Read this word silently four times. Firstly, read it through normally. Catch the cadence of it. Allow pictures to form in your heart. See yourself as a warrior. Hear God’s voice to your heart. Secondly, read it through peacefully. Come to as much peace as you are able and read it slowly, gently, from within your heart. Let the simple power of God’s intention for you gently overwhelm all your senses. Then relax and think only about all the images that he brings into your conscious mind.
Thirdly, read it through with joy. Let the Majesty of God wash over you. Relax in his sovereign power. The victory is yours; the battle is the Lord’s. Warriors are happy people who celebrate God’s supremacy. Feel his joy rise up in you.
Fourthly, read it with strength. Imagine yourself prophesying this word over a company of people before a fight. Say it with strength so that power flows into them. Feel the strength of it yourself!
Now do the whole exercise again, out loud! Read it through four times with a clear voice. Walk around, reading it.
Stand your ground, and read it aloud – like a Herald. Be seated in Christ, and read it with his voice. Each time you read it, open your heart to becoming a warrior. Let the desire of it rise up within you. Receive it! Let it flow into you and fill you. Let your heart move into Majesty. Rejoice in the strength and power of the Almighty God.
Allow all the tensions and stress to disappear. Let your heart be touched. When you read it aloud, listen with your heart. Really listen with your heart. Allow the love and enthusiasm of God to overwhelm you.
Work it in!
When you have read it through several times, read each part, study it, think about it. Importantly, Imagine yourself in it. Answer the questions and do the assignments.
Part one; rise up… A warrior.
My beloved, this is a time of new beginnings. I am promoting you in the Spirit. I’m drawing you up to a new place of encounter.
As a foot soldier, you have fought well. You have tasted the sweetness of victory in the ashes of defeat. You have learned to preserve. You have embraced a steadfast faithful lifestyle.
You have learned to stand and press in. You understand the importance of remaining fresh. You are able to refuse weariness. You have overcome the spirit of heaviness that was against you on this level.
Now, I AM… Is calling you up to a new place of overcoming. I’m calling you to walk the way of the warrior. To rise up into a place of abundance and provision that will provide you with rich encounters with me on the battlefields of life. In this season of preparation and re- arming, you must leave the last remains of mediocrity behind. Where I AM is taking you… You cannot have a smallness of mind. Indeed, you must renew your mind just to enter this new place.
This new season is about you stepping away, out of your circumstances into a new place in Christ. You do not live in your circumstances, you live in me. Now you must discover the awesome permission that means for you… In my intention.
You must see me as I really am. Not as your church experience depicts me. You must be upgraded in every way. I will show you the God of the heavens, and you will walk in the God of the kingdom.
Assignment – in your current situation you have permission to overcome everything that is against you. What have you learned; or still need to learn about; perseverance, pressing in, remaining fresh, and refusing weariness? Describe the areas of mediocrity that you want to eradicate. Be honest. When learning to be in overcomer, we discover that we are the ones that need to be overcome!
Commission – what does your current smallness of mind look like? What do you need the Holy Spirit to do in you to upgrade your thinking? Describe what stepping out of your circumstances and into Christ would look and feel like for you.
Part two: a new dimension
I AM… Is calling you to a new dimension of the power and place of the spirit. Where truth is the gateway to experience and encounters with me release the wisdom of my ways.
I’m calling you to walk in the power of my perception about you. For your life to be governed by how I see you. For you to embrace my identity for you. That you would live in the majesty of my affection. Undaunted, unworried, unbeatable.
My perception of you will upgrade your DNA in the spirit. No longer a child… But a son… Moving into maturity. Learning your authority; embracing your liberty.
The DNA of son-ship gives you access to different dimensions of permission, inheritance and authority. From this place you will have a deeper, broader authorization over the enemy. Foot soldiers are empowered. Warriors are embraced… In power and permission. Son-ship elevates you to inhabit, not just visit, the place of my abundance.
In this place you will discover your true self. As you develop the obedience to live within my intentionality, you will learn to live in harmony with my delight you. This unity with the spirit will be the source of your overcoming lifestyle in this next dimension.
I will teach you how to make the future incredible by living in a present that is beautiful. When the present state of your heart is so enriched by my glory, your current identity will run to meet your emerging destiny. And you will live in the power of an accelerated lifestyle.
Do you know see… Dear heart… Why you need the power of a renewed mind? Earthbound logic cannot comprehend the true nature of life in the Spirit. Only a heavenly mindset can do that. The mind of Christ.
