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Start hearing God, start hearing him again, or begin to impact tomorrow in a greater way. In this episode, John E. Thomas of Streams Ministries shares how he began his journey into hearing God, and then gives pointers on several related topics. Some points shared: Even if we are faithless, God is faithful. How stubbornness to what God says to us can create calluses over our ears. John’s biggest work in prayer is not for his ministry or the nations, but for his heart to be responsive to the presence of God.  Intimacy with God is the point and most important facet of hearing God. Great examples of this are John the Beloved and Teresa of Avila. How you will fall short in trying to be fully alive if you don't stop and listen along the way - and if you don’t spend time getting to know God! How some things God gives us to do, we will do no matter what. Other things are invitations. For instance, Jerusalem had the invitation to welcome Jesus but she rejected him. Galatians 6:8 - We can sow to the Spirit or the flesh. Sowing and reaping apply to your thought life as well - and your destiny. How developing your internal life will help you obey God when he speaks,  and how your private life impacts the victories people see. Luke 16:16 and 19:17 - he was Faithful Little be faithful in much How seemingly insignificant choices over time will impact how you deal with the big decisions in your life. We can come to the place where we have  such a confidence in God's words, that we know that if we fall we can get right back up - because we know his nature How admitting our mistakes helps us grow. Why we need to learn to hear God in the context of community and in a relationship with others.  Mentioned in this Episode: Streams Ministries and John Paul Jackson The Art of Hearing God and Understanding Dreams and Visions, two Streams courses Life Empowerment Teresa of Avila Jeremiah 6:16

In our first spiritual exercise, Anton gives four steps to disconnecting to the world around you in order to connect with God in a deeper way. Find more at MillenniaArchitects.org. Find full shownotes here. Download “Under the Stars” exercise PDF here. In this exercise, we will be exchanging our worries, opinions and cares for peace and the heart of God. This will prepare you to steward the things God has for you. Step 1: Clear your evenings as you are able for two to three weeks. You may need to postpone a meeting or two, but you can do it. The goal is to unplug nightly to block time. This also means you will have a place set aside to meet with God uninterrupted over this time, whether at home or somewhere else. Other practical steps may include: Freezing your Hulu/Netflix account, getting entertainment options off your homepage, scheduling notification blackouts on your phone, calling a friend to postpone your scheduled hangout, or saying “No” to some social events. After the time of this exercise is over, I recommend still clearing 2-3 nights of the following week as well. This is because sometimes our tendency is to swing like a pendulum from one extreme to another. For instance, you may know someone who eats way too much after fasting or dieting. The principle applies here: Having two to three nights set aside will prepare you to move back into regular life while maintaining the progress you’ve made. Step 2: Buy a physical journal before you begin. If you really prefer your tablet or laptop to pen and paper, make sure you have an app which will sync, save and store in a predictable manner. 

Download “Under the Stars” exercise PDF here. Here are the highlights of one of our most important episodes: - A brief introduction to journaling with God, or “two-way journaling”. This is where we write to God, and listen for His voice back to us. This enables us to become more transparent and give more of ourselves to God, and we become able to receive more of who He is to us and what He has for us. - Anton shares his story of growing in journaling with God in prayer, and how it can help you. - For several weeks, Anton cleared his social calendar to walk at night in order to let the day go. Afterward, he would spend time with God in his apartment to delve into two-way journaling. - This type of journaling will help anyone understand what is going on inside of them better. We learn a lot about our motivations, even ones we previously thought were God, but aren’t.  As Anton began to unfold and unpack his heart in prayer, God began to entrust Anton with more of His heart. - A great way to grow in hearing God is to find someone further along in the journey with you who is discerning and knows God’s voice. Use them as a sounding board for some of what God shares with you. - The greatest way to use the spiritual gifts is not from a ministry grace on its own. While those are necessary, moving from communion with God is greater. This is where we join Him in what He is doing around us, from relationship. Flowing from a place of begin completely accepted in God will wrap our works in God’s nature. - God’s words to us are not only for instant obedience, but to be believed. Trust and faith in God will result in many words coming to pass without you doing a thing. Instead, they are often like food or medicine to us - as we take them in, they are naturally worked out in our lives. Of course, obedience is part of this. - Spiritual growth is not measured in the outward things we perceive, like how we do devotionals or how many

