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PHANTOM PAINS

Admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:59:33 +0000

Heading image: The first to cross the finish line of Ironman Germany

Shalom Friends,

Abba has given me this fresh word today for not only our personal spiritual nourishment, but also its follow through equipping effect it will have as you help others in your sphere of responsibilities (2 Cor. 1:1-16). A few days ago I was experiencing the natural sentence of death (2 Cor. 1:8-10) in an Ironman competition in Frankfurt, Germany. While I have been very accustomed to enduring pain, affliction, persecution, backstabbing, betrayal, and the host of other things that we who are in the ministry experience in our desire to spread His glory (2_Cor. 4:1-18), this pain however, was something I have never encountered before at this mysterious level. It was both physical as well as mental and has direct applications for those of us in this “outside the camp” lifestyle of suffering His shame per (Hebrews 13:12-14).

First let me brief you what happened on July 4th in Frankfurt, Germany for the European Championship of Ironman. If you have not yet seen the video we put together please click here or here for HD YouTube version. I was with the best and fastest athletes from the Nation of Israel and we had trained hard the last several months for this Championship event. There were high expectations for all of us in this group because our racing times in practice where spot on! However, during the race I had a major mechanical malfunction on the bike course and then became either dehydrated and/or afflicted with severe food poisoning from bad energy gels. I was not a happy camper when I finished the 185 kilometer bike course and began to run the Marathon in the tormenting heat. So in the midst of severe cramps, fainting, and semi-delusional thinking [some folks think we are crazy/delusional already just doing an Ironman...but that is another topic (LOL)], I checked myself immediately into the hospital tent for observation. After 30-40 minutes of checking me out, the German doctor could not find anything wrong with me and began to frown at my Israeli flag that was painted on my right shoulder. Whatever was going on with me was not good and laying in a hospital tent stretcher starting to lose consciousness was not a way to represent Jesus and Israel in Germany! It was at this moment I heard the gentle whisper of the Holy Spirit telling me to get up and run the race and FINISH! So I did everything in my power to get up, pull my wet racing shirt and number back on, put on those Nike Elite lunar racing shoes, and get back out in the packed Marathon course full of people! The Doctor looked at me like I just came from planet Mars as I left the tent and slowly picked up the pace by faith and shuffled forward into a eventual strong stride.

What happened? Well somewhere between lifting my head off that stretcher and getting back on those wet Nike Lunar racers…the supernatural resurrection power of Jesus flooded my earth suit and activated a strong healing miracle! I felt like I was dying and losing consciousness…to suddenly being empowered by moving my legs with ecstatic joy! I realized a Divine intervention was happening in this brutal Ironman event and as I looked around at the rest of the 2000 competitors I was the only one smiling! It was so cool and I’m so glad I got out of that hospital tent and away from that Dr. Frankenstein attitude of the medical staff when they saw I was a “Jude” or “Jew”! (Now let me say that this was a rare event of anti-Semitism while in Germany and most of the people we meet there were absolutely beautiful hosts)! My grandfather was a German Jew from Berlin and he left Europe quickly and immigrated into NYC when he saw what happened after WWI and the beginning of the Hitler years, so I knew I could not lie down in that hospital tent but had to rise up just like in the macro God rose up the Nation of Israel out of the ashes of the Holocaust in 1948! Glory to God!

Now let’s talk about this phantom pain topic….

It was in this race I was preparing for the so called “wall” that the coaching staff told us was going to hit us around Kilometer 35. Supposedly this wall was going to rear its ugly head and try to shut us down to quit the race. I still do not know what there are talking about because I did not hit any wall at Kilometer 35+! I hit a wall of at Kilometer 1.5 (LOL)!!! Anyway, I was looking for this mysterious wall to appear in this run and it never appeared. But something did appear that has spiritual connections big time for us this morning! I remember in this Marathon portion after getting that supernatural healing in Dr. Frankenstein’s tent, that my spirit man was so alive and active and full of intoxicating joy, but yet my body/mind was beginning to act weird. Now I don’t know all that was going on inside of me but I do know when I smell devils trying to nest in my hair! Suddenly I began to have all these phantom pains! I had a family member who is now in Heaven, but before they left their earthsuit for their reward, they had both of their legs amputated. I remember sitting and speaking with this family member and they would suddenly try to scratch their legs and would cry out about this phantom pain they had even though it was years since they lost their legs! So we know that our nervous system makeup can play tricks on us and this was exactly what began to happen to me! I was starting to get all these phantom pains in my body from past football injuries that I suffered over 30 years ago and were already absolutely healed! It was crazy…suddenly different parts of my legs started to hurt and I was not injured but fully healthy! The pain was so strong that I was being not just tempted, but literally hijacked by my mind to stop running and just lie down and call for my Mommy (LOL)! So I would just flat out ignore these phantom pains and they would leave and never come back…but in the next Kilometer suddenly a new phantom pain would appear even more tormenting! Now I don’t know when the mental neuron activity aspect quits and the spiritual aspect of demonic temptations kick in, but I do know that I was now under a stronger terror attack from the underworld and it was time for some devil casting out maneuvers! I love it!!!

At one of the 10K race course turnarounds, I took note of the battle situation I was in…. “OK, I know what physical pain and torment is because I have been going thru that the last 9 hours of this brutal Ironman race in July heat. I know what the miracle joy healing power is because that is flowing thru my body and dispelling all this pain and lactic acid buildup. And I know my mind is moving aggressively against me in the pursuit of self preservation because it has a safety valve being pushed because it does not want to run a 12 hour Ironman. Ok…I understand these dynamics happening in me and even some of this phantom pain/scar tissue of old injuries is just some old cobwebs being blown out of my system…fine. But now I’m encountering some really ugly and evil spirits of the underworld here in Frankfurt and I need to blow my shofar but it is back in Israel! Why a atmospheric change in this race? Because all these hundreds of thousands of spectators partying along the running course have not stopped drinking beer for the last 8 hours! That means we got some really drunk Germans here during this evening (yes, it was getting dark now) and they are starting to do some really immoral stuff here in this park area along the river! And now we got the hybrid Gothic’s and Zombies movement starting to show up here with all the wanna-be vampires. That is why so many demons are now here and because they are manifesting big time in this debased atmosphere”!

(Photos of the zombies and vampires movement in Frankfurt, Germany)

So here I am at the end of the Ironman Marathon portion having successfully fought thru dehydration, sickness, and food poisoning. Now having successfully overcome and cast down the thoughts of phantom pain that my mind was releasing as it tried to hit the default button and restart the program because it did not like this situation and only thinks…”self-preservation”! And now I’ve got to literally fight thru the demons manifesting in all these drunken German spectators on this sidewalk with all kinds of weird young people dressed up like zombies and vampires doing insane things in front of me with a Israeli flag on my shoulder and no police protection! …While also we got boatloads of Muslims now in this park area looking for the prostitutes and they do not like seeing the Israeli flag on my shoulder! And many of these Muslims were from Turkey and are looking for Jewish blood! I kid you not! Even one of the special forces officers on the Israeli team refused to have a similar Israeli flag painted on his shoulder for fear of being shot by someone in the crowd of 500,000 spectators and some are from the huge Turkish population in Germany!

