It's Time for a Revolution

By Jessica Rothmeyer, Ph.D.

It's Time for a Revolution takes an in-depth look at modern-day thinking and worldly teaching that is keeping the general population sick, oppressed, and without hope. The pressure and constant buzz of mainstream media has led to the rejection of most things Godly or biblical. Never has the path to truth been so twisted and camouflaged. This book will address common areas of deception that have led to the dysfunction and disease we see in the world today. Biblical principles that will be addressed: why God/Heaven is such a mystery, how to find radical freedom from plaguing mental and emotional issues, and discovering the truth about diet, money and physical healing. Through twenty years of research and client interactions, Dr. Jessica Rothmeyer has discovered the keys to healing and freedom, and it all begins by having a Kingdom mind-set. Taking biblical truths from God's Word and teaching them to her clients, helped to rewire their minds and hearts to align with God's; which led to incredible and miraculous healings. It is through writing this book that these revelations would spread to the masses, bringing supernatural freedom to people across the world, those who are living in fear, confusion, and poor health due to embracing the false teachings and empty promises made by academics, politicians, health care providers, and science. Let us return to having a Godly thought-life. Choosing to love others as Jesus loves us. And to be ever-vigilant to the leadership of the Holy Spirit, as the new mind-set, will change people's lives like never before. The human race has been duped and suffering for long enough! It's time for a revolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098077020

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It's Time for a Revolution

Jessica Rothmeyer, Ph.D.

Copyright © 2021 by Jessica Rothmeyer, Ph.D.

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Table of Contents

Kingdom Mind-set 101 Reflections Questions

Mind of Christ Reflection Questions

Detox Your Mind Reflection Questions

Winning the Battle of Life Reflection Questions

Power of our Words Reflection Questions

The Good Shepherd Reflection Questions

Reflection Questions: Healing The Wounds of The Soul

Godly Validation

Critical Heart Condition Reflection Questions

Prayer to Break Soul Ties

Introduction

Ihave been enthusiastic, and somewhat impatient about having a ministry that would bring God’s truth to the masses, eager to do something for His Kingdom. I am hard-wired, by God, with a passion to see people set free and find whole-body healing. But it was not until I had many, many years of experience in the secular counseling world, that God began to reveal to me His specific call on my life. I have been a professional counselor for twenty years. I have a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and my doctorate in Clinical Christian Counseling. As I pursued a deeper and deeper relationship with God, learning His Word, and being Spirit-led to walk in supernatural ways, I began to feel an urgency to teach others how to experience these same revelations. As soon as God reveals truth to me, I directly want to share it with as many people as possible, so they can receive supernatural wisdom and healing, too.

When I first became a counselor at the ripe old age of twenty-four, I knew I wanted to make my Christian faith a part of how I counseled people. But only a few years into my counseling experience I could see it would take more than a light-hearted approach in simply incorporating faith into my counseling practices. I had an intense hunger to go deep into the supernatural aspect of the Christian faith, looking for the answers to complete healing and freedom for all people. About three years into my career, I began reading books like the Bondage Breaker by Neil T. Anderson and Breaking Free by Beth Moore. I began attending supernatural healing and prophetic conferences. And God sent an incredible woman by the name of Marjorie Cole to mentor me, in the area of prayer deliverance, her background training also having been a licensed counselor.

I didn’t fully comprehend it then, but God was laying out a very strategic education for me in both biblical wisdom and the false teachings of the world that led me to the write this book twenty years later. As I tried to help those that were lost, those that had not made Jesus their Savior, those having no knowledge of biblical truth, it was difficult for me to give these clients the counsel that I truly believed would help them heal. In the beginning years of my career, I became known as the Christian counselor in the clinical network in which I worked, and my client-base quickly became a majority of faith-based referrals. What I discovered, was that many of these self-proclaimed Christians continued to think and behave like the lost population of the world.

Seven years into my career, the Holy Spirit breathed new revelation into my counseling practice, along with a Spirit of Mercy that fell heavy onto my life; showing me how difficult it can be for Believers to discern lies versus truth in a world that has conditioned all mankind to believe and trust in humans more than God. And as long as individuals tried to live one foot in their faith and one foot in the world, they would not find the mental, emotional or spiritual freedom they were looking for. And now, it is time for a revolution. A revolution of the mind. A revolution in how the children of God are to function and operate in this world, with Kingdom principles which lead to health, wealth and an abundant life. The definition of revolution that inspired the title of this book is: To be in favor of a new system (God’s Kingdom/biblical principles), to overthrow the old system (secular, false/worldly teaching), a dramatic and wide-reaching change in someone’s ideas about life, government, and the world.

