Step Squats and reps - 20160525

7 rounds, ST timer
Oly Squat @ 115 x10
Step Squat @ 115 x10/135 x10/////
13 mins.

5/4 rounds, open timer, .45 RI
RDL x11 @ 113
4x12+ Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
12 mins.

Some ginching pain in the left lower back as a leftover from squatting the other day. All better 2 hours later though.

7 hours, 2230/0530. 25 loose minutes total. PE: 6.

PushPull 2 and 2 - 20160524

Did 10 mins of chins yesterday, so kind of a push focus here today.

4 rounds, open timer w/ 45 sec RI
Meadows rows @ 46# x12's
Press x11-8 @ 113#
12 mins.

4 rounds, HT timer
Ring Dip x7+
KB swing @ 2pood x10-12
10 mins.

6 hours - 2230/0430. 23 minutes total. PE: 6.

Squat & Assistance - 20160522

4 rounds, no timer
RDL x12 @ 133/11 @ 163#///
Hip Thruster x15+ @ 2 strong bands
11 mins.

- 3 mins -

6/5 rounds, open timer
Oly Squat @ 135 x8/205 x6/7/7/7/6
5x12+ Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
28 mins.

3x12ish 
Ab wheel rollouts
7 mins.

I've said this before, but this workout is the new bread and butter.

8.5 hours, 2230/0700. 47 loose minutes total. PE: 8.

Morning Watch : Ditch Watching.

Yesterday. Driving past the 99 and I-5 cut off, there was a young black girl walking north on the side of the freeway. Middle of nowhere, thin, dirty, amped up and walking fast like she was tweaking. Holding a bundle of her possessions with both arms, hugged across her chest. 12 miles from anything. I sped past and just burst into tears.

What am I supposed to do? I can't pick up a girl like that in the work truck. What if something weird happened? What if she was to scratch me up and say I tried to molest her?
All these thoughts. Anyway, I could not do nothing. I flipped around after Mettler and drove back on the frontage road. When I got to the Tejon outlets I turned around and came back north. She was speedwalking, obviously on meth. I stopped ahead of her, rolled down the window, and waited for her to walk up, trying not to look scary.

"Are you OK?"I asked when she got close.
"I am OK," she giggled and kept walking.
What else am I supposed to do? I can't make her get in and take a ride.

I, in retrospect, I think I was answered by a demon. I didn't address the young lady directly. I didn't forbid an evil spirit from answering me. If she was possessed by something more than addiction, that spirit is the one who answered me - yes, that evil spirit is more than OK – perfectly happy.
I prayed that someone, maybe a woman, someone more – I don't know, inviting? – could pick her up. I maybe wasn't the right person. But I prayed that someone would be.

Today: Morning watch: I got on the floor and began to pray. "What is on your mind, God?" 
I thought of the young girl on the freeway yesterday - and immediately cried, and cried out, "Yes, she is on my mind too."

I got an image – a razor sharp still image – of her, just a crumpled heap of black hair and rumpled clothing lying in the drainage ditch along the side of the freeway, on the traffic side of the barbed wire. It was a very clear picture. This made my heart frantic.
After some mental wrestling – "I can't be late for work. What if I find her? What am I supposed to do? Where am I supposed to take her?" – I realize that I had time to at least look. What if God was giving me this image because there was no one else to help her - no one else willing?

So I got in the truck, and drove so I could watch the roadside and the drainage ditch all the way south, just in case she had crossed over – and picked it back up at the Tejon outlets and drove north. I watched the ditch on the side of the road the whole way. 

I did not find her.
What does this all mean?

First, I was tempted to see this as a no-win situation. Mostly, because with such a clear word of knowledge picture, does not finding her show me that I cannot hear and cannot see? Today, yeah. I saw something, but not from God. ...Maybe?

Today's morning watch was spent in the truck, worshipping God by watching for someone down and lost in the weeds by the side of the road. It's really not such a sacrifice. 

There is a lot of win in this. One, she is not lying broken on the side of the road. Knowing that is better than not knowing, and wondering. 
Two, I demonstrated to the Lord and to myself that if I do have a picture, I am willing to act on it in obedience. There will come a day when I do see, and when I do, I will not only see, but I will see and act. 
Three, I am feeling. I have a better sense of the Father's heart – a heart of flesh, not a heart of stone. Win, win, win. 
And, win; my hope is that my prayer yesterday, that someone better than me would come along and pick her up, must have been answered in hope. 

