Taking the Blue Pill or the Red Pill....

Today in a conversation the question of why some people never seem to break out in spiritual things came up. It seems like they are happy where they are. They really don't want to grow. Yet WE want them to find all the truth of the Good News.

They aren't bad people. They aren't evil. They are christian in many ways. They have some essential truth, love Jesus and may well be headed for heaven. They are just living in a less than all they could be; like in a Matrix.

The Matrix movie was a out of the box shaking that shook me and many others. I have seen it so many times I can quote freely from it.

In Christianity there are people who like living in the matrix. In fact, if they were to be shown the truth they might not survive. It might even destroy them.

Then what as a spiritual leader are we to do. Let them live in the illusion that things are just fine? That we have enough with three hymns, a her and a ten minute sermon once a week?

What bugs us is that there is so much more. But people have to make a choice. Our responsibility is to be Morpheus for people. We have to offer people the opportunity to hear and experience the truth, unadulterated, raw, alive with all it's pain and joy. If you are there, you know what I am talking about.

We hold out the blue pill and the red pill for them to choose. In a way we say to them as Morpheus did to Neo in the movie the The Matrix:

You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland. And, I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Many people don't really want the red pill. They want to take the blue pill and go on in the comfort they have...now. They don't want to disturb their paradigms. They are really saying, don't mess with the Box they have managed to place God in. Unless they take the red pill, choose to go as far as the rabbit hole goes deep, they will live in comfort; a delusion that they have all there is.

We can't force them. We shouldn't. We can just offer. And if they choose the blue pill don't look down on them. They have just chosen to live in the matrix a little longer. It's what they know. It doesn't challenge them at all. It's who they are comfortable being.

But we always have a choice, it's just that when you choose the red pill you enter into an unknown land, an unexplored place, a place full of uncertainty yet full of JOY you want to tell others, particularly those close to you.

It's scary and wonderful all at the same time. You want them to know the joy, but the fear they have keeps them away.

I need a mindset: I won't be offended if you choose the blue pill, its playing it pretty safe. But, if you only knew what power the revelation from the red pill would bring you to, you would look for that pill until you found it.

It's there. It's ready for you. Choose it. Ask someone you know. The fullness of the Spirit of God in the Baptism sent by the Father at Pentecost is available. You live saved and with some spirit now, but there is more, much more, it's on the other side. If you step over you won't come back again. You will have taken the RED PILL...and you will never ever be the same again.

Hat tip to Mike Dulski

Discomfort means Change

It's early in the morning. I'm waiting on God. He's speaking.

You are feeling uncomfortable. Dis Ease. Not ill. Just antsy. Like something is left undone. This is not an attack from the adversary. This is of ME. I am moving you from one place to another. From one Glory which has become comfortable to one that is not yet comfortable. That is what you are feeling.

It's a change. It's a movement. You feel in in your body. You feel it in your spirit. You know it's true.

Part of you is holding back, you are wishing you could just stay in that zone of comfort. You have done well in that zone. Now I am taking you to a new place and larger zone.

The old wine is gone, the new wine is coming. It causes discomfort, a swelling, a near bursting.

Re-oil the wineskin of your life. Become what I destined you to be. I wrote it before the earth even was. There is GOOD works for you to do. Let me take your hands and use them. You are my hand, my feet, my eye, my ear, my presence on the earth.

Did you think you would be able to remain the same as I used you more and more? There is a demand you can place on me and I will provide all you need. It will mean change.

Have courage. Do not fear. Even if your stepping out should cause you to be in danger, you have nothing to fear. Fear only the destruction of your soul, and he cannot do it as you are hidden in ME. Even if he should destroy your mortal body, your new Glory will be greater than you can imagine as you find yourself in the ultimate destiny I have for you.

There is nothing I have placed before you that is impossible. Opposed? Certainly. You have seen and felt the opposition. You needn't wonder why. He tried to KILL ME when I manifested myself on the earth. But you are already immortal. He cannot kill you.

I will accomplish what I have purposed in the earth as in heaven. My will is perfect. Sometimes you struggle with understanding it. Your mortal body cannot truly ever fully understand on your side of the veil. I will give you revelation grace sufficient for you.

You can trust ME to take you to the place you never thought you would go. The suddenlies are here....even in delay....even in Dis Ease.

The annual dig....

I am beginning to see 2010 prophetic posts already.

I haven't yet heard anything. I did at the turn of the Hebric year. 5770.

But, If the Lord wants to say something about the year to come I'm all ears.

I would be interested if YOU are hearing anything?