As a professional mental health counselor, as well as a trained spiritual counselor, I found that more and more people were suffering in their mind, and in their life overall, as they fell in line with the teachings and belief systems of the secular world, rather than believing and walking out biblical truth. Scripture states you are to "set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth" (Colossians 3:2 NASB). Like a broken bone that must be set by a doctor, in order for it to grow correctly, the human mind must be constantly re-set unto Godly thinking because it is fatally broken, from the time of the Fall in the Garden to our modern times of being steeped in worldly thinking. It is time to break away and revolt, to reset your mind to focus on Godly truth. In order to keep your mind set on Truth, one must obtain Godly wisdom, "Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding" (Proverbs 4:7 WEBBE).

The wisdom, information, and recommendations in this book are an accumulation of seeing how worldly thinking prevented my clients from mental, emotional, spiritual and physical healing, and then how God showed me a very specific revelation: we must return to Kingdom thinking, in order to live in Divine health and to achieve our God-given destinies here on this earth. We can no longer live in a grey area of trying to think and behave like the world, yet partake in Kingdom blessings. I pray this book brings you Godly revelation and that we, as a Church, step into a revolution of biblical proportion.

Chapter 1

Kingdom Mind-Set 101

As a professional counselor, my job was to help my clients see the unhealthy or irrational errors in their thinking and then guide them into finding healthier and more prosperous ways of thinking. But trying to do so with the teachings of the world, did not offer absolute truth, therefore I would see how not just my clients, but my friends, family and fellow Christians struggled to keep their minds set on healthy and Godly thinking. This frustration, along with the wisdom God was revealing to me through my own spiritual journey, led me to this conclusion: the first step to freedom was to teach my clients how to deconstruct the false worldly teachings they had believed their whole lives. Then, I could begin to educate and equip my clients with God’s truth, from His Word so they could rewire their minds and experience a Kingdom Mind-set.

After the Holy Spirit gave me this new name for the ministry, Kingdom Mind-set, He also gave me a tag line, a vision of sorts to keep my efforts on track: Think like God thinks, love like Jesus loved and move as the Spirit leads. With these three Godly steps, my clients began to experience incredible miracles in every session. People with significant trauma and those with multiple diagnoses were finding healing and freedom; and not just mentally and emotionally but spiritually and physically too. All the years I had tried so hard to help my clients in my own strength, came down to this: teaching them to have a Godly mind-set and then their healing happened supernaturally.

I have to warn you, some of the ideas and themes I will be teaching in this book, might challenge everything you have ever been taught, believed or even thought to be true about your life. I am giving this disclaimer with a request: take time to pray, research them for yourself in God’s Word, and listen for discernment from the Holy Spirit before making up your mind on whether to accept or discard these ideas.

So what does it mean to have a Kingdom Mind-set? Kingdom refers to how God has organized the Kingdom of Heaven and everything having to do with how He would want us to live our lives here on this earth, just as it already is in Heaven. This is straight from Matthew 6 when Jesus teaches us the Lord’s Prayer and states, Our Father who is in Heaven, blessed and sacred is Your name, Your Kingdom Come Your will be done, on EARTH as it is in Heaven. God’s Kingdom, God’s will, is to be lived out here on this earth.

The definition of a mind-set is this: a mental attitude, a person’s natural tendency or urge to act or feel a particular way, a fixed state of mind.

The definition of mind-set became so intense, playing out before my very eyes as I counseled hundreds of clients, over two decades; how a person viewed their past, the world around them and most importantly how they viewed, accepted, or rejected themselves…this was their mind-set and it absolutely determined the successes and failures in their lives. And trying to help people have healthy mind-sets so that they could be successful became one of the most difficult challenges of my career.

Slowly but surely God revealed to me that trying to live successfully in this world was impossible if we only mildly applied our faith. And that’s what I felt like I was trying to do, give worldly counsel with faith based coping skills, and that wasn’t enough. I remember the day, I told God, I know there is more. More wisdom, more healing, more freedom, your word says so! So what am I, us, as Christians not doing well? We are called to be salt and light to the world, and yet so often Christians seems to have so many mental, emotional and physical issues we couldn’t possible help anyone else. How are we supposed to be a testimony or help spread the gospel if our lives look exactly the same as those who do not know Jesus?!