Living life with God, and hearing Him for yourself. In this episode, Anton shares these points: - God speaks relationally to humanity. His voice is consistent with who He is to us, but God has not limited the ways (or mediums) by which He speaks. In the Bible, these included people, natural circumstances and a donkey. - Those who are born of the Spirit will be able to understand things others can’t understand - They can have the mind of the Father revealed to them.  - God will speak through things many are uncomfortable with, and He will speak about things others have become jaded or can’t believe God would reveal to humanity - while Scripturally, God often spoke of the mundane, world events, and everything in between, to all kinds of people.  - God’s voice is dynamic even though God is sovereign - This is in conflict to the voice of “gods” of other religions. - Adam and Eve walked with God in the Garden, and Jesus has restored that communion with God to us. God is restoring all things, and we can go beyond the unbelief around us to hear God - like Enoch, King David and others.  We are God’s family, restored to The Garden Life. - In daily life, we are confronted with a reality directly in conflict with The Garden Life. Instead of a light, easy yoke, humanity toils to make things happen, experiencing anxiety, fear and more. The enemy of our souls presses us to always do more, trying to get us to go faster and faster outside of living communion with God. However, The Garden Life is always available - at work, home, your commute, et cetera. - We can learn to be present with God’s Presence in the moment. Being present with the Holy Spirit means taking steps with

Here are some quick working definitions: Supernatural: A term which is used a lot in our culture, but not often defined. It s beyond the natural and greater than the physical circumstances we are seeing at the moment. Structure: Not just walls and ceilings, or an org chart. Heaven’s structure is original design, and that structure is often held in a seed of what will be. Structure is unfolds when a flower germinates and blooms, or when Christlikeness brings order in our relationships. Human structures are neutral, and Heaven’s structures can come into these, transforming them. The way Heaven’s structure comes is according to the ways of God and by the Spirit. It is something which we allow, not something which is forced or made to happen by people. Paul: “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God gave it growth.” Heaven: The place God dwells, where the spirits of the righteous go when they die, and a place which was created just as the rest of Creation. The difference is that God's Heaven is unfallen, and is a place of infinite, perpetual resource for fallen earth. Scripture begins with God creating the heavens and the earth.  It ends with a New Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven - so even at the end, it remains a resource. This resource is not just for healing physical bodies or salvation, but for solutions in business, governments, the environment, et cetera. To put it another way: Paul talks about all things coming together in Christ, “things in heaven and things on earth”. We see this in the Garden of Eden before the Fall, and then after the Fall when all is restored. Heaven and the earth are united. The seeds of truth (and of Heaven joining the earth) are in the Scripture. When seeds of truth come into societies, businesses, individual lives, it is worked out like leaven in your life (or the life of your organization and society).  This working-out is different than human agendas to reinforce a moral society or win elections, although bo

Millennia Architects Podcast | MillenniaArchitects.org In this episode, Anton shares these insights and personal recommendations: The best way to digest the Bible is to do so daily, and the Audio Bible is a great way to do this on your commute. There are audio Bibles available on iTunes, Spotify, and other major platforms. Some are free and there are dramatized versions available, even one read by James Earl Jones. Your commute is likely longer than 15 minutes, which is ideal for listening to the Bible. I recommend you find a way to do at least a few minutes of Bible study daily, in addition to any Bible reading or listening you do on your commute. BlueLetterBible.org is a great resource for study. On this site, you can click on a verse and study options are available. This includes Strong’s Concordance, which has been used by preachers and Bible teachers for a long time. Now it’s online and you can read the original entries on BlueLetterBible.org and BibleHub.com/strongs.htm - instead of having to buy the original, thick, hardbound version. I have recommended BlueLetterBible.org to pastors and others who now use it regularly with success.  Bible.com and BibleGateway.org are two other sites I enjoy. BlueLetterBible.org is great because of its study options, but does not carry more dynamic translations.  The spectrum of Bible translations range from Literal, word-for-word translations which strive to faithfully keep the exact language of the original text while minimally adapting for cultural or layman lingo, to Dynamic translations and paraphrases which seek to capture the ideas being conveyed while relating them to the average reader.  Examples of Literal translations:New American Standard Bible (NASB) - the most literal modern, English translation The English Stand

Millennia Architects Podcast MillenniaArchitects.org Did you know that Jesus' example is perfect for a life filled with external demands and increasing responsibility?   If you learn to break away with God as Jesus did, you will not only find stress' antidote, but bring God's miraculous solutions and healing to those around you. Jesus gives us the model of living life with God when our lives are busy, there are demands placed on us, and everything seems out of our personal control.   Your primary purpose isn't your job, but communion with Jesus. It's not where you are, but that you are there with Jesus.   The busier you are, the more applicable Jesus' example is for you.    Just as the Scripture says to "Leave father and mother" to cling to a spouse, we have to break away from everything to cultivate real relationship with God. It's to be connected, not for a ministry gift.   All things are in Christ. He healed from having all things held within him, not simply from a healing gift or anointing. The healing anointing is part of the picture, but the picture is a lot bigger - as living life with the Father inside Christ makes the potential to answer the impossible limitless.   How do you pray all night long like Jesus? For that matter, how can you pray for a half hour? The same way you would stay up to spend the night with a friend or lover - when it becomes better than sleep.   "Anton I don't feel anything." My question to you - How important is it to you? It may take awhile to unlearn systems of prayer in order to just be with Him. It can be hard to just be with someone when you have a checklist of what to do with them.   Breakaway with God leads to personal breakthrough and corporate breakout. The aroma of Christ, stored up in your life in time with Jesus, will overflow from you to others and be noticed. Peter didn't hide himself, and neither did Paul - but cities noticed. Hiding our light does God's work in us a disservice, and it's time for his work to be seen.    Hiding your light and calling it humility actually opposes what God is doing in your life. As we grow in him, it's irresponsible to hide from people and socie

