Desert Shepherd Warrior, Encouragement, Reconnaissance
The Wasteland Intoxication Effect
Boqer Or (Good Morning Light)!
Shalom Friends,
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be totally free in the liberty of the Holy Spirit? Have you yearned for true intimacy with Abba free from the control and interferences of carnal man? Have you become desperate to find that hidden watercourse of your first love once again? (If you have answered “yes” to any of these three questions then this EMM communiqué is for you!)
You see dear friends, what consumes me is to know Him intimately and then make Him known. I have no other purpose in life and no other ambition. I call it the “Post-Gethsemane” lifestyle and it is the result of one’s will drying up in the dry desolate wadi’s of His choosing and the subsequent new life that comes forth amongst the ashes blown away by His wind. It is the desert trek of going outside of the camp in your hunger quest to know Him and it is simply one of the most basic but also mysterious spiritual disciplines in the Christian walk (i.e. Hebrews 13:12-13). I have met many believers in my last 20 years of ministry who are on this same desert trek but sadly so few of this same number are actually full time ministers. So if most of the ministers I have met are not familiar with this Post-Gethsemane existence then now you can see why we have spent so much time and effort to create a new motif at our web site at Flashfloods.com to help bring about this spiritual revolution within the ranks of God’s Special Forces. This motif can be summed up as the “Desert Shepherd Warrior” paradigm of NT ministry…and in 2007 alone it has worked to change the mentality and thinking process of many believers and ministers worldwide! Glory be to God!
So what is the key or turning point that brings about this radical circumcision of one’s heart to follow the mysterious desert trek outside the camp and propel one to never return again to the decomposition of “organized” religion? What is the hidden theophanies that so melts us into an “addiction” (if I may use this word in a good sense) to surrender all and become like the scum of the earth and bear His reproaches (I Corinthians 4)? Is it money, power, greed, self-absorption, the need for approval, or whatever else that is in the fallen human psyche…? No, and no again! The hidden watercourse that is found exclusively in this lifestyle is what I will coin this morning as the “Wasteland Intoxication Effect”.
Welcome to the “Wasteland Intoxication Effect”
To better explain this terminology of the “Wasteland Intoxication Effect” one must understand these first preliminary prerequisites.
- You must daily enjoin death to self and see the purpose of the Cross is the total evaporation of your mind, will, and emotions now in this earthly existence (see Galatians 2:20 and Romans 7- 8).
- You must move past childish pursuits and see that the culmination of all human activity is to be granted the prize of becoming a bond-servant with a ear that has been attached to His door post of His house and not our own (see Exodus 21:5-6 and Psalm 40:6-8).
- You must see the absolute hatred Abba has for anything that systematically looks Scriptural (i.e. worship services, teachings, outreach endeavors, prayer meetings) but does not bring the seeker into total death to self in that environment. (You must read Hebrews 10:1-6 to understand the monumental importance of what is being said here!)
- You must enter into His perfect will and none other! It is in The Book and you must find it alone and one-on-one with Him only! …Or you will wander in the default desert of His permissive will!
- You must be willing to be teachable when Abba sends other seasoned warriors’ to help set you back on the right desert trek if you secretly begin to disobey (Hebrews 13:17).
Deborah Holtz Frolicking in the Desert with Abba
Once you have gained the courage to forsake all and let the past be the past at last…then you will begin to notice the fear of self-preservation begin to evaporate from you as you seek this place of absolute Spiritual liberty and freedom in Him. However, what comes next I cannot write about because it is a mystery. I can’t explain or hold your hand in this next step because HE is going to hold your hand and He is going to lead you into His new thing you have not experienced before. But what I can detail for you this morning is what will sustain you during this new and exciting lifelong discipline of living outside the camp.
There is going to be times in this place of absolute freedom and spiritual enjoyment that great persecution and envy will be unleashed at you from within the camp (i.e. friendly fire). I won’t go into detail about this aspect of your journey since many of you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about here. But what does need to be repeating here is the “intoxication effect” we are called upon to enjoin and enjoy in these times. You must stay in the hidden watercourses of intoxication that is found in the preferred state of full Holy Ghost possession (i.e. in Romans 1, God gave them over to full evil spirit possession…so why not also give His bondservants to full Holy Spirit possession?). When you have emptied your will and yield to His will…then the Holy Spirit will begin to not just fill you but bring repeated baptisms of Himself for Spirit possession!
