Saturday, March 9, 2024

AFG2SW - Chapter 05 - Hearing God - Operating in the Gifts of the Holy Spirit - TOG EP 102

Tales of Glory episode 102, we are back into the A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare workshop. Diving into chapter 5, Listening in on Heaven's Will, this workshop training will focus on hearing God and operating in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I will cover some controversial topics in supernatural ministry regarding learning, training, and using the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This episode will discuss the differences between words of knowledge and words of wisdom. Can you hear from God? How do you learn how to hear from God? Is it ok to pray in tongues in ministry? What is the gift of discernment of spirits, and is it abused in ministry? Can the enemy hijack a spiritual gift? We'll cover these topics in episode 102 of Tales of Glory as we workshop my book, A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare.

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Workshop course outline:

0:00 Introduction
4:04 Gifts of the Spirit
21:34 Word of Knowledge or Prophetic Word?
28:36 Listening to God
40:28 Evangelism and the Gifts of the Spirit
59:58 Praying in Tongues
1:06:35 The Gift of Discernment of Spirits
1:13:08 Hijacked Spiritual Gifts
1:25:51 Releasing the Holy Spirit

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Show Notes

Words That Work - mentioned in the podcast for street ministry and outreaches!

Word of Knowledge A Charismatic Gift - mentioned in the podcast as a source for learning.

The Gift of Prophecy - mentioned in the podcast (read online).

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Cosmology and Demonology in Genesis 1-11: The Serpent, Divine Council, and Regional Spirits

I frequently discuss why we shouldn’t go outside our domain of authority and talk to angels, or try to put ourselves in the throne room of heaven. Do you know why? The modern church's view of angelology and demonology is wrong. It is not what Elijah, Ezekiel, and the saints believed. Where did the Apostle Paul get his language and context from Ephesians 6:12? It is not a choir of angels. They’re not even angels. An angel is specifically a messenger sent by God for a task. These bad guys in Ephesians 6:12 are divine spiritual beings - not messengers. Did you know that demons are not fallen angels? Get the book! Highly recommended for the Tales of Glory audience!

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A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare - the power to PULL the IMPOSSIBLE from the HEAVENLY REALM was written by Michael Norton while he was a street minister on San Francisco's Night Strike Homeless ministry under Bob Johnson. Michael documents what he experienced and how the Holy Spirit trained him to move in the Holy Spirit's empowerment during spiritual encounters. This book is a must-read for anyone serious about entering into spiritual warfare ministry. This book has been used as training material for spiritual warfare for Teen Challenge and Cleansing Streams.

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A Field Guide to Advanced Spiritual Warfare - Deliverance, Exorcism, and the Healing Effects of Ritual Abuse was written by Michael in 2017, seven years after his first manuscript, A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare. This book delves deeper into the question of the difference between deliverance and exorcism. Michael reveals information on identifying and working with Satanic Ritual Abuse and his work with numerous survivors. Another powerful book to pick up for spiritual warfare training and counselors wanting to know about handling these darker cases of fracturing and demonic possession.

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Thank you for participating in the A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare workshop, Chapter 5, Listening in on Heaven's Will. Do you have any questions? You can leave comments here or go to the Facebook group page, A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare. In the next chapter, we move on to hauntings!

God Bless
Rev. Mike

Friday, March 1, 2024

AFG2SW - Chapter 04 - Mark 9:29 - Can Only be Driven Out by Prayer - Exorcism - TOG EP 101

Tales of Glory episode 101, we are back into the A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare workshop. Diving into chapter 4, Mark 9:29, prayer petitioning ministry, more commonly referred to as exorcism. I cover lots of ground today in what Mark 9:29 ministry looks like from my ministry perspective since 2005. What is the difference between Roman Catholic exorcism and Mark 9:29 petitioning prayer ministry? Why use one over the other? What does this ministry look like? Who should be involved in this ministry? Lots of information about battling the supernatural in this episode!!

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Show Notes

Scripture used in episode 101.

Mark 9:25-29 This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.

25 And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
26 And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.”
27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.
28 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”

Why Christians ARE not permitted to Ghost Hunt!!!!

Leviticus 19:31

³¹“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:22-27

You Shall Be Holy

²²“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. ²³And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. ²⁴But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples. ²⁵You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. ²⁶You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

²⁷“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”

Note: we don't put necromancers or mediums to death that was old covenant. The key walk-away is that these actions are forever detestable to God. There is no redeeming medium-ship through the grace of Jesus Christ. Christians are not allowed to communicate with the dead.

Ezekiel 1:3. Feeling the presence of God. 6th Mansions intellectual vision.

The Hand of God
3 the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the Lord was upon him there.

Matthew 12:43-45 Return of an Unclean Spirit Regarding casting out demons out of an unsaved soul.

43 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.
44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order.
45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”

Ecclesiastes 12:6 Regarding astral projection.

6 before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
8 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.

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Cosmology and Demonology in Genesis 1-11: The Serpent, Divine Council, and Regional Spirits

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Back cover information on A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare.

