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Missed Opportunities & Lost Dreams

Posted: August 3, 2022 in disciples life, Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic, wilderness
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It is true that many receive and many more claim to receive revelationary visions from the Father. Yet when a revelation isn’t activated and put into action it becomes a dead vision and many are they who sit in an idle state of complacency as their visions die.

I am often left speechless when I hear someone’s vision or even that which the Father has given me, only to receive jealous responses such as “But your not the only one that God has given that vision to, I have had that vision for years before you got one” As well as other remarks coated in sarcasm.


I always praise the Lord that He has so blessed another brother or sister when I hear of a call on their lives or hear a vision pertaining to an assignment they received from the Father.

But what about the naysayers? What about those who operate with a critical spirit?

My question to them is:

Ok, what are you doing about it?

Or could you possibly have had the call removed due to your lack of action, faith, and trust in the Father’s ability to see the fulfillment of that vision come to pass?

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, TO GO into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. (Gen 11:31)

It’s interesting to note that Abraham’s father Terah was actually going to the promised land (Canaan). But due to his mourning his son’s loss, he settled for the loss rather than the promised land. (Many scholars believe Terah named the land Haran as a memorial to his son)

We can this throughout history and even in our day. Many who have received a vision and or call from the Lord somewhere along the way, settled for something less, generally due to some distraction that the enemy brought into their lives. And they end up living the rest of their days in the hopeless state of remembering “What could have been”.

Holy Spirit was sharing this with me last night when He whispered;

“The Remnant Pioneers of the Kingdom will never settle for anything short of what has been promised” #SELAH

Then He went on to caution me and for me to caution others in the Remnant that many will rise up against the calling of the Lord in our lives to try and discourage us or belittle us. However, we must stand strong, stand united, and not at any point get caught up in listening to the lies and twisted logic of the wayward ones as they attempt to hijack our destinies. They are merely trying to pull others into their pitty party of misery, for in truth they are but reaping the harvest from the seeds of compromise and complacency that they’ve sown into their own lives.

Stand strong, let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus “The pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2, NIV).

~ Russ G. Welch, A.K.A. Windwalker

20 YEARS OF SOAKING IN REVIVAL STREAMS…

Posted: August 2, 2022 in Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic, wilderness
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I was hanging out with Holy Spirit yesterday afternoon reflecting on the past 20 years of being in Jacksonville arriving here on January 1, 2002. He began reminding me of all that has happened since then and how it was designed by the Father for my preparation for the NOW:

In 2002 after arriving at my sister Roxanne’s house, for what I had thought would be a short visit to obtain my class A driver’s license before heading back home to Maine. Within a month I found myself, rededicating my life to the Lord. A few months later I started ministry school. Shortly afterward, I met and started dating a beautiful godly woman from the Philippines. At that time she was attending Brownsville School of Revival, which led me to the opportunity to attend the Revival on a number of occasions before it ended.

In June of 2003 I married that same beautiful godly Filipino girl, and that fall I started my 2nd year of ministry school.

In June of 2004, we were blessed with the gift of a beautiful son, which the Lord showed me in a vision would be a godly man walking in His ways. In 2004 I also got ordained and my wife and I started Mighty Arm Ministries.

In 2005 I came under the mentorship of Dr, Don Lynch being groomed as part of the leadership of a powerful Apostolic international ministry with a vision of bringing revival to the nations.

In 2006 our ministry Mighty Arm Ministries launched an online ministry school, “Rushing Mighty Wind School of Ministry”.

In 2007 my wife and I were ordained by Dr. Don & Ruthanne Lynch as part of the first ordained leaders in that same ministry, Ministry Matrix. During our time under Dr. Don’s leadership, we witnessed powerful meetings filled with the presence of the Lord and we learned how to go after the things of God to see His will happen.

In 2008 Rushing Mighty Wind School of Ministry established two brick & mortar schools, one in India and one in the Philippines.

In the summer of 2009, I was invited to visit World Revival Church in Kansas City. A couple of months later in early fall, I flew out and while I was there, I was blessed to be able to visit IHOP. As well I had the opportunity to attend two nights of revival, giving my testimony at the Friday night service. I also was afforded the opportunity to attend a couple of the revival school classes.

