Governing from the Plateau

The first word Stephanie heard was “plateau.”

A plateau is an area of relatively level high ground, but it also denotes a state of little or no change after a time of activity or progress (a time of transition).

Stephanie was standing on a ridge overhanging with expanse below it. What Malcolm (our instructor) wanted to speak with us about was territory.

Malcolm began, “You can stand on a plateau and govern what is below.”

“Do we stand with the principles of governing?” he asked.

Stephanie, “We want to. Can you spell out the principles?”

Malcolm replied, “Number one: let peace be your umpire in line with that of knowing who you are. How did the earth accept your voice when you spoke to it because you are a vibration and a frequency?”

Stephanie remarked, “You're trying to show us how not only are we speaking to the earth in the natural but doing so in the spirit. We are in the spirit right here on this plateau leaning over this territory, aren't we? What principles are we to learn about this?”

He reminded us of the instruction given to Adam in Genesis. He took us back to the scripture that Faith gave us on Tuesday night in Genesis 1:28 about governing the birds and the fish, etc.

Genesis 1:28:

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

She was reminded of a time when Grant Mahoney was governing the elements in prayers and felt some backlash.

Malcolm explained what happened:

“If, in the process of governing, whether elementals (air, fire, water) or the earth, and you experience what some would call ‘backlash,’ it may well be because the elements or the earth does not know who you are because you have not yet proclaimed that you are a son. That is why you have a strategy room. Receive from the strategy room how to speak from your governing place, ruling in peace from this plateau in the spirit.”

We asked, “How do we implement speaking to the earth and to the air and to the fire and to the water?”

Malcolm replied, “Principles. Follow the principles.”

principle
/ prin-suh-puhl /
noun
1. a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.[1]

Stephanie asked, “What are the principles?”

Malcolm began showing her a vision of the scripture that says “No arrow that flies by day or pestilence that walks in darkness, etc.”

She asked me, “Do you remember how I told you that—when we’re standing on this mountain of the Lord in one of our last engagements and we’re speaking from that place, we’re doing just what Jesus did, mimicking what he does and how He says things? However, I saw—standing on this plateau above the earth while in the spirit—that when I was speaking ‘no arrow that flies by day’ (Psalm 91:5), I was speaking it as a principle and I was watching arrows come and as I’m speaking them, they are being diverted away because—Malcolm, the plateau is this position of governing, but so is the mountain. Can you help me understand?”

Malcolm answered, “Both are places in the spirit. One is with Jesus in the intimacy (the mountain of the Lord), the other is governing. Speak again to the earth and to the air.”

We began praying:

We speak to the earth in the name of Jesus, that I, Ron Horner, am a son, a governing son, over the principal that is LifeSpring. And we instruct you, Earth, to spill out the blessings of the Lord for the ministry that are from the Kingdom of Heaven and no arrow that flies by day, or pestilence that walks in darkness, destruction that comes at noon day, or terror that comes at night shall come near this ministry. All of the principles that I have set in motion from my governing are established here. Earth, you are to be in alignment with the perfect will of the Lord and to draw out the blessings and to swallow up the cursings, in Jesus' name.”

As soon as we finished praying, the vision ended.

Psalm 91:1-16 – A Governing Declaration

The Promise:

He who dwells in the secret place (place of intimacy) of the Most High shall abide under the shadow (place of protection and provision) of the Almighty (Shaddai).

DAVID’S DECLARATION CONCERNING THE LORD AND WHO THE LORD IS TO HIM:

² I (David) will say of the LORD,

A primitive root; to say (used with great latitude): - answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command (ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use [speech], utter, X verily, X yet.

He (the Lord) is my (David’s) refuge and

my (David’s) fortress.

My (David’s) God (Elohim – judge, magistrate – Courtroom setting),

in Him (God) I (David) will trust.

TENSE CHANGE TO “YOU” – DAVID IS GOVERNING FOR OTHERS

³ Surely, He (the Lord) shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.

⁴ He (the Lord) shall cover you with His feathers, and

under His (the Lord’s) wings you shall take refuge;

His (the Lord’s) truth shall be your shield and buckler.

⁵ You shall not be afraid of

the terror by night,

nor of the arrow that flies by day,

⁶ nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,

nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. ⁷ A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; but

it shall not come near you (because of David’s governing).

⁸ Only with your eyes shall you look, and see the reward of the wicked. ⁹ Because you have made the LORD, who is my (David’s) refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place,

¹⁰ no evil shall befall you,

nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

¹¹ For He (the Lord) shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

¹² In their (the angel’s) hands they (the angels) shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

¹³ You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot. ¹⁴

TENSE CHANGE – THE LORD’S PROMISE TO DAVID

Because he (David) has set his love upon Me (the Lord), therefore

I (the Lord) will deliver him (David);

I will set him on high (the plateau) because he (David) has known My (the Lord’s) name.

¹⁵ He (David) shall call upon Me, and

I will answer him (David);

I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him and

honor him. ¹⁶

With long life I will satisfy him,

and show him (David) My (the Lord’s) salvation.

Don’t view Psalm 91 as defensive, but offensive. It will change many things in your life.

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[1] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=principle