Author Archives: Daniel

Unknown's avatar

About Daniel

Follower of Christ, Author, Musician Though I have been a "Christian" for so many years, in many ways I feel life with Christ is a quest in with many troubles and dangers. It is frightfully more dangerous than anyone ever told me at the outset. Any "true" adventure would be, wouldn't it? This blog is about the adventure of discovery in this quest to follow the one who forged the path to life and true love so many years ago. I have found that the epic rescuing story of Jesus is far more relevant to you and I than we give it credit.

“Love Love Love” a new song by Daniel Lovett

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Daniel

LYRICS:

Love Love Love by Daniel Lovett

our hands touched as we sat on the grass in the park,
on that fourth of july after dark
and the fire in the sky, could not compare,
with the fire that lit up my life
you looked to me and our destiny flashed before my eyes
of how it could be, how it could be, just you and me

holding hands in the forest with our maker before us,
we took our solemn vows
for the first time i knew, that me and you
would never be apart
oh there’s someone to share every joy every care
someone to lean on and trust
and to love love love (someone to love) mmmmmm

if i could live ten thousand lives,
i’d spend every one of them with you by my side
you bring me so much joy and life
a universe opened wide

and now when our daughter keeps on asking for water
long past her time for bed
crying “papa” at midnight, i’ll help her to sleep tight
so you can rest your head
i hope that you dream of lovely things, and what our future holds
i know it is love, love, love, i know it is love

if i could live ten thousand lives,
i’d spend every one of them with you by my side
you bring me so much joy and life
a universe opened wide
you’re an endless holiday, an angel of God’s grace
you have filled my life with love love love

remember how we would talk, exhausting every thought
late into the night
you gave me, sparkling dreams
& someone to hold thru the night… and so much love love love

Ohhhh love love love (4x)

Story behind the song:

I am planning to make a video with Catherine of how we met. It’s an amazing story! Before meeting her I had sworn off dating and made a promise that the next girl I kissed would be my wife. “You bring her to me God”, I prayed.

Well, when I first saw Catherine I knew she was the one. We were likely best friends in the realm before this one and had agreed to meet and marry in this life. I do agree with what the Bible teaches about how we existed with God before having our memories wiped to have this fresh and amazing human experience. (“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you!” Jeremiah 1:5)

We were destined to be together. And God let us both know it. She had been given dreams about me and was even told my name before we met. You just have to watch the video of our supernatural love story once we make it. Subscribe so we can stay connected!

One of our first interactions happened on the fourth of July watching fireworks. Her mom was there and I had the strongest impulse to call her “mom”.

At some point along the way I had a dream about being rescued from a demonic controlling spirit (probably a religious spirit) and after a huge fire erupted around a lake I ran into a forest and married a native woman. I believe this was symbolic of a native of the kingdom of God which my wife certainly is. She was raised to love and know Jesus and commune with the Holy Spirit in a very pure way. Her name Catherine means “pure one” and she certainly is that. I have never met a more godly young woman before or since. She knew God and would hear very clearly from the Holy Spirit.

It’s been an amazing 16 years of marriage and it was such a joy to sing this song to her for the first time just the other day.

I love the third verse to this and my Emma proved it true once again tonight. Just before drifting off she says “water!” and we have to get up and go get some. I love my kids and also my children. Ok, so I don’t really have any baby goats but if I did, I’d love them.

I tell them stories every night and thought about starting to share some of them with you on this blog. Another reason to subscribe to this blog!

Categories: Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The Scandal of The Shack

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Daniel

fb-share-img

When I read the Shack it was a very healing experience for me. It made me question and consider the fact that God loves and wants to save the very worst of humans, pedophiles, porn stars, Muslim terrorists, and even judgemental Christians! Through the story William Paul Young demonstrates what Scripture tells us:

“Where sin abounds, grace much more abounds.” Romans 5:20

I remember reading one part in the book about a son’s relationship to his father. I became so angry that I threw the book across the room. I was angry because it was bringing up my own painful and strained relationship with my father. I was bitter about the divorce and I hadn’t talked with him in a couple years. He had rejected his family. He had rejected me. I wrote a song you’ll never hear about that pain and the blame.

