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Posted: 05/29/2013 at 12:46am | IP Logged Quote Julie Gilbert


Bob Hartley with Michael Sullivant:


The Dream, The Angelic Confirmation, And The Lightning

In a powerful, divine dream, I saw 50 million people on a
"Royal Journey of Hope" who were looking and yearning for
a deeper knowledge of God as the God of Hope in every
arena of life and throughout the earth. They are the hope
reformers that God will activate to usher the genuine
presence and wisdom of Jesus into all the spheres of life
into which they are sent. (I've shared some of this
encounter in a previous word.)

They will not be savvy and calculating people who attempt
to conquer all the mountains (i.e. spheres of influence)
of the earth by humanly engineered and/or forceful plans
and strategies. They will be normal Believers from all
walks of life who will simply love, pray, and do the good
works they are led by the Holy Spirit to accomplish by
the beautiful blend of boldness and humility that only
the Spirit can impart to human souls. While they were on
this journey, they entered into a large tent and
banqueting hall where they found a group of others who
could feed them on the true knowledge of God.

In the midst of the banquet, a massive lightning bolt,
representing the indiscriminant and raw power of God, not
only came down and pierced the great banqueting table,
but it pierced through to the center of the earth itself
and shook the entire planet. This move of God's hand,
revealed the fissures of human hearts that then turned to
fractures under the weight of this glory from Heaven.
Every person there had heart fissures that were
graciously exposed, but only some in this vast throng had
previously received enough heart healing from the Holy
Spirit to keep the fissures from becoming fractures.

When I awakened from this penetrating dream, and I went
downstairs to my kitchen, there I encountered an angel
sent from Heaven I can only describe as very intense, who
began to explain the divine meaning and applications of
the dream to me, which I outline in this account.

Suddenly, though it was not raining, a powerful bolt of
lightning struck right outside one of our upstairs
bedrooms. My angelic visit was abruptly ended as my whole
family was rudely awakened and startled by the lightning.
This was just one of many amazing confirmations of the
divine nature and importance of this dream.

For instance, the Lord instructed me to share certain
applicable details of this dream with over ten spiritual
leaders I had previously met from across the world. I
actually reached six of them that very night in the wee
hours of the morning! They each confirmed to me the truth
about the fissures in their lives that the Lord had
revealed specifically to me about them. While I was
speaking to one of them from another city altogether,
lightning struck a tree in his backyard and split its
trunk! To this day it is decorated with a memorial to
this word and promise from God for his life.

In the dream, my own fissures turned into fractures and I
realized that I too needed my heart to be healed in order
to be able to stand in that day of God's power and
continue to feed others on the true knowledge of Him. I
had known before that hope advances the heart, but I now
saw how hope must heal the heart in order for it to
advance.

Though it may seem incredible, the Lord made it clear
that all 50 million people needed healing for the three
specific fissures of the heart that I refer to in this
prophetic word. This revelation is an invitation for us
all to become vulnerable before God and others in order
to receive healing for the fissures of our hearts and
become even more useful to the Lord Jesus as this hope
reformation that He is inaugurating continues to ramp up
(see our previous prophecy).

Over the course of the next few weeks, our area
experienced this phenomena of lightning without rain on
numerous occasions. And I was having dreams with this
same theme repeatedly during those nights "in concert"
with the lightning strikes! Following are the practical
applications the Holy Spirit has revealed to me regarding
our need and hope-filled, divine solutions that bring
healing to our hearts.

The Three Fissures

The three fissures of heart (or "strongholds" as they are
sometimes called) that God revealed came into my heart
through my merely human reactions to very painful events
and situations in my life. But of course, the ancient
enemy of our souls does not stand by idly when such
situations emerge in our lives. He has never "played
fair"! Indeed, he is lurking in camouflage nearby seeking
to take advantage of us in our vulnerable state...a
moment of opportunity for him "to kill, steal, and
destroy" (see John 10:10). The serpent maneuvers to
entice us to cooperate with his deceptive strategy and
pierce our own hearts with his arrows whose tips have
been dipped in the poison of destructive lies.

