SURPRISED by Father’s Compassionate Intervention

Posted on March 1, 2019 by thelivinghopeblog

Fatigued by a battle I didn’t know I was in, the only reaction I could manage was to keep putting one foot in front of the other. My son and I remained grid-locked in an impasse over an issue with his education.

Further, I was completely alone in terms of God and people. On one hand, that’s not true because the Lord Jesus Christ promised to be with me to the end of this age, and I did have people who loved me praying for me. On the other hand, I thought that this education/school concern fell in the realm of my responsibility, not God’s, so it never crossed my mind to pray about it. I didn’t understand, at that time, that any situation which faces and concerns us, faces and concerns our Heavenly Father. Regarding people, several real factors prevented me from being able to communicate the deep and continuous angst of this battle-disguised-as-a-situation-in-the-clothes-of-education.

With complete awareness that this incessant, unresolved conflict over the education issue was eroding our relationship, I felt completely powerless and hopeless to change it, dreading where this would take us in his future teen years.

The only reaction I accomplished was to keep showing up every day—and occasionally cry.

Somewhere in the midst of this disruptive, pain-filled time, I received a promise from the Father through a prophet friend that He would intervene, that He would change our interactions, and that He would grant solutions.

What hope! What surprise!

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Father then reached ‘round the world and scheduled a visit from two lovely women with mothering and worship/intercession gifts. In the midst of a demanding traveling schedule, they stopped by to visit. I came to honor and celebrate them, but ended up pouring out my heart over the contentious, continual stress and struggle with my son because they made it a safe place and due to the preparation (unbeknownst to me) of the Holy Spirit.

They listened, prayed for me, and then one woman had a simple word of knowledge that provided me direction to make a change. That simple change, which I received by faith from Holy Spirit through her, started ripples which changed EVERYTHING.

The battle we didn’t know we were in–ended. Father, true to His word, intervened also with my son and began adjusting emotional perspectives and thought patterns in him as well. That change point marked the beginning of healing our relationship.

I learned, once out of duress, that my son and I were in a battle for a purpose. However, we honestly did not have the strength to make it out with our own weapons at the time.

In His gracious goodness, Father saw our unarticulated pain and suffering, and moved with His famous compassion, intervened. He set our feet on a firm place and restored us.

Beloved, Holy Spirit reminded me of this testimony of Father’s goodness and compassion to share with you today because it’s His intent to intervene for you, too.

My Prayer for You

Father, thank You for Your gracious goodness and famous compassion to notice our trials, battles, and afflictions even when we don’t understand that we are in one. Father, search out the stress, duress, strain, and battles of Your beloved sons and daughters, and do for them what You did for me. See their affliction, send Your word, lift them up, arrange help—reaching around the world to schedule the perfect help and perfect ministry connection for their personal situation, help them recognize and implement any direction You release. RESTORE and do much more. Father, send as many angels as necessary to clear out their space and to minister to them, and bring Your will to bear on these battles to end them and establish Your sons and daughters, and their families, in Your magnificent, good plans in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2019

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Grace of Unity for LIFE

Posted on February 21, 2019 by thelivinghopeblog

“New York City in the 19th Century probably surpassed all others in political corruption and depraved popular culture; often the two were bound up together. One aspect of that depravity related to the extent and popularity of abortion, especially among the wealthier inhabitants” (Bill Potter, “Leslie Printice Leads Anti-Abortion Rally, 1846, landmarkevents.org).

Change Your Day, Change Your Life,

Change Your City, Change Your Nation

Leslie Printice, recently widowed, was stirred to action when the Holy Spirit moved on the passionate truth-based words of her pastor. In that unlikely time, as an unlikely activist, Leslie singularly stood against the kingpin woman who spearheaded the abortion industry in New York City. In addition to opposing abortion, Leslie “established prayer networks, sidewalk counseling shifts, and alternative care programs with Christian doctors” (landmarkevents.org).

Though she did not live to see the complete fruit of her work, her work laid the foundation for a future governor, Theodore Roosevelt, to set tougher legislation and enforcement in the abortion arena.

Day of Mourning

You’ll remember the hideous display in NYC which the current governor sanctioned to “celebrate” late-term abortions.

Excellent activist Elizabeth Johnston has called for and organized a solemn assembly on February 23, 2019, in response to the depravity in New York, whose roots go way back in the soil of America.

For years, men and women of integrity and intercession, such as Lou Engle with The Call and Nita Johnson with World for Jesus (and many others) have been leading corporate repentance, prayer and fasting for our nation (nations) and abortion. There is much seed in the ground.

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NOW Strategy in Vision

It’s time now for the corporate body of Christ to engage.

In 2016, Victoria Boyson penned a vision she’d received of the spirit of abortion and the triumph of intercession over it. In that vision is a strategy. Click here to read.

I’m inviting you to join corporately and to spend some time this week repenting, based on the strategy Father laid out to Victoria in that vision. And to join, in spirit at least, the Day of Mourning organized by Elizabeth Johnston in our times. She has asked the nation (and this is a body of Christ issue) to: 1. Wear black 2. Don’t shop. 3. Close business. 4. Repent for abortion.

Grace of Unity for LIFE from Father

Here is good news.

There is grace from our Father for unity for life in this time portal.

We’re in the month of Adar, a time for overturning curses! At the Superbowl 2019, Father gave a sign. Regardless of our personal football preferences, the Father uses physical things to give spiritual signs or markers.

