Bro. Bill