Assignment – if there was one verse or passage of Scripture that would be a gateway for you to enter into a new dimension… What would it be? Isaiah 41; 8 – 16 was grams gateway promise that has sustained him for many years. He still reads it and meditates on it, today. Ask the Holy Spirit for one! Explain what this scripture means to you and how you will use it to enter your permissions.
Commission – what would it take for you to learn to live in the majesty of God’s affection? Describe your DNA in Christ and what must change in yours to establish that reality.
Part three; create an internal environment.
Beloved, environment is critical to development. It is time for you to rise up and occupy a new place in the spirit. When you rest in my affection, what can you imagine? Allow my spirit to stir up your heart to think in a new way.
I will enlighten the inner man of your heart. My words shall rise from your inner man into your natural mind, so that it is renewed, in the fullness of Christ. When your conscious mind comes under the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the inner man… You shall see clearly and know definitely your emerging identity.
Beloved, I charge you therefore… Do not be earthbound in your thinking. Intellectuals do not have empowered perception in the spirit. They merely have enlarged insight within the realm of logic and reason. It is perception from a smaller place of being.
You must see in the spirit. Enlightenment begins with the vision of something, or someone that causes an increase of faith and vitality. Your emerging identity has a vitality and a beauty that is irresistible to me. It’s my bride emerging.
She lives in such deep affection in my heart, and that shapes her personality and identity. She has all the permissions of love bestowed on her. My intentions are my permissions! Call yourself up to a new place of permission granted.
In this new persona, everyone around you will be influenced by my passion for you. As my warrior Princess, you will live as you should in me, before men. People will be confronted by my majesty when they see you living as the beloved.
It will do wonders for the souls of people around you. The life in you will not allow people to live a reduced lifestyle. Your confidence in me will overpower their doubts. And though, initially… Antagonized by your confession, they shall receive an upgrade in my presence.
Everything you touch will increase. Everyone that you speak to will rise up – if not initially… Always eventually. Stay true to the new you! Live in harmony with my delight in you, and your desires will form a deeper place of permission for others. There are many levels of blessing and inheritance. They are linked to your response and fellowship with me. Walk with me into this place of favor which will always be as deep as you wish it to be. I’m always ready to bless you. My heart is always fully towards you.
If want you to live in the place of unbroken delight where the poverty of sin cannot touch you. Where my newness of life embraces you every day. Where my favor renews you in the spirit each morning. And you live… Empowered by joy… Under the beauty of my smile.
Assignment – there is a secret place on the inside of you, in your heart, where God dwells with you and where you abide in him – John 15; 1 – 11. What does abiding mean to you? Describe the inner man and the importance of living from within. In what ways are you earthbound in your thinking? Why are logic and reason no help in thinking from the spirit?
Commission – for men – as a man, what does it mean to think and see as a bride? For a woman – as a woman, what does it mean to think and see as a bride? For both – what does a warrior princes do and how does she interact with Jesus? Describe the impact and effect such a relationship would have on the lives of others.
Part four: new depths of habitation
Behold, I make my face shine upon you. I am delighted in you… Remain there. Abide in my keeping power. Dwell in the place of fullness… Which is perpetual blessing. My grace overwhelms everything you are not so that I may fully gaze on you, my beloved, and my beauty. And your heart shall melt with the light in favor as you walk in the peace and blessing of your God.
I’ve brought you to a deeper place of favor and inheritance. A deep well of provision is inside you! A deep River of blessing is before you. The first opens up to second. Your internal focus is the key to external freedom.
To drink deep is an act of worship. There is a new depth available. Go to a deeper place of delight.
When I open you up to new depths of my love, it will expose the hidden things in you that prevent you from fully experiencing me. My goodness eradicates despair. My mercy illuminates self-hatred. My joy exposes low self-esteem.
I am not exposing you to ridicule, beloved, but to acceptance and wholeness. I am exposing you to your own greatness in me.
A fresh revelation of my nature upgrades you to stand in a new dimension in the spirit. In this place I’ve set a fresh provision before you, to bring you to a higher place than you have risen too. Come up higher, beloved. Hear me continuously whispered to you… Arise, arise my love. My fair one.
The call upon you is the rise up, occupy a higher, deeper, broader place in my name and my nature. To learn to inhabit this dimension, not just visited. The time of visitation is over. The place of habitation has been erected. You are in it and surrounded by it. a place higher than the enemy can affect… Has been created for you. Rise up and inhabit. Enter a high place of my affection.