The first fissure was identified as "self-strength," the
second was "rejection," and the third was "negation." By
God's mercy, I have made some wonderful breakthroughs in
these areas, and the process is continuing to this day.
These three fissures have operated to counter three
specific hopes that God has purposed to take hold in our
lives: 1) Hope in God, 2) hope in people, 3) hope in
present blessings.

The first specific category of ministry listed in the
"good news" mission of Jesus in Isaiah 61:1 is: "The Lord
God...has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted." The
healing of the brokenhearted is a primary hope of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. All of us have had our hearts
broken in one way and to one degree or another. It simply
happens by living life in a fallen world. I have had
ongoing spiritual dreams about the root causes of my
fissures and the Holy Spirit has revealed to me how they
were formed in my soul.

The Fissure of Self-Strength

My fissure of "self-strength" was partially tied back to
a tragic event that took place when I was only 16. I was
a lifeguard for a city pool and a little boy drowned
while I was on duty. The controversy surrounding and
blame for his death landed on me and dragged on for three
years. This became a major citywide news story for a
number of weeks and the regret I felt was incredible. The
city officials who were also under fire brought in a
coach from out of state to train me to become an expert
swimmer, which I became, so they could take videos of me
and prove in court how qualified I was to save a life.
Even though the controversy was long past, I lived for
many years afterward with an embedded satanic lie that I
could "never rest," but that I had to "stay on the
lifeguard stand or else someone else would die."

This unresolved pain and lie unconsciously drove me. Even
after I began to minister prophetically, maybe
especially, I felt obligated to always be "on duty." At
one point I delivered over 10,800 lengthy personal
prophecies in just a couple of years while denying myself
much needed solitude, family time, sleep, and recreation.
My hope and trust in God were hindered and quenched in so
many ways through the years due to this hidden inner vow
to never get off the lifeguard stand.

The Lord showed me that one of the outcomes of my fissure
of self-strength was a breakdown in my physical health.
Due to pushing so hard for so many years on so many
fronts and the added chronic pain from a serious back
injury five years ago, my adrenal system severely broke
down and failed.

I had a dream where the Lord had showed me that I had
forced my body into "slave labor" since I was young and
it finally stopped cooperating with my agenda! The Lord
has been speaking clearly to me about my need to shift to
a "new operating system" where I can trust Him more than
my own self-strength. This new operating system is
grounded in the "rest of Christ" and allows Him to seal
and heal this fissure in my heart (see Hebrews 4:9-10). A
practical outworking of this is to now take a sabbatical
from leading the operations for both my businesses and
ministry by delegating these responsibilities to others.
The Lord has showed me to only engage in the activities
He ordains that refresh my soul and renew my strength.

The Fissure of Rejection

One big rejection happened when Terry and I were first
married. I set aside almost a whole month for our
honeymoon time. I was very eager to get to know her more
deeply. I had been working ceaselessly on this since I
was just a boy. In my zeal, I put together a notebook
that contained many probing questions for her to answer,
and on the first day of our honeymoon, I pulled out the
notebook and began to ask her my questions. Well, that
didn't go over well at all!

As I shut the notebook feeling very ashamed for my
vulnerability, I also shut the book of my heart and
resigned myself to the idea that she didn't want to be
known by me. This is so sad because she really did long
for me to get to know her heart and pursue her, but she
understandably reacted to my overly analytical method.

My "rejection" fissure was also strengthened through a
traumatic experience we had in Zimbabwe. Terry and I
lived for a time on a communal farm with a group of
courageous Believers who were seeking the Lord as a
lifestyle, bringing innovative renewal to the land and
sharing Christ with their neighbors. This community had
received threats of violence and death from some
political dissidents based in that area. We had to make a
decision to stay or go due to the intensification of
these threats. We left one day in great haste. We took
refuge on a kibbutz in Israel for a time and finally made
our way back home to Kansas City. Not long after we did,
we received the news that our good friends on the farm,
except for two children who escaped, were all murdered.

