By Blake Higginbotham
On Friday, December 18, 2009, something wonderful and significant happened in Eastern Tennessee. We have lived in this region for almost five years now, and have experienced nothing but mild winters and unusually moderate temperatures. It truly has been a wonderful time in our lives, and while there does not seem to be a lot of forward movement in the natural or Spirit right this minute, I can truthfully say that this time represents a big part of what Yahweh is doing in the Earth, by His Spirit.
You see, I am prophetic enough to pay attention to what is going on in the natural realm, and I have come to understand that most of the time what we experience in the natural, is a direct representation of a preexisting reality in the Spirit. I have also discovered that when something is going on in the natural that is contrary to the will and purpose of Yahweh, that there are several factors involved. Most of the time, principalities and powers are exercising power and control over a region, and the forces of wickedness are doing their bidding for them. Principalities and powers work overtime to hinder the ongoing work of the ministry and thereby stop the forward movement and advancement of the Kingdom of Yahweh. In reality they work through paralyzing mindsets and confusion most of the time. One of the reasons that they have the right to rule over a region is because we are willing to live in the dark as it pertains to Yahweh’s original intent, and choose to remain uninformed concerning His divine will and purpose. In other words we love the darkness (Ignorance) rather than the light (Truth).
Another reason that they have the power to control a region is we refuse to hear and obey the voice of the Spirit and align ourselves with His spoken word for our lives. We also reject those that are sent to us and fail to receive the delivery of the gifts that have been given to us in the first place. These principalities and powers work day and night to separate and divide us from one another in the work, and they prey upon the weak and ill-informed in a way that causes diversionary distractions.
If you can hear it, the voice of Yahweh is speaking right now by His Spirit and His Word, and a sound is going forth in the form of the spoken word, that will penetrate the darkest of hearts, and will enlighten the minds of the most confused among us.
The word of the Spirit of Truth has gone forth out of the mouth of Yahweh and his sons, and it will dispel the darkness and confusion in the hearts and minds of His people. They will be able to clearly see where they need to be, and hear how to get there. It will happen all of a sudden, and in a moment the light will come on, as they submit to the authority of the Spirit, the Word & the Blood.
This morning as I was taking my wife to work I passed some cedar trees on the side of the road, which had lost a few of their branches. They were broken by the storm and had fallen to the ground. It was then, that my Spirit rose up within me and began to pay attention. All the way to her work, I noticed that some of the cedars and evergreens on the side of the road had snapped and fallen under the weight of a very wet and heavy snow, and others were left intact, standing tall as ever.
That may not mean much to you at this point; but it meant a great deal to me and on the trip going, I also saw a number of vehicles that had slid off of the road and gotten stuck up to their bumpers in the deeper snow where they were abandoned on the side of the road. By this time my heart was turned and listening because I knew that Yahweh was revealing something to me by His Spirit, and I knew that I did not want to miss what He was saying.
That said, on the return trip and out of the corner of my eye I saw something very different. As I was driving back to the house, I looked to my left, and low and behold, about 50 feet up on the side of a cliff stood some small cedar trees bent over about three feet from the top. They looked as though they might break. It was then that I realized that they were not going to break and that because they had bent and bowed to the will of the heavy blanket of wet snow that was resting upon their limbs and branches. Their limbs and branches had not broken because the weight of the snow was distributed more evenly, and unlike their fellow fallen comrades, it appeared that they more alive and flexible.
Are you beginning to get the picture yet? Is there anything about this story that is enlightening you about the time and season in which we live?
I hope so, because unless we are willing humble ourselves right now and bow in our hearts to Yahweh, we will surely continue to suffer the loss of more limbs and branches in the future. I am not talking about the dead and dying limbs and branches. I am talking about those who help sustain the life of the tree, and are ultimately important to the overall health of the forest. Yes, those who are capable of producing fruit at some level; but now find themselves separated from the tree, and lying on the side of the road. For those of us who have sliddened off of the road during the storm, we will have to choose to leave those vehicles behind and seek help in order to recover those vehicles from the ditches of life.
