1/02/05 Janet Robinson

The Lord would say; Have I not extended the scepter to you? But it’s not a year of extending the scepter to you any longer. You have been given My scepter to go the world and to go to the nations and extend My scepter of favor and acceptance so that all can come in.
For it is the year of My favor. It is the year of My acceptance and many will come in, and many will be healed, many will hear My voice. You will bring My presence and the glory of My name to many. Know that you have had the scepter of My approval given to you but now you carry that for others in Jesus name.

Scott Willis

Have I not declared says the Lord that this is the year that I’ve opened up doors? But this is the year says the Lord, the coming year that I’m going to open up gates for your hearts. Let the King of glory come in your hearts for this is the year says the Lord that I’m going to open up gates. And this is the year says the Lord now that I’ve opened up doors, but this is the year that I’ve opened up gates you shall walk through. This is the year says the Lord (x 2) you shall walk through the gates for many of you shall have gates that have keys that you’ll see the gate is closed but this is the year, says the Lord, that I shall give you the keys and you shall open up the closed gates. Open up the closed gates says the Lord. Open up the closed gates. And this is the year says the Lord you shall cry out to Me. You shall cry out to Me and I’m going to hear you because I’ve opened up the gates to your hearts.

Shandel Cornmesser

And whereas a door is an individual thing that you walk through, a gate is a gate to a city. It is something that is larger, it is something that is more corporate than we have experienced. There is a drawing together that God is bringing of the city of God where the gates to the city are open that we may come in as a body and come in corporately and at the same time the gates to the cities will be open. The gates to the cities are open for you to walk through to touch the hearts of the people. It is not an individual anymore but a corporate.

1/09/05 Pastor Ted Hanson

…For the Lord says I don’t just want to heal what was. I do not want you to return to yesterday. But I am causing new things to be established. New things to be established by the power of My name. Swing wide the gates (x 3). Swing wide the gates (x 4). Swing wide the gates to purpose and destiny. It’s a new day (x 2). For the Lord says the move of My Spirit is coming to the earth in this hour. It will be evident with My supernatural power. This is the day of miracles (x 3). Miracles are in My name. This is the day of miracles (x 3). Miracles are in My name. Do not look back. Don’t look to the left but set your face to see abundantly. Don’t turn around to what was lost. It was worth the cost. But look to a brand new day. Lift up your heads and I will come in. Oh! Open up your hearts and I’ll revive. Set your face to see supernaturally. Set your face to come. In Me abide. Swing wide the gates of the city. Swing wide the gates of the land. Swing wide the gates of the city. Swing wide the gates of the land. This is a year of open gates. This is a year of establishing My will says the Lord. For you have seen My plan at a distance but now you shall become the substance of My body, and My body shall rise up and My mouth will open and I will speak with passion and I will speak with compassion, and I will cause even the nations of the earth to agree with My plan and My strategies, and I will cause My word to be written. Letters will be commissioned in the nations to reveal My will, says the Lord your God. The Lord says, Yesterday may have been a day of divorce, it may have been a day of weakness, it may have been a day of fragmentation but the Lord says that was yesterday. Let it go (x 2)! This is a new day says the Lord. And God says, I want to come to My people not just those who confess My name but those whom I confess and
I want to show them this is a day of hope, this is a day of victory, this is a day of covenant, this is a day of keeping My treasure.

Ruth Bergman

As we were worshiping and inviting God to come down and walk with us. He showed me a picture of Him sitting and listening to our prayers and scooping them up with His hands and washing Himself with our prayers and then He jumped down into our midst and as He was walking through with us He was touching different people. And He says I am here. I have broken the shackles. You need to step forward out of the broken pieces and come into the life that I have for you in 2005. He says, do not be afraid. I will be with you.
I will go with you. But I have brought you forth. The shackles are broken.

Tracy LaBrie

The Lord was telling me during worship. He says, yes, yes and yes. Because this is a season that My yes you are going to understand more now than you have ever before because I am releasing My yes into the earth as never before, as never before. And just with the pioneering and the forerunning the Lord said. I said Lord I want to go in deeper. I just started walking in. He goes “stop!” He goes “no more pioneering.” He goes “ don’t come alone.” He goes “bring others.” The Lord says I’ve already trained you to be pioneers now you are going to become forerunners. There’s no real difference except you turn around and you bring others with you. So don’t turn this into a process. You know how to do it. The only thing, you are going to do it with now is others. Don’t do it alone. Now you bring others with you. 

James Williams

My children I am your Father. All things that I have given to you the enemy has stolen from you. But you will begin to walk in your inheritance. I’ve not given you a spirit of fear, a spirit of poverty, a spirit of lack but I have called you to walk in My abundant supply. Your Father has seen the things from ancient days, days of old. You’re a people of great stature. You are My children. Now rise up! I have the abundant supply for 2005. In the years past I have seen your struggle. This day I say unto you, the doors of abundance has been opened unto you. I have called you to war for things I have for you. The enemy wants to hide it behind another closed door,
but I say to you this night the secret things are hidden in Me. For things I would reveal to you none are excluded from what I have given to you. I say to you go into the world and reveal the things I have spoken to you. Your sons and your daughters are called into this inheritance. I say to you everything is equal. The rhema word given to you will also be written upon your fellow brothers and sisters hearts. They will know Me. That I am their Father. I will reveal things to you through My Son. You will see a performance of things to come. Am I a God who lies? I’ve spoken to you. You heard My word. I put My words in your heart to meditate, search deeper. There are more things to be revealed. I love you this night. You are My children. As I was with Israel so I am with you.
I have heard your cries and affliction, of My nations, so I will answer My children. I will show Myself mighty upon this earth. Great things will be revealed. Great things shall take place. I’ve given you new garments and they will be able to contain the things that
I will pour out unto you. As I have spoken the gold and silver that belongs to Me I will supply you abundantly. Rise up! Dust yourself off. Walk in dignity. You are a chosen generation. A royal priesthood before Me. You are seers but you will see for Me.
This day a shout has been sent to the enemy’s camp that you are a chosen generation. A shout has been sent that you are My children.
A shout has been sent to the enemy to release the abundance of the goodness of God that has been held back from you. A roar from the tribe of the Lion of Judah has roared and the enemy is releasing this day. A roar! A roar! Has been sent to release the things I have brought you into My children. You are the tribe of the Lion of Judah. My son a roar has sounded in the enemy’s territory.
He walks through dry places and He will roar to the cloud for release of water for your dry land this day. He roars in the presence of your enemies. My children fret not. Come unto Me for your inheritance has come. You will not walk in poverty any more.
My children My grace is sufficient for you. I will pour Myself unto you My children for I am your Father.