Millennia Architects PodcastMillenniaArchitects.org In giving Peter the keys to the Kingdom in Matthew 18, Jesus actually tells the disciples they are the answer to their own prayer, "Let your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven." They now can release on earth that which is already being released in heaven, and bind on earth that which is already being bound in heaven (compare NIV, HCSB and AMP translations for perspective). Anton shares three keys which will currently help you to grow in this grace. 1) Miracles are already here. Sometimes they are present in the creative substance which is faith. A gift of faith (often sensed as an absolute knowing of God's will to change a situation) is a way we see this operate. Sometimes they are present in the creative substance of an answered prayer which has not been adminstrated, or from the overflow of God's power in someone (ie, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I have I give to you." Another example includes when Peter walked through the streets of Jerusalem, and all who came near were healed. 2) We can perceive miracles in order to release them. We are able to work miracles because they are already being released from Heaven, and God has given us eyes to see/the ability to perceive their presence with us. When this happens, we can stop praying for God to do a miracle, and administer the miracle instead. We can work miracles when they are present, instead of praying for them. 3) Miracles are not a formula. Miracles do not come from special times of worship and prayer, although that can help. It is better to relate honestly to God and follow him into a miracle, than to strive for a miracle with things which are really tools for relationship with God. To reduce the "supernatural" to a formula is like using a spell or magic to get what you want. It falls far short of what is really available and this is the essence of witchcraft. When we limit God to a formula, we limit him to our ability and our small faith. Trusting in God and his faith for us will allow us to see what the Father is doing and give us faith for the moment. Models are a poor substitute for relationship and abundant life. Being open to perceiving what God is doing beyond our models will free us to see more of what he is doing.

In  Miracles at Work 2, Anton shares: - Jesus never used His power or popularity to make himself look good in other people’s eyes. Instead, He used these things to encourage others and lift up our Father in Heaven (Philippians 2). Humility and miracles are intertwined, and having the mind of Christ is the most miraculous mindset possible. He often said, “Your faith has made you well,” not “You are healed because I am powerful.” This is our true example. - Jesus submitted to his natural father and apprenticed with him for years. This likely taught him how to apprentice with our Heavenly Father (alluded to in John 5:18-19). In the same way, submitting to natural authority figures actually teaches us how to yield and submit to our perfect Father in Heaven. It mentors us to live under God’s authority, and then walk in Kingdom authority as a lifestyle.  In the same way, being generous in your thoughts of authority figures will give you authority to build what God wants to build. Working miracles can bring a platform for your leadership and teach you to lead while following Heaven instead of the ways of the world around us. - Jesus usually performed miracles and healed without verbally testifying to why, or even telling people who he is. At work, sometimes miracles will happen without immediate witness to the gospel, and why waiting for the right time to speak is important. “It’s not bad to release a miracle and to have a wise withholding of what you could say... to let the miracle take its full effect.”  - Learning to have the miraculous as your norm may give you multiple spheres of influence, and teach you how to live in them seamlessly. This is possible, because to have the miraculous as you norm, you must look for what God is doing as your norm - and following the Holy Spirit will help you do anything seamlessly and teach you wisdom.

In this short intro to Miracles at Work, Anton shares: - the distinction between miracles and signs, wonders and healing - that unlike magic in a Disney, miracles are understandable and accessable to you - miracles look like creative solutions to impossible problems or need - how miracles will appear as wisdom to others, and you may look brilliant to them He also briefly touches on points we will expand on in future episodes: - how to have a miraculous mindset - how to shrewdly release miracles - how miracles can result in extreme favor and promotion - how miracles prepare you for leadership - how miracles can mark your leadership (whether privately or publicly)

In our inaugural podcast, Anton Luse shares on the nature of transformation, and sets the stage for future podcasts with a foundational view which includes personal transformation, influence and leadership (the capacity to bring transformation to others). To bring transformation to the world around us, we must first be transformed.  The "be the change" mantra is a great description of taking personal responsibility, it is not a responsibility we can do on our own. Real transformation is not dependent upon our ability to make ourselves be something. Rather, it is a product of allowing transformation to happen.Instead of trying to change ourselves or performing for others, we must be touched by the God that made us, can fulfill us in every way, and will transform us. Receiving transformed nature empowers and infuses us with the power to transform the world around us and every area of personal responsibility.