A Place for You

By Mark Spellman

Years ago, the Lord spoke to Mark in a time of prayer, and He said, "If you heal the home, you'll heal the land!" Our land and the nations of the world are in desperate need of healing. Healing that only happens when we allow Christ to become the Cornerstone upon which we build our lives, marriages, and families.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Living Legacy Publishing
• Release date: Nov 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798987156711

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my family. First, to my beloved wife, Kimberly, who has made the last 28 years of my life so fulfilling, joyful, adventurous, and exciting. You have been a very loving, consistent, and powerful wind in my sails. You are crowned in His glory, and you are full of beauty!

To my two awesome sons, Samuel, and Daniel, I am eternally thankful that God brought you into my life. Your place in my heart and in my life is a place that only God could have given.

You all are truly a gift from God! Each of you have taught my heart as a husband and father to really taste of an eternal Love. To each of you, I say THANK YOU!

Establishing and Equipping

Kingdom Minded People & Families

Family Mission is a Kingdom Work

focusing on a Divine Reset

of the Mission of God’s Royal Family.

A great SHIFT occurs when we allow

the Word of God and Holy Spirit to

reset God’s original Kingdom plan

for Man and His Royal Family.

The Blood of Jesus was shed to

redeem and release

your Destiny and His Legacy.

Heal the Home and Heal the Land!

The 7 Mission Objectives of the Family Mission Mandate

Mission Objective 1

Family Mission is working to help everyone experience a DIVINE RESET so they can fulfill their God-given destiny as a part of His legacy. "And by the blood of His cross, everything in heaven and earth is brought back to Himself— back to its original intent, restored to innocence again!" (Colossians 1:20 TPT) Jesus said if you make the tree good the fruit will be good (Matthew 12:33). Family Mission is working to help everyone understand and embrace their TRUE and ORIGINAL value, identity, and purpose - what it truly means to be BORN-AGAIN. When we understand OUR DIVINE NATURE in Christ and the WHY behind our lives, we will make every day a WIN!

Mission Objective 2

Family Mission is working to REVIVE THE MISSION OF LOVE [which is the mission of family]. Every home can be: A Mission Base, A Lighthouse, and An Embassy in the Kingdom of God. The revelation of the cross will establish an altar in every home. The Mission of Love is what Jesus was talking about when He said to take up the cross and follow Him (Mark 10:21). He was telling us to take up the Mission of Love and live like He lived! E. W. Kenyon said, The genius of Christianity is the ability of God to build Himself into us through His Word so that in our everyday life we live like the Master. Just like with Joseph, God desires to live and love through all of us to bring about a great deliverance!

Mission Objective 3

Family Mission is working to keep WORSHIP in the CONTEXT of family. The word worship is first used in Genesis 22. Here we see a covenant family working together in covenant love, fulfilling a covenant Kingdom purpose, and working with God and each other to fulfill a redemptive purpose in the Family of God. Jesus Himself put worship in the context of the family when He spoke of the Father’s desire for WORSHIP! Our Father is not seeking true worshippers for validation and affirmation. He is seeking true worshippers for intimacy, agreement, and partnership in His plans and purposes. Intimacy, agreement, and partnership are the high calling of marriage and family!

Mission Objective 4

Family Mission is working to help everyone move in and experience their MANSION RIGHT NOW. Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you, (John 14:2,23). Jesus prepared a place for us in Him and in the Father: a place for Him and the Father in us. When we understand the power and wisdom of A SEED, the Kingdom of God is opened to us in all its glory (John 12:23-28). I pray that everyone who meets you would catch your faith and learn how wonderful it is to LIVE IN CHRIST JESUS! (Philemon 6, Laubach Translation)

Mission Objective 5

Family Mission Our work is focused on FAMILY so that a Glorious Church can fully rise up. Paul referred to a Glorious Church in Ephesians 5:27. The Holy Spirit intentionally nestled this revelation amid His instructions for MARRIAGE and FAMILY. It’s scripturally unreasonable to think a Glorious Church will fully rise up without making marriage and family all that God originally intended them to be. Marriage and family are called to be powerful witnesses of Christ and His relationship with the Church. The richest application of any revelation in scripture is always in its CONTEXT.

