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A Special Offer of “Arise, Shine,” and Answering Your FAQs About Your New Season

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Arise Shine: A Vision Retreat Handbook by Jamie Rohrbaugh | FromHisPresence.comWe’ve been talking about new seasons lately, because we’re in a special time–a powerful, divine moment of new beginnings. And today, right now, can be a huge day for you.

If you want it to be.

Yup. This day marks the beginning of a whole new era in your life … or it can.

How and why? Because right now, the Lord is ready to release you into a new era of power, victory, and most importantly, intimacy with Him.

IF you get alone with God. IF you seek Him. IF you cooperate with His plan for your life and seek to obey His Word in all things.

Below, I am going to answer a ton of reader questions that you have sent me about entering your new season.

But first, I have a special resource for you that will help you if you’d like to use it. It’s a tool that will help you start your new season right.

It’s called “Arise, Shine: A Vision Retreat Handbook.” I wrote this book for my personal mentees, and it provides you with the resources I use myself when I’m entering a new season.

“Arise, Shine” is a downloadable, printable, step-by-step guide that will help you walk through your personal vision retreat from beginning to end.

It’s a workbook that includes 6 faith-building teaching sections about hearing God and developing intimacy with Him. It also includes exercises (with forms) on the following subjects:

  • Building a Memorial;
  • Soaking & Prayer;
  • Listening & Writing the Vision;
  • The Reason You Exist;
  • Your Mandate From Heaven;
  • Values & Priorities;
  • Defining Success for Yourself;
  • Your Personal Life;
  • Marriage & Family;
  • Children;
  • Finances;
  • Making Written Goals; and
  • Celebration.

With this resource, I also include awesome BONUS MATERIAL:

  • My personal tool for evaluating how I’m doing with life balance, the “Shine-O-Meter” (incorporates left brain and right brain and helps you stay on track);
  • My reading list form;
  • Personal vision forms for men and women; and
  • My personal weekly goal forms that I use (3 different versions for different walks of life).

All of these materials are downloadable, printable forms. (They are not available in hard copy format.) They are also formatted in the lighthouse design you see on the book cover above, to remind you of the Holy Spirit shining His light into your future. 🙂

This material will help you stay on track with the vision God gives you and keep shining all year long!

The price is $15, and trust me, it’s worth more than that. It contains years’ worth of mentoring and my learning about intentional living, as well as much spiritual truth. It’s the best of the best of the best, because I made it for my spiritual sons and daughters. So you’re getting the benefit of my pouring my life into them… for only $15.

So are you ready to map out your new season? If so, get Arise Shine today! It will be of invaluable assistance in helping you step purposefully and joyously into everything God has for your new season!

Click here to purchase “Arise, Shine” now!

And now for your FAQs! I emailed our readers and asked you this:

Start-quoteIf you heard Father God’s voice speaking directly to you from Heaven and saying, “Beloved, I’m about to do a new thing in your life,” what would be your top two questions in response?”

And I got a TON of answers from you. (Thank you for your help!)

Here are the questions you said you would ask the Lord, and my thoughts on each one:

(And no, I’m not pretending to be God. Just trying to provide any helpful thoughts I can. Some of the questions below are really just things for you to get alone with the Lord and ask Him. But for other questions, practical wisdom and guidance from the Word will be helpful.) [Read more…] about A Special Offer of “Arise, Shine,” and Answering Your FAQs About Your New Season

Free Webinar: How To Make Right Decisions 100% of the Time

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Hey everybody! Ready for the next free webinar? For our next webinar, I feel led to teach on How To Make Right Decisions 100% of the Time.

Can you make right decisions 100% of the time? Yes, absolutely. How? That’s what I’m going to teach!

In this class, we will examine the 7 gates of Spirit-led decision-making.

If you learn how to use these 7 gates, you can know exactly what God’s will is for you at every moment, and  you’ll be able to make decisions KNOWING that you are right in the center of Father’s will.

Sound good? It is! And it’s ALL based on the Word of God!

When: Saturday, April 1, 10:00 AM Eastern time

Where: Online! Click here to register for this class.

Note that there are only live 100 seats available for this class–but an unlimited number of people can register.

Everyone who registers will get a free video replay link emailed to them automatically by the webinar system an hour after class is over.

But how do you get a live seat? Sign in early on the day of class! 

The last 2 webinars I taught, where I let an unlimited number of people sign up, we had people signing in about 30 minutes before class. Kudos to them, because they got a live seat, AND they got their questions answered! So BE SURE TO SIGN IN EARLY!

Why do I let an unlimited number of people register? Because I get bored teaching the same class over and over, and there are hundreds of you who want to attend these classes–but the webinar system limits us to only 100 live seats. I don’t have the time or the attention span to keep on teaching the same thing after I’ve recorded it once. 🙂

But I DO love to engage with you, so SIGN IN EARLY. #LoveYouMeanItCan’tWaitToTalkToYou

Fair enough? Don’t wait! Sign up for How To Make Right Decisions 100% of the Time today!

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God Anoints the New

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God-Anoints-the-NewHappy New Year, and welcome to a wonderful 2017!