Well a few days later after I finished the book, I had the most powerful encounter with the love of Jesus. It happened, as it often does with me, in a dream.

Here tis:

I was standing there looking at my dad. My brother was there as well and my first impression was an overwelming awareness that we are One. Then God started to reveal how he felt about my dad. God’s love started pouring into my heart and it grew in intensity. It just kept growing and growing more and more intense and I thought, “Is there any end to this love?” It became so intense I was convinced I would explode into a million pieces. Fearing for my life I shook myself awake as if to say, “No more!”

That profound experience healed my relationship with my dad. Of course I forgave him! I have treated him with love and respect ever since. I called him up shortly after that and was going to send him the book The Shack but he told me that he had just read it. The book made quite an impact on him as well.

Wow God!

From My friend Robby Dawkins:

robby-dawkinsIs there a Demonic Spirit related to the movie the Shack? The Answer is yes!
I read the book several years ago and weeped so hard. It made me angry then broke my heart. Then watching the movie tonight with my wife Angie Dawkins, all those emotions were stirred once again. This story is really about the authors horrific struggle with the Lord after suffering sexual abuse as a missionaries kid. This deep wound is depicted in the story with a horrific tragedy in a family.
None of the depictions of God are Caucasian (loved it!) And portraits God in both male and female form (loved that too). This movie is so powerful and I felt the Presence of the Lord so strong at various points of it. And felt the theology to be very sound.
So what of the demonic I mentioned you ask? I believe their is a demonic assignment against this book and movie. It’s both by a Religious Spirit and a spirit that insights Prejudice. These Demonic spirits are trying to block people from experiencing healing and freedom from a critical spirit.
I highly recommend you take every atheist, spiritually wounded, orphaned spirited person you know to this movie and then a “sit down” with them afterwards to process it.
It sets us up to bring many to Christ…

More: William Paul Young and his book Crossroads: https://daniellovett.com/2013/07/15/cross-roads-by-william-paul-young-book-review/

William Paul Young and his book Eve: https://daniellovett.com/2015/09/23/william-paul-young-and-his-new-novel-eve/

Categories: God is Good, Gospel, Grace | Tags: , , , , , | 3 Comments

Three Visions of Heaven

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Daniel

Well, I hope you enjoy these few glimpses of heaven in this video. I want to encourage you as I do in the video to maintain a clean conscience before God, as there are amazing beautiful things we will forfeit if we fail to live pure and be holy as my own vision bears witness to.

I am reminded of Jonah’s words:

“Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.” – Jonah 2:8 NASB

I also want to encourage you to stop partnering with the kingdom of darkness. You have the wonderful opportunity to partner with God’s kingdom of Love and Light. It is a kingdom of righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Spirit!

God has said, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.” 1 Peter 1:16 NASB

That’s actually a really encouraging declaration by the very One who makes it so. Have you ever seen it that way?

Holy means 100% God’s and there is absolutely no reason anyone cannot “be holy” in this very moment as we, “present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship”. (Romans 12:1 NASB)

So lately I have been gathering courage to finally share some of the most amazing things the Lord has revealed to me over the years. You will find many other video blogs of interest at my Youtube channel. Subscribe if you want to stay connected!

Interested in learning more about Visions?

Yea? Hey, that’s funny! Me too!

Here is a great talk by my bro John Crowder on the topic:

ps:

Just watched this video:

It had so many similarities to dreams I have had. Especially getting struck by the bolt of lightning, the tunnel formed by clouds (tornado), and the dance party.

 

Categories: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Superman? Help! Nuclear Meltdown!

