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People have asked what they should do after they have come out of the Harlot. In Uncharted Waters the Lord said we would feel lost at the time we come out. This is partly because there is no longer familiarity in our lives concerning church. So at the instruction of the Lord we have put together this Quick Start Guide.

Three Sections:

Simple Quick Start
Illuminated Guide For Meetings
Encouragement

Categories:

Bottom Spot - Middle Spot - Spot over the Heart
- Golden Meetings

Bottom Spot

How the Holy Spirit Teaches and Leads
1. Start keeping a journal now and fill in the information from the past as quickly as you can. Journaling and Flow Charting is key to being and moving on the Lord’s narrow path.

2. If you have been keeping a journal get the information organized and remember it is very important to keep the dates of everything.

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Middle Spot

Tithing
1. Pay your back debt and start delivering the Lord’s tithe to those people He tells you to.

2. Don’t panic if the Holy Spirit doesn’t reveal anyone right away. Let the Lord’s tithe accumulate for His purposes (widows, needy, oppressed, singers, the Lord’s five fold).

3. Make sure 100% of your tithe gets into the hands of a person. Do your best to say something like, “The Lord said to give this to you.” You might want to say in some instances, “It’s from His treasury.” You are involving the Lord (as His Bride) by doing it this way.

4. Figure your tithe from the moment the Holy Spirit revealed your back debt figure.

To encourage you, see page 10, for revealing what can happen if one, two, or more people will start to move with the Lord concerning His funds.

Spot over the Heart

Eternal Salvation
1. Never assume someone is saved.

2. Be ready to work the Mechanics of Salvation in any situation; look for openings.

3. Understand that a “No” answer still plants a seed and that people you are dealing with don’t need to understand what you are doing!

4. You are working for the Lord, adding to His Kingdom, and actually changing eternity.

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Golden Meetings
A starter meeting:

1. The KEY in a Golden Meeting is that the Lord is allowed to be the head (King). He is the one who reveals His agenda for the meeting. You must follow Him from the beginning to the end, giving Him space to do whatever He deems.

2. It only takes two or three to have a meeting (Matthew 18: 20) and I know of one person who did it by themselves. The Lord was there, making the second person and leading the meeting.

3. Journal the meeting; it is best to record it on tape also.

4. Relax, seek the Lord, be quiet, and listen for instruction or a fresh word.

5. If you receive nothing after some time you might worship or praise the Lord in song, always listening for the Lord. The Lord may lead you to pray for people and situations you know need prayer (at the end?).

6. Be open to the Lord, changing course and moving with Him until you think you have accomplished everything He desires for this meeting. It doesn’t matter what man thinks, the Lord has His purpose!

7. In a Golden Meeting containing songs, the Bride sings “to the Lord” (not about Him). You must sing to Him to worship Him. There are songs “to Him” on the website; The Holy Spirit gave these songs for the Lord’s purposes and they are for this day. This is something you may need to work into.

8. Don’t be upset if you don’t do everything correctly. It is a learned principle that comes through experience and this can take time.

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9. Let God move the group towards what He wants and remember He always has His purpose. It may take many meetings to get on His path correctly.

For encouragement, see an example of a first meeting on page 12.

Golden Meetings of the spotless Bride

The Lord said, “Know the purpose of each meeting.”
(Not all meetings are Golden Bride meetings, such as evangelistic meetings.)

Basic Principles and Attitudes Concerning any Golden Meeting

The Lord said, “I give you boundaries so you can find Me!” He’s not making boundaries for the sake of boundaries or for control. He gives these so we won’t do our own thing instead of His.

*Enter the meeting with no agenda of your own. Our agenda can even involve our attitudes because of strife or unforgiveness. If I have decided to do, or not to do something during a meeting for any reason, without the Lord’s input, that is my agenda. Correctly, it is just, “Here I am Lord.” This doesn’t mean you go in unprepared! Information should be available, such as the journal records - Flow Chart - Bible.

*Focus on the Lord, it is all for Him and what He is doing, not for us!

*Enter as if you are entering into a King’s court or a court room. Whisper if you have to talk to someone as you prepare anything concerning the

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meeting. Your focus should be on the Lord while you are preparing. (In a court room there is nothing going on that doesn’t have to do with the business of the court and what the judge/King says to do.)

*The Lord is not the head of the church until the church lets Him run the meetings from the beginning to the end. One time when He was teaching us this He actually said, “Meeting over.”

*The Lord revealed, “The harlot doesn’t have time to write things down.” You need a journal of all meetings, as the Holy Spirit gives here a little and there a little. There can be a flow that goes through several meetings. The Corporate Flow Chart is a must, as it is the mechanical device that moves the individual or the group onto the Lord’s narrow path. The Harlot follows after gifts, which is not a good thing, as revealed by scripture. This has been going on for years, producing very little if anything when it comes to Brideship. We are to walk beside the Lord as His Bride, not focusing on gifts, but letting them flow and seeing beyond them by not letting them take our focus off the Lord. (A recording is best as a back up to written records. You can record and then take notes from the recording. It is best to do both during a meeting.)