1/16/05 Janet Robinson

I hear the Lord saying, “This is a year of overflow and alignment (x 2).” And I see a huge cup in the heavenlies and it’s so full and it’s His cup of grace and it’s just frothing over on every side of the rim. And He says, “You couldn’t handle it if I poured it on you, but you’re receiving the overflow of My grace this year and know what you receive this year is just a small portion.” It’s just the overflow, but it’s a year we are going to experience His goodness. And like we are saying this morning God you are good and there’s
no way to even say it. All we can express in English is God your good. So good. And He is saying that this is the year of My overflow and as My overflow begins to flow know it’s just the overflow. That in Me My grace you can’t reach the bottom of the cup. My grace is deeper and it’s wider and it’s higher than you will ever, ever need. And then I hear the word it’s an alignment, it’s a year of alignment. And I see a cord coming from the core of who we are to heaven and I see Him lifting us into a place of alignment because there are many ways that the enemy has come against us and we don’t know how to get there ourselves, but it’s a year of grace for alignment because as we are aligned with heaven it’s like an overlay comes over who we think we are and the overlay of who God knows we are comes over and there’s an alignment from the core of us if we will just continue to say yes to Him and thank Him for His grace and say yes God I want to be a part of that, align me too. He’ll do it supernaturally and we’ll find ourselves in a place that’s so far beyond what we thought when it was New years 2005 by the time it is New year’s eve 2006 because we’ve begun, we’ve actually begun to see ourselves the way heaven sees us.

1/23/05 Sarah Furler

Before Ted started singing about eyes of compassion I had a vision and it was this whole sanctuary just filled and people were facing this way like they were walking out. They all had planks that they were carrying out. The planks of judgment were being removed and it was like a body-wide thing in this sanctuary. It also represented a move.

Mary Enns

I hear the Lord saying to His people this is the day and this is the hour of restoration. This is the day and this the hour of restoration for I am restoring My church, I am restoring My house, I am restoring My people, I am restoring your house, I am restoring your health, I am restoring your finances. For the enemy came to steal, kill and destroy, but I came to give you abundant life. And this is the day you will know My abundant life, you will know it. You will leap as a hart again in My presence says the Lord for this is the day of restoration. Watch and see! Watch and see! It will come. This is the day.

Marty Euper

And I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, today I’m standing at the door and knocking, and He’s saying today I want you to let Me be your everything. He says I have in My hand everything that you need for every phase of life that you find yourself in. He says you find yourself looking at places that are closed doors and He says I am the place of open doors and open gates in your life. And He says would you just turn and open and let Me come in? He says because I want to be the everything in your life. I have every provision. I have every vision. I have every purpose, and every passion, and every place of destiny in Me. So God is saying let Me be your everything. 

Janice Palmby

The Lord says because you have decreed a thing. You have decreed a thing. He said in My courts, in My courts because you have come before Me and you have decreed a thing that the blood of Jesus has stood firm for you. The blood of Jesus has said yes. That you have been counted righteous because of the righteousness of My Son and surely I will give you all things if I have not given you My Son. He says I have given you My Son (x 2). He gave His life and the blood. The blood says yes to you. It says yes to you. All things are yours.

1/30/05 Pastor Ted Hanson

I want to say to you like they said in the Lord of the Rings, when the ring is about to be melted down by Frodo and he’s standing there and the hordes of hell are all around him and he says, “there will be a day when there will be the end of mankind but today is not that day.” I want to tell you today is not that day. I’m telling you this is a day to raise swords. This is a day to raise up battleaxes. This is
a day to raise up shafts of destiny. This is a day to stand fast and see the salvation of your God. This is a day to see God change the nations. There will be a day when it’s true but this is not that day. This is the day when the hordes of hell will sink to the quick. And this
is a day when the glory of God will fill the earth because the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. This is a day when gates will be filled and salvation shall come. This is a day when prosperity of a different government, a government of life, and a government of love will flood the nations of the earth. This is a day when born to be loved will cry out with greater prevail than born to be right. This is a
day when judgments of the flesh will pass away and the judgment of the Spirit will prevail. This is a day for America when God says, I will bless her. And this is a day for America when God says, I will bring My amazing grace. He wants to tell you “ who told
you that you have a kingdom without Him?” He wants to say to you this morning. Ho! The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and Christ and if you want to get something different than you’ve gotten before you’ve got to come and you’ve got to eat a different bread. You’ve got to drink a different cup. You’ve got to accept a different administration. You’ve got to live your life in a new way. Come on and be a cupbearer to Me. And God says, if you’ll be a cupbearer to Me I’ll make
you a cupbearer before the kings of the earth. There’s a governmental anointing coming on the church in this hour. Yes, there’s even a governmental anointing that’s coming that’s changing states, regions, cities. There’s a governmental anointing that’s changing nations. For He is not only the priest He is also the King of kings. And the Lord says there’s a governmental anointing that is coming
and even that which would come from our mouth will be sweet words of life and it will bring forth drastic changes that will immediately
appear like things that are unstable are even more unstable. But the Lord says if you’ll let Me shake the things that can shake then
I will reveal the things that cannot shake and it will even be in your life. But God says, you’ve got to come to the place. The place
of grace. And the place of grace is the place where you behold My face. So God says, will you accept your place as a member of
the body of Christ? Will you accept your position among the ranks of those who stand in opposition to those who are lifeless and bring forth the power of death and fear? Will you stand fast in that place and will you find yourself in the gates this year? Will you find yourself in the wall this year? Will you find yourself stronger than the voices of those things that resist you? Will you find yourself in a place that is corporate where the strength of one is really seen in the strength of many? And God says, My grace is here and I’m bringing it forth. Do not look at the rubble that’s before you. Do not look at the trouble that piles up to your right and to your left, but look at the grace that I’ve founded upon the foundation within your heart. For this is the year of exploits and this is the year of breaking forth to My glory. He says I want to quicken My Spirit in you and cause your heart to cry out ‘ Abba!’
to Me. I want to break the shackles and chains and the things that would distract you and pull you down the trail of desolation
and I want to anoint you to be a house of restoration. This is the year of My favor. This is a year of My vengeance to your enemies,
but a year of My favor on you. I’ll even take vengeance on the things that have distracted your hearts and your minds and I’ll
bring forth delight and favor; that your thoughts and your heart would be renewed toward Me. Lord we thank you that this a
year not of defeat but it’s a year of victory. This is not a day to die. This is a day of battle shields. This is a day of lifted swords. This is a day of trowling tools and building, construction. It’s a day of purpose and a day of strategies of heaven.

1/30/05 Mindy Rodenberger

The Lord says that, even as your dreams may seem like they’ve been falling and falling and falling. The Lord says they will not hit the ground cause even as you dream sometimes that you’re falling but you wakeup before you hit the ground, that you’re dreams may be falling but they’re not going to hit the ground and be crushed to pieces. Because God says, I’ve put a drive in you and a resiliency towards passion and life and purpose and drive. And God says, I’ve put it in you to take up that dream again and take up that dream again and press on, and press through and press forward. God says move ahead today! Go forward! Move ahead! Advance (x 3)! Don’t be a victim. Don’t stand and say, “Oh, I can’t do it! I can’t do it! All these things have happened to me!” Advance and move forward and press on and say, “I have a purpose and I have a destiny and I have a passion!”

Scott Willis

This is the hour says the Lord. This is the hour that I’m doing a new thing. This is the hour that you shall see that new thing that you’ve not seen nor heard, but I’m going to do it. This is the hour says the Lord that new thing in your heart shall spring forth. I’m going to bring it forth. I’m going to bring it forth and let you bounce it off a wall. The things you bounce off of Me shall spring forth because I’m going to do it. For many of you have had new dreams. Many of you have had old dreams. But the Spirit of the Lord says this is the hour they shall spring forward.

Shane Hathcock

I believe that God is saying that there was a time of grace to be in the security of the city walls, but I believe He is calling us to go through the gates and go out and overcome the world. In a violent fervent life to overcome the darkness with His light, to overcome the pain with His joy, to go into the world and declare that He is God. He loves his children (x 2)! Because I believe that the promises He has given are not just for the church but the people that are seeking, the people that are seeking! And I just declare that in Jesus name!
That the chains would be broken (x 2) and life and freedom would come!