The Patriots won 13 over the Rams 3.

A patriot is “one who loves his country and supports its authority and interests” (Webster’s Dictionary). One who loves his/her country loves its sons and daughters, knowing that the best interest of the country is to have healthy generations to come.

The rams are part of sacrifice in the Old Testament and point to the finished work of Christ on the cross, as both the symbolic ram caught in the thicket to affirm Abraham’s faith, and the literal lamb slain from the foundation of the world whose blood bought men and women from every tribe and tongue as the redeemed.

What Father spoke to my spirit was this: “The patriots, brought to unity because of the blood of the Lamb, are “brothers” (though both genders are completely included in this) in the land spoken of in Psalm 133. Their coming together in agreement and harmony release a great grace. They have been given a GRACE of unity for LIFE in this NOW time from Father according to Psalm 133.”

“How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity! It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down upon the collar of his robes. It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore” (NIV, Psalm 133).

In light of His precious grace extension to us, I’m inviting you to enter into His grace of unity for LIFE in this NOW time.

Prayer Strategy to Repent, Remove, Restore!

Sample below. Read it first. As you move into prayer, pause and add what the Holy Spirit reminds you of.

This needs to be prayed first personally, then it can be applied to your family, the body of Christ, and after that, your nation for maximum impact (see Family Application below).

Father, blind the eyes of the enemy, deafen their ears, hide me in the secret place. Please cover me with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank You that I can come to Your throne 24/7. I give You praise and thanks and honor and glory for sending Your Son to overcome and to give me His triumph.

I confess, repent for, reject and renounce every personal and generational agreement with death and desolation.

–         Every idolatry

–         Every bloodshed

–         Every broken covenant

–         Every immorality

–         Every political mindset and expression, including distraction and dissension

–         Every death type, including abortion

–         Every law based mentality, including sin and death

–         Every stubbornness, disobedience, rebellion, control and manipulation, witchcraft and divination

–         Every desolation of generations

I confess this personally and generationally, all that I know, and what I don’t.

Every thought pattern and belief system

Every agreement with darkness

Every judgment I made

Every vow I made

I receive Your forgiveness and extend it to my family to the core to Adam, to myself, to my present family, and to everyone else I’ve injured.

I command all this sin on every level uprooted out of me and sent to the Cross.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I take His authority over every spirit of the law, of sin and death, of fear and punishment, of every judgment, pride, shame, blame, accusation, condemnation, political spirit, all idolatry, bloodshed, broken covenants, and immorality, every spirit of abortion, every stubborn, disobedient, rebellious, controlling and manipulative, witchcraft and divination spirit, and every other dark spirit, defilement, darkness, deception, and their operatives and minions, named and unnamed to the core to Adam. You are bound, uprooted, and sent to the Cross with violence if necessary by the angels.

I am washed clean with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and His blood is sprinkled on my conscience to the core to Adam.

Holy Spirit, go deep, and remove the roots, fruits, and side-effects. Fortify me with Your power and make me excellent like the Lord Jesus Christ as You change me by Your power into His image. Lord Jesus Christ, rise up within me with healing in Your wings and beams, and light therapy my wounds and memories until I am completely healed. I give You freedom. Father, I relinquish my mind and heart for You to heal. Please deliver, heal, redeem, restore, reintegrate, and rebuild me to the core to Adam. I give You freedom to do Your deep work–as far and wide and deep and high as this goes. Please seal all this in me by the power of the Holy Spirit, and rearguard and seal me and this work, in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I release it all to You, amen.

Family Application

Don’t forget to apply this to your family! Remove the spiritual virus.

Father, please receive, apply, and activate these prayers on behalf of . . . (your close family: father, mother, husband, wife, sons, daughters). I confess their sins in these matters. Please wash it out of them, out of existence, and off their records. I decree in accordance with the Lord Jesus Christ that their sins are forgiven and their debts are released. Please activate all this in them and on their behalf. Seal it within by the power of the Holy Spirit and rearguard and seal them, and all the progress made to this point, with Your glory in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

Decree

In the supremacy of the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, I decree that the spirit of abortion shall stand alone. I decree that the spirit of desolation shall not morph into any other form. I decree that life and blessing cover our land, our children, and our generations in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ by His blood, and according to the will of the Father, by the power of the Holy Spirit, amen.

End Well by Removing Burdens and Realigning

Father, I lay all this down. Please take it off me, bring my spirit, soul and body (and family) into alignment with You, and replenish me (us).

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2019

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Destiny Calls YOUR Name in December!

Posted on November 30, 2018 by thelivinghopeblog

All time is not created equal.

An opportunity awaits you, and it’s better than a Christmas present.  May you recognize this opportune moment, which is a kairos time, and move forward with the King as your heart prepares Him room.

Get ready – it’s Destiny Time!

The Spiritual Charge in Time

When God created the world, He set apart the seventh day as holy. He specified certain times—the evening time, the seventh day, the lunar beginning of each month, and cyclical feasts that were charged with His presence. These “times” are invitations to come into His presence and they have a higher spiritual charge than other days.

In a negative sense, Halloween is a spiritually charged time, as the statistical increase for crime and hospitalizations attest.

Genesis speaks of God creating the sun, moon, and stars to mark the times and seasons. The season change marks an increase in the “charge” in time.

Windows of Seasonal Change

There are four windows of seasonal change each year.  There is a measure of grace on each season change, and an opportunity to partner with God to move forward.

