Dictionary

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Abundance – A lot
Activate – to turn the keys and start the engine
Alignment – when things fall into place
Altar call - when God dials your number and is wondering if you will pick up
Amen – the last word, meaning “yep! so be it”
Angel – a heavenly being
Angelic host, host of heaven – a gang of angels
Angelic visitation – when an angel comes and hangs out with you
Anointing – an unusual ability, sometimes leaves an oily residue
Antichrist – the bad guy, really, really bad
Appointment, divine – a set up from above
Appropriate – use the right way
Assignment – something to put on the to-do-list
Atonement – someone else paid your bill
Authority – when you walk the walk people believe the talk you talk

Backlash – when a boomerang hits you in the face
Backsliding - going backwards spiritually
Banner - fabric of divine proportions
Banqueting table – where they serve the good stuff
Battle – spiritual fist fight
Battleground – boxing ring
Behold – look at that!
Bitter root - festered anger
Bless you - at times used to replace "Goodbye", "Get lost" or "Good for you", but much more than a sneeze response
Blessing – really good stuff, when you got the thumb’s up, literally: "Empowered to succeed"
Body of Christ – a living structure of members that move and do things
Bondage – stuff that keeps you tied up
Born again – to start over the God way, everything new
Break the yoke – getting rid of something that doesn’t fit right
Breaker anointing – the ability to change stuff in a big way
Breaking forth - Moving forward, starting something new
Breakthrough/ Breaking through – the moment when (usually long awaited) change happens
Brothers and sisters/Brethren – God siblings
Burden bearing – helping someone else with their heavy luggage, spiritually speaking

Calling/Call – what you were made for
Catcher – the one behind you when you have a Spirit induced fall
Chastise – get beaten up
Claiming – when you bite into it and don’t let it go
Cleansing – a spiritual shower
Cloud – a mix of fragrance and moisture from heaven (there are also counterfeit clouds aka farts)
Condemnation – when the devil tells you you’re really bad cause you did something stupid
Conduit – someone that connects heaven and earth
Confess – admit it
Confirmation - Thumbs up from God
Congregation – gathering of God people
Contending for - fighting for
Counter attack – when the boogie man is trying to get back at me
Counterfeit – fake, copied
Covenant – contract signed by blood
Covering - spiritual back up/ cheerleaders, protection and support
Creative miracle – when something shows up that wasn’t there before (usually a body part)

Deception - when you think you are right, but really you are wrong
Declare – say it like you mean it (usually accompanied with high levels of volume)
Defiling, defilement – happens when you play in the mud puddle
Destiny – where you are meant to go and who you are meant to be
Dimension - heavenly measurements
Discernment – when you know what’s going on
Download – inspiration and ideas from above
Draw in – invite, pull in, magnetize
Drunk in the Spirit – intoxicated by God
Dwelling place – where God hangs out

Edify – say words that pull you up
Encounter – have a meet and greet
End-times – when things are coming to a head in history
Energized - spiritually motivated
Enter in – go through the door
Equipping – giving you the tools

Faith righteousness – You're OK cause God made it OK
Favor – divine "luck"
Fellowship – hanging out together
Finished work –a done deal
Fire – divine heat
Fire tunnel – a Holy Spirit oven you walk through to get toasted
Flesh – the part of you that stinks when you burn it
Flow – God groove
Footstool – where God puts his feet up
Fountain – vertical liquid refreshment
Fragrance – something smells good
Free flow – jamming with the Spirit
Frontal hug – a full-on hug without fear of physical proximity
Fruit – positive results

Garment – your special outfit
Gates – entry doors
Gathering – a get together
Gifting – a special ability, what you are good at
Give a testimony – tell a God story
Give me an amen – agree with me
Give your life to the Lord - accepting Jesus' proposal
Glory - Sonshine
Glory cloud - the God fragrance
Go in peace – Leave with a good feeling
Going through the valley – going through a dark time
Gospel – good news

Hallelujah – "Thank God"
Hard ground – where stubborn independence resides
Harvest time – when you get to take the good stuff home
Haste – hurry up
Have a heart for – to really enjoy or like something
Have a word – when you heard the voice and gotta talk about it
Have peace about - feeling right about
Healing Rooms – a hospital where God is the doc
Heavens - (mostly) invisible living space
Heavy revy – when the lights go on big time, a huge realization
Honey presence – something sweet is in the air

I have a sense - I see, I feel, I smell, I hear or I taste
"I see that hand" - said while counting new volunteers for God's gang
Impartation - a gift from above that goes straight into your heart
In the spirit - in a God groove, living hand in hand with God
Indwelling - living inside
Inheritance - God wants to give you a piece of the pie
Inner man - the part of you where God lives
Inner vow - "I will never..." / "I will always..." type of swears
Intercession - Asking God to do stuff for someone else
Interpretation - the meaning of something

Justified - paid all your bills and bills to come

Kingdom - where God is in charge

Lamb – entity of the God flock
Lion of Judah - the maker of the jungle
Little foxes – things that try to bug you

Mandate – A job to do
Manifestation / Manifesting - your body responding to God showing up
Manna - Food from God
Mantle - Uniform from God
Maranatha - Jesus, hurry up and come back alright
Mediator - the go between
Mercy seat - God's chair filled with grace pillows
Ministry Time - quality time with God
Miracle - when God does the impossible
More - asking for a refill
Mountain top experience – a spiritual high