2/6/05 Mindy Rodenberger

I just hear the Lord saying, today there’s many people who have felt invisible and that you couldn’t quite put your finger on what you were made for and what your purpose is on this earth. And I just hear the Lord speaking specifically to you today that because He is in your life your life is significant, and that clarity is coming into purpose, and that vision is coming into purpose and that forward movement is coming, but that’s not what makes your life significant. It’s Him in you that’s made you significant already. There’s significance to you, to your life. He thought it so worth doing something for that He died for you. He died for you. And that is significant. He’s given us significance today. He gave up everything for us.

2/13/05 Scott Willis

For many would say I believe you God. For many would say, “I raise my heart up to you God.” And the Spirit of the Lord would say to you, “This is the hour that I raise My heart towards you. This is the season that I’ve come that you may lift your heart up to Me and believe what you’ve been asking for.” Many would say God I want to see your presence. Many would say I want to feel your power. “For this is the hour says the Lord, this is the hour that your faith shall increase, that your faith shall increase and you shall see what you’ve been asking for. Many shall see the signs and the wonders. Many shall see the miracles. For in My presence and in the building upon your faith says the Lord these things shall come. They are coming because it’s part of My love. It’s who I am (x 2).” 

2/27/05 Svetlio Petrov

This, says the Lord, (x 2) “is the year of challenges. Oh! This says the Lord is the year of the new beginnings for this church. Oh! This is the year of new hope for everybody. This says the Lord, I will, I will reach My hand to this city through you and I will break every enemy obstacles, every enemies strategies. Oh! Every Strategy from the devil against this church, says the Lord. I am breaking during this year all satanic activities and I will reach this city through you says the Lord. I will fill this house with My glory and I will enlarge your territory. I will expand your territory says the Lord. New believers will come into this house says the Lord and I will fill this place with new names in the book of heaven says the Lord. Many thousand daughters will grow up in this place says the Lord and I will pour out My inheritance on them. Many sons and many daughters will grow up. Oh! And I will make this Abundant Life Church to be a place of abundant life. And I will reach the nations through you says the Lord. And many ministers will go out from this church says the Lord. Yes, because this is the vision I have put in your leader, in your pastor here.” This year I feel that God is breaking something. There have been attacks and ...that have been put by the devil in order to destroy this house, to make it weak, to make it unable to walk in the destiny, but what God is saying is this year I will pour out such a kind of anointing which is going to break the yoke. Because the anointing is going to break every yoke. I will make it in this place that people will grow, they will enlarge. And this year is going to be a year of breakthrough in every area. Financial, spiritual, in the families, every area abundant life. It has been ordered from heaven for abundant life to flow from this place this year.

3/19/05 Scott Willis

Freedom and liberty shall stand says the Lord because I’m planning it. Freedom and liberty shall go forward within the nations because I’m sending it says the Lord. For it’s about My freedom, it’s about My liberty. For it shall go forward with might and power says the Lord. And there’s a fire that’s burning...

4/17/05 Scott Willis

Lord we give praise to your name (x 2). “For this is the hour says the Lord to declare My name, for this is the season to declare My name and this is also the hour to declare the wonders I’ve that I’ve brought before you. See the things that I’ve done before you in the past says the Lord. See the things that I’ve done before you in the present. But this is the hour says the Lord I’m going to do great and mighty things that your eyes are going to see. For the miracles are at hand, the signs and wonders are at hand for this is the hour, this is the hour says the Lord to declare such a thing for I am here to declare such a thing.”

Carol Allen

I feel like the Lord wants to release a proclamation over this area and this morning. While we were worshiping, I just saw the Lord opening up flood gates and water was gushing forth over a dry land and it’s like the waters have been held back for years and the Lord is going to open them and it’s going to be a gusher. The Lord wants us to press in and believe Him for that pouring forth that He’s going to bring over the whole region. And so Lord we just declare it. We declare that you are opening the floodgates of heaven. That You are opening up and You are going to

pour out the waters that have been held back and that you are going to give a drink to this dry land. And Lord we thank You for what You are going to do here in Jesus name.

5/07/05 Pastor Ted Hanson

For the name of Jesus is the name of the son (x 2). The revelation that was found in flesh has come. It’s in that place that the Father’s glory comes. For the Lord says, “ I’m raising up My body in this place. I’m raising up My body by the power of My grace. I’m going to cause the land to be healed when beneath the walking of My feet it’s revealed. Not to subdue the enemy but to release destiny. Not just to overpower darkness but to release the light. My favor is coming, favor is coming, favor is coming now (x 2). Even now.”

5/8/05 Bill Johnson

If you are not in a continual building mode the gates of hell will try to prevail against you, but if you are letting your life be built on
revelation the gates of hell will not prevail against you. Now you need to understand something though and like today is a good example
there was a lot of revelation that came forth but if you heard it but didn’t receive it it’s only information. It doesn’t become revelation till
your willing to act on it, otherwise its just good information. The Lord woke me up at 6:oo and do you know what He said? He said,
“This church is in the garden.” (x 2) I want to show you what that means but I want to get you prepared for that and I want help you
understand that in your spirit so that your mind doesn’t try to limit God. See that’s the problem we want revelation to come through our
minds and process it in our minds rather than saying yes in our hearts and we become like the guys on the road to Emmaus. We thought
it was going to be this way at Abundant Life and where’s Jesus? What happened? We didn’t do it the way that we thought, the way that
we wanted Him to. So what do we do? We start doing our own deal. We’re on the road to Emmaus. We’re walking in our own wisdom
in Luke 24, and here comes Jesus with revelation alongside of us and He’s speaking to us and we are not even hearing it. Because we
are living it up here through our expectations of what we think should happen in the Kingdom rather than letting God prophetically let
us see the future. See I see the future. I see this church as a city impact church of five to six hundred people. I see this thing affecting
Bellingham and the Northwest. I see not just in a spiritual dynamic because we’re in the upper room praying. I see it happening in the
natural. I see a favor of God coming over you. I see you’re a light set on a hill to drive out darkness. I see deliverance teams,
healing teams. I see business people in teams. I see strong marriages. A place of refuge. I see the vision of this church is very clear.
Now the enemy is trying to dim that because there’s a lot of that are sitting in this room who are into your will and not God’s
will. And you’re thinking is old way, “I come to church” and there’s a part of us that disdains even coming to church and meetings and
things of that nature because it’s the old way, but God says it’s the key to the new.

You don’t forsake the old. You spring from the old into the new. God has a new dimension for us. We are crossing over to new……
now you’ve got to let it happen or else you’ll stay on the other side. You’ve got to think of it as 9:30 the meeting starts because we
are coming together to seek the face of God, to stand in the gap for our leaders for this church, for this city to fulfill destiny. Some of you
are going to see this as information; some of you are going to receive it as revelation.