My husband Scott and I have been co-facilitating biblical marriage counseling for the past ten years and we have a phrase, that in order to have a successful marriage you need to be two feet in. Fully committed, making your marriage your number one priority, under God of course. And the Holy Spirit used that phrase with me one day, Are you really two feet into your faith, Jessica? Or are you one foot in the world and one foot in the Kingdom? Or both feet in the Kingdom on Sunday or during prayer time and then two feet in the world all the rest of the time?

James 1:7–8 says, For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all of his ways (NASB). Isn’t that what it feels like sometimes, trying to be a Christian in such a dark and difficult world, trying to have thoughts and behaviors that would be pleasing to God, but then so easily getting sucked back into thinking, speaking and behaving like the unsaved world? It was from that moment on that I told God, show me what it is like to be two feet in the Kingdom.

God revealed to me it began with a mind-set. Remember the definition of mind-set says it’s your natural tendency or instinct, not something you have to constantly force yourself to think or behave like. So I began to read the Bible through this filter. How did God think, speak and act. What examples did Jesus set for us during His time here on this earth. How did his prophets, disciples, and the people that turned from Him, how did they think, speak and act? I spent time learning God’s heartbeat about how we, the believers, are to bring His Kingdom to earth. I dug in deep, making my home a virtual Bible school learning everything from the power of our words, to supernatural healing to Godly wealth. And you know what? It ALL began with a mind-set. A Kingdom Mind-set.

God’s Kingdom Is a Mystery

When I first began my two-feet-in the Kingdom journey, learning to think like God thinks and operate always within a Kingdom Mind-set, I thought for sure I was doing it wrong. I would believe God with all my might, pray on my knees, declare Scripture, walk out His Word to the best of my ability and stay faithful…and yet did not always get the results I had hoped for. I remember thinking, "What is wrong with me? I’m saying this prayer just like the supernatural healing guy at the conference I just went to! I have confessed, prayed, taken communion, stood in the righteousness of Christ, pled the blood, I accept Grace, I know God loves me…why have my prayers not been answered? Where is the healing, what revelation am I missing? These were all the mixed emotions, self-defeating thoughts and questions I had for God.

Which leads me to our first Kingdom principle: the Kingdom is a mystery and God reveals knowledge, wisdom and truth through relationship. So it is not as much about memorizing the Bible, or imitating what you see other mature Christians doing, rather the most important step is to seek Him with all your heart. God is a God of relationship and all is revealed in and through that relationship. When you experience God in this way His truth and desires for your life become profound, personal and something no one will ever be able to take from you, therefore you will never forget these precious interactions.

You might be thinking: But why is so difficult to know what God wants or what He is trying to tell me? Why would He not make it easier? Just tell us or show us, rather than be mysterious?

First of all, God knows humans, proven since the Garden of Eden, we want to explore and find things out for ourselves. God did tell Adam and Eve what they could and couldn’t do and if they had obeyed they would have had a perfect and blessed life. They had the most intimate relationship with Him; I mean, He actually walked with them in the Garden. But were they satisfied with that? NOOOOOOOO. They had to find out for themselves what would happen if they did disobey, push the boundaries, test God’s instruction, even to the point of experiencing sin, only to discover God was telling the truth in the first place.

Doesn’t that sound just a little like each of us? At least when we were younger adults, teenagers, maybe? By seeking out our own truth, we feel secure and empowered by making an independent choice to believe. This is the foundation of our relationship with God. At some point, as born-again believers, we choose to seek Him and believe all that He says is true, we submit to His authority and accept Jesus as our Savior and Lord of our life. But then we must continue to nurture that relationship, getting to know Him more intimately and that journey continues for the rest of our life here on earth. We begin seeing Him follow through on His promises over and over; we begin trusting Him more and more. This pattern is true of any healthy relationship; it takes time for that trust to grow. But with God, our relationship with Him needs to be completely vulnerable; we must become more dependent on Him than any other relationship in our life. If we are doing it correctly, our relationship with God/Jesus/Holy Spirit should be the most amazing, mind-blowing, intimate relationship we could ever imagine. This is where the mystery begins to unfold.

We cannot have a fully committed relationship with God by simply taking someone else’s word for it. From there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and your soul (Deuteronomy 4:29, NASB) and You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13, NASB).

You can begin to see from these two Scriptures that it takes effort and a significant willingness on our part to actually seek God. It breaks my heart to hear so many people believe and say they think God does not love them or that He doesn’t exist at all because He has not proven Himself to them in ways they think He should. This is not how the Kingdom works.