Anyway, I finally got myself gathered together and started audibly rebuking the demons that were manifesting around me and let them know that their feeble attempt to gain entrance into my mind with fear of physical attack, terror attempt, phantom pains, and suggestions of defeat was useless. I may be running my first Ironman and being a rookie at this long distance stuff, but I’m a Titanium Holy Ghost Man in the Spirit realm and because of the Blood of Jesus I have come to make war against you and WIN! Hallelujah!!!! You should have seen those demons run for cover as I lifted up my voice as a shofar! I love witnessing and sharing Jesus to those about to fall into the underworld for eternity! I was really tired but there was nothing like the smell of Heavenly napalm as His truth was marching right thru that demented drunken Zombie infestested German crowd in Frankfurt Germany this July 4th evening!

OK, I hope this little testimony helps you identify the tactics of the enemy…. There are natural and physical pain. There is mental pain and operations of imaginations against us. And there is of course the fallen spirit world trying to gain access to us if we yield to these phantom pains or suggestions. The enemy is the father of all lies and though there are real phantom pains for those who suffer terrible physical handicaps in the natural…there are also real phantom pains that the enemy uses to stop you in this race of faith!!!! Don’t let him trick you with his cunning schemes! Pull down those vain imaginations (2 Cor. 10:3-6)! Don’t let the strongholds of fear and doubt be built out in your minds! There is a three dimensional war going on and Abba has given you and I by the Holy Ghost and His Holy Word the ability to put on the full amour of God and speak His Rhema Word/Sword for victory (Ephesians 6:12-19)!

Keep Give’n Them Heaven!

In His service for your faith,

Scott

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Reaching The Israeli Warrior Anew

Admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:13:31 +0000

Shalom Friends,

It has been a wild week and may this communiqué update you’all with great refreshment in the Holy Spirit! My morale is so pumped up and the river of God is so strongly flowing in my belly in this late hour to serve you’all and do whatever we can to help you become overcomers per Revelation 21:7. We no longer live for ourselves but for you’all as this is our new life expression since encountering the desert wasteland glory realm of Gethsemane! We exist to service your faith and there is no other desire so grand!

So how can we serve you’all with a fresh new move of the Holy Spirit? Well the first way is to get you under the spout where the glory is coming out…and that location in Heavens GPS scheme of things is Israel and the coming awakening here. The glory of God is moving in these last days apocalyptic grand finale towards a great visitation upon the currently blinded Jewish people and you and I have been given the great privilege to be involved in a ground floor opportunity of unprecedented fruit production for the Master! All of us believe in the promise of Genesis 12:3 and desire to experience the overflow of those blessings in our lives. And I believe that we have found the most profound way you can bless the natural seed of Abraham anywhere on planet earth! It is thru these special operations He has given you and I an unprecedented way to bless and comfort His ancient people!

Most of our operations with the IDF warriors these last three years has been shrouded in stealth secrecy due to the security restrictions placed upon us. However, what I’m about to share with you’all is one of the little side operations we have found ourselves windwardly blown into by the Holy Spirit that has recently produced great fruit. It continues to amaze us how great a fisherman the Holy Spirit is if we will just yield and serve people here and not let our brain tissue default us into the paralysis of analysis of what we think “will work and not work”, in fishing for men in this tough neighborhood! So what I’m about to share with some of you’all may cause a religious knee jerk response of disbelief or varying opinions of criticism to flow, but what we cannot deny is the tremendous fruit being borne for the Master thru this latest small excursion away from the traditional ways all of us usually conduct local outreach events!

IDF Night Warriors

OK, let’s now go outside the box and explore one of these new ways we have been reaching the Israeli Night Warriors here….

As many of you remember from last July 2009, I was strategically placed by the Holy Spirit into the 18th Olympic Maccabiah Games and won a silver medal in the Cycling Time Trial Championship race with absolutely no background whatsoever in this difficult sport (see link). After these Olympic games were over, unbeknownst to me, my name was being floated around the Israeli sports community as one of the upcoming new athletes in long distance events. Now those who know me know that I’m in no way interested in sports or competition events, as I would much rather be conducting revival meetings, casting out devils, and doing shofar drive-by’s against the underworld. But what Dalit and I recognized in the community of IDF special forces was this fierce desire among these incredible warriors to keep fit thru this new avenue of endurance sports (i.e. cycling, Ironman, etc…). This fascination with extreme endurance sports is what fits perfectly into their ethnos of the Israeli mindset of overcoming and winning when one is facing overwhelming odds. So a few months ago I was invited to join a new professional Ironman team here even though I had never done one or even much less cared to do a intense long distance Ironman race!

This professional team was made up of IDF officers from many different special units and the training classes as well as the training camps were fashioned to mirror that hard and rugged discipline of the Israeli special forces. Being the oldest person on this team, I suffered greatly trying to keep up with all these young bucks and for the first few weeks I felt like I was being run over by a Mack truck repeatedly (LOL). It was crazy in the natural…but God was so in this thing as this professional group was just dumbfounded to see how fast I would recover and excel even faster in my interval sessions than most of them. The coach of this team would make comments of how I was becoming an “aerobic monster” and that if I would keep it up I could qualify for the World Championships. I would always respond that I was not interested in the World Championships and just wanted to serve them and see them (not myself) reach their athletic potentials. This attitude was blowing their minds, as we were to found out, because many here do not know how to respond to acts of kindness and thus many on the team have since become very endeared to us these last few months. I remember that it was during one of these crazy early morning endurance camps last Spring that I was finally accepted into their “fraternity” of warriors even though I have no special forces or military background. The hand of God was moving and I was granted unprecedented favor to become a part of again another Israeli special forces community and its mysterious IDF ethnos. We are literally become all things to all men that we might save some (I Cor. 9:19-27)! (And all of this was transpiring while the other stealth operations we were doing with the other special units was still going on). My mind was spinning at all the open doors and the huge network that was opening to us on so many different fronts these last few months, and it was like I was multitasking so many huge programs all at once! I knew Abba had called us to Israel for a special work…but in no way had I ever envisioned so many different doors opening simultaneously to us for new fishing adventures galore! Glory to God!

Ironman Germany finish line in downtown Frankfurt

The culmination of all this early morning endurance training happened this last weekend on July 4th, 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany whereas Dalit and I traveled with this professional Israeli team to the Ironman European Championship. The atmosphere of this Ironman event was just incredible with hundreds of thousands of German spectators cheering us on. On race day I had a Israeli flag painted to my right shoulder as a sign of not only the new friendship Germany has with the State of Israel, but also as a sign of how we were being killed here by the Nazi’s 65 years ago, but now we were back from the ashes of the Holocaust as a people due to God’s unbreakable covenant! Most of the Germans loved us but there was a few that would call out a anti-Semitic remark when I flew past them on the 185 kilometer bike course. But for the most part it was a very lively celebrative atmosphere especially with 24 hours earlier the German national team powerfully defeated Argentina in the World Cup quarterfinals.

