Musical inspirations...

Dreamy Nights

Along the path was cluttered,

the remains of abandoned dreams,

like forgotten treasures,

they glowed faintly in the star lit sky.

Defeated & destroyed by criticism, disappointment, hopelessness, fear, and self-doubt.

The further the path led,

the fewer the dreamers.

How could anyone dare to dream with so much experience to reprove any such audacious inclination?

But then one hap-hazard to look up and caught a glimpse ...of a shimmer so sweet & captivating.

And a spark was lit in a heart that night as it began to ignite her soul.

Perhaps. By chance. By faith. By desire. By beauty & treasure.

just maybe.

And so a dream was born. or maybe born again.

She'd never noticed the sky so full of promise.

Hope.

She'd never seen the silvery stars shimmer so bright.

And could it be time... to dream again?

Perhaps. maybe. it's not too late for you....

by faith. by love. by grace. by desire. beyond what is possible.

because He already said "yes".

Forever yes.

Open up your heart ♥ and dream again.*} >open~^ up<* ¥oU{r ♥ ~h€#rT ~n D{r}ea[M ^^|A{g}a~i%N~ ••••

the Warmth of His Unchaning Goodness.

The Sun is always shining above the clouds. If it looks dreary, then it's time to go higher... new atmospheres. heavenly places. rise above. until you can see the warmth of the goodness of God clearly.

FLY

I want you to Fly.

can I fly with you?

can i play in the sandbox with you?

can i sail on the winds of your atmosphere?

Mortality is swallowed up in Life.

and the joy of your realm

drifts into mine.

I see you there dancing.

you lack nothing at all.

You are home.

you are free.

you are beautiful & loved.

And the glory you behold

compares to none.

Enraptured

in the gaze of the glorious

eternal

beautiful One

who inhabits eternity.

Soar. Take Flight.

you are more than a conqueror.

you are an overcomer.

Fly. fly fly. fly.

for you are full of life

and nothing can take that away from you.

A waltz of trust & faith & courage.

we soar together & trust

in God who raises the dead.

you have been set free.

i have been set free.

you have been set free.

i have been set free.

you are free.

so lets fly. son, let's fly.

together.

with the angels too.

energized by the radiance of His face.

to whom none can ever compare.

Todd & Chloe Update

Hi Friends,

We are 3 weeks into 2nd year Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry!

We have 3 great roommates living with us who are doing 1st year. Frida from Sweden, Antje from Germany, & Liliana from Poland. We certainly found great roommates. They are going passionantly for God & are also great housemates. Responsible, considerate, & great to be around!

Next week we have a 2 day retreat with our Revival Groups. This is a time where we all get to spend time together with the whole group becoming family! We will be at a YWAM camp in Chico (an hour south of Redding) from Tuesday to Thursday. Our 2nd year Revival Group (Theresa's group, about 80 of us), will be there with 3 groups from 1st year to love on. We are looking forward to this time with our Bethel family. :-)

October is just a few days away! Both Todd & I will be on ministry trips in October, so please mark your calendar to pray for us!!!

Chloe will be in San Francisco October 8-10 on a ministry trip with Theresa. We will be ministering with a small team for 2 days at a Prophetic Arts Conference then at a church on Sunday. At the conference, each of us will be teaching a workshop (that includes me! yikes! It'll be fun, but certainly would love some prayers!) My workshop will be about healing power of God released through arts.

(We have lots of stories here at Bethel about people getting healed from looking at or being given art that was painted with the intention/ prayer that whoever sees it would be healed or set free. In fact, there was an art piece here that a lady painted that said "HOPE" and had billowy clouds around it... as people came on Saturday morning for healing prayers, a woman with a brain tumor was looking at the painting & suddenly the tumor began to drain out of her ear! She was totally healed! God certainly does unusual miracles! ha ha! So that is part of what we will be doing, showing the people how their art can be painted in partnership with the Holy Spirit to release freedom to the captives & healing to the diseased!)

