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The Gate to Our Heart
DSmith5428@aol.com
Mar 9 2008 07:58PM
Hi everyone! Last Friday at our First Friday Worship, I saw a vision of a gate that sat before our hearts. It looked like it could sit comfortably behind the ribcage, but it was spiritually made and was uniquely shaped like a garden gate that had an arch that rose up in the center. Since this is Sunday evening, I can say that I've seen this gate about 10 or 12 times since the vision on Friday evening. So, I say, this is a God-thing. The word that came with the vision was that the Lord was asking us to let the gates of our heart open wide so He can come in more fully. We want to know Him more, but He wants to know us more. And yet, He knows everything about us, doesn't He? This is what He shared with me...Deep calls unto deep and His desire is to bring us deeper into Him and have Him come deeper into us. There are places in all of us that we have not let Him come into and dwell deeply and richly. There's a part of us that hasn't been released fully so that He can fill up that part, too. And He calls unto that deep part to let go and let Him come in. I want the Lord to move me deeper into this relationship with Him and that means that I'm still transforming into more of me that I haven't seen yet. The Lord has created me to step into that depth and so far, neither Him or I have experienced me in that transformed part yet, so I know as deep calls unto deep, I'm changing and He wants to know me more. Does that make sense? He knows everything about me, but I'm transforming into this newness everyday. So everyday as I transform further in my walk, I'm newer and have become more Christ-like. Him and I haven't had a relationship with this new me yet. It's all new for Him and I...everyday! I hope that came out right. I really know what I'm trying to say. Ha-ha. I guess, to put it another way... Tomorrow I will take today's revelations and new truths of Him and they become part of me, making me transform into a more mature Christ-like person, but it also expands my knowledge of Him. So now Him & I are both expanded, or larger for each other, and we haven't experienced our relationship in this way yet. Thus, it's new everyday for Jesus and me! I stand amazed. He is showing us there's a gate to our heart. In the meeting Friday night, we all asked Him to open that gate and enter in to flow through us and find the inner-most parts of us that have not been touched by Him or have hindered the pure flow of His Spirit. The gates opened and we could feel Him entering in and pulling out things that didn't belong and replacing it with love and peace. People were delivered in a matter of minutes and some laid there crying, some laughing, some hearing His voice for the very first time. These are miracles. We asked Him to come and He did and He moved greatly in our lives. Lord, a row of hungry and humble people sat on the floor before You and asked for You to come more fully into them. They asked to know You more. They cried to feel the depths of You reach in to the depths of them. You are faithful and You came. Today we are stronger and are one step closer to being like You. Keep our heart gates open for You and continue to pour Yourself into us. I ask this for all who read this, too, Lord. Open the gates to our hearts and come in to the cracks and crevices of our being. Let us be filled with Your essence and Your Light until we are a beam of You emanating in every direction from our body. We want to be more like You. God, have your way in us. If you need prayer for anything or want to experience the Lord more fully in your life, please e-mail me and share your heart with me. What you share will be confidential and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible. God loves you so much and wants you to be that person He created you to be. Have a blessed week in Christ! Undone, Laura Smith Laura Smith International Ministries
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Why We Are Right
Laura Smith
DSmith5428@aol.com
Feb 21, 2008
Hi All, Oh, it sure is cold this morning here in Michigan. I really think it's time all you southerners invite me to your place to speak! I'm in need of some sunshine and of being barefoot. I think it went below zero last night so the cold goes right into your bones and makes you want to stay tucked under the covers as long as possible. I had to get up, though, because the Holy Spirit spoke to me while the covers were up over my head. He said I should share the beginning of my new book, Why We Are Right, so that His people would have a clear understanding of the power that comes when we walk in unity. Now, for all of you who might think I'm going to ask you to reach out and connect with more brothers and sisters in the faith, I'm not going to do that today. What I'm going to give you this morning is something that we can all do individually that becomes a corporate thing and results in something powerful and wonderful for the whole world. Sound amazing? I came upon an essay that was written by Mark Twain way back in 1905 and that's what I'm sending to you today. Please feel free to forward, copy and paste, print, mail, however