Wherever you find yourself right now, I want you to know, that Yahweh is acutely aware of your condition. He knows who you are, and where you live! You are not forgotten, and He will never leave or forsake you. Make no mistake about it, He is The Vine and the vinedresser, and He is The Branch and you the branches. It is He that is pruning back and plucking up. It is He that will pick up the pieces of your broken life and put you back together again better than before. It is He that will pull your vehicle out of the ditch, or give you a brand new vehicle. It is He that is in control of the outcome, and no man or devil can stand in the way of your coming and going forth. Believe it, receive it, See it and have it. So it is!
Psalm 29:1-11 Give unto Yahweh, O you mighty ones, give unto Yahweh glory and strength. 2Give unto Yahweh the glory due to His name; worship Yahweh in the beauty of holiness. 3The voice of Yahweh is over the waters; the Elohim of glory thunders; Yahweh is over many waters. 4 The voice of Yahweh is powerful; the voice of Yahweh is full of majesty.5The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars, Yes, Yahweh splinters the cedars of Lebanon.6He makes them also skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox. 7The voice of Yahweh divides the flames of fire.8The voice of Yahweh shakes the wilderness; Yahweh shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.9The voice of Yahweh makes the deer give birth, and strips the forests bare; and in His temple everyone says, “Glory!” 10Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood, and Yahweh sits as King forever. 11Yahweh will give strength to His people; Yahweh will bless His people with peace.
Hebrews 12:25-29 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve Elohim acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29For our Elohim is a consuming fire.
Acts 2:1-2 When the Day of Pentecost (50 – Final Harvest – Jubilee) had fully come, (This is our day, the Day of Yahshua) (We are the living generation of sons that are fully coming into the Kingdom) they were all (Every one of them) with one accord in one place. (They were joined at the heart by the Spirit in the place of His assembly) 2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. (all of a sudden and echo blew through the house like the breath of Yahweh and every one of them were transformed and empowered by the Word of the Spirit) 3Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Here Today And Gone Tomorrow
December 6, 2009
I arose early this morning, the 6th day of December 2009, and I realized that we have 25 more days until the end of another year. Since the establishment of the Gregorian Calendar System it has been a day that has marked a number of interesting and historical events, including the international observance of St. Nicholas Day, the origin from where the world’s mythical Santa Clause figure was derived.
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_6
However, the title of this article has to do with a realty that I experienced yesterday morning. December 5th was not just another Sabbath morning at our house.
We all look forward to the Sabbath because it marks the end of a busy work week, and we always welcome the time we have together as family. We all stay up late Friday evening, and sleep in Saturday morning. Then we arise and have Sabbath brunch together, where we talk about the events of the week.
To our surprise, it also marked the first snow day of the winter here in Northeast, TN. When I was a boy, we used to look forward to whatever snow we received, and would seize every opportunity to play, have snowball fights, and build snowmen together. Growing up in Louisiana, we knew that no matter how much snow fall we got today, it would more than likely, be gone tomorrow.
Now that I am moving from the first half of my life to the second I now have a very different reaction to snowfall. That said it is still an awesome and strangely beautiful site to see snow falling and accumulating on our property. I told my wife to get out the camera and get a few pictures because it would be ‘Here today and gone tomorrow’
It was then, that I realized that something was stirring in my heart about this topic. Much of my life has been lived in just that way. Inspiration and innovation have been the hallmarks of my life, and they were somehow genetically transferred and environmentally imparted to me as a boy.
What I am going to share with you next has nothing to do with Christmas, winter or snowfall. However, it is my hope that it will shake us from our sleep and awake all of us from our media induced technological stupor, to a brand new level of awareness concerning what is really going on in this country. I can truthfully say for the first time in my adult life, that I am very concerned about the current state of our union and its future. You see, I still believe that ‘We the People’ constitute the government of the United States of America, and ‘We the People’ of this great Republic are what makes this nation a wonderful place to live. I am talking about our forefathers, brothers and sisters, the hard working immigrants who came to this land centuries ago. Those who worked, fought, lived and died to build and establish one of the greatest nations on earth.
That said, I am not that concerned about our fundamental differences of opinion, or our varied political persuasions and preferences, and I am not trying to pit one side against the other. To say that all Democrats are godless, liberal leftist would be as foolish and uninformed as calling all Republicans, white, rightwing racist. Now, while I am not your average flag waving American patriot, I am being deeply stirred and provoked by Holy Spirit to express my concerns. I am not confusing my understanding of the Kingdom of Yahweh with my ongoing duty and responsibility as an American Citizen. However, it is with a heartfelt sense of respect and reverential fear that I speak to the issues that we are facing right now.