YouTube Playlists to the M16 Ministries Training Series on Spiritual Warfare

Tales of Glory A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare

Tales of Glory - A Field Guide to Advanced Spiritual Warfare

Tales of Glory - Cosmology and Demonology

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I hope you found this episode on Mark 9:29 petitioning prayer ministry to be informative. Thank you for tuning in.

God Bless

Rev. Mike

Friday, February 23, 2024

Shift Happens When You Practice His Presence - TOG EP 100

In our epic 100th episode of Tales of Glory, Shift happens! We welcome Meagan and Abby from the podcast The Shift. Yes, you read that right; we have guests! We dive into conversations on "Practicing His Presence" and what our personal interior prayer life walks with Jesus look like—lots of spiritual wisdom from our guests in learning to hear from God. We share stories from early spiritual development. We'll glean great spiritual direction from two outstanding ministers passionate about pulling souls from dark places.

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Show Notes

THE SHIFT podcast on Spotify

Cindy McGill and Abby McKee interview on Elijah Fire

-the first encounter by Abby in this video (t=23:30) we discussed on TOG.

WHAT GOD DID IN VEGAS ElijahFire: Ep 392 - Cindy McGill and Abby McKee

Words That Work - mentioned in the podcast for street ministry.

Till Next Time

I hope you enjoyed our guests! It was an amazing time and I am grateful for Abby and Meagan being on the podcast. Have questions? Ask in the comments below or over on our Facebook page - A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare.

God Bless

Rev. Mike

Friday, February 16, 2024

AFG2SW - Chapter 03 - Spiritual Authority in Jesus Christ - TOG EP 99

In Tales of Glory Episode 99, we dive into A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 03. What is spiritual authority, and why do we have it? How is the Great Commission tethered to our spiritual authority? We will examine what was unique about Jesus taking authority over unclean spirits in Mark 1. How is spiritual authority in Jesus tied to casting out unclean spirits, healing the sick, and raising the dead? If we have spiritual authority, why do we need the empowerment of the Holy Spirit? How do we use the charismas recorded by Apostle Paul in spiritual warfare? We look at these exciting topics in episode 99 of Tales of Glory!

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Show Notes

Errata: In my dead raising story about the Vietnamese jungle pastor in the village.

The village was Buddhist, not Hindu.

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Cosmology and Demonology in Genesis 1-11: The Serpent, Divine Council, and Regional Spirits

Now on Audible!!!!

Get a copy of THE book you need in your training library for spiritual warfare!

Back cover information on A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare.

Words That Work - mentioned in the podcast for street ministry.

YouTube Playlists to the M16 Ministries Training Series on Spiritual Warfare

Tales of Glory A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare

Tales of Glory - A Field Guide to Advanced Spiritual Warfare

Tales of Glory - Cosmology and Demonology

Till Next Time

I hope you enjoyed the podcast workshop on A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare. You can follow along and read the book or order it from the left panel on this blog page. Any questions, please visit us on our Facebook page, A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare, and drop your comments there.

God Bless
Rev. Mike

Sunday, February 4, 2024

AFG2SW - Chapter 02 - In the Beginning - The Three Falls - Part DEUX - TOG EP 98

In Tales of Glory Episode 98, we dive into A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 02 - Part DEUX. We are in the second part of a two-part episode and go through Chapter 2 of A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare. I will present the material in Genesis 1-3 from the perspective of theology and research 14 years after I wrote the book. I will also present the case for the three falls in the book of Genesis. We are very familiar with the one in Genesis 3. But there are two more, and these events define the angelology and demonology in the Septuagint and the Hebrew texts. This episode of Tales of Glory has some exciting material as we continue through the book on our podcast workshop and equipping.

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Show Notes

Dr. Michael Heiser video on imaging and God.

The Watchers came down to Mount Hermon during the life of Jared, according to 1 Enoch.

Jared was the father of Enoch. Genealogy in Genesis 5:18-32.

Online article on Genesis 6 covering the four primary theories on Genesis 6:1-4.

Who are the Sons of God, Daughters of Man, and Nephilim?

Yahweh calls Man inherently evil. Genesis 8:20-21

Research paper - Josephus Rewriting of the Babel Narrative (Gen 11:1-9)

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Addendum to Show Notes: 04/29/2024

Joel Kline provided some excellent feedback to this episode. I believe Joel was commenting on Genesis 3:8.

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Great info!

I have a copy of Kingdom Prologue. These are excellent references cited by Joel.

Thank you, Joel!

There are two published sources, Kingdom Prologue (1993/ 2000 2nd print edition) and Images of the Spirit (1980), books from Meredith G Kline that go into depth on his studies of Gen 3:8-13. There is about 10 pages in chapter 4 of Images of the Spirit that take a deeper dive into the broader context of this judgement seen in Eden. I'll scan and email you these pages from the Images of the Spirit book, but for those interested in a shorter synopsis, I'll write out a portion from Kingdom Prologue here in this comment from Chapter 5, Section 2 "Judgement Day which can be found on pages 128-129 of the 2000 print edition. ::

Chapter 5 part 2 "Judgement Day
"God had brought Satan to the judgement tree to be damned. To man had been assigned the awesome role of standing at God's viceregent at the place of judgement and consigning the great adversary to perdition. Man, however, had utterly failed in his messianic mission. He had declared good to be evil and evil to be good. He had broken his covenant with God and made league with the devil. But 'be not deceived; God is not mocked; and whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting' (Galations 6:7,8) ((this was obviously the passage Jesus read to the former african witch doctor in his dream that you've shared about before)) The Lord God therefore came to the place of judgement in Eden to enter into a covenant lawsuit with his offending vassals. Moreover, Satan was not to escape through man's malfeasance. It was also the purpose of the Lord's judicial appearance that he should himself pronounce the devil's doom".