you get important things to others. My posts are public domain so please share. Apparently, Mark Twain was hostile to Christianity and wrote this article as a satire on Christians. His words still ring true today and even though he meant to bring harm to Christians, God can use a skeptic like Mark Twain to help us come together for God's eternal purposes. Amen? Mark Twain on the Duty of Christians to Vote It will be conceded that every man's first duty is to God; it will also be conceded, and with strong emphasis, that a Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code of morals to the polls and vote them. Whenever he shall do that, he will not find himself voting for an unclean man, a dishonest man. Whenever a Christian votes, he votes against God or for Him, and he knows this quite well. God is an issue in every election; He is a candidate in the person of every clean nominee on every ticket; His purity and His approval are there, to be voted for or voted against, and no fealty of party can absolve His servant from his higher and more exacting fealty to Him; He takes precedence of party, duty to Him is above every claim of party. If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease. No church organization can be found in the country that would elect men of foul character to be its shepherd, its treasurer, and superintendent of Sunday School. It would be revolted at the idea; it would consider such an election an insult to God. Yet every Christian congregation in the country elects foul men to public office, while quite aware that this also is an open and deliberate insult to God, who can not approve and does not approve the placing of the liberties and well-being of His children in the hands of infamous men. It is the Christian congregations that are responsible for the filling of our public offices with criminals, for the reason that they could prevent it if they chose to do it. They could prevent it without organizing a league, without framing a platform, without making any speeches or passing any resolutions -- in a word, without any concert of any kind. They could accomplish it by each individual resolving to vote for God at the polls -- that is to say, vote for the candidate whom God would approve. Can a man imagine such a thing as God being a Republican or a Democrat, and voting for a criminal or a blackguard merely because party loyalty required it? Then can we imagine that a man can improve upon God's attitude in this matter, and by help of professional politicians invent a better policy? God has no politics but cleanliness and honesty, and it is good enough for men. ...If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country -- a country whose Christians have betrayed it and are destroying it. Mark Twain, Colliers Magazine, September 2, 1905. So, my friends, I think Mark Twain said it pretty straight forward for us. I have written a simple booklet called Why We Are Right - Realizing our Potential to Reclaim America for God. The booklet gives God's opinions on critical issues that we use in our voting decisions, such as abortion, same sex marriages, religious liberties, poverty, bioethics, stem cell research, cloning, the separation of church and state, and other important matters. I encourage you to get it from me and get it into the hands of every Christian you know. You can make copies in abundance and quote whatever parts you need. I think it's that important. WE really can vote for God this November and reclaim America without making any kind of public uprising. What an incredible statement of power! Until the whole world hears, Laura Smith Ordering options - please include item description when ordering: Check or money orders: Laura Smith P.O. Box 28 Laingsburg, MI 48848 Paypal: Books available by Laura Smith WWAR - Why We Are Right 5.00 + 1.95 s&h EMBR - Embracing Unity as the Bride of Christ 12.99 + 1.95 s&h (also available at Amazon.com) HEAL - Scriptures on Divine Healing 7.00 + 1.95 s&h KGP - Would You Like to Know God Personally? 3.00 + 1.95 s&h YCCB - Young Chef's Cook Book 5.00 + 1.95 s&h
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| Hi ladies and gents, I know I shared with you last week or so about seeing the rooms in heaven with the gates opening. The first room tipped over on us and we were all playing in it and throwing this substance around and God said it was 'wisdom and understanding.' Then the 2nd room opened and it spilled out 'strength and power' on us. Two days ago I started writing again and I was writing about healing. I wrote for about 10 hours, but in the middle of it, something struck me and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I was writing all the scriptures about asking and receiving and believing that you have received it. I've always had a thing in me about 'trying' to believe that I was standing there holding something when I wasn't, so this is big for me. (Reasoning brings doubt) God showed me a line of kettles, kind of like how he showed me the prayer bowls. They were all in a row and sitting there full. He told me that every single promise that He has given to His children are kept for us in heaven. They aren't locked up in places we can't