Well, here's another great story for you! Now that we are in 2nd year, we are expected to always come prepared to be the ministry team at every service & every event. So after the morning service today (Sunday, September 26), 30 of us lined up along to front to pray for all who need prayer.
Todd saw one of the most dramatic miracles he has seen. A lady had arthritis & was in quite a hurry to get prayer & go home. Todd prayed for this lady & she was feeling God's presence strongly. He asked her if the pain was all gone. She said she felt good but that really her knee was the biggest trouble to her. She said it was bone on bone with no cartilage. He started laughing because He knew she was about to get some NEW cartilage in that knee! (Since he saw that lady at the grocery store get new cartilage in her knee a few months ago!) After he thanked God for what he was about to do, he commanded the new cartilage to be formed. There was a loud POP! It startled Todd & the lady both. They both jumped back from each other & started laughing so hard. The lady was very surprised & said she was an intercessor for the healing rooms but had never herself experience such a dramatic healing. Todd was so full of joy he could hardly stand up straight. He said "I think you got your cartilage!" oh man! That is just fun stuff to be a part of seeing God heal people. He just loves to do it! He is so so so good! all the time!

Oh, and one more thing. As part of the City Wide Transformation we are praying for here in Redding, Bethel Outreach has divided the city into 20 zones/ regions. Redding use to be known as Poverty Flats 20 years ago. There are still a lot of impoverished areas & drug dealer infested areas. Last year they began what they called "Evangelistic Home Churches" They began planting home churches in the worst neighborhoods of redding to bring community, hope, healing, destiny, life, dreams, support, love etc into those areas. They have been having so many great stories of how the communities are responding & opening up! This year they are really planning to cover the city with these home churches that will meeting on a week night. Please pray for us, we have applied to possibly host & lead a home church. Prayer for us to know if this is the right timing to begin this sort of responsibility.
We know it is something in our hearts to do & it will also pull out the leadership & discipleship in us... but just want to make sure we are not taking on too much at this time. We just want to make sure we don't get busy with activity & loose time to just spend with God. We are really making this our year to let God fully heal our hearts from any remaining sadness, disappointment or stress from our last 3 years of intense extended hospital stays & of course our missing our son Haven. Our decision to stay here for 2nd year was partly to just be in a place like this where the presence of God & His love is so easy felt & encountered... and to give us this year to let him fill every sad place with His love, hope & joy.
God has been so good to us. We are so so thankful to be here and among so many amazing leaders who have been here for us, who love us & who believe in us. So many people have been such great community & family to us here.

We would love to hear from you! Please let us know how you are doing.
With Our Love & God's Blessings,

Chloe & Todd

John G Lake Quote

Gandhi

JGL

Enough is Enough

If you are sick of being defeated, diseased, impoverished, discouraged, then it's time to get fed up with letting the devil rule your circumstances. Stop asking me to pray for you if you are going to sit there & complain & keep expecting the worst. When You get feed up with being defeated, then rise up in tenacity & determination & resolve... say, The Word of God says... Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in this world!!!! Resolve that you are not going to let the devil win in your life. Resolve that you are going to have the VICTORY of Jesus, or die trying, but not settle for a hoo-humm life.

This struggle will pull you in... so what will you do with it? You can keep mulling over the failures & let-downs of your life, or you can take the Word of God as a sword and start doing some good for the kingdom of God on this earth.

Start walking in authority, start acting like a Christian, start living in freedom, start commanding the storms, the winds, the waves... to submit to the name of the Almighty God, Jesus, the victorious King!

Stop letting the devil beat you up & give him all that credit & start taking your Sword & say, Devil, I'm not only chasing you out of my life, but I'm also chasing you out of my family, friends, neighborhood, community, church, & everywhere I see your evil works, I will destroy them (ie. heal the sick, lame, diseased).

Come ON! When the devil knows you mean it, then you will start to see results. As long as you want to sit around and complain, the devil is happy to give you a pity party, sympathy, & reasons to be selfish & self-absorbed. Seriously, if disease was from God, then why does it make people needy, selfish, dependent, etc?? God sets us free to serve the world & lay down our lives, not to require the entire energies of every family member & friend who comes along.

Lay down your life by getting sick of letting the devil win in your family & start winning others battles too. That's where real joy is found. In seeing the glorious kingdom of God WIN in people's lives. Joy unspeakable & full of glory. GO & WIN!

The More you believe that God is radically GOOD & the more you believe that He really cares about everything including YOU... the more you will be continually amazed & thankful & astounded by how truly truly truly GOOD & willing & personal God really is!!!!