One of the things the Lord was saying to me was, “There are 3 keys to the success of Abundant Life.” One is prophetic worship,
just like you had today, a demonstration of what God is saying through the word of the Lord in worship because the Kingdom is built
on revelation. Number two the Lord says is the intimacy of your worship. There’s a time for intimacy, drawing near for God and
there’s a time to celebrate and press in for the Kingdom of God, but worship is a real key. And then I heard the Lord say this,
“Prayer and intercession through worship is going to break you through.” God is looking for the mighty men of valor, the
warriors, and you can say “I’m going through some issues” but you can always make excuses.. There has to be a militancy that
begins to rise within us so prayer, the mighty men. This is a watchmen church. You’re watching for the region, you’re watching
for the city, you’re watching for Abundant Life, and listen folks it’s not because there are a few of that are called “leaders”.
You’ve got to strengthen the intercessors and you’ve got to call forth this young generation into intercession. If you are
going to be the mighty men you’ve got to learn warfare and you are not learning warfare on Sunday morning hearing in a message.

The covenantal family relationship is a strength of this house and if you stay in this house you are going to find family destiny
and you are going to find generational blessing. That’s why the enemy has been trying to break, folks have been leaving,
trying to break covenant. The enemy wants to attack the area that’s your strength and an unguarded strength folks will
become a double weakness. We’ve got to stay. We’ve got to be in the right place. So here He says, were crossing over Jordan
at flood stage. Watch this, in the next 2 - 4 years you’re going to see more change in the Kingdom, it’s happening in you now you
just don’t realize it and the problem is that we don’t realize it. Were going to keep on doing the same old thing and we’re going to
keep getting the same old results and God says “I’m moving on here and you’ve got to stay in Jerusalem so you can move with
Me because if you’re wandering on to Emmaus your just using up your own energy. You're walking away from Me rather than
moving with Me. And so He says, (listen you’ve got to catch this) He says, we are crossing over Jordan at flood stage. He’s going
to get you out of your mind. He’s reforming church government. He’s reforming the purpose of church and He’s giving us some
greater revelation. Step into your destiny. Let the Lord circumcise your heart. Get outside the box. You’re at a strategic place.

At flood stage, you stay away, there’s all kinds of debris, there’s all kinds of stuff floating in here, there’s danger and the Lord
says that’s the time to cross over because you’ve got to trust me, you’ve got to get out of your mind. What’s floating in that river?
Your garbage. And so God says I’m bringing you to a place of humility. I’m getting the yuck out of you and you are going to
cross over through your stuff into My destiny. You’ve got to let the Lord take care of your garbage. He’s given us grace. We’re
under grace this year to get it right. We’re under grace to get into covenant relationship. Let’s not commit spiritual abortion any
longer. There is no longer a generational gap because the Lord is turning our hearts toward you as leaders, as spiritual fathers
now you got to get underneath that and say “Dad, Mom father me. I’ll let you father me. I want you. I need you. I know my destiny is in that fathering relationship.” Somewhere here someone has got to make a stand and say this independent spirit,
this do what you want in the northwest, we’re not going to take it anymore. We’re going to stand in the day of the battle.
We’re going to stand in covenant. We’re going to stand in family. We’re not going to take it. We’re here to redeem the land.
You’ve got to see it. When you cross over Jordan now you’re redeeming the land. When you were in the wilderness it was about
survival, it was all about you. When you cross over the Jordan it’s all about Him. He’s causing us to shift now. He’s causing
us to cross over. He’s reforming us into something new. The whole weekend the Lord’s saying, “Wake up it’s time to pray.
He’s been saying wake up the mighty men. Wake up. And there is some of you you’re disgruntled, you’re discouraged,
you’re in debt... but you’ve got to let us work with you so you can become David’s mighty men of valor slaying thousands
in a day. I don’t know when intercession happens but I will challenge everyone who calls this place home to come together in
one accord and let’s get into prophetic intercession. That’s the key to you’re breaking out of this thing otherwise you’re going
to stay steadfast and at a gradual decrease.

Jesus spoke to me this morning and He says Abundant Life Church is in the garden. There’s a couple of things you’ve got to do
here now prophetically. 1. Not my will but Your will. That’s key guys... If you don’t wake up you are going to enter into temptation.
God has given you a treasure in leadership. A treasure. Don’t tarnish it. Esteem it because your prophetic destiny hangs in the balance,
but you’ve got to wake up, and you’ve got to make a determination that we’re not going to take this anymore. We’re not going to take
this attack. We’re not going to take this thing trying to discredit the church. We’re not going to take this thing that is trying to
snuff out our prophetic destiny. We’re not going to take it. We’re not going to take this thing that’s called covenant breaking
and people say the Holy Spirit, the Spirit led me to leave. Yeah! It was a spirit of flesh because you entered into temptation because
you didn’t come together to watch and pray. You’re going to have to wake up and you are going to have to tarry because if you
don’t you’re going to get your will and not His will. You are in the valley of decision. Are you going to go for it or not?

5/15/05 Alan Euper

...And this is the day that we give to You Lord because this is the day that You’ve already spoken to the hearts of Your people and You say this is the day that the sword has been drawn and the shields are raised in My honor. The shields are raised in My honor because I am your God and I touch your hearts, and I give my abundance to My people, and when I look out on this congregation I see My people gathering together preparing to conquer the land that I have put before them.

Anthony Westbrook

In the cool of the day My son Adam walked with Me and then My son Noah he began to walk with Me when times were hard and things were raging against him he walked with Me. And then Enoch walked with Me and as Enoch walked with Me I poured Myself into
Enoch and Enoch poured himself into Me. And then I took My son Enoch into My bosom. I desire this day to take you into My bosom.
I desire this day that you will walk with Me. Not just talk with Me, but walk with Me. I love your talk, but I love your walk even the
more sayeth the Lord this day. Won’t you walk with Me? Won’t you talk with Me? Walk with Me sayeth the Lord. Show Me physically and spiritually that you are walking with Me. I desire your mind sayeth the Lord this day. Yea I desire the praises of your lips, but yea I desire the praises of your heart even more sayeth the Lord this day. Won’t you walk with Me? Won’t you walk with Me sayeth the Lord?

Rhonda La Brie

I hear the Spirit of the Lord say that many of you are waiting; you’ve been waiting on Me. But I hear the Spirit of the Lord say today to expect to receive. Don’t just wait anymore, but expect to receive. And God put a prophetic unction on me on that scripture about how the lame man laid at the gate Beautiful to beg for alms, but it says he expected to receive. He expected to receive. And Peter told him “Silver and gold have I none but what I have I give You” and he said “in the name of Jesus get up and walk” and God is speaking to our hearts today about walking, about walking with Him. So He’s saying no longer wait any longer but expect to receive, but I expect you to walk. I expect you to get up says God. I expect you to come forth in fullness and power. God says wait no longer, expect to receive but I expect you to walk.

Alan Euper

I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying to His people this day, “ open your eyes and see for My people are crossing the river Jordan and it’s not just some of them that are crossing the river Jordan, they are all coming across. There’s none going to be left behind because the priests are in the center of the river. The waters are being held back for My people to come forth. Those that feel that they have to wait for a word from God, this day the word has been given to you. That word has been piercing your heart and tugging on you, and pulling on you to draw you closer to Me. This day, put your feet on the dry riverbed and walk across into the land of promise. When the people crossed the river Jordan they came into the land of promise. They no longer got the manna from heaven, but they didn’t lose their God they got more of a God for them. Because now He was a God that was conquering the land and taking the land for them. All the people had to do was be faithful and listen to what God put on their hearts and cross the river Jordan. We’ve already been prophesied to that we are at that place. That we are at the river so don’t get caught on the wrong side of the river. Let’s go across. Let’s be the children of God.