get to and we don't have to keep trying to figure out how to ask for them. All His promises are Yes! and amen for all of His children. So seeing these kettles and knowing His Word brought clarity to how easy it is to access everything we need and/or desire. If He said in His Word healing is available, we go into the throne room and ask Abba if we can have that healing and knowing, confidently, that we can, because His Word declares it (He said, "I AM willing"), we can run to that kettle that holds healing and scoop out of it all that we need for us or anyone else we know, even for unbelievers. We do it in the spiritual realm with full boldness and confidence that we are allowed by Daddy to go get it. Then it begins to manifest in the physical realm. That's where people get hung up. They're asking for it from the physical realm and that's where logic and reasoning reside. I closed my eyes and pictured myself running up to God who was on the throne. I was even out of breath and slid up to Him like a little kid wearing socks on a marble floor. (How's that for entering the throne room in confidence and boldness?) And I said, "Daddy, can I go get some of that healing for my back?" And He said, "Yes and amen!" So I yelled thanks on my way out and ran to the room that was called the Healing Room. It must've been where God loaded up my 'healing kettle.' I went in and there were angels there and I got to lay down and they poured Christ's blood over my whole body. I could feel it tingle on certain parts that needed to be healed and then I stood up and ran out. Then I thought if there's a room for healing, there's a room for provision. So I ran back into the throne room and asked, "Daddy, can I have some money for Africa so I can get there and so I can help those people not to have vitamin deficiencies that make their eyes all cloudy? And can I have some money for India because they have so many needs and need to see Your love poured out on them? And can I have some to make sure they all have clothes and wells?" He said, "Yes and amen!" And I booked it out the door and went into the Supply Room. I was given two pails and I filled them until I could hardly carry them because they were so heavy. When I was picking them up, I realized that this is what the Scriptures talk about. Pray, believing, and receive. I am so confident that I picked up those pails full of provision for the trips to Nigeria and India that I can believe fully that I really do have them and they will manifest in the physical realm because they were so real in the spiritual realm. Now this sounds really stupid as I write it because this is basic stuff, but I've never had it become so real to me as it is now. I can see people all over the world trying to ask for things in the physical realm and in their minds they are thinking, "I hope God answers this." That is doubt and there isn't any faith in that. That's why so many people don't have the answers to their prayers. Some people just throw a prayer up without entering in to really see the Father listen to the prayer or hear Him say yes. This is unbelief and the prayers of unbelief are answered everyday with silence from the throne. So, this morning in prayer, I'm asking God about the promises and He started telling me about all the rooms and He reminded me of a Scripture that I would've never related to these storage rooms. John 14:1-4. My mind always goes to funerals when I hear Jesus talking about the mansions in our Father's house. But, think about this..."In My Father's house are many mansions (places to go to, abodes, rooms) and I am going to prepare a place for you." Every promise was fulfilled in Him and when He completed the Father's will here on earth, He was able to go back to heaven and prepare the rooms. I fully believe that we will all have our mansions in heaven, but I think He's also talking about those storage places that are filled to never-ending capacity for His children of inheritance to go get provisions before we get there. I mean, even the most gorgeous mansions have to have a room for storage, a room for washing, a room for business, you know? And then Jesus said, "...where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know." Here He gives us access to come to Him in these places. Immediately after that in John come those verses about 'whatever you ask in My name, that I will do' and 'if you ask anything in My name, I will do it." Okay, I'm so excited! In verse 19 Jesus says, "A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me." (duh, because only His children can enter the Throne Room) And verse 21b, "And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." I hope I'm not making a fool of myself here, but I don't think I've ever seen this so clearly than I do right now. If our reality lies in the spiritual realm because we are spirit beings and belong to a spiritual kingdom and are seated in heavenly places, I should fully and confidently and boldly run into the Throne Room every day to get what I need for anyone I'm going to come in contact with and for myself. I love Jesus so the Father loves me, and since my Father loves me, Jesus said He will love me and will manifest Himself to me (John 