Be the Miracle

"The Great Lion said to them,“You have heard that it was said,  ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’   But I say to you,  Love your enemies and  pray for those who persecute you,   so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven." We all face enemies in this world. In most cases, the greatest enemy we will ever face is ourselves. Our negative thoughts will push us into making decisions that can give us a mess to clean up. Our own thoughts can determine how we respond to a situation or people. There are times when there are people who come against us, they will do anything to keep us down. There are other times where the enemy may not be us or another person. We are doing everything to our best, things are going great and a spiritual attack happens. Somehow, you just feel a dark presence is trying to keep you from your destiny. In some denominations, they would say to start rebuking and binding the devil. They may even say to hate th...

"Well at any rate, there's no humbug here. We haven't let anyone take us in. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs."  "You see," said Aslan,"they will not let us help them. they have chosen cunning instead of belief. their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out." You become what you think about, most of the time. If you think negative, self-defeating thoughts, you will move towards them. Those self-defeating thoughts can become strongholds in your life. They become barriers that keep us from going further up and further in. They can limit our potential. I am here to tell you today that you are free from any stronghold in your mind. Now that you know you are free, declare, "I have the mind of Aslan. As Aslan is, so AM I in this world." That means you have the peace, the confidence, the strength, to overcome any situation. You have the ability to change atmos...

"Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full--pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back."  Gi ving is so much more than we could ever think. Giving is what makes all of creation the closest to the Great Spirit. The Great Spirit is a giver. What do you think about when you think of giving a gift? Most people will think of giving money to a cause, volunteering their time, or giving someone a gift for friendship, a birthday, Christmas. The Great Lion said that when we give a gift, it will return to us in full, but more compact, to make room for more to come back to you. Again, most people here this and they think of the tithe in church. Your gift is not just the tangible, but it is the talent that you have been given. There is an old saying that your gift will make room for you before kings and important people. Your gift or gifts are th...

"The Great Lion said, ' Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.'" Sometimes when we get revelations from the Great Spirit, there are not words enough to describe how you are feeling. It just resonates so deeply within you, you know it i s the Great Spirit. When Aslan created Narnia and this world he gave us all the gift of connection. We also had the gift of speech and communication. When this world needed to be redeemed the Great Lion came to show us the good news of his kingdom. He did not just intend it for people, but for all of creation. He wanted all of creation to proclaim what he has taught them about the good news of Great Spirit's kingdom. Today I encourage you to let your pets, your garden, the birds, the mountains, the sky, the sun, the moon proclaim to you what they know about the good news of the Great Spirit. In the same way, speak to all of creation, pray with your pets, the birds, the rocks and trees. Preach to them. Lik...

"The truth is," said Scrubb, "we were so jolly keen on getting to this place that we weren't bothering about anything else. At least I know I was. Ever since we met the woman with the knight who didn't talk, we've been thinking of nothing else. We'd nearly forgot about Prince Rilian." (Silver Chair) We all have times when we are pursuing a goal or dream so passionately that sometimes we get tired and distracted. We get off track, we let up, or focus on something else.  Maybe today you have been trying to beat that addiction, you're focused, you're intense on beating it.  Sometimes though that goal is taking a long time, you are tired. You have put in a lot of energy. It just seems like you need a rest.  This is a great time. You are in the middle of your battle. The birthing pangs are getting stronger. When the intensity starts to get higher, you can know that you are close to your victory. But here is the key, like Eustace, even if yo...

"Be still before the  Great Spirit ,  and wait for him.  Don’t get upset when someone gets ahead." We all have those seasons when something is taking longer than we would like it to. You have been working so hard for years to get out of debt. You have been disciplined, lived on a budget, worked for extra money. You have been working at that business and you are grateful for what you have, but it just has not taken off yet. Maybe you are still single and you are at that point of giving up. Sometimes things take longer than we would like. Too often we want everything to happen right away. Sometimes thought when we rush things into happening on our time table, we get stressed out and things do not fall into place as smooth. When we end up rushing something to happen, one of the reasons we may be stressed out is we were not ready for it to happen.  That is where we come back to that place of peace. There was a king who lived in Israel who was known for someti...

"The lion was pacing to and fro about that empty land and singing his new song. It was softer and more lilting than the song by which he had called up the stars and the sun; a gentle rippling music. And as he walked and sang the valley grew green with grass. It spread out from the Lion like a pool. It ran up the sides of the little hills like a wave…" When Great Spirit created the world, he didn't just speak his creation. Great Spirit sang his creation into existence.  There is a vibration and energy that comes from the power of song that releases creativity. We see this when the Great Lion created Narnia. He had a rhythm for what he was doing. The words and sounds that came out of his mouth were the manifestation of his vision. That rhythm, that song, is what holds everything together. The Great Lion knew something about the power of our words and he knew that when put into a vibration pattern they would be even stronger. They would carry the Great Spirit's powe...

