Keys To Walking In The Spirit

by Ps. Margaret Ochsner

KEYS TO WALKING IN THE SPIRIT: PRAY DAILY.

1. Embrace life. Embrace enjoyment of life.
Embrace Him, who is life itself and all that He has for you that day.

2. Put on the armour of God. (Ephesians 6:11-18)
Romans 13:14 "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts.  Galatians 3: 27 ….have put on Christ. (I picture putting on the Lord Jesus Christ as I put on the armour of God.) He is our truth, our peace, our shield , our faith, our righteousness, our salvation and the Living word of God. When we put Him on in all that He is, when the fiery darts come from the enemy, He will deflect them.

3. Submit your mind to Christ. – conscious, subconscious, unconscious mind, your imagination, every facet of your thinking to come in line with him. Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:23; 1 Corinthians 2:16. Ask God to alert you if you get off track.

4. Submit your will to Him. Ask Him to help you be obedient to what He wants that day. (To love Him is to obey Him. We are not our own. We are bought by the precious blood of Jesus.    1Corinthians 6:19-20; 1 Peter 1:18-19. Give Him permission to alert you if you get off track.

5. Submit your emotions to Him. Ask Him to birth His heart in you. To help you, love with His love, operate in His compassion and strength.

6. Ask Him to shield you from hurt, so as long as you are in right standing with Him nothing else matters.

7. Submit your tongue to Him.  Ask Him to purify and sanctify your tongue. Ask for His words of encouragement and life to be on our tongue, His words in our mouths. Give Him permission to zip your tongue until your mind is in gear with Him.

8. Free others to be where they are at. We are all in different places on our journey of life and God loves and accepts us where we are at. Ask Him to help us love and accept them also.

9. Come and get a fresh download of anointing - for what you need and more to give out of for that day. ASK, BELIEVE and RECEIVE by FAITH God’s love, peace, wisdom, strength and grace to fill you and more to give out of to others. Receive whatever else you may need e.g. acceptance, affirmation, validation, His power, authority, provision, protection, guidance etc. (Everything that is Christ’s is yours ) Romans 8:17

Poem - Asking The Right Questions

by David Robinson
Forerunners Ministries UK


Whilst being poured a drink of life, I was asked to, “Say ‘WHEN.’”

I said, “WHAT?”

He said, “No WHEN.”

I said, “WHY?”

He said, “No WHEN.”

I asked, “HOW did you know I needed a drink?”

He said, “No WHEN.”

I asked, “WHO are you?”

He sang, “WHEN I survey the wondrous cross, on which the Prince of Glory died…”

Hearts Hardening and Growing Cold

by Belinda Jabore

I saw an onslaught of small to medium meteorites coming at us this year and hitting us (the body of Christ).
On asking the Lord what this is, I believe He showed me that this year there was going to be much testing and trials and hearts hardening and growing cold towards the Lord and people. There will have to be a greater level of obedience to the Lord and dying to oneself and to the things we thought were going to happen. Some Apostles and Prophets have been through this already and are out the other side but it will come to the body of Christ this year in a larger scale and we will feel like we are getting bombarded with this stuff to distract us from our call and focus on the Lord. But the Lord wants us to be pre-warned about these things which will in fact bring us closer to Him.
These things that will come against our mind, our will, our heart and our emotions in the way of Disappointments; Bitterness; Resentment; Grief; Sorrow; Anxieties; Sickness; Depression; Feeling like we will loose our mind; Things not going the way we thought they would go; False and ungodly expectations towards others and the ones you hold closest (letting that go); Loved ones doing the wrong thing against you; Finances stretched to the max and little of them, (a glimpse of a Job experience) and the loss of friends and things we love more than the Lord. The intent if we let it, is to bring a hardening of our hearts and turning cold towards the Lord which allows in unbelief, bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness to reside in our hearts. We will say things like: “How could this have happened to me? Why is this happening to me and my family? Lord, what is going on?” We will feel like fainting and giving up but I want to encourage you not to give up and keep focused on the Lord. Running into Him and not away from Him and even though we feel we can’t feel Him or see Him through these things, be assured that He is at hand and with you in it.

Any of the things above that I have mentioned - take them, feel them, don’t just put on a ‘stiff upper lip’ and move on - examine them as to why they are there and your reaction to them. Separate the issue from the person and confess them to the Lord. Sort the issues out with Him. Refuse and repent of them if they do not line up with His heart and apply His promises and His Words to them. Say to Him, “I don’t know why this has happened Lord but I choose to trust and hope in You no
matter what.”