Squat n' Assistance - 20160514

Really no timer at all today.

5/4 rounds, no timer
RDL x10+ @ 133
Hip Thruster x15+ @ 2 strong bands
21 mins.

- 3 mins -

5/4 rounds, open timer
Oly Squat @ 135 x8/185 x6+////
4x12+ Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
28 mins.

8.5 bad hours, 000/0830. 53 leisurely minutes total. PE: 6.

BW - Half a Day - 20160512

AM
HT timer
Chins x pyramid up to 6
then
5/4/4/4/4
alternating with incline push up x15-12 for 5 rounds
19 mins.

PM was supposed to be a squatfest, but just too tired.

8 hours - 2030/0430. 19 mins total, PE 5.

AMPM - Pull Push - 20160510

AM
6 rounds, HT timer
Chins, x maxreps (8-3)
7 mins.

PM
5/4/4 rounds, HT timer
Press/Push Press x5+ @ 133#
Ez out curl x10
Ring Dip x7+
16 mins.

6 hours - 2200/0400. 23 minutes total. PE: 6.

Squat and Assistance - 20160503

4 rounds, no timer
Hip Thruster x15+ @ 2 strong bands
RDL x10+ @ 133/153///
13 mins.

- 1 min -

5/4 rounds, open timer
Oly Squat @ 185 x7/205# x6/225# x6///
4x12+ Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
18 mins.

Hip thruster into squatting is the only way to go. I mean, there are other ways, but none betterer.

7 hours, 2130/0430. 33 minutes total. PE: 7.

PS. I've been doing BW work (Chins, Air Squats) on alternate days when there's no time to do true resistance work. Just not logging it. This BW work is a lifestyle, training doesn't happen until there's some clang and bang.

Quick Push Pull - 20160428

4 rounds, no timer
Meadows Rows x12ish
Press/Push Press x7ish @ 133#

11 mins.

5/4 rounds, HT timer
Ez out curl x10
Ring Dip x7+

11 mins.

7 hours - 2100/0400. 23 minutes total. PE: 6.

Squat in a Hurry - 20160426

5 rounds, STR timer - in .30 on 2.00
Oly Squat x6+ @ 185#

Just getting all the way down, and standing by my vow to forego the 135# intro set. I'm seriously looking forward to Friday and putting in a complete squat regimen.

6.5 hours - 2130/0400. 10 minutes total. PE: 6.

Chins/Push Ups in the Park - 20160425

6/5 rounds, HT timer
Chins x7-3+
Push ups x16
13 mins.

6.5 hours, 2130/0400. 13 minutes total. PE: 6.

BW at the Park - 20160420

AM
6 rounds, HT timer
Chins x5+
Push ups x15
15 mins.

6 + 1 - 1 hours, 2130/0430. 15 minutes total. PE: 6.

Six Months In - But Who's Counting?

Six months and one day ago, I felt forsaken; all I wanted to do was die. 
Six months ago, I got sozo'ed by the Lord, alone in a truck, in the middle of the desert in the middle of the night. Saved, healed, delivered. The first day of the rest of my life.

Now all I want to do is live. I'm six months old today. I feel like I'm still only crawling and cooing and pooping into my spiritual diapers, but I'm seeing presentfuture me walking and talking and perceiving and, God help me, warring and winning, lifting darkness and lifting up others. Soon, and now. 

Six months and one day ago, I was sad, weepy, and broken, and hopeless, and convinced that my best days were behind me; the end of the road was all that I could foresee. My only glint of hope was that I would be complete in heaven; after I was dead and reborn and in another place. Then, everything would be made right.

Today, everything is right and getting righter still. I'm still weepy: my eyes leak with tears of fulness and hope, worship and gratitude. Each day is a wonder. Each day is rife with revelation; stacks of so much win to step into, devils to destroy, hearts to touch, lessons to learn and share, depths within my self to plumb… too much to do to say goodbye just yet. I am complete today – tomorrow I will be even completer still. Together We will accomplish it all. 

I love you Father God. You have saved me from a dark end. You have loved me with an everlasting love from Your eternally kind heart. You have accepted me as a son. You have bestowed upon me Your divine nature, shed Your love abroad within my heart. I now seek to look like You, to walk like You, to war in love, and destroy evil with Your joy. All that shadow of joylessness is now sunshine in me. All hope is accomplished in this everlasting moment we share. Together we have all kinds of time to finish what we've started. Greater things. New things. All things new. 
Keep it coming.

