Preparing the Walker the final chapter

So I want to start by apologizing for not posting for the last week but after spending last Friday and Saturday with God and preaching on Sunday I came down with the worst case of Hay Fever I have ever had and have been in bed all week long. but I do want to share some of what God gave me those last couple of days and even this week in the bed I have been spending time with God.  I want to share some of what God has been saying to me during this time. 

God is looking for people who will just spend time with HIM.  No agenda just treat HIM like you would a close personal friend. One of the things that we talked about was that during my walking times though he would at times give me insights and messages about the church and about his people a lot of the time it was just HIM and I spending time together with no agenda. HE told me about doing that in the past with people HE talked about spending that kind of time with Enoch and Noah. He talked about there being people of every generation that just spent time with HIM.  He reminded me of the conversations that we had during our walk about the ducks and even brought to my mind the walk in which HE laughed at the inside joke HE was setting me up for.  Then HE told me that is what HE longs for from HIS people. HE told me that most of HIS children only come to HIM when they want something or need something. HE said they treat me like their own personal genie or Santa Claus while I want to be their love and friend.  I preached about this at our church this last week and had people asking me how do you do that How do you spend time with God and hear these things from HIM like you do.  I answered them the way I would answer anyone who asked me about that  YOU just do.  How do you spend time with your friends you make the time.  When was the last time you invited God to cook dinner with you? or to go to the movies with you or just take a ride to the store with you?  When is the last time you talked to HIM just to talk not to request something?  When is the last time you tried to listen to HIM talk to you without distraction?  This is what God is looking for, Longing for, HE is desperate for it.  I told someone on Sunday that I had spent to days listening to God cry.  HE wasn't crying over the sins of the world or the sins of the nation, He wasn't crying over deaths and loss of innocence. NO God was crying for someone to want to spend time  with HIM to love on HIM.  We say that we love HIM but would your spouse or significant other believe you loved them if the only time you ever spent time with them was when you wanted something from them? NOT for long they wouldn't. So take some time this week and just talk to God share your life with HIM, your dreams, your disappointments, your funny stories, Every thing and then listen as HE shares HIS with you who knows in some future generation they might just be talking about you and calling you "the friend of God"  Anyway that is my thoughts this week I got to go me and God are getting together to watch NCIS who knew that God liked TV?
Tomorrow my surprise prayer walk this week
I sure hope God doesn't hog the popcorn :)

Preparing the Walker Day3

Well today's walk was a lot quicker I only had to walk to the mall and spend some time there, Then walk home about 2 miles total not including the trip around each floor of the mall.  It was a good walk and I did get some things but not a lot of photo's I didn't feel comfortable taking pictures of people that I didn't know and the things I saw wouldn't show up in photos anyway.  So let just get right into what went on during this walk.  As I was walking there another signboard just jumped right out at me it was for the Fraternal Order of Eagles but they don't say that on the sign it says FOE.  God spoke and said the foe is everywhere and he is taking notice of what is happening in the area. But he reminded me that while we have to watch out for the foe he has already been defeated and that as Paul the apostle puts it "the weapons of our warfare are strong for the pulling down of strongholds."   So dear brothers and sisters who are reading and praying remember that we must be on our guard and put on HIS armour daily so that we can stand against the snares of the enemy.  With that we continued on to the Mall nothing really of any significance happened on the way after the foe thing but I did take this photo of some ducks on the river just because it looked cool.