God is always there, ready to reach out to us, immediately pulling us close to Him, but we have to make the first step and it must be whole-heartedly. The biblical and situational context for both of the verses quote above were when times were tough, people were desperate, and they needed to seek God with all of their heart and all of their soul for survival. This is usually the case for many of us, in how we come to know Jesus as our Savior. There are some sweet stories of children who truly know Jesus and they say the salvation prayer at a young age, but then there is usually a different time in their life, when they are older, when life is tough, that they have a deeper surrender in their need for God, a strengthening of their dependency on Him and this is the relationship God needs us to have with Him…at least, in order for Him to reveal the hidden treasures of His Kingdom. He has to know by our heart and our actions that we are ready for these revelations, and we can only be truly ready after we have established an intimate, desperate, dependent relationship with Him. In Matthew 22:37 Jesus says the greatest of all of the commandments is You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind (NASB). This Kingdom principle IS the key to deliverance from all of life’s troubles and earthly afflictions.

This brings me to the next step in my Kingdom Mind-set journey: Okay, God I think I’m there. I love You, I seek You, I trust You, and I have given my life back to You to be used as You see fit in Your Kingdom… But I still don’t always know what to do, at least not with confidence, I don’t always hear You clearly, Lord! Feeling discouraged, questioning whether I actually had a Kingdom mind-set, the Holy Spirit directed me to read Matthew 7, which I had read many times before, but I had recently started studying verses in the Amplified version so I tried looking it up there and this is what it says:

Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened." (Matt 7:7–8 AMP)

Wow, this version had completely different meaning to me because of those two little words, keep on which was very encouraging during my time of doubt. I was instantly relieved of my feelings of unworthiness, knowing it was okay to continue asking, seeking and knocking. In fact, these verses contain so much truth about our spiritual walk with the Lord: more and more is revealed to us as we continue to ask, seek and knock. It shows God our heart’s true intention; that we continue to stay hungry for His Word and that we can be trusted with more knowledge, wisdom and revelation, that we would use these gifts according to His will and use them effectively for the good of His Kingdom.

If God simply handed over truth and revelation without the seeking, without the ongoing effort on our part, it would be like giving someone a gift they really did not want. How much more satisfying is it to receive a gift you really, really wanted or to achieve a goal that you strived for? It’s awesome! We are elated and full of gratitude with these kinds of gifts. But on the other hand, how excited are children when they receive socks and underwear for Christmas? As parents, we know they need them; they cost us money so they have value, but our children could care less and it is doubtful they are grateful or treasure those items as a precious gift. Similar to how Adam and Eve threw away their perfect life on a simple temptation, they did not value or appreciate the gift they were given because they did not seek it, strive for it or yearn for it, never knowing what they would be missing until it was gone.

This is why God reveals little portions of His truth and promises to us, as He sees fit, in His all-knowing wisdom, and when He sees we truly have a heart and the motivation to fulfill all that comes along with attaining such wisdom. Somewhere along my journey, during a silent retreat with God, I asked Him in weariness and frustration, why am I not more effective in helping people heal? This question did not come from pride or desire to have the glory for myself, rather I desperately long to see people set free from suffering, to live a life I know God wants for them. So I asked the Holy Spirit what more do I need to do, what have I not learned or how do I need to exercise my faith, in order to be worthy? And this was His answer to me:

You will not produce the fruit you desire until you have the roots to support it. As frustrating as that answer was (because I like immediate results) as the Holy Spirit helped me to unpack it, I discovered this was profound truth. I actually completely understand, being a parent of four kids; this mind-set adjustment usually needs to happen at some point in our teenagers: we are not always as ready as we think we are for responsibility, power or full knowledge without the experience to back it up…lots and lots of experience. The adolescent stage is meant to gently prepare us for how we will use our gifts in an environment that provides us with support (from our parents) until we are fully (not full) ready to be fruitful in the world.

Let’s take for example learning to drive. Do we just let our kids go and drive alone after seeing us do it once? Well, silly enough, that’s what I was trying to do when I went to a conference or read something profound in a book about healing or deliverance. I wanted to immediately go and apply my new-found skill or piece of revelation with my counseling clients, but then would have, at least in my eyes, little success. (See below how this thinking was not completely accurate either!)

How many hours have our children observed us driving by the time they are fifteen, then they must study in a book the rules and safety guidelines of the road, then how many hours of behind the wheel and practice with us must they do before being able to drive alone? And that’s only after being tested with an expert, only then are they allowed to do so. How much more careful is God with His precious truth and gifts, that He would ensure we are ready and capable to not only receive them, but use them without hurting ourselves or others?