Come in! Enter a new environment of faith and permission. The door is open. You are in a new season. You have a new beginning. Do not look around you and say; but, I’m still in the old place! You are in a new beginning. It has already occurred. You receive it first in spirit… Then it becomes the truth in your experience. You are in! Learn the lessons of abiding.
Remain here. Dwell here. Stay here! Explore this higher place. Allow me to give you a new vision for life in the spirit. When you have a fresh perspective, you can see more.
Assignment – look at your situations closely. What would fullness mean for you in each of them? What would it look like? What provision and blessing are available in permissible for you in Christ for each of your circumstances?
Commission – what does the nature of God look like in the low places of your life and experience? When you consider the beauty of his nature and goodness, what provisions can you imagine? You are already in a place of habitation. Describe how you would stay and dwell there? What partnership is required with the Holy Spirit in order to have a habitation and not a visitation experience?
Part five; overcoming a poverty spirit.
I am removing a poverty spirit from your heart. A poverty spirit keeps you trapped in a lower form of being. Poverty is not about economic deficiency. True poverty is the acceptance of meager possibility.
There can be a poverty of imagination. A deficiency in courage. A death in personal vision. A barrenness in the will that keeps you passive and beaten down. Poverty is accepting a limitation and being governed by lack.
My people convince themselves that they lack resources, but the reality is, they do not go out to meet my provision. They take no steps of faith, they wait for provision to come.
I have placed provision, not where you stand, but in the place you are about to tread. It is in front of you, beloved, one step ahead of a poverty mindset.
Never let yourself be defined by externals… Your bank balance, your resources, your environment. Be defined internally by my permission. Then, such as you have… I will always multiply.
I want you to re – think your assumptions about what is or is not possible… In the light of your favor, and your faith in my intentionality. Your personal assumptions will either defeat you or inspire you to live in me.
Take ground in my permission. Enter into agreement with my intention. Internal harmony with my purpose is the basis for all warfare to succeed. Contend with the enemy using your promises. Believers are not passive… They apprehend!
Your promises sharpen your courage in the battle. Warfare must always reveal your inheritance. It opens up new territory or establishes your present claim; because I am territorial, so is my word. Your promise has territory attached to it. That is why the enemy contends against it.
In order to defeat you, he must prevent you from inheriting. To do that, he must cast doubts on the promise you hold. My people are a shadow of their potential, because they believe a lie. The promise is designed to release you from fear into joy.
Fear is always present in a fight. It has to be somewhere. When you live above fear, it becomes a weapon in your hand, and you drive it into the heart of the enemy.
Do not for a moment be intimidated by the enemy, for it is a sure sign to him, and to you, that you are not believing in your promises. Doubt attracts attack. The enemy seeks to do more than depress you. He seeks you for an ally. Warriors cannot be turned. Their heart is fixed on me.
Warriors live in the laughter of their King. They inhabit a place of carefree joy. They walk in the exuberance and enthusiasm of the Holy Spirit. They hear me singing, and they learn the words. They hear me singing the songs of deliverance, and they join in.
All warriors are singers. The song of the Lord is glorious, and it is dangerous to our foes.
Assignment – when you think of a poverty spirit, what does that phrase mean to you? Where has your life been blighted by poverty thinking, and how will you correct that with the help of the Holy Spirit? Examine the problem areas of your life currently. Where has the father placed your provision, and how will you step into it with his support?
Commission – how would you rethink your assumptions more positively? The father is being extremely intentional with your life. What agreement should you make and keep in line with his desires for you? Promises are available… Ask! How would you use God’s promise as a weapon of war? What is the place of laughter that the father his set aside for you?
Part six; the rights of an overcomer.
Come up higher. Occupy a higher place in my affection. A higher place of sensitivity in the spirit is awaiting you. This is my promise to you; the place in your life where you have been counted out will become the place of your greatest encounter with me.
These difficulties will now tell you a different story. It is the story of your present and future overcoming. Behold, I grant you the rights of an overcome in all your current areas of difficulty. A higher place with me guarantees a broader scope of victory.
The enemy will now reveal to you the hand of God upon you. Watch closely from your high place. For this purpose have I raised up the enemy, that I may demonstrate my power over him, in you. All warriors know this and participate in my purpose.
There is always revelation in the battle – a higher purpose than the fight itself. When the enemy comes in like a flood, I am always lifting up a standard against him.
That standard is my name and my nature… In you. On the battlefield there is fresh revelation of who you are becoming – an identity for you to step into. I have placed both an increase and an upgrade on the battlefield.
David knew that. It was why he ran towards Goliath. It was that attitude that made him a man after my own heart.