The results of the Ironman Germany European Championship for our Israeli team was awesome, yet for me it seemed to a huge let down. The great witness to the Ironman sporting world was that two new Israeli athletes hammered out amazing course times and secured slots to attend the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. Gilad Rotem (special Sayeret officer and now medical student) scorched the course as a amateur with professional results! And one of our dear friends Nina Pekerman (a Jewish immigrant from Moldavia), also set a record as a amateur finishing in the top ten of the professional women overall! They both are very incredible and gifted athletes and are going to put Israel on the map in the Ironman scene for years to come! We are thrilled to see these two represent Israel in such a new surprising way!

Bird’s eye view of Ironman Germany swim start

So what happened with me? Well, it is amazing how God can use a seemingly defeat into such a great testimony for His glory! My race started out awesome with a fast 3.8 kilometer swim. I came out of the water in the top 10% of over 2000 athletes and hit the bike course with a fast transition. However, 50 kilometers into the 185 kilometer course my front handlebar bracket snapped off and I almost crashed into a German country villa! After getting myself back on the bike course, I noticed that my bike was incapable of getting above 35k per hour so I was left to just trying to survive the long ride and get back into downtown Frankfurt and the running section of the course. Upon arriving back into the transition area I noticed I had either eaten bad gels or forgotten to keep hydrated and began to have severe nausea and dizzy spells. Once on the first kilometer of the marathon run I decided to check myself into the hospital tent for emergency observation and the medical staff began to check out my vital signs and I was immobilized on a stretcher. Everything within me was seemingly telling me to call it a day and just go to sleep…however, at this my greatest moment of pain, weakness, and disappointment I heard the still small voice of the Holy Spirit telling me to get up and finish the race! I knew it was the supernatural secret place to victory and healing coming to me like a gentle fall breeze rustling thru the leaves. So I did everything I could to get up off that hospital tent stretcher and put my Ironman uniform back on! The Doctor and medical staff looked so stunned and asked where I was going…I smiled and said, it is time to finish this 42.2 Kilometer Marathon! I struggled greatly to get out of that tent but as soon as my feet hit the running course I felt the Holy Ghost take over and His supernatural energy pulsed thru my weakened tabernacle! And finally at 12 hours and 58 minutes I was able to cross the finish line in tears of joy to see Dalit and the other Israeli warriors waiting to embrace and hug me for not giving up (see video link below).

(Video link to Scott at Ironman Germany)

Praising Abba for finishing the longest day

Now what has transpired from this unexpected slow race time in the natural has now blossomed into a great testimony to the Israeli warriors who know us. It is not winning the race or doing well with few circumstantial difficulties that has interested these IDF warriors we know. What has gripped their conversations and curiosity is how in the world did I get up from the hospital tent and finish the Marathon!? It is unheard of!!! Here is some of the emails and messages I have received the last 48 hours from these IDF warriors. “Shlomo, you are a true warrior!” “WOW, amazing! How did you get up and finish the marathon? What power is in you?” “Shlomo the Great”! “There is power in your legs not heard of before”! “Tell me how did you do it? What is in your mind that caused you to get out of the hospital bed”? “Absolute brilliance! Courageous”! And from one of the champions they said, “Shlomo, I’m not at Ironman today…you are the true Ironman”!

Now please understand I’m not listing these reports to lift myself up in any way, shape, or form. I’m very content in remaining unknown and living in the motif of the scum of the earth message (link). But what I have finally realized is that the best fishing lure we have to break thru the stubborn rebellion and unbelief of the Israeli ethnos here is not to display only a theory of overcoming from the Scriptures, but to live before them a real example of overcoming in a real time Scriptural event of miraculous power that stuns and opens up the Israeli warrior here to the message of the Good News! It is the overcoming mixed in with them seeing the trials and suffering I went thru that opens up the hardened Israeli to the secret power of the Cross within us who believe! Glory to God!!! For when we are weak then we are strong (II Cor. 12:7-12)!

So that is a quick summary of another exciting weekend here at Rivers in the Desert and it is good to be back home in Eretz Israel and getting my shofar ready for some more drive-by’s against the underworld and the terrors of the night! We also have worded hard the last 48 hours to put together a inspiring video of this Ironman Germany event and scroll below for the link!

Keep in touch and may this testimony encourage you in the fight of faith you maybe waging in your sectors of responsibility!

In His service for your faith,

Scott and Dalit

(Video link to Scott at Ironman Germany)

BODILY EXERCISE PROFITS LITTLE?

Admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Heading Image: 1st place win in California

Bodily Exercise Profits Little? What Did The Apostle Paul Actually Mean By This Statement?

Boqer Or (Good Morning Light)!

Shalom Friends and Fellow Warriors,

How would you’all like to do some house cleaning and expose some religiosity that may have taken root in our consciences and minds concerning a very important aspect of maintaining our health in these last days? If I have your permission this morning, then let me shine some Holy Ghost light on a dark fear that has hamstrung many of God’s choice warriors from being all that He has predestined them to be due to a misquotation and shallow reading of a very well known Scripture found in The Apostle Paul’s first epistle to Timothy.

“For bodily exercise profiteth little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come.” (I Timothy 4:8 KJV)

For decades I have heard this verse taught, preached, and used as a self implied safeguard to help keep eager disciples from potentially crossing a mysterious line of becoming “carnal” if time is employed in exercise and physical fitness that somehow interferes with living godly and holy in this present age. As a result not only myself, but many other fine soldiers for Yeshua have had the correction applied by well meaning but still religious believers, that our endeavors to maintain a certain fitness level thru systematic exercise was of little profit. We were “wasting our time” and needed to be instead busy for God. I of course submitted to this apparent “safeguard” as did many other of the fine soldiers I fellowshipped with, and although we still did do a little bit of aerobic/cardio exercising during the week, it was not enough to really bring about the benefits intended for our physical temples.

Why, because we had accepted the false religious notion that we were not making best use of our God given time on earth by pursuing fitness activities and needed to be busy about the work of contemporary Christianity. As we would street witness, visit the sick in the hospitals, and conduct evening worship services I noticed that all of our fellowship times after these events were centered mainly around food. Whether it be Sunday afternoon at the all you can eat buffet, or the late night after revival services hanging out at Denny’s, we slowly and methodically started putting on the excess poundage. The more we gained weight the more we easily migrated towards a sedentary lifestyle of less physical activity and so on…. I can look back in retrospect that thru this modern sedentary culture of worship services and activities centered around fellowship and food, that not only I, but most of my friends and ministerial associations were starting to tip the scales towards obesity and a very unhealthy body fat index for our ages.