Are you excited about this year? I sure am. I have so many good things from the Lord to share with you over the next few days, weeks, and months. My head is swimming with excitement. God is doing a new thing!

And speaking of new things …

I heard somebody say once that New Year’s Day was just a trumped-up reason to get excited. They said that it didn’t really represent a new season, and that it didn’t mean God was doing anything new or different in your life.

And to that I say: Hogwash.

In case you might have been thinking that same thing, I want to talk to you about that today. I don’t want you to miss anything wonderful that Papa has in store for you this year!

So that thing about newness and New Year’s and all that:

It all goes back to the nature of God. Our Father LOVES newness, and God anoints the new.

Think about it. Remember:

  • When you got a new-to-you car, and suddenly you were inspired to keep it clean when you struggled to keep your car clean before.
  • When you started a new semester at school, and you were suddenly inspired to get organized and study hard, even though you’d been struggling before.
  • On your most recent birthday, when you thanked God for the year behind you and began looking forward to the year ahead.

Whether you realize it or not, GOD is excited about your new season!

Tune in to Him. Allow yourself to feel the Lord’s excitement in you right now. Feel His excitement over your new year.

Allow yourself to receive His joyous sense of newness, His refreshing, and His grace that allows you to put the past behind you, start over again with a clean slate, and get filled with expectancy over a fresh start.

Feel the newness that today brings.

Related: Heavenly Downloads for Your New Season

That newness is from God. Why? Because He is the God of the new.

He is the God of new beginnings. The God of new chances. The God of new ideas, renewed energy, new hope, restored faith, and fresh fire.

Oh, He Himself never changes. But newness is part of Who He is. It’s His nature to make all things new. That’s why Lamentations 2:22-23 tells us:

Start-quoteThrough the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.”

And that’s why the Bible tells us:

Start-quoteThen He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful” (Revelation 21:5).

God’s mercies are new every morning because He makes all things new. He makes all things new because that’s what He loves to do. It’s Who He is. It’s His very nature. He transforms and renews and invigorates day in and day out. (It must be fun to be God!) He just loves to make all things new. It’s Who He is. Today, tomorrow, and every day.

Moral of the story? Simply this:

Today marks the start of a new day on the calendar, and it’s a new day for you in God’s eyes too.

That new energy and inspiration that is coming to you all of a sudden is God’s anointing. It’s not something you made up.

It’s not all in your head. Newness is a manifestation of God Himself. The sense of excitement you feel is God’s anointing. He’s sitting down with power on your new day.

So will you receive God’s anointing on your “new” today?

The Holy Spirit is brooding over you right now. Will you surrender to what He wants to do? Will you jump into the river of newness and allow your life to be transformed in His Presence?

Recommended: My pastor, Dr. Ronnie Phillips Jr., says that “the anointing” is when God puts His “super” on your “natural.” I love that. Watch his sermon series on the anointing for free, here. Click on the navigation links below his video to see other sermons in the series.

Beloved, God is sitting on you with newness. Right now, today.

So steward the anointing on your new.

Embrace it. Run with it. Papa God is making it available to you. He has anointed your new, and He’ll keep on doing so. Allow yourself to dive into the river of His mercies, which are new for you this very day.

Abba Father’s mercies are new every day. Daddy God makes all things new. Including you.

Does this word speak to your heart? What new thing is God doing in your life today? Leave a comment below! I’d love to hear from you.

Arise-Shine-Cover-300pxwideRelated: Need help receiving God’s heavenly downloads for your new season? Grab my Arise, Shine! printable vision retreat handbook (with loads of bonus material) for only $15, and it’s instantly downloadable and printable!

Arise, Shine! contains tons of teaching and exercises, walking you through an entire vision retreat so you can get heavenly downloads for your new season. Click the book cover to purchase it on Gumroad!

 

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Sleep Is Crucial to Your Spiritual Life

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Hey beloveds,
The post below is one I wrote some time ago, but I felt like I was supposed to re-post it today. Many of you have been feeling exhausted. Worn out. Wiped. Unable to get out of your own way, in many cases.

Beloved, I understand. Since I asked for prayer two weeks ago, I’ve crashed myself. I know this is an answer to prayer, because I’ve been getting rest by default–unable to get much done because I’ve just been too tired.

I can feel my body starting to come back into a healthy alignment, though, and I know this is an answer to your prayers. (Thank you for praying for me!)

If you’re tired too, please read the post below. It’s time to get some rest, beloved. You can’t keep going all the time and expect it not to catch up with you. December can really throw people off their regular schedules anyway, and if you were tired going into December, then it gets even worse.

I love you all. Get some rest today, okay?
Jamie
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Are you tired? Not only physically, but spiritually?

Do you feel worn out and fearful? Are you struggling to believe God’s promises–promises that you’ve always been able to believe in before?

There is a simple solution. This solution may not work in every case, but I believe it’s a prescription that will cure many cases. It has just cured me.

You see, for several weeks, I have been so tired–both physically, mentally, and spiritually. I haven’t felt good when I get up in the mornings. I have crashed at the end of the day. My schedule is as busy as ever, but instead of finding joy in the things I love, they have just been WORK. Hard work.