The current difficulties will define for you a new place of identity. Rise up and occupy a new persona in my presence. This is the year of your rising. I’m calling you up to a high place in my loving-kindness and favor. Be sheltered by my grace over you. Be protected in my love. Be cloaked in my power. Stand above the enemy. Rise up… Above the difficulty.
Always play to win. For you to overcome, you must face the battle in the same way that I do. You fight from victory, not towards it. Therefore, every battle is not yours to win. It has already been won. The battle is yours to lose, beloved. As you stand in me, winning is your only option.
Because of these truths, you must understand that I sent you out as a lamb against wolves. In the natural, it will always look like you are overwhelmed. But you stand in the shadow of the Almighty. You must have something big to overcome so that you may grow bigger by what you defeat.
Recognize the giant that is against you. Expect to be lifted up above the head of your enemy. The enemy exists to make you bigger!
When I lift you above him… You are thrusting down at him… As though you were on horseback and he on foot. You have a divine advantage. I will teach you to use it well. You have favor with me because I am biased towards you.
You are in a new season, a new beginning. I’m raising up the modern-day equivalent of David’s mighty men – people who are after my own heart. Men and women of a different spirit… A people greatly beloved, who understand their favor, and have confidence in their own identity in me.
There is therefore, beloved, a season of preparation and training that I want to commit you to, on this next phase of your journey. All the circumstances of your life I will use to train and equip you for this next dimension of the spirit that I wish to thrust you into.
Once you say yes to this development, there is no turning back; the training will begin. I want you to live an ascendant lifestyle, where you process your life from heaven to earth. That is, you live by every word that proceeds from my mouth. You take your perceptions of reality from the Holy Spirit and not from your own logic and reason.
I will teach you a higher level of perception and thinking – one that will lead you into greater faith, and a more overtly outrageous, supernatural lifestyle.
Assessment – you are granted the rights of an overcomer in all your current areas of difficulty. What encounters with God are now possible? What revelations are being bestowed upon you as the father releases your warrior spirit? Name the identity that the father is revealing to you at this time. Give it a title and describe its qualities!
Commission – what does it mean to fight from victory not towards it? Explain. What is your divine advantage, and how will you use it? What does it mean to be a man or woman of a different spirit? Imagine living your life as the beloved. What would it look and feel like?
Part seven; this is how it works.
The faster you move, the more you will encounter, and the more you will be transformed. I’m calling you to an ascendant lifestyle, to learn the disciplines of a resurrected life.
I will teach you how to rejoice in the throne room. You shall be enthusiastically immersed in throne room praise. I will develop your intercession before the throne… You will take part in prophetic dialogue concerning the nations, as Isaiah did. You will learn to pray with Jesus.
You will discover practical ways of being seated with Christ in heavenly places. You shall enter a deep place of rest.
You will develop and learn the joy of authority over the enemy. You will cultivate in my presence, a divine military intelligence over the enemy, as Elijah learned in his day.
Above all, you shall be clothed in my Majesty. For you will embrace my identity as your own. Your revelation shall lead you into powerful experiences that will transform your life.
Beloved, these disciplines will take time. I’m calling you to set time aside for Majesty to develop.
It is vital that your heart is overwhelmed by love. For this season will be most joyful, and very painful for you.
The pain will come because you will have to leave behind lessons you have been taught, which you will discover, are not real truths about me. You will have to set aside logic and reason, in favor of wisdom and intuition. You will discover that knowledge and experience were not what you imagined.
I will confront in you all religious teaching that does not represent who I am. You must be free indeed, if you are to be a true warrior.
To counteract the pain, I will immerse you in my joy. I will baptize you in freshness. Your life will become new every day. You must practice renewal constantly… Or you will let it go in the heat of battle.
Beloved, do not be worried about this process of renewal. Instead, be as excited for yourself as I am for you. I will squeeze you through a narrow place so that your mind and heart become radically changed. It will hurt only for a necessary season, but my joy in you shall always be present.
Come on this journey with me, beloved of God – the journey towards the pleasure of a changed mindset, where your renewed mind shall fully serve the love that is in your heart.
Be present – future with me. I will teach you how to reorder your present thinking to include your future identity. The emerging you has more favor, more power, more anointing, and more my presence.
I love who you are now, and I love the you that is emerging. I will teach you to love both and to live in both. I will show you how to bring the future into today, so that you will be free of the past and able to discover the person I made you in Christ.
Perception is the key to power. How you see yourself in me will provide you with the keys to victory in every situation.