March 10-31 – reconciliation with people

June 10-30 – reconciliation with land

September 10-30 – reconciliation to God as Father

December 10-31 – reconciliation with the Lord Jesus Christ as King, and forward movement with personal destiny (in harmony with Jesus as King over your life)

Yes, Turbulence; YES Grace and Flow

Extra grace and ease of flow exist as opportunities in these times.  Conversely, there is also turbulence, as subcontractors for the Father’s ancient enemy have centuries invested in work to defile these times.  The point of the turbulence is to turn us away from the opportunity to meet with Father, Lord Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit and to receive His grace and flow to experience a lurch forward in our lives.

Creative Work in Your Heart

Many of you carry a creative and/or redemptive work in your heart.  A book.  A series of articles.  A word of healing grace. A creative song or painting or artwork. A ministry, etc. 

Some of you have carried it so long, experiencing many dead ends and disappointments that you have said in your heart, “It is too late.”

Dear one, it is not too late.  You are just in time!

The Body of Christ, and the world, needs what our Heavenly Father placed in your heart. I bless your heart and ask Father to help you bring it forth!

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The Lord Jesus Christ KING of Destiny!

Listen with your spirit to the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ:  “Now is the time to settle yourself.  To quiet yourself from the hustle and bustle of the holiday rush.  To set aside time to meet with Me, the Lord Jesus Christ, as King.  As you sit quietly with Me, in the early mornings, in the late nights, however you are prompted, I will remind you of things I’ve promised you.  When I remind you, write it down.  Spend time purposefully listening, waiting, writing.  If you do, you will experience greater forward propulsion than you have known.  There’s a reason these things are in your heart.  There’s a reason for all the time you have had to wait.  I AM now ready to draw these things out, for the time to prepare the place for My people to eat from My table is at hand.”

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2018

 

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Pure JOY!

Posted on November 2, 2018 by thelivinghopeblog

Joy is an essential fruit of the Holy Spirit.

A world in seeming 24/7 crisis, personal distress, diligent labor, and troubles facing family and friends make joy appear irrelevant at best, unattainable at worst.

Babies!

When a baby is loved and wanted, then raised in a positive environment, his or her cluster of pleasure neurons forms naturally in the organic brain. Faced with negatives that come in life, he or she can face it and rebound quickly.

As spirit ministry is added to this mix, not only does the baby have the extreme head start of an intentional love-base in the family, but he/she also has the specific nurture of joy in the spirit which then actively directs his/her soul to rebound as he/she grows.

Baby Boy’s Pure Joy over Trial

I’ve invested in spirit ministry for fifteen years. During that time, countless babies, children, teens and adults have received spirit ministry focusing on joy.

A dear baby boy was born with a hole in his heart, and though much prayer and faith were exerted for healing, he still had to endure a surgery before he turned one year old. The Lord directed me to create a specific joy blessing which his mom spoke to him more than once before the surgery. He literally giggled to my surprise and hers, as she spoke to him about the upcoming surgery, having taken to his spiritual heart the truth to “count it pure joy when you face trials of many kinds,” James 1:2. His parents had invested heavily in nurturing his spirit in the womb, and it was with pure faith he received the direction/blessing from the Lord about this specific trial which he recovered from well.

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Why it’s Prime Time for Babies

It is much easier to minister to babies in the womb and get positive results than with some teenagers, and most adults, because they have so few layers of resistance to work through. (There is hope for teenagers and adults! We’ve just got to approach it with relentless hammer on the rock. The hammer being the word of God and the rock being the resistance. The easiest, gentlest way to apply the hammer to those rocks of resistance is to listen at night to specific portions of Scripture and/or anointed spirit ministry.)

Another reason that it’s easier to build an expansive joy base in the spirits of babies in the womb, and young children, is science that backs the word of God (the kingdom of heaven belongs to these, Mark 10:14). There are different percentages given, but at this government site, it’s said that about 60% of the adult body is composed of water. However, babies are born with about 78% water which drops to about 65% by the time they turn one year of age (Water.usgs.gov).

Sound travels faster in water. In calm water, it sounds amplified as sound skims the surface because water cools the sound and slows it down.

What does that mean?

Sound waves permeate the body’s watered cells, penetrating to the cellular level, faster than sound waves in air only.

At night or during naps, when the baby is in a state of calm, sound is amplified.

During those times (in the womb, as early in life as possible, in a state of calm), playing joy spirit ministry and selected Scripture quickly builds the Kingdom of God in that child, affirming to him/her what the Father placed in his/her eternal spirit. Without layers of resistance, the child’s spirit and organic cells absorb the Spirit-led word and reverberate to that frequency. This investment causes them to grow strong, quickly, in spirit!

“For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,” Romans 14:17 [bold mine].

Teens and Adults

Most of us didn’t have this head start in life for an expansive joy base. Thus, we’re working from the bottom up (our spirits back to Father) instead of from the top down (His Spirit to ours).

It’s true that there are more layers of resistance for teens and adults to spirit growth, and joy base expansion, than for babies and children.

The good news is with the Father that each day is a new opportunity for a fresh start!

It’s also true that the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. And He wants you to have an expanded joy base so that you can move through the troubles and trials of your own life, the traumas and troubles of your family, and the world around you, and get back to joy. As you get back to that place of joy, you can move forward with strength and energy.

We’re pleased to announce the official release of the Pure Joy audio joy soaking album. It’s based on the book by Crystal Wade and Arthur Burk. It’s imparted here by Crystal Wade and accompanied by the anointed worship music of Brenda Taylor. Click here for Pure Joy, available in instant digital download as singles or in an downloadable album (two parts).