Sprinting to the finish line for 1st place!

We all knew we had to cut back on the calories and became self proclaimed experts (just well read-LOL) on nutrition and healthy food choices. Then came in the good and not so good diets and fasting/cleansing routines which are not really bad just we were still not keeping the weight off! It seemed to keep coming back! Of course, we all had gym equipment gathering dust in our basements or garages that we vowed every New Years Eve to get back onto…but never really kept faithfully at it because…”bodily exercise profits little” so that must mean we only do it a “little” or we will be displeasing to God and become too carnal! We had become mentally self-defeated because we allowed a stronghold of fear take root in us that was really a misquotation of a popular Scripture! …And the enemy was laughing with glee due to our self-inflicted acceptance mentality of not digging in deeper to the Scriptures!

This past year I began to see that there are a ton of Scriptures in the Bible that instruct us to be hard workers and not default into lazy slothfulness. All of these texts in the Book of Proverbs alone have to do with hard manual labor in the backdrop of an agricultural based society. Farming is very hard work and think how much harder it was 2000 years ago! The whole of human history up until the last 120 years was a very non-transportation based society. They walked everywhere and if you have walked before in Israel with all of its rugged terrain and harsh climatic conditions then you know how exhausting it can be! Take some time and in your next series of private Bible studies look at how physical and in good fitness must have been the society as a whole in the Biblical times compared to today’s modern believer!

So what did the Apostle Paul really mean about “bodily exercise profit little” when in I Cor. 9 and 2 Tim. 2, he uses the illustrations of Olympic athletes, soldiers, and farmers who were not just exercising their bodies but due to their line of work would labor past the point of aerobic threshold and many times continue onto exhaustion just to finish the job, gather in the harvest, or fight the enemy? It does not make logical sense that we are called to labor in the Scriptures but not “exercise” which is a much lesser form of work (i.e. calorie burning) compared to the job descriptions entailed in an agricultural based society?

I really want to thank God this morning for turning me on many years ago to a great reference work of the Greek language titled, The Linguistic Key to The Greek NT, by Fritz Rienecker and published by Zondervan Press. It has blessed me so much in seeing the big picture and context of what the writers of the NT really were called to communicate in their overall letters for the Early Church. On page 626, we can see that the real context that the Apostle Paul was addressing when he warned Timothy about bodily exercise. It says, “Bodily exercise is a metaphor which refers back to the errors of the heretics against which the author (Paul) has been warning. It is best to see in this phrase not the Hellenistic culture of the body, but an external dualistic Asceticism as propounded by the heretics and reflected in the warning contained in verse 3”.

Wow, this is so liberating for all of us who have held back from proper amounts of healthy exercise in our sedentary modern culture because we felt we would be judged as being too “carnal” by other believers, or we would be displeasing to God and not really be “godly” in this present age. Paul is not talking about bodily exercise but a bodily self-centered struggle of an individual in Asceticism for his own moral and religious perfectionism! Paul’s enemies were accusing him of his moral laxity since he refused to follow their demands of abstention. He instead was encouraging Timothy to implement the training necessary for the unhindered pursuit of God’s purposes. His exercise was a vigorous development and application of all his strength and ability that he may serve the glory of God with every thought and action! (see page 626) This is so awesome! Developing all our abilities and strengths to serve the Gory of God!!!!

Let’s recap all of this-

The Apostle Paul was warning the young Apostle Timothy of a heretical movement of philosophy known as Asceticism of the Roman-Greco culture that used severe austerity in subordinating the body to the control of the moral attributes of the mind. This was the bodily exercise Paul was referring to and not the athletic boldly exercise of the Hellenistic culture (i.e. Olympic games, athletics, etc…).
A deep and honest pondering of our heart and conscience in this hour can reveal to many of us that we have used this misquotation of “bodily exercise profits little” in excusing ourselves from really pressing in and dealing with the our lack of fitness and body fat mass index. We have limited ourselves to not press past our comfort zones because we might be displeasing God if we worked out too much during the week. …Or we would be judged by fellow believers as spending too much time focusing on exercise when we had more important “eternal” issues at hand.
This liberating truth can now set all of us free that bodily exercise whether it be manual labor or fitness orientated workouts is not only approved in the Scriptures, but is a highly employed theme for believers to engage in. Not only are the health benefits optimized when our temples are properly taken care of, but also we learn many character issues about endurance, perseverance, and control that can be applied to encourage us in the mastery of our lower nature by the Holy Spirit and thus not become castaways in our faith (see I Cor. 9:24-27).
The bodily exercise we need to do systematically each week should not be centered on a cosmetic appearance shaping but on a inward fitness of cardio-vascular and aerobic conditioning. This is the fastest way to get the weight off and keep it off. You maybe be able to leg press or bench press twice your body weight but can you walk/run for long distances without fainting along the way (see Jer. 12:5)? Modify your workouts with a local trainer to emphasis overall fitness rather than cosmetic shaping. You are going to war with your temples and this is not a sprint but a marathon race of faith. The biggest enemy to revival sometimes is that folks just can’t keep up with the pace of working the harvest field of new souls and get easily tired and fatigued.
I have found when I’m properly fit and systematically exercising that my appetite automatically migrates towards healthy and natural food choices and eschews all the processed food selections. Eating is fun after working out and is not a bondage due to a fear of not being able to eat certain things. When your engine is weekly running at high rpm’s then a few extra calories here and there is not a big concern. Just be careful about the doctrines of demons via abstaining from certain foods Paul warned about in
I Tim. 4:1-5 that was also embedded in the Asceticism philosophy. Let your temple that God made be your guide in a post exercise meal selection rather than getting too hung up on all the plethora of teachings out there about diets and foods. Keep it simple…be fit and eat natural!
As you see physical improvements do not rush your new fitness lifestyle since this is a recipe for injury and burnout. Give yourself 12 months to reach that desired healthy weight and don’t get injured overdoing it. I personally like the low impact exercises of swimming and cycling. If you have a past history of medical complications talk to your Physician and find out what you need to center your faith on to get healed or adjusted. Be very careful also as you see improvements to not get consumed by more time into more exercising. Strike the balance and have moderation. Some of these fitness programs can have you doing 12-15 hours per week of exercise and that is difficult to fit in with family, job, and church responsibilities. I prefer the early morning hours for exercise as it is a great time to worship Abba and then move out of that quiet time into subduing the body. It puts a great step of energy into the rest of the day and automatically keeps me from staying up too late at night with wasted entertainments…why, I can’t keep awake (LOL)!

In His service for your faith,

Scott Holtz

Bodily Exercise Profits Little? What Did The Apostle Paul Actually Mean By This Statement?

Admin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:38:31 +0000

Boqer Or (Good Morning Light)!