I have mostly enjoyed favor from people throughout my
years and have been a well-liked person. However, there
were some leaders and friends back home who became very
critical of us for our association with these Believers
who had been killed. They accused us of being foolish and
spiritually deceived, and this pain of rejection pierced
me deeply.

Through these experiences and a few others like them, I
became very conscious of and sensitive to the pain of
rejection, and when other situations came along in my
life that involved some rejection and disappointment, I
would overreact and shut down my hope and love for
others.

The Fissure of Negation

My "negation" fissure was a family matter and a family
pattern. If you would tell my grandmother what a
beautiful day it was, she would retort, "Yes, but it will
probably rain tomorrow"! (I now understand that this has
been a concerted and focused attack from the enemy
against my divine calling to be a bearer of hope to
others. He has been threatened by this calling on my life
since I was born.) I believe this negation most often
gets set into our souls as we attempt to wrongly protect
ourselves from possible disappointments.

If we are subconsciously expecting the worst to happen,
maybe even especially when a positive thing comes our way
to build up our hope, then we won't be so devastated if
that good thing doesn't materialize or come to fruition.
We even find ourselves resistant to letting God put hope
in our hearts because the risk to hope seems too high.
This can easily become a self-fulfilling cycle of defeat,
and it is one of the enemy's favorite strategies to trap
us in despair.

The Lord has shown me how demonic this force really is. I
compare it to the roadway in the parable of the soils
that Jesus told. When the good seed falls on the road,
the "birds of the air" (i.e. demonic beings) come and
snatch it up (see Luke 8:12). The roadway is where all
the "traffic" happens in our hearts...so many voices, so
many decisions, so many challenges, so many distractions,
and so much hardness can result! I allowed the "traffic"
of various disappointments in life to harden my heart,
which caused me to feel hopeless about receiving temporal
promises and blessings from God. I made work and ministry
harder than it needed to be as I would double and re-
double my efforts to make sure bad things would not
occur. It was a lack of hope and trust in God's good
intention to provide for and bless me with all that I
need to thrive in life.

Four Steps to Healing the Fissures:
From Hopelessness to Hope

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but
have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy
arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the
knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey
Christ... 2 Corinthians 10:4-5

Negative strongholds or "fissures" within the human heart
are a complex set of distorted images, false beliefs,
negative thoughts and emotions, wrong inner vows, and
overused strengths we experience or employ, when left to
our own devices, to try to cope with the pains of life
and the shame we encounter as a result. Without the help
and intervention of the Holy Spirit, these kinds of
strongholds will inevitably become embedded in our souls.
Sometimes they have been with us for so long, we think
they are just a part of who we are. When the Spirit of
God helps us locate them, we see how we have lost hope in
God's promises to us in those particular areas of our
lives.

But Jesus Christ our Lord is committed to overthrowing
these negative forces and displacing them with hope and
faith and love that go to the core of our being and
transform us from the inside out. And the more we
understand this battle to heal the heart, the more we
will learn to cooperate with the Holy Spirit and expedite
the process.

Through the series of lightning bolt dreams, the Lord
showed me four hopeful steps, divine solutions, that we
can take to welcome the healing of the brokenness in our
hearts. These steps are four of the golden keys that hope
reformers will utilize to help unlock others who are also
called to be hope reformers from various kinds of prisons
that have hindered their advancement in the purposes of
God for their lives.

1) Open the book of our heart to His eyes.

This comes from a very special section from The Message
translation of the Bible that the Holy Spirit has
confirmed to me over and over again. It's a sure word of
prophecy for you and me!

GOD made my life complete
when I placed all the pieces before Him.
When I cleaned up my act,
He gave me a fresh start.
Indeed, I've kept alert to GOD's ways;
I haven't taken God for granted.
Every day I review the ways He works,
I try not to miss a trick.
I feel put back together,
and I'm watching my step.
GOD rewrote the text of my life
when I opened the book of my heart to His eyes.
2 Samuel 22:21-25 The Message

The fissures of our hearts have jerked us into rehearsing
a hopeless and inferior narrative about who we really are
and what our lives are all about in Christ. However, God
is actually telling His story through each of our lives
in a unique way.