Thank you to the artist who helps take us further up and further in with her visions of the Great Lion and his country. Her name is Vanessa Horabuena. She has a spirit of love for all of creation and the Great Lion. There is so much to say about this amazing woman. She is truly a Proverbs 31 woman, for her value is worth far more than jewels. Her visions are available for purchase and she also teaches others to put their visions onto canvas to go further up and further in. If you need that vision of the Great Lion in front of you to remind you he is always by your side, making a way where there is no way, you can visit                                                         https://www.vanessahorabuena.com/               A PRAYER FOR TODAY GREAT SPIRIT, WHOSE...

"Then he said, 'I shall be glad of some company tonight. Yes, you may come, if you will promise to stop when I tell you, and after that leave me to go alone. Lay your hands on my mane so that I can feel you are there and let us walk like that.' The girls did what they would never have dared to do without permission, but what they longed to do since they first saw Aslan-buried their cold hands in his beautiful sea of fur."  (The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe) There is an old story about a man who had a dream he was walking with the Great Lion. Together they were walking on a beach. The path that they were making on the beach was to symbolize his life. At one point the man looked back and noticed at some points their were two sets of footprints and then at others there was one set of footprints. "Great Lion, why are there only one set of footprints at some place among this journey? I thought you always promised to be with me?"  Then the man had a visi...

Today’s Scripture "For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God..." (2 Corinthians 2:15, AMPC) Sweet Fragrance Our lives are supposed to be a sweet fragrance to God. Think about how a wonderful aroma affects you personally. When it’s springtime and the flowers are blossoming, everything feels new again. The sweet aroma in the air is a sign that the flowers are fresh and alive. It catches your attention. It makes you want to take a deep breath and partake of the wonderful, sweet fragrance. God feels the same way about you! He loves wonderful aromas, and when you are living your life to please Him, it’s a beautiful fragrance that captures His attention! Just like the aroma in springtime is a sign that the flowers are alive, the aroma of your life is a sign that Christ is alive in you. It is pleasing to the Father! The next time you experience a fresh fragrance, remember that your life is a fragrance unto God. You can rest in knowing that He i...

"He dared to trust Great Spirit to do what only Our Creator could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing." We all have things we would like to see come to pass. Being debt free, that addiction gone, that special person come into your life. Some of us have been waiting for a long time and it seems it may never happen. You have asked and prayed. You have been consistent working hard, being your best, but somehow the dream is not happening. That sickness just seems to hang around, you make some progress in your financial goals to get out debt and then you end up back at square one. I think we need to be more like a man in the middle east a long time ago. He was just an average person and the Great Spirit promised to make him into a father of many nations. What was the Great Spirit doing? He was creating something out of nothing using his words. The key here is create. We know Great Spirit as a teacher, a father, protector, healer, and way make...

“Who are you?” asked Shasta.“Myself,” said the Voice, very deep and low so that the earth shook: and again “Myself,” loud and clear and gay: and then the third time “Myself,” whispered so softly you could hardly hear it, and yet it seemed to come from all around you as if the leaves rustled with it."

"He has made everything beautiful  and  appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except Giche Manitou]" The Great Spirit has given us one of the greatest gifts ever. From before the dawn of time He planted eternity in our hearts. What does that mean? That means that Aslan resides on the inside of you from the day you were born. Aslan is your connector, your friend, your way maker.  The Great Spirit put a part of himself inside of you. This is one of the great mysteries revealed. The Great Spirit is the God of all our days from beginning to end and everything in between. So today if you are struggling, life seems a constant struggle, know this, Great Spirit [Giche Manitou] has placed eternity inside of you. He has not only given you a divine purpose, but his son, the Great Lion lives inside of you. What he is waiting for is for you to ask him to a...

“Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of the roar  of an abundance  of rain.” There are seasons in our lives when we are dry- business is slow, your energy is low, your job seems tedious. It seems that dream is taking longer, you have been single so long. When these dry seasons come from pursuing a goal, it is easy to want to give up, get lazy, get complacent. It is so easy to want to think, this is the way it is, maybe I am supposed to give up. I believe in seasons, and I believe the Creator opens and closes doors, but I also believe that when you are in a dry season that is an opportunity for an abundance of rain. This is an opportunity for the Great Spirit to exceed our expectations and do something above and beyond what we could ever imagine. I believe that everything starts in our thinking. One of the ways to change your thinking is to change what you are listening to. Instead of listening to those voices that say,"This is it. I knew you would fail. This ...

Giche Manitou said,“There are still too many people; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. Therefore it shall be that he of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.” Surrounding yourself with a good people can accelerate your influence. If that is true, than we can rest in this, Great Spirit will bring the right people into your path and you may be the right person for someone else. So how do we choose? We listen to our spirits sometimes, but often time Great Spirit will give you an impression or he will move them out of the way. There was a story about a man who was going to fight an army of 100,000 people. That seems insurmountable, and even more so considering he only had 32,000. You would think this man would say, "Send me more men, I can't defeat that many people." The Great Spirit did the opposite. He started selected ...