The spiritual tiredness has been the worst part. I have struggled to hang on to God’s promises in faith. I have struggled to see the good in certain situations–situations that I’m usually so thankful for. I have given more attention to what God has not done yet than to what He is doing.

But this morning I woke up feeling like a new person. [Read more…] about Sleep Is Crucial to Your Spiritual Life

Paying the Price of Your Destiny

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Paying the Price of Your Destiny | FromHisPresence.comDear Presence seekers, I’ll tell you right up front that this might be a topic that is hard to face; challenging to think about. But if you desire to walk in your destiny, I pray you will read it anyway. It’s about paying the price to walk in God’s call on your life–your destiny.

Here’s the thing about destiny:

  • Destiny doesn’t look like you waking up one morning and someone suddenly calling on you to do your thing, out of nowhere.
  • Destiny doesn’t look like sudden success to anybody except people who don’t know you or have never seen you before.
  • Destiny doesn’t look like someone suddenly taking notice of your natural gift, and voilà, God opens a door for you.

It doesn’t work like that. There’s not going to be a moment when, out of nowhere, God blasts you to stardom. Opportunity is not going to knock all of a sudden, and Ed McMahon is not coming.

(For my international friends: The late Ed McMahon was famous for promoting a publishing & sweepstakes company. He was in television commercials in which he and others from the publishing company would show up unannounced at people’s doors, carrying big checks for large amounts of money.)

Here’s what destiny does look like:

[Read more…] about Paying the Price of Your Destiny

Divine Alignment with the Right Things, Part 3: Your Schedule

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Dimensions-of-Destiny-6-Divine-Alignment-with-the-Right-Things-Part-3-Your-Schedule-webIf you’re making some changes in your life to bring yourself into the next dimension of your destiny, your schedule is THE key to divine alignment.

It isn’t your first priority, because seeking God first has to be our first priority (Matthew 6:33) … but how you handle your schedule decides whether you seek God first or not. (That’s why I’m calling it the key.) But:

  • Your schedule determines how healthy or sick you are.
  • Your schedule dictates how much money you earn;
  • How good (or bad) your relationships are;
  • and whether you fulfill your God-given ministry.

How you handle your time will determine whether you reach your destiny or not.

That’s why Ephesians 5:15-16 tells us:

Start-quoteSee then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:15-16).

Your entire life is made up of minutes. How you choose to use those minutes dictates the outcome of your life. Use them well, and you will prosper and fulfill God’s purpose for your life.

On the other hand, if you squander them, your life can go by before you know it and you can miss out on God’s best for you.

Which do you prefer? I, for one, want everything God has for me. Don’t you?

And time management is something you can master. I promise.

It takes grace, but God’s grace is sufficient for you! His strength is made perfect in our weakness.

It takes effort, but you can do it!

It takes being willing to get right back on track if you get derailed. But hey, as long as you get back on track, those temporary lapses aren’t going to derail you in the grand scheme of things. [Read more…] about Divine Alignment with the Right Things, Part 3: Your Schedule

When I Failed As a Writer (But Won As a Wife)

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When I Failed As a Writer But Won As a WifeI just returned home from a 4.5-day trip to Colorado that was supposed to be a writing retreat. I had planned to finish all the edits on my book, plus write more blog posts.

But you know what? I miserably failed as a writer. I didn’t even open my laptop until the plane ride home. All that time in Colorado, I wrote not … one … word.

I failed as a writer. No doubt about it.

But you know what? I won as a wife.

See, my husband was with me. He had planned several things for us to see: [Read more…] about When I Failed As a Writer (But Won As a Wife)

3 Things to Do When You Feel Dry and Stale

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3 Things To Do When You Feel Dry and Stale by Jamie Rohrbaugh | FromHisPresence.com blog

Do you ever feel dry and stale? Spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and even physically stale? Almost like you’re numb to the world?

I know I do. I have felt that way several times recently. I’ve been pretty tired and way too busy, and that dryness has crept up on me several different days lately.

I don’t like to feel dry. I like to be vibrant and well-watered! So over the last few days, I’ve been going to the Lord about this and asking Him to help me. I feel like He has given me several things to do to fix it. I thought I’d share them with you, and I’d love to hear what helps you when you’re feeling like this, too.

Here’s what I feel like the Lord is telling me to do: [Read more…] about 3 Things to Do When You Feel Dry and Stale

Let Us Go On! (It’s Time To Make Progress)

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Hebrews 6:1: “Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God…” (emphasis mine).

I love this painting of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” (Leutze, 1851) because I see an inspiring spiritual truth in it. That truth is this:

God loves it when we make progress.

Please understand that He loves US anyway, whether we make progress or not. As Graham Cooke said, in this encouraging worship song on YouTube,  God loves us just the way we are. He loves us even if we never become better, and He loves us even if we never have any plans to become better.

So it’s not about whether He loves us or not. He loves us the same now and forever, and we don’t have to make progress to be loved. [Read more…] about Let Us Go On! (It’s Time To Make Progress)