Philippians 4:4-14 I have had this scripture on me for at least 2 years now and in the tough times it got me through even when I thought I wouldn’t make it but you see the Lord guarded my heart and mind in Him, either I believe that He gave me that word or not. It is that simple but that complex. I would picture Jesus and the power of His Holy Spirit put His hand over my heart and mind when I felt like I was going to loose it. When I would panic about being sick or becoming anxious over an issue (the ‘what ifs’). I would picture Him there knowing He was there with me in it and through it. When things seemed hopeless He was my only hope. He was always faithful to me and would always rescue me from myself mostly. Unfortunately some of these things do not go away straight away but don’t be fearful of them. Jesus himself was acquainted with grief and sorrow and all these things that I have mentioned above (the ‘what ifs’) but He took them on the cross for us. He overcome them for us today! We know this in our head but is it in our heart? Even though we may feel weak and defeated and have failed. The truth is the Lord has not left us in the trials and testings as He will never leave us in our darkest hour or forsake us in our darkest hour. He is with us in and through the trials and testings and this will show what we are made of. In our weakness He is strong! He is in it with us and we must look for Him in it.

Weaknesses are then turned and they become an agent of strength in Him. Psalm 116:15 says Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. So we will go through a greater dying to oneself daily further and further into Him, not letting anything or any one stop us. He will deliver us in due time. We will have a lot of deliverance this year too if we let Him. Things must drop off as well as anything that will hinder us from His presence. Then we will walk into our promised land that He has promised us if we are willing to die to anything that would keep us from Him and whatever these trials and testings throw at us. We must cry out in our hearts and say to our Lord Jesus, our Father and the Holy Spirit, “I can’t live if living is without you” as the Harry Nilsson song states and “I can’t do anything unless you are with me Lord” and humble ourselves under the Mighty hand of God. He resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Keep your eyes on Him and keep pressing forward to your call never giving up. If you do not know your call, keep on fixing your eyes and ears on Him and hang (belong) with the body of Christ that he has put you with, in relationship with, not forsaking the assembly of the saints. Be-long…….. Never give up! Lighten the load of life’s pressures if you have to and keep it simple. Whatever He has called you to, do not give up just because of people and circumstances that come around you and please don’t blame the Lord and turn your heart away from Him. One of the things to be aware of in the times ahead are getting bitter and being resentful in our hearts. Bitterness is a wormwood that the Bible speaks about that we are to be aware of. People and loved ones’ choices and circumstances may do things to you but people and loved ones can get us caught up in the bitterness and resentment of it all (if we let it). It might not be our fault but their choices will affect us if we let them. If someone does something wrong or not what you wanted, or how you would have liked it done to you - we then can become disappointed in the outcome and become bitter. Sometimes the other party can more easily move on and repent and forget about it and what they have done leaving us with the disappointment/bitterness of it all.

We must move on and not get left holding the ball of bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness which then pollutes us bringing in torment, self pity, harassment to our mind and lack of peace in our heart and mind. This then affects our relationship with that person and the Lord leaving our hearts cold. Did you know that our heart actually thinks! Selah. It’s a very big thinker, our heart, and the Bible says to guard our heart with all diligence for out of it flows the issues of life. The issues of life come through people and a lot of the time those closest to us. Bitterness comes from disappointments and expectations of someone or something, expectations we thought were going to happen. If we are truly with the Lord and work through it with Him this will not affect us. If it comes in we must give it to the Lord quickly over and over until we release it to Him fully.
Smith Wigglesworth said, ” One of the greatest mercies that you will have will be a revelation to your heart of how to get rid of yourself.” It would be wise for us to keep short accounts and be quick to have true repentance in our heart of the issues that can come through those closest to us, in our work place, with our husband, wife, children etc…. Let your gentleness be made known to all men and say the Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to Him and move on, keeping in mind, some things take longer than others do, depending what it is but if we have the Lord there in it with us directing us we can’t loose. Remember it is a process he will deliver us in time - keep saying I know You are with me Lord even though I can’t feel You in it yet but by faith I know You are there. Trust in Him, Hope in Him and rely and believe He is there. When trials and testings come God will be judging some things to see what you are made of, then you will come out as gold and you will realise that things cannot touch you as they used to do.
You can do it in Him.

Prophetic Word for FRANCE

by Ruth Paddon

The fields are ripe for the harvest - Disillusionment has set in but I am allowing this vacuum, that only I can fill. I will draw those to me who will know me and obey me. There are many who are searching for Me in this land.


