NEWSLETTER SPRING TO TRULY LIVE By Donna Milham

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1 NEWSLETTER SPRING 2014 P.O. Box 7094 Gloucester, MA TO TRULY LIVE By Donna Milham John 12:25PT The person who loves his life and pampers himself will miss true life! But the one who detaches his life from this world and abandons himself to ME will find true life and enjoy it forever! If we do not have anything to die for then I question that we are truly living or have truly lived our lives to our highest potential. I believe we were created to have our hearts burn with a passion for the Lord and His Kingdom and be willing to lay down our lives, no matter the cost, for His Kingdom purposes to come forth. What else matters it is from the place that death has been conquered - that we arise and take our places and live with absolutely no fear of what He asks us to do! We walk in a holy trust, for this we were created, and if we do not fulfill this, then there is no eternal reason to be here. We are seated in the heavenlies and seated here on earth we are of two realms! One Kingdom, One King! The trumpet is sounding hear its eternal blast! Arise take your places! It is costly, costly in our time, our prayers, our tears, our money, our own desires, perhaps even some of our friends and family but its rewards are we feel His Pleasure and His Smile. He is up close, this Man of Passion and Fire King Jesus He is there! The One who knew the cost, and sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane - calls us into the Galatians 2:20 lifestyle - our lives are not our own. We are purchased with His costly Blood, our value cannot even begin to be configured by this world s standards! The King and Lord of All left Heaven became a man, died on the Cross, rose from the dead and is seated at the Right Hand of the Father. He says we are seated with Him! He paid a costly price that I believe we are being called to meditate upon in this season as never before. THIS is our value, THIS is our worth, THIS tells us who we are! We are purchased sons! Now from another realm! Heaven is our Home NOW! We are here on holy mandates/assignments from the Warrior King to declare and release His Freedom to take over and transform the world and turn it upside down that the realms of Heaven may be truly seen on earth! This is what is worth dying for and this is how we truly live!!! Artwork by Murray Hart All newsletter articles by Eagle & Dove Ministries

2 Embracing the Light By Dyanne Beaudette We are living in a season where the Spirit of God is dealing deeply with Believers in order to prepare us and reveal to a much greater extent what is the height, length, width and depth of the love of God, which will equip us to pour out His love to others. It is not about acting more loving towards others but the love of God pouring through us. It is His love that will bring healing and that will usher in the harvest. So how do we position ourselves (co-operate with the Holy Spirit) in order to have this greater revelation of His love? By walking in the light and looking at our issues straight on, not pushing them down because we fear looking at them. So why do we fear looking? Because often we feel condemned or experience shame when we do. And why is that? Because of our wrong perception of God. All our stuff has to surface and be brought in the light otherwise we remain with our false ideas about Father and miss the door to truly knowing Him. Every area of bondage brings a misconception about God s heart. The more we walk in freedom the more we know Him. This is why God is after everything that hinders love in our hearts; not to fix us but to remove the god of our imagination and behold who God really is. The intention of God s heart was always relational and loving towards us... an invitation to enter into the fellowship that is shared between Father, Son, Holy Spirit. The enemy s tactic has always been to get us to doubt God s love and goodness. This started in the garden with Adam and Eve and has been going on ever since. Therefore let us not fear the light but embrace it! As we do let us press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus! References: Philippians 3:14 - Ephesians 3: John 6-9 Artwork by Murray Hart 2

3 Creation s Praise By: Lupe King Father, You are in Your sanctuary in You we live and move and have our being in us You live and move and have Your being. Father, what a marvelous thing to feel Your movements. Your vibrations and shifts are seen and felt in the atmosphere waves, and waves, and waves of Your glory. Beautiful pastels explode and rainbows are alive! Waving in and out, being moved by Your great wind, Your Breath! Your breath O Father, has a sound, it is melodious. It is happy and it is joyful. Your laughter is heard and it is seen as well multicolored bubbles springing up from Your divine atmosphere, Your laughter brings beautiful, miraculous changes and shifts. It is Spring in the atmosphere of our beings. Beams of warmth come to invade our spirits. It is God Time. Your blessings, Father, are endless, and we step into Your endlessness. There is a vortex of beautiful pastel colors and we, Your people, are being taken gently and lovingly into Your endless depths. Tears of Joy are unending as awareness SHOUTS, The vortex has turned into His arms of love! Earth rejoices as blossoms have come and the turtle dove sings again! God how marvelous are Your works! Creation bows down as the awareness of Your Presence is birthed in the seen and in the unseen realm. There is a shift in the atmosphere of this terrestrial realm-creation rejoices! Recognition of its Creator has come, as it sings and sways with joy Hallowed awareness, Daddy s here! Your tangible Presence is amidst us and we creation, have finally come home! We are Yours and You are ours and nothing will ever be the same. Artwork by Lupe King 3

