God is On Your Side!

No matter what is happening in your life, there are some things that you MUST remember.

• God is on your side—always!

• Jesus took the full punishment for you in your place—there is no punishment left for you!

• You are God’s choice—He won’t change his mind!

• Good things are bound to happen to you—it’s called GRACE!

• You have a full and vibrant life ahead of you—God wants you to live it!

• All things are working in your favor—even when it doesn’t look that way—believe it!

• This is God’s heart for you always—that’s just the way it is!

• Allow yourself to believe that the Good News is this good! Anything else is a counterfeit.

Read and believe the Good News found in Ephesians 1:3-11 in the Mirror translation

http://mirror.scripturetext.com/:

“Let’s celebrate God! Every spiritual blessing in heavenly places has found its definition in the fact that we are in Christ. This association goes back to before the fall of the world, His love knew that He would present us again face to face before Him, identified in Christ in blameless innocence. He is the architect of our design; His heart dream realized our coming of age in Christ. His grace-plan is to be celebrated: He greatly endeared us and highly favored us in Christ; His love for His Son is His love for us! Since we are fully represented in Him, His blood is the ransom that secures our redemption. His forgiving us our sins measures the wealth of His grace. This grace shown towards us communicates a wisdom and discernment of our worth that completely surpasses any definition. The secret is out! His cherished love-dream now unfolds in front of our very eyes. In the economy of the fullness of time, everything culminates in Christ; all that is in heaven and all that is on earth is made right in Him. This is how we fit into God's picture, Christ is the measure of our portion, we are in Him; invented and defined in Him. God's blueprint intention is on exhibition in us, everything He accomplishes is inspired by the energy and intent of His affection!”

Revel in the Father’s affection for you! It’s the only thing that keeps you happy and on track with his very perfect plan for your life! Do not lose hope, Beloved!! God has never lost his belief in you! He has put absolutely everything on the line for you in sending Jesus to the cross! You can't lose!! You are a winner, not a loser! You are treasured, not tossed aside! You are priceless and moving ever further into your destined purpose of displaying the Father's glory on this earth! Keep going, Friends!!

A Building For Blazing Fire Church?!

Blazing Fire is 8 1/2 years along in our journey into the depth of the Father's heart and what a joy-filled ride it has been! In that time we have been in at least 8 different locations--none of them belonging to us. And while we have not needed our own place to host God's presence on Saturday nights and see people set free to walk out more of their God- appointed destinies, we have also been limited in what we know to be the huge vision God has given us to bring Kingdom transformation across the Bay Area and impacting the world!

So, we have been searching for a place to host the Presence of God where people can come to experience him throughout the week and where we can have a home base to send forth world-changers! This Saturday, May 29th, from 3:30-5:00 pm, we are having a meeting before our worship service (3200 Hopyard Road in Pleasanton) to share about our plans to proceed with an offer to lease the anchor spot of Vintage Hills shopping center in Pleasanton. It is a meeting for our Vision Builders (those who have let us know they see themselves as part of helping Blazing Fire fulfill our vision together), but the meeting is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about the next steps we are taking. I will be sharing some of the 12 year history of how God has spoken to me specifically about this property, the process that we are moving through to attempt to lease it, and the ways we need to agree together in declarations for God to do what only He can do.

All of us have to chose between two options as we walk through life with the Lord--we can either step out and take risks when we truly believe we have received his direction and see where that takes us, or we can ignore those directions, not take any risks and wonder what might have been. Long ago, Suzanne and I made our choice that we have to push all of our chips into the middle of the table and bet on God. What else is there, really? And do you know what we've found out? The outcome isn't always what we thought would happen, but God has proved himself to be exceedingly good to us and the journey has been far better than we thought possible!