In 2010, I was invited to be a volunteer advocate for the Florida Department of Elder Affairs

In 2011, my wife and I felt the Lord moving us in ministry in regard to ministry and after much prayer we stepped out of the leadership with Ministry Matrix, entering a time of waiting on the Lord for our next assignment. It came later that year as we found ourselves being part of a leadership team that launched Presence Church here in Jacksonville. We experienced God moving in special ways over the next couple of years.

In 2013, I accepted the position of associate pastor at Highway to Heaven Church.

Then in 2014, I received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree for my ministry work in India, the Philippines, jails, and nursing homes.

In 2015, after a number of years of studying in several different ministry schools, I received a doctorate in Theology. At the end of that year, in December I was part of the leadership that launched an Apostolic ministry in Jacksonville called “The River House” along with Doug and Jennifer Snead.

A lot happened over these first 13 years however inside I felt drained, discouraged, and had little true peace. Something was missing, I had felt the Lord’s presence on many occasions, but it had to be more than occasional. I wanted what the Disciples had, an ever-present witness to the presence of the Lord. I would soon find that the spirit of religion had somehow been able to chain me deep down in a dark spiritual prison.

In 2016, while at a ministry retreat in Saluda North Carolina, I had a powerful in-person encounter with the Lord that radically impacted and changed my life. That encounter with the Flames of His love totally undid the religious theology I had been a prisoner too, unknowingly for so many years. And on the very next day on my drive home, Holy Spirit led me to listen to a video on youtube “Damon Thompson at the Carolina Revival May 2, 2015“. It was that video that the Father used to seat me under the Apostolic teachings of Damon Thompson.


In 2018, as part of the Riverhouse leadership, we launched the North Florida healing rooms.

In our 4 years with the RiverHouse, we saw many miracles as the Father poured out His love on His children, deaf ears opened, eyesight restored, and many other healings and miracles. Almost every meeting was filled with a tangible presence of the Lord

On Valentine’s weekend of 2020, having taken a two-month sabbatical from all ministry, and after my wife’s continued encouragement to go, we went to Panama Beach to listen to Damon Thompson at the “Rock of Bay County Church”. From the moment Ana hit the first string on her violin, waves of the Father’s glory flooded the room.

At the end of the meeting, Damon called for an alter call to all who wanted to be refreshed. I was one of the first to charge upfront. After standing there for a few moments with my head bowed, I felt this huge hand slam into my chest followed by the words “The Father wants to refresh His fire in you” and wham, the fire of God began to flow throw every cell of my body. A few days later I watched the video, and even though I thought I recognized his voice, saw that it was pastor Bryn Waddell who had prayed for me.

Two weeks later I started volunteering full-time at a local mission in Jacksonville beach after a week or so in prayer following an invitation of a sister in the Lord, Dawn Hare to check the place out.

On August 6th of 2020, my son and I visited Cane Ridge on the 219th anniversary of the outpouring of the Lord there which is believed to have been one of the sparks that made way for the 2nd Great Awakening. Upon leaving Cane Ridge after several hours of praying there, Holy Spirit said the Father had commissioned me to disciple disciples in the same way His Son did. Then about 3 weeks after returning home I was invited to become the director at Beaches Rescue and Recovery Mission.

And finally in 2022 after resigning as the director at the mission, I accepted the position of Senior Pastor at Highway To Heaven Church.

Feeling completely blessed right now. Especially seeing the streams of revival that the Father has seated me in since 2002. I am filled to overflowing with a deep & increasing hunger to see His Kingdom being established in this city and America in the now. I feel almost on edge of something great with Spiritual anticipation for the Revival Fires of Reformation which have been purposed with an eternal destiny for such a time as this are about to break out.

Over the past 20 years, Holy Spirit has been whispering to me about the Remnant, ever since the first time, I heard Dr. Don Lynch teachings about the subject. Over the past several months He has been getting louder and He has been showing me that the Remnant shall be those who carry the flaming torches of Revival Flames of Reformation, through the night while the complacent compromised Church sleep. And blessed will those be those hear the flames and are able to wake up, repent and become prepared.