More Frolicking with Abba in the Desert Wasteland
Read Proverbs chapter 8 and notice the state of the pre-Genesis account of the world before creation. It was in this eternal now realm of no time that Abba, His Spirit, and the Messiah (personified as Wisdom) frolicked, laughed, rejoiced and even played together. The Hebrew word used here in Proverbs 8:30-31 is the same word used of children playing in the New Jerusalem of Zechariah 8:5! The Scriptures here are pointing us into a mysterious portal of what true spiritual freedom and liberty is all about and it is the “Wasteland Intoxication Effect”! It is in the place of nothing (i.e. wasteland) that He meets us and brings us back into His original pattern of creation! You and I were created out of a joyful frolicking environment of pure freedom, and anything that hinders that process is what God hates! That is why all of us have found more joy and His intimate glorious presence alone and with the company of others of like precious faith than we have in organized and seemingly “Scriptural” services as of late! Abba is wooing us outside the camp of the old wineskin and into the new!!!!
A True Sign of the Times
So be bold and courageous to go outside the camp and surrender totally to Him! He will sustain you by possessing you with the atmospherics of His Glory realm as is seen here in Proverbs 8! It is in this wasteland of nothing that actually is the greatest portal to the true Spiritual realm! I can’t say much more in this communiqué to you dear ones…so close down your computer after reading this and find that desert trek location to get alone with Him and thus be taken up by Him into pure ecstasy of joy and surrender! He is waiting for you to respond and return back to Him and His original purpose for your life! Fight anything that would distract or abate your interest in it!!!
It is the “Wasteland Intoxication Effect” He is prescribing for us all in this hour! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
In His service for your faith,
Scott and Dalit
Intoxicated Blessings from the Israeli Desert
29 Nov 2007 02:59 pm Admin 4 comments
Dear, Scott and Dalit
We are on this journey of death to self and loving it. James and I are a part of an East Indian Fellowship that meet every Friday night until 11:00 or 12:00 pm. Now that is not your conventional service. We do not attend any other service. I know the Lord has sent us there and that the heart of the pastor is to disciple people but he finds himself ensnared by wayward thinking and just wants to do the right thing but unable to fully abandon himself to what the Lord wants. As I am learning to journey through this place I pray I can in turn help him understand it is okay to go. Go where his heart is already leading him to go. Learning to walk out, not my will but His will.
Here is a testimony of that place of abandonment.
I have experienced the joy that comes from a place of abandonment and I am even more delighted to know I can help others find that same path. All they have to be is be open and willing to flow with the wind of His Spirit (as you would say).
I pray with an East Indian neighbor every Wednesday afternoon and I abandoned myself to His leading and she went along. The next thing you know we were in a very pure,undefiled realm where everything was clear. We got three literal words in this place. Yes, Full, Hallejuah. When we say “Yes” to the Lord he will fill us “Full” to overflowing and the response is praise “Hallejuah”. She was in awe of this place and said “Oh, Lord I never experienced this before”
Her three year old boy and my Judah (eight months) fell asleep in our arms and in the background Daniel’s childrens video had finished, replaying a sweet, innoncent tune.
Wow! There is nothing like it. And my delight was to see someone else capture the moment and enter in.
On the journey of saying “Yes” Lord.
The Acosta family
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Hi Scott & Dalit
So wonderful to hear from you and I extremely enjoy your teachings, as I totally agree with what you relate to . Thank you for your output and God bless you and keep you all. You are a marvellous witness to me as a Godly couple lilving the Godly life and lifestyle. I hope to see you soon in Canada where hearts need to be refueled again. ILOVEU
Forever in JESUS
valentina
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Al,
Great to hear from you and I do remember those times basking in His presence there in Strathroy! One service stands out in particular…it was that Sunday morning where all we did was worship the King all morning! I remember saying to you’all it was one of the most powerful Sunday services I had ever been in!!! I would rather be in the glory cloud with a small group than hearing ear tickling messages in the larger programed gatherings!
Stay close to Abba in this time of outside the camp eating from that hidden altar of Hebrews 13 and know that there is many of us in the same paradigm as yourself preparing His way for the 2nd Coming! Say “Hi” to all the other warriors there!!!
In His glory haze,
SH
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Hi Scott, been awhile since we have communicated. I deeply appreciate your teachings on this ‘outside the camp’ lifestyle as I have found myself in this exact situation. You may not know, but we have closed Father’s House Christian Assembly in Strathroy. It has been closed for about a year now. And I can not even bring myself to take part with the organized services(without true submission to our Lord) that seem to be the only choice for people. At the same time, I have not the slightest idea of how to start anything else lol. But instead, my journey seems to be one of enduring betrayals,dealing with the heart issues that come from that and coming into such a recognition of the perverseness of the generation…even in so-called church circles. What is rising is NOT a condemning heart towards the church or non-believers,but a staunch recognition of the only thing that will help. A group of believers totally free from the bondages of organized church…that can and will endeavor to…..prepare the way of the Lord in this late hour. There is more, but perhaps at a later date. Suffice to say that I appreciate you and your teachings at this hour.
With you in His service
Al Mackenzie
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