I said hey God there are a bunch of ducks anything you want to word you want to give me about them.  He said yeah they look cool all lined up like that.   Not everything about these walks have to be about some deeper word they can just be about us being together. And believe it or not that is what most of this walk was about.  I got to the mall and walked around looking at people and God said look at how busy they are.  Even here they are on the go. It seemed like every other person was shopping and walking and talking on their cell phones all at the same time.  Then we passed this signboard on the second floor and God opened my eyes to something else. The sign was for being able to buy lottery tickets in the mall and He said see the prince is active here to and then my vision changed and I saw a lady with this creature on her back and the creature had a long chain attached to her. She came out of one store and started past the next when the creature hopped of went into the store and yanked on the chain. She stopped turned and went into the store and began to shop. I stood and watched until she came out with another bag full of purchases and watched her walk a couple of more stores when it happened again.  As she came out of that store I went up and said excuse me I know this is kind of a weird question by why are you here in the mall today?  She was very friendly and told me that she had a hard day at work and just felt like she needed some shopping therapy so she came to the mall.  I thanked her and watched as the demon pulled her into another store.   As I began to look around I saw lots of creatures on lots of peoples backs. some had several and one man had a chain from him to the woman he was with and several other chains that just seemed to go straight through the walls. When I asked God about him I was told he is addicted to something at the end of each chain.  Then I was led up to the food court where i got a drink and sat down to watch people. God spoke and said look how busy they are. This is so typical now days people say they can't hear me or see me now days but the truth is they are just to busy to sat down and listen to me or look for me. I could hear the sadness in HIS voice and the Longing. Then HE said "If they would just be still and know that I am God. that's what i want from my children. They are so busy doing for me or themselves that they rush through their time with me. I want people to spend time with me. Then He made it personal Thank you He said for the last few days You are hearing me because you are spending this time with me. You may have thought I was silent yesterday because you got discouraged but i was just walking with you. being with you enjoying having you to myself.  That is what these 14 days are about. Yes i will show you stuff. But mostly I want you to grow to enjoy being with me, talking with me, listening to me. Not just because you need something but because you enjoy my company.  Then He went quite for a while. He showed me something I can't talk about yet then said lets go home. which is what we did. On the way home he said I just want to spend time with you tomorrow no agenda no visions just you and me in communion together. Lets g someplace quite and spend time together .  So that's what we are doing. If there is anything to tell tomorrow I will tell it if not Talk with you Saturday.

Preparing the Walker day 2

So today I walked where God told me it was a long, long walk. I started at 11:30 and finished at 3:30pm. I am tired, sore, and sunburned but I had a great walk and lots of good God time.  So lets just jump right in shall we and look at the things that God gave me.  There are five things I want to talk about today that happened on this walk 3 are things HE showed me one is a new part of my ministry and the last is a conversation that I had with him during the first half of the walk. I am not really proud of the last one and we will take them as they came up during the walk. 

1. I got about half and hour into the walk and I saw this light board for this store (see picture to the left) God spoke and said they don't even know, I have the only Kinetic Health Care. Kinetic energy is at motion it is always in motion it builds on the motion it has and creates more motion. Kinetic health care would be health care that continues to increase until all health comes from that source. Only God has that ability. His word says in Mark 16 that those that Believe will lay hands on the sick and they SHALL recover.  That's Kinetic Health Care if ever I heard it.  God wants to show us some Kinetic Health care. HE wants us to come to him and see how He can heal us.  God spoke clearly to me as I walked past this sign and said "they have not because they don't ask with faith."  As Smith Wigglesworth used to say in his revival services as the Healing line would form "Only Believe Only Believe All things are possible only Believe."

After this I walked for quite some time past the Levy which is hosting the West Virginia Motorcycle Rally this week. Where I ran into the Christian Bikers Association who were there Representing our Lord and Savior. Good JOB guys.  then about 45 minutes into my walk about a quarter of the way through I became so Hot and so tired. I had taken two bottles of Ice cold water with me and had finished one and the other was now lukewarm.  I was ready to Go home and I will be honest I told God so.  I said look you have already shown me something I am tired its my first walk It 94 degrees out here I want to stop for today. God told me you need to decide here are you willing to do what ever it takes or aren't you?  You told me what ever the cost you would pay it is being tired not worth seeing My presence change this valley?  Is being Hot or thirsty not worth seeing it?  I am not asking you to do much I already gave you permission to take sustenance once a day My  Son didn't get any of that no food no water for 40 days I am only asking you to do this for 14 is that too much?  If so then you are not the person I thought you were.  David would have done it, Peter, Paul, the 120 would have done it but if you want to quite before we even get started I will leave you alone.  