What I am going to share with you next must be considered prayerfully, or it will be disregarded as another feeble attempt to state the obvious. I am neither stating the obvious nor reciting the talking points of conservative talk show host. I never read the newspaper, and I hardly listen to the evening news anymore.
Neither of those venues are reliable sources of information and to be honest with you, they never will be sources of truth and enlightenment. Instead, they are all governed and controlled by evil forces working in and through men, and the moguls of high finance continually monitor and regulate their propaganda. If you noticed, they are neither fair nor balanced, and we all know that good news does not sell or make money. If good news made money ‘Grit News Papers’ would still be widely read and in circulation. One media outlet may be more left or right leaning than the other; but none of them accurately exposes the darkness and dismal reality in which we now exist. To say that we are living in very dark times and that gross darkness is covering the people would be an understatement. I do not want you to take my word for it; but I do want you to prayerfully consider what I am sharing with you. I want you to research and seek out the truth for yourself. This is a blue or red pill moment for most of you reading this article, and I am telling you that nothing much is going to get better without your active involvement.
As a nation, we have been rocked to sleep in the lap of luxury, while residing safely ensconced in our palatial estates. While we slept, evil slithered in, intertwined itself about our necks, and has been choking the life out of us. In our lifetime it has methodically tightened its choke hold on us as a nation. It has been slowly constricting us in its death grip, and now we are being swallowed alive, digested and assimilated in the belly of the Serpent. Life as we know it has changed, and I am not sure that this nation can be recovered to its intended state.
However, I declare to you that the sons of Yahweh (The True Ekklesia) (The Corporate Son) (The Rightful Heirs) are arising in the land, and from the belly of Hell, we are coming forth and will emerge victorious. We are rising up in Him and like the noonday sun in a very dark time we are showing forth the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. We are here to stay, and He is coming again in His sons today.
It is they, who will restore order to this planet and bring truth and justice back to this earth again. It is they, who are the saviors coming out of Zion! It is they, who are the Glory of Yahweh bringing hope to a lost and dying world.
I also declare to you that I will not sit down, shut up or be silent any more. Those of you who have assumed that posture have been a part of the problem rather than the solution. I know that I am not alone in saying that when all Hell breaks loose and the dust settles, we do not want you showing up or staking any claims in the fight. It is already too late for that and ‘We the People’ are not going to take it anymore. We are done bowing down and submitting to the edicts and ways of evil men. This land was given to us by Our Heavenly Father [Yahweh], and it is He alone who has the right, power and authority to take it back. With that said, we acknowledge that He is the Only True and Living Elohim, and it is Yahweh and Him alone that we love, worship and serve as a people. He is first and foremost, and none other can or will ever take His place in our hearts and lives.
I prophesy against the forces of evil that have infiltrated our Land, and I render you helpless and inoperable in Yahshua’ name. I rebuke you minions and despots and call for your immediate dismissal and removal. I command you to bow your knee to the Sovereignty of Yahshua the Messiah, and report to His True Ekklesia of Ruling Elders for wisdom, guidance and direction. We declare that His, our sons, bought and paid for this land with their blood, sweat and tears, and that every living generation since its inception lay claim to it by birth right.
We recognized evil when we see it, because we have both handled and embraced that which is right and good. We have received the gift of Yahweh and have tasted of Heaven and the age to come. We have determined that He and He alone is good. We are exposing your every evil deed and closely monitoring your movement in the Earth. So it is!
Now, the time has come for you to make a decision whether or not you are going to stand on the side of righteousness and truth, or will you be further consumed, digested and assimilated into the system of the serpent god. I realize that you never thought the day would come in this country that being Caucasian, Christian, or a Constitutional Conservative would mark you as a racist subversive. Whether you know it or not, you have now become the object of ridicule and marked for future destruction. Whether you know it or not, you are a dying breed of narrow minded bigots that have no right to continue to live among the ruling class. I also realize that you never thought that evil men who hate all that is right and good could separate us from our Yahweh given rights as American Citizens. If you do not heed our call and take your place now, we see the day coming in our lifetime, that being any other color, any other religion, any other sexual preference, will become the accepted norm and way of life, and we will become outcast in our own nation, and that by social class distinction.
