Neutral Atmosphere – Expanded Prophetic Language Series – Post #2

Using the term “Neutral Atmosphere” is something I personally have never heard used in the church… I’d be interested to know if anyone else ever has used this terminology…

As a musician that has been called to operate in the anointing of a minstrel, I’ve found that creating neutral atmosphere is exactly the essence of what I am called to do. If you think of Neutral in terms of a car, this is the gear you put the car in when it is not purposed to go either forward or backward… There is not a direction that has been chosen rather it’s left open for the direction to come… If we stay with this analogy, it’s the driver that decides what direction to move…

If I choose to let the Holy Spirit “drive” so to speak, my neutrality is not something to be feared but actually enjoyed as I’m leaving things to be moved in the direction the Holy Spirit desires… Once I begin to discern His leading, I can then go in that direction rather than a direction that I had pre-determined hours or even days before a gathering. This atmosphere also gives EVERY PERSON the ability to discern what the Holy Spirit is personally saying to them rather than what one person has determined what each person should collectively hear… This view does not take anything away from the need for pastoral corporate messages… this is just ANOTHER way that the church can corporately meet that I fee is valid and has the potential to be practiced more often…

Intuitive Liturgy – Expanded Prophetic Language Series – Post #1

Liturgy is simply an order by which one performs a spiritual service or gathering.

In the Methodist church I grew up in, the entire service order or liturgy was printed on bulletins and we did everything according to this bulletin. We knew what songs we would sing, which page the songs were on and we even read our prayers word for word.

The word intuition should not be “scary” to a christian. I believe our intuition is the very thing that relates to the Holy Spirit. We can intuitively sense what the Holy Spirit is saying and following His leading.

Intuitive Liturgy is simply conducting a service more “loosely” in order to make effort to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. You may have a few songs picked out, but you may not do them. You may do one and then move into a spontaneous place for the remainder of your time. Often the music is used to create an atmosphere to hear and release the word of the Lord.

Last time I led on a Wednesday night worship service I had a drummer, a flautist and a bg singer with me… They asked me what songs I was doing and what order… I told them I did not know what I was going to do…

I literally sat down to the piano in a room of 100 people and had no idea what I was about to do and I was totally fine with that because I’ve learned what it means to have and create an Intuitive Liturgical experience and I brought others into it…By the end everyone was in AWE of God and you could have heard a pin drop it that place… Yes, God does move in lives through an ordered liturgy but God does not require that we have ordered liturgy in order to enter into His presence… I succeeded as a leader, not because I had pre-planned, but because everyone in that place was aware of His Presence.

There is nothing wrong with doing a service with a planned order. I am just defining a valid form of meeting with God that is more spontaneous in nature, it works and you can do it fruitfully…

Expanded Prophetic Language, Concepts & Definition for 2011

Let’s face it, defining spiritual experience is challenging.

The reality is that descriptive language is often people’s beckoning call into experience…

I want to start off this year by revealing some language that the Holy Spirit has been giving me over these last few years as I’ve been writing. The goal is to relate this language and conceptual description of prophetic spiritual experience not solely for knowledge sakes, but to inspire you to HAVE AN EXPERIENCE…

I avoid using the term New language realizing that probably, someone, somewhere has already said what I’ll say… I use expanded because it’s not about new and old, throwing the former out for the new thing, but just some new ways to describe experiences that will hopefully lead people towards desiring them if they are so inclined… Look for these specific blog posts here in the latter part of 2010 and early part of 2011…