Shalom Friends and Fellow Warriors,

“For bodily exercise profiteth little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come.” (I Timothy 4:8 KJV)

(3, 2, 1, Go!)

(First Maccabiah Olympic cycle race in Israel’s history in Ashdod)

This past year I began to see that there is a ton of Scriptures in the Bible that instructs us to be hard workers and not default into lazy slothfulness. All of these texts in the Book of Proverbs alone have to do with hard manual labor in the backdrop of an agricultural based society. Farming is very hard work and think how much harder it was 2000 years ago! The whole of human history up until the last 120 years was a very non-transportation based society. They walked everywhere and if you have walked before in Israel with all of its rugged terrain and harsh climatic conditions then you know how exhausting it can be! Take some time and in your next series of private Bible studies look at how physical and in good fitness must have been the society as a whole in the Biblical times compared to today’s modern believer!

Let’s recap all of this-

The Apostle Paul was warning the young Apostle Timothy of a heretical movement of philosophy known as Asceticism of the Roman-Greco culture that used severe austerity in subordinating the body to the control of the moral attributes of the mind. This was the bodily exercise Paul was referring to and not the athletic boldly exercise of the Hellenistic culture (i.e. Olympic games, athletics, etc…).
A deep and honest pondering of our heart and conscience in this hour can reveal to many of us that we have used this misquotation of “bodily exercise profits little” in excusing ourselves from really pressing in and dealing with the our lack of fitness and body fat mass index. We have limited ourselves to not press pass our comfort zones because we might be displeasing God if we worked out too much during the week. …Or we would be judged by fellow believers as spending too much time focusing on exercise when we had more important “eternal” issues at hand.
This liberating truth can now set all of us free that bodily exercise whether it be manual labor or fitness orientated workouts is not only approved in the Scriptures, but is a highly employed theme for believers to engage in. Not only are the health benefits optimized when our temples are properly taken care of, but also we learn many character issues about endurance, perseverance, and control that can be applied to encourage us in the mastery of our lower nature by the Holy Spirit and thus not become castaways in our faith (see I Cor. 9:24-27).
The bodily exercise we need to do systematically each week should not be centered on a cosmetic appearance shaping but on a inward fitness of cardio-vascular and aerobic conditioning. This is the fastest way to get the weight off and keep it off. You maybe be able to leg press or bench press twice your body weight but can you walk/run for long distances without fainting along the way (see Jer. 12:5)? Modify your workouts with a local trainer to emphasis overall fitness rather than cosmetic shaping. You are going to war with your temples and this is not a sprint but a marathon race of faith. The biggest enemy to revival sometimes is that folks just can’t keep up with the pace of working the harvest field of new souls and get easily tired and fatigued.
I have found when I’m properly fit and systematically exercising that my appetite automatically migrates towards healthy and natural food choices and eschews all the processed food selections. Eating is fun after working out and is not a bondage due to a fear of not being able to eat certain things. When your engine is weekly running at high rpm’s then a few extra calories here and there is not a big concern. Just be careful about the doctrines of demons via abstaining from certain foods Paul warned about in
I Tim. 4:1-5 that was also embedded in the Asceticism philosophy. Let your temple that God made be your guide in a post exercise meal selection rather than getting too hung up on all the plethora of teachings out there about diets and foods. Keep it simple…be fit and eat natural!
As you see physical improvements do not rush your new fitness lifestyle since this is a recipe for injury and burnout. Give yourself 12 months to reach that desired healthy weight and don’t get injured overdoing it. I personally like the low impact exercises of swimming and cycling. If you have a past history of medical complications talk to your Physician and find out what you need to center your faith on to get healed or adjusted. Be very careful also as you see improvements to not get consumed by more time into more exercising. Strike the balance and have moderation. Some of these fitness programs can have you doing 12-15 hours per week of exercise and that is difficult to fit in with family, job, and church responsibilities. I prefer the early morning hours for exercise as it is a great time to worship Abba and then move out of that quiet time into subduing the body. It puts a great step of energy into the rest of the day and automatically keeps me from staying up too late at night with wasted entertainments…why, I can’t keep awake (LOL)!

In His service for your faith,

Scott

Bodily Exercise Profits Little? What Did The Apostle Paul Actually Mean By This Statement?

Admin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:02:25 +0000

Heading photo: Finish line at Ironman Germany

Boqer Or (Good Morning Light)!

Shalom Friends and Fellow Warriors,

“For bodily exercise profiteth little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come.” (I Timothy 4:8 KJV)

(3, 2, 1, Go!)

Praising Abba for finishing the longest day

Let’s recap all of this-

The Apostle Paul was warning the young Apostle Timothy of a heretical movement of philosophy known as Asceticism of the Roman-Greco culture that used severe austerity in subordinating the body to the control of the moral attributes of the mind. This was the bodily exercise Paul was referring to and not the athletic boldly exercise of the Hellenistic culture (i.e. Olympic games, athletics, etc…).
A deep and honest pondering of our heart and conscience in this hour can reveal to many of us that we have used this misquotation of “bodily exercise profits little” in excusing ourselves from really pressing in and dealing with the our lack of fitness and body fat mass index. We have limited ourselves to not press pass our comfort zones because we might be displeasing God if we worked out too much during the week. …Or we would be judged by fellow believers as spending too much time focusing on exercise when we had more important “eternal” issues at hand.
This liberating truth can now set all of us free that bodily exercise whether it be manual labor or fitness orientated workouts is not only approved in the Scriptures, but is a highly employed theme for believers to engage in. Not only are the health benefits optimized when our temples are properly taken care of, but also we learn many character issues about endurance, perseverance, and control that can be applied to encourage us in the mastery of our lower nature by the Holy Spirit and thus not become castaways in our faith (see I Cor. 9:24-27).
The bodily exercise we need to do systematically each week should not be centered on a cosmetic appearance shaping but on a inward fitness of cardio-vascular and aerobic conditioning. This is the fastest way to get the weight off and keep it off. You maybe be able to leg press or bench press twice your body weight but can you walk/run for long distances without fainting along the way (see Jer. 12:5)? Modify your workouts with a local trainer to emphasis overall fitness rather than cosmetic shaping. You are going to war with your temples and this is not a sprint but a marathon race of faith. The biggest enemy to revival sometimes is that folks just can’t keep up with the pace of working the harvest field of new souls and get easily tired and fatigued.
I have found when I’m properly fit and systematically exercising that my appetite automatically migrates towards healthy and natural food choices and eschews all the processed food selections. Eating is fun after working out and is not a bondage due to a fear of not being able to eat certain things. When your engine is weekly running at high rpm’s then a few extra calories here and there is not a big concern. Just be careful about the doctrines of demons via abstaining from certain foods Paul warned about in
I Tim. 4:1-5 that was also embedded in the Asceticism philosophy. Let your temple that God made be your guide in a post exercise meal selection rather than getting too hung up on all the plethora of teachings out there about diets and foods. Keep it simple…be fit and eat natural!
As you see physical improvements do not rush your new fitness lifestyle since this is a recipe for injury and burnout. Give yourself 12 months to reach that desired healthy weight and don’t get injured overdoing it. I personally like the low impact exercises of swimming and cycling. If you have a past history of medical complications talk to your Physician and find out what you need to center your faith on to get healed or adjusted. Be very careful also as you see improvements to not get consumed by more time into more exercising. Strike the balance and have moderation. Some of these fitness programs can have you doing 12-15 hours per week of exercise and that is difficult to fit in with family, job, and church responsibilities. I prefer the early morning hours for exercise as it is a great time to worship Abba and then move out of that quiet time into subduing the body. It puts a great step of energy into the rest of the day and automatically keeps me from staying up too late at night with wasted entertainments…why, I can’t keep awake (LOL)!