We pledge today that as long as we are alive in this earth that will never happen. We warn you in advance, stay out of our way. Let us clear it up for you, so that you will not think that we have frogs in our pockets. We want you to know that we are speaking in behalf of Yahshua by Holy Spirit, and the almost 80 million baby boomers which have followed and drove the trends in business that made this country the number one place in the world to live, work, amass wealth and enjoy a life of liberty. We also want you to understand that we are going to be around for a very long time and that with our dying breath, we will have more self-respect, honor and dignity than some of you. Oh yeah! We also know how to survive and fight. We have been doing both for a very long time, and on our worst geriatric day we could outdo you. BLH
Quote for life!
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” Edmund Burke
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil” Cicero
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail” Pearl S. Buck
I arose early this morning, the 6th day of December 2009, and I realized that we have 25 more days until the end of another year. Since the establishment of the Gregorian Calendar System it has been a day that has marked a number of interesting and historical events, including the international observance of St. Nicholas Day, the origin from where the world’s mythical Santa Clause figure was derived.
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_6
However, the title of this article has to do with a realty that I experienced yesterday morning. December 5th was not just another Sabbath morning at our house.
We all look forward to the Sabbath because it marks the end of a busy work week, and we always welcome the time we have together as family. We all stay up late Friday evening, and sleep in Saturday morning. Then we arise and have Sabbath brunch together, where we talk about the events of the week.
To our surprise, it also marked the first snow day of the winter here in Northeast, TN. When I was a boy, we used to look forward to whatever snow we received, and would seize every opportunity to play, have snowball fights, and build snowmen together. Growing up in Louisiana, we knew that no matter how much snow fall we got today, it would more than likely, be gone tomorrow.
Now that I am moving from the first half of my life to the second I now have a very different reaction to snowfall. That said it is still an awesome and strangely beautiful site to see snow falling and accumulating on our property. I told my wife to get out the camera and get a few pictures because it would be ‘Here today and gone tomorrow’
It was then, that I realized that something was stirring in my heart about this topic. Much of my life has been lived in just that way. Inspiration and innovation have been the hallmarks of my life, and they were somehow genetically transferred and environmentally imparted to me as a boy.
What I am going to share with you next has nothing to do with Christmas, winter or snowfall. However, it is my hope that it will shake us from our sleep and awake all of us from our media induced technological stupor, to a brand new level of awareness concerning what is really going on in this country. I can truthfully say for the first time in my adult life, that I am very concerned about the current state of our union and its future. You see, I still believe that ‘We the People’ constitute the government of the United States of America, and ‘We the People’ of this great Republic are what makes this nation a wonderful place to live. I am talking about our forefathers, brothers and sisters, the hard working immigrants who came to this land centuries ago. Those who worked, fought, lived and died to build and establish one of the greatest nations on earth.
That said, I am not that concerned about our fundamental differences of opinion, or our varied political persuasions and preferences, and I am not trying to pit one side against the other. To say that all Democrats are godless, liberal leftist would be as foolish and uninformed as calling all Republicans, white, rightwing racist. Now, while I am not your average flag waving American patriot, I am being deeply stirred and provoked by Holy Spirit to express my concerns. I am not confusing my understanding of the Kingdom of Yahweh with my ongoing duty and responsibility as an American Citizen. However, it is with a heartfelt sense of respect and reverential fear that I speak to the issues that we are facing right now.
What I am going to share with you next must be considered prayerfully, or it will be disregarded as another feeble attempt to state the obvious. I am neither stating the obvious nor reciting the talking points of conservative talk show host. I never read the newspaper, and I hardly listen to the evening news anymore.
Neither of those venues are reliable sources of information and to be honest with you, they never will be sources of truth and enlightenment. Instead, they are all governed and controlled by evil forces working in and through men, and the moguls of high finance continually monitor and regulate their propaganda. If you noticed, they are neither fair nor balanced, and we all know that good news does not sell or make money. If good news made money ‘Grit News Papers’ would still be widely read and in circulation. One media outlet may be more left or right leaning than the other; but none of them accurately exposes the darkness and dismal reality in which we now exist. To say that we are living in very dark times and that gross darkness is covering the people would be an understatement. I do not want you to take my word for it; but I do want you to prayerfully consider what I am sharing with you. I want you to research and seek out the truth for yourself. This is a blue or red pill moment for most of you reading this article, and I am telling you that nothing much is going to get better without your active involvement.
