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Have you ever heard the audible voice of God? Have you ever felt as if the Lord was speaking directly to you...through your senses or via someone else? Last night, Lance Wallnau was the speaker at Christ Community Church, where our family calls home. Call me selfish or arrogant, yet it seems that the Lord was definitely out to encourage me with Lance's message. I just sat there (hopefully my mouth was closed enough that the drool was evident to anyone else), licking my chops, marveling at how his words were so apropos to my stage of life. Thus, I've decided to share my notes. NOTE: This brilliance and wisdom is not mine. Visit http://www.lancelearning.com for more details.

Change alters the future. Change occurs in a moment, although transition is a process. Change is permanent transition into something that is a new reality. Transition changes potentiality into actuality. What could happen does! What could be is! When we undergo change orchestrated by the Lord, we will ultimately look, ac, and think differently. My internal dialogue will be changed. We change from glory to glory in an upward spiral. Thus, we must hold a cup full of blessing with patience and a steady hand.

God works to expand my heart and mind to deal with a new level of anointing. I will be tempted by Satan in the midst of this change process and must engage in warfare regarding three areas: desire for pleasure (lust of the eyes), desire for power (lust of the flesh), and pre-eminence (pride). Jesus was tempted for 40 days in the wilderness in these same three areas. He started this temptation by being full of the Holy Spirit, yet ended the dialogue by also being full of POWER.

Jesus overcame temptation by rooting His identity in the Word of God and by receiving affirmation from the Father. He was fully human AND fully God, so he didn't simply tell Satan to bug off! We have these same tools as our disposal as well! In essence, we wrestle with a power (temptation, lies, deception, etc. from Satan) that we are going to dispossess. There is no agreement in heave with Satan's accusations against us! We are who God says we are...beloved, beautiful, His friends, ransomed, chosen, dear, anointed, blessed, free, sealed, redeemed. None of the junk Satan tries to put in front of our faces and deposit into our brains is true NOR will it stick UNLESS we give it permission to stay there. The battle for the mind is huge.

Well, I could go on and on. Can you tell that this really connects with me and fuels my passion to see everyone I know walk in freedom with the Lord? Oh how this connects to mental health and emotional healing, too. Let me know...what do you think about this? Let's talk more. :)