Invest in your children, grandchildren, or those to whom you’re ministering.

Personally, use this album to move forward refreshed and energized, as your joy base is expanded, so you can recover quickly and move forward on your path which is eternally significant.

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2018

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SECRET to Move from Accidental to Intentional Parenting

Posted on October 19, 2018 by thelivinghopeblog

Traditional parenting methods tell us to start training and to start it with the child.

May I share some hard-won wisdom with you?

Repeatedly, as I found myself up against a brick wall trying to get my children to embrace His ways, obey, and grow with the ever-present concern that I only have a few years to accomplish this before they’re launched, the Holy Spirit whispered this secret to me: “Start with you.”

It’s backwards from conventional wisdom, much of our learned relating patterns passed down in our generations, and many parenting models.

However, it’s Father’s first order, based on the plank-eye principle in Matthew 7:4: “How can you say to your brother [son or daughter], “Let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? First, take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s [son’s or daughter’s] eye.”

What happens is we, parents, accidentally train our children.

Many bad habits are the result of generational family patterns fueled by dark spirits. Here, as parents, we’re trying to survive daily with what’s going on in our lives and our wounded areas. We thought we were making it through the day, keeping them safe and entertained in the effort “to get them raised,” in my grandmother’s words! The children, however, took it as training. We accidentally train our children in unhealthy patterns in our attempt to make it through the day.

The good news is there is hope!

Each day is opportunity to begin anew and train, or build, intentionally.

How does this work?

The Holy Spirit trained me that “the log” has to be pulled out of me first. Our children and teens follow our lead.

There is a time for spanking and grounding. However, as I was learning from the Holy Spirit, on many occasions that would normally call for such actions, He led me to separate myself and them. I prayed and repented for the anger, frustration, fear, rebellion, whatever it was at the time, in the first person. Then, I asked Him to apply it to my children.

A few times, later, opportunities opened to talk with them, peacefully, about core issues such as noticing why my son became angry and how to handle it. Or, how he could change his words or actions to get a different result.

Many other times, the repentance work I did, starting with myself, not them, gave room for the Holy Spirit to work in their hearts and the situation resolved itself without any further work on my part. Relief!

The Heavenly Father is your Father as well as your children’s. He’s sent His Holy Spirit to help you in the daily work and pressure of raising and training your children. He wanted you to be their parent—and He has wise reasons for why you are their parent. As the parent, He has given you the task of making things better for the next generation. To them, He has given the task of building it bigger.

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This simple order change of facing behavioral and training problems with repentance (me first!) works!

Build with YOU First!

On the opposite side of the spectrum, this also works with building. If you’re working to build a pattern of thankfulness, respect, patience, or follow-through, etc., start with you first. Pray, decree, and practice so this good building is established in you.

As you’re working on you, practice it with them. Model to your children thankfulness by sharing with them what you are thankful for about the Father, about them, about other things, often. Instead of trying to train them in a pattern, start with you. Then, do it to them–show respect, speak thankfulness, tell them you’re working to follow through or be patient. It works!

May Father grace you to shift gears with this secret, simple, but powerful tool from accidental parenting/training to intentional building.

Tools

Please see these blogs for further assistance.

Recover Your Family’s Peace. Discover how to practically recover your own peace so you have “margins” to meet your children’s needs.

Can’t Train THIS Dragon?  Can’t Train THIS Dragon, 2 Recognize and remove strongholds that block good training/building.

My prayer for you

Father, thank You for Your great wisdom and goodness for placing these parents, grandparents and caregivers with these specific children. I lift them up before You, and ask that You would give them grace and space to have room and resources to take care of themselves personally. Please give them greater grace and angelic assistance as greater sin does abound in our times. Please cause them to remember the order of the plank-eye principle when a behavioral or training problem or trouble arises in their children. Please direct their children to obey when the parents call for separation, and anoint the parents’ time and thoughts to be able to pray repentance through in the first person, and apply it to their children (and spouse). Please cause them to experience great joy in You as they see their work of trust and repentance causing great fruit by clearing out the space in their children’s hearts so that the Holy Spirit can direct them in Your paths which are full of life without pain and suffering for the parents, grandparents and caregivers. Bring these families into alignment with Your righteous order that releases abundant life! Grace them to build intentionally on the Rock of Christ Jesus. Restore and do much more in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen.

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2018

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PURE Revolution!

Posted on October 5, 2018 by thelivinghopeblog

What is pure and holy to our Heavenly Father is targeted for destruction by His ancient enemy.

With light from above, we can see where the true battle lies, as darkness has shrouded it on earth, in the air waves and sound bites.

The battle is not between men and women, boys and girls.

The battle is over Father’s value of life, gender, and the physical act of intimacy. Each of which, at their core and in their essence, is pure and holy.

Within the revolution that Father started, of which Victoria Boyson has written, He has initiated a gender revolution which is multi-faceted. 

The cultural revolution of the ‘60s promised, but could not deliver true freedom. However, Father’s revolution is bringing/will bring true freedom that we have never seen before. We will be in awe of the sparkling goodness, beauty, faithfulness, strength, power and authority of men, women, boys and girls.

I grieve over the pain and loss of the girls and boys, women and men, who have endured sexual abuse.

I grieve over the pain and loss of the men and women, boys and girls, who have been falsely accused.

