This is so good, I had to share....it is a copy of an email I wrote to my new friend, Patty Bultman. I am ghostwriting her book about her ministry to abused and emotionally damaged women (men too). Patty and I only just go started getting to know one another. She is amazing. Our first phone call to discuss doing the book was made a few days ago while she was on her cell phone riding with her husband to Wichita from Hugoton, KS. I was on my computer. We talked for an hour, and at the end of our conversation I became aware that I was smelling the fragrance of rain and told her. She was startled - she was experiencing the fragrance of rain inside her car too! The following is a reply I made to her this morning.
The reason I am sending this out to a few is because it is about faith - not strong faith because I am strong, but strong faith because He is strong. I am weak. I just believe my legal contract with God. How strong does belief have to be when God Himself stands behind it?
Those Catholics are strict....I am not allowed to have Communion because I am not Catholic. Good thing no Catholic was there at the Last Supper...If they knew I was divorced when I attended their mass, I doubt I would be allowed to even walk through the doors. The good Catholics burned one of my ancestors at the stake in the 1500s because he was a bishop who believed that the TransWhatevertion was only representative, not literal. He was saved. He was a bishop! Richard Hoopes is in Foxes Book of Martyrs. Feels a little like I do when I attend DAR occasionally. I don't have the diamonds, but my ancestor can kick their ancestor's butt. Nathan Hale - the first martyr of the American Revolution. What do I care about their vanity.
Being the Real McCoy is good. Being like Jesus, for example. Knowing he is on the inside of you and walking in that understanding, rather than only being aware of that and "pretending" instead, is a good example of the religious people who are threatened by the true believers who understand that because Jesus is on the inside of them they can do the works that He did - and that He only did the works that His father did because God was on the inside of Him. [This is a run-on sentence gone to seed.]
The email you sent about Jesus doing greater works because He only did what He saw the Father do, and not because He was the Son of God with a hocus-pocus wand we can't wave makes my point perfectly.
I said I talk to tornadoes in an earlier email. I literally do, and I expect tornadoes to obey me, not because I am Jan Truby but because Jesus Christ is on the inside of me talking to that tornado. That tornado has a name, and it has to bow its knee to the Name of Jesus, the Name to which every knee shall bow. No exceptions. I am just Nobody Jan, but I got Somebody Jesus on the inside of me.
Last year, I was sitting on the end of my front porch with Phil watching a funnel literally forming just above us. I talked to it in the Name of Jesus, and would not allow it to form in Anthony. It moved off to the east and touched down east of town. It didn't do any damage, if I recall. That wasn't me with that power...it was Jesus inside of me.
It really is awesome power too. It literally scares the bejeebees out of you to be in the presence of nature's wrath and behold its massive power. You cannot imagine the helplessness you feel until it is happening. I have been underneath, or near, several tornadoes here in Anthony and have felt that temptation to give in to the fear of its power. You literally have to force yourself to overcome that fear and have the confidence to take authority over it. If you do not have that understanding of Jesus Inside, you can't do it. You only have Let's Pretend. When you are Daniel in the Lion's Den, Meshack in the furnace or the Apostle John in the boiling oil you can't pretend. You gotta know.
What you know is that you have a legal contract with God. He is bound by it or His integrity is compromised. That contract is written with the ink of the Blood of Jesus in Deuteronomy 28 and was made with Abraham. It covers everything that is legally ours. It covers all the promises of God. The Hebrews could have taken that Abrahamic Promise and nailed it to the door of the Promised Land and walked right in. It was the Lord's fight, not theirs. They only had to take the first step of intent.
In 2004, a morning hail storm arrived mere weeks before wheat harvest. We have two wheat farms east and northeast of town. I was asleep, and Phil was awake in the living room. I woke up and was enjoying the thunderstorm - I love storms - when hail balls began dinging the house. Uh-oh! They got bigger and louder real fast. I whispered a prayer calling on the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I whipped out my contract for the first time. I meant business, and if God didn't mean business with that contract then that covenant didn't mean squat.
I am experiencing the fragrance of the Lord right now as I am writing this. Wow. What a confirmation.
The Blood of Jesus was shed because of that contract. Its power is because of God's legal covenant with Man. I finished my prayer and rolled over to go to sleep. Either God was going to take care of the problem - or not. Whatever. I couldn’t do anything further than to speak and call on Him to make His promise good. It isn't arrogance on my part to ask him to make his promise good to me, a mere little child of God. It was God's idea in the first place! I honor him by believing Him and acting on what he wants to do for me from the get-go.
I lay there expecting to go back to sleep, listening to the storm arrive. No one could have been more surprised than me when the ping-ping-pings against the house stopped. I looked out the window. It was still hailing outside, but not on my house. The house next door 20 feet away was being pounded. Our house and our wheat didn't get hailed out. I learned I had authority over the storms through the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - the God of Covenant. I take that authority over the storms I see arriving in Harper County on the Doppler radar on my computer, and watch them go around and then reform on the other side.
Folks think I am a religious nut when they urge me to take cover during a tornado warning sounding in the community and I don't do that.... I got nowhere to go but inside the Name of the Lord which is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and are safe. Having no choice but to be totally helpless is a good place to be. When I am weak then He is Strong. The eyes of the Lord roam to and fro throughout the whole earth seeking those to whom He can show Himself strong. He just wants someone weak enough to holler for His help and then having done all to Stand.