Can I be honest for a second here that scared me he didn't say I will let you go home and try again tomorrow he said I will leave you alone.  I sat by the side of the river under a tree and said please God I am sorry don't leave me alone I need you more than ever. You are right I said whatever it takes I am willing to pay it so lets Go show me what you want me to see.  And up on my feet I came and on towards the Capitol building I went.  Show me what you want me to see I prayed and for the next 45 minutes God said nothing!!!  I got to the capitol still nothing. I went into a convenience store and bought two bottles of water since I was out and as I left the store I decided since God wasn't talking I would take a shorter faster route home.  Almost as soon as I started that way God spoke "What are you doing? This is not the path now keep your promise or don't tell me you are willing again." I stopped and said to God I will follow your path but not without you if you aren't going to talk to me then I will go home because I can't make this walk without you."  Lets Go he told me and so I began to walk to the street he had told me to go down.  That was when He showed me the 2nd thing

2. I was passing the University of Charleston Football Field and God said they worship their hero's here but before we are done in this city this stadium will be filled with people worshiping me.  You will at some point in this hold a service here and I will fill it with people hungry for me.  Just follow me and do what I say and you will see more than you could ever believe was possible.  I am even now opening doors and softening hearts for a move in this city unlike any you have ever heard about.  Brownsville will be nothing compared to this, Lakeland a drop of water in the ocean, I am about to make a new thing soon people all over the world will say that Charleston West Virginia is truly Almost Heaven because God is there!!!" 

3rd thing was quick and not even two blocks later right at the road to the worst housing project in town (The only one you cant even enter unless you live there and can prove it) was a bill board and at the bottom of the bill board was a statement that leaped out at me almost as if God himself was saying it. Which he did seconds after I took this picture. To be honest I took the picture to prove to my self that the words were turely on the Bill Board.  They are "It starts Here"   God says the biggest awakening anyone has ever seen Starts here in this town hardly anyone knew anything about until Senator Byrd died and was laid in state here.  I am going to start here and awaken billions God said.  My house will be filled. 

I was almost besides my self at this point I literally bowed down on the street and worship God and told HIM how sorry I was for almost giving up.  He told me it was OK he knew I wouldn't He told me I know that you are like my servant Job even if I letyou be killed , you would still praise me with your dieing breath.  I let you feel the tiredness and the heat and the thirst. I want you to understand that you only have the strength you need when you follow me with all your heart mind and spirit.   Just lean on me and like Jesus I will minister to you and send my messengers to minister to you. Now get up we have more to see your walk today is not done. 

My dear readers I don't know how to explain what is coming in the next two things that happened in this walk but to just tell them as they happened and let you see what you think of them.  You can take them or leave them but I know what I was shown. 

4.The next thing I saw was a bill board as well one that instantly caught my attention I will not say a lot about it but let you see it for yourself it is self explanatory what is being advertised. God spoke and said this is important. Do you see what is behind this? The enemies prince in this State is Addiction. People both mine and those without my Son are caught in addictions. They bow at the feet of the Prince of West Virginia and don't even know it.  They are addicted to power,drugs,alcohol,pornography,sex, gossip,food,gambling, religion, entertainment and even to themselves. I want you as you begin to walk to every place you see something that feeds one of these addictions to declare to this prince that He is no longer in charge here. Use the Authority that Jesus gave to you and bind the spirit of addiction and lose my Spirit to bring Freedom.  When you get to the Capitol I want you to stand on the steps and Declare it declare the power of this prince to be broken over the leaders of this state and declare that Heaven be open over this building where the state laws are made. Stand in front of the Governor's mansion and Declare the same thing that Addiction to political power be broken Declare that my candidate will fill the office and Declare that an open heaven be over who ever is in this office.   I continued to walk and God said you know that you will have to do a Jericho march around that casino right? I answered what ever you want Lord.  Then he said what was the name of that place again?  I said God you know it. Yes I do but do you know it??  I said no and looked at the photo.  Mardi Gras why is that important?   Its nothing he told me with a chuckle just a little something I have for you to do.  