"Another factor, all important, affected the particular character of the judicial sentences imposed on both man and Satan. According to the principle of justice expressed in the creational covenant the rebellious human vassals might have been consigned then and there to God's eternal wrath along with the devil. But the Metapolis mission (the great commission) was not to be aborted before human history had scarcely started. In eternal covenant with the Son, the Father in heaven had decreed that a new mankind should be redeemed out of fallen mankind and emerge at the consummation of redemptive history as God's holy temple, New Jerusalem. To make room for this history of redemption, this execution of final judgement against men and demons must be postponed until a later hour. God's judgement on the covenant-breakers in Eden did not, therefore, assume the form of a final total curse, nor did his condemnation of Satan have the effect of casting him at once into the lake of fire prepared for him and his angels".

A. Parousia of the Glory-Spirit

1. The Spirit of the Day
"Adapting the mode of his self-revelation to the judicial purpose of his coming the Lord approached the judgement site in the awesome glory of his theophanic Presence. So he ever comes on the day of judgement, the day of the Lord, the day of the covenant servants' accounting before the Face of the Lord. It is that kind of fearful advent that is reported in Genesis 3:8

"The key phrase describing God's approach through the garden, traditionally translated 'in the cool of the day,' should be rendered (instead) 'as the Spirit of the day.' "Spirit" here denotes the theophanic Glory, as it does in Genesis 1:2 and elsewhere in Scripture. And "the day" has the connotation it often has in the prophets' forecasts of the great coming judgement (cf also Judges 11:27 and 1 Cor 4:3). Here in Genesis 3:8 is the original day of the Lord which served as the prototypal mold in which subsequent pictures of other days of the Lord were cast. Such a day is one of divine epiphany. The final day is preeminently the day of our Lord's parousia, the day of his presence as the personal revelation of the Glory with the clouds and angels of heaven. Significantly, "panim", face or presence, one of the biblical designations of the Glory-Spirit, is referred to in Genesis 3:8, and accordingly what is depicted there is nothing less than the primal parousia. On the original day of the Lord in Eden, God's parousia-advent was in the theophanic mode of "the Spirit (Presence) of the day (of judgement)".

"Trumpeting the advent of the divine Presence -- at Sinai, at Pentecost, at the parousia of Jesus, at every day of the Lord -- is the fearful sound of the voice of the Lord, the thunderclap of the approaching theophanic storm-chariot. It was by precisely this arresting signal that the primal parousia was heralded. Alarmed by this sound of God's coming (v 8a), the man and his wife sought escape (of all places) in the area of the judgement tree (v 8b).

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Hope you enjoyed this episode and were blessed by the information.

God Bless

Rev. Mike

Sunday, January 21, 2024

AFG2SW - Chapter 02 - In the Beginning ...Jesus Part 01 - TOG EP 97

In Tales of Glory Episode 97, we dive into A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 02. This episode will be part 01 of a two-part episode in which we examine the pre-eminence of Jesus Christ. We also examine the divine spiritual being, which goes by many names: the serpent, the dragon, the devil, and most commonly, Satan. Join the podcast workshop as we examine the Second Temple Hebrew angelology and demonology on this fascinating subject matter.

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Show Notes

Build Your Reference and Training Library!

Cosmology and Demonology in Genesis 1-11: The Serpent, Divine Council, and Regional Spirits

Now on Audible!!!!

Get a copy of THE book you need in your training library for spiritual warfare!

Back cover information on A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare.

YouTube Playlists to the M16 Ministries Training Series on Spiritual Warfare

Tales of Glory A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare

Tales of Glory - A Field Guide to Advanced Spiritual Warfare

Tales of Glory - Cosmology and Demonology

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I hope you were blessed by this material. Any comments leave them below in the comments section or over on the Face Book group page A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare.

God Bless

Rev. Mike

Saturday, January 13, 2024

AFG2SW - Chapter 01 - Against the Forces of Evil in Heavenly Realms - TOG EP 96

A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare is the book that started it all for this ministry. This book is what I use when I go to a haunting or work with people who are under spiritual affliction. We use the "Field Guide" to spiritually bring people up to speed to become victorious on the battlefield. The "Field Guide" was written over 14 years ago and is still as powerful today as when it was first published. I have grown in ministry and my experiences since I wrote the book, and I will present the material from my 2024 spiritual warfare perspective. In Tales of Glory, Episode 96, we are starting a podcast workshop on spiritual warfare and the Book of Acts ministry.

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