For those who slumber shall see their candles removed, for the profane vanity of their religion will cause them to miss out on the greatest revival this world has ever seen….”Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent”. (Rev 2:5)

He has also been speaking to me about the establishing of the discipleship community to where I can through the leadership of Holy Spirit, disciple men using the same methods that Jesus used to disciple His disciples. This community will be set on a piece of land with the ability to grow gardens. Holy Spirit has shown me how this will provide powerful visuals when teaching the parables. Not only that, these gardens are purposed as well to the feeding many.

The property will also have buildings that can house 12 – 20 men. With the whole property be established in prayer to having a sound atmosphere supercharged with His presence equipping each discipler in the methods of Jesus in order to train each man into becoming a Mountain Moving Disciple. This mandate from the Lord is so real to me that there are times I can feel the ground of this property under my feet, hear the animals singing their daily praise to Heaven, and literally smell the air of the land bursting with the fragrance of fresh fruit & vegetables

And all I can say is:

“Here I am Father, sitting still in Your presence with a heart-filled commitment in total surrender with a willingness to do all that you ask of me, I haven’t come this far to stop, for my heart belongs to you alone and no matter what the devil throws at me I shall not change paths nor turn back. To You be the Glory, Honor & Praise, Amen”

~Russ G. Welch, A.K.A. Windtalker

Representing the True Son of God, Jesus the Christ

Posted: July 26, 2022 in disciples life, Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic, wilderness
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He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. (Colossians 1:13-20, NKJV)

I believe that one of the major short-comings of modern-day evangelism is that people are being enticed to follow Jesus based on what He can do for them rather than being introduced to Jesus Himself – Jesus alone is enough (why so many quickly fall away, not being truly converted) #SELAH

Jesus brought the following charge against the Church in Ephesus in Revelations chapter 2:4 “Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love”.

And I feel as though much of the modern day Church, especially in America has done the same. For if those who are truly saved, have been saved in a large part due to the fact that they fell head over heels in love with Jesus. I know I did in 2016, before that, I was in love with the Americanized version of the “whose got talent” Jesus that came with the coveted get out of hell free card. The truth is, I spun out of control over and over again for a number of years.

However, after my encounter with the true Jesus on March 29, 2016 during a ministry retreat in Saluda North Carolina, my eyes began to be opened, and my heart beacme swelled to overflowing capacities with a deep rich, love for the Son of God. It was only then, having my spiritual eyes opend that Holy Spirit began to show me about my false conversion. How it was not really love, that I was not truly following Jesus as my Lord,  especially when I would become so filled with anger when He wouldn’t do “what I demanded of Him”.

Today I can but shout YAY GOD, for Jesus alone is enough for me . Even if the world began crumbling all around me (and there has been times over the past 6 years that it has felt as though it was), simply knowing that He is my Savior, and the reality of knowing that He truly loves me is more than enough.

In his book “The practice of the Presence of God”, Brother Lawrence wrote how he once said to the Lord, “Even if you don’t save me, I will still love you”. That my friends is true love!!!

For to truly fall in love with someone is when you love them simply for “who they are”, not because of what they have or what they can do for you. Let’s be real for a moment, if you love someone based on what you get out of the deal, it is in reality a self centered love and in all honesty, is not real. Such love will quickly burn out once one finds that the other person can no longer meet your needs (greeds).

Brothers and sisters, we must return to the foundations of our faith and fully trust in the POWER of the Cross and the Gospel message of Jesus combined with the anointing of Holy Spirit to reach the lost. The Gospel message needs no help for it fully contains everything necessary to attract, cleanse and fully transform any individual who puts all their trust in Christ as their Savior.

It’s time to stop promoting and trying to sell the mythological Jesus created by Western theology and modern day celebrity preachers, and return to presenting the Christ of the Bible, the One true Son of God. For then and only then shall we begin to enter into the Great Harvest and start seeing the Lost coming into the Light of the Kingdom of Heaven. 

We need to receive and live out of the Revelation that Paul received when he wrote “For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake” (1 Thessalonians 1:5).

I believe with all my heart, having a deep holy conviction that when we, the Remnant, grasp hold of the revelation of the power of the Gospel in truth, it will only be then that we shall begin witnessing what Paul and the other disciples who preached the true Gospel in the power of Holy Spirit witnessed “For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;” ( 1 Thessalonians 1:9).