And that my friends is when God blew the lid right off of my box.  I just thought I understood the ministry he had for me wait till you here what he considers a little thing for me to do.

5. I continued walking listening to the occasional chuckle from God and said "Are you going to let me in on the Joke?"  He laughed and said "OH its no joke. Your going you know."  What are you talking about of course I am going we already established that."

"Not the casino though you are going there too  Mardi Gras your going not the next one but in 2012 you are going to organize something called Operation Prayerwalk Mardi Gras and you will take a huge team for the week before and the week of Marty Gras and prayerwalk and hold an evangelistic crusade In New Orleans for Mardi Gras they want a party we will give them a HOLY GHOST PARTY!!  And then I began to see what he was telling me but that is for another time and a different blog altogether.   Not long after that I arrived back home to find that it was 3:30 I had been walking for four hours and though I was tired I wasn't as tired as a 300 pound out of shape man with my illness should be. Why not Because when you walk with God he provides the energy.  So till tomorrow, when I have to walk the Mall of an evening, May you become even more Hungry for Him who made you.  OH and if you want to know more about Operation Prayerwalk Mardi Gras stay tuned it will be getting its on site soon.  I will let you know. 

Pastor George 

Perparing the Walker Day 1 actual

So today was my first day fasting is not as easy when it is only water and I am struggling with that but God allowed me a very small amount of sustenance besides water but only enough to allow me to concentrate on what I needed to do. I am confident that I will be able to complete this fast only because I know he has called me to.  So today I was shown a lot of things as I was running errands and God said this is the things I want you to see today but tomorrow you will begin to walk not ride.  So let me show you the three things God showed me and the spiritual applications of them. There are three of them so let me do them as I got them.

1. Almost as soon as we left the house today we hit road construction, This is not unusual in any way there is a lot of road construction going on around our city. The interstate, several other roads and intersections.  In spiritual dreams roads always represent direction. God began to reveal to me that the direction of our town has been broken and not very usable. But just like the road workers were working to make a smoother surface for us to drive on HIS workers are repairing or renewing the Spiritual direction of our community. He said that while repairs cause inconvenience and slow downs in the traffic or even at times a temporary worsening of road conditions the end result is a faster smoother drive.  It may seem like the direction is not changing or even that it has worsen but it is only the process of the renewal that is needed. Watch and wait for the end result it will be a smoother and even better direction than the original.   Thank you God for such an interesting first revelation.

2. A little later in our ride I glanced off to the left and saw a fence painting that caught my attention. It is of a man smiling holding a swings ropes but at a quick glance it looked like he was looking out through prison bars.  That's weird I thought why would a guy in jail be smiling.  God spoke in my spirit again and said A lot of my Children are just like that they are imprisoned by something or in bondage to something and they seem to be happy or even satisfied. There are two reasons for this he told me one they don't know they are imprisoned  because they have been told this is they way it is. They believe the lie that this is what the Christian life is and so they allow themselves to be imprisoned by rules and regulations instead of experiencing the freedom that I have won for them. The second reason is that they have been imprisoned for so long that they have become content with the way things are.  They are happy because this is all they know and after all it isn't as bad as some others have it.  The doors to their prison have been opened and still they are content to sit there day after day because things aren't that bad. Later when I went back by to take the picture God drove home to me that this is his people.  Look at the painting the man is in front of a castle that has crosses on three of its highest peaks. God said look they are satisfied with their prison when they could be in the castle.    God show them their prisons and make them dissatisfied with them lead them to the castle of your kingdom and true freedom.

The final thing was I had to go to the post office as I was entering God said look down there and off to the side was two advertisements someone had dropped. They landed just they way they are in the picture and I took the picture to show everyone what God was saying. 