As a nation, we have been rocked to sleep in the lap of luxury, while residing safely ensconced in our palatial estates. While we slept, evil slithered in, intertwined itself about our necks, and has been choking the life out of us. In our lifetime it has methodically tightened its choke hold on us as a nation. It has been slowly constricting us in its death grip, and now we are being swallowed alive, digested and assimilated in the belly of the Serpent. Life as we know it has changed, and I am not sure that this nation can be recovered to its intended state.
However, I declare to you that the sons of Yahweh (The True Ekklesia) (The Corporate Son) (The Rightful Heirs) are arising in the land, and from the belly of Hell, we are coming forth and will emerge victorious. We are rising up in Him and like the noonday sun in a very dark time we are showing forth the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. We are here to stay, and He is coming again in His sons today.
It is they, who will restore order to this planet and bring truth and justice back to this earth again. It is they, who are the saviors coming out of Zion! It is they, who are the Glory of Yahweh bringing hope to a lost and dying world.
I also declare to you that I will not sit down, shut up or be silent any more. Those of you who have assumed that posture have been a part of the problem rather than the solution. I know that I am not alone in saying that when all Hell breaks loose and the dust settles, we do not want you showing up or staking any claims in the fight. It is already too late for that and ‘We the People’ are not going to take it anymore. We are done bowing down and submitting to the edicts and ways of evil men. This land was given to us by Our Heavenly Father [Yahweh], and it is He alone who has the right, power and authority to take it back. With that said, we acknowledge that He is the Only True and Living Elohim, and it is Yahweh and Him alone that we love, worship and serve as a people. He is first and foremost, and none other can or will ever take His place in our hearts and lives.
I prophesy against the forces of evil that have infiltrated our Land, and I render you helpless and inoperable in Yahshua’ name. I rebuke you minions and despots and call for your immediate dismissal and removal. I command you to bow your knee to the Sovereignty of Yahshua the Messiah, and report to His True Ekklesia of Ruling Elders for wisdom, guidance and direction. We declare that His, our sons, bought and paid for this land with their blood, sweat and tears, and that every living generation since its inception lay claim to it by birth right.
We recognized evil when we see it, because we have both handled and embraced that which is right and good. We have received the gift of Yahweh and have tasted of Heaven and the age to come. We have determined that He and He alone is good. We are exposing your every evil deed and closely monitoring your movement in the Earth. So it is!
Now, the time has come for you to make a decision whether or not you are going to stand on the side of righteousness and truth, or will you be further consumed, digested and assimilated into the system of the serpent god. I realize that you never thought the day would come in this country that being Caucasian, Christian, or a Constitutional Conservative would mark you as a racist subversive. Whether you know it or not, you have now become the object of ridicule and marked for future destruction. Whether you know it or not, you are a dying breed of narrow minded bigots that have no right to continue to live among the ruling class. I also realize that you never thought that evil men who hate all that is right and good could separate us from our Yahweh given rights as American Citizens. If you do not heed our call and take your place now, we see the day coming in our lifetime, that being any other color, any other religion, any other sexual preference, will become the accepted norm and way of life, and we will become outcast in our own nation, and that by social class distinction.
We pledge today that as long as we are alive in this earth that will never happen. We warn you in advance, stay out of our way. Let us clear it up for you, so that you will not think that we have frogs in our pockets. We want you to know that we are speaking in behalf of Yahshua by Holy Spirit, and the almost 80 million baby boomers which have followed and drove the trends in business that made this country the number one place in the world to live, work, amass wealth and enjoy a life of liberty. We also want you to understand that we are going to be around for a very long time and that with our dying breath, we will have more self-respect, honor and dignity than some of you. Oh yeah! We also know how to survive and fight. We have been doing both for a very long time, and on our worst geriatric day we could outdo you. BLH
Quote for life!
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” Edmund Burke
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil” Cicero
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail” Pearl S. Buck
Sunday, November 15, 2009
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