*The key is to be focused on the Lord, speaking very softly to each other if necessary, to conduct or complete what needs to be done. In the pureness of the situation, no chit chat about things other than the Lord’s business, even in the parking lot, you are meeting to do the bidding of the King of Kings. (The Lord’s holiness is the reason for reverence.)

*He is the meeting; you are walking into Him. He is waiting on His Bride. (see the site)

*God asked me one time, “How long will you wait? Don’t be concerned if a lot of time goes by without anything happening. If the Lord only wanted one single thing to happen in a three hour meeting then He has accomplished what He wanted. What can man add to it?

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The Lord Led Us into Having Three Meetings.

The Lord told us years ago that we are a prototype, so here is some of what we do. (You should let the Lord reveal if and when you are to have more than one meeting.)

Prayer Meeting

*We enter as if to be entering into the Lord. (He has demonstrated this to be true.)

*We play soft music without words so as not to be influenced.

*We sit in the beginning seeking the Lord, allowing people to come in. If the Lord doesn’t give instruction at this point we turn off the music, stand and praise the Lord (with declaration). The Lord has told us to pray for the individuals present, that they have ears to hear and eyes to see. We must be Spirit led in this area as the Lord has a window of time for each individual. Sometimes this is done individually, not just corporately. We seek the Lord’s agenda until the Holy Spirit reveals something. This could be one thing or several.

*We follow and pray about “the things that are revealed,” playing them all out, item by item, the best we can.

*It is all about what needs to be done and the Holy Spirit is the only revealer of the Lord’s agenda.

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*After we have pursued everything we can and feel the Lord’s agenda is over then we bring other prayer requests and concerns before the Lord. The person with the prayer request prays the request usually without explanation, as this takes away from the flow of the Holy Spirit and helps keep people from getting into their own spirits.

Some possible paths or things that can happen as examples:

*I have seen a whole meeting being focused on one person by the Lord. (Obviously He wanted to do a work in this person that was beneficial to His cause and the person.)

*This can be a single person or corporate or a mixture of both in any proportion.

*A meeting can turn into spiritual warfare concerning someone we don’t even know, here or anywhere in the world.

*A prayer meeting can turn into a praise meeting with song, usually as warfare. This can be as simple as inserting the person’s name into a song.

*God told us in prayer meetings individual’s functions could be revealed and established.

*God told us in prayer meetings people could be set and established in their positions in the Body of Christ.

*Be open. It is all about obedience to whatever the Lord wants.

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Oasis Meeting (An hour of song to God.)

*The purpose is to minister to the Lord.

*The Bride sings to the Lord, not about Him!

*Do not take your agenda into this meeting either. (See Pg 4.)

*The King’s courtroom atmosphere is correct here also and we enter quietly.

*The Psalmist has selected the songs at the guidance of the Holy Spirit, although they can be revealed to anyone during the meeting, or before.

*The Psalmist begins at the leading of the Holy Spirit.

*Be ready to be obedient to the Lord during all of the music.

*The music is continual (although allowing for the movement of the Holy Spirit in songs and between songs).

*Know there can be and usually is a message in or through the songs. It’s like a thread of something that is in one song or any number of them. We call it the voice and it is a message from the Lord. It is usually corporate.

Side Notes:

*Many times the message at Oasis will be connected to the message in the prayer meeting that took place two days earlier. Sometimes this carries through to the third meeting. This can carry through for weeks at a time until the message is totally illuminated, all at the will of God. (Remember, God gives here a little and there a little.) This can happen easily if the people are obedient and without “self.”

*We usually take communion at the end or during the meeting. It can become very interesting, with the leading of the Holy Spirit as to how it is done and when it is to take place. Just know that the Holy Spirit may direct communion to be taken in other meetings. It is all up to the Lord. He is the head, who can do it better?

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*Oasis has been the vessel of refreshing for me many times when I wanted to give up. This shows us that it has a broad purpose, including ministering to the Lord.

The Ministry Meeting

*This is the third meeting and it generally fulfills what Paul was talking about in I Corinthians 14:26.

*The court room atmosphere is here also, but I would say it is a little more relaxed.

*Everyone presents what the Lord has given them. It may be a song phrase, a song, a word, etc. In our case the people put these “things of the Spirit” on a chalk board that is in front, where everyone can see and copy down the “things of the Spirit.”

*This meeting is often used by the Lord to bring “things of the Spirit” together, that came over a period of time, to produce His message to us.

*We sing the songs and pray about the words the Lord has given, endeavoring to have things decently and in order.