4 RHYTHM OF HEAVEN By: Jen Brinton Father's heartbeat Let me be surrounded by the depths of Your love Soak me in the revelation of the blood of the Lamb Cleansing, refreshing, healing Bringing circulation and warmth back to cold fingers and toes Waves of peace Waters that have flowed since the days of creation Your Spirit still hovers over those waters Now contained in earthen vessels Your breath, which blows here and there as it pleases Crossing boundaries of every kind It whirls and eddies as You exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale Fill me anew with this wind The pounding of horses' hooves Dancing, prancing, playing in the fields Your joy fills them to no end And their hearts are ever towards You The sound of Your footsteps on the earth And in the heavens Let my footfall be as Yours The touching point between heaven and earth Our paths ever intertwined Drums of war to announce Your jealous roar Over what was lost, which You have redeemed A treasure beyond compare Let not my heart faint Let not despair come nigh Align me with the victory of heaven The eternal dance of joy For You won even before the battle was fought Artwork by Jen Brinton 4

5 The First Warmth of Spring By: Paul Nolin The first warmth of spring is in the air. The cooling wind of the Creator is everywhere. The sun shines bright and the world does sing. In Him is my joy, my everything. The birds sing to our father. Their song fills this place. The trees and the plants awake to His loving hand. I can see His love in this land. His joy fills my heart. He whispers softly in my ear. Walking with Him is the only way, this is clear. The first warmth of spring is in the air. I can cast upon Him all my cares. His love for us is everywhere. Taking the time to soak it all in. Each new day begins with Him. In this new season that has come. My desire grows even more to become one. The first warmth of spring is in the air. He melts the snow, the water restores the land. All this is done by His hand. His love for us is with out measure. With this I know, we will be forever together. About the Author- Paul Nolin is a friend of Eagle & Dove Ministries, and founder of Retinue Ministries. His heart is to intercede on behalf of the Body, the lost, and the broken, and to bring light into a fallen world. Artwork by Peter King 5

6 Depth By: Lupe King Ancient voices echo from the corridors of time Ancient writings, spoken through symbolic prose of old and ancient ways Creation at its birthing Moaning, groaning, shaking, quaking, Holy Husbandry at most perfect work! The Unknown God hovers. Going deeper and deeper, challenging the dark and formless chaos the great and unformed mass Extraordinary movement taking place, miraculous sound resonating in the dark, and then the sound, LIGHT! Shaking, quaking, writhing, clashing, crashing coming forth movement, sound, beyond all comprehension, symphonic and orchestrated, choreographed, by the finger of The Unknown God! Dark and voided areas being filled with Ancient LIGHT! Waves and waves of unimaginable order exploding forth from chaos, darkness, and unformed mass! This great and awesome symphony directed by The Unknown God Awareness comes! Holy obedience compels ALL creation to bow down and worship, The Great I AM- The Ancient of Days-No longer, The Unknown God! Artwork by Peter King 6

7 Going Deeper By: Jen Brinton So the thought came up in Bible study one night that we are to read the Word and chew on it like a cow chews its cud. If you are even remotely familiar with the digestive habits of a cow, this means chewing, digesting, chewing, digesting, etc... until all of the stomachs have processed it. There are multiple levels and layers of understanding. For instance, the revelation of Christ's blood: -It washes away sin. That's one level. -It was the price that was paid for our salvation. Another level. -Without this payment, the poured out sacrifice from the Lamb of God, we would all be headed for hell, without question. Yet another level, which leads to another. -One of the ancient traditions in the Temple was to sprinkle lamb's blood on the mercy seat of the ark of the covenant, to repent of sins. Yet more. -When God Himself the Creator Himself! became a man and walked the earth, and gave up His life, His blood became the irrefutable blood sacrifice. And because God lived His life as a man, and went through every temptation known to mankind without succumbing to it, seeing the reward ahead of Him, which is us, His Bride, that sacrifice the blood payment was real. Deeper still. -Because of this, we are allowed the invitation to go deeper into relationship with Him than ever before. We can walk into the very Holy of Holies the place where few dared to tread because we have been bought and cleansed by His blood. Yet deeper. -In accepting this, we become a part of His family, and as we seek His presence and His influence in our lives, we become more like Him even so much so that we carry His DNA new creations in Christ. Dare I go deeper? -If we carry His DNA, then His blood flows in our veins. In Him, there is no sickness, nor any darkness. This gives us authority over every illness, every injustice, every injury, every sickness, every demon, every false mindset, etc., etc. Further still! (Continued on pg. 8) Artwork by Jen Brinton 7