What storm are you facing? Talk to it. It will have to obey the terms of your contract with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Further testimonies in response
Judy,
This is so timely for the place I am in my life right now. I have forgotten about the authority that comes when we stand firm in our promises from God. I have seen many miracles as you know, in a short time and was then trained to earn Gods favor by trying to be perfect .to impress Him into giving me what He promised through the blood of Christ. How can we even think for one moment that we can improve on what Christ has already done? I am having to be deprogrammed right now in a huge way. God does not point out our sin and then tell us to go make it right and then come back to Him. He convicts us by His Spirit as a faithful and loving Father and then sets us free by His power and love through the blood of Jesus, His mighty word and outstretched arm.
This was the sweetest reminder of this truth! There is power in the faith we extend when we stand on the promises of God. I remember so many times when God has come through so amazingly in a split second after being firm and full of faith in His word. One time about three years ago when my dog was tiny, I left my house to take her for a stroll. I saw a couple of rough looking very large women across the street walking their Rottweiler .well, he was actually walking them! Both of them had a chain on him and his neck was double bound by spikes on the collar. He was growling and barking and pulling with all his might! They were screaming at him and smacking him as they tried to keep him under control.
The next we knew, he spotted me coming down my steps in front of my house and he yanked free of his owners to come straight after me. He was barking and growling this hideous noise that was very intimidating. His head was the size of two basketballs! He was monstrous in size. He dragged his chains behind him as he ran right for me! AHHHHH! There was no time to think or run or anything! Then I felt the Holy Spirit rise up in me! My mouth flew open and I screamed at him as I pointed my finger into his face I said, "STOP IN THE NAME OF JESUS!" He stopped immediately! Then he whimpered a bit and cocked his head while looking at me and then his owners (who were about to pass out, by the way) looking very confused as to why he was across the street next to me instead of with his owners. I pet him and told him to go on back now. He did! The owners both looked shocked and confused too. They kept apologizing as they regrouped and headed back the way they came from. I haven't seen them ever again nor had I seen them before that incident.
I pray that we wake up as a body to the might love that God has provided for His kids through our faith in His precious promises. Times are getting to be serious as we know and fear will overtake those who aren't walking in the knowledge of the truth. It is so exciting to be alive and in love with Jesus in these days isn't it? I am so excited for all He is doing!
Thank you so much for this encouraging word. I love storms too. VERY much! They cause me to worship the Lord with great magnitude for some reason. They are like a display of his might and force against the enemy of His kingdom. It's like a display of His mighty powerful love for His kids .His beloved Bride Ahhhhh, I am so happy to know Him and to be loved by Him . J. J.
Tornadoes Must Bow
Yes, I also can testify with person below, that I have talked or should I say commanded the tornado(s) It was not that long ago (maybe in the last 2 years) it was a summer day and I faintly heard the far enough away city siren going off I have very good hearing my spouse did not hear it and I said to him that I believe the warning sirens were going off to warn us It was however a nice day but he finally if I can recall correctly checked out the TV and sure enough there was a warning going off for a tornado so he gets up and heads fast for the basement and you could snap your fingers and I went to the back door and the deck facing whatever to face (oh that boldness that Jesus puts in us) there was something it seemed of a unusual power in me whatever it was (I consider myself weak) But at this time something had me to go to the outside deck May husband is taking cover and I am facing whatever on the deck and as I got to the deck and looked sure enough there was a tornado forming to the right of me I commanded it as I can recall in the Name of Jesus I don't remember today the words I used but they were powerful once you know spiritual warfare you just go into spiritual warfare mode in Jesus' Name and when I got done wham that thing went away from my house it was not a long tail yet but was in the beginning stages of forming I have seen a tornado form from nothing and so I knew it was forming and the weather people knew it too, for the warning sirens were going off
My husband thought I was nuts and I didn't care for I knew down the road we would have to command earthquakes and storms and hurricanes and tornadoes and floods you name it for things were going to get ruff
I like how God took care of me when it all happened, and He just had me go into action mode .. (I am not a great thinker and analyzer where you have to think first, I am an action person God wants something, He nudges me . I just do it generally when I can tell it is Him nudging me) it was as if it was natural for me (when it was not in reality), I was however as I can recall in total peace as it was occurring in fact as I can recall I marveled that it was a super interesting peace on me at the time
Now I forgot about it kinda and was talking with a local Christian who lived in the city nearby and she told me as I can recall now that the tornado did fully form and it did not cause damage but there was as I kind of remember now a touchdown but it was to the right of my home further down the area and there was no damage that I can remember her telling me When I realized that, it caused me to fully realize that God had me move that tornado away from my home I knew I was called to some important work in God and I knew the enemy wanted to take many of us out (anyone who knows me, knows that I would love to go to Heaven NOW>>>) so I knew we would have to go into action at times I was forced to learn it by survival as a Christian in many areas so it was almost second nature to me to go into spiritual warfare in the Name of Jesus
God came through for me when I commanded that tornado and I give Him all honor, praise and glory And that was the first time that I can remember I fully commanded a tornado in the name of Jesus! What a Name!
RS