by Lynn Heatley. Recently, I was asked to share an insight that God gave me years ago. It was a time when I was working as an associate pastor on a church staff and my husband, a businessman, was leading in his company. I had struggled in our marriage with the belief that my husband needed to become more involved in ministry life. After a time of prayer, the Lord gave me some divine insights that changed my whole way of thinking.
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The Lord knows when to send words of encouragement to all of us when we need it the most! We recently have received many words for the city of Riverside and also for us personally at The Lords House….affirming and confirming! Ezekiel 47 speaks of a River from God that begins to rise gradually and then eventually overtakes and brings life and healing to all that it touches. We are beginning to see the river of God rise in this city…and it is beautiful to behold and to be in!
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By Lynn Heatley. I have been pondering the work of sanctification in our lives (sanctification is a big word that basically means the work/ongoing process of the Holy Spirit in our lives that brings our whole nature into being more and more like Jesus). As I have pondered this, I have thought of how so many seemed to have gotten stuck in this whole life process in their understanding and consequently, in their lives. And the “getting stuck” seems to be centered on two words: Receiving vs Earning.
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By Lynn Heatley. In this section, I would like to speak on the nature and overflow of the love of God and how it is an essential aspect in the ministry of reconciliation. In the twelfth chapter of the first book of Corinthians, Paul speaks of the value of spiritual gifts and how all the gifts are needed to have a wholeness that reflects the nature of Christ. He then transitions into the next chapter by calling his readers to a higher place; a place of understanding of how love is more important than any particular gift. He summons us to come up higher to a broader place of understanding and lifestyle: “And now I will show you the most excellent way”. We will benefit greatly as we follow the Lord in this call to a more excellent way.
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by Lynn Heatley. Intro: I was in an email conversation a few months back with someone from the ReconciliationSchool (www.gracebridge.org). We talked quite a bit about the nature of one who identifies themselves with what I have come to term as the “bridge tribe”. I actually got that understanding through a time of prayer with the Lord. Fawn has encouraged me to expand a bit more on what I have shared, so here it is. I hope that it encourages you and perhaps gives you a bit more understanding.
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by Lynn Heatley. Have you ever had those times of revelation where you felt like a “lightbulb” went on in the interior of your soul? Sometimes, the Lord leads me on treasure hunts, except usually, I do not understand that I am on one until all the clues suddenly appear together and then they say something dramatic. So my story begins.
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By Lynn Heatley. A scene from Cinderella has been emerging in my spirit lately. It is the famous scene where the king’s primary servant is taking the famous “glass slipper” that had fallen off Cinderella’s foot (in her fast escape) to all the maidens of the land to see which foot the slipper fits into thus revealing who the true owner of the shoe belongs to.
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