The Exalted Soul What Was Broken Can Be Restored A Book of God's Restorative Work Herald Wade

By Herald Wade

The Exalted Soul is a book of restoration. Imagine living without addictions and chronic illness. Imagine life no longer bound by chasing after relief from stress and anxiety without taking pills! This can be a living reality as it has become for me. This book is written to destroy the Devil’s greatest weapon the “Exalted Soul.” This revelation will lead you to becoming a “Living Spirit” instead of a soul driven machine. You can and will hear God, you can and will be healed, you can and will have a passion for life again. God is not looking to replace you but to restore you, this book will show you how.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Herald Wade
• Release date: Jul 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370850426

Herald Wade

Herald & Lisa Wade are residents of Keller, Texas and have been married for 34 years. They have three children, Cody, Darrell, and Savanna “Rose”. Lisa worked for Maranatha Village Retirement Community for five years caring for the aged ministers of the Assemblies of God while Herald attended Central Bible College graduating in 2007. In 2008 they founded Victorious Living Christian Center in Charleston, West Virginia, where Herald served as Senior Pastor and Lisa as the Children’s pastor. They enjoy reading God’s Word to each other, photography, and long walks in the evenings. Herald and Lisa are deeply devoted to each other, to their Church, their community, and family.

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Herald Wade

The Exalted Soul

WHAT WAS BROKEN CAN BE RESTORED

A BOOK OF GOD’S RESTORATIVE WORK

The Exalted Soul – A Book of God’s Restorative Work

By Herald Kelly Wade © 2016

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Table of Content

Dedication

To my wife, Lisa. She deserves more credit than words can say. The truth is: I am saved through her prayers, taught by her wisdom, and understand God through her grace. Every woman of nobility could learn so much from the life of this saint. To say I love her is not enough, but that is all I have.

Acknowledgments

To my mother, Sandy Wade, who prayed for me without ceasing throughout the years, thank you.

I wish to thank my brother, Pastor Kevin Wade, who has always been there in times of need. His loyalty has never been rivaled. It is said that there is one who sticks closer than a brother; I suppose I must take this by faith. Whitney Seacrist has been my friend, sister, and the love of my life. I wish to say thank you for all the advice you have given me and for all the sacrifices you have made. I also want to thank my children, Cody, Darrell, and Savanna. Thank you all for the years you watched your father grow in Christ and you forgave my misrepresentation of the True Father.

Special thanks go to the leadership of Carter Conlon Senior Pastor of Time Square Church. He has been my spiritual father for many years; He has inspired much of the theology sewn into this book. Also, to my family at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, who, through their Freedom Ministries, awakened my life to the changes outlined in this book. Lastly, to the Assemblies of God who molded me into a man of God while at Central Bible College.

Preface

On May 29, 1997, I had an encounter with God in a rest area outside of Kansas City, Missouri. I was not a Christian, Muslim, Hindu or a Buddhist at the time, nor was I religious in any way. On that day, my life was defined in different measures by drugs, alcohol, pornography, lust, fear, selfishness, and more. I had no affiliation with any church or religious organization and my health was fine but soon was to be taken when God began to take me on a journey that has impacted my life forever. From that day forward I believe God has led me on a survey of sorts that has lasted over 17 years. The Lord has given me a revelation that has led me to writing this book. Through four years of Bible College, ten years of medical examinations, and five years of applying myself to be the pastor I need to be, I have come to know a deep revelation that can only come from God.

I am not sure where or when the Bible was classified as a Christian book. True, it speaks of Christ, but if you read the Bible itself you would have to read it all the way to the book of Acts to see the first time the word Christian is used, Then you will see that the word was first introduced by people who were called Gentiles. The book is one of truth from the author of truth to a race of beings that was created for a purpose; a race that was fashioned and designed to function a certain way as they become the people the creator created them to become. The Bible supports what I write, which is what I believe will lead to truth, and life. I reference the Bible throughout this book but I want to be clear; this book is not solely destined for Christian people, but for all human beings.

As you read this book it is very likely that you are in a similar situation to the one I lived in day in and day out. You may be sick in your body and can’t seem to get better, or maybe you are stuck in a lifestyle which you know is wrong but can’t seem to find the strength to change. To those of you who are in a religion that is filled with repetitious routines or philosophical ideologies, which, in the end, have no impact on your heart I say, There is hope.

The world is full of people who are suffering from illnesses that have no name. Sadly, even more are suffering from illnesses that have names but seem never to get better. I was among this group of people until I began to listen to the Lord in a way I had not been taught or even thought of previously. From January 10, 2003 through June of 2013, I was tormented by an illness that stumped the greatest medical minds in North America. The last thread of hope I had in the medical world came when I was examined at length at the Cleveland Clinic by three different specialists, only to be told that they, too, were unable to offer a diagnosis and therefore a treatment.

Among the many theories that were discussed at my bedside, it was proposed that I had a form of Multiple Sclerosis, Benign Paroxysmal Position Vertigo (BPPV), Basilar Migraine, Neurological damage to the optical nerve, Perilymphatic Fistula, and more diagnoses were offered, including anxiety disorder and panic attacks. My favorite was mesencephalonic vertigo, which was described to me as a disorder of the animal brain that was misfiring, causing me to stay in a continual state of heightened alert.