My cry to this nation is Repentance from dead works. You think you are rich and have no need of me. Come to me the well of living water. The Fire of God will purify the church. Spiritual streams will spring up across this land. Behold I stand at the door and knock. Those who hear My voice and will let Me in will receive the living water I have promised them.



I have seen the seeds of the martyr’s blood sown into your soil. I will multiply the increase. From this sacrifice multitudes will come to Me because of the sowing of these seeds. My church needs to continually pray for righteousness in the government at all levels. As My prophets and apostles rise up in the church and the market place, My church will be purified and powerful through the right governmental authority and doctrine.

Ruth Paddon
Nice, France
January 2014

The Concept of LAW

by Tony Clark

There are many laws in existence that relate to humanity and the world around us. Laws of nature; state and federal laws; religious laws and rituals; moral laws and the law of God for example. Some people think they are a law unto themselves. Laws are set into place to protect something or someone. For example without the law of gravity we would all float off into space and living on this planet would never have been possible. Laws are meant to preserve things. Laws are meaningless without an enforcer, and without a penalty or consequence for breaking the law. Lawlessness abounds when there is no fear of God or of consequences, because seemingly I can transgress the law and no penalty is forthcoming.
There is also rebellion present and disregard towards God at the base level of human fallen nature. But we are told in the Bible that at the appointed time (which is an exact, precise and predetermined time) all will be judged and held accountable for their sin (transgression of the law) and also that God’s patience although great has a limit and the time comes when He judges situations and people, whether they know it is the judgement of God or not is another story.
God has made His law clear and has documented it within His Word. But an understanding of this law or the requirement of God upon us can be misunderstood if we have not learnt this law. Some laws are obvious to most, even without being taught i.e. thou shalt not kill. Although some do not have a knowledge or feeling of moral law, for example some serial killers, others continually rationalise their actions despite the pang of their conscience, causing their conscience to be seared so that it no longer condemns them of wrong.

This is the reason for laws: that a standard might be set, and governed by an authority who ensure penalty for transgression of that law, to maintain order and freedom in society and protection for its citizens. The highest law, is the law of Love. To “love” God and each other is to fulfil the whole law of God. It is not within our fallen nature to obey the law of God naturally. It is within our nature to serve ourselves. It is the conversion of the soul to Jesus Christ and the infilling with the Spirit of Christ that enables us to fulfil the law of God because we receive His nature. We then need to learn to deny our old nature and instead learn to do His will as it is revealed to us by Him and walk in newness of life according to the new nature within us. This does take time, and God chastens His own, and corrects, and purges them of sin. This is a process. By the renewing of the mind we are transformed and made able to live His Word and Will, and our conscience can be restored to a state of health according to His law, and no longer distorted or defiled by the rationalisation of man’s behaviour or incorrect views of what is right and wrong. The Bible says to be mature is to know the difference between right and wrong, “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” Hebrews 5:14.
A mature believer is a discerning believer, who by practise, has become able to divide between right and wrong – which interestingly enough shows that they have come into harmony with the Spirit of Christ in them, this nature, that shows them a new way, by the renewing of the mind by the word of God.

“For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12
Renewing of the mind by the Word of God (actual truth) is essential, because all of us have learnt different things, have made different conclusions about what truth is and about reality. Without an absolute standard there is no truth or reality, but only perceived truth and reality. And without an absolute standard of right and wrong, there is in effect no actual right or wrong, only man made laws and systems to suit mans’ own ends. So it all really comes down to what you believe. If you value and honour and believe the Bible to be the actual word of God that reveals His righteous requirements and truth, then you have an absolute standard to measure yourself by. If you don’t believe this then you are a law unto yourself and in effect lawless, in your own eyes, but if in actual fact God does exist and the Bible IS his revealed Will, then it doesn’t matter what you believe – you will be judged by God according to His Law/ Word/ Justice and choosing.
If God be real…we better obey. Because if He exists, then His ordained consequences for sin will be the punishment for our transgression whether we like it or not. If He doesn’t exist, all well and good, we have no Judge. All of the excuses under the sun will not suffice in that day, for God Himself says:
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” Romans 1:21
God has made a way that we can be freed from the guilt of our sin, in that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the price for us, the penalty of sin being death. If God exists, and the Bible is His Word, then in the end it will be the way He has said, not the way we have rationalised or wanted it to be. If He is not real, and the Bible is not the Word of God, then there’s nothing to worry about – where God is concerned, although there is still plenty to worry about, for we are a mere accident, and have no future hope other than nothingness. Some may have made peace with that, but if He is real, that peace will be short lived. This all comes down to our way or His way. If He is real, our way, if it opposes His way, is sin. If He is not, then there is only our way, and it matters not.