To great disgrace, these have been going on for years, but they are NOW being brought to light as evidence of Father’s revolution advancing.

To that end, may the light, grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ be upon us to aim our prayers, words and actions in the direction that will, instead of making the situation worse, yield the results that we desire.

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Would you join me in His pure revolution?

“Father, cover us with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, blind the eyes of the enemy, deafen their ears and hide us in the secret place.

Thank You for Your pure and holy gifts and deposits of life—the life of each person You created. Thank You for Your pure and holy gifts and deposits of gender—each specific gender that You created with great wisdom and goodness.

Thank You for Your pure and holy gifts and deposits of physical intimacy which You graciously gave to marriage between one man and one woman.

Father, we confess we have taken Your good and gracious gifts and walked in agreement with darkness and destruction over them. Through agreement with darkness of all kinds, we have allowed doors and gates of violence to open, and abuse, destruction and accusation to flow through. By Your redemption and will, cause these doors to be shut supernaturally. Please forgive us, wash us clean with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ to the core to Adam. Rebuild these places! Fill them with Your Holy Spirit! Supernaturally make them holy and honorable again, filled with Your light, presence and glory!

We command the doors and gates to OPEN UP for the King of Glory to come in, the Lord strong and mighty, mighty in battle! We ask that the King of Glory open up the doors and gates for supernatural deliverance, healing, comfort, justice, restoration, recompense, Your revolution and HONOR. In short, COME YOUR KINGDOM BE DONE YOUR WILL ON EARTH, FATHER, as it is in Heaven, with HONOR TO YOUR NAME!

Father, we ask for Your supernatural deliverance, healing, comfort, Your justice, restoration and recompense for each one who has suffered sexual abuse to manifest as You drop the gavel and release Your angels to facilitate it—paid for by the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Father, we ask for Your supernatural deliverance, healing, comfort, Your justice, restoration and recompense for each one who has suffered abuse, dishonor, cursing of any kind to their personhood and gender to manifest as You drop the gavel and release Your angels to facilitate it—paid for by the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Father, we ask for Your supernatural deliverance, healing, comfort, Your justice, restoration and recompense for each one who has suffered false accusation over these acts of violence to manifest as You drop the gavel and release Your angels to facilitate it—paid for by the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Father, give greater grace in place of these greater sins. Father, cause the tide to turn TODAY with great grace for reconciliation to Your Revolution that will set to right the wrongs and grant the true freedom and restoration which we desire.

We lay these grievous burdens down at Your feet, please take them off us and bring our spirits, souls and bodies into alignment and harmony with You as You re-energize us.

Restore and do much more, in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2018

Victoria Boyson’s book, “Revolution: The White Horse Rider” gives an eagle eye perspective (Heaven’s viewpoint) on Father’s revolution.

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Can’t Train THIS Dragon, 2

Posted on August 10, 2018 by thelivinghopeblog

If you recognize this in your family, you’re dealing with strongholds. Almost 100% of the time, these strongholds did not start with your children, but rather in previous generations which is why they have such strong holds.

Another way these strongholds develop is through our reactions as parents.

It’s a knee jerk response to come unglued when your teenager speaks in a disrespectful tone or manner. Before you go ballistic, let me speak on behalf of your teenager. No person, no matter their age, knows how they are coming across until they get feedback. It’s not instinct—it’s a learned response–to know how we are coming across.

Your teenager who sounds disrespectful is, most often, unaware of what exactly they are doing in their pain and anger that is pushing your buttons.

What they need is 1. peace and 2. patience from us as parents and 3. feedback with 4. training in the right way to go.

Usually, what they get is negative feedback, anger flare-ups, and grounding which doesn’t accomplish transformation!

Thus, we get in these cycles. They sound disrespectful, you’re tired and your buttons are pushed, because you’re 100% sure they are rebellious, and then anger explodes. Everyone is now wounded, and if that’s not cleaned out before the sun goes down (the unforgiveness, anger and mutual-but-untrue- judgments-against-each-other), then that stronghold has morphed larger in one day, in your family, under your nose!

What looks like a rebellion stronghold in them is a stronghold combo fueled by: fear and exhaustion, lack of patience and peace = lack of training. That led to anger flare-ups and unforgiveness which lends strength and building materials to that stronghold.

It’s the same with your elementary school child who refuses, again, to do a task.

It’s not just a strong hold in them, it’s a strong hold in the family fueled by a negative learned pattern (habit) which is empowered by dark spirits.

To get it out effectively, you’ve got to go for the root in the whole family. We’ve got to root these out of our families, not just our children.

Uproot It

First, when you’re praying to tear these down, it’s important to not even confront the children. They are just being jerked around like a dog on a chain. They have very little control of their behavior when the chain gets jerked.

Thus, strongholds block the training process you’ve been trying to implement with them—like mutual respect for siblings, good work ethic in school, healthy anger release, etc.

You’ve been trying to train them, and your training has been blocked because “you can’t train your demon.”

Second, when you’re praying to tear these down, it must be torn down for the whole family. You may not think you have an anger issue, jealousy or pride, especially compared to theirs, but Scripture says, “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it” (James 2:10). So, if your son has 65% anger and you have 5%, there will still be a stronghold in the family. Our “stuff” engages “their” stuff. Unfortunately, we, as parents, often add fuel to the fire as we react to their lack of training. A very ugly and repetitive cycle. We have to get rid of the whole thing.