Squat Reps & Assistance & Assessment - 20160419

4 rounds, no timer
Hip Thruster x10-15 @ 2 strong bands
RDL x10 @ 133/163///
16 mins.

Oly Squat @ 185 x6/7/8/10/10
4x12+ Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
...no timer.
17 mins.

Honestly, who needs a squat warm up set when you're not anywhere near maximal limit, and you've done activation work? Treating this like press day from now on: Jump right in, if you can't hang, you shouldn't be here.

7 hours, 2130/0530 - just so languid this AM, fought getting up. 34 minutes total. PE: 7.

Here's assessment from the 17th. Surprised by these numbers - better than a year ago, when I was training much harder, eating much better, and not sitting in a truck for 6+ hours/day and getting less than 6 hours sleep/day. Still, I'll take these numbers over 6/15. I'd do a performance metric but I don't have a training block to comp - just catching as catch can. Can't blame my training and dedication ... it's God's grace and inner renewal walking me forward.

Off Schedule - Squat reps n' Press - 20160416

I'm overdue to measure and assess. Got fitted for the Monte's wedding tux today, numbers were very different than what I might have expected. I'll have to do my own.

6 rounds, in .30 on 2.00:
Squat x10 @ 135/x8-5 @ 185/205/225///

Press x10ish @ 115//////

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

Off Schedule Squat Reps - 20160411

6 rounds in .30 on 2.00
10x 135#, 8-10x 185////

Just an easy day, trying to keep momentum - at first blush. Realized afterward, that 4 years ago at this time I was doing horrid form @ 155#. So. Let the good times roll.

7 hours - 2130/0430. 16 minutes total. PE: 6.

Standard Shmotel EZ - 20160410

Open stretching session for about 10 mins, while I processed and Evernoted yesterday's AzusaNow goodness.

HT timer throughout, no full timer.

4 rounds
Neutral cable iso row x12ish
DB recline press x12 @ 50's

3 rounds
Cable curl x10
DB French Press x10 @30#

7 hours - 2300/0600. 17 minutes total. PE: 6.

Standard Shmotel Work - 20160408

Ran everything on the HT timer today. This fitness center has some goodness to it.

6/5 rounds
Pull up
DB recline press x10+ @ 50's
13 mins.

5/4 rounds
Cable curl x10
Neutral row x10
10 mins.

4 rounds
Goblet Squats x10 @ 20/30/40/50
cable Trap Deads x10+
10 mins.

3 rounds
cable RDLs
DB step-back lunges
7 mins. 

MA Bag work on the Bob
Just simple singles with some snap
9 mins.

6 hours - 2200/0400. 49 minutes total. PE: 7.

Off Schedule - AMPM A - 20160405

AM
7 rounds, HT timer

Max reps Chins - 6-5's

8 mins.

PM

5/4 rounds, HT timer
OH press x10-5 @ 113#
KB swings x13 @ 2 pood
11 mins.

5/4 rounds, HT timer
EZ-out curl x10-8 @ 88#?
Ring dip x7ish
11 mins.

Just glad to be back home in time to get something in. OH press has lost a lot of ground.

7.5 hours - 2130/0400. 30 minutes total. PE: 6.

Off Schedule - Squat Reps - 20160401

7/5 rounds, HT timer
Oly squat x10 @ 135#/@ 205 x6/7/8/9/8/7/6

RDL x10 @ 163#

No comment.

5.5 hours - 2230/0400. 15 minutes total. PE: 7.

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.
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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.

Off Schedule - Neutral Pulls - 20160229

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

Just logging this to prove that I still have muscle in the game.

Blackiron.

Saturday. During AM soaking time, my hands were open in the assume-the-position position, but I felt something placed on them ... then into them, spreading my fingers and thumbs open and apart. My fingers were actually moved apart and opened to receive this item. The thing was a yard long (both hands holding it) and metal ...like a piece of steel beam? brown ... dark? long and rectangular like a box with a scroll inside? What is this? What is this? I kept asking over and over. What does one hold with fingers open like that - like holding an extra long taco?
Puzzling, and I had to laugh - the HS is playing the game He likes to play. If it's by the same rules, we normally play by, I'll find out in about 5 days. He likes this game. I think it's pretty fun too - revealing mysteries as mysteries.