Later, a neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic would tell me that I would have been better to cast a handful of chicken bones into the top of a garbage can lid, dismissing the records as voodoo. The solution of all was to place me on the wonderful family of drugs known as Benzodiazepines. For the next 10 years I would be taking Xanax, Klonopin, and Diazepam by the handful in hope that they would allow me to have some measure of life.

There is another illness that has gone undiagnosed in the world that has proven to be as equally illusive – terrorism. The headlines on Fox News this morning stated that the answer to fighting global terrorism is to create jobs. This suggestion was made in response to the statement made by State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf. This, of course, is no doubt coming from a collection of political minds examining the global problem of terrorism. I could see that advancing a diagnosis in the case of this disease had taken the same course as my own. The prescription coming from the White House was to address the symptoms displayed from the behavior of terrorists. After all, isn’t the goal of physicians to make you feel better?

There has always been a debate or a discussion surrounding the reason for which people do what they do and finding out what the motivation behind the crisis is. I remember listening to the news networks in 2001 when the media were inundated with heated discussions regarding the reasons behind someone flying a plane into a high-rise in New York City. It seems that one side was looking at the rubble where the Twin Towers once stood, saying, we need to understand why people are so angry with us and would go to such measures, while the other side of the debate was saying, the actions were barbaric and the culprits must be brought to justice.

As I read the news, I thought that the terrorists did not need jobs; they needed the same thing I received when I began to get well ... revelation. It is clear to me that there are no limits to what actions a person, who was created/designed to interact with God through a spirit-to-Spirit exchange, can take, but fails to do so. What is just as deadly is their attempts at navigating through life without ever realizing they were created for so much more.

The late Myles Monroe said in his book, Rediscovering The Kingdom, that the greatest threat to the future is religion (page 7). I could not agree more, but I am not really sure what the term religion really implies. I would like to say that the greatest threat to the future is that the human race will continually misdiagnose or totally misunderstand what it means to be alive. Much of what is coming out of the church is nothing more than humanism with a millennial spin. Until a person begins to seek God to enlighten them regarding the purpose for which they were created, they will continue to see heaven as unattainable or irresponsive. Most are seeking God much like Abraham who ventured down to Egypt seeking relief from famine. He went so far as to offer his wife, which was the vessel of promise, to Pharaoh in exchange for material possessions and better living condition. Until people will be willing to seek God without conditions, or regardless of conditions, they will only find God to be distant. God did not send His son into this world so that humans could use Him to make their lives better but so that He could bring glory back to God. This is why God bring matters into existence and this is also the reason why it is the only order that will remain in the ages to come.

Every human being has suffered a traumatic injury that resulted in the death of their spirit and has left behind an alternate form of existence that has placed their soul in charge of navigating through life. What was supposed to be an umbilical cord of life from God to His created beings has now been severed, leaving the soul to assume a task it was not created to perform. Aliveness from God has now been substituted with things such as intellect, logic, and reason; all forms of thought stemming from the soul, which includes religion. There is nothing that can come from this but an endless search for life resulting in death. There isn’t anything wrong with these things except for the fact that they simply are not life nor are they coming from the part of us created to experience life.

My breakthrough began when I heard you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. I first heard this from Robert Morris, Senior Pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas. This came to me at a time when I was pastoring a small church in South Charleston, West Virginia. One day, while listen to Pastor Morris on the internet, I heard him say that the most damaging word in the English language was the word cope. At the time it did not resonate with me as that profound, but the Lord used it to bring me on a personal journey that began at the same time when I was preparing for my own death. I was convinced that my illness was degenerative and even though it remained nameless, it was slowly robbing me of my ability to live. I had believed a lie that said, since doctors could not offer treatment for my illness, that I would simply have to cope with it by sedating my body and enjoy whatever life I could until death would come.

This book has been in preparations now for many years. Inside this book is the truth that will change any person’s life for the better. You are created to be in a relationship with God, but there is an order to His design with which we must connect if we are to discover what living really is. Is it possible that God wants to release help upon the earth for more than just physical illness but also for all people who are unsure of what they believe? It is staggering to me to think of the impact this book could have on every human being that has ever struggled and coped with a life that is less than that for which they were created.

As people read this book, it is my hope that they will begin to see that the Exalted Soul (mind, will, and emotions) is not the mechanism that God originally designed to interpret life. The Exalted Soul is the result of a tragedy. It is not that uncommon for a person that has suffered from a traumatic accident to discover that the body will attempt to compensate for an injury. My life changed when I began to discover that my body had found a way of expressing the illness of my soul. What doctors could not cure through medicine God cured through truth. You can join me by beginning to live the life you always dreamed of, which begins the day you are awakened to the truth: You were created to live a spirit-led life and not a soul-driven existence. Turn the page and see the next chapter of the beginning of your life.