See, I have already made you a warrior in the spirit. Everything is available to you. You must learn to step into the reality of what I have already made available in Jesus. Let that identity settle into your heart. It is my doing. By my permission do you enter my provision? Not by your performance. Your performance is never about entering, it is about abiding!
Dear heart, please get this! You are already in Christ. I have placed you there. You need not work to enter this high place. It is your inheritance, freely given.
Beloved, you must work to remain there. Your performance is not about earning, it is first about accepting who you are to me. You must accept my heart towards you, become fully engaged in my great love for you.
Assignment – now that you are learning to be brilliant… Let’s see what you got! Write your own assignment, and then do it.
Commission – in this life God is giving you, what authority and power would you like to move in that would cause others to receive a breakthrough?
Part eight; be thrilled with your tutor.
I will teach you the lesson of beauty. It is a great life I’ve given you. I will teach you how to abide in me, the joy of dwelling in me, and the beauty of just… Being in me and with me
You must simply accept the upgrade of anointing that I willingly bestow. Learn sensitivity with the Holy Spirit.
The key to learning is to be thrilled by your tutor. Let the enthusiasm of the Holy Spirit fill you up. He loves to increase you! He loves to show you who you are going to become next. He loves to declare the fullness of Jesus to you.
He has all your upgrades in his heart. That is why he is permanently and perpetually excited about your life and your identity. He adores his role in your life. He happily goes about the business each day of developing a mindset in you that releases your identity at the next level. He loves to show you your destiny, and move you towards it.
The key to your development and the speed of your growth… Is for you to become as enthusiastic about your identity as I am. I love who you are now, and I love the you that is coming. I love the you that is being transformed, and I love the you that is emerging because of the transformation.
Assignment – ask the father to give you a revelation of the personality of the Holy Spirit. Compare and contrast what you receive with what you have been taught. What is the difference, and how will it affect the way you relate to the Holy Spirit?
Commission – how will you minister to other people out of the personality, nature, and gifting of the Holy Spirit?
Part nine: becoming warrior class.
A warrior spirit is my gift to you. A Warrior mindset is your gift to me. Warrior lifestyle is our partnership… Together.
Allow my Spirit… Who is your helper… To forge a renewed mind in you… that is warrior class.
A warrior mindset is always focused on victory. It allows no possibility of defeat. It does not retreat. It stands under extreme pressure. It advances by my permission.
I, too, have a language of intimidation. It’s called worship. Your intimacy intimidates the enemy. Never forget… That he is afraid of rejoicing hearts. He cannot stay in the presence of real praise.
You already have the victory. Abiding is the key to experiencing it. A mind set on abiding cannot be overcome.
A warrior persona lives in joy and loves to rejoice! It is fully immersed in the spirit of Thanksgiving. Rejoicing leads you into the place of being fully occupied with me.
Stand, be unmoved… It unnerves the enemy. do everything from rest. Live a life supremely, unconcerned by the darkness. Live a life that loves the light.
I will teach you about the power that comes from endurance. I will show you the supremacy that manifests itself in patience. Patience is a weapon of mass demoralization to the enemy.
He has no patience. His own impatience will defeat him. We patiently by being active in worship. Wait patiently and love the simplicity of prayer. It’s time for a new conversation.
The joy of my presence will release more into the situation than the enemy can handle. The object of warfare is victory. The object of victory is occupation. First… be occupied with me.
I am seeking more than victory. I seek territory. I will teach you to reclaim your inner territory. Then I will show you the particular piece of land in the spirit that I wish to give you.
I will teach you how to take it and how to hold it in your identity in me.
You are the hope of the nations, a warrior class that changes the history of people groups. I’ve opened the door to a whole new dimension of the Spirit, to give you a taste of the power of the age to come.
To bring heaven to earth in my Name – that is my purpose. On earth, as it is in heaven. You must live from heaven to earth if you are to fully glorify me.
I’ve opened the door to a secret place in the spirit. It is my heart that you should fully explore this place and discover who you really are in the process. Then I will put this door in you so that my heart in and for you, will open the door for others. This is the year of your rising, beloved. Entering a high place in the spirit. It’s time!
Assignment – you are developing a warrior mindset. How does your present thinking need to adjust in be renewed for that mindset to be established? How can your intimacy intimidates the enemy? What upgrade in worship is currently available to you? Explain how Thanksgiving and rejoicing will affect the enemy as he tries to engage with your life.
Commission – what are your weapons of mass demoralization, and how will you use them against the enemy? Explain the power of patience and how it combines with faith to cause you to inherit the promise? – Hebrews 6; 12. What inner territory have you reclaimed, and what values and principles have you learned in the process?