In His service for your faith,

Scott

Exercising Controlled Obedience In All Things

Admin — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:23:43 +0000

Heading image: 2011 Israel National Cycling Time Trial Championship

Shalom Friends and Fellow Warriors,

Mega Shalom and blessings to you from the Land of the Final Shalom solution! The site of the glorious return of Yeshua our Messiah and Champion! It has been several months since we featured some of our “unusual side” exploits as is seen on our Spirit Filled Fitness page (see this link). And 48 hours ago another wild fitness exploit took place on the Israeli Golan border with Syria. Let me briefly fill you’all in on this unusual exploit.

Earlier this week I was up early in the shahar blackness of the pre-dawn secret place and just getting blasted by the presence of Abba while studying Ezekiel 47. Suddenly the Holy Spirit told me to contact a Israeli I have not seen for several months. This man is the top cycling coach in Israel/Middle East and needed some encouragement. In our conversation, the subject of the Israeli National Time Trial Cycling Championship came up and he was curious if I was going to participate. I quickly said no and started making all the excuses about being tired, too busy with family, not really been training enough, etc. (You know all the quick to speak carnal and lazy answers our flesh immediately spews forth when discipline, sacrifice, and pain is sensed just around the corner)!

I thanked him for his time and said a definite “no” that I would not be racing this year due to time constraints (which was really my flesh just giving a nice sounding intellectual EXCUSE). He then told me that the race course was going to be held on the Golan Heights not far from the Syrian border at 4:30 in the heat of the afternoon which just happens to be very close to some of our latest shofar drive-by operations against Syrian and Hezbollah terror networks. He then said it was going to be a brutal race in the heat of the day with very high winds and would just be a brutal day of suffering. After hanging up the call, suddenly the Holy Spirit told me to a call him back and sign up for the race! I started resisting His leading and then just slapped myself out of this cc episode (carnal complaining) and realized that God wants to do something and I’d better obey quickly. I called the coach back and apologized for my double-mindedness and changed my decision and would like to race (while all the time telling myself I have not trained for this event and would be going in cold turkey)! I then quickly called the race officials and they told me that I had exactly 2 hours to get registered because their office is closing soon. I asked what race categories were available to me and they said there was only two spots open. The first was a short 15k loop for amateurs and the second was the 36K Pro category for the fastest riders in the Middle East. The Holy Spirit then rose up within me and out loud I said, “The Pro Division”. The federation official was a bit taken back and asked me if I had any experience at this level and I said sheepishly, ”nothing”. Two hours later I noticed the posted online start list had me listed in the Pro category and starting as the first TT racer (the worst spot to be in)!

The next day I went to the local bike shop to get my bike serviced out and made UCI legal for the regulations for this National Championship event. I asked some of the pros at the shop if they were racing up in the Golan Heights and they said very loudly “no way’! They then explained in detail (something Israeli’s like to do), the pain I was going to experience on that particular course and then the added high winds and oven hot temperatures was a recipe for the worst experience in their minds. I gulped in hesitation and then began to wait for that butterfly feelings to start rising up and making my head recoil at the pain that was only 24 hours away! But instead of feelings that foreboding worry, the Holy Spirit instead just kept bubbling up such joy and laughter in me as I talked with them and then they began to discuss among themselves that I must be just crazy and naive!

Well, race day came quickly and I traveled with my youngest son to the Golan Heights to the race site and was immediately welcomed by not just the strong winds but hot oven like temperatures. It was crazy hot and crazy dehydrating! I told my son to just camp out in the car while I picked up my race packet and set up the bike (of which he did with the AC blasting full force inside)! I then lined up for the warm up (it took only about a full 30 seconds to get warmed up LOL) and began to notice the other Pros also getting ready to race. These guys not only looked Professional, but they had been training for this event for the last 8 months! Yikes! Several other riders and friends I knew began to come up to me and offer me their “condolences” with a sorrowful look! It was as though they all expected me to just blow up on this course and come hobbling back a few hours later or in the ambulance with a heat stroke. Again..the “Yikes” spiked within me ( i.e. YIKE SPIKE, LOL), and just when I thought about tucking tail and heading back home…the WONDERFUL HOLY SPIRIT again rose up within me and I started laughing uncontrollably! His joy was my supernatural strength and HE was flushing me of all limiting carnal thoughts and phobias! My name was then called and I approached the starting ramp and the officials looked at me and then double and tripled checked their starting sheets to make sure I was really racing in the Pro category. Then with 30 seconds to go the head official looked at me and began to try to talk me out of racing because the winds were so violent and dangerous! He then looked at my racing wheels and said they were the most dangerous to use in these high winds…. I just smiled and started to laugh in the Holy Spirit again and told him “I like adventures”! His mouth dropped open in stunning amazement and started to forget the clock was ticking and now down to sub 10 seconds!

The white image in the background is me approaching. Notice the emergency paramedics on standby alert.

Five, four, three, two, one…Boom I took off and before I knew it I was up to 74 kph and totally out of control! I started too fast and my heart rate skyrocketed to maximum (Zone 5) and I was going anaerobic too soon and had only gone 2 kilometers with 34 more to go! Then the dangerous side winds began to buffet me and things on my bike started to shake loose. It was absolute confusion and damage control as my water bottle started to eject and then by bike computer started to fall off and with one hand tried to control the bike and with the other tried to jerry rig everything now violently shaking loose. The winds were pushing me dangerously close to going off road into the ditch and it was all I could do to keep the bike steady. At that moment I had the sensation of going airborne from a hidden bump in the road and a pic flashed before my mind of me fellowshipping with the hot asphalt…then suddenly I felt the Blessed Holy Spirit take over again! There was this locomotive power that began to surge within me that I have not experienced in a long time that was opposite to the extreme pain every muscle in my body was experiencing with going anaerobic too soon and the lactic acid building up in the muscles. At this moment I started laughing again and decided to just yield and let go any self afflicting thoughts of defeat, pain, and the what “if’s” that plague all of the human race in dangerous scenarios. Instead of slowing down to gain control I instead just dropped it into the biggest gear (55/11 for those who want to know) and soon was approaching 80 kph on a bike that weighs only 9 kilos and there was no turning back! Then an hour later I crossed the finish line smiling while at 95% maximum heart rate (something that I was at for 60 minutes…unheard of), and still laughing while soaked in sweat, and splattered with black insects peppered all over my white cycling shirt! I was in the Glory Haze and shouting praises wildly to Him when some of the other Pros around me at the finish line where collapsing on the pavement and looked like they had just came out of war with that shell shocked faraway look!!