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No 1 Encouragement - Tithing

I share a true story:

A man wanted to leave a church he was attending because he felt he needed more.  More of what he was not sure, he just knew something was not right at his church.  His wife got a word from the Lord, “I have you where I want you.”  So he and his wife stayed on at the church.  Later the man read the Take His Heart web site.  This convicted him even more about leaving the church.  But the Lord had said, “I have you where I want you.”   Even though the man and his wife were attending the church they had stopped giving their tithe to the harlot. 

One day they decided to give their tithe to a woman who they heard was having financial problems who attended their church.  They got their tithe out of the ATM and went over to the woman’s home.  They gave her the money and told her it was from Jesus.  She tried to thank them but they told her, “No; thank Jesus, it’s His money and He wants you to have it.”  They then left and went home.  A week or so later they saw the same woman at church and she asked them, “How did you know how much money to give me?”  They replied they had not; they had just given what the Lord had asked them to give. 

She then proceeded to tell them it was the exact amount she needed to keep the electric company from turning off her lights.  Later, the man and his wife found out that the minister from their church had also gone to see the same woman.  When the minister saw the woman’s cut off notice he told her she should take care of that because it would cost more if the power had to be reconnected.  The woman explained she did not have enough money to pay the rent and the power bill and that it would be better to have a place to stay with no power, than an apartment with power that she could not use.  The minister agreed and said that she should go to another church in town that assisted people with their bills. 

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This was all the man and his wife needed to know.  It was time to leave their church.  This time the Lord said nothing when they said they were going to leave.  The man realized that he could now leave the church because he knew why he was leaving and he could tell others the reason. 

When the man left the church he delivered some of the books this ministry puts out to the board that ran that particular church. (Don't think you have to do this, it is just what the Lord had this man and woman do.)  Anyway, after there was no response (over time) from this action, the Lord then told them to leave.  Upon leaving they decided to meet with two other dissatisfied persons and seek the Lord for what He would have them to do.  (They were not starting a church and had no intentions of dong so.)  They were meeting to worship, pray, and ask the Lord what to do.  

They soon were gathering their tithe together into a treasury which they kept in a box.  They were all wanting to deliver the Lord's tithe correctly! The Lord soon dealt with the man about being a deacon and they sought the Lord for whom they were to deliver His funds.  They knew of no one but within a week or so the Lord brought a widow across their path.  They found her to be living in an apartment and struggling (she happened to be a completed Jew).  

By this time they had over a thousand dollars and felt that the Lord was moving on them to help this woman.  The deacon sent the funds and talked to the woman over the phone.   The woman exclaimed that now she could start the church the Lord was leading her to start.  (She was ordained as a minister by man.)  Anyway, the deacon's heart fell as he knew this was not the right response, but he said nothing.  He did pray about it, knowing it was in the Lord's hands and not his.  The next day the lady called and revealed that the Lord had dealt with her in the night, through a dream, etc., and He revealed she was to pay her bills with the funds.  

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She sat down, added up her bills and became extremely excited as the funds covered her bills - plus!  I don't remember exactly but it seems like it was within 40 cents or so.  Anyway, this report was a blessing to those who had followed the Lord concerning His money and served as confirmation that they had heard the Lord correctly.  We see the love of the Lord towards this widow.  She revealed later that it is so great to be free from struggling with bills.

I hope this story encourages you and shows you that the Lord will confirm His ways concerning His tithe, to those who endeavor to deliver it correctly.  Churches should be filled with testimonies from deacons of what the Lord did as they delivered His funds correctly.  We don't see this in churches in this day. #

No 2 Encouragement - A First Meeting

Here is an example of a person who wanted to have a prayer meeting with her family. She wasn’t sure the family member was going to come but my wife encouraged her to have the meeting anyway, even if they didn’t come. Here is part of what she wrote me:

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WELLLLLLLLLL  I had the "meeting" so to speak, and it was just ME.  BUT as soon as I went downstairs and sat up the folding chair for myself, the Lord started speaking.  I had to keep notes, too.  I will go ahead and share these with you now:

The meeting lasted exactly one hour - from
6:30 - 7:30 PM.

The Lord said:  "This is a holy thing that I am doing in the Atlanta area.  Many shall be saved, but not all."

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"TRUTH and HOLINESS are the two things."  (Even if it is only me here.)

"Pursue truth, righteousness & justice.  The cause of the widow, orphan and the oppressed."

"Seek My truth in all things.  It is a liberating experience!"

PRAYER for people.

"This is a strong thing that is happening here tonight."

"The Light is coming and nothing shall be able to quench it." (THIS WAS A STRONG WORD)

JOEL, 3RD CHAPTER. 

PRAISE
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That was it!  It was exactly 1 hour.

PRAISE HIM!
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This is a good example of how the Lord can move when we give Him space to head the meeting. Your notes from your first meeting may not be anything like what has been shared here but whatever they are, if the Lord speaks, they should be kept ready and maybe visible, to remind people what the Lord said.

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