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Daniel

So I just read this article about the ongoing nuclear meltdown happening in Fukushima Japan. It begins like this:

“There are times when I’m convinced humanity is a suicidal cult of complete idiots whose only real achievement is figuring out increasingly obscene ways to distract themselves from reality…”

It says this is the worlds largest dirty bomb just waiting to explode. He says that aside from Superman intervening that the entire Northern Hemisphere will be poisoned  and that “sometime in the year 26000 A.D. the Fukushima nightmare will be HALF as toxic as it is right now.” (Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-06-unimaginable-radiation-levels-detected-at-fukushima-mox-fuel-melts-through-reactor-floor.html)

Oh my Lord Jesus! Ya know, if the world got on its knees and humbly asked help from heaven, he could and would send Superman to solve the problem (any angel or activated Awake saint will do). As my 3 year old little girl reminded me this morning, “Jesus is the great problem solver”. We need to humble ourselves as an entire human species and ask for God’s help that only he can give.

Look what is happening to the Pacific Ocean:

It seems to be turning it from blue to yellow to orange to red… and ultimately to black! Yikes! (Ok, so maybe I shouldn’t make a joke about a rainbow attacking the Pacific ocean).

This article says: “If that weren’t bad enough, Fukushima continues to leak an astounding 300 tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean every day. It will continue do so indefinitely as the source of the leak cannot be sealed as it is inaccessible to both humans and robots due to extremely high temperatures.”

It goes on to list some of the effects on fish: “Even if we can’t see the radiation itself, some parts of North America’s western coast have been feeling the effects for years. Not long after Fukushima, fish in Canada began bleeding from their gills, mouths, and eyeballs. This “disease” has been ignored by the government and has decimated native fish populations, including the North Pacific herring.”

AND, get this: “Fukushima is having a bigger impact than just the West coast of North America. Scientists are now saying that the Pacific Ocean is already radioactive and is currently at least 5-10 times more radioactive than when the US government dropped numerous nuclear bombs in the Pacific during and after World War II.” (Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-02/fukushima-radiation-has-contaminated-entire-pacific-ocean-and-its-going-get-worse)

I remember reading something like this in Scripture and the poisoning of the oceans:

“Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and a great mountain of fire was thrown into the sea. One-third of the water in the sea became blood, one-third of all things living in the sea died, and one-third of all the ships on the sea were destroyed.” Revelation 8:8-9 NLT

“Mar. 16, 2014: […] As a senior scientist at the Japanese government’s Meteorological Research Institute, [Michio Aoyama] said levels of radioactive cesium 137 in the surface water of the Pacific Ocean could be 10,000 times as high as contamination after Chernobyl..” (Source: http://enenews.com/nytimes-govt-scientist-allowed-publish-findings-fukushima-cesium-137-could-be-10000-times-higher-pacific-surface-waters-after-chernobyl-japan-researchers-pressure-downplay-disasters-impact-profe)

Ok, so no literal blood yet, but 10,000 times greater contamination than Chernobyl? The world needs a miracle. We all need to pray.

So yea, things might be bad – really bad – but Christ is in the redemption business. He has plans to overcome every evil with good. I trust that he has plans for cleaning up the nuclear toxic waste that is poisoning and killing our planet… but because of stubborn rebellion and rejection of Christ, the great problem solver, things might get a great deal worse before they get better.

Yes, it is our stubbornness and pride and willful rebellion has led to every evil and calamity that this earth and its population has suffered. How high will the cost grow until we humble ourselves and plead for God’s help? Must we continue to harden our hearts against the LORD? He commands everyone everywhere to “repent” (which literally means “to start thinking rightly”, to “have a change of mind”).

Forgive me, I don’t want to come across preachy. I just know I need to continue to humble myself and submit to the Word of God. How easily I stray into other great sounding philosophies (perhaps even lovely sounding doctrines of demons) from the sound Word of God – which, truth be told, is often very sobering (to the ego) before you get to the unspeakable joy. Do we really want to face the truth? I confess that I often want to distract myself from the pain and the reality and gravity of the truth. But can we afford to neglect truth?

No. Burying our heads in the sand is no way to live.

Prayer:

“Yeshua, Jesus, please grant us repentance. You are the great problem solver. We need your help. Things have gotten out of hand down here. I trust you to continue to do what you do best, show love, have compassion, overcome evil with Good, forgive and forget and heal our land. I pray that we would humble ourselves and pray. Awaken us to love and to become true followers of the Way. Awaken us to all the special and supernatural abilities that your Spirit gives. We pray for and receive the Grace to live the abundant life in close fellowship with you our Lord and Savior Jesus.”