I share King David's sentiments, who said, "Who am I, Lord God, and what is my lineage, for you to have led me as far as this? Yet, to you, Lord God, this seemed too little, and now you extend your promises for your servant's family into the distant future...Because of your promise and since you were so inclined, you have had the generosity to reveal this to your servant. That is why you are great, Lord God! There is no one like you, no God but you alone, as everything that we have heard confirms." (2 Samuel 7:18-22)

Faith pleases God to no end. It tickles him to see that we trust him when we do not know what is coming. He invites us to live in the certainty that even though we don't know what the future holds, we firmly know who holds our future and we know that it will be a good one!

"'I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord. 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future!'" (Jeremiah 29:11)

So, is stepping out a little freaky at times? Maybe so, but it's also tremendously exciting to see what God will do when we follow his voice to higher ground. Let's keep going, all of us, in whatever God puts before us. And let's see how faithful God really is!

Hope is Stirring!

Hope, the way God defines it, is not wishing for something to happen, but it's a giddy anticipation of knowing that what God promised is absolutely going to happen! It's a feeling of almost not being able to contain yourself because you can't wait to see how God is going to come through for you! Huge deposits of hope that have been stored up within you--hope that may have been so hidden you didn't even know it was there, are beginning to burst forth as newfound excitement is overtaking old circumstances!! RISE UP and AGREE with the increased hope that is present! Proverbs 13:12 says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life." God knows that you cannot go too long without that fire of hope rekindled in your soul, so he continually fulfills your longings from the inheritance that has been marked out for you through Christ, our perpetual Tree of Life!

The enemy's job is to get you to focus on what has not happened yet, rather than on celebrating the goodness of God and what He has done for you. You are blessed beyond measure and you are God's success story!! Don't fall into the trap of discouragement, thinking that difficult circumstances will never change or that you won't find your way out of a more challenging season of your life. God has chapters of your life prepared for you that would make you do flips in the air and squeal in delight, it's so good! Allow yourself to believe what I just said and you will start experiencing the hope that is already within you.

Yes, God is far better than you can imagine and he has mind-boggling plans for you that are unfolding at this very instant. Why? Because he is a Papa who ADORES you and who loves to do for you what you cannot do for yourself. Sometimes, we are afraid to hope because we don't want to be disappointed, but if you do not give yourself full permission to hope, you have already lost the battle.

So, the Lord says to you: "Let the hope I have placed inside of you find its expression in the child-like joy of being mine and the certainty of knowing I am working all things out for your very best. Get excited about what I have in store for you because it's much better than you think!"

"Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart!" (Psalm 37:4)

Hope is Stirring!

Hope, the way God defines it, is not wishing for something to happen, but it's a giddy anticipation of knowing that what God promised is absolutely going to happen! It's a feeling of almost not being able to contain yourself because you can't wait to see how God is going to come through for you! Huge deposits of hope that have been stored up within you--hope that may have been so hidden you didn't even know it was there, are beginning to burst forth as newfound excitement is overtaking old circumstances!! RISE UP and AGREE with the increased hope that is present! Proverbs 13:12 says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life." God knows that you cannot go too long without that fire of hope rekindled in your soul, so he continually fulfills your longings from the inheritance that has been marked out for you through Christ, our perpetual Tree of Life!

The enemy's job is to get you to focus on what has not happened yet, rather than on celebrating the goodness of God and what He has done for you. You are blessed beyond measure and you are God's success story!! Don't fall into the trap of discouragement, thinking that difficult circumstances will never change or that you won't find your way out of a more challenging season of your life. God has chapters of your life prepared for you that would make you do flips in the air and squeal in delight, it's so good! Allow yourself to believe what I just said and you will start experiencing the hope that is already within you.

Yes, God is far better than you can imagine and he has mind-boggling plans for you that are unfolding at this very instant. Why? Because he is a Papa who ADORES you and who loves to do for you what you cannot do for yourself. Sometimes, we are afraid to hope because we don't want to be disappointed, but if you do not give yourself full permission to hope, you have already lost the battle.

