Foreword

Most Christians who claim to know the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior have never truly experienced His presence in their lives.

Sure they have had spiritual experiences, and have tasted of the heavenly realm and the blessings of salvation. But when they face problems in their lives, they do not truly know how to bring these to the Lord and let Him deal with them.

We can all find freedom from the hurts of the past by coming into the very presence of God. He has promised that in His presence there is joy that fully satisfies. He said that at His right Hand there are pleasures that will last forever.

If we want to experience a greater measure of joy in our lives, learn to have fun and experience a life that is full of excitement and pleasure, then we do not need to turn to what the world has to offer.

All we need to do is: Come Into His Presence

This book is both a self-help guide and a training manual for those whom God has called to the ministry of deliverance and healing. If you wish to come to the Lord yourself and experience His healing presence, this book will give you what you need to do this.

But it is usually necessary to have someone else pray with you and receive confirming revelation about your hurts and bad experiences of the past.

So we have released this book as a counseling tool for those whom God has raised up into a ministry of counseling. It will give you all the tools that you need to add to the spiritual gifts of revelation and power that you will need to carry out the Ministry of Inner Healing.

Les D. Crause
Apostolic Father and Entrepreneur
Global Business Ministries International

Section 01 - The Principles, The Presence, The Power

Psalms 16:11 says:

You will make known to me the path of life: in your presence there is joy that fully satisfies; at your right hand [there are] pleasures that last forever.

How are you feeling today? Are you feeling good, happy and full of joy?

You say, "Well I'm not a bubbly person who expresses my emotions. You can leave that to those expressive types that are always talking and bubbly. I'm just a quiet, serene type of person who doesn't show my feelings."

There is just one problem. If you do not have joy you are a miserable person. You see the Bible says this:

The joy of the Lord is your strength.

If you are not filled with joy you are a weakling. You might put up a front, to make it look like you have it under control and to say,

"You know I don't live on my feelings. I'm not up and down all the time according to how I feel."

Who are you kidding? The only difference is that nobody can tell whether you are happy or not, because you still have a dead pan look on your face. Everybody looks at you and says,

"Wow he really has it under control. Have you noticed how he never changes? He's always the same. He just never lets life get to him or to get him down."

That is not true. He just never lets anybody see if he is down or not. Every one of us relies on the way we feel. It is the way God made us and there is nothing abnormal about it.

If you are not feeling happy, and if you are not feeling good in yourself, life is not a good place to be.

Our Feelings Need to Change

God wants you to walk in joy and happiness at all times. The trouble is how do you get that joy? How do you change those feelings of misery or feeling just plain dead?

How do you move to a place where you are bubbling inside; where you are excited with life and are feeling good?

How do you get to the place where you could just sit and do nothing all day and still feel happy because you feel so good today? Or maybe you want to get out and conquer the world because you feel so good today.

Your response will be determined by your temperament and what you are like. But joy is that lovely feeling inside of you that says,

"Wow, isn't life good? Isn't God wonderful? Isn't the world a beautiful place?"

When was the last time you felt that way? If you see an expressive with a miserable look on their face, you know what their problem is. They are feeling down.

How do you come to a place where your life is one of continual joy and happiness and feeling good inside; and where, because of feeling that joy, you have continual strength to face the problems of life?

We can handle everything that life throws at us. We can rise up and succeed, dominate and control and reign. We can be somebody who rises up in the world. Then people will say,

"He has it all together. He knows just what to do and his life is a success. Everything he touches seems to go right. He is so lucky.

As for me, I got the raw end of the deal. When it came to the good things in life, he was first in line and I was the last. I got what was left."

God Gets Blamed

We begin to think God has favorites. We say,

"You know it's not fair. Just look at her. She is just radiant and filled with beauty. She has the right figure and the right looks.

Me? Look what I was left with - an ugly face, ugly shape, ugly everything. Nobody ever looks twice at me."

We begin to blame the Lord and we are unhappy about life.

How do you change what life hands you? How do you change from the feeling of failure and weakness; from feeling useless and feeling like you got a raw deal in life?

How do you move from there to the place of knowing who you are; of being successful in everything that you touch, and being the kind of person that other people want to be around?

It is a million dollar question isn't it? Well I'm going to try and show you the answer. And by the time you are finished with this book, I don't ever want to hear you making excuses again.

If I come to you and ask how you are doing, I don't want to hear you say,

"I'm really feeling down and miserable today. The Lord feels like He is a thousand miles away and I'm just having a raw deal in life."

You wallow on and on, but you won't have any more excuses. I want to give you a big promise here. We are going to deal with the problems and give you the solutions.

How are we going to do this? You need to know these three things:

1. The Principles

2. The Presence

3. The Power

The Principles

Let's start with the principles. What are they?

I gave most of the foundation principles in my two-part teaching called The New Way of Blessing. So in this first section I want to give you the quick version of the Way of Blessing.

