Reclaimed Farmland.

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭16:19‬

Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭18:18

Not too many topics get repeated, nearly verbatim, in a single gospel. Jesus is reiterating a fundamental Kung Fu move of the Spirit here; and Matthew is making sure the world learns it: something made true via prayer on earth, draws on an everlasting truth from heaven, and creates a new reality, or re-newed reality, back on earth. Demolish the blight, rebuild with the lasting.

...Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

Matthew 6:10-11

These keys of binding and loosing are the keys to more than just salvation - we can bring the kingdom reality to earth, and not just spiritually, but in the natural realm as well - for instance, when physical healings happen - although spiritual stuff, being everlasting, is even more real than the natural, temporal stuff.

I've been driving back and forth to LA for work from Bakersfield every day, and I've been driving past the area where the Onion Field incident occurred. After a lifetime of giving the whole thing as little thought as possible, I've been wanting to go to the exact spot for a few weeks now, but I didn't ever have knowledge of precisely where. Sunday night I found out the location, thanks to the detective work of some retired cops who wanted to honor Ian Campbell by playing the pipes where he was killed.

I didn't have a game plan for what I wanted to do or see or accomplish, just a nagging notion lately that I should get there, that something would happen. So I made a pilgrimage.

A policeman was murdered here. My father's life was destroyed here. So much harm done, so much pain for so many for so many years from what occurred on this spot. God, what do we want to do in this place?

I reached for the key of binding. I cataloged all the fallout in my father's life and family's life - all the self-blame, and shame, and guilt, and condemnation, and second-guessing, and anxiety, and isolation, abandonment, broken dreams, broken psyche, broken relationships ... the list went on. I cut all of those things off from myself, from falling downhill into my children's lives. I broke off all the fallout from what happened in this place from the Hettinger family line. I wanted it all gone. I expanded the circle and cleared it all from the Campbells. And, - the Father's heart in this - I cut off any curse and brokenness from the Powell and Smith lines as well.

I started to say, I take it all, gather all the darkness and return it to this place where it all came from; I just bury it back here where it started - but I stopped. That didn't seem fair to this ground. So, I reached for the key of loosing. I released restoration and reconciliation, redemption for this land. I erased the blood-stained curse that started here, calling down instead Jesus' blood on all the lives effected, and the land itself, that there could be a superimposition of this location as it is in heaven, as it was in the Garden before the fall. A return it to its original state. Any evil echoes that have gone out from this place ... gone.

If this all seems ooey-wooey and weerd - yeah, I suppose it is. But something happened. Time will tell what, exactly. I know for my part, that clearing everything from the event and everyone involved in it and associated with it, then replacing it with a re-created pristine cleanliness did my heart good. 

Driving home, I wondered at all the crimes and evils, all the places and people in ruins because dark curses have been created though wrongdoing. So much territory to reclaim. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done... On earth as it is in heaven. 

Squat Reps n' RDL - 20160326

PM

6 rounds, HT timer
Oly squat x6's @ 135#/205////
RDL x10 @ 163#
13 mins.

5.5 hours - 2200/0330. 13 minutes total. PE: 8.

Off Schedule - AM PM - 20160324

AM
11 rounds, HT timer

Neutral pulls 1 to 8, then 4/4/4

13 mins.

PM

6/5 rounds, HT timer
Oly squat x7-8 @ 135#/185/205///
RDL x9ish @ 163#////
13 mins.

I keep logging as Off Schedule, because I'm supposed to be working STRHT right now. But with my work schedule, this is the rhythm I'm in. So maybe I'm on schedule, and need to amend my training to fit the schedule. There's something to seeking gains inside a 15-minute session window, on 6 hours/night. Real world training for the masses.

Just kidding, even this isn't for wide consumption; the masses don't stampede unless chased. Tailor this for the self-controlled individual who needs maximal focus but has minimal time.

6.5 hours - 2230/0400. 26 minutes total. PE: 6.

Off Schedule - Squat Reps n' Presses - 20130322

6/5 rounds, HT timer
Oly squat x7-8 @ 135#/185/////
OH press x8ish @ 88/113////

15 mins.

Who knows? Hungry, tired, dehydrated, thin, wind's blowing the dust and pollen around - but when was my last session? Just trying to arrest a free fall here.

6 hours - 2130/0330. 15 minutes total. PE: 7.

Off Schedule - Chins n' Hpush - 20160317

4 rounds, HT timer
Chins x max reps ... call 'em 7's

Push ups @ 22/18/14/10
11 mins.

I say this twice a week: just another off day; just dropping by the park during break time.

Off Schedule - Squat Reps - 20160315

9 rounds, HT timer
Oly squat x7-8 @ 135#/165////////

10 mins.

...pain in left knee, especially, for 4 rounds. Just motored though it, but mitigated the weight.