God said this is what you are up against here in the Kanawha valley and even in most the country.  There are two types of Spirits that are riding the wind right now bringing bondage and destruction to both my people and the lost.  Sacred Spirits are religious in nature they look like a way to me. They even promise to be a way to me yet they aren't they are a way to destruction.  They even deceive my followers sometimes and lead them into that bondage we were talking about earlier.  The other is Native Spirits  who deceive by tying people up in the Natural or Native world. But mankind wasn't created to operate in the Native world but in both the Native and Spiritual world just like Me. I created you in my image to be like me a part of both realities. When will someone stand and declare the defeat of these spirits Change the atmosphere let my some of my people rise up and declare my Spirit rides the wind.  This is the breakthrough you are waiting for. Rise up and declare the Kingdom of God is in effect.

Well that's it for today tomorrow God has told me to walk to the capitol along the water then home along a very obscure back street I cant wait too see what He has for me tomorrow.

Thanks to those who have let me know your praying during this time and if you want to walk with me let me know that as well.

Preparing the Walker Part 1

I want to start by thanking those of you who are taking part of the Adventure by reading this and praying for me as I prepare to start Prayerwalking.   So if you have been following this blog you know that today was the the day of the last of the coats of finish on the Staff I thought before I start talking about what I am supposed to do for the next 14 days I should give you a look at the finished Staff.  So here is the finished product what do you think?            

So tomorrow starts the 14 days of getting myself ready for the walk. God told me that this 14 day period is time for me to get me ready to do the walk as he has called me to. Starting in the morning I will be fasting for the fourteen days this will be the most extreme fast I have ever had. I have done longer fast but never have I been called to do a complete fast. Fourteen days of water only.  I am also to forgo all forms of entertainment that doesn't draw me closer to God. That's right no TV, Movies, Books for fun the only computer stuff I can do is empty my email  and update this blog and my christian online work. Other than that a total entertainment blackout.  I am to walk not to pray but to see. I will pray everyday before I walk and then walk where he tells me to with a notebook and pen and write about what he shows me.  This is what I will blog about everyday. I will probably take pictures as well so stay tuned to see what God reveals to me. Now let me tell you why God has me doing this. It will teach me to see as HE sees. I will learn to pay attention and I will myself grow closer to HIM.  I am to seek HIM and where HE is at work everyplace I go.  The scripture that keeps coming to mind is Jeremiah 29:13 "And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart."  As I look for Him while walking coupled with clearing my mind and heart of all distractions I will begin to see HIM. I need to be ready to know when HE is showing me something. I seem to have some discernment into the second Heaven now but Through this HE seems to be indicating that HE is going to increase that level of discernment. To be honest part of me is scared of what this means.  I understand the necessity of an increase in this gift and I can see how it will help in this adventure that HE has called me to. My fear is that discernment doesn't just work one way, if you see the good you also see the bad, and maybe that is what HE is trying to get to come to terms with.  I don't know but I will do what I am called to do. I have already come to far to give up now. Could this be the thing that I need to actually experience Habakkuk 1:5? I don't know but stick around and we will find out together. Stay tuned for parts 2-15.

George

Preparing the Staff part two

So yesterday I let you know about the steps I had taken so far for preparing the Staff for my walks. You should read part one before you read this part in this part I will give you the last two steps God gave me one of which is finished the other one will be finished by the Monday. Which will then lead us into the next part of the adventure preparing the walker.    Lets start with a look at the staff after the first 3 steps.

So there it is cleaned up stripped and sanded look how white it looks. I found that as I was looking at it today, before starting the next two steps, that it is still a perfect picture of what God is trying to do with his people. After he strips away our shell and removes our bonds to the enemy and sands us to be like HIM that we become clean and pure just like Jesus. 

I never would have thought that I would get so much out of the simple act of working on making a staff to walk with but man it is a sermon in itself. So on to the last two steps for the staff's preparation

Step 4. Anointing the Staff

God told me to Anoint the staff with Anointing oil to consecrate it to HIS service.  So I did. What I found interesting is that the word translated Anoint in scripture means to Smear, cover, immerse.  So that is what i did I poured a little oil on the staff and then I began to smear it in while praying for God to consecrate it to HIS service. I covered the whole staff with it and became quite covered myself in the process. God spoke to me as I was doing this and said this is what I am doing I will anoint my people with my Holy Spirit and cover them with my presence. As you walk the communities of this nation carrying this staff I will begin to pour out a fresh anointing over my Children as you pass them by. Like Abraham of old I will give to you every place your foot touches while walking for me and carrying my staff.  

