Inheritance

 

Plane Ride

It started on the plane ride over here.  I was supposed to get stuck in a middle seat
for the entire flight.  I was struggling
to be ok with that, and by the time I got to JFK, I really was ok with sitting
anywhere on the plane.  I decided to be
grateful instead of whiny and negative. 

When I was getting my boarding pass reprinted, the lady
asked me if I wanted a better seat. 
Eagerly, I said, “YES, if you can manage it”.  She said she would try and I gave it up to
the Lord.  When I got to the gate, I had
literally forgotten about that encounter. 
When I was boarding, the ticket lady (I don’t know what they are really
called) looked at me quizzically and asked if I was travelling with anybody
else.  I said, “no, why?”  I think we both figured out, at the same
time, that I just had gotten a new boarding pass.  She took my old one and presented me with an
aisle seat!!  I was blown away! 

My Daddy had given me an amazing present, and I was so
grateful! 

I am not a pauper, but a princess in the Kingdom of God.  I can be ok with nothing but overjoyed with
blessings.  And I deserve them, because
of my inheritance.  I am co-heir with
Christ and what belongs to Him, also belongs to me.  Sometimes it manifests in huge ways, and
sometimes it manifests in an aisle seat for a 14.5 hour plane ride.  Isn’t that rad? 

 

Linda

There were 4 teams here when I arrived on Monday
evening/Tuesday morning.  Linda was on a
church team from Montana.  She had
suffered from back and knee problems for so long, that she just accepted it as
a part of life.  She had scoliosis, a bad
knee, and some kind of degenerative disc disease.  The doctors had told her that things were
never going to get better for her. 

Before she came to Thailand, the Lord had spoken to her
about miracles.  He had set an
expectation for her to see miracles on her trip.  She was not so sure what that would look
like, but came expecting to see God move in miraculous ways. 

A couple days after I arrived in Phuket, Linda was having an
especially hard time.  She was laid up in
bed and was unable to get out.  She said
it regularly took her 10-15 minutes to get out of bed, but that on this
particular day, her back was feeling much worse than usual. 

I was brought in, along with a bunch of other people, to
pray over Linda. 

About 12 people circled her bed and began to pray.   I was content to just pray in my own heart
and mind.  I didn’t feel much need to be
vocal about anything.  

A few people began to sing the song, Healer by Hillsong.  

I
believe You’re my Healer
I believe You are all I need
I believe You’re my Portion
I believe You’re more than enough for me
Jesus You’re all I need/ 

Portion in that song, means inheritance. 

And as soon as those words were sung, I felt a huge stirring
in my heart. 

I looked at Linda, and I said, “This is NOT your
inheritance.  This is NOT what the Lord
has for you”.  I told her that I felt
like she needed to accept the Father’s love for her and as she did, he would
heal her. 

So I prayed over her. 

And then I got pulled out of the room for a meeting. 

Afterwards, I found out that as she prayed and cried out to
the Father, he began a healing process. 
The prayer team that had surrounded her continued to pray and by the end
of their time – Linda was healed. 

She JUMPED out of bed and DANCED before the Lord. 

C’mon, Jesus. 

Our inheritance

Hebrews 12: 14-29

We are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable.  We are coming to the city of the Living
God.  We are coming to the place where we
hear his voice and follow it.  We are
coming to the place where the righteous ones have been made perfect through
Jesus.  We are coming to the place where
Jesus mediates and calls for forgiveness and not vengeance.  We are coming to a new place.  A place we have never been.  Our God is an all-consuming fire.  And he is consuming all the worthless rubbish
so that what is leftover is unshakable.