Scott Willis

Passion fire! River of passion. Fire of passion! I’ve put a fire of passion in your hearts this day says the Lord. I put this fire of passion in your hearts to send to this generation. The passion of the Lord shall go before you to the next generation.

Pastor Phil Russell

Mike read the scripture about the man that couldn’t get into the water when the angel would trouble the water to be healed because he was crippled he couldn’t get there. He said I have no one to help me. Today there are all kinds of people around you to help you. You’ve been having trouble getting into His presence or getting that place of healing, finding that place of passion in your heart and you feel like you are all alone, and you’ve been in that place for many years, or it feels like it’s many years. Today He is saying, “Come on”! I’m troubling the water. No longer do I just send an angel to just kind of stir the water now and then, but every time you come together I’m there in your midst. I am here in the midst of you right now says the Lord. And I’m stirring the water. The water is troubled right now and if you will get in there’s healing for your soul, there’s healing for that broken heart, there’s deliverance, there’s deliverance available for that thing that you haven’t been able to quit doing or that thing you haven’t been able to start doing. There’s deliverance. He wants to break the chains off of your life today because in Him is life.

5/21/05 Pastor Ted Hanson

For the Spirit of the Lord says that, this is a day of My grace for even now I am moving in the nations says the Lord and I am reviving hearts in a new way for there is going to come forth a testimony of My life. A confession that says My grace is sufficient for in times past My mercy has flowed like a river made new and My mercy has flowed as river for you for the Lord says now is the season of grace and you will see that nations begin to turn and that I’m going to cause revival to come into places that were not thought of as revival places for it will be by the power of My supernatural graces. For the Lord says revive your hearts, revive your heart to see, revive your heart, revive your heart to believe in the power of My destiny. Because I’m bringing the power of My Spirit into the land and I’m going to open up the hearts to see with the spirit that causes them to understand. The Lord says fire is coming to revive at the root level for the enemy has sought to burn or force the harvest and to consume the things that I have planned but the Lord says there is a different fire and that fire is a fire of passion, it’s a fire of compassion, it’s a fire that will rise up from within and it will be a grassroots surging of life that will come into the people and the people will shout, the people will shout (x 5) our God lives forever!

30 DAYS OF PRAYER

Prophecy by Pastor Ted-05-25-05

…Spirit of the Lord says, “I’m doing a twofold thing in this season for there has been in the past that which has been of ships in this
house,” but the Lord says, “I’ve been establishing two things at this time…for I am setting forth a beachhead that there will be an
establishing of that which is rooted in the land and for the purposes of the land and establishing that which will plant and build
and grow and I am also establishing a port for launching forth.” For the Lord says, “There shall come forth that which has both the
purpose of sea and the purpose of land in this house. And there will be that which is unlike that which you have seen in times past.
For in times past I have spoken to you as those who have traversed the waters for My purposes and I’ve brought you on a journey.”
And the Lord says, “That journey is unfolding even in this time and it’s coming forth to another level and another dimension, but there
is also that which is a beachhead and it will bring forth that which will invade and that which will possess and that which will
establish and that which will build and that which will be a place that will be a landing pad…a landing place for the purposes
that goes both to land and to sea.” And the Lord says, “This twofold measure is in this season and in this time and even as My Spirit
has stirred in your heart to cause there to be a change in your heart and in your mind. Even as that change has begun to come,
so now that change will take on new dimensions and there will be that which will be of a twofold purpose and there will be a double
portion. There will be a double portion that will come in the areas of purpose, in the areas of provision, in the areas of destiny.
For there will be many that will be joined and they will come for the purposes and there will be a twofold purpose that is not separate
from one another, but very much joined to the same base and the same launching. One will look in one direction and one will
look in another.” But the Lord says, “There will be clearly that which is firm land establishing and that which is sea traversing.
And so there will come forth my purpose in this season…rejoice in your hearts that you put your face toward my purpose and now you
will see that it will unfold and I will cause many to come and find destiny. Even now I’m moving by My Spirit, not just for
Abundant Life as a house, but for my purposes in this region,” says the Lord, “And there is going to be an establishment of
new ministries, there is going to be a joining of ministries to ministry, there is going to be a joining of purpose which is going to
establish that twofold destiny that I’ve desired to bring. So rejoice, for even now the boats have landed, even now the troops
have come a shore, even now there’s been an establishing of that which is a headquarters and that which will prepare for the
purpose which is launching forth. For My name shall be GREAT both and land and in sea,” says the Spirit of the Lord.

6/19/05 Anthony Westbrook

My servant David declared “I was glad when they said unto me let us go unto the house of the Lord.” God is saying today “Be glad and rejoice (x2)! Let the joy of the Lord be your continual strength,” says the Lord this day. “Be glad and rejoice!” He said just don’t go into My house, but stay in My house. Stay within My presence says the Lord. He who abides within the shadow of the most high. Abide in My shadow says the Lord, abide in My shadow.”

Rhonda LaBrie

And even as he shares that, as we come into His house it’s a place of relationship. So God is saying that He wants us to stay in that place of relationship today. That place of relationship with Him, and that place of relationship with one another.

Terri Hesselgesser

In the last days of the 30 days of prayer I started seeing in the physical with my physical eyes the earth moving and shifting, and I saw with My spiritual eyes a tidal wave of water coming over this house and over in the sky I saw just water coming over and the last day of our 30 days of prayer I got home and turned on the news and at five minutes to eight there was a huge earthquake off the coast of California. The earth was shaking. There was a tidal wave, a tsunami threat here in the northwest, but it didn’t happen in the physical. But it happened. It happened.

6/26/05 Anthony Westbrook

The Lord is saying today, “I am the resurrection. I am the truth. I am the light.” He is saying today, “Are we alive in Him? Are we moving in Him today?” He says, “I’ve anointed you with Holy Ghost and with power.” He says, “ I’ve caused you to do good to those who are oppressed by the devil. I am lifting burdens and destroying yolks today” sayeth the Lord. He is saying, “Be alive in Me (x 3) today sayeth the Lord!”

Casey Cornmesser

There’s freedom in this house says the Lord. There’s freedom...where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. God wants us to reach out and touch Him. Reach out and bring heaven down to earth right now. There’s lots of things that you can do through God right now. Right now. God wants you to have that. To reach out and take it.

7/24/05 Pastor Ted Hanson

The Spirit of the Lord says, I am calling the earth to turn in My direction. For I am the light and I am the life and in this day there is a turning, but the turning is not Me. The turning is the nations. For I am calling them to turn in My direction says the Lord. For I will reveal Myself as the steadfast one. I will reveal Myself as the enduring one. I will reveal Myself as the everlasting one. And the one who will cause the day to come into your night - the one who will cause the light to come into your darkness. For this is the hour and this is the time to turn says the Lord. To turn to Me and let Me be who I am in your life.

