*Time Of Refreshing*
*How enriched are they who find their strength in the Lord; within their hearts are the highways of holiness! Even when their path winds through the dark valley of tears, they dig deep to find a pleasant pool where others find only pain. He gives to them a brook of blessing filled from the rain of an outpouring.* Psalm 84:5-6 TPT
Your strength is being renewed in the midst of troubles. God is opening a highway of His power and presence to bring you out of the valley of trouble and tears.
Dig deep into the brook of blessings and get filled with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Watch for spiritual watering holes to open. There will be renewal-style meetings that will bring healing and refreshment. Also new levels of healing power are starting to manifest on internet-streamed meetings.
*Quick Answers To Prayer*
*Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.* Isaiah 65:24 NIV
The Lord is sending answers to prayers from the past, but also releasing resources from Heaven very quickly for prayers you are praying right now.
God will give you a strategy on how and when to pray. Not all prayers are being answered, but there is a change in this and prayer is going to become fun and not a task.
*Strategic Networks Open*
*And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.* John 14:16
The Lord is sending help to you. There is going to be a release of angelic assignments and new networks are coming together. Two are better than one because they get more done (Ephesians 4:9).
The Lord is going to bring together people to form strategic networks for business and ministries. It is time to utilize the Holy Spirit network and break out of isolation.
*New Levels Of Peace*
*Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.* John 14:27 NIV
It is time to step into peace that surpasses all understanding. God is calling you to step up and out of the time of trouble. You might need to battle to get this as there is a stronghold trying to remove peace and replace it with fear.
*Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.*
Ephesians 4:3 NIV
The key is to break the spirit of fear and replace it with the peace of the Lord. As you do this, a greater clarity will come to the areas that have been blocked or hidden in the past.
*‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty.* Haggai 2:9 NIV
All the shaking that has been happening is going to bring greater levels of supernatural power. This is often referred to as the “glory of God.”
Expect to see supernatural levels of peace, power and outpouring of prophetic strategies to recover our losses.
*Press Into The Lord*
*But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.* Philippians 3:13–14 NIV
We all have work for the Kingdom to do and the plan of the enemy is to distract you from this. The Lord is releasing plans and strategies for you personally and for cities and nations.
We need to get our eyes on the prize! The Lord is calling us to rise above the swirl of confusion, fear and violence that is ruling the airways and streets.
*Trust The Lord*
*Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.* Proverbs 3:5–6 NIV
When God does something new it is sometimes outside of our current understanding. This is why we need to ask the Lord for wisdom and understanding.
The Lord is making a way for you and it will require moving forward by faith. Watch for your pathway to open and things to become more clear over the next three months.
*Sudden Turnarounds*
*Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around.* Proverbs 13:12 MSG
The Lord is healing broken hearts and discouragement. Especially those who have felt disappointed in their ability to hear the voice of the Lord accurately.
You can expect to see a change in this area, but you need to push through the cloud of discouragement.
The Lord is making a way for you to break through, and He is going to meet you on the other side of this time of obscurity.
*How To Pray*
*This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”* Jeremiah 6:16 NIV
It is time to step into joy and the presence of the Lord in the midst of the storm that is still here.
Watch for the path the Lord has for you to open over the next months.
Blessings,
Doug Addison
DougAddison.com
P.S. As you press into the Lord to hear the plans and strategies you need for your life, be sure to pay attention to the supernatural ways in which God speaks to you. He is always speaking, but we don’t always recognize it. In my new *School of the Supernatural,* I share from my over 25 years of experience of operating in the prophetic and supernatural things of God. I’d love to share more with you. Watch my short video message and learn more about it by clicking the button below.
Doug Addison is the founder and president of InLight Connection. Doug is a prophetic speaker, author and coach. He is known for his *Daily Prophetic Words*, *Spirit Connection* podcast and blog. He and his wife Linda live in Los Angeles, California where they are impacting the arts, entertainment and media industries.