Time of Victory - For The Obedient

by Glenice Mills

There are many prophetic words ‘out there’ at this time, the beginning of a new year. There has been a theme – it is a year of breakthrough.
It is good to know the seasons and times we live in, however there are a few things I think we in the body of Christ need to consider.

We are all excited about the ‘New Year’, but we need to look at the motive behind what this means.
The Lord knows the seasons and times and if this is so, does He think ‘Oh good it is the New Year, 2014?’ or does He look at time from the big picture of His plans and purposes for us on earth right now?

What makes December 31st different from January 1st?
In God’s scheme of things the days, times and seasons are in His hands.
Perhaps the New Year is more about us wanting things to change, rather than the Lord suddenly, as a result of a night of revelry and prayerful demands deciding He will do a new thing?

Perhaps this is very prideful of us and a bit presumptuous to think that we can tell God what we think He needs to do because it is a New Year? In fact if we are not careful we can cross over to divination – ‘calling up what we want rather than seeking the Lord about what He is wanting’.

We as the body of Christ need to examine our motives for wanting what we want just because it is a New Year. It is a day in a calendar and in fact has nothing to do with God’s seasons and times. Yes we can perhaps claim it as a defining day, a new day of a new year according to a Gregorian calendar. But how much ‘power’ and ‘influence’ should this bring on our lives. Perhaps we need to see things with God’s eyes?

There has been a consensus among the body of Christ that everybody had a difficult ‘last year’. I prefer to call it a time rather than a year of testing and trials. It we think about it, the difficulties didn’t start ‘magically’ on the 1st January 2013. Many were going through difficulties earlier than January 2013, and some may not have experienced difficulties until later in the year. Does that make 2013 a difficult year? Wouldn’t it be better to say we have had a difficult season or time?

Let’s not forget a year is about our time frame rather than God’s time frame. He sees in seasons and times. In fact we need to know the Prophetic time we live in rather than our time. We are to know the seasons and times we live in, and this is where the prophet can and must speak about them. However I wonder if it is incorrect for a prophet to say in the 2014 time frame this will happen or will not happen?

We must be careful we don’t make blanket statements and say all are in this season. Ecclesiastes says there is a season and a time for every purpose so what is one person/ministry/nation’s season may not be what is happening to another. We can have a sense of what God is doing in His church but we dare not make a statement for all when in fact it might be for most. That puts shame and guilt on those who may not be experiencing what is happening to others.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven:

A time to be born, And a time to die;
A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;
A time to kill, And a time to heal;
A time to break down, And a time to build up;
A time to weep, And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, And a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to gain, And a time to lose;
A time to keep, And a time to throw away;
A time to tear, And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;
A time to love, And a time to hate;
A time of war, And a time of peace.

How many Christians are making new year’s resolutions believing that if they are faithful to consistently diet, exercise or what ever resolution they make, that God will endorse it?
Again who says that making a new year’s resolution is right in God. We all know our areas of weakness and what areas the Lord wants us to change. Therefore wouldn’t it be more accurate to pray, and to ask for the Lord’s help to overcome?
I wonder if ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ are actually right in God? I don’t think so.

We have to be careful that we don’t succumb to the world’s ways and come in agreement with them. It is very subtle.

So what is the Lord saying to us at this time?
Yes most Christians have been through difficulties in recent times. Many have spoken of 2013 being a year of great trials.

This is because we in the body of Christ have been going through a great transition time. There has been a contracting, a stretching and a time of deep forging that has produced great pain.

Transition is also a time of labour when a woman gives birth. This is the time of full dilation of the cervix and a change of action to push to bring to birth. We have in fact been in a season of birth pangs. There is always great discomfort, and a wanting to give up and go back to how it was before.
That has been the test for many. It has in fact been a season of opportunities – opportunity to push through, opportunity to give up, opportunity to sabotage what has been put in place by God, opportunity to run away from God and many other opportunities to walk in obedience or to choose to compromise and walk in disobedience.

We know we are in a season of the apostle and prophet. What we forget is their role is to equip the saints. If we are to adequately equip, then we must be trained. All training involves pain at some level.
God is concerned about our character – our integrity, our love of Truth and choosing to walk in obedience to what He requires of us.
The Lord is looking for a remnant – one’s who will stand for righteousness and truth no matter the cost.