Name and claim - when you identify what you want and decide to go after it
New wine – a freshly squeezed thirst quencher of high quality

Offering, take up the offering - money collection
Old man - the part of you that can't keep up with the God life
On my heart - was thinking about
Open doors - opportunities
Open heaven - open house at God's place
Operating - at work, functioning
Orbs - shiny circles in the air that show up on digital photographs sometimes
Outpouring - when God loves on us
Outreach - go to hang out with estranged family members

P.U.S.H. - Pray Until Something Happen
Partnering with – do something together
Pattern - Repetitive structure
Persevere - to not give up
Pioneering – starting something new
Place of encounter - place where you meet with God, flesh BBQ location
Plead the blood - use the power you've been given
Portal - door/entry way
Positioning - moving into the right spot, getting ready
Pour out- give/hand out
Power of agreement - the strength that comes from unity
Praise - to thank God, to love on him
Praise report - a God story
Pray into/pray about - have a chat with God about something
Prayer ministry - have someone else pray with you about something (see above)
Pregnant with, being - developing an idea, pondering on a thought
Presence, the – when God shows up and you can feel it
Pressing in/on - to keep going/not giving up
Priesthood - God's family
Principalities - evil power structures
Process - think something through to try to make sense of it or come to a conclusion
Proclaim - say with confidence
Proclamation - confident exclamation of truth
Provision- what you need
PTL - Praise the Lord= "Thank God"
Pull down - access by reaching upward

Quicken - add God speed
Quiet time - down time with God

Rapture - space trip planned for all God people
Reaching out - interact to share the love
Realm - invisible area/space
Reap - receiving a return on investment
Receive it - accept
Redemption - when something really good comes out of a bad situation
Re-digging wells - rediscovering some ancient God powerhouses
Release - free up, untie
Remnant - gang of outsiders
Repent – to do the 180
Residue - leftover
Resurrection life - the God kind of life
Revelation - epiphany, huge realization, eureka!
Revival – when many people get a life
River - liquid movement of the Spirit
Robes - clothes designed by God

Salvation- the whole package deal: rescue and recovery
Sanctuary – main room in a church
Saved - rescued and recovered
Season – a certain time frame
Secret place – where you hang out with God
Seed – something I can invest
Service – doing something nice for someone without pay
Set apart - different
Shandai/Shaba/Sharamahanda - code words in God language
Share – tell, say
Shepherd/having a shepherd’s heart – someone that cares about people and how they are doing
Shift – abruptly moving something into the right place
Side hugs - forward facing half embrace
Signs and wonders – stuff that God does AKA “the impossible”
Sin - stuff that gets in the way of relationship with God
Slain in the spirit – have a Spirit induced fall
Soaking – a spiritual bubble bath
Song of the Lord - God inspired lalala
Soul tie - unhealthy connection to the wrong source
South and north wind - Gods air movement, not to be mistaken for the human counterfeit
Sow into – make an investment (time, money, energy…)
Speaking in tongues – talking in a God language
Speaking the truth in love - saying what you really think (in a nice way)
Spiritual mapping – picking travel destinations with the Spirit
Splendor - divine dazzle
Standing in the gap – asking God something on behalf of someone else
Step of faith – taking a risk
Step out – do something risky
Strategy – Gods “how-to”
Stream - liquid God movement
Stronghold – something negative that has a grip on you
Strongman – control freak
Structures - evil networks
Suddenly, a - unexpected, abrupt God action
Supernatural – not of this world
Sword of the spirit - the Bible

Tabernacle, to – to hang out with
Taking hold – to “get it”
Taking the land – moving into your home
Tarry – wait around
Tearing down – destroying bad stuff
Temple hug - a hug with minimal physical contact - only the arms and shoulders touch slightly
The lost - those that don't know God's love personally,
The presence – when God is in the house
Third heaven – the top layer of the cake where the angels live
Third wave - Holy Spirit's third world tour
Throne – God’s couch
Throne room - God’s living room
Touched – impacted by God
Transferable anointing - unusual ability that I can pass on to others
Transformation – being morphed (usually into something better than before)
Transition – the waiting room, “in between” place
Transport – a way to get from one place to another
Traveling mercies – wishing someone a good trip
Tribulation – tough times
Trigger - something that pushes my buttons and brings up a bad memory

Unction – inspiration
Under his wings - protected and safe
Under the blood – when your bad stuff is taken care of, makes separation anxiety unnecessary
Under the weight – pushed down by God (in a good way)
Unevenly yoked – something that doesn’t go well together
Unity of the brethren – getting along with our God siblings
Unpackage – explain slowly so that normal people can understand
Uplifting - having a positive effect

Veil - semi-see-through covering
Vision - what you see in front of you / a glimpse into God's heart

W.W.J.D. - "What Would Jesus Do" slogan of a bracelet campaign designed to help you remember you are a Christian
Waiting on the Lord - when God has a date with you, but didn't set a time
Walk – how I move in life
Warrior spirit – when you are not gonna put up with injustice
Washed by the blood - when you had a God shower that leaves you spotless inside and out
Washing of the word – When I start to agree with what God says
Wave - when the Spirit moves like the ocean
Weigh and test - check out and see if it's true
Well - source of spiritual refreshment
Wilderness – a dry time when all you see is sand
Wind of the Spirit - (usually) silent but lively
Wineskin - where God puts his liquid love
World - the system of beliefs and thoughts apart from God

Yoke - device used to pull heavy loads

Zeal - excitement, energy, enthusiasm, passion