Refreshment for Your Soul
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September 15, 2022 • Doug Addison
The Bride of Christ and Holy Matrimony
April 12, 2024 • Doug Addison
In this special excerpt, Bonnie Jones shares her insight about the Bride of Christ, intimacy with the Lord and going behind the veil. Below are some notes from our Partners-only Monthly Mentoring Session. These sessions have been recorded, and you can access them by becoming a Partner today! Find out more at https://dougaddison.com/timeoff/. Bonnie started out by saying the time has come for the Bride of Christ to enter into the holiness of God. This is where the Bride is seated behind the veil. Behind the veil, the enemy is not going to touch you and it’s where the Lord will teach His Bride. There’s no struggle or striving because you’re in the presence of the Lord. Bonnie mentioned that a lot of times, the Lord teaches her in the night season. During the day people are busy, and at night He takes you to this place which is behind the veil. It’s here that your mind is given over to Him. The bridal veil represents the purity of the bride. There’s a lot of carnality in the Church worldwide, and some people just attend because it’s the right thing to do. But the Bride needs to press in. Bonnie talked about Isaac and Rebecca and about how the first thing Rebecca did when she got off the camel was put a veil on her face. She knew she was Isaac’s bride, but he wouldn’t be able to see her until he removed the veil. In the Jewish tradition, the bride covers her face completely until the end of the wedding ceremony. When the bride and groom are legally married, the groom lifts the veil as a way of finalizing their marriage. Two years ago, the Lord told Bonnie that He’s coming to lift the veil off His Bride. That’s why she started her ministry, Daughters of the Dawn. The Lord is coming to lift the veil off the face of His Bride (His beloved who has been faithful to Him, preparing herself for His return). He’s been faithful to continuously intercede for her while she prepares herself in holiness, faithfulness, truth and love. Bonnie said she thinks the Lord has a real expectation about this. He’s as excited for us as we are for Him. The Lord wants that face-to-face encounter with His beloved as He lifts the veil. There’s a dimension we have not yet attained, and Bonnie believes like Moses met with God face to face and the glory rested upon him, that is what the Lord is wanting us to do. Bonnie said that when she goes to bed at night, there’s such anticipation in her and an expectation of a visitation from the Lord … For Him to show her something in a dream or give her a “knowing” or an understanding. The Lord is going to breathe new life into His Bride. Bonnie said we’re going to see new life and it’s going to be something we haven’t seen before. Bonnie told the Partners how her husband, Bob Jones, said there were seven years when he walked in a “Samuel anointing.” He said every word he spoke came to pass right then, and he saw many people get saved and healed. Bonnie mentioned again that that’s why we need to get rid of all our fleshly stuff … Because when the Lord speaks, He needs a vessel to work through … and then we can release His word in power. So, we really need to have clean vessels … pure, only unto the Lord. Bonnie closed by saying that the Lord is unveiling the Bride to take her by the hand into holy matrimony. InLight Connection thanks Bonnie Jones for sharing her heart with us! P.S. Thank you to all of those who partner with InLight Connection and give on a regular basis. You are holding their arms up in the spirit right now, and they are truly grateful. For those who have not yet given or it’s been a while, https://dougaddison.com/timeoff/ … to help, just click https://dougaddison.com/timeoff/ Becoming a Partner will give you access to the upcoming guest speaker events. These meetings are going to be POWERFUL! Doug Addison is the founder and president of InLight Connection. Doug is a prophetic speaker, author and coach. He is known for his Daily Prophetic Words, Spirit Connection podcast and blog. He and his wife Linda live in Los Angeles, California where they are impacting the arts, entertainment and media industries.
Knowing Holy Spirit as a Person
April 5, 2024 • Doug Addison
In this special excerpt, Sean Smith shares some practical ways we can begin to view Holy Spirit as a Person and not an impersonal force. Below are some notes from our Partners-only Monthly Mentoring Session. These sessions have been recorded and you can access them by becoming a Partner today! Find out more at https://dougaddison.com/timeoff/. Sean started off by saying that the first imperative for intimacy with God is that you have to have a revelation of God as your Father. Secondly, you must recognize the Holy Spirit as a Person. Holy Spirit is not “junior God.” Sometimes people treat Holy Spirit like He's a junior partner in the Trinity. Jesus told His disciples that it was good for Him to go away because He would send another helper. The Greek word used there means “another of the same kind.” Sean mentioned how he thinks about what Peter would have thought . . . that no one could replace Jesus because He’d done all sorts of miracles. But Jesus knew His mission was to bear our sins upon Himself, to pay the price to release the Kingdom of God, etc … Sean said Jesus was telling them, “You’re ready for this and as real as I’ve been to you, that’s how real Holy Spirit wants to be.” So, is your relationship with Holy Spirit as real as the disciples walking with Jesus? To feel that, bring Holy Spirit into your situations and get His perspective, wisdom and narrative. Sean then mentioned how when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, he did not say, “the iPhone.” He only said, “iPhone,” making it more personal. In the same way, we can drop the “the” and say, “Holy Spirit.” This can give us a better sense of intimacy. Holy Spirit is not chill bumps. He's not goosebumps. He's not warm flashes. He's not even power alone, those things are impersonal. Holy Spirit is a Person! He has feelings and He can be grieved. He's not moody but He has moods. He’s in the mood to heal. He’s in the mood to restore! He’s in the mood to convict … Sean said, “I'm not saying He's moody, I'm saying He has moods.” Holy Spirit talks and He has a will! It's all proved in Scripture that He is a Person! InLight Connection thanks Sean Smith for sharing his heart with us!