So, the Lord says to you: "Let the hope I have placed inside of you find its expression in the child-like joy of being mine and the certainty of knowing I am working all things out for your very best. Get excited about what I have in store for you because it's much better than you think!"

"Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart!" (Psalm 37:4)

One-Liners from Bethel Church in Redding

This past week, Suzanne and I, along with our Elders, went to the Leadership Advance at Bethel Church in Redding. Blazing Fire Church is in submission to Bill Johnson and the Senior Leadership of Bethel Church and we travel up there twice a year to remember our identity as world-changers and bringers of the Kingdom of God. Take in these one-liners and remember how big your God is and how much your life is changing because of Christ in you!

"If I can explain everything that’s going on in my life, I have an inferior God. You don’t want a God that looks just like you!"

"When you’re acting like God, you’re being yourself!"

"Religion is exalting wineskins over the wine--The treasure has always been the wine!"

"Revelation is the product of a friendship with God."

"Passion always looks like sacrifice to people who are not in love."

"The Lord only leads us into a conflict we are ready to win. The only chance the enemy has is to get us to be fearful, to get us disengaged from what the Lord has already done for us!!!"

"The honor I give determines the honor I will receive."

"In a culture of honor, you learn to celebrate who a person is without stumbling over who they are not."

"You would have to be completely intoxicated in the presence of God to believe all that God says will happen and all that he has promised :)"

"Slowing down helps you to go faster--We can only go in Christian activity where we have already gone in rest!"

"Vision gives pain a purpose."

"The people who never make a mistake are people who never do anything."

His Banner over You is LOVE!! And He's NOT changing His mind!

When the Lord says to you, "I've brought you to my banqueting table and my banner over you is love" (Song of Songs 2:4), he is saying so much more than "I got a great meal for you with a love sign posted over your head!" You see, it's not actually a banquet table, but more literally a wine cellar! And the banner is not a sign, it is a HUGE flag that is hoisted and wildly waved as a sign of victory and triumph! So look at it this way...God ushers you into the deepest places of intimacy with him and as you are toasting to your everlasting relationship together, he breaks out the biggest, most glorious flag you have ever seen because he can't help himself! The love-embroidered flag is leaving splashes of His glory as it rips through the air, trumpeting the finality of your love relationship with Him which has been sealed forever because of the victory of Jesus on the cross!! He is beside himself with joy and laughter, reveling in the unchangeable status of you and He engaged in an eternal gaze of mutual adoration! Lest you think I am stretching the truth, remember His words to you: "You ravish my heart with a single one of your glances" and "You are wholly beautiful, my beloved, and without a blemish!" (Song of Songs 4:9,7)

How is it possible that He sees you without a blemish? With great joy I remind you that Jesus loves the church, his bride, and "gave himself up for her so that He might make her holy, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless!" (Ephesians 5:25-27)

When you know that you are loved like this, you feel lovable and look radiant! Ask God for his eyes to see yourself and then go look in the mirror. I think you're going to be shocked at just how good you look!!

Doug Addison this Saturday night at Blazing Fire!

Hello Friends!

I really want to encourage you to come and be filled up and blessed as Doug Addison (www.dougaddison.com) comes to minister at Blazing Fire tomorrow night, Saturday, April 17th (6 pm at Harvest Valley Church, 3200 Hopyard Blvd., Pleasanton, CA). Doug and I are long time friends and he has blessed our socks off many times previously at Blazing Fire. Doug is a highly encouraging prophet and this is sure to be a fun and wild night and one in which you will be encouraged to soar higher in your destiny!

Here is a word that came out on the Elijah List from Doug just 11 days ago:

Four Prophetic Words Being Fulfilled Right Now!