8 (Continued from pg. 6) -Blood is circulated through the body through the pumping of the heart. In this, I can truly say that the deeper into relationship I get with Him, the cleaner my heart is, and the better His blood flows through me, reaching to the very extremities that were before blue with death and cold. Deeper! -In all of this, I must dare to say that much of this is both spiritual and physical. We must not limit God to one or the other! Can I ever possibly go deeper than this? Yes! I can! -He was pierced not only so His blood would flow out, but so that we might climb in and be close to His heart His wound is our Cleft in the Rock. As I dive yet deeper into the revelation of His blood and His wounds, words start to flow, and a deep well opens up: Can you hear it? The "THUMPA! THUMPA!" of His heartbeat. Press your head on His heart, and let the rhythm of life reverberate through your whole body through your life bringing light into the darkness, and healing to all wounds and sickness. Intimacy It's bloody and messy, but without the blood and the mess the sacrifice we could not be made whole. His brokenness makes us whole. Let His heart pump Living Water into your spirit. Enter into His side, that you may be birthed anew into the reality of the Kingdom! Do not be afraid of the hidden place, for it is from here from the innermost being that we are birthed. Life is formed in the innermost being! Though a child leaves his mother's womb, he is still flesh of her flesh, blood of her blood. Be birthed anew, coming forth with a cry on your lips as you take that first breath of oxygen, His heart now pounding in your chest, and His blood flowing through your veins He died and rose again, that we might live. He underwent the agony of separation from the Father, that we might never know that emptiness. Enter into His side, the intimate place! Ask, and keep asking, for the deep things of God... Artwork by Jen Brinton 8

9 MINISTRY UPDATES AND OPPORTUNITIES Judah s Roar Church/ Worship Center: Weekly Meetings Every Saturday 7-10 pm Gloucester United Methodist Church, 436 Washington Street, Gloucester, MA Directions: From Rt. 128 North to Gloucester at rotary take 3rd exit off the rotary. The sign reads Route 127 Annisquam. Drive 1 mile and the Gloucester United Methodist Church is on the left. Parking: Along Washington Street (either side). (Please note that the parking spaces at church are for the worship team. Please do not park in these spaces. Thank you!) Monday Prayer Meeting : A Call to the Gate: Time: Mondays, 9:30am 12:00 noon (Please feel free to join us for all or part of these meetings) Location: CALL OR FOR LOCATION Contact: Donna Milham, , eagleanddove@comcast.net Monthly Apostolic Training & Equipping Meetings: Training & Equipping meetings are held one Saturday a month. Please check our website for the date and location. Call for more information: Donna Milham, Worship Leaders Wanted: We are looking for worship leaders who want to explore the radical realms of worship, have the freedom to release new songs and sounds. If that is you, contact Donna Milham at Intercessors: We are calling for those who have a heart for this ministry to prayerfully consider becoming an intercessor for this work. If that is you, please call Karen Elliott at or Rev. Donna Milham at Financial Gifts: If you would like to give to this ministry we would greatly appreciate your support and prayers. Check should be made payable to: Eagle & Dove Ministries, PO Box 7094, Gloucester, MA You could also go to our website and use Pay Pal to make a donation online. Thank You! Visit us on Facebook! Eagle & Dove has a Facebook page. Check out our Facebook page to see pictures, videos, etc. Feel free to Like Eagle & Dove Ministries! /Mailing List: To be added to our INJESUS weekly notices, send your address to eagleanddove@comcast.net To be added to mailing list, send your address to same . For More Information or Directions, Contact: Donna Milham eagleanddove@comcast.net 9