Chloe preaching on You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88wu5urOVY

Sometimes I am very aware that we are already standing in eternity... when we are aware of His glorious presence... it seems like we are in another dimension.... and all I see is a big family... His glorious bride... And I am only aware of the glory of God upon us & not of any fault or humanity. just Jesus in & through us.

Who cares about the STORMS when God is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!

stop singing about storms, we all know that everyone has them, lets sing about the One who commands the storms & the winds to cease... and the victorious, goodness of His love & righteousness in & through us. the unshakable kingdom within us. The love & freedom released through us... the perfect peace that never leaves us.. the beautiful One who always loves us. that's worth singing about!!!!

I Have Destiny

He's Better Than You Think (by Todd Casselberry)

A short story of our journey to Bethel

by Todd Casselberry

The Road to Bethel
Our journey here began about 2 ½ years ago when we noticed our son Haven, hadn’t started to crawl yet. He was about 7 months old and so full of life. The doctors did not have any answers, only foreboding guesses.

About this time, our friend told us of a place called ‘Bethel’ where God still did miracles. I had always wondered where miracles went. I was only familiar with such stories in far away lands. We heard the testimonies, and the testimonies brought Hope. Our healing journey began.

I had heard the message of this House that ‘God is good’ and although we knew this theology, we quickly realized the areas of our life that had to be transformed if we really believed this. We later heard that ‘God was in a good mood’, was this really true? Always? I soon realized that how I perceived God determined how I received from Him.

We received the diagnosis of Haven’s condition an hour outside of Redding on a trip to a Jesus Culture event, our second visit to Bethel. The doctor said it was terminal…We were devastated. Our hope quickly began to collapse in our hearts like a balloon losing air. How could this be true?

The next morning we received two words of knowledge in the conference: The first was that God wanted to heal someone with a bad disk in the lower back. My leg started to tingle, and I stood and leaned down, as I heard a ‘pop’ and my herniated disk was healed. Then a woman stood up and declared that ‘There was a young married couple who had a child, a young boy who had a disease, and God wanted to heal his disease’ and as we stood in a whirlwind of amazement, the restoration of our hope began. The eyes of my heart were opened to the Healing Power Jesus made available a long time ago, I saw the miracles, and I discovered….

“God is more willing than You think”

Over the next 1 ½ years, we would make our journey to the House of Love here at Bethel. Every 6 weeks we piled in our car for the 9 hour drive, expectancy consuming our hearts. We Received the love of a family on every trip, although we barely knew them. People would pick us out of the crowd, as if they had a radar for the hungry ones desperately in need of hope. With every hug and prayer God kissed us. With every prophetic word, our faith increased & we had the courage to contend for his healing as we left on our long drive home.

‘The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.’ I had a prosperous and influential career in the action sports industry,….yet we found a treasure here in God, that far outweighed the cost of the sacrifice. God spoke to my heart and asked me my desire. He would bless us if we stayed, and He would bless us if we came, it was my choice. He wanted us to pursue the desires of our heart, and it was our desire was to come, so we moved here for school.

I’ve learned so much this past year. I’ve learned the Value of Rest, but also the Need to Persevere. I’ve learned to Rest and to Trust God, does not mean to stop contending. The more I encountered the Love of God and Intimacy in the secret place, the more I understood how much He had already provided, and realized He was holding little back. He would often say “Yes’ and yet I found I would still need use my faith to see it manifest. If we could only believe what He says, even if we don’t see it right away, we would see it more. I realized…

“He has given us much more than you think”

We learned identity, and sonship, and our minds were renewed to the royalty that He had made us. We learned the danger of a poverty mindset, and that the only ‘closed heavens’ was between your ears. I meditated on how “Every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies had been given to us in Christ” and it became much more clear that…

“He wants to prosper us much more than you think”