14:21). Is that happening to the majority of Christians we know? No! Maybe 1% have seen Him manifested. We've seen His grace and mercy and works manifested, but have we seen Him manifested? BUT...here's the kicker! The things that we ask and believe for happen first in the spiritual realm and then they are manifested in the physical. If we never enter the Throne Room where the very presence of the Father and the Son are seated, (and the Word says we are seated in heavenly places, which means we are lingering there) how can Their presence be manifested physically in our lives? But, if we are running in and out of the Throne Room everyday and are loving Jesus and sitting with Him, the relationship is so intimate and indivisible that this relationship will be manifested into the physical, which opens the door to the very manifestation of Jesus Himself just as He said, "I will love him and manifest Myself to him." From spiritual to physical...the Holy Spirit has manifested Himself in us spiritually when we are saved and baptized in Him and then the physical manifestations of the Spirit begin to come forth in us physically through our gifts and fruits. So, I'm taking Jesus at His Word, too, that He will also manifest Himself to me as I love Him and come into His presence. Oh my! Am I delirious or is this fresh revelation? I think I'll go back in and sit awhile. Haha I think that we will all become so comfortable there in these Rooms that we will see each other passing by now and then. Maybe we can meet in the Scroll Room at 3? Love you, Laura
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What if... What if I climbed the mountain? What is I swam to that shore? What if every battle was victorious? Then would You love me more? Would You love me more? What if I were everyone's first choice? What if I went farther than before? What if I stood high above the rest? Then would You love me more? Lord, would You love me more? You say I belong to You Far from the things I do You say I belong to You I'm in awe of why You do, why You do, why You do, I'm in awe of You. What if I ignored the hand that fed me? What if I forgot to confess? What if I stumbled down that mountain? Then would You love me less? Lord would You love me less? What if I were everyone's last choice? What if I mixed in with the rest? What if I failed what I'm asking for? Then would You love me less? Lord, would You love me less? Oh No, No, No You say I belong to You Far from the things I do You say I belong to You I'm in awe of why You do, of why You do, of why You do, I'm in awe of You What have I done to deserve Your Son sent to die for me? What can I give? I want to live. Give me eyes to see. In a world that keeps changing There's one thing that I know is true. Your love is staying There's nothing else I hold on to. You say I belong to You Far from the things I do You say I belong to You I'm in awe of why You do I'm in awe of You, I'm in awe of You, The way You love me I'm in awe of You. You love me, You love me, I'm in awe of You. by Jadon Lavik Last night while I was praying, I saw Jesus and me dancing like Cinderella and Prince Charming. We were all alone and His eyes were focused on me and He was looking at me like He was madly in love with me. I was laughing and spinning and He was twirling me all around the ballroom. It was the ultimate experience in the arms of Jesus, free and wonderful. It was so awesome. He treated me like royalty and I remember Him telling me that I am royalty. I'm a princess because I'm a daughter of the King. While I was having the vision, I thought about all of my girlfriends and how they would love to dance with Jesus like I was doing. And I thought about the men I know and how that might be hard for them. Jesus smiled and said that He would get down in the sand with them and play with their cars and trucks and make car sounds with them. I could picture Him doing that! He wants to be our best friend. When I listened to the above song this morning I just laughed again. I've always been a people pleaser and have finally found that the Love I'm looking for requires me to do nothing but receive, a hard thing to do but very freeing. I pray that you will get in a place where you can sit quietly with Him and find Him calling you to dance with Him. (or play with your Matchbox cars) Wow! Sold out for His intimacy! Laura
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There's something happening here in Michigan. Our crowds are growing into the thousands and some of these speakers have come out of sabbatical to get here for us. Everyone is speaking about desperate prayer and transformation. Please get here to these meetings if possible. All are free except for the June meeting, which is 150.00. If you want the details for any of these events, you can find the info at www.transformmi.com or write to me for info. God bless! Pastor Laura Smith March 30,31, & April 1st - Lou Engle and JHOP April 18-21st - Prophet John Mulinde from World Trumpet Mission and Transformations II with George Otis, Jr. June 13-15 - George Otis, Jr. from The Sentinel Group August 20-21 - Todd Bentley November - Rick Joyner - Dates TBA |
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