Third, after you’ve torn it down in prayer, there is usually still traces of it left in habits that have been formed. The dark spirits have been evicted, but while they were there, they formed connected neuron clusters in the brain which don’t go away overnight UNLESS the Lord does a supernatural deliverance, healing and visitation which He is known to do! If you find yourself with those traces after dealing with this in prayer, be encouraged. These connections in their brains and relating will dissolve fairly quickly by your leading the charge—to be the first to apologize when you stumble in that area, to be working with the Lord on your own issues, and to play Scripture, worship and/or the blessings overnight for their spirits’ health and in the house as much as possible.

My Prayer for You

Father, thank You for these parents, grandparents and caregivers. Grant them laser precision to detect which strongholds are at work; protection, time, space and grace to deal with the strongholds; strength, resolve, supernatural wisdom and greater grace as they heal themselves and their children and grandchildren from the habits formed while the strongholds were operative; and divine favor and grace to soak in Your presence in person and by audio so that Your Holy Spirit forms the patterns in them that are true and right. Give them greater grace in life, and even with unexpected help, so that they can put as much as possible in neutral gear in order to deal with the stronghold combos that You reveal to them. Remind them in the moment and empower them in the moment of trouble by the power of the Holy Spirit how to move forward or just to step back emotionally. Help them remember what You want them to remember, and forget what You want them to forget. Restore, restore, restore and do much more in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

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Stronghold Prayer

(Note: Below is a prayer guide to help accelerate this for your family. Feel free to change or adjust the words as led by the Holy Spirit. We’ve made major progress at a stronghold, demolishing huge sections of their houses in one day as He’s turned the light on for us to recognize what we were dealing with. However, most of them have taken some time. As in, more than one day, more than one prayer. You will succeed. While you are working on one of these stronghold combos, give yourself grace and space to not try to accomplish anything big, or to try to make progress on training your children in this time. Put as much of life in neutral gear as you can to deal with this. That is the fastest way through.)

Uproot it Personally

Father, I confess, repent for, reject and renounce every word, thought, and action, every wrong vow and wrong judgment, every heart motive and root of anger (fear, anxiety, stress, worry, doubt and unbelief, hopelessness, pride and arguing with rudeness, shame, blame, unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, hatred, murder and violence, stubbornness, disobedience, and rebellion, control and manipulation, witchcraft, jealousy, lust of all kinds, darkness of any kind, deception, fill in the blank) from myself and my family line to the core to Adam. I confess every time I separated from You, myself, and that core community You called me to (family—physical and spiritual) and aligned with the world, the flesh and the evil one and walked in these crooked places.

I receive Your forgiveness and release it to my parents and ancestors to the core to Adam. I receive Your forgiveness and release myself. I receive Your forgiveness and extend it to my family, and any other person I have injured through my sin.

Take Your big sword and cut me free from every wrong alliance and negative soul tie in these places. Heal and restore me, in these places, all that I have lost and every place I’m injured.

Separate me from every one of these sins on every level to the core to Adam, and I release them all to the Cross. Wash me clean with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and sprinkle Your blood on my conscience to the core to Adam.

Separate me from every dark spirit of any kind (fear, anger, pride, rebellion, wrong judgment, etc.) known and unknown, with their operatives and minions, known and unknown, in any time, space, place or dimension, to the core to Adam. I hate them, I don’t want them. I take Christ’s power and authority over them and decree they are bound in fetters and shackles of iron and taken under angelic guard, with violence if necessary, to the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ for His jurisdiction and sentence.

I dedicate all these places to You, Lord Jesus Christ. Heal, rebuild and fill me with Your Holy Spirit.

Lord Jesus Christ, extract me, spirit, soul and body, from every place that I am in darkness—and deal with the darkness. I come out of hiding and where I imprisoned myself. Lord Jesus Christ, help and strengthen me as I step out.

In all these places, permeate me with Your light and Your Glory to heal me in every wounded and injured place to the core to Adam. Keep permeating me with Your light day and night until healing is complete in those places. Holy Spirit, deeply distribute (massage) the agape love of Father into my heart to the core to Adam.

I dedicate to You, Father, my desire to be a peaceful, patient parent who raises children spirit first, and who has a family who loves, serves, honors, and walks with You, whole-heartedly (add your desires here). Where I have sinned in those desires, I confess, repent for, reject and renounce every sinful word, thought or action, and ask Your forgiveness. Separate me from the sin, and destroy it all at the Cross. Wash me with Your blood, Lord Jesus Christ, and sprinkle Your blood on my conscience to the core to Adam. I dedicate these desires to You. Let Your fire fall on them; burn up the bad and purify the good. I entrust these desires and their fulfillment to You, Lord Jesus Christ, to Your care.

Lord Jesus Christ, Good Shepherd my heart, and cause me to resound to Your peace through Your blood frequency as You transform me by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit, seal all this in me to the core to Adam. Father, please rearguard and seal me with Your Glory in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

Uproot it from the Family

Father, please receive, apply, activate these prayers for my family (name them). I confess their sins in these matters. Please wash these sins out of them, out of existence, off their record to the core to Adam.

I decree their sins are remitted. Please seal this work within them by the power of the Holy Spirit and rearguard and seal them with Your Glory to the core to Adam in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen.

Father, I lay all this down, please take it off me as I release it to You for Your full intervention. Align my spirit, soul and body with You, Father, Son and Spirit. Replenish and resupply my strength, energy, power, life and virtue in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2018

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Can’t Train THIS Dragon?