Sunday. My bead chain holding up my triquetra broke, and the new chain was short, so I put 1.5 chains together, which makes it hang lower than before. Before, it was in my sternum, right over my heart. Now, it's lower, at the top third of my abdomen. God, my heart is already full, thank you for this reminder that I can now operate from my gut. I pray that what comes from me today could not come from my mind, or heart, but from my raw gut.


Did. God used me to do something deep today, and all from the gut. Maybe I'll write it all up later. But we're talking about the picture we see at the left right now.

Today, the HS ended the What is This? game early. I realized during worship singing time, that I was handed a sword yesterday. Then, as suddenly as the realization, there it was for the taking. I grabbed hold of it and held it. It didn't come with a sheath, and I didn't want to put it down or away. What to do with it? I figured it came from the pneuma aletheia within, so I put it away into my insides. But first, I remembered how I received it yesterday, with open hands; and, as a knight-champion, I offered it back up to my King in fealty and service.

PS. When I first beheld it, I made no sense of the runes on the blade. Just indecipherable markings. A later revelation was that the inscriptions are hebraic; they are some of the names of God. So the composite above contains some of those.

PPS. Two weeks later. Just cleaning and an hour of round robin praying with the Care Team at HP. Something put its wet cold nose against my right back pocket. Felt like ice through my pants into my skin. I slowly pulled out blackiron, and struck it down. Looking at it, I could not get a sense of what manner of spirit, but it appeared as a black and pink spotted sow, misshapen and grotesque. And dead.

School of the Seers, Today's Lesson.

Had a break at work, so I breezed a chapter in School of the Seers (nearly finished), the chapter about God revealing secrets to those who have His confidence. 

But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
‭‭John‬ ‭16:13‬

The activation was, simply and briefly, to get settled down and ask God to show you something.

CC was home alone today, sick but nearly well enough to go to school, and, earlier, she had texted a pic of her lunch, prepped to eat outside on the backyard patio table in the sunlight of a pretty day. I caught an impression of that table in the backyard, but with a large fuzzyindistinct jet black cloud moving toward it from the south side of the yard.

Is that it, God? That's my message? 

I'm learning to act on sense and instinct and gut-feel when it comes to what the Spirit is trying to say. So I just texted her to check the doors. I was mostly worried about the front door or the garage door being unlocked or wide open, but the image was the backyard. 

The back gate on the side of the yard from where the dark cloud was emanating, was not only unlocked, but standing open. I'm sure that something was averted or someone was prevented from entering our back yard because of the spiritual image I was given.

The future isn't set. Christian prophecy isn't prophecy in the Greek tragic sense. God can give us a word, or premonition, or warning, that will set us into motion to avert or intervene. And we can intervene, if we act. But first we have to be willing to hear/see/know in faith. 

Hey! I got one right today.

Off Schedule - DB Press & Chins - 20160224

AM
6 rounds, HT timer
Chins max reps (7 rounds)
Offset DB press x12 @ 40/46#
14 mins.

6 hours - 2230/0430. 14 minutes total. PE: 6. 48 hours.

Off Schedule - Neutral Pulls - 20160222

Neutral Pulls, HT timer
7 rounds x max reps
7 mins.

Does this even rate as an entry?

STRHT L2.2 - Oly Squat 3x3 - 20160221

Ignition
3x12, no timer
Landmine Lunge, @ 46#
6 mins.

4 rounds, no timer
Hip Thruster x12 @ 2 strong bands
RDL x10-11 @ 163
14 mins.

Oly Squat 3/3/3+
Rx: 200/225/255
Actual: 8x 155/8x 185/3x 205/3x 225/3x 255/lsf 205 x8
4x12 Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
1 min RI
23 mins.

Going heavy felt heavy today.

5.5 + 3 hours - 2330/0500. 44 minutes total. PE: 7. 48 hours.

Off Schedule - AMPM Chins & Triplet - 20160218

AM
Chins pyramid, 1/2/3/4/5/6/6/6/5/4///, HT timer
Rep count: 51
13 mins.

PM
4 rounds, HT timer
Meadows rows x12's @ +43, alternating
BtN press x12 @ 88#
KB swings x12 @ 53#
12 mins.

7 hours - 2130/0430. 25 minutes total. PE: 7. 24 hours.