After some hiatus and a little quarantine time in between, Tales of Glory - Interior Castle First Mansions Chapter 02!
Let's dive into this classic manuscript on prayer and see what the Saint has to say on developing your interior life. We are in First mansions, where we just entered the castle and the soul is beginning to learn to pray. Or as the Saint says, the soul opens into itself through prayer.
In chapter 02, Saint Teresa wants to warn us about the dangers of mortal sin, before we move into deeper mansions. We must address our sinful nature, before advancing through the castle. Otherwise, the venomous vipers and reptiles, our own sinful natures we allowed in with us will draw us back out!
In this episode of Tales of Glory, we'll take a short prep break, as I work on the Interior Castle. Tonight we talk about the simplest way to get into healing, deliverance, and prophetic supernatural ministry. This is what you need to know to start your own homeless ministry, and why it's advantageous to do this to get training from the Holy Spirit.
I will present why the homeless ministry is the best approach for ministers who are being called into ministry and how easy it is to get started. I provide tips on how take simple approaches for launching a powerful ministry with minimal budget.
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Show Notes
Night Strike on the 700 Club
A Tourist Getting Prophetic Word at Night Strike
Night Strike History
Night Strike began in 1999, when Bob Johnson, pastor of the Frontline church in Redding, was called by God to come minister on the streets of San Francisco. Bob Johnson, along with Mark Neitz and Milton Meyer, started ministering to the poor on the streets of Jones and Eddy. It was then the skidrow of the city. It is now the site of the Tenderloin Police station. Mark Neitz said their old white van with a purple stripe would pull up on a Thursday evening for street ministry and the place would just go nuts. The people knew the minsitry van pulled up and they would gather around it and start rocking it and pound on it. Mark and Milton would hand out peanut butter sandwiches prepared by Debra Stineart. Debra was still in Redding at the time and she would prepare all the food and items to be handed out. Redding is a 3 hour drive from San Francisco.
Mark Neitz made connections with other local ministries, like the Homeless Church, led by Pastor Evan Prosser. Mark and his wife, Jessica, led ministry bootcamps to serve the people in high crime areas like Hunter's Point and the Richmond district, as well as the Tenderloin.
By 2006, Night Strike grew into a large minstry event occuring every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month. Church groups from all over the United States came to work in the "manna truck" and serve hundreds of meals to the homeless in a matter of hours. Some attendees chose to work close to the "manna truck" because the streets were still rough at night. Other more adventurous people went out on teams to deliver food, and most important of all - a touch from the heavenly Father. Night Strike has witnessed incredible healings and delivernces on the streets. Night Strike started as, and still continues on today, as a supernatural street ministry bringing healing to the street and heavenly encounters.
In 2009, M16 Minsitries evolved from deliverance ministry on the streets with Night Strike.
In October 2011, Bob Johnson was called again by God to work in area of passion, social Justice. Bob returned to his home in Redding to start iDignify. Mark Neitz was being called to start an orphanage for children rescued from sex trafficking. Bob and Mark passed the batton of operation over to M16 Ministries to fullfill their new calling and season in ministry.
Hope you enjoyed the fireside chat. If you have questions about starting your ministry, leave them in the comments. I will answer, or expand the good questions in future podcasts.
In this episode of Tales of Glory we dive into Saint Teresa of Avila's classic masterpiece on prayer, "The Interior Castle" or "Mansions", Chapter 01. Saint Teresa was a Spanish Catholic from the 1500's who knew a thing or two about developing a deep a prayer life with Jesus Christ. As we continue the topic of the way of the warrior we are going to dive into the theology of intimacy with the Father, his Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
Starting with the First Mansions, Chapter 01, we starting in at ground level on the topic of learning to pray and developing a spiritual interior life. The saint is a romantic at heart and provides the language for us for our stages in going deeper in prayer and what intimacy with Jesus Christ looks like. SO kick back, pull up a chair to the fireside conversation and let's learn about beginning stages of prayer.
Let's dive in!! The Interior Castle - First Mansions Chapter 01
Tales of Glory podcast, continuing on with the The way of the Holy Spirit warrior topic. In this episode we dive into the Holy Spirit's gift of spiritual discernment of spirits as it pertains to encounters in spiritual warfare and the likes of these experiences through the lens of Christian mystical theology.
What is a Christian mystical experience with God's invisible spiritual realm? What does it look like? How do we discern the spirits during these encounters?
In this episode we'll dive into this fascinating topic of spiritual warfare and spiritual discernment.
My Dodge SRT4 totaled in a 5mph crash. The day I was leaving for Burning Man ministry (attacks on cars by regional spirits).
My SRT4 being towed with its motor blown. Was on my way to ministry in San Francisco. It was the night of trafficking ministry in a location that is under a regional spirit of San Francisco.
Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel, from cold opener.
Main lobby of the Stanley Hotel
The Stanley Hotel
Thank you for tuning in. Hope enjoyed the podcast and found it informative.
God Bless
Rev. Mike
In our fifth episode of Tales of Glory we look at the amazing account of giants in the Bible. Who were they? Were they even human? What is the small disclaimer in Genesis 6 about the sons of God taking for themselves the daughters of men?
Are the angelic beings in chains in 1 Peter and Jude, the satanic angels who broke from their dwelling place and defiled God's creation of man?
We will look into this controversial and hot conspiracy theorist subject from a Biblical perspective. How does the Bible give testimony to this strange account in Genesis 6? Let's dive in with a truly amazing topic in Tales of Glory - Episode 05, "The Giants and the Nephilim".
Here is the start of a new series I felt on my heart to discuss. The subject matter in this series I call "The Way of the Warrior". Looking back on my experience I hit a lot of strnage snags in ministry where M16 Ministries should not have existed at all. Even attacks on my health. What is it that keeps me in the battle? What keeps me going in very long battles when I become weary? How do I find strong during intense battles?
I begin the discussion here in what I know will break out into numerous discussions on Tales of Glory. The Way of the Warrior. What does the spirit look like that was raised up by the Holy Spirit. How do we find training for the impossible tasks at hand? How do we commune with God and bring His presence permenantly into our reality? What is real and what is contrary to popular Christian media on the subject matter of spiritual warfare warriors. Pull a chair up to the fire, I invite to site back and be entertained by the the first in the series of The Way of the Warrior!
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Hope these are edifying to all you spiritual warriors out there!
Here is part 03 of the Tales of Glory podcast covering the exorcism of Karen Kingston, back in April of 1974. Episode 02 covers day 02 of the three day exorcism of the young girl in the North Carolina mental institution, pseudo name, Karen Kingston. I comment on the activities of the ministry and armchair quarterback the exorcism as the tale unfolds in Robert Pelton's book, The Devil and Karen Kingston.
Available on both Spotify and Youtube. God Bless and Enjoy!!!
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Hope these are edifying to all you spiritual warriors out there!