Father, I pray that You will pour out Your Spirit upon Your Remnant today, removing any and all religiosity off from them and Baptism them afresh in the FIRE of Pentecost. Awaken them and send them out to begin harvesting the Great fields of lost souls, and also empower them as to the return this nation, America, back to You that we may as a nation fulfill Your purpose in this hour, and doing ALL to the Glory, Honor and Praise of the Godhead, In Jesus Mighty Name, Amen

~Russ G. Welch

A.K.A, WindWalker

Time for the Remnant to return America to the Lord!!!

Posted: July 23, 2022 in Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic, wilderness
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The Lord told Adam in Genesis 1:28 ” Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

He said unto Abraham “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:” (Genesis 12:1)

And to Joshua He said “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.” (Joshua 1:3)

The Lord kept His covenant with David ” And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue; for thou shalt surely overtake them and without fail recover all.”

Jesus said in Luke 10:19 “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.”

Paul through the inspiration of Holy Spirit wrote in Ephesisans 1:21 “Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come”.

As His Children and His Remnant in this generation, we know our Father is with us and on our side, for John wrote in Revelations 21:3″And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.”

I believe that is was scriptures such as this which empowered our founding fathers to walk in faith as to the belief that it was Almighty God establishing this nation. You can see it in many of thgeir wriing including the Constitution as well as the then colonies declaration to the King of England (The Declaration of Independance) when they wrote:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”

There is a great evil present in our land, with a demonic influeance over certain people in political offices as well as to all the way to those with our communities who seek to deny God, and more specifically to deny His claim for this nation. They seek to destroy our Church, to re-write our histriy and erase any evidience of God whatsoever.

However they discount the power of our God working through His chosen Remnant, we carry the absolulte authority of He who is “Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come”, for the scripture do declare that we are seated with Him.

Let the Remnant arise today and walk in the very power and authority invested to us by our King Jesus who said “And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full”

Father, it gives us Great joy to claim America as belonging to you, we speak to the evil in tis land and we bind its voice, and we in the Name above all names, Jesus, lose Your will from coast to coast, border to border that America is now and shall ever be, under Your Dominion rule. We claim that the upcoming election shall be a day of victory for the Righteous in this nation, we declare that those who operate behind a veil of evil shall be removed from their positions of authority and their voices shall be silenced. We declare that Your Holy Word and a time for prayers unto You shall be returned to the school Houses across this nation. We decree a mighty righteous reformation to the education Institutes which were founded to advance the knowledge of Your Holy Word. Amen & Amen

Russ G Welch

A.K.A

WindWalker

The Remnant Brigade of Revivalist Minute Men

Posted: July 22, 2022 in disciples life, Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic, wilderness
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“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Gal. 5:25)

Could it be that we do not have many in the Church today who are burning ones, due to the fact that many lean not upon the empowering presence of the Fiery One, Holy Spirit?

Instead, we find a majority of Christian Churches leaning upon the recital of a prayer that is not found anywhere in scripture?

Does not the scriptures clearly state that unless one be born from above?

Are not these quotes found in the Word: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.” “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

Yet seldom do we witness one’s life being radically changed after the prayer is said.

Wait a minute. Has not the Church modeled the world in building Biblical education institutes modeled after the world with the goal of producing individuals, who are proficient in religious intellectualism?

The most exalted intellect, and the most attractive, natural disposition, reach no higher than the earth itself.

The Kingdom of Heaven consists of the family of God, those who have risen to an entirely different sphere, and received a nature as much above the intellectual and the moral as God is above an angel.

It is not a prayer that is needed, it is not religious intellectualism.

No, my friends, it is the power of the Gospel drawing one to their knees where they surrender all and having done so receive the seal of the Kingdom via the baptism in FIRE that is so desperately needed in our day.

Enough of the religious games, enough with the wasting of the children’s bread (Finances) on worldly education models meant for the store-house for God’s family.

We can not lose another generation to a stick, hay, and stubble religious system lacking in Holy Spirit empowering fire.

We need a reformation of spiritual fathers and mothers!!!

It is time for the Bride to wake up, time for the Remnant to stand up, and time for the Church to return to the foundational teachings of Red Letters and put ALL of our trust in the hands of the promised One, Holy Spirit.

Release the hounds of Heaven to rout out the foxes and send them fleeing from the Father’s houses across this nation.

It is time for a major rallying of the revivalist minute men, sending them from town to town ‘Get ready for the day of Salvation has come!!!