Mission Objective 6

Family Mission is working in PRAYER. Prayer is working with the Father, Holy Spirit, and Jesus, and all of Them with us as described in John 17. Jesus was extremely effective and intentional in prayer, and we should be too. In John 17 He said the words, THAT THEY... 10 times and that’s no accident! The word that expresses consequence, result, or effect. Prayer changes radically when we understand we’re not just praying to God but working WITH HIM in prayer. Our intimacy, agreement, and partnership are vital to Him and to us. Nothing can separate us from the love of God, so nothing can separate us from working with God in prayer.

Mission Objective 7

Family Mission has a passion that burns for ALL NATIONS. People of every nation, tribe, and tongue deserve a chance to experience a DIVINE RESET and be BORN AGAIN. We want everyone to have the opportunity to embrace their God-given DESTINY as a part of His Family and LEGACY!

The Kingdom Work of Family Mission is a multigenerational mandate! We will use every available platform to teach, train, equip, and mentor. This includes the use of meetings, conferences, retreats, books, workbooks, the internet, media, podcasts, etc. We are working to establish Mission Bases and Fellowships in the United States. We joyfully travel to congregations in the United States as well as host a variety of events. The Multigenerational Mandate of Family Mission will be taken to the Nations as the Lord directs.

Family Mission Recognizes

the 7 Mountains of Influence

Education … Faith … Family … Business …

Government … Arts & Entertainment … Media

Introduction

A Place for You was written for you under a Heavenly Mandate. It’s the Mandate of Family Mission. Our Heavenly Father’s Mission was about a family from the beginning, and it will be about a family throughout all eternity. This book assignment has been bathed in much prayer and intercession, just like Queen Esther of old who prepared herself for one night with the King. That one night changed everything and brought about a great deliverance. I believe this book will help you take your place in history with a plan and purpose that you’re destined to. Scripture says Esther was born for such a time as this, and so are YOU.

I believe that about your life. You were born for such a time as this. Scripture says there is a time to be born and here you are! The anointing and fragrance upon this book will create a Divine Shift and a Divine Reset in your thinking and your life! This book is a living coal taken from the altar in Heaven. It contains fire and revelation from Heaven. Let it touch your life. Let it touch your lips. After you’re finished reading A Place for You, like Isaiah, you will be saying, Here am I, Lord, send me!

Proverbs says, Wisdom is the principal thing. In all your getting get understanding, (4:7). This book is all about getting wisdom, understanding, and knowledge from Heaven. It’s eternal wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. Eternal wisdom is the ancient landmark established by God in the book of beginnings, Genesis! This is what Jesus came to re-establish in the heart of man and the family of God!

"Through wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established; By knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches."

Proverbs 24:3-4 NKJV

"Through skillful and godly Wisdom is a house (a life, a home, a family) built, and by understanding it is established [on a sound and good foundation], And by knowledge shall its chambers [of every area] be filled with all precious and pleasant riches."

Proverbs 24:3-4 AMPC

My intention in writing this book is to both reset and build your life, home, and family with the eternal wisdom of God. I want your life, home, and family built upon a sound and good foundation. Storms come to everyone. Having your house on the solid foundation of Christ is the key to winning and thriving in every season of life. If for any reason you are not sure if you’re born-again or you’ve never been baptized in the Holy Spirit and Fire, then there are two prayers in Appendix 1 that I would encourage you to turn to and pray once you finish with this introduction. Appendix 1 is there as a resource for you to lead others in prayer as well.

"Wise people are builders — they build families, businesses, communities. And through intelligence and insight their enterprises are established and endure. Because of their skilled leadership, the hearts of people are filled with the treasures of wisdom and the pleasures of spiritual wealth. Wisdom can make anyone into a mighty warrior, and revelation-knowledge increases strength. Wise strategy is necessary to wage war, and with many astute advisers you’ll see the path to victory more clearly."