August 4, 2005…Prophecy given by Pastor Ted Hanson…

For the Spirit of the Lord says, “I’m doing a new thing for, there was a time when people came to find direction and they sought a prophetic sound and that prophetic sound was only found in a limited measure.” For, the Lord says, “This is a new season and this is a new hour and I’m going to do a new prophetic work. For the people will not come to find direction again, but they will find the touch of My love and my affection and from the touch of love and affection they will find their feet walking in a true direction.” For the Lord says, “There is going to come a new prophetic mantel on this house that is not based upon the knowledge that comes to the head but it’s based upon the touch that comes to the heart.” And the Lord says, “Feet are going to come to a higher plane
and there is going to come a new diligence that will be empowered by My life and unrestrained.” For the Lord says, “The prophetic has not been stifled but it has been brought to a new dimension…and there is going to come testimonies of the supernatural, where signs and wonders will be the evidence, but they will not be the calling card, they will be the evidence of the drawing momentum.”
“For a prophetic mantel is coming upon this place,” says the Lord, “that’s going to know the touch of Love and the Father’s face.” And the Lord says, “From that place there is going to come an anointing of amazing grace, and it will no longer be those who are seeking the soothe-seers or those who would be as mystics reading the signs of the times but it will come forth as those who come to say, “Oh,
let us come and commit our hearts to this place, for there is great grace and the affection of the Father’s in the place”, and from that moment forth they shall walk forth with determination to fulfill my purpose and will.” “For I’m going to add to this house”, says the Lord, “by a prophetic mantel of life, but it will not be a prophetic direction, it will be a prophetic affection.” “And from that place they shall be equipped and they shall run”, says the Spirit of Life. The Spirit of the Lord says, “In times past I came as a wind to remove things but now I’m coming as a presence to move things, for the day of removal is past and the day of moving things on your behalf is at hand.” And God says, “I am going to even move those things that have resisted before you, and I’m going to cause hearts to be made glad for the joy that they see as that opening comes.” For God says, “This is a new day(x3) and it’s not about removing the things that were old it’s about, it is about receiving the things that I have come forth to say, the things that you were told in your heart would be true, for have I not promised that I would bring your future, that I would bring your destiny.” So the Lord says, “Now is the time for the grace, now is the time to rise up and let there be a different adjustment to your pace.” For the Lord says, “It’s not
about losing what was, it’s not about leaving that which is behind, but it’s about embracing that which is coming now.” “For this is
not a day of removal, this is a day of moving,” says the Lord. “For the moving shall be by my love and by my affection and you shall
see that it will be different than you thought. For there will be an opening of that which was concealed. There will be a revealing
of that which was hidden and I will cause My grace to be revealed and my favor to abound. For you shall be a people that will know the favor sound, for the inheritance of the Father will be in your own make up”, says the God, for I’m going to move by my hand.”

10/01/05 Bill Johnson

...but you’re not just here to receive empowering and the Lord says I’ve already empowered you, And the Lord says even tonight there’s going to be many signs and wonders because you My people are going to be a sign and a wonder to somebody else. The Lord says even now I’m releasing a healing anointing across this room, across this auditorium and all you have to do children is reach to Me and be a miracle to someone else. That means in a little while miracles are going to begin to happen because we are going to be a miracle, we’re going to say be healed, be free, there’s going to be a declaring of the word of the Lord, there’s going to be a release of supernatural graces but it’s going to be because the Lord says I’ve empowered you My children and it’s time to activate e that supernatural anointing I’ve placed within you.

Prophecy given to Abundant Life Church October 02, 2005…

Empowering the Believer Conference

I hear the Lord say this to Abundant Life Church - if that’s you raise your hand…I hear the Lord say, “sons and daughters and children, you are coming into a new season and it is a season of Jubilee and it is a season of the sower overtaking the reaper. And some things that have been stolen will be returned, even broken family relationships are being reconnected and prodigals will begin to come home, but it is a season that is going to launch into an abundance of harvesting that which has been sown that you thought had fallen to the ground and died.” But, the Lord says that in the last year or so you’ve been in a defensive posture, but now I’m going to put you back on an offensive posture, and a place of coming forth and a place of harvesting a new generation that’s coming up, a generation of spiritual sons and daughters are going to begin to come forth. But the Lord says, “As you prophecy”, the Lord says, “this is a prophetic church, declare what it is that you have need of, declare it”. The Lord says, “He has put a declaratory prophetic word in your mouth in this season, that is going to shift things into alignment for the resources, the people, to come in, the people resources that you need. Not just to transform the Northwest but to touch the nations.” Because the Lords says, “Son you’ve been a pioneer on behalf of this body, but you’re now going to be a forerunner and teams are going to come out of this place to go to the nations. Not necessarily immediately, but He’s releasing a team anointing over you that you cried out for, you and your wife”, and the Lord says, “now is the season of great prophetic fulfillment for the two of you, for the leaders and for the saints at Abundant Life.”Amen

Then the Lord says, “Over the Northwest”, He says, “I’m shifting some things around”, for the Lord says, “this has been known as a place of wealth, but it has been in the wrong peoples hands so I’m going to begin to transfer that wealth and bring it into my Kingdom and begin to dispose it in my Kingdom.” And I heard the Lord say this really strong in worship, He says, “I’m releasing GREAT creativity and GREAT prosperity for you on your job,” if that’s you stand up, amen, just stand up. Lord we declare great creativity, prosperity and new jobs and increase Father, and increase in favor Father, over the people of Bellingham, the people of Abundant Life, the people of the Northwest. For the Lord says, “this has been known as a second Silicon Valley, but it is going to be known, it is going to be diamond that the nations will look to, but some will covet. But My people will begin to arise and possess that treasure in earthen vessels, that hidden treasure that’s been deposit up here.” The Lord says, “I’ve been looking for some people that will be Kingdom minded, Father minded, and even tonight,” the Lord says, “I’m connecting you with my Father’s heart, some of you have felt disconnected.” But the Lord says, “tonight I’m reconnecting you to Me, and that’s going to put you in a place, that’s what you’ve been singing about, now I’m going to answer your songs by faith,” says the Lord, “and you are going to come from the tail to the head, you are going to come from the back to the front, you are going to come from beneath to above, for this is the season and I declare, that I will move your mountains into the sea, through the confession of your mouth.” So Father we receive that seed, we receive that word, we declare YES to you Holy Spirit, YES, YES, YES to You and we Thank You…we Thank You in advance Lord! 

Clay Nash…November 13, 2005…

I came with a word today for Abundant Life, The stature that you’ve been because of the testing that’s been in this house has now
stretched you to a measure of stature that you’ve never reached before. The stature that you’ve now become is far greater than the
stature you were a few months ago, or a year ago, or a few years ago, because God is increasing the stature that you carry…

I sense something that I don’t think I’ve ever sensed before at Abundant Life. (He takes Tracy’s hand). I sense this. Now how many of
you know that if I reach out and take him by the arm we have some contact there but it’s not like when two hands come together. I sense
something tighter here. It was February 2004 the last time I was here and I sensed there was an assignment against the apostolic
call on Ted Hanson and this ministry and if it wasn’t dealt with it would become a principality…there’s something in the spirit here
today, there’s a tightness, it’s more than unity, where two come together agreeing as touching… we could agree on which vehicle is
better and that’s just agreement but if we went out and purchased one together then we become one in that agreement. God has brought
an agreement in this house. I’m not saying it wasn’t here before but it’s greater than it’s ever been…