WindWalker

Warning of a war within our Gates

Posted: July 9, 2022 in disciples life, Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic
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(I received this word from the Lord in 2013 but did not post it at the time – 9 years later I see its truth has unfolded before our very eyes)

In these last days, we must walk in the full knowledge of our Holy Lord Jesus Christ. We must cut short the lives of any false words, so that they may be exposed and emptied of any and all power to deceive a man. We must walk in the true revelation that indeed we are charged and commissioned by our Holy Lord and his Holy apostle Paul to judge the fruit from which a man bares.

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Pressing past covid into Victory

Posted: August 4, 2021 in disciples life, Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic, wilderness
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Yahweh goes out to battle like a hero and stirs up his passion and zeal like a mighty warrior. Yes, his God-shout is a mighty battle cry; he will triumph heroically over all his foes. For a long time, I said nothing. I restrained myself and kept silent. Now I will groan, pant, and gasp like a woman in labor. I will level their hills and mountains and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn rivers into islands and dry up their lakes. (Isaiah 42:13-15, The Passion Translation)

Although I am now several days in the negative from covid, energy is still the issue.

I so badly want to be at the mission yet my body seems to just want to sleep.

So I sleep, read, war in the Spirit and sleep some more.

At times the warring in the Spirit crosses the realm lines of unconsciousness and consciousness and I find myself warring in my dreams.

Yet whether awake or a sleep, I am fully confident according to the Scriptures that as I am warring in Christ, I am always warring from a position of Victory He has already won.

Jesus warned us there would be battles, persecutions, trials and tribulations..

Yet Praise God, with that He promised us His Hell shaken PEACE grounded in the Truth that He is the Victorious Champion.

He has overcome everything the enemy and the rulers of this worlds system threw at Him and He has left them ALL in total defeat!!!

For those of you who are recovering from covid, press in and press on.

The Battle has already been won in Christ Jesus…

It is the time when the Warriors of the Kingdom must contend the hardest, for the break through Victory is close.

Don’t give in to the enemy, you shall prevail victorious in Christ, you are a mighty child of God and the enemy of our soul has already been defeated.

Now is the hour to press in and contend for the manifestation of the victory of the cross in our lives.

We shall come through this stronger then when the enemy first attackes us.

We are indeed more than conquerors in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Shalom.

Dr. Russ Welch

Director at Beaches Rescue & Recovery Mission located in Jacksonville Beach Florida

www.beachesmission.org

Guard your hearts in the coming days….

Posted: January 18, 2021 in disciples life, Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic, wilderness
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I had a dream last night in which an individual came to our home. When I opened the door, the individual seemed familiar but I could not remember their name. The individual started telling me all about everything in the news, the election, nation and world.

I started feeling uncomfortable and asked them their name. The individual sat back and smiled. I asked their name again, and with the smile still on their face, the individual smiled and said “It’s me, your old friend fear”.

After the name was spoken I woke up. Spent some time in communion with Holy Spirit and was filled with peace. I feel lead to share the following:

So, what does all this mean? If God has determined to stand with us, tell me, who then could ever stand against us? For God has proved his love by giving us his greatest treasure, the gift of his Son. And since God freely offered him up as the sacrifice for us all, he certainly won’t withhold from us anything else he has to give………Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all, for God has made us to be more than conquerors, and his demonstrated love is our glorious victory over everything! (Romans 8:31-33, 37, TPT)

Don’t fall for the enemy’s tactic of releasing the “spirit of fear” as a weapon against the Saints this year. All the hype of the “New administration” attack against Christians, whether it be a illegitimate or legitimate administration it has “No power” nor any “weapon” that can prosper against the faithful.

Since the Resurrection of our Lord the enemy has sought to snuff us out and the Bride has gone through darker days and we’re still here.

So rather than run and hide in fear, let us rise up United in cause and shine brighter than we’ve ever shined before – for we not only serve a Victorious King, we have inherited a “Overcoming – Victorious – Conquering” D.N.A.

We are more than a “Little Light” We are the Light in Christ which shall light up the nations with the un removable, undisputable revelation knowledge of the Glory of our Lord.

Having put on the FULL ARMOR of God, let us be on the offensive welding the Power of Peace, Mercy & Grace. Let us stand firm in our Faith, releasing the mighty weapons of Righteousness, casting down and nullifying every evil agenda spoken against the Bride of Christ.