 

Categories: Salvation | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

“Earnestly Desire Spiritual Gifts” – God

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Daniel

pursue-love-and-earnestly-desire-the-spiritual-gifts-especially-that-you-ma-niv4799

So want to see something fun? My wife Catherine and I went to the 2017 Kingdom Culture Conference in Green Bay. After teaching about prophecy most of the sessions, and especially on the last day, the speaker Bill Vanderbush decided to put it into practice by calling some people up front to “prophecy”. My wife Catherine was one of the first to share that night. Then our good friends Kyle and Emily prophecy over Bill!

Here is the whole definitely-worth-your-time talk with Catherine sharing at about an hour in (link to where she starts):

“Earnestly pursue love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, and especially that you might prophesy.” 1 Corinthians 14:1 Berean Literal Bible

REVEALING THE HEART OF JESUS

So what is prophecy?

Well, Paul explains just a verse or so later:

“But one who prophesies strengthens others, encourages them, and comforts them.” 1 Corinthians 14:3 NIV

Prophecy then is a divinely inspired word of revelation (which literally means unveiling – WOW! – that’s the very word Catherine received in her prophecy!) straight from the heart of Jesus that “strengthens, encourages and comforts”.

Would you be surprised if I told you that Prophecy has little to do with “telling the future” or “the end times” or giving a “thus saith the Lord”? (I would highly recommend not trying the last one. It is bad practice for New Covenant saints).

Revelation 19:10 actually tells us that Prophecy is to “reveal or unveil Jesus”, to speak what he is saying. It is giving a clear witness of Jesus. Listen to this:

“Worship God, because what Jesus is saying is the spirit of prophecy!” Revelation 19:10 ISV

Here are some other ways the verse is translated:

  • “…the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.” NLT
  • “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” NASB
  • “For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.” NIV

Bill Vanderbush tells a story about how he once told a meeting, “You all have Jesus THE Prophet living in you. That makes you all prophets.” The empowered people of God he then brought up from the crowd to minister amazed him with the heart of the Father revelations they brought by the Spirit.

So, how can we learn to hone and use this spiritual gift? Well, desiring it seems a great place to start!

“Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives–especially the ability to prophesy.” 1 Corinthians 14:1 NLT

As Aarron highlighted from his talk:

Why not start with just encouraging people! Loving people with our words! Building them up!

Yes there are those who carry a greater anointing in some of these giftings like Shawn Bolz. But it all begins with a decision to go after the thing that ought to be our highest goal:

Love.

Shawn focused on loving people well as he earnestly desired and went after, and practiced, and practiced some more, until the Lord released the gifting of Word of Knowledge and Prophecy in greater fashion than I have ever seen! Here Shawn is alongside Bill Johnson at Azuza Now Spring of 2016 giving several accurate words (they followed up) in front of 60,000 people!:

If you’re like me, this will send you on a search through Youtube for every Shawn Bolz video and will result in ordering several copies of his book “Translating God”. One to keep and some to give away. It was one of the best books ever. After I read it I tried prophesying twice and failed twice. But it provoked some conversations about Jesus… so it really wasn’t a fail at all. Shawn tells of a time he thought he had a word of knowledge for someone, approached them in a coffee shop and said, “Does —- mean anything to you?”

“No.” Awkward time passes… “Why do you ask?”

Shawn said, “Well, I’m trying to hear the voice of God for others.”

“Wow, that’s so cool, I’ve always wanted to hear God’s voice.”

They sat down over a cup of coffee and the man received Christ and joined the family!

Pursue loving people. Pursue sharing Jesus heart. Practice words of knowledge when you get them. I’m not sure you CAN fail!

PS: If you live near Green Bay, Please come to our free concert at the Cup O Joy music venue on Friday, March 3rd at 7:30!!! (232 S. Broadway St Green Bay WI)

Here is the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/832044263600773/

Categories: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Create a website or blog at WordPress.com