KINGDOM LIVING I have over the years been in different situations where I have heard teachings on spiritual warfare and how we are called to deal with it as Christians. There seem to be two extreme that the darkside is happy for Christians to take up. One is described as being so obsessed by it that we see demons under every rock becoming over stimulated and neurotic and the other is that we totally dismiss it and don’t engage at all. It is dismissed as superstitious ignorance and now that we understand the mind, we no longer need simplistic explanations for abhorrent behavior. Often these approaches are manifested by people who are really not living in the real world. When you look at all the situations around us that are not healthy you begin to realize that maybe there is more going on in the spirit realm than not. And complacency is favored by the deceiver. Have you ever been in a place where you heard a teaching and there was a sense of “O my Goodness, now I get it, now I get what is happening and dang it why did I not hear this teaching years ago?” Well I found myself in this position this week as I listened to a teaching from a lady by the name of Dayna De Silva. It was on the subject of Atmospheres. You have probably heard the song – “Holy Spirit You are Welcome Here” by Jesus Culture. The second line says “come flood this place and change the atmosphere.” The “atmosphere” may be a new buzz world in Christianeze but it seems to be something which has affected the human race since the beginning. But as usual coming out of Bethel there is a freshness and a reality to the teaching. Often it is in the practical application of a theology that we fail. I remember a dear friend telling me that before I came to minister at a church she belonged to, she only knew about the Holy Spirit. But after I arrived and began to minister and teach, she learned how to practically encounter, engage, experience and be empowered by the Holy Spirit to minister. This is one of those moments for me. So I am writing recommending this resource from the place of an enthusiastic, enlightened, excited apprentice whose board has just been lit up. I am hope that I can encourage you to go and do your own study. amazon/Atmospheres-101-Dawn-Silva/dp/1604454555/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415893870&sr=1-1&keywords=atmospheres+101 and also her teaching on the bethel website: https://shop.ibethel.org/products/shifting-atmospheres
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:19:51 +0000