I want to give an update on four prophetic words that I released over the past few months, as we are seeing them begin to unfold. Last year I prophesied that God had brought us all into a wilderness time beginning in 2006. I also saw that in the spring of 2010 something new was going to be released that would begin to catapult people into a new season. I saw a great realignment of people within the Kingdom of God and an attack coming in the area of identity theft. Here are the original words and my thoughts regarding them:

The Wilderness Started in 2006

Several years ago God spoke to me and others about something new from Heaven that was going to be released on the earth in 2005. I was telling people everywhere I went and was helping to prepare for a revival that we knew was and is still to come. Then 2005 came and went with nothing new. In fact, everything began to look the opposite. I did not understand it at the time, but Bob Jones, a prophetic friend of mine, told me that I had not been mistaken with what I had prophesied. He said it just came in a different form than we all expected.

In September 2009 I had a prophetic dream in which I heard the audible voice of God tell me that He really did want to bring something new in 2005, but the majority of Christians were not ready for it. Because of that, God brought us into a time of wilderness which was designed to reveal our motives, heal and prepare us for His greater intentions.

The first month of the wilderness began in January 2006. In my life and ministry I can look at the calendar and see that things began to look completely opposite than what I had expected or heard from God. We had tried to start an outreach center in Hollywood, but suddenly it was like hitting a brick wall. As a result, we moved and lived for three years in Moravian Falls, North Carolina. I got a lot of similar feedback from people everywhere who had experienced the same thing in 2006.

The Wilderness is Over on the First Day of Spring

I was speaking at a conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in January 2006 with Heidi Baker and Mel Tari when this wilderness time officially began. Just this month, on the first day of spring (March 20, 2010), I was in Albuquerque again speaking at the same church with Mel Tari. God reminded me that it was 50 months ago (January 2006) that the wilderness had begun, and He told me that on the first day of spring of 2010 the wilderness time has officially ended!

Spring Forward

As part of the prophetic insight God gave me for 2010, God showed me that when we set the clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time, we will all begin to "Spring Forward" spiritually. Then, when we set the clocks back, things will begin to "Fall into Place." This is beginning to happen right now. I am experiencing it personally, as I am seeing prophetic words and promises God gave me years ago begin to be fulfilled. Many people are reporting feeling new energy, vibrancy, and spiritual hope. We are starting to see breakthrough in the areas of ministry, business, finances, and relationships, and many will begin to see changes almost immediately. This is the season to start something new! Start a new diet, exercise, a business, ministry, or write a new book. This is a time of new beginnings as strategies from Heaven are coming to earth.

Isaiah 43:19 (NKJV) Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

As God releases new things from Heaven, we will experience a great shift of positions. We are seeing this happen as well. I heard three words: Resign, Realign and Reassign. People are being divinely realigned by God right now to increase our Kingdom effectiveness. It has happened in my own ministry and with many people everywhere. I saw a chessboard, and God is strategically positioning us for this next season.

Spiritual Identity Theft

In January 2010 I released a prophetic word about spiritual identify theft, a plan of the enemy to get people to miss their destiny by attacking their identity in Christ. Just last week I had a spiritual experience in the middle of the night in which I battled a dark spirit that had come to literally steal the identity of people. At first I thought it was retaliation against me for releasing the prophetic word. But as I began to share it, I am getting feedback that people everywhere are getting attacked right now in the area of theft. People are getting things stolen, websites and email hacked, and being ripped off of what rightfully belongs to them.

When satan attacks us in a particular area, it is an indicator that this is an area of our life where God is bringing blessing or wants to use for His Kingdom. Since God is releasing new things from Heaven, the enemy will try to distract us and get us to believe that nothing is changing. This is a lie and we need to get "eyes to see" what God is doing in this time of our lives.

Prophetic Word: Year of Destiny

I am prophesying that the wilderness is over, we are springing into new life and finding our identities in Christ like never before. This is a year of destiny and we will begin to fulfill things that have been promised to us. It is a year that we need to develop ourselves personally in the unique way that God has called us. It is time to take action and not be passive. New doors of opportunity are opening and we have new strength and resources to walk through them. The future is now!

Matthew 7:7–8 (NLT) Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

Doug Addison
InLight Connection
Email: respond@dougaddison.com