Author: Melissa Lynne

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Now that was what I call a big breakfast!!!

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Whoa! Some days I think I can’t go on another minute. I am tired and weary and then God shows up and changes everything with His Word. I understand to my core this morning that the Word is the Bread and it feeds me. And I am getting that the Word is the Daily Bread is His Body and it has fed me. With the Word I am overflowing. You know sometimes I am guilty of running around looking for a touch from someone, a prophesy, a word from someone I think has a better connection to God…but I learned this last night and it was reinforced when I meditated on the scripture this morning-the Word of the Lord is all I need. It is my prophesy!! It will not come back void. It is freely given. This is the Word of the Lord:

Psalm 105:17-22
17 and he sent a man before them—
Joseph, sold as a slave.
18 They bruised his feet with shackles,
his neck was put in irons,
19 till what he foretold came to pass,
till the word of the LORD proved him true.
20 The king sent and released him,
the ruler of peoples set him free.
21 He made him master of his household,
ruler over all he possessed,
22 to instruct his princes as he pleased
and teach his elders wisdom.

Genesis 39:2-5
2 The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did, 4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. 5 From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.

What I received from God through Pastor Cathy Feemster last night and through His Word this morning:  When God gives a vision and a dream and then you speak it, just like Joseph, YOU WILL BE TESTED!! If it is a God dream then it is much bigger than your dreams could be. It will excite a part of you even if you don’t understand it all or how it will come to pass. THEN you will speak it and every time you speak it, you will be tested. When it is a God dream things will come against it. Someone will oppose you, if not hate you. Others will feel threatened and instead of living in their own anointing and fulfilling their own dream, they will seek to destroy yours. They will try to steal it. Don’t fall for the lies and tricks of the enemy that would destroy you and quash God’s dream being fulfilled in and through you. In the midst of testing remember the dream you were given that you spoke so boldly of and have faith in the vision and in the midst of it all God will give you favor. He will work in mysterious ways. If it is a God dream then it is God’s vision and IT WILL COME TO PASS. It will come to pass and you will find that your speaking it and the favor but also even that time of testing was part of the dream being fulfilled. So stand firm even if you seem to stand alone and stand anointed.

Now that was what I call a really big breakfast and I am going to have to chew on this awhile and maybe once I do, I’ll even have come back and change some of these thoughts, don’t know… but this I guarantee- I am not skipping lunch!

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Crucified with Christ – WOW!

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Co-crucified, co-buried, co-raised, co-seated, co-heir 2 Corinthians 5:21 – God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Galatians 2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. If we are the body of Christ then we were crucified with Him; we were buried, raised, resurrected with Him; we are seated with Him and share all the blessings with Him. Now. but…if we are the body of Christ….I mean we really are His body, then He is also what lives in us. It is not us living but Him through us. I can’t yet explain (but you know I will try eventually) in my own human words what I get from that but it making me crazy…in a good way : )

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Crucified with Christ – WOW!

Posted on by Melissa Lynne
Recently, I heard Winnie Banov speak on the following: “Co-crucified, co-buried, co-raised, co-seated, co-heir.” When I heard this message, it excited me because I felt it held revelation for me but I couldn’t quite grasp that same revelation. Then last night during Bible study on Ephesians, Pastor Sammy said that we were crucified with Christ and when He started explaining what that meant to each of us individually, I felt the Holy Spirit flow through my physical body and I FELT that revelation in a very real way. It jolted me. Is that possible to get a revelation in your mind and spirit and body all at once? A knowing in your body? Strange to me how I feel.

2 Corinthians 5:21 – God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

So my thoughts….If we are the body of Christ then we were crucified with Him; we were buried, raised and that also means that we were resurrected with Him. Are we seated with Him? What!!! Could it be that we are seated with Him and share all the blessings with Him, now?

Also…if we are the body of Christ….I mean we really are His body, then He is also what lives, really lives, in us since we no longer live. Melissa is dead; God lives. wow… It is not us living but Him through us. I can kind of understand it, even if in an extremely elementary way, but I can’t yet explain (but you know I will try eventually) in my own human words what I get from that. It is making me crazy…but in a good way : )