This is a promise that when we have the courage to become
completely vulnerable before God and "open the book" of
our heart to Him (an especially meaningful image to me
given the rejection I referred to), He will reframe,
reinterpret and even rewrite the story of our lives
through a hope-filled narrative that trumps the old
hopeless and defeatist story line. He is promising to
suddenly reverse the fortunes of His people and show
Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are
inclined toward Him (see 2 Chronicles 16:9). This is
different than a self-initiated introspection, which can
be very counter-productive. It involves a guided-tour of
our hearts by the Holy Spirit Himself. He won't allow us
to get lost on the inward journey! (Photo courtesy:
alegri / 4freephotos.com)

2) Adopt a new, hopeful view of the pains of life.

Our hope in God, in people, in the next generation, in
prayer, and in the cities and nations of the world will
certainly be challenged by all kinds of trials, but it
will also be cultivated and strengthened as He sees us
through to the other side of those trials.

Resistance builds muscles. Our trials will become the
trails and the tales of our hope journey in Christ (see
Hebrews 12). Our temporary, light afflictions are
producing for us their exact opposite – an eternal weight
of glory as we gain eyes to see what is unseen (see 2
Corinthians 4:16-18 NASB). Pain is not always our enemy;
it's sometimes a friend in disguise. Sometimes pain can
"hurt so good" as when athletes are in training.

God can even use the challenge of demonic warfare for our
good as we receive His grace to deal properly with it
(see 2 Corinthians 12:7-9). However, because of these
dynamics, God is too often accused (both subtly and
overtly) by humanity of not being absolutely good. In a
number of my divine visitations, He has confided in me
about how this accusation grieves His great and tender
heart of love. Yet still, He remains constant in His love
for and kindness toward human beings. May we be counted
in that number of people who overthrow this terrible lie
about the nature and character of our heavenly Father!

3) Receive a healed and expanded view of God.

God is good, and "the good fight" of faith is essentially
about holding on to our confidence in the goodness of God
despite the sins, failures, imperfections, and injustices
of life...no matter what. "God is light, and there is no
darkness in Him at all" (1 John 1:5). We must forcefully
and consistently resist the temptation to doubt the
goodness of God, especially in the face of the most evil
things in this world. If we do not know down deep in our
guts that God is good, we will always struggle to trust
Him because we instinctively do not trust anyone we do
not believe is good. God is great enough and good enough
to cause all things to work together for our good.

The Holy Spirit has shown me that Jesus desires to reveal
to us a specific facet of His hopeful persona that He was
actually showing at those times when we were wracked by
sin or injustice in the past. We overlooked or forgot His
presence in those moments, but He was there nonetheless.
Healing can come to our hearts, even many years later,
when we ask Him to reveal to us the specific "face" He
was showing at that time.

Renewed hopes then flood into our hearts to displace the
guilt, despair, and shame that once ruled over us. God
rewrites the very text of our lives. He will transform
the worst events of our lives into the trophies of His
grace and use them to conform us even more into the image
of Jesus and make us powerful witnesses of His power and
grace. This healing to the heart empowers us to help
people who have been broken and torn by the pains of
life.

Not only is God good, He is great, kind, merciful,
powerful, gracious, brilliant, always near, and
compassionate. He is better than the best friend we could
ever imagine having. I have found Jesus to truly be the
"Wonderful Counselor" to whom Isaiah referred (see Isaiah
9:6).

4) Receive a healed and expanded view of ourselves.

We Believers have generally been too focused on and
conscious of the imperfections of our lives. Dealing with
our sins head on is important and vital, but there is a
whole other glorious side to our relationship with God
that goes beyond the forgiveness of our sins, as
marvelous and essential as this is.

The Lord recently showed me in another dream how too many
of us are spiritually stuck by living in "regret." This
is a tragic waste of our energies in light of the
resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and what it means
for us who have believed in Him! He is opposed to the
"misery Christianity" that has too long dominated
Christendom and contributed to the heaviness of human
existence. He wants to revolutionize the lives of His
people and help us walk in a hope-filled expression of
our faith (see our previous prophecy).