I am becoming more and more excited about this whole process. Any way last step

Step 5. Seal the staff with a protective coating.

Coat one drying

Lastly God told me to coat the staff with polyurethane as a protective coating. I must admit that this was also has an incredible spiritual allegory just like every other step has.  God spoke to me and said give it three coats one for every aspect of my presence: Father, Son, Spirit. Then he said just as you cover this staff with a protective coating, I have provided a protective coating for my children. I call it the armor of God. It is used to protect them from outside elements that want to work against them just like the coating will protect the staff from the weather outside. Also my armor will protect my people from internal rot just like the polyurethane will protect your staff from rotting like a normal stick. Why don/t my people use the protection that I provided for them/ All they have to do is put it on."  As the first coat was drying i noticed that the staff had changed colors it now looks kind of golden God said that is what my presence and anointing do for my children takes them from just a common stick and turns them into something precious and beautiful.  Or God is so Awesome isn't he?

Final thought as I finish applying the last two coats of polyurethane to the staff, as I was reading the directions to apply it one coat a day is what they recommend and then the directions said something interesting. "Allow 14 days cure time before strenuous use."  God spoke and said that is perfect you will have 14 days to complete the preparations on yourself.  So next the last coat goes on Monday and I have 14 days till the walking begins.  Please pray that I will do what he asks in preparation.  Next blog Preparing the Walker part one of 14.  :)

Preparing the Staff Part one

So since my last post I have been working on the staff. I haven't completed all the steps yet but thought that I should share with you what I have gotten done. I am going to kind of give the steps as I am taking them and why God has told me to do this, and any prophetic meaning HE has revealed to me as I go along. Oh there are photo's of each step as well.

Step 1. Removing the bark.
 As I was doing this step God told me that the bark on a tree or limb is like the walls and shields we put up in our life to keep people from seeing and hurting the real person who is inside. He told me that I was to strip this staff just like he would strip those barriers from the lives of His people. "Once my Children are laid bare to those in the world I will use their realness and openness to draw the broken and hurting to me."  As you will see I stripped off all the bark laying bare the wood underneath.

Step 2. Grind down the Knot holes.

 After removing the Bark God told me to smooth out all the major knot holes out on the staff. I found it interesting when i counted them that there were seven major Knots where small branches of the limb had been on this staff.  God has revealed to me through my prayer times as I prepare for this walk that there are seven major demonic spirits active against the followers of God right now. They are Pride, Fear, Apathy, Religion, Self Righteousness, Tradition, Worldly Wisdom, and Separatism. He told me to smooth them out not to remove them but to make them less than they were because there would be those who claim his name who would choose to remain bound to those spirits but that he would make them less influential than they were before.  So I began to grind them down not until they were gone but until they were much less than they started out. I found myself praying as I worked on them that God would do the same in every church family that we walked past and got to preach for the same as I was doing for the staff. 

Step 3. Sand the staff smooth.

The next step was of course to sand the whole staff.  God asked me as I was sanding "What does this do?" My response: " It makes it smooth."

"How?"

"By removing the rough spots."

"Yes", God told me " and that is what I am going to do to my people. I will remove the spots that makes them uncomfortable to those longing for me. As we break those 7 bonds off of my people then I will Begin to smooth out their rough spots making them like me full of compassion and mercy. They will begin to see themselves as no more deserving of my love and forgiveness than anyone else. They will begin to represent me and my unconditional love to those they come in contact with."  Again as I sanded I found myself praying God do the same in me remove my bonds and make me smooth and comfortable to those I come in contact with. 

That is as far as I have gotten in the last two days but I will start on the last two steps tomorrow and will post about them and more pictures as soon as I get them uploaded. I hope that you think about your own life as you read these steps and join me in praying that God will do them in your life and in the life of his "Church"