The principles are sure and they work, but they are not enough. That is why nobody seems to be coming back and saying,

"You know the New Way of Blessing transformed my life."

Rather they come back and say,

"This is wonderful teaching. It could transform my life."

Yes it could, but why hasn't it? The principles are actually very simple.

The Power to Create

There are forces in the human spirit. These forces have the power to change your life; to create everything you will need in this world.

When God made man He made him in His own image. He placed His very nature to create into the spirit of man.

Man is the only creature in this world that is a creator. He can produce original ideas and concepts, and create brand new things that have never been made before.

God has placed three forces into the spirit of man. And when these forces are released correctly, they will create everything you will ever need in life.

Those three forces are faith, love and hope, and they each come from a different function in the human spirit. If you want the details, go and read The New Way of Blessing. It is broken down for you there in plenty of detail.

We have to release those forces. They come from within the human spirit, and spirit has the power to change the natural world.

Spirit dominates over the physical. When you allow your spirit to control and dominate the circumstances in your life, those forces in your recreated spirit will go forth to bring about the changes and the creation that you need.

Power of the Human Spirit

The world does not know about these forces. They only know about releasing from within you and they call it the power of the mind.

I have read all the self-help books. And in the end they all actually apply a similar principle. They say that you can, by choice and by the power of thinking and concentration, release a power which they don't understand.

They don't understand the spirit. They speak about tapping into the 'Infinite'. They are afraid to talk about God, so they call Him the 'Universe'.

They know there is a power there, and they have learned how to tap into it. They use that power to create for themselves the success that they need in their life.

You might say,

"How can they do that? They are not believers."

It is because God has built that power into man. Every man, from the moment of birth, is born with spiritual power. And every man, whether saved or unsaved, still has a spirit.

You might say,

"I thought that unbelievers were spiritually dead."

Yes they are dead so far as their relationship with God is concerned. Their spirit has lost its ability to make contact with God and to draw on His power.

But an unbeliever retains the power that God built into his or her human spirit. He can use that power, as God designed man to do in the first place. He can build for himself a life of success, prosperity and blessing, in this world that God gave to man.

Preparing the Soul

God gave man a whole lot more than that. Adam and Eve had a whole lot more than that but they lost it. What did they have that man does not have today outside of Christ?

The answer to that question is what they don't have. It is the presence. I am not getting to that just yet though. Let's first finish with the principles. They are:

1. There are forces in the human spirit

2. There needs to be a preparation in the soul

Why must the soul be prepared? Because the forces that lie in the spirit of man can only be released outwards via the soul.

You see although in his essence man is a spirit, he cannot make contact with this world without a body. His body is the space suit that he uses to be able to live and survive in this world.

The body of man is what gives him the ability to do anything in this world. If man was a disembodied spirit, he would be floating around not being able to touch anything.

People have the idea that the spirits of the dead are hanging out there. No they are not.

There are other disembodied spirits that are called demons. And they do not have any power or authority in the earth either because they need a body. That is why they try to possess human beings, so they can work through the body of that person.

How do you get the power to come from your spirit, through your body, and into this world to bring about the change? There is a path that lies between the spirit and the body called the soul.

Most people out there don't know that the soul and the spirit are not the same thing. They think that man is body, mind and soul. You keep hearing people using these terms that they know nothing about.

Your Control Tower

The Bible says that man is a spirit, a soul and a body, and within the soul lies the control tower. The control tower is the part that decides what the body and the spirit do, and it actually brings those two together.

So the spirit may be filled with these powerful forces that can go out and change a person's life and circumstances. But unless the soul is conditioned to release those forces correctly, that power cannot go forth into the earth and bring about the change.

All the self-help books and the philosophies of this world major on one thing: dealing with the soul. You will hear them saying that you can use the power of your mind to change your life and to become wealthy.

You know they are right. They just don't realize that it takes a bit more than the mind. Because you see the soul doesn't just have a mind; it has a mind, emotions and will.

Emotions Are Key

Here is the key. What is it that causes you to release the forces of your spirit outwards into the world to bring about change? What is the main part of the soul involved?

It is actually not the mind at all. It is the emotions. That is why I asked you at the beginning how you were feeling.

You see your feelings are going to make all the difference in the world. Because what you desire to do is what you will make the effort to do. Now you can say,

"Yes but if I can just fill my mind, concentrate and program my subconscious it will happen."

You sound as though you have been reading those self-help books.

You say, "If I can just program those ideas into my sub-conscious, my sub-conscious will automatically rise up."

Feeding in Positive Thoughts

Let's just call it the spirit. Yes the sub-conscious is kind of the spot where the soul and the spirit join together. And yes it is true that what you feed in there is going to change you.

Do you know why it is going to change you? It is because it will change the way you feel.

You see the more positive thoughts you put in, the better you feel. The better you feel, the more chances there are that you are going to rise up and do the things that need to be done in order for you to succeed.

If you don't rise up and do something, nothing is going to happen. There is no such thing as luck.