
For more than five decades, Dr. Mark Hanby has been a powerful and pioneering voice of spiritual revelation, revolution, and reformation. The following selections from the Bloodline Newsletter feature reflections from ministry sons around the world—each offering remarkable insight into God’s divine order in spiritual relationship. If it’s not in God’s order, it is “out of order!”
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2 PERSPECTIVES: “Spiritual Wellness/Kingdom Mentality” & “A Disciple’s Conversation with Wisdom” By Dr. Julius Sims, Pastor/Teacher “Throughout our intimate ‘closet’ sessions with our heavenly Father, it is His intent to graciously and deeply impose or lay upon us measures of His unconditional love, His unfiltered Word, His warm responses, and/or His still assuring voice. As…
grit y” by Julius Sims 1 Kings 9: 4, 5 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity , just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, just as I promised your father David, ‘You will…
I want to relate a story to my friends and if you will give me a little license to use my words to try to explain what is going on in my spirit today, that will be great. These are thoughts and words that I shared with my wife as we sat around the breakfast…
Proverbs 16:1-3 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. In pursuing God in this…
ABSOLUTE: by Karen A Roth ABSOLUTE by Karen A Roth Each year God assigns our local church a word to transform our understanding-similar to wearing rose colored glasses influences ‘how’ we see. Everything that happens to us has purpose, but knowing God is guiding us in a specific direction deepens our growth and measure of…
This letter is meant to give an understanding of the Bible by looking at it 1) as a parable and 2) as metaphoric to your life, and consider an aspect of prayer as it was lived out in the lives of our spiritual ancestors. We’ll study how the story of David and Goliath related to…
We can survive 30-40 days without eating food, 3-4 days without water, and 3-4 minutes without air. Our body’s survival time without water is one tenth of the time of that without food, and without air is less than one thousandth of the time we can survive without water. Yet you can’t argue that any…
-Body, Soul, Spirit – By David Roberts When I was younger I learned how to train fleas. As a young man, I’d listen to motivational speakers. One speaker was Zig Ziglar. He was a popular salesman and motivational speaker, who would often tell the story of training fleas. He was a great motivator and encourager…
Throwing Bible verses at people is much like throwing bullets at an intruder. Bullets are powerful, but only when you have a matching gun can the bullet be directed with pinpoint accuracy. If I were to show you a bullet, most everyone would recognize it, but we may not realize what all makes up a…
“Nothing New Under the Sun” Whatever we give the most attention, we will see more of it. If we are looking for something, that’s what we will find. If we are looking for rule breakers, they are all around us and you’ll never find the end of that list, so recognize people are looking for…
All children and adults are familiar with Play-Doh. Some time ago I began using it to communicate principles in the Kingdom of God. Yes, I know it’s silly, but in my mind, it’s one of the many small things that demonstrate the divide between ‘the way things appear’ vs. ‘what they are’. If I were…
It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are. -Orson Scott The turmoil of life offers substance for a revolution. Ungodly people turn to their own ways. Godly people turn to God’s ways. You are well familiar with the people of God who lost their way in the days…
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it” ~ John Steinbeck When God created at the beginning of creation, He looked at what He created and said that it was good. What followed was the manifestation in the…
These terms have similar meanings. An Executer is someone who is called on to accomplish or carry out a plan or an order. An Executioner is therefore someone who executes an order to put someone to death. The person who is put to death is said to be executed (the one on whom the death…
It’s important to acknowledge that we are focusing on encountering Jesus. His Presence is the key. It is what we seek after and the rest follows. We get lost in His Presence with thanksgiving, appreciation, and gratitude and He sovereignly takes over. We don’t have to make anything happen. He does it sovereignly, He leads…
Amidst all the struggles ‘ life’ seems to present , there is a longing in every person to ‘ solve’ present problems/situations . No matter the problem, our pre-programmed software package outputs the answer: If drowning, if at all possible, we attempt to swim to the top If we feel unsafe, we lock our doors…
FIREBRAND OF GOD by Karen A Roth The next Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. They asked, “Where did he get all this wisdom and the power to perform such miracles?” Then they scoffed, “He’s just a carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James,…
We often consider history as something of the past and therefore we neglect to make history in the present. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children:and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.~PROVERBS13:22 The first thought that comes to mind when the word: wealth, is mentioned, is currency.…
GOD COMMANDED” by Karen A Roth Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you. ~1 KINGS 17:9 After delivering the Word of the Lord to Ahab that proclaimed no rain in Israel, God told Elijah that He ‘ COMMANDED’ ravens to…
GOD FILLS THE VOID by Karen A Roth David wrote, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.” Just as a deer craves water-we likewise, feel a void in our hearts and long to be filled with God. God said He lined up all the abundance and…