Approaching the finish line and placing 14th in the Pro category!

My son Yotam “accidentally” took this photo with my Iphone. But it accurately describes what I’m feeling…the Holy Ghost dimension of power and wonders beyond human understanding! The mantle for exploits!

My youngest son snapped these two pics of me at the end of the race with the biggest smile on his face (post pics). I knew I did not win the race because He told me that this was just another test of my character for the warfare days ahead, but my time would surprise many in Israel. Sure enough, a few minutes later the Israel National Time Trial Championship times were posted and in my category of a total of 19 Pro riders I had placed number 14! Glory to God! I about fainted when I say the results and have been in a Glory haze daze the last 48 hours since! This 50 year (young) Holy Ghost preacher was not only taken to school by Abba to teach me pain management in the midst of a Glory anointing for signs and wonders, (a sign to get people looking and a wonder to get them wondering in this tough neighborhood..LOL), but this exploit has once again surprised so many Israelite’s we are friends with and avidly been angling for! They are stunned how this and other unexplainable things keep happening with us here the last 3 years and they want to learn more about the Messiah! (I’m so glad I obeyed Him and didn’t talk myself out of this uncharacteristic operation when it challenged my comfort zone!)

In conclusion, I share these 2nd tier exploits as a testimony of me being a nobody with no professional sports background or unique athletic ability, to encourage you’all to give your temples to Him for miraculous works of power to wake up our generation! Study I Cor 9 and how the Apostle Paul buffeted his body and disciplined himself as a Olympic athlete to run this race and complete his calling of service. Strange and dark days are ahead dear friends and we must use every waking moment to worship Him with our temples and live a controlled life of discipline that is not driven into looking for the exit door when trials, pains, and difficulties arrive. We are in training now and the best is yet to come per Isaiah 60! Prepare your temples for war and the long haul until we are helicoptered out of here! Don’t give in to earthly fears of pain…but go vertical for Him in wild exploits in the market place in this late hour! And do it in His joy waterfall of spontaneity and not the hot oven dehydration that organized religiosity brings!

Keep in touch and have a great first month of Summer outside yielding to Him!

In His service for your faith,

Scott
PS, In this new Summer season upon us I would like to do some housecleaning. It has been my desire since 2007 for our USA ministry offices property to be paid off in full and to owe nothing to the bank. This property in Atlanta, GA is key to our ongoing operations in Israel. The amount owed is $235,868.88 and it would be awesome for the ministry to own this office townhouse outright. You our partners and friends are the most giving believers I have ever had the privilege to serve with and may Abba fill your hands for this gracious act this Spring season! There is new stealth projects opening up here in Israel this week but I first want secure our USA base before this month is out! Glory to God!!!!

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Healing Miracle At Ironman Germany European Championship

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:56:05 +0000

Shalom Friends and Fellow Warriors,

It has come to our attention today that many people did not know that there was a video testimony included in our last email communique to you’all. So take a few minutes to view this video link below of a supernatural healing miracle that embedded inside of me representing Israel at the Ironman Germany European Championship last weekend that has gripped many at the awesomeness of God and His alien works of power per Isaiah 28:21! When we are weak then we are strong in Him!!!

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OPERATION IRONMAN GERMANY 2011 – EXERCISING CONTROL IN ALL THINGS (PART 1)

Admin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:14:37 +0000

Heading Image: A few minuntes before the swim start of IM Germany 2011

Boqer Or (Good Morning Light)!

Shalom friends,

It’s been great to get so much positive feedback from our readership base about how the Holy Spirit has been leading people to discipline their physical bodies for spiritual readiness in this late hour. In our modern culture, it is a war to live healthy with so many temptations that quickly lead to obesity and a lazy entertainment driven lifestyle that dooms the participant into bad health and overlapping spiritual laziness and procrastination. So in regards to the overwhelming response you Holy Ghost warriors out there have signaled back, we have provided for you’all a fresh teaching video produced recently at Ironman Germany 2011 European Championship. (This is the 2nd year in a row we have participated in this event)

The purpose of this video teaching:

To encourage you to find the secret of how to maximize the mortification of our temples for war.
To provide for you scriptural references to keep your desire redlined to run this race with endurance.
To give you ideas on how you too can go into the market place and reach the future leaders of this current generation.
To receive a fresh impartation from the Holy Spirit for supernatural weight loss and healing.

Click here for this video on our Spirit Filled Fitness page

Training you for Godliness in this late hour

In His service for your faith,

Scott Holtz

OPERATION IRONMAN GERMANY 2011 – EXERCISING CONTROL IN ALL THINGS (PART 2)

Admin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:30:07 +0000

Heading Image: Treading water shortly before the start of IM Germany 2011

Boqer Or (Good Morning Light)!

Shalom Friends,

We have put together some footage of the most difficult Ironman endurance race I have ever done in Germany last month to help encourage you’all to run the race of faith in this late hour. We are here to service your faith and give you real time practical ideas on how you too can learn the mystery of I Cor. 9 wherein the Apostle Paul speaks about running this race to win! In this race the weather conditions in July were not hot but cold…like January cold and really tested our resolve to not give up but finish the grueling marathon!

Enjoy this new video and let us hear from you on how you are being encouraged by these latest video clips! It is really the last days on planet Earth right now and it is time to get conditioned to suffer and endure hardship….with great hilarious and intoxicating joy (James 1)! He is coming soon!

Click here for this Part 2 video on our Spirit Filled Fitness page

In His service for your faith,

Scott

RUN THE RACE TO WIN

Admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:00:13 +0000

Boqer Or (Good Morning Light)!

Shalom Friends,

There is a really, really, really big separation going on right now that we all must take very, very, very seriously. God, who is the Master of the threshing floor is using circumstantial shakings and desert dryness to sift His people right now! I’m not talking about the unbelievers but the believers’. God is throwing all of us up into His windward invisible jet stream to separate those of us who are secretly warriors or phobia driven pretenders. Winners or whiners’. Champions or complainers. Prophetic or pathetic. Eagles or turkeys. Bond servants or just believers. Yet, even the demons BELIEVE and shudder with fear (see James 2:19)!