I learned through some challenging circumstances as well. God’s will is always good, but God’s perfect will does not always come to pass. God’s sovereignty does not mean He’s in complete control, yet He is always faithful. He’s entrusted us with power and authority to further His kingdom, and yet He relies on Us, to Do the ‘greater works’ . We have a significant responsibility, and yet this is not to be mistaken for a burden. Heb. 5:14 tells us that many of the 'more mature' things of the kingdom can only be experienced by our ability to act on our faith and to 'do the things our Father has told us to do'. I’ve found that He’s waiting on us to believe Him and to walk in our authority, and we too often are waiting on Him. I heard the story about Smith Wigglesworth, and how he had said ‘If the Spirit of God is not moving in a meeting, he will make Him move’ and I believe God was saying ‘I’ve been waiting on you!’ I realized that the truth behind that statement is that God is waiting for us to move in faith, the Holy Spirit is eager to support us. This was not an arrogant statement, for God has sent the Holy Spirit to help us, and as we set out to do the work, He comes alongside us to make it happen. He can lead us, but as we mature, we will find that He follows us and confirms with signs and wonders as we do what we know is the Father’s heart to do.

“All the promises of God are Yes and Amen in Christ” . I believe when we get to heaven, we’ll realize we had all that we needed for breakthrough and victory in this life, and we will wonder at the things that held us back from believing it and acting on it….and He’ll wipe the tears from our eyes. That’s why His grace is so extravagant, there will never be a question that He held anything good back that we needed. Do we need more mantles, or double portions, or do we just need to know The portion He has already given us? Do we need a new anointing, or do we just need to understand we have been anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power? We have the Resurrection Power dwelling in these earthly temples, do we need more, or do we just need to know how to release Him through faith? Is Jesus in us enough? If He just had more of us…He just wants all of us….What if we were fully His as He has fully given Himself?

As we come to understand how much He’s done & everything He’s given us, we must grow up and take the responsibility He has given to us as co-heirs and children of God. “The Creation is groaning”, waiting for the sons of God to be revealed and to understand this. Does the creation know more about what God has done for us than we do? The angels marvel at the power given to Man. God has bound Himself by His word, yet do we know what His word as says He has done in us?
I’ve come to believe that …

“He has given us much more authority than you think”

I have realized that the main thing the enemy tries to do is get you to doubt the goodness & willingness of God, because the more you know His goodness and what He has done for us, the more you will desire Him and less the things of this world, and the easier it will be to receive from Him the things that He has made available. The problem isn’t in His lack of giving, it’s often in our lack of receiving. I have found…

“He says ‘Yes’ more often than you think”

Now, It’s our time to see Divine Justice demonstrated in this earth. How do You perceive the justice of God? Is He a harsh God or is He always good? I’ve learned Divine Justice is releasing God’s goodness into every situation. God has entrusted this role to us, and now we are commissioned, so as we go always remember…

“He’s Much Better than you think”

Haven's hand prints @ 1 yr old

I've Got a Bucket Full of Sunshine (by Chloe Casselberry)

A short story about my last trip to the hospital with my son, Haven (I love you buddy.)

March 24, 2010:
Riding on the 2nd of 3 amulances on our way to fly to Sacramento on a "life flight" from Redding, CA. Fighting against anxiety & a little overwhelmed to be back in the hospital again, without my husband's strong faith beside me, a little alone, and talking myself into courage, I needed some strength. We had just checked out of ICU in Redding & were headed for a more specialized children's hospital. I was listening for a reminder that Holy Spirit is with me... On This particular ride, they made me sit in the front... & this song came on the radio...

"I've got a bucket full of sunshine,
Take me away, to the secret place,
Take me away"

As the song ended, we pulled up to the small plane to load up for our flight to Sacramento. I found out that the flight nurse was from our church & asked him if he prays for healing for people as he does these transports. Yes. He believes.

With that we loaded up for take off. As we assended into the sky I began to sing over Haven a song of praise to God. As we lifted into a beautiful morning sky, the sun was shining brightly & the sky was glorious (something I have miss dearly during my long stays in the hospital where I rarely get to feel the sun & wind on my face.)
Haven was soon deep asleep with the roar of the engines, & I just thanked God for the moments of peace & beauty & hope He was giving me.
I was stirring my spirit up to courage for the onslaught of doctors & nurses & "news" that I was about to face... Alone... But not alone.
In that moment the Holy Spirit kissed me with courage & peace & nearness. And I was taken away... To that secret place with Him & filled with His Sunshine that defys the circumstances. And for this sunshine I am eternally grateful!

NEW T-shirts: Haven Says!

Mama, I said raise the dead! (video)