Now, I realize that God gave me what I needed and what I could handle at the time. And as long as I was faithful, applying what I learned with a pure and God-dependent heart, He was actually using me to help people at the exact and appropriate level I was at, and in the ways those people needed. Perhaps I wanted more healing, more miracles, but God also knew what level my family, friends and my clients were at and what they could handle!

Then as I continued to ask, seek, knock, I was relentless…but over time, He brought me to new and deeper levels of His Kingdom. And now I had the experience, the trust, and the deeper faith to be able to understand the revelations AND apply them with confidence. God is such an awesome and faithful Father, isn’t He?! Receive this truth: we can have the most competent Captain at the helm, guiding and directing us in the way we should go, if we put our trust in Him.

How to Receive the Kingdom of God

When teaching my clients how to train and rewire their minds with the truth from Scripture, so often they would ask me, Why did Jesus teach in parables? It’s so confusing. Jesus also understood how important it was to seek and be diligent in understanding the Kingdom of God. We always have passion for the things that require effort, it is the seeking that causes us to pursue God, His heart, how He thinks, and this is His ultimate desire for us, in order to be one with Him. And because we cannot understand, discern or interpret everything with our human mind, this desire for understanding will lead us to connect with the Holy Spirit, which is an awesome gift that so many believers never take the time to unwrap!

Learning to use the Holy Spirit, being hungry to know more of who God is and what He has for us, is what it means to have a Kingdom Mind-set. If we do not have a deep desire to pursue Godly wisdom, then His words and His promises will fall on unfertile ground. I know many people who can quote a lot of Bible verses, but do not know God’s heart and although they might know and understand the words, they do not have a Kingdom mind-set, and they will not produce the fruit God would have intended for their lives.

Jesus taught a parable that describes who does and does not receive God’s precious wisdom in the Sower and the Seed in Matthew 13:3–9. He then reveals the explanation of that parable in verses 19–23: "When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand and grasp it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road. The one on whom seed was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and at once welcomes it with joy; yet he has no [substantial] root in himself, but is only temporary, and when pressure or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he stumbles and falls away. And the one on whom seed was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the worries and distractions of the world and the deceitfulness [the superficial pleasures and delight] of riches choke the word, and it yields no fruit. And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands and grasps it; he indeed bears fruit and yields, some a hundred times, some sixty [times as much], and some thirty" (AMP).

After Jesus was done teaching the initial parable, he went back to His disciples and helped to unpack it for them by discussing it deeper. So let’s do the same.

Seeds sown on the side of the road are people who are not yet walking strong in faith, therefore they do not understand. God releases understanding as we have a relationship with Him and pursue Him, if an individual does not have this relationship with God already established, Jesus says it is easy for Satan to come and steal the seed before it has a chance to be woven into their hearts. Isn’t that just what we see happen? I have seen so many people in my lifetime of counseling looking for answers, seeking truth and yet reject a relationship with God. They are not yet on the path/road and so even if I or someone else in their life speaks truth, it falls to the wayside, not taking root in their minds or hearts.

Seeds that fall on rocky ground, Jesus explains are those that when they hear truth or the Good News, they think it sounds great at first, but without deep roots or a relationship with the Holy Spirit, the things they thought sounded good initially simply fall away. I believe this happens so often in our modern day church, that people will hear a sermon, think the concept of Jesus, grace and forgiveness sound good, but never actually receive Christ as their Savior, or they do not continue to purse God with ALL of their heart, mind and soul, as we are instructed. Therefore, all of God’s truth and promises do not take root in them. I also believe the seed that falls on rocky ground are those with hardened hearts. Jesus taught in parables that made sense, that were practical and if we think about farming or gardening, a seed cannot take root in hard, rocky ground. Jesus is using this example to describe those that would listen to His teaching or the teachings of the prophets before Him with hardened hearts and because they chose not embrace all of who God was, the wisdom would not penetrate their hardened souls, even though when they initially heard it, it sounded good.

Then there are the seeds that fall amongst the thorns, these are those who hear God’s Word, think they understand what it means, but then become overwhelmed by the worry of the world and the deception of Satan’s lies. Believing false teaching and lies will cause any truth to be choked out, representing the thorns of this world. If you consider thorns in a garden, how painful it is to be to stabbed by one, isn’t that how it feels when we are being carnal in our flesh, allowing the world to lure us out of God’s grace and protection and back into the fear, lies and sufferings of daily life, here on this earth? That cycle is painful! When a person allows this to happen it is like they are one foot in the Kingdom and one foot in the world. If they allow this to happen it means the thorns of life will stifle and choke out any fruit they would be able to bear.