It is so complex what is happening right now but also very simple. Let me help you this morning. The great dividing plumb line is simply Gethsemane. The place where the Master first encountered the deepest and most difficult decision of His earthly ministry. He was the Logos of God tabernacled in human flesh. He was the one who walked on the water, stilled the storm, healed the multitudes, and was all knowing about everyone and everything. Yet, in the garden of Gethsemane He did not want to drink the Passover cup He was predestined to fulfill. He even asked for it to be taken away in the midst of the moist blood droplets forming and dripping from the sweet glands of His body. But He finally agreed to the cup and fulfilled the ultimate death to self to secure Abba’s will and secondarily our reconciliation. This is what we must know and yield ourselves to if we are to win this race of faith…. It is not about knowing the prophetic mysteries of God or moving in the powers of the age to come. It is only about winning this race when everything in you does not want to do Abba’s will. This is the sweet spot of knowing you are in Abba’s perfect will…it is when you know what He wants you to do and everything in you does not want to go that direction. It is in this military campaign and war of the lower nature that you and I must win and catapult ourselves into only obeying His will. Not my will Thy will be done (Mark 14:32-42). Please re-read this episode in the Gospel of Mark until you become transfixed by it and you too enter that place…the no-man’s land of faith that so few have chosen.

Once you cross this great dividing plumb line, the race will have already been won for you and what remains of your time here on this planet is helping others find this secret location of becoming a bondservant (i.e. this is what it means to make disciples). In my years of ministering to millions of believers the last 25 years, I simply categorize them not by their education, gender, theology, friendship or aggression they display. I categorize believers by either they are in the Pre-Gethsemane death march arena or in the Post-Gethsemane course of a victory sprint. Why? Because until a believer, no matter what their beliefs, gifting, anointing, or even leadership fruit has been displayed…until deep fire has resulted in destroying the root of self, ego, preservation, etc… they are not to be fully trusted when the hour of darkens comes. Do they know that place of death (i.e. blood stained boulder of that Garden outside the Temple gate)? Then I do not know them, trust or believe them. Yes, maybe they are sweet wonderful and gifted people with great aspirations to serve God and help people, but until they really know Abba in that execution experience of Gethsemane, then they are not to be fully trusted. They do not know how yet to navigate the hour of darkness, betrayal, and most of all the mysterious forces that destroy a man or woman and then resurrect them to newness of service.

I have for years laid hands on multitudes of people, and preached to the masses and spent countless hours counseling and encouraging even leaders. But all that is peripheral if I cannot get that believer/leader into the secret sweet spot of death in Gethsemane where their will evaporates and His will takes over completely. I call it full possession…why, because if the Gadarene demoniac could have a legion of evil spirits, then why cannot we also have a “legion” magnitude of singular possession of the Holy Spirit? Let us just face the facts this morning and don’t blow head gaskets if your toes get stepped on about our your favorite ministry getting highlighted here. Recently they brought into Israel Daystar TV alongside the already present METV inspirational network. I have maybe viewed a few hours of this programming that last few months and really cannot view anymore. It is very simple…all I hear is messages gearing believers on how they can be supposedly blessed, encouraged, comforted, prospered, and entertained in the Pre-Gethsemane plumb line zone. But there is no message of Gethsemane even though I’m really looking hard for it in a positive loving attitude. There is no message of death before the cross there among the well known prime time pulpits featured (who also strongly support Israel by the way)! There is sometimes good preaching about all the sins and problems in the Church but nobody is bringing the people into the place of death to ones will which is the only viable solution. The messages are earthly and humanistic with Scriptures taken out of context to tickle the ears. I wonder what Dietrich Bonhoeffer would say if he came back from the dead and would be invited to preach on these programs? Read his book on the Cost of Discipleship and then try to find that same message on Sunday morning Christian programming! You won’t became it is not there! Thus, all this simply is Pre-Gethsemane ministry activity that does not bring the believer into the maturation and maturity of becoming a bondservant. Listen folks, I’m not blind, stupid, or naive…I know very well the churchianity game, the politics, the personalities that lead today’s Charismatic world view. Some are rotten to the core with self preservation and others are really good people. But until they radically volunteer to the death zone of Gethsemane, their cries for revival will just be that…rapidly fading echo’s in the corridors of God’s threshing floor quickly drowned out by the howling new trade winds of separation that are now blowing thru His Church! I know so many ministers who have correct theology and really want to serve God and speak of the Fathers love so intimately…but they do not know Him as Abba (Daddy) because they have not been totally pressed out and killed in Gethsemane. Because once one enters this secret zone you no longer have a life or ministry. Your only reward is found in Galatians 2:20 and 2 Cor. 4 and in this lot is the place the transitory race of faith quickly speeds up with zealous acts of obedience geared like a war campaign only for His Glory and Namesake!

My task on this glory side of Post-Gethsemane is to bring others to this place of desert mystery so we can serve together in this Great Commission. In this hour He has told me only trust and yield to those who are displaying the fruits of Gethsemane’s vaporizing experience. It is very easy to find these bondservants and handmaidens because we all speak the same language and have the same look in our eyes. It is the look of complete lack of self-preservation and only that of robust zealousness for a holy war to be waged against the evil underworld. It is the look of a identity that has been transferred only by Him and those who do not bear this reflection, even though they may have gifting, anointing, and signs/wonders readily evident, are seen to be still stained with the spirit of this world’s system (i.e. The Pre-Gethsemane plumb line waiting area of wilderness wanderings and disobedience even though the cloud, pillar, manna, water, and tabernacle is amongst them). Think and ponder this deeply….

Lately, we have many new comers to our subscription list and thus, many our emailing me of their love of our website and the messages we bring concerning the adventures here in the Land of Israel. Let me use this moment to welcome you but also warn you…the messages and trumpet sound we are issuing forth in our communiqués here will do only two things for you in this late hour. It will either awaken you to the desert testing’s that He has placed you in and thus you must find that blood stained boulder outside the gate to enter that sweet spot of Abba’s will by a completed death to self. Or these messages and last day anointing evident here on this ministry will soon offend you and cause deep sorrow to come upon you…even to the point of slumber and not being able to tarry even for one hour, because your secret carnal hopes in following Him are not manifesting in the time table you desired. This is what happened to the disciples and this is what will happen to you if you do not run this race to win by tarrying in Gethsemane’s zone and never reappear as you once were.

You and I are called to seek His face…yet no man can see His face and live.

He is calling you to the other side. He is calling you to join yourselves only to those who have successfully crossed over. Time is short and listen to the Holy winds of separation that are now blowing thru His threshing floor. Don’t return back to the city but follow it (Him) to the Is. 35 and 43 rivers east of Jerusalem. The same word to go Eastward in ancient Hebrew is the same word also to go FORWARD! Selah….

Lose yourself and truly find Him!

Waiting for you on the other side to welcome you home outside the camp,

Scott

PS, A new consignment of windward operations to woo Israeli warriors to Him are now ready to be launched. These are unique and never done before in the Land of Israel. We await our supply drop of provision from Abba and may He give you the seed to sow to complete this gracious work per 2 Cor. 8-9! The supply drop now stands at $16,559.00. Keep give’n them heaven!