6 hours - 2130/0330. 14 minutes total. PE: 5.

Off Schedule - Hinge - 20160312

6 rounds, HT timer
Power clean n' Press x5-6 @ 133#
Kb Swings, 2 x12 singles/4 x12 doubles @ 53#

14 mins.

It's allergy season, stopped here because outside is toxic. And, I'm pretty short on sleep for the week.

5 hours - 2230/0330. 14 minutes total. PE: 7.

Elsie May's Aren.

In the Eragon books, Aren was the name of a elven ring, from the Hebrew meaning "mountain of strength," which was embedded with a sapphire specially crafted by the elves for the purpose of holding enormous energy. In Brisingr, during Brom's self-imposed exile in Carvahall, he stored away every bit of power he could spare into the sapphire jewel. Aren became one of Eragon's inheritance possessions after Brom's death. Eragon used it twice: he washed away all of his aches and pains once, and found that he had taken very little from the ring, showing the huge extent of the power that had been stored; the second time, in Inheritance, Eragon expended Aren's energy in a massive blast to throw boulders and rubble at Thorn and Murtagh during their battle at the siege of Dras-Leona. 

This AM's listen: finished off the Jonathan Welton "Old to New" talk. Yesterday, during the first portion, he mentioned again that he was a sixth generation Christian. My thought: God doesn't have any grandchildren. Why even mention it? Is that some sort of pedigree?
I think I only said that because I didn't know what I was missing. 

Next up on this AM's listen: the Tipping Point talk from Shawn Bolz… the $100 bill under the watch set me off. 
If there is only one thing I can do or accomplish, it is to give 100% of who I am, and my full devotion to God. Let me be raised up to give 100%. If I have to fail in anything, let it be mere gifting. Let me not fail in effort. To give all that I can and let the chips fall where they may, that is my pursuit.

First that, then this. Are they connected?

Revelation, impartation. Driving in the truck down the hill under the 14 into Sylmar. Still listening to Shawn Bolz. He said this, and this is what set it off:

A generation, or 2000 years of Christianity, has paid a price for something to culminate. For a boiling point to be reached. For a tipping point to be reached. And the prophetic generation not only sees what they're called to, but they're seeing all the other people who have paid a price and who were pioneers and forerunners can can start to see their operation in their gifting and what was deposited and they can call it forth into their generation. So, we're seeing what was available and we're calling it forward into our generation, so that it takes its place; so that we can be those great champions who have champion gifts, but have a focus on the Giver the whole time. 

In a single blink, a curtain was yanked off of the wall, and I saw a window opened - I realized a panoramic entirety: My grandmother's prayers were not only for my salvation. I've known all along that a big part of me coming to Christ in the first place was the work she did in prayer for me. But in this moment, I knew she was more than an average Christian. She was a Normal Christian. She was a prophetess, hindered by her time's fundamentalist box from spreading her own wings. So. She had prayed for her beloved son, my father, to be Someone in Christ. My dad was gifted, special, with the real heart to fight for justice, to be a protector, moral, with the nose for everything right. The Marine, the policeman. He was naturally all that, but he was meant to be more in the Lord, and my grandmother had seen it and pulled it down for him. But he never laid hold of any of it. Because of his brokenness and self-doubt he never was able to take it up.

She had prayed so many prayers for him, laid up so much promise, all of it just waiting. Even now after his death, like a treasure hidden away in a cloud, timelessly waiting to be found, opened and inherited.

Everything she had prayed and hoped for for my father and for me, available to me now. Decades of stored up blessing. Sleepless nights, glory, tears, trust. Investment, investment, investment. Decades of investment hanging there in the air before me. 

I just reached out and took it.

Boom. I can't really try to describe my experience - I was really kind of only half there for it. I hyperventilated. My vision greyed out - I nearly blacked out, and I prayed, God don't let me wreck this truck. My nerves were simultaneously numb and senseless and sparking and jangling. 10 minutes later my fingertips were still tingling. 

I recovered a little, and said to my grandmother in the Lord:
Dear sister, dear grandmother. Elsie May, my heritage. I receive all that you had stored up. I receive it, I receive it all. The mantle that you laid down in humility, I pick up with honor. In humility, I receive it and wear it and walk it forward to honor God, to the glory of God. All the prayers and sleepless nights and all that you invested and all that you foresaw for Karl and wanted for him, and he never took up, I receive. All that you prayed for me I receive as well, but I receive the double portion - his as well. I take it all in. I will pay it forward: your ceiling, my floor. My ceiling will be the next generation's floor. Your bloodline, grandmother; my bloodline in Christ; in the natural, in the spiritual, in the kingdom, in the new covenant. I promise this: I will walk it forward. I take it all, I receive it all, to God's glory in the highest.