Then, finally the seed that falls on fertile ground, those that when hearing God’s Word understand it and put it into action, stand firm in it, and then go and bear much fruit. Because this parable is still referring to actual farming or gardening let’s take a deeper look into what it means to have fertile ground: as Christians we want to receive all that God has for us and ensure when the seed falls, we are open and prepared to receive it. In the natural, one thing farmers or gardeners know, is that the soil needs fertilizer…manure or compost in order to keep the ground fertile. This is represented in our own lives, as most of us have a lot of you know what happen throughout our lifetime. So often people question, why does God allow us to suffer? As we mature, both as adults and as Christians, we begin to understand that it is the ups and downs in life that keep us steadfast in our faith, tethered to the One True Anchor, Jesus. If we never had any struggles, we would, without a doubt, take God for granted. We would become apathetic about our faith; I’ve seen it plenty. We would then lack the passion, hunger and motivation to dig deeper. So it is in our struggles, our suffering, that keeps our ground soft and receiving of the life-giving nutrients from God and His Word. Another rule of thumb in gardening is to use mulch to cover or protect the topsoil and keep in moisture. In our lives, that means prayer. By praying for God and the Heavenly realm to protect us, we can keep the truth and wisdom we have received protected from drying out or withering away. Tilling and weeding are also very important in gardening to keep the ground soft by pulling up ground from deeper places, in order to be ready for new seeds to be planted. It is our responsibility as Christians to confess, to work on the hurts and wounds in our soul, to uproot the weeds or offenses and lies Satan would try to plant, corrupting God’s truth. Just like gardening, weeding is best done on a regular basis, so as to keep up with it, not to become overwhelmed with years of built up wounds or offenses, which can often cause people to give up, thinking it will be too difficult or painful to do all that weeding now.

Our unconfessed sin or the unforgiveness we hold for ourselves or others are the weeds of our soul, possibly causing the good seed from taking root and then resulting in us not being as fruitful as we could be. This process is called healing the wounds of the soul, which we will discuss in chapter 7. This practice can help keep us healthy mentally, emotionally, spiritually and even physically! Finally, an expert gardener knows that having plants with bigger, deeper roots that surround the smaller plants is always helpful and advantageous in order to keep them protected and determines the speed of growth. This is so true in our walk as Christians, surrounding ourselves with believers, mentors with deeper, steadfast faith will always accelerate our growth, offer protection and encourage us, ensuring we reach our full potential for producing as much fruit as possible in God’s Supernatural Garden.

As we finish the last piece of this Scripture, notice that God gives more to some than others. He indeed bears fruit and yields, some a hundred times, some sixty [times as much], and some thirty (AMP). This idea of God giving some more potential to bear fruit than others is a major principle in the Kingdom that might seem unfair in our worldly, human brains, but what matters to God is your heart for Him and that you do not waste what wisdom and talents He has given you. It is so important to understand and accept this concept in order to have Godly thinking. Our reward in Heaven someday will not be based on the exact number of souls we brought to Jesus, or how many book sales we had or sermons we gave, rather it is based on our hearts for the Lord and using the gifts He gave us to the best of our ability, not based on actual achievements. Isn’t that wonderful news? Everything we have: gifts, wisdom, faith and even salvation is because God has given them to us. It is important we remember this truth and stay humble, God receives ALL the glory for what we accomplish in life. In the verses preceding this Scripture, the disciples (much like my clients) asked Jesus, why do you teach in parables? Jesus answered, To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. So if you are receiving these lessons and they bring you revelation of the mysteries of the Kingdom, it is because God is granting it to you today.

One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my spiritual journey, in truly having a Kingdom Mind-set, was to stop striving, stop making it about how hard I tried, how many books I read, how many seminars I attended. Those things were all well and good, but in the end, the relationship I had with God and the amount of anointing He dispersed on and in my life, was all that mattered. My job is to keep my ground fertile, He plants the seed, the rain of revelation comes from Heaven and God has granted me the exact portion He wills, to come to fruition in my life. I believe God is calling us, all humankind, to embrace Godly thinking again, which will result in a mind-set led revival, unlike anything our generation has ever seen before.

Surrender and Sacrifice

Before I discuss the difficult subjects of surrender and sacrifice, it is important to establish that if an individual does not have a current, active relationship with Christ, the majority