Part of what God is doing in this house is preparing…it’s not even coming. It’s here. In fact the word of the Lord would come to this
house that months ago I began to dry up an old flow that I might bring a new flow. But even as it was that when I dried up the old
flow in the river Jordan it happened 11 1/3 miles up stream at the city of Adam, it took a while for the water to quit flowing that a new
flow might come and some of you have been so intense in the battle and even in your discouragement and disappointment that
you didn’t see when the old flow began to dry up and you’ve not noticed that the new flow is here. But the Lord would have this
house to know that the flow that is here is sent from God, that the rain that is coming is causing a refreshing to come to the people of
this house. For many of you have not recognized that you’re coming in to your due season because you’ve become weary in well
doing. But the Lord would say I lift up the heaviness from the very responsibility that has been up on this house and today I blow
a wind into this house that will cause the sails to be filled with motion and the momentum that is coming to this house will be a
momentum that not even the enemy shall distract nor stop nor slow down. For the momentum that is coming and the release of the
momentum that is at hand will cause it to fully become all that I’ve spoken and all that I’ve destined. And even those who have become
weary in well doing, and some of you have not understood why the felt to depart and go another way. It’s because they lost sight and
were so exhausted they could no longer pursue the dream and it was easier to leave than it was to continually be convicted in
their exhausted state pursue. The Lord would say to this house open your heart and be gracious for some will return and they will
walk right back into the field that has been tilled, the field that has been prepared and the mansion that is being built as though they
were never gone and even in the months of service that you have worked hard, they’ll get the same reward at the end as you do because
that is the way that I have planned it says God, so let the graciousness of the heart be abundant heart that’s in this house. Let it be
filled with openness for others to return. Set no judgments against them for in doing so you only cause an obstacle that they cannot
come through the threshold into the place that God has prepared but set it in your heart to see them. Do not help the Lord. Do not do
the work of the Holy Spirit. Do not try to talk them into coming back for in doing so you will only delay the process but set your
heart to love them. Set your heart to release compassion and in the releasing of compassion the conviction of God will do a work in
their heart and some will return and some will not, but some will return and they’ll be joined back in to the vision that God has in
the house for the hour is now that I will do a great thing says God and the great thing that I will do is that I will continue to put together
the strength in this house.  Lessons…Tests teach us lessons, but lessons give us values. Charlie Brown…in anything that comes along
there’s always something we can value in it…. I hear over this house, I hear the word increase, I hear the word that you’ve come
through the seedtime and you’re coming into the harvest. You’ve come through the seedtime and you’re coming into the harvest.
He’s seeking to move you out of the realm of just hearing and He’s seeking to move you into the realm of seeing. Jesus said I do
the things I see the Father do…. (There was also a word about seeing the word FAVOR hanging over the platform.) 

Prophecy given by Anthony Chapman…12.03.05

You have all the right ingredients, but when you’re baking a cake it’s not enough to have the right ingredients. The actual blend of those ingredients becomes critical. So it’s not the issue of what you don’t have, because you have all you need. It’s the issue of the blend of those things, because the blend will determine the flavor, and the flavor will determine whether people will eat. So we have to develop the flavor in order to reach the people we are trying to accommodate…now I do believe in the context of that as well, that not only are the ingredients, the blend of the ingredients the mix is very important, but also the temperature at which you bake the cake is very important. And you have to be very careful about the temperature of the things in the house, because if you over cook some things and burn them, they are not going to have the result that you want them to have. It’s like you spoil all the hard work because you leave it in there too long. And I think we’ve got to learn, in our world, that there are some things that we can go too long on, there are some things we can do too much of, there are some things we can over intensify and in doing it we actually go past the point where it is useful and valid and we will then begin to get to the point where no one will eat it because it is burnt. So we are faced with this challenge that every cook is faced with that we must not under-cook it, because then we don’t bring out the flavor, and the texture’s all wrong, but we don’t want to over-cook it either. Now of course the danger is that if the thing is good, then more of it must be better. And the great danger is, and we’ve got to learn this in the context of our world, that if we get in the groove with some thing and think this is good then more of this must be better. But that’s when we start to overcook it and so what happens is a few people will stay with it but the majority people we’ll lose them somewhere because we overcooked it. So you’ve got the ingredients, but the blend of those ingredients and the temperature is important. Now I also wanted to say this in the context that, you have to bear in mind that because our world is changing our diets are also changing and peoples diets are changing, that’s just a matter of fact, it’s a fact of life and it’s a fact spiritually…OK? It’s not about devaluing anything that we used to do, but it’s a fact of “Is it valuable now? Does it have a value now? Does it have a worth now?” And, you know when we talked about home cooking (I’m turning 50 this year, I know you don’t believe it, I’m not lying it’s true), but, when we talked about home cooking we meant, you bought potatoes, carrots, meat and you cooked it you made that…today’s generation, when you talk about home cooking they buy it in a packet at the store and put it in a microwave, so when they say, “we cooked at home ourselves today”, that does not mean the same to me as it did in my generation. It meant that I bought some thing at the store that was in a packet and I put it in the microwave. So a microwave meal means we didn’t go out today it means we cooked at home. So home cooking to today’s generation is a microwave meal. Home cooking to my generation means you started from scratch and you build it up. Now you may not like that but it is a fact of life. It’s just a fact of life. Therefore, we have to in the same way in the church understand, that the mentally of the people has changed, and today they want prepared microwave meals. Now you say, “Oh, well that devalues the kingdom.” That doesn’t devalue the Kingdom; you can put good nutritious ingredients in a microwave meal for them to heat up just as easily as you can start from scratch. And most of the time the reason we did it at home was because we couldn’t afford…couldn’t afford to go and eat it somewhere else or buy it somewhere else. But we’re in a different generation now. We have to bear in mind that these things do impact that body of Christ. We live in a generation that wants to “try before they by”. When I was growing up if you bought something that was it, you took that…. back to the store, it was like “hey…, nothing to do with us. You bought it.” Now you can buy anything and can take it back. So what do you do? You buy six, seven, eight things, you think, well I’ll just try them at home, what I don’t like I’ll just bring them back. You see, it’s a try before you buy society. So, what do people do now in the context of marriage? Try before you buy. What’s all the deal about people living together? That’s the mentality and the mind set of the community….you’ve got to bear in mind that they haven’t set out to be deliberately wicked or evil or break the rules of the Kingdom of God. They just live in a society of “try before you buy”. So hey, why not just try the marriage before we buy the marriage and if we don’t like it we’ll just return it. You know “money back”, “60 days full money back guarantee”. Now I’m not condoning that or accepting that, but what I’m saying is that you have to bear in mind that’s the generation in which we live. So it’s not just the ingredients, but it’s the mix of those ingredients and the temperature are all vitally important because we need to get this thing just right because there are thousands, and thousands of people out there who are waiting for the Kingdom of God to breakout in their lives. And it needs some people who dare to break the mold and do it. One other thing I just want to say is, “there is a lot of foolishness talked about what a successful church is.” You’ve probably heard the statement, “if it’s healthy it will grow”, that is partly true, only partly true. Because you see, a cancer is not healthy, but grows like crazy. What you have to understand is that not everything that is healthy will grow, but everything that is healthy will grow to the boundaries of the capacity of which it is designed. So your children are healthy, but God help you if they do not stop growing at some point. Because by the time they were 25 years old they would be 19 feet tall and 400 lbs. “Does it mean they are not healthy because they have stopped growing?” No, it just means they have just stopped growing to their capacity. And that’s what health is…health is growing to the proper capacity. Now some people grow beyond their designed capacity by God, by means of their own making. But, it is the same in the body of Christ. Our objective is to do what the Father tells us to do, and if we do that we will grow to the capacity they we are supposed be. Not every church is supposed to have a thousand people or ten thousand, two thousand, we are supposed to be whatever we are supposed to be. Grow to that capacity. So the key issue is not what is the size of the church, the key issue is are we doing what the Father has told us to do. And in doing what the Father told us to do are we using those principles of the mix and cooking this thing, if we are doing that, then God is well pleased with us. And that’s all I’m interested in, because if it is one thing I’ve learned in 25 years of ministry is that people come and people go. That’s a lot of wisdom, isn’t it, for 25 years of ministry. I have one other thing to say on that, people come and people go, but it’s all right as long as your faith doesn’t come and go with them. As long as you get that bit right you will be just fine. So that is just a little bit of what I see in the Spirit about the house.