Received, in power, another shortcut, another upgrade. A legacy. An Aren ring that I will sink into as part of my full-armor kit. This is the benefit and the blessing of having a spiritual heritage. Apologies, Jonathan Welton. Now I understand.
Now I will sow into the next generation, knowing that work done is never undone. Power and strength and promise, once apprehended, is not fruitlessly lost to the wind. 

What does it all mean? The last line for the morning, a conspiratorial whispered promise from the HS: 
We will unwrap this together.

Off Schedule - Neutral Pulls - 20160310

Neutral Pulls, HT timer
7 rounds, pyramid up and down. 6 at round 7.
16 mins.

Another off day, just dropping by the park during break time.

New Covenant Revolution.

Better Belief Through the Power of YouTube

Read this:
The No-Longer-a-Mystery Mystery of the Five Realms - Jonathan Welton
________
Let's see what this sounds like.
Round 1:
Devote a couple of hours/sacrifice a night of Netflix for this. I promise that you will count it time better spent, and this will a remain a benchmark of understanding for you going forward. Identity and Inheritance, if we understand these, we are untouchable by evil and undaunted by this planet of fear.

Fervent Life Seminar - Jonathan Welton

Overlook the ancient videotape and rough audio, and embrace the notion that you get to hear the first shot fired in the New Covenant Revolution.

Some suggestions to maximize your experience:

 • Optional but recommended: Take 12 mins to first listen to this: 

Keith Green's Prodigal Son Suite

Just close your eyes and soak it.

 • Before starting the Welton video, put your hand on your head, and speak this little activation:

Holy Spirit, free my mind to absorb what is coming. Keep me sharp, bring to mind all of the Old Testament covenants that I've read, give me fresh eyes to see them in a new light. Illuminate and open up the library of my mind, be my librarian to silence distractions in this place so I can study, learn, and advance. Although I don't know, I want to know; move in this mind. I open myself up to your New Covenant in Jesus. Here I am, in Christ, asking for new wisdom. Reveal to me now.

 • During the Welton session, stay focused during the heavy history lesson in the middlemost section; you need this deep comprehension of covenant background as foundation. 

 • Take a break at the 64 minute mark/with 36 minutes to go, stretch, do a little breathing and business with God to lock onto the Father's heart regarding sin-free forgiveness and universal reconciliation before continuing. 

 • When you restart the talk, there is a 11 minute "detour" as Welton describes some stuff that is important to those looking for the messiah, but less likely to excite us who already understand Jesus. Don't let this section of asphalt pave over the open road you've just driven - relax and think of it as review.

• At the end, put your hand on your head again, and speak the final activation - translate it on the fly into the first person; speak it over yourself. When prompted to take the hand of "someone next to you," spiritually take the hand of someone you know who's uncertain of their stature in Christ.

 • Welcome yourself to the real NCR. You're God's ambassador in Jesus.

________

Round 2:

Okay, have you done all that? Really? Good. Okay, let's lock it down another way, conceptually.

There's a couple of things going on as you take in this second talk.

You get to hear the evolution of a topic. This is the same talk, but 2 years later. Welton is a different player, and the topic, while of the same thrust, is 98% different in nature. And, feel the expansion of Welton as teacher, he's grown along with the subject of study. Feel the difference in tone.

Relearn it all again, in a samedifferent oldnew way.

This round, we're not nearly as directive.

You can skip the first 30 minutes, and bypass the preliminaries (a succinct dismantling of the notion of gender inequality/women speaking out in church in 1 Corinthians, and one point from Raptureless: the Mark of the Beast explained).

Otherwise, listen it up; you're on your own.

Jonathan Welton - From Old to New (2012)

_______

Round 3:

Okay, this has been mostly theoretical. Let's begin to consider how this plays out in RL. Introducing Danny Silk, pastor from Bethel in Redding.

God is in charge, He is not in control.

Danny Silk (10 March 2011) Unpunishable
Danny begins his talk at the 49 minute mark (Worship and some ministry precedes the message. From 31 to 42 mins, you may be motivated, as I was, by some gloriful people exercising their growing gifting in words of knowledge).

Huge value in this message, especially in how this New Covenant worldview effects our ability and capability to love. Find an extreme example of what we do when confronted with failure in the concluding illustrative story.

_______

Round 4:

Find the symptom, which initially appears to be the problem, dig/ask questions and get revelation of what is the true problem, then sever/solve that underlying problem.