Let us release the weaponized missiles of prayer which is are in agreement with Heaven according to the promises of our inheritance of dominion authority, calling for His Kingdom the come, and His perfect will to be established, destroying every stronghold of darkness which seeks to silence the voice of Heaven.

Let us look forward to the next four years as that which we shall make the Name of Jesus known from coast to coast, that every inch of the White House and congress will be bathed in the Holy all consuming Presence of our Father which is seated for all eternity upon the Throne of Righteousness!!!

~Dr. Russ Welch, Director at Beaches Rescue & Recovery Mission

Superficial Spirituality versus Genuine Humility

Posted: May 30, 2019 in disciples life, Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic, wilderness
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“Then Jesus addressed both the crowds and his disciples and said,  “The religious scholars and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ throne as the authorized interpreters of the Law.  So listen and follow what they teach, but don’t do what they do, for they tell you one thing and do another.  They tie on your backs an oppressive burden of religious obligations and insist that you carry it, but will never lift a finger to help ease your load.  Everything they do is done for show and to be noticed by others. They want to be seen as holy, so they wear oversized prayer boxes on their arms and foreheads with Scriptures inside, and wear extra-long tassels on their outer garments. They crave the seats of highest honor at banquets and in their meeting places.  And how they love to be admired by men with their titles of respect, aspiring to be recognized in public and have others call them ‘Reverend.” (Matthew 23:1-7, TPT)

It’s is very interesting to see that this is even more prevalent in our day. The sin of such is very much like leaven for is we do not allow Holy Spirit access to search our heart, a little morsel of pride un-detected will ultimately cause ones down fall.

Man has a habit of putting those they admire up on a peddle stool, and in such they begin to desire to become like them. In a day when access to these individuals through media and social networking is larger than ever, we see our fair share of “super-star” puffed up religious personalities out there. The question is why are so many attracted to them? Is it due to their popularity or that they have huge crowds and within the philosophy of this world, that translates being accepted, admired and almost (in some case they are) worshipped?

Sorry America, Heaven has one star and His Name is Jesus, and His Father will not tolorate any idols before Him, no mater how popular they are or how much the resemble the American way, or any other nation or culture for that matter.

Let’s continue on with Jesus’ teaching here in Matthew Chapter 23:

“But you are to be different from that. You are not to be called ‘master,’ for you have only one Master, and you are all brothers and sisters.  And you are not to be addressed as ‘father,’ for you have one Father, who is in heaven.  Nor are you to be addressed as ‘teacher,’ for you have one Teacher, the Anointed One. The greatest among you will be the one who always serves others from the heart.  Remember this: If you have a lofty opinion of yourself and seek to be honored, you will be humbled. But if you have a modest opinion of yourself and choose to humble yourself, you will be honored.” (Matthew 23:8-12, TPT)

So, what’s up with all the titles people?

From Prophet so an so, Apostle so an so to Apostle-Prophet-Teacher so an so. And the list goes on and sadly it’s fueled by a generation that feeds into their ego, puffing them up. What’s really scary is that many who do such are falling into the trap of pride themselves. It’s as though they feel a perverse entitlement in that if they are following such titles, they are:

a) Better than others who don’t have leaders of such “Great Esteem” and or b) If they follow close enough, why the blessing and favor of God on these leaders lives will somehow have splatter on them.

Need I say anymore? I think not, as I believe Holy Spirit has all the power to remove the scales from peoples eyes and the Word speaks with power as well, so let’s see what Jesus has to say next;

Jesus gives us a 7 stern warning’s here….

 “Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and you Pharisees—such frauds and pretenders! You do all you can to keep people from experiencing the reality of heaven’s kingdom realm. Not only do you refuse to enter in, you also forbid anyone else from entering in!

 “Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and you Pharisees—frauds and pretenders! For you eat up the widow’s household with the ladle of your prayers. Because of this, you will receive a greater judgment.

 “Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and you Pharisees—such frauds and pretenders! For you will travel over lake and land to find one disciple, only to make him twice the child of hell as yourselves.

 “You blind guides! Great sorrow awaits you, for you teach that there’s nothing binding when you swear by God’s temple, but if you swear by the gold of the temple, you are bound by your oath.  You are deceived in your blindness!

 Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?  And you say that whoever takes an oath by swearing, ‘By the altar,’ it is nothing. But if you swear, ‘By the gift upon the altar,’ then you are obligated to keep your oath.  What deception! For what is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?  Whoever swears by the altar swears by the altar and everything offered on it.  And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and the one who dwells in it.  And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by God, who sits upon it.

 “Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and pretenders! For you are obsessed with peripheral issues, like insisting on paying meticulous tithes on the smallest herbs that grow in your gardens. These matters are fine, yet you ignore the most important duty of all: to walk in the love of God, to display mercy to others, and to live with integrity. Readjust your values and place first things first.  

What blind guides! Nitpickers! You will spoon out a gnat from your drink, yet at the same time you’ve gulped down a camel without realizing it!

 “Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and imposters! You are like one who will only wipe clean the outside of a cup or bowl, leaving the inside filthy. You are foolish to ignore the greed and self-indulgence that live like germs within you.  You are blind and deaf to your evil. Shouldn’t the one who cleans the outside also be concerned with cleaning the inside? You need to have more than clean dishes; you need clean hearts!

 “Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and imposters! You are nothing more than tombs painted with fresh coats of white paint—tombs that look shining and beautiful on the outside, but within are found decaying corpses full of nothing but corruption.  Outwardly you masquerade as righteous people, but inside your hearts you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

 “Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and imposters! You build memorials for the prophets your ancestors killed and decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors murdered.  Then you boast, ‘If we had lived back then, we would never have permitted them to kill the prophets.’  But your words and deeds testify that you are just like them and prove that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.  Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started!  You are nothing but snakes in the grass, the offspring of poisonous vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell if you refuse to turn in repentance?

 “For this reason I will send you more prophets and wise men and teachers of truth. Some you will crucify, and some you will beat mercilessly with whips in your meeting houses, abusing and persecuting them from city to city.  As your penalty, you will be held responsible for the righteous blood spilled and the murders of every godly person throughout your history—from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Jehoiada, whom you killed as he stood in the temple between the brazen altar and the Holy Place.  I tell you the truth: the judgment for all these things will fall upon this generation!” (Matthew 23:13-36, TPT)

This is as stern a message to the Body today as it was in the day it was spoken. Several months ago, Holy Spirit took me make to these passages to remind to stay the course. Several years before, He led me here to show me that I was lifting up men over Jesus Himself. That I had fashioned my eyes and ministry aspirations on an imposter imagine of what a true follower of Jesus looked and acted like.

In both cases I had to repent for Holy Spirit showed me how I had been drawn away by the bling bling of popularity and sought-after false images. I had to turn my eyes and thinking back to the simplicity of the “Gospel of the Kingdom” and especially back on Christ my Lord, King and Messiah.

Let us, who have in one form or other fallen for the leaven like snares of the enemy repent and turn back to the truth, return to the Highway of holiness and pursue Christ Jesus, His Righteousness and His Kingdom alone, for then we shall indeed be sons & daughters of God.

For my brothers & sisters, I believe we are about to enter  a time-period when the Bride is being awoken, that which has been spots and blemishes on her beauty is going to be removed. We are in an hour when we shall begin to see the Fulness of the Kingdom break-forth. Those things which are not part of the Brides adornment will begin to be exposed and removed quickly.

We’ve been teetering for several generations and due to the Great mercy of our Lord, He has held back His hand, but we are about the enter the 3rd 3rd, the fullness of the Kingdom where the spiritual resurrection of the Bride is going to take place. The earth’s groans for the manifestation of the sons & daughters of God have filled the bowls in Heaven and are now being tipped over.

It is an exciting day for the Bride, but it’s going to be a dreadful day for the Harlot.

So let us close this with a prayer,

Holy Spirit lead us in a way which humbles us and prepare our hearts for the purposes for which the Father ordained for our lives before the foundation of the world. Let our hearts be baptized with Your Holy Fire, let our hands be cleansed by Your holiness, may we be washed clean from the muck of religion and worldliness.

Father, have Your ways in our lives to the Glory of Your Name, Amen

~Russ Welch

Russ is currently part of the Leadership team at the RiverHouse in Jacksonville Florida which has been hosting the Presence of the Lord in demonstrations of power and glory since 2015 and also houses the Healing Rooms of North Florida where they have witnessed many healing’s and deliverance’s to the Glory of the Lord.

THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTAL LIFE NOW

Posted: May 20, 2019 in disciples life, Kingdom Teaching, Prophetic, teaching
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I long to be more fully connected into the flow of the glory of life eternal and abundant. Father God, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit of life, consume me now that nothing of me remains and only You fully and securely abide.

Human reason was good enough for a religious season, but now has spent its strength. Immortality must now replace mortality. Mortal life wanes away making place for God’s immortal life to stay: no longer a passing visitor, but now a wellspring of Your life forevermore. (John 7:38).

Hallelujah! The time has come for the sons of glory to come forth. Now is the day for Spirit-natural to replace supernatural.

Now, while yet on earth, living in immortality from the fountain of life flowing living water of eternal life within us and out to a world that has been captured by spirits of death. Setting captives free to walk out of death’s prisons to live life abundantly now and forever.

Truly mortality has put on immortality.

Death must always precede resurrection life. The death experience of our past life is the end of our reasoning season. We are crucified with Christ that we may be recipients of His resurrected life now in these mortal bodies that are the temple of His immortality. (1 Corinthians 6:19).

Even as our natural flesh wanes away, eternal life abides as one with Spirit Christ within us. “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20.

The mystery of the ages now revealed is the immortal glorified Christ in you, the hope of glory. The glory of God fills the earth through the resurrected Christ abiding in multitudes of Sons of God, joint heirs with Christ Jesus, ruling and reigning on Planet Earth.

THE BIG QUESTION

The big question is not, “Is there life after death?”. The great question for you and me today is this: Is there life now, real life, eternal life, abundant life? Yes! The true life of Christ, the resurrected life of Jesus alive within our mortal bodies by the Holy Spirit is the immortal, eternal, and abundant life now and forever.

Our time to bring the glory of God on earth is NOW. Only our short time on earth is our given opportunity to bring the ways and glory of heaven to earth. Our time on earth is NOT just preparation for life in heaven someday. This life now is the one that counts in the job assignment that we all have in Christ to bring forth our part of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son to redeem the world. The work of His Son, Christ Jesus, continues today by the Holy Spirit forming Christ in us becoming many sons in the ONE SON, Christ Jesus, as the body of Christ on earth.

MANY TODAY CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST AND ALIVE IN HIM

Probably all religions contain some truth at some level. However, they are all cunningly devised with divergences of man’s reasoning influenced by demon spirits. Satan and powers of darkness cannot continue their false rule on earth when the whole truth of Christ now on earth arising in His people is realized. The realization of Christ in us is the manifestation of Christ to His rightful place of King of His kingdom on earth. (1: Timothy 4:1) (Matthew 15:9) (Ephesians 4:14) (Revelation 1:6, 5:10).

The enemies of God are powerless against the Son of God in His Body on earth. The devil and all works of darkness were and are defeated at the cross. The victory of the cross is brought forth on earth by the resurrected life of Christ Jesus now abiding in His people alive on earth by the Holy Spirit.

THE GREATEST OUTPOURING OF GOD ON EARTH

The greatest revival ever is the imminent massive surge of awakening to the reality of Christ in His people by the Holy Spirit, establishing the fullness of the kingdom of God in and through His people.

It is the voice of God in Christ in His people that will end the false reign of Satan and the powers of darkness on earth. The powerful WORD of God spoken forth through the demonstration of the LOVE works of Christ in His Body on earth recreates the earth to the Garden of Eden type design of God.

This is not a someday by and by reality. This is now available within the hearts and lives of all who will fully seek first, above all else, the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and love not their lives to the death. Thereby making room for the resurrected life of Christ to fully abide where we once lived. To save our lives now is to lose the life of Christ and His kingdom reality now in this life on earth. To lose our lives now for His sake and His gospel of the kingdom is to find His resurrected life now and forever. (Matthew 6:33) (Revelation 12:11) (Matthew 10:39) (Galatians 2:20).

 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Matthew 6:33.

The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. 27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:26-27.

In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:9-10.

Arise, my beloved, your time has come; all is prepared and made ready. That which was is no more, and that which is to come is within you. Awaken to the light of glory in the power of love and peace everlasting.

 

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