For many it has been a time of war, but the next season is a time of peace.
When the Israelites were obedient there was peace on all sides. So it will be for those who have passed tests in recent difficult times.
They have warred for themselves, for others and for their nations and there is a reaping of rewards for their obedience.
We are coming into a time of victory. For there to be victory there had to have been a war. When war ends there is celebration. There is a new freedom and liberty. The constraints have been lifted. There are new beginnings.

However there is a condition to this word – time of victory. Victory will come to those who have been obedient to yield to the dealings of God in this past season, with a willingness to give up those areas the Lord wants us to let go of.
That is why it has been so difficult. A line has been drawn – those who have fully yielded to the Lord, and those who have chosen to walk their own path.
Rewards are coming to the faithful – not that they have asked or expected rewards but the Lord has seen. Expect the unexpected in this next season. Don’t hold onto old ways of doing things for He is doing a new thing. Many words have gone out about the ‘new thing’ however we have often had wrong expectations because the motive has been about self-promotion. The new thing will be obvious to those who have eyes to see.

Know that He is God!!!
Nothing, that is NO THING that has been built by the hands of man will stand in coming times. That which has been built on the rock – Jesus Christ – will stand.
By their fruit you will know them.
Watch and see what the Lord will do in coming times. Be ready for an exciting journey – one that will bring joy to the hearts of those who are battle weary and weary in well doing. This is your season to shine!!!

The True Living Water

by Tony Clark

I love that God revealed from the beginning to the end in the Bible. A time line of earth’s history. God cares about His people, He wants them to know Him. Closeness and intimacy has always been His greatest desire! Men in their fallen, fearful, arrogant, proud and rebellious state, resist God and turn to their own way for fulfilment and getting their needs met, but they don’t realise only the PURE LIVING WATER can satisfy the soul.

God is not out to condemn you, take away what you care about, or put restricting laws or burdens on you. You are already bound! You are already restricted!
Being BIRTHED into His kingdom by the true revelation of His love for you, and being made TRULY ALIVE by His power causes men to see for the first time, just like Neo in the Matrix.
Do you want to live in a dream world, a world that just keeps you distracted and deceived enough to make you think this is LIFE? When you are AWOKEN by a very real God, who brought everything into existence, including your life, the scales fall off your eyes and you don’t just begin to see things differently - that’s just a by-product. You ARE different. NEW. Clean. The difference is so extreme that it is likened to being dead and then made ALIVE. And when you are alive to God, which means you are consciously aware of His presence and person, at a genuinely interactive level, you will/can never be the same.

God loves you. He is not angry or vengeful toward you, he sent His Son (God born in human flesh) to die for you??? Does that sound like ILL WILL? God knows that you are lost without Him. You were made to be together. Don’t listen to false religions that will tell you that you can get to/ become God some other way!
Jesus Christ is the DOOR - no one comes to the Father except by Him. He died for your sin - you fall WAY short of the holiness and majesty of God, and sin every day by going your own way in the face of Truth.

If a man repents of his own wicked ways, and humbles himself and recognises that Jesus who KNEW NO SIN died for you so that you could be saved and brought back into relationship with God, by trusting in His sacrifice to pay for your sin - not relying on your OWN self righteousness which is unable to meet the required standard - you will be encountered by God. I did, 17 years ago. I was addicted, broken, hurting, self conscious, lost and afraid, but God saved me by a revelation of His love for me. My eyes were made OPEN, and I was filled with newness. I was made alive to God. And all these years later I must say, I have dug, and I have sought after this God that revealed Himself to me, and I have found TREASURE like I never thought possible. I could write 50 books about what has happened in my life due to meeting my Maker. I have found what I was looking for. And every well of promised nourishment that the world has to offer, is but an illusion, so fresh to the taste just like the real thing when you first find it - because you are THIRSTY! But as you continue to drink this water that promised so much, it dries up and no longer quenches your thirst. JESUS CHRIST is the only TRUE LIVING WATER. He said, in His own words “the water I give, when you drink it, YOU WILL NEVER THIRST AGAIN.” We need water to survive. That’s why the bible days Jesus didn’t come into the world to condemn the world, but to save it. And that “For God SO LOVED the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that WHOEVER believes on Him, will not PERISH but have EVERLASTING LIFE.” (the result of living water). God says you are perishing. You try your hardest to survive in the false waters that are only a trick to keep you from the true, and the end is death, because just like in the desert, without water you die. This is the context that God declares you are perishing. But Jesus came with the true living water, so that “you may not perish, but in drinking, and continuing to drink of His true water (His words) you WILL NOT PERISH but have ETERNAL LIFE.” It’s a promise. God CANNOT lie. Bless you.