A prayer for President Obama

Psalms 109:8

A confirmation of a Prophetic Word I got and wonderd about

The word Doug Addison lines up with what the Lord Showed me in September about the dangers and threats the enemy was waging against Israel and Believers and even in the USA. We were under threat. We were being pursued. There were several arrests of terrorists among us. We missed catastrophe, but we as a nation were like David hiding from Saul. I think it's time we start hearing what the spirit of the Lord is saying. I will say I was shaken a bit when the attack I KNEW was coming didn't manifest. I understand it now. This is a good word direct from the throne. Read it and it will help you and ME grasp what and why. And not when. Read below:

Doug Addison:

God is Protecting All that He has Promised Us

Over the past few months, I have received quite a bit of revelation about a new season coming to many people that was starting in September and October of 2009 and continuing through the New Year. I keep hearing over and over that "this is the time of new beginnings and new opportunities."

Similar to Being Pregnant

When God begins something new in our lives sometimes it can be similar to a baby taking nine months to birth. It takes time to grow and develop the new thing from God in our lives. I can look back in my life and see many examples of when I heard God speak to me clearly about a change in my life. Then when the change actually takes place, it is oftentimes close to a nine-month period.

In April of 2008 I was living in Moravian Falls, North Carolina, and I was speaking at several churches in the Central Coast of California. God spoke to me clearly that we would be moving to that area and be part of something new He was going to do. Through a series of events and without making it happen on my own, we relocated to Santa Maria, California, nine months later in January 2009. After arriving in Santa Maria, nothing really seemed to be happening. Then after nine months, in September, I had two major angelic visitations and God spoke to me more clearly about our next steps and plans for why we moved. Just as a baby is hidden during the nine month pregnancy period, quite often God will hide us for a season.

Satan Comes Before a New Move of God

A principle most people miss in the Bible is that when God is about to do something new in our lives, satan will come just before—to get us discouraged and to cause us to give up before the breakthrough. David gets anointed by Samuel to be king of Israel, and then he is pursued and nearly killed by Saul. Jesus receives the Holy Spirit to begin His ministry on earth, and immediately He is taken into the wilderness to be tempted by satan. Saul (Apostle Paul) has a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, and then he is greatly opposed to the point that he has to run for his life. These are just a few cases of a theme that runs throughout the entire Bible.

God will often call us to something new; then it seems that all hell breaks loose and it appears that the opposite of what we heard from God begins to happen. The fact is that the reason God spoke to us to begin with was to strengthen us to be able to walk through the storm and know that He is still with us no matter what it looks like.

God spoke to me that something radically new was coming to me and many people after September of this year. During the month of September I received some incredible revelation and visitations from God, then in October things began to look the complete opposite. I have been watching this pattern for some time now, so I was not thrown for a loop. The best way to handle this is to continue to move forward with the last thing that you heard from God and pay little attention to the distractions from satan.

New plans, strategies, ministries, gifts, anointing, miracles, businesses and relationships are on their way. The key is to not give up. Satan and the forces of darkness really don't want you to get what is coming. You will receive what you are looking for. If you are looking to God for the new things and you endure the storm, it will transpire in your life. If you begin to doubt and give up on what God has promised you, then there is a good chance that it will not come to you at the level that God had intended, or it may be delayed.

Jesus is Protecting Our Promises

I had a dream on November 17 that the enemy was coming to steal away the promises God had made to me and many others. I ran to the ocean and when I got there the ocean appeared to be dried up, even though there were still plant life and animals. As I stood wondering what to do, Jesus Himself, clothed in a purple and crimson robe, walked up to me. I told Him that the enemy was trying to steal away what had been promised to us.

Without saying a word, He used His right hand to take something from deep inside of me and placed it in what looked like an ancient iron cage in the shape of a sphere (the size of a basketball). He locked it, kept the key, and tossed it a few feet away onto the floor of the ocean. I was thinking to myself that He could have at least hidden it a little better. As I looked, there were many of these ball-shaped cages lying all over the place, and I knew they were the promises of others that Jesus was now protecting and placing them where they needed to be.

This dream is a confirmation that what God has promised to us will come. The fact that the ocean "appeared" to be dry but still had life is symbolic of a coming move from God that is nearing but not here yet. It was not like a wilderness that had no life.

Our promises from God are being placed in a safe place so that they will be picked up by the next wave of the Holy Spirit. It is similar to a chessboard; God is strategically placing us where we need to be for this next season.

Isaiah 41:10 NIV
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

Doug Addison
InLight Connection
Email: info@dougaddison.com

Prophetic Warning for those Called of God to Minister the Gospel of Christ

This morning I heard the Lord say (and it is for ME as well as any who will read this):

Keep your eyes on me. You have let things of the world distract you. Some are distinctly BAD for you. Some are simply worldly pleasures that on the surface are innocent. But they can take you from me. Create distance you choose, not Me.