Posted on August 3, 2018 by thelivinghopeblog

Have you tried everything to get your child to do something that must be done to no avail?

We’re talking things that must be done. Civility. Help at home. Safety. Schoolwork.

Maybe you’ve attempted to give positive feedback, to give grace and space, to cut down on the amount you require, to fill in their gaps, to learn from other wise sources in parenting, etc. Yet, at the end of the day, he or she still has an anger issue or obedience problem, etc. Your child stands the victor and you’re exhausted.

It’s as if civil war breaks out, and you have to gather enough strength to go for another round.

A few years ago a movie emerged entitled “Train Your Dragon.” I’m not advocating the movie, but here’s the clincher—You Can’t Train Your Demon.

As much as we’ve poured into nurturing them spirit first, yes, our children can pick up dark spirits as a matter of their existence (it’s in our family lines and in our world). Yes, they can pick them up from trauma. Yes, they can pick them up from social interaction. However, daily cleansing can keep them clean. Daily interactions don’t cause these types of resistance unless they are left to germinate. (Here’s a good starting point daily cleansing prayer.)

Father, grant these parents, grandparents and caregivers grace to make daily cleansing for their family a priority and a habit in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen!

Take a deep breath.

That civil war effect is what it looks like in a family to be head-butting a stronghold. A stronghold is a place of dark spirits (of whatever variety) that’s built on lies that have been ingested as truth.

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John and James* were brothers who barely had a civil word to say to each other. Tempers flared high over slight infringements, and when fists flew, things got ugly fast.

Even at a young age, Frank* threw a massive temper tantrum most times his mother engaged him in schoolwork. When he was allowed to do it on his own, he usually kept a level head. However, when she required that he spend supervised time in order to check his progress and to help him with any potential gaps he had, Frank went ballistic.

They’re not the only ones.

Gideon, the mighty man of God who liberated Israel from Midian, succumbed to his family stronghold. Gideon obeyed the Lord, acted under the direction of the Spirit of the Lord, and accomplished epic feats. However, the idolatry stronghold pattern trumped the pulse movement of the Spirit of the Lord, and he did not break free.

In John and James’ case, the stronghold was a combination of jealousy, unforgiveness and anger with pride.

In Frank’s case, the stronghold combination was fear and anger.

In Gideon’s case, the stronghold combination was idolatry, fear and pride.

The good news is: Once you see what it is, you’re almost out!

. . .to be continued.

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2018

*names have been changed.

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The Spirit of the LORD with Our Children’s Spirits

Posted on June 28, 2018 by thelivinghopeblog

I love the true stories in Scripture which go epic. The sure fire way to ascertain if the story will go epic quickly is contained in these key words: “The Spirit of the Lord came upon. . . .”

For years, I’ve grappled with the question—how can a person who moved in synchronization with the Spirit of the Lord and accomplished such mighty feats end up in such epic failure?

Think Samson whose life ended with him blind and by suicide. Gideon who immediately built a graven image from the gold of the spoils he’d won by the Spirit of the Lord which caused his whole community to sin—and whose rebellious son killed his heirs. Jephthah who made a tragic vow, lost his precious only daughter after a great victory, and died broken-hearted six years later.

I know we live in the New Covenant with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ to cover our sins and grant us freedom, thank God, but not all people who’ve moved mightily in the Spirit of the Lord under the New Covenant have finished well, either.

Father began to reveal to me the difference between the Spirit of the Lord and our spirit, and how it’s His desire for His Spirit to work with our spirit (Spoiler Alert: Success for this endeavor rests on our end!).

When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon a person, Old Covenant or New, epic feats are accomplished.

However, it’s the life lived in the middle parts that determine whether the person will complete their life well or not. Father always ends things on a good note, so He’s on our side to finish well. Thus, it’s up to us to work with Him in order to accomplish the happy ending.

Our children who’ve been nurtured spirit first (and those to whom Father gives an extra measure of grace) have a full-throttle approach to life because of their inner health. They are at a higher level of energy, functionality, engagement, enthusiasm, etc. because of their spirit health.

Because of their inner health thanks to Father and parental investment, they have these strong reactions in their will, emotions, and thoughts (and opinions!). Living with these reactions 24/7 can weary us as parents.

Consider the story of Samson. He was so demanding! Father designed Samson to be a forceful person—in fact, the spirit of might described in Isaiah 11 is connected with strength and valor, indicating force.

Samson demanded his parents get him a Philistine wife. At their reply which accosted his request, but was marked with resignation nonetheless, he bluntly retorted, “Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.” Judges 14:1-3. Honestly, this is not the respectful conversation exchange we’d expect between a grown Israeli man and his law-abiding parents.

It turned out that Samson was right that time—the Lord did intend him to walk in that direction to incite the Philistines. However, the point is that Samson, with his nurtured spirit and the Spirit of the Lord upon him, was accustomed to getting his way, being unrestrained by his parents as he forced his will on them. The force was right; it was Father’s design for Samson, but the direction and self-will-guidance of the force was wrong.

His dad’s response indicates weariness with his son’s constant force, and the resignation that comes from the constancy, Judges 14:3.

Father’s plan for this process of raising children spirit-first is two-fold. He intends for parents to nurture and train the children, and He intends to mature us through them. For Samson’s parents, this would have been to recognize that his forceful nature was Father’s design, to bless it, and to partner with Father to shape it. This would include their they modeling and enforcing healthy boundaries in the family, and helping Samson learn to process his emotions and moderate his responses. That process would have helped Samson’s parents mature as they had to face his forcefulness and overcome their fear and passivity.