Can You Trust Your Heart?
March 29, 2024 • Doug Addison
In this special excerpt, Ray Leight shares pivotal information about the new heart and our identity in Christ. Below are some notes from our Partners-only Monthly Mentoring Session. These sessions have been recorded and you can access them by becoming a Partner today! Find out more at https://dougaddison.com/timeoff/. Ray started the session by asking us this question: “Can you trust your heart?” He urged us to be honest with ourselves. He also asked us to write down our answers. Ray has been ministering at a deep level for over twenty years and he sees common issues in the Church related to this question. For many people, what they believe about themselves stems from Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it?” This, for many people, is their “gospel” message. Even if they are a believer in Christ, this is their opinion of themselves … and that is very damaging. To find out what Jesus did about that wicked heart, you don’t even have to go to the New Testament; you can go to the Old Testament. In Jeremiah 31:33, the Lord says that He would make a new covenant and put His law within us and write it on our hearts … Also, Ray pointed out these verses: For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Ezekiel 36:24–27 NIV The Lord says He will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land … sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness and from all your idols. He will cleanse you and give you a new heart and a new spirit! He will remove the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. He will put His Spirit within you and cause you to walk in His statutes … So, there's a shift! It’s like we didn't even have to get to the New Testament to find out what He did with that old, wicked heart. He actually removed that wicked heart! It was beyond a cure—it wasn't fixable—He had to actually take it out of you. We were crucified on the cross with Jesus. Ray said that he doesn’t remember that happening (being crucified on the cross with Jesus) and he’s sure you don’t either. It’s a spiritual truth. We were co-mingled together on the cross with Jesus. We died with Him! And we didn't just die with Him, we were buried with Him, and we were raised again into new life! That’s the gospel. We’re a new creation! And part of receiving that transformation on the cross is that He removed our old, wicked hearts. He took it from you. The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn. Isaiah 61:1–2 NIV As believers, we’ve got a new heart! That old broken heart was bound up. He removed that wicked heart of stone and gave us a heart of flesh. He wrote the law on it and gave us a new spirit. Ray said that he still remembers when he got this revelation. He was drunk in the Spirit for weeks after! Ray also mentioned reading John chapter 17 to get an idea of what Jesus did for us. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:3–4 NIV God has done what the law weakened by the flesh could not do … by sending His own Son in the likeness of flesh. Jesus glorified the Father by removing that heart of stone—binding it up and removing it—giving us a new heart and writing the law on it. Jesus fulfilled the righteous requirement of the law in that new heart. Prayer: Jesus, I just ask right now that You would comfort, protect, reveal truth, open people's minds … and that their hearts would be able to receive this truth. Jesus cleaned you of all your uncleanness! He wrote the law on your heart and fulfilled the righteous requirement of the law in that new heart. Ray reminded us that Jesus said He would send Holy Spirit. And Holy Spirit is going to glorify Jesus by taking what belongs to Him and revealing it to you! So, Holy Spirit revealing to you the truth of who you are in Christ glorifies Him. Jesus glorified the Father by accomplishing what was needed for you to be the righteousness of Christ. We glorify God by believing this truth and manifesting this truth … to accomplish the work that He gave us to do. InLight Connection thanks Ray Leight for sharing his heart with us. P.S. Thank you to all of those who partner with InLight Connection and give on a regular basis. You are holding their arms up in the spirit right now, and they are truly grateful. For those who have not yet given or it’s been a while, https://dougaddison.com/timeoff/ … to help, just click https://dougaddison.com/timeoff/ Becoming a Partner will give you access to the upcoming guest speaker events. These meetings are going to be POWERFUL! Doug Addison is the founder and president of InLight Connection. Doug is a prophetic speaker, author and coach. He is known for his Daily Prophetic Words, Spirit Connection podcast and blog. He and his wife Linda live in Los Angeles, California where they are impacting the arts, entertainment and media industries.