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What if…

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What if…
What if instead of blessing the offering, blessings were prayed over those who will give– before they give. There is power in a blessing from a father (spiritual or otherwise).
What if we put our tithes and offerings on the altar and they were lifted up to heaven as we gave thanks for them and expected with even our mustard seed faith and trust for them to multiply and expand to our need.
What if we remembered and praised and testified and declared His Glory and listened to Him speak through the Word that He has given you for that day, before we count the money.
Yes, what if before we count the money or even know with our natural minds, we stand in awe at what God did. I mean…we say we know the end of the story.
What if we depended radically and totally on God for our miracle, instead of men and men’s resources or men’s decisions (not saying that God won’t use men or individual finances at all because I believe He will use each one but I also believe God can meet this need and more in supernatural ways).
What if we stopped asking God to bless us individually so that we can give more to Him. What if we stopped wanting things of God to come from or through us.(speaking to myself here)  What if we asked that if things must come through man, that He bless our neighbor so the miracle/revival/revelation could flow through them. Would we do it? What if we would?
What if we really believed in miracles.
Nothing is too hard for God and He wants to reveal Himself to us. He loves His kids!!!  We are adopted. I am getting that and it is blowing me away. I am getting that I was crucified with Christ. I am getting that I am not even of this world. I don’t live, He lives. I am really getting it.
What if everyone could get it and everyone understood who they are. If they knew…then they would be free to give their life (His life in them) completely away – and anything attached to it.  What if I knew it fully.
I know, I think way too much : )
Blessed be the name of the Lord!
He is everything to me!!!
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Nothing to lose – part 2

Posted on by Melissa Lynne
May need to read original note for this to be in context: this is one of the things I felt the Lord impressed me to do and then to pass on…Prophesy! Speak the scripture over your neighborhood, your church, your household, yourself. If no one will listen speak it to the wind. As Sister Frankie said, “Don’t add to, don’t take away from. So there will be no flesh involved, just speak God’s word and start with Ezekiel 37:1-14″….The Word of the Lord will not come back void.

Ezekiel 37
The Valley of Dry Bones

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the LordGod; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lordhave spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

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Go for it…you have nothing to lose!

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This doesn’t really seem like something profound or anything but I believe this is the word of the Lord:

“Go for it–You have nothing to lose!”

Received this word from God while in prayer during the worship service on 10/4/2009 and so I prayed this phrase. Then this exact word was given again on Saturday evening 10/10/2009 in a message by Sister Frankie Sneed as she preached at a revival service from Ezekial 37 on raising dead bones (Travelers Rest, SC revival service).

I had never spoken to anyone about this. God told her to preach it and at the end God told her to pray for me. She prayed and prophesied some things, and I came away knowing in my heart the words were from the Lord God Almighty to her to me. I know it does not really sound that clever or profound but for me, it changes everything- HALLELUJAH!!!

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Fruit and fish…who can understand?

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“All fruitfulness flows from intimacy.”

This phrase has been “burning” in me for the last few days. Where did it come from?

I was thinking about it this morning during prayer walk and it became kind of mixed into the scripture about Jesus pulling the coin out of the fishes mouth. I wondered why they seemed so intertwined? Maybe it was just the guy fishing at the pond…

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Fruit and Fish – who can understand?

Posted on by Melissa Lynne

“All fruitfulness flows from intimacy.”

This phrase has been “burning” in me for the last few days. Where did it come from?

I was thinking about it this morning during prayer walk and it became kind of mixed into the scripture about Jesus pulling the coin out of the fishes mouth. I wondered why they seemed so intertwined? Maybe it was just the guy fishing at the pond…

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just some thoughts on being chosen and adoption

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Thoughts on being chosen –

Before the world ever existed there was God and in that moment He loved me. His love is eternal. He doesn’t just love me now, He loved me then. I am who I am because of the eternal love of God. This separates God’s love from every other love on the planet. If God has eternally loved me then His love for me is not based on my past because He loved me before I had one. It is not based on my efforts or trying to do good because He loved me before. His love for me is based on the death of His Son. It is His Son’s righteousness that makes Him love me. If God has eternally loved me then there is this anticipation by God for me. Not just for us but for me. Anticipation for me and great love for me. This love is the foundation that my destiny is built on. Before creation of the world He chose me to be holy and blameless. He picked me! Do I think He made a mistake? He picked me and it says in the scripture He’s happy about it.

Thoughts on adoption –

God predestined me. He has adopted me. Adoption is a word that in our world is used mostly as taking in a child as our own if we can’t have our own. But I feel God is saying I am a Father and I had my own Son. I had my own Son and I gave Him away so I could have you. I had my own Son and I allowed Him to suffer and gave Him away so you could be adopted. Do you get what that means? Do you know who you are? Amazing.

I am starting to get it.

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Pray lest you fall

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Well it has happened. I fell asleep in the prayer room this morning. Dozed off, nodded off…never imagined I would. Most especially didn’t imagine it since I popped up and was ready to face the day at 5am because I couldn’t sleep. So eager. There is just something about falling asleep during prayer that really humbles you. I am reminded of the disciples and their same struggle. How often I have judged them…and now I have lived it, kind of. What did Jesus say to them…pray lest you fall into temptation? What did He say to me? Pretty much the same thing the first time I woke up and the second. As I left I did so just as I imagine Peter did, determined to prove I hadn’t failed terribly and that I could overcome. Even to standing up and cutting off an ear of the enemy…acting first thinking later out of a passion to prove something. That same determination and proof— a failure as well.

Yes it happened. The temptation, the frustration, the battle, the failure. All I had to do was stay awake and pray, but I couldn’t.