Danny Silk again; a message based on his book, Culture of Honor.
This may save you a read, or inspire you to buy the book. Very moving, and an extension into our New Covenant identity as one who will release love, value, permission, equipment and strength - and new elevation - in others.
If you were moved by the example at the end of Unpunishable of the repentant pastor, then love on the illustrative story at the end of this; another repetition with variation on the theme of how this sort of counseling plays out in forgiveness and redemption, to bring those who stumble into a fresh place of wholeness - rather than discard them in their brokenness.
_______
Round 5:

I was wondering for the past couple of weeks: Why is the New Covenant the 5th realm? Why can't we just start off in the New Covenant? Do we really have to learn all that Church-realm old-covenant mindset, only to have to unlearn it later? Jonathan Welton's Revealing the Heart of the Father speaks to that. 

Another follow-up and restatement of the New Covenant, this time with an eye to presenting the good news as New Covenant good news – and, a restatement of the notion that our identity is all about really abiding in how the Father feels for us; pre-forgiven and fully loved.

STRHT L3.4 - Oly Squat 531 - 20160306

4 rounds, no timer
Hip Thruster x12 @ 2 strong bands
RDL x10 @ 153#
12 mins.

Oly Squat 5/3/1+
Rx: 210/240/270
Actual: 10x 135/8x 205/5x 210/3x 240/2x 270/240 x5/lsf 210 x5
... in .30, on 2.00
15 mins.

Everything felt good today.

5 hours - 2000/0100. 27 minutes total. PE: 7. 48 hours. 220.

Off Schedule - HT A - 20160304

4 rounds, loose timer
Meadows rows @ two tires#
Ring dips
12 mins.

4 rounds, HT timer
BTN press @ 88# x9/10/11/8
Ez Curl out x10
10 mins.

6 hours - 2230/0430. 22 minutes total. PE: 6. 72 hours.

Word of Knowledge Baby Step.

Yesterday, PM drive, listened to an early message by Shawn Bolz (which spoke to me in a deep way regarding releasing even the most heinous sinners into their calling, what God created them to be and achieve, not what they've become or seem to be in the presentpast moment. Presentfuture possibility, released through the eyes of God's love and hope). Afterward, he did his word of knowledge thing, but was working to listen - very interesting to see him trying to operate in this gifting, which was newish to him at the time of the videotaping.

Today, AM drive. I listened to Danny Silk's message called Culture of Honor. Very moving, and an extension of Bolz's yesterday PM drive message of speaking prophetically in presentfuture, and in line with where I'm headed in my identity as one who will release love, value, permission, equipment and strength - and new elevation - in others. Find the symptom, which initially appears to be the problem, dig/ask questions and get revelation, then sever/solve the underlying problem. Huge value in this message, and ending illustrative story.

So, I get to Burbank, and I'm parked in the lot at Ralph's, with few people around, and digesting the word a bit before going in to get ice. I'm in the truck, eyes closed, first reminding myself about some of the "tells" I've encountered that let me know when the angel of the Lord/HS is present, and reminding myself to use these cues to spring consciously into operational mode and look for the one in the room, and, telling myself that I must be a doer of the word, not merely a hearer who deludes himself.

Be a doer. What to do? 

I open my eyes. Before me, across the lot, is a tough-looking guy with dreads, smoking a cigarette and digging around in his car.
That guy.
What about that guy?
Telling himself that God doesn't care about him, but God cares about him.Okay, if that's the message, what's his name?
Anthony.
Is this me, just thinking it? Is this You HS? Why not phrased "I care about him?" This all sounds like my own mental processes. I'm reminded of Shawn Bolz, being vulnerable before an audience as he's faithfully trying to pass on what he's hearing. Okay then.

I step out of the truck in faith, and walk up.
Excuse me, you wouldn't happen to be Anthony?
- I have a brother named Anthony.
Oh, well, then this is for him then. This might sound weerd, but I feel like God has a message for him - that he's been telling himself that God doesn't care about him. But God does care about him. …That's it. That's all I have. But would you pass that on to him? That God cares? … not that he doesn't care about *you*, mind you. God cares about you too!
- Thanks, I will. Have a good day sir.
You too.

And I walk off, to buy my ice. 

I realize something about approach. Note to self for all the next times to come: 

the phrasing is "Does the name Anthony mean anything to you?" instead of "Are you Anthony?" - because, just as God wants to bless me by passing a word through me, and, of course, God wants to bless Anthony as recipient, he may want to bless Anthony's brother as well, as an intermediary messenger, by passing the word through *him* as well.

Let's get this party started.

Off Schedule - Chins - 20160302

Chins, HT timer
7 rounds, pyramid up, 2 rounds down. 
11 mins.

This is becoming a theme, every other day. It is what it is: it's the best I can do while giving what sliver of evening I have over to what's really for the best.

Off Schedule - Squat reps - 20160301

5/4 rounds, HT timer
Oly Squat
10x 135#/8-6x @ 205////
RDL x10 @ 163#
11 mins.

205# is the new normal. I'm not settling for less on sets across anymore. 225# is next.

6.5 hours - 2200/0430. 11 minutes total. PE: 7.