Of utmost, eternal importance is this process.

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If we do not engage with our issues with the Father, and stay engaged with our children, they will grow into adulthood with the thought/belief/behavior patterns such as: anger fits are acceptable, self-control is optional, and speaking up is futile, not necessary, and/or not worthy of using respect in conversation, as well as a host of other issues.

Our goal is that when the Spirit of the Lord comes upon our children causing them to accomplish epic feats, that they can walk out the rest of their lives from a heart (spirit and soul) that desires to and follows through with putting Father first-place so that no matter what the mighty works they accomplish they will be able to finish well.

If you’re reading this, you’re called to help prepare your children, grandchildren, or someone in the next generation to be ready for Joel 2:28 so that they can: 1. sustain life with Father daily 2. be ready for the times when His Spirit comes upon them in might and prophesy, and then 3. step back into daily life without undisciplined (or untrained) places sabotaging themselves or their destiny.

To that end, we parents must stay engaged with Father on our issues (this is a daily stance, not 24/7. Father backs our God-designed human need to build in breaks to our lives, rest and rejuvenate, take care of our needs, for sure.). Further, we parents, by dedicating this goal to the Father, by His grace, must not give in to a spirit of resignation, acquiescence or blissful ignorance to our children’s issues as they grow and develop.

My prayer for you:

Father, thank You for these parents, grandparents and caregivers. Thank You for sending the unique children You have chosen to send them for their mutual love and care, and for Your eternal plan in their generations. Please make space and grace in their lives for them to be able to renew and refresh so that they can sustain the marathon of raising their children spirit-first. Please show them what to do and what to drop so that they have continued grace and space in their lives.

Shine Your light and reveal to the parents (and those in the parental role) what You are wanting to work on in their lives specific to the season they’re in, and send Your Holy Spirit to do this work deeply as You strengthen and encourage them.

Shine Your light and reveal to the parents (and those in the parental role) what You are wanting to work on in their children’s lives specific to the season they’re in, and send Your Holy Spirit to do this work deeply as You strengthen and encourage them. Father, give wisdom to the parents on how to approach, grow, and train their children, specifically as You desire and direct, and adjust their “issues” specifically by Your Holy Spirit.

Please release all the resources into their lives in Heaven and on earth in order to work with You in this process of raising/nurturing/training their children and growing in their own personal inner maturity. Restore the years eaten by locusts. Prepare them each (parents and children) in their spirits and souls to be ready vessels for the Spirit of the Lord to come upon them and stay upon them as You did upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Get them ready for the Joel 2:28 outpouring! Restore them personally and generationally, and do much more. Grant them greater grace because of the greater sin that abounds in our days. Quicken them to recognize the opportunities You open between them and You, and between them and their children, and give them energy and desire to act so that the time can be redeemed in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Help, My Children are Healthy!

Posted on June 21, 2018 by thelivinghopeblog

Parenting is no easy task. Raising children spirit first takes much work as it demands engagement to build them intentionally.

Honestly, when we’ve nurtured our children’s spirits, they are in better shape than we are (in many areas).

Father has given these tasks to each generation. To the parents, He’s tasked them to make things better. To the children, He’s tasked them to take what was given and to build it bigger.

Think Abraham. Father called Abraham to leave all that he knew, and to go stake a claim in a new land. Abraham became an immigrant of faith for God. The generation who leaves and immigrates has a harder time of it, as they completely start over.

Isaac received what his father had worked for. From that higher point, and with Father’s blessing, he built it bigger. In turn, Isaac had much more to bequeath to Jacob.

From generation to generation, as everyone does their part, life and blessings build in momentum!

What you’ve had to face in your life – your ceiling – becomes your children’s floor.

This is great news!

As a result of spirit nurture, your work, and Father’s calling, your children are healthy. Marks of health include: 1. Strong will (direction, purpose, etc.!) 2. Strong emotions (desires, passions, reactions!) 3. Strong mind (opinions! thoughts!). 4. Strong spirit (praise the Lord!).

What this looks like in real time is much work to get that strong, healthy child trained.

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Guess what? Not every day do we parents feel like going into Olympic coach training mode! We don’t get the luxury of that singular focus because of the multiples that life has stacked on our plates!

Thus, as a result of their health, our nurtured-spirit children have made life more difficult on us, parents.

Father, I’m asking You for greater grace and times of refreshing and renewal for these parents, grandparents, and caregivers in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

Key ways to make it easier:

  1. Recognize that training/discipline models you’ve been brought up with, or have read, may not work with your child.
  2. Be ready to throw out what you know. Commit your parenting to the Father—whose child both you and your children are. Ask for His wisdom. Be flexible. If one way isn’t working, ask Him for help to solve the impasse and to train them in the way they, personally, are designed by Him to go.
  3. Repent daily. Your children have inadvertently made life harder. They may have the strength of Samson. The fortitude of John the Baptist. The creative/expressive-worship anointing-leadership calling of David. The faith of Abraham. This is healthy, good and right. They’ll win big with Father in life. But, your life was harder today and this season having to wrangle them. Every evening, confess your anger and unforgiveness with them to the Father, asking His forgiveness, so that the Father’s enemy does not use their good gifts of strength and health to push his foot in your family’s door, Ephesians 4:26-27.

by Crystal Wade, copyright 2018

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