Those distractions are not from ME. I didn't send them to you. Some are deceptions of your flesh, some from the world and some from the Devil. Do not assume that they are better or worse because they are just from your flesh. Or the world. Those can be as dangerous as the ones from the devil.

IF they take your eyes away from being doves eyes you will be hurt. And you will hurt others.

And you hurt yourself. And your ministry.

Flesh driven appetites, pleasure, World driven Politics, Economics, Sports, Entertainment (even Internet and TV), and the Devil's lies, half truths, bitterness, anger and temptations are all roadblocks and detours from my purpose for you.

None of these comes with a warning label. You must have the gift I gave you in discerning what is diversion and what is from me.

My desire for you is to finish well. To be what I called and equipped you to be.

Anything less is less than my best.

Watch for the little foxes. They are the most deceiving of all.

I love you too much to keep silent. Will you have ears to hear......?

A Mandate for the Church in 2010

Sometimes people who write or respond to a Facebook post are doing so by the Spirit of God. They are flowing in the Holy Ghost such that what they write overflows from the indwelling. This is such a series of comments and a post that started it all. One of the reasons I have come to appreciate the people with whom I am networked on Facebook is the the depth exhibited by this thread of understanding. I post it here because it matters. We must be challenged to make "Church" real and stop playing around.

From Brian Simmons:
Nothing is more important for a church than to disciple, equip, and release its members into active ministry. In 2010 I encourage you to begin an emphasis called – Discipleship Matters! The place to start is answering this question: What would a fully equipped and ‘discipled believer’ look like?

These profound comments followed:

Scary to the Enemy, Delightful to the King!

Psalm 149: 4For the LORD takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation. 5Let the saints rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds. 6 May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands, 7 to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, 8 to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron, 9 to carry out the sentence written against them.

This is the glory of ALL his saints.

That spiritual fierceness is a combo of: All the gifts, all the fruits, and the sevenfold Spirit--each emulated, taught on, encouraged, challenged on (exhortations and rebukes), nurtured & developed, and practiced in the context of warning the idle, encouraging the timid, helping the weak, and becoming humbly patient--eek--w/ all, 1 Thess 5.

Clothed in humility but glowing in the dark

A Force to be reckoned with!!!...filled with LOVE...motivated by MERCY...moving in POWER of the Holy Spirit...extending FORGIVENESS.. doing all that is possible to LIFT UP THE POOR in mind , body and spirit...walking in WISDOM and DISCERNMENT...learning and speaking the TRUTH...ministering HEALING...leading the WAY...Being a WORSHIPER and a LOVER of Jesus...simply being the BEST OF THE BEST as we act like our ABBA, our Father God while walking in all humility and grace

I see an army of Jesus People who heal like He healed, live like He lived, threaten the status quo like He did, and are persecuted to the point of death like He was.

I see men and women, young and old realizing that something is terribly wrong with the lives of the average believer; who fall out of love with the world and who cut covenant together to change the world with the power of our ascended savior.

People who stop seeking to save their own lives, but decide that whatever the cost and whatever the consequence - we must pull a generation from Hell; empty the hospitals with the power of God; and raise the banner of holiness to the Lord, in a land where entertainment and worldliness has captivated the hearts of even the best of us.

God is looking for a people who will be committed to that which grieves his heart the most. I am continually convicted by my own lack of commitment and faith. Let the words of a godless communist convict the hearts of believers today. Fidel Castro said: "I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action." Why is it that the godless can so simply change the world, while the Church is left behind in the dust? If only the people of God understood absolute faith and commitment to this extent!

I am so broken to see the Church fully committed to Jesus Christ. We don't need more flash or more of the world. We need total devotion to Jesus. I know that I'm where I should be yet, but I'm going there. I owe Him too much to offer anything less.

Both in the church and in the field - if we lead people to the Lord but leave them to flounder before they know how to 'chew their food', we drop the ball. The unchurched and now the unparented generations in our midst even need retroactive discipleship - more mothers! more fathers! They're so hungry! That and the glimpse of the heart of God for all of us has to be the juice behind our passion to GO

Disciples have been with Jesus. Maybe unschooled, uneducated. Maybe people the world considered foolish (so God could confound the wise). Uncompromising. True disciples will be like their teacher, and they will obviously be different because they've been 'with Jesus.' And disciples will be recognized by their Love. Following the new commandments Jesus gave to fulfill the law. Our hearts in tune with Hìs. Understanding His will as 'He causes our thoughts to be agreeable to Hìs will'... Out of Love and obedience- the power will flow. Probably more than we realize if our eyes and hearts are fixed on Him!

A fully equipped and discipled believer would be "armed and dangerous"- able to turn the world upside down....ready to start a revolution.