When we catch a glimpse of this new identity we have in
Jesus Christ, we see sin to be the boring, useless, and
stupid thing it really is and we turn more easily away
from it. This other side has to do with the rich
inheritance that we share in with Jesus Christ as co-
heirs (see Romans 8:17; Ephesian 1:7, 11). We need to
spend much more time confessing, not our sins, but who we
are in Christ according to the teachings of the apostles.
"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without
wavering, for He who promised is faithful" (Hebrews
10:23).

We must not allow our past but rather our new identity
and our destiny to define us! We are sons and daughters
of a great King and His Blood is flowing in our veins.
Caterpillars have butterfly DNA within them. He invites
us to His table of fellowship to adore Him and inquire of
His great heart. We will learn to even laugh at the evil
lies about ourselves that the accuser tries to lay upon
us just as God laughs at the "power brokers" on earth who
rise up to oppose Him and His Christ (see Psalm 2).

Our heavenly Father will respond and answer us as we seek
to move from hopelessness to hope. We don't deny the
problems of our past, but we simply come to see how good
and great He is and how great is our salvation! New
avenues of intimacy with the Trinity will open to us and
God will empower us to see what He is doing, hear what He
is saying, and effectively pray by the Holy Spirit: "As
in Heaven, so on earth!"

Bob Hartley, scribed by Michael Sullivant
Deeper Waters Ministry
Email: deeperwatersofhope@gmail.com
Website: bobhartley.org

Bob Hartley is the founder of Hartley Institute/Deeper
Waters Ministry in Kansas City, Missouri. Bob served as a
pastor at Metro Christian Fellowship with Mike Bickle
before entering the marketplace in 1983, with a vision to
see the marketplace redeemed and cities established that
value and love the person of Jesus. He is also the Chief
Executive Officer of the Hartley Group, a "Hope Center"
for the marketplace, consisting of Hartley's Executive
Cleaning, Swift Chemicals & Supply, Prize Properties and
H&H Management in Kansas City, Missouri. Bob is a
frequent speaker to youth, churches, businesses, and
national leaders throughout America and the world. His
quest has been to bring the Kingdom of God into every
arena of life and give spiritual tools and equipping to
those seeking to know and love God in the midst of their
everyday lives. Currently, Bob resides in Kansas City
with his wife and four children.

with Michael Sullivant
Radius Group
Email: info@radius-group.org
Website: radius-group.org

Michael Sullivant resides in the Kansas City area, has
been married to Terri since 1977, and is a father of five
adult children. Their lives have been marked and shaped
by a naturally-supernatural relationship with God as
unashamed followers of Jesus Christ. Terri and Michael
have been involved in active ministry since their days at
Miami University in Ohio. They have given themselves to
planting communities of faith in several U.S. states,
pastoring, teaching, writing, coaching, building leaders,
and traveling to offer ministry in many nations. Michael
is the author of Prophetic Etiquette, Your Kingdom Come,
and a devotional commentary called, The Romance of
Romans: God's Big God-Story (2011). Michael and Terri are
co-founders of Radius – an equipping ministry that
reaches out to many people.

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Posted: 05/29/2013 at 9:35am | IP Logged Quote Gayle Getz

TY my precious Sister for posting this,,,had received revelation from Holy One @ beginning of May,,,made a commitment to 30 days of ministering closely with Holy One to get these "strongolds" torn down in my life... (fissures Bob here calls them, but it makes no difference to me what they are called, 'STRONGHOLDS-FISSURES' ARE ALL, ALL, ALL COMING DOWN IN MY HEART, IN JESUS' NAME)! \o/ God bless each & everyone of you Brothers & Sisters that get this revelation, and may He use you mightly to help others' hearts be set FREE!!! GO FOR IT, IN JESUS' NAME!!! TY JESUS!\o/ Love you ALL

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You are such a joy, Gayle. You are so sweet to my spirit!!
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Posted: 06/04/2013 at 3:33pm | IP Logged Quote Julie Gilbert

I am in agreement with you Gayle... lets agree for each of
us that this is going to happen in our lives! shall we?

love you hugs


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