Anthony Chapman 12-03-05

I had a dream last night, which is very interesting because, I was in the old building that you had, and there was a huge crane, one of these big tower cranes in the building. And the big crane lowered into the building a Viking long boat…it lowered it into the building and it just filled the building. And of course Ted and people got into the long boat and sailed the long boat down the hill to this place. But the interesting thing was that I saw the long boat parked and Ted you were on a riding lawn mower cutting the grass. The long boat was parked. Now do you want to know what that means? I haven’t a clue!  I know it means something, some - it has to do with domestication.

You know it is interesting that the church spends a lot of time domesticating, trying to keep things looking nice. You know the Kingdom principle is -  let the sheep eat the grass. You keep the pasture full of sheep; the sheep will eat the grass. You won’t have to cut the grass it will be fine. Because we are not called to have manicured lawns, we are called to live in a pasture. It is a place of life, a place of development, a place of increase. And the truth is we must not exchange the warrior spirit for a worrier spirit. We are here to be warriors not worriers. The issue is if the enemy can cause you to begin to worry about the Kingdom of God rather than to warrior in the Kingdom of God, he will stifle your progression. So I know it has something to do with that as well, about the warrior spirit turning into the worrier spirit. Don’t worry Jesus said, “don’t worry”. There is not much you can do about some things anyway. You can spiritual warfare and -  shab-daba. Some things you are not going to change. Trust me. Listen, even God could not get a generation of the children of Israel out of the desert and into the land, God couldn’t do it. He could not change their mind by all His methods of intervention and blessing and provision, He could not change their mind. So finally He said, “ok you said you were going to die in the desert, so go ahead. Do what you said”. Some things you can not change. That’s why Jesus said, “by worrying you are not going to make yourself an inch taller”. You know there are just some things you can not change. And I want some of you to know, some of you are beating your head against the wall in prayer, some things you can not change. Get over it, move on. 

……Story about the little boy at the Vancouver airport, in the bathroom…lesson learned…God said, “See you need to learn a lesson here. He’s so busy trying to change those things he can not change that he is not dealing with the things that he can. And to often we are trying to mess with things we can not change, instead of taking care of things we can, ok, some simple things. So I want to encourage you, I believe there are some things in there about that, the warrior and the worrier.

There is one other thing I want to say, there are basically two kinds of believers; there are surfers and discoverers, two types of believers, surfers and discoverers. Surfers are the kind of believers that are always waiting for the next wave. And they will travel and move and go, but all they are looking for is the next wave of God’s blessing - what is God going to do, we’re looking for that wave. And they are always ready and when that next wave comes they will catch that wave and it is exhilarating and they will ride it, but one thing I’ve discovered about surfing, which is frustrating, which is that when the ride is ended and you’ve had the exhilaration of riding the wave, you are right back where you started. It put you right back on the same shore that you stood on before you swam out to catch the next wave, you haven’t gone anywhere!  There are waves of God’s blessing, and there are waves of revelation but if you’re a surfer you live to catch the next wave. You’re dumb. Because you are always going to finish up right back where you started. I’m ministering to churches and I just can not get it into their thick skulls, you have surfing mentality, you’re always catching the next wave, you catch it well, you ride it well but then I come back a year later and you are right back were in the first place. You haven’t gone anywhere. You’ve had a ride, but you’ve gone nowhere.

Now the difference is that discoverers do not look for the next wave, they look beyond wave to the horizon. And when people tell them the earth is flat, and if you sail out there to the horizon you’re going to fall off of it, they say, “we’ll find out”. “You might be right, but you might be wrong, and we’re not quite sure what’s out there.” How many of you know that discoverers do not know what it is that they are going to find until they find it. You ask a discoverer, “Where are you going?” Guess what he is going to tell you, “I’m not sure.”  “I can tell you the direction but I don’t know where I’m going.” Listen that’s biblical, there is far too much what’s your 5 year plan, 10 year plan. Well, here was Abraham’s plan, it says, God told Abraham to get up and go to a land that He would afterward give him for an inheritance. And it says in Hebrews 11, “And Abraham got up and went not knowing where he was going.”  Now you stand up to most of the body of Christ and say, “I don’t know where we’re going, but where ever it is we’ll know when we get there.”  But that is the spirit of the Kingdom because it’s not a surfer spirit. We don’t have allocated yet we’re going to hit that wave and we’re going to ride that wave. We say, “We don’t quite know what’s beyond that line there, but we know something is beyond it. We don’t know what it is, but we are prepared to take the risk to find it.” That’s the true spirit of the Kingdom.  Because you see, none of you would be living here unless somebody had that spirit.  Unless somebody went beyond the horizon, that somebody had said, “the earth is flat you will fall off the end”, but they found that when they got to that horizon the earth wasn’t flat but actually there was another world on the other side of it and so they discovered something. That’s why you are here because of the discoverer spirit. Now that has to be the  re-birthed spirit and heart of the church.  Don’t look for the next wave; always look to go beyond the wave to the horizon. Let’s go where we’ve never been before because in the great example of the children of Israel coming out of the wilderness here’s what God said to Joshua, you’re going to have to be strong and courageous, in fact you are going to have to be strong and very courageous, because you have never been this way before. Now sadly the Hebrew gets messed up many times so we need to clarify, what the literal Hebrew means is: you have never been this way before. You have never been this way before.

It says in Deuteronomy 8, “I caused you to hunger and fed you with manna, which your father’s had never known so that you may learn that man can not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Father.”  What did He mean by “feed you with manna which neither you nor your fathers had never known.”?  God says, “You will not have a reference point for what it is I’m about to do.  You can not say, “Oh well, let’s see how it works here, and let’s go see who’s doing what there, let’s see what happened when…”, no He said, “I’m going to feed you with manna which neither you and you fathers have known that you might learn that man can not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Father.” If you are truly a house that lives by the word that proceeds from the mouth of the Father most of the things you are told to do you will have no a reference point for. Most of the places you’re going, you don’t know where you’re going - you just know the direction you’re supposed to go. And you sail for the horizon, which takes a different kind of spirit; it takes the spirit of a discoverer and most of the body of Christ doe not has it, but I pray it will be in this house. You see the whole thing about the Vikings were that they dared to take on one of the fiercest water bodies in the world, the North Sea and the Atlantic. It was the sailing ground of the Vikings rough seas, vicious seas in those boats, but they got out and said, “Let’s go beyond the waves, let’s get beyond the waves.”  It takes a warrior spirit. So whatever has been going on some of it you can not change, don’t worry about it, get over it, get past it, get through it and keep going for the horizon keep the warrior spirit and you will discover what it is that God put you on the face of the planet for.