“In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." "Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.” (C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) There is more behind this world than what we see in the natural. What we are taught in schools and what we see, touch, and feel is only a part of this world. What things are made of is not what they really are. In the same way, your DNA, your looks, your background, your family tree, those are what makes you, but those are not who you are. The real essence of who you are is so much more. You are connected with all time and space, you are a child of the Great Spirit. Today, when you see your pets, your children, the sky, the sun, the grass, ask the Creator to help you look beyond what you can see. Ask Him to reveal who they really are. Every part of creation is a teacher, pay attention their spirit and listen to what they can teach you about the Great Spirit. The...

"Every prayer which is sincerely made even to a false god, or to a very imperfectly conceived true God, is accepted by the true God and that Christ saves many who do not think they know him. For He is (dimly) present in the  good  side of the inferior teachers they follow. In the parable of the Sheep and Goats those who are saved do not seem to know that they have served Christ. [3] " [C.S. Lewis, 1952] The Great Spirit says that he has placed eternity in all of creation's hearts.  What does that  mean? That means that everything that is created  has a spirit and they know  who their Creator is. They know there is a mediator between them  and the Creator. One of the  great mysteries of heaven is that there are going to be spirits there we never thought would be there. This may be a great hope for you today! Maybe you have a heart for your pets or  people living in remote areas of the world. Some would say they need to be ev...

“The LORD will fight for you while you [only need to] keep silent and remain calm.” In life, we’re always going to have critics. We’ll always have difficult people who try to upset us and steal our peace and joy. But, you don’t have to respond to every critic. You can decide to take the high road and let God fight your battles for you. Sometimes, no matter what you say or do, there are people who aren’t going to accept you. They just don’t want to be at peace with you. In fact, when Jesus sent out His disciples to certain homes, He told them to always speak peace over those homes. And then He said in effect, “If they don’t receive the peace that you’re offering, then it will come back to you.” That tells me, if you will do your best to be at peace with people, even if they won’t take your peace, the good news is that peace will just come back to you. You’ll not only get your peace, but you’ll get their share as well! That’s double for your trouble! When you do the right t...

"Giche Manitou [Great Spirit]   will accomplish that which concerns me;  Your [unwavering] lovingkindness, O Great Spirit , endures forever—  Do not abandon the works of Your own hands." The clenched fist is the international sign of anger. Everyone understands when someone clenches a fist at them. Have you noticed though that when a fist is clenched, nothing is able to get into the hand? What happens when we release control of the clenched fist? It opens. An open hand is more relaxed. Think about when someone gives you something, your hand is open, you can receive, and at the same time you can give.  Our relationship with the Great Spirit is much the same way.  Great Spirit wants to give you good things, but too often we have not released control of the dreams to him. Don't get me wrong, we have to do some work, we can't just sit back on the couch and think our dreams will happen or that problem will solve itself. We need to take a step of action, the di...

"Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence will be your strength." Many times in today's culture we feel that we must be aggressive and loud in order to be heard or seen as important. We see it in protests and in our government.  We see it in the way people try to get a head in business. That is contrary to the ways of the Great Spirit. The Great Spirit does not speak to us in a loud voice, he is not brash, no the Great Spirit comes to us in a whisper. The Great Spirit comes to us like a cool breeze, that feeling of peace that we just want to stay in forever. That is how we are supposed to be. How many times have we let our emotions get the best of us?  The Great Spirit wants us to find our rest in Him. He wants us to have a quiet confidence that we know he knows the end from the beginning. He wants us to have a quiet confidence in our abilities, not going around bragging about it, but being an example instead. Aslan...

“ In that day,  sing about the fruitful vineyard.  I, Giche Manitou [Great Spirit], will watch over it,  watering it carefully." You and the plants in your garden are very similar. The plants in your garden are alive, they have a spirit, and their fruit has a destiny to fulfill. There fruit may go to the ground to produce more plants or it may serve as energy for someone to carry on the purpose of the Creator. The plants we surround ourselves with are connected to us and can teach us many mysteries from the Great Spirit if we will only listen and be mindful. Today the plants in my garden were speaking to me and they gave me this promise from the Great Spirit, "If you sing about the fruitful vineyard, the Great Spirit will watch over it and water it carefully."  Those of us who have had Aslan awaken on the inside of us, know we are connected to his life, we are an extension of him. We have the power to do greater works than he did. Rejoice in that, worship the...

“By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” You were created by Almighty God to live a blessed and fulfilled life. But so many people live far below the level of what God truly intends for them simply because they don’t see how it could happen. The truth is that you have to believe before you’re ever going to see something take place in the natural. You have to look with your eyes of faith because the provision, healing and miracle that you need are already available in the supernatural realm. You might say, “Well, I don’t know how to do that. I don’t know how to look with my eyes of faith.” The way you open your eyes of faith is by reading and meditating on the Word of God. His Word deposits strength and faith inside of you and illuminates your heart. His Word causes your faith to grow so you can believe His promises. And when you believe it, then you will see it because a...