Proverbs 24:3-6 TPT

I believe the eternal strategy, wisdom, understanding, and knowledge released in this book will help you see the path to victory more clearly in every circumstance and season of life! We must have Heaven’s perspective. Psalm 139 will beautifully prepare your heart for the precious seeds that will be sown and watered in your heart as you read A Place for You. Please read the Psalm below slowly and prayerfully.

"Lord, you know everything there is to know about me. You perceive every movement of my heart and soul, and you understand my every thought before it even enters my mind. You are so intimately aware of me, Lord. You read my heart like an open book, and you know all the words I’m about to speak before I even start a sentence! You know every step I will take before my journey even begins. You have gone into my future to prepare the way, and in kindness you follow behind me to spare me from the harm of my past. You have laid your hand on me! This is just too wonderful, deep, and incomprehensible! Your understanding of me brings me wonder and strength.

Where could I go from your Spirit? Where could I run and hide from your face? If I go up to heaven, you’re there! If I go down to the realm of the dead, you’re there too! If I fly with wings into the shining dawn, you’re there! If I fly into the radiant sunset, you’re there waiting! Wherever I go, your hand will guide me; your strength will empower me. It’s impossible to disappear from you or to ask the darkness to hide me, for your presence is everywhere, bringing light into my night. There is no such thing as darkness with you. The night, to you, is as bright as the day; there’s no difference between the two.

You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside and my intricate outside, and wove them all together in my mother’s womb. I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex! Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking. It simply amazes me to think about it! How thoroughly you know me, Lord!

You even formed every bone in my body when you created me in the secret place; carefully, skillfully you shaped me from nothing to something. You saw who you created me to be before I became me! Before I’d ever seen the light of day, the number of days you planned for me were already recorded in your book.

Every single moment you are thinking of me! How precious and wonderful to consider that you cherish me constantly in your every thought! O God, your desires toward me are more than the grains of sand on every shore! When I awake each morning, you’re still with me.

God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through; find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares. See if there is any path of pain I’m walking on, and lead me back to your glorious, everlasting way— the path that brings me back to you."

Psalms 139:1-18, 23-24 TPT

The Blood of Jesus was shed to Redeem and

Release your Destiny

and His Legacy!

Chapter One

What is Truth?

Life is full of questions. Life has plenty of mysteries. From the day you are born you’re on a road of discovery. Along the way you will constantly come across things and go through stuff that will leave you wondering. You will find yourself asking the questions why or how come? Questions are not bad at all. The issue is, do you really want the answer? Do you really want the truth? I did not say an answer. I said the answer. When Jesus stood before the Roman Governor Pilate just before He was to be crucified, He was asked a very important question.

Pilate asked Him, ‘Are you a King?’ Jesus answered, ‘My Kingdom is not of this world...’ Pilate said, ‘Are you a King then?’ Jesus answered with something EXTREMELY important here. "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause, I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice. Listen now to Pilate’s response; he cried out, WHAT IS TRUTH?" (John 18:36-38).

What is Truth?

What is truth? This, my brother, and my sister, is truly the million-dollar question! This is the question you better get answered before you depart this life! What is truth? I believe this is the question in every soul trying to find their way through life, no matter what continent you live on or what language you may speak. Many times, people will not phrase it that way, but still, it is the question deep down in their hearts. Ecclesiastes 3:11 declares a sense of eternity in every person’s heart! Jesus is the Truth. Jesus is the Life. Jesus is the Way! (John 14:6)

The Apostle Paul, after his conversion on the road to Damascus, received the revelation of the Gospel, but he did not receive it from any man. He received it by a direct REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF! (Gal. 1:11,12) Paul was used by God to write the majority of the New Testament. It is very interesting to see how many times he refers to his revelation knowledge as the revealing of a mystery, or the understanding of a mystery. When you think about a mystery, you think about something hidden