Introduction

The Broken Knower

Ihave tried imagining my reaction when answering the door of my house late at night, only to find Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas standing on the threshold, eager to speak to me. It would even be harder to imagine my listening to him talk, only to realize that the whole of his speech is flawed because of the opening words out of his mouth. The most dangerous words I think I have ever heard began with the phrase: I know. A very similar event happened to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. John recorded the dialogue in the third chapter of his gospel:

"Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him" (John 3:1-2).

I can’t help but wonder what the remainder of the brilliant insight could have been if Jesus had not stopped the man of the Pharisees from continuing. From time-to-time I would use a teaching tool called, ‘role play’ at the church where I pastored – Victorious Living Christian Center – called Kelly-Jesus. It really started by accident and as an attempt at humor, but soon the church was in love with the character. The character revolved around my interpretation of Jesus’ actions and to draw attention and contrast with his greatness. I would say that Kelly-Jesus would have replied to the man of the Pharisees differently. Kelly-Jesus would have perhaps said, and you are supposed to be a leader of what again? welding the sword of sarcasm to draw attention to the man’s deficiency. What is important is that the tender mercy of Jesus knew that the conclusion of the Pharisees was flawed because their knower was broken, and they didn’t know it (no pun intended).

I once knew a young man in Bible College who asked if he could assist me in leading a class of young adults. The content of his lectures was great and his words were well researched but he had one problem that eluded him ... age. I told him that he would do well to adopt a different approach to his lectures. I suggested that he needed to rethink his manner of speech. He used phrases such as, the problem with the church is..., The world needs.... Well, you get the picture. He had not had the right experience or more accurately stated, enough of life experiences to speak with such authority.

I think this is similar to the words Jesus used in his reply to Nicodemus in verses 3-6:

"Jesus answered him, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born? Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."

The word used for see in the original language speaks of perception not physical sight. The remainder of the conversation seems to support the fact that there is a complete disconnect between Nicodemus and Jesus. Jesus is saying that he has come to the conclusion that contains errors because of Nicodemus’s inability to perceive. I would add that, from a minimal understanding, there is an emphasis on being spiritually alive as opposed to being spiritually ‘unborn’. From birth we have been plagued by the same dysfunction. One simply cannot perceive the things of God without being born again. The Bible confirms that from the time we are physically born we are born dead spiritually. This spiritual death is the result from the events recorded in the book of Genesis chapter three. This event has resulted in a mutation of God’s original design for our race and tragically has promoted the soul to the lead position in our interpretation of life which was, initially, the function of the spirit.

Nicodemus is totally unaware that the conclusions he and his colleagues had reached wasn’t the problem, but the process they had used to reach such conclusions. They had engaged their intellect, reasoning, and logic, to examine the deeds of Christ but missed the big picture underlining the intent behind the deeds. Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of God not of Himself in His response to Nicodemus. The Exalted Soul was not designed or equipped by God to interpret the Kingdom of God, the spirit was. This is the quandary of the ages and may I say Satan’s greatest weapon. A great many churches are still suggesting that the soul is the conduit to life as they make their appeal to one’s emotions, which is totally within the scope of the soul. Countless books are put into circulation every day (my book shelves contain many of them) advising people as to how they can overcome their ineptitude, or take steps toward the blissfulness, or rise to new levels of understanding, but, in fact, lead to nowhere. In reality, people are in search of a path whereby they could obtain life and they will never find what they seek by putting their soul to the task. Yet, the soul certainly takes delight in the search. Imagine the void in our books stores today if all the books that petitioned the reader to plant a seed, rise to a new level, or take the next step, accede to a better you, and so on, were removed. None of these are bad, mind you, but they cannot produce aliveness and will certainly not stir Jesus to action. I believe that the voice of God will remain silent to them so not to add to their confusion. How many people have chased after God through countless seminars, lectures, and books which have made their appeal through the engagement of the soul? How can a person ever experience the message Jesus was trying to impart to Nicodemus until they became alive spiritually? Too many people are soul-saved and are interpreting life through a broken knower. Many who read this book will face the greatest challenge of their lives. To unlearn something is often very frightening, yet I have found the experience to unlearn leading to health for my body, peace for my soul, and life to my spirit.

One of my favorite opening lines may be found in the novel written by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook: I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough.

This can be said of me today. I have done nothing in this world that has granted me eminence, I have not accomplished anything great in this life by world’s standards, I have no companies I have founded. I even attend a church where the Senior Pastor doesn’t even know my name. I have a modest home, work with my hands, and drive a twelve year old car. No one notices me at public events, and so on. The fact remains that I have loved one woman with all my heart and have partnered with her in the raising of three children and navigating through the highs and lows of life. In all these things, I have always felt that I lacked nothing.

I did, however, graduate college in 2007 with a degree in Pre-Seminary with two minors; one in Biblical Languages, and the other in history. Nevertheless, I opened the door of a small church in South Charleston, West Virginia and was faithful to the call for five years; it is now under the leadership of another team. That being said, I wish people to know that I do not intend to project myself as a scholar. I have been around many theologians who greatly surpass my knowledge in gifting and wisdom. However, I am an authority in my life experiences and my concerted application of the teachings of the Word of God, which