Sid Roth welcomes A.J. Jones

Sid Roth: We want everyone everywhere to experience the love of Father God 24-7.  My guest, A.J. Jones experienced that and she wants to help everyone, everywhere experience the love of Father God.  You know I really, I was seeing myself in my father as I listen to your teaching A J on the different types of fathers and let’s face it were an imperfect world, even if you have a good father relatively speaking; you still have some of these six different types of fathers.  Explain a few types of fathers that perhaps some of our Mishpochah may have or may have had.

AJ: Well, there’s the absent father which you know he might be absent because of death, but he also just might be absent because he works a whole lot.  And typically if you had an absent father, I mean what we tend to do with whatever our experience has been with authority figures or our dads or our moms we tend to place that image onto Father God.  And so if our dads have been absent, then we tend to you know live in the world like we’re doing everything on our own, we tend to be very intense kind of people.  And we honestly believe that God’s not interesting in our lives, you know that He’s maybe watching at distant even if we have a relationship with God there is a hindrance to being able access Him because of the way that we view Him.

Sid Roth: So, dependent on how our natural father was; one of these six categories and could have been all six as a matter of fact.

AJ: Sure.

Sid: There’s a degree of our understanding of the love of God the Father that skewed and it has to be fixed.

AJ: Yeah.

Sid: Tell me some other types of fathers.

AJ: Well, the performance oriented father is probably the one that we see most universally and that would just be you’re rewarded as long as your behavior is good, and your performance is good.  But if your performance and behavior is less than satisfactory, well then God’s angry or disinterested or…

Sid: Well, you know what I found in my case?  My father was always very critical to me, of my actions.  How would that mess up my vision of Father God?

AJ: Well then you think, you know as you’re walking through life Sid, you know whenever there’s moments you think I probably could have done better here or you’re probably thinking that God thinks that.  God’s probably thinking critical about you should have been able to do this better and you should know better over here.

Sid Roth: And you know what, I don’t think that, but I’m always thinking I could have done something better always.  So it’s all layers and different degrees which origin is in our natural father.

AJ: Yeah.

Sid: To me I have to tell you, when I listen to your tapes, it really got me thinking about myself in areas I haven’t thought about for years.

AJ: Yeah, that’s great; I mean the good thing is that God can heal absolutely anything right.  So he loves to walk us back through things that are still unresolved so that we can actually get to the level of intimacy that He desires.  We always thing think that we’re the ones that are desiring intimacy with Him, but and that’s true, but He desires intimacy with us so much more, I mean, He wouldn’t have sent Jesus if He didn’t desire it.

Sid Roth: Now, speaking of intimacy that you now have with God the Father, and I have to tell you AJ if you could have that intimacy with all that you’ve been through, anyone could have that intimacy.  And I think that’s why God raised you up what do you think?

AJ: I think that’s exactly it, God is no respecter of persons the Bible’s clear about that and what He will do for me he will do for anyone.

Sid: And you know what, now you’re free to receive everything that God has to offer in this life and one of the things that intrigues me is the very specific dreams God gives you now.

AJ: Yeah, I mean God; yeah God quite frequently gives me dreams within a day or two the exact thing that I’ve dreamt will happen so that’s pretty fun.  Ha-ha-ha, but then He’s also taken me and shown me things that are happening in heaven and it’s just wonderful to not be afraid of God any more so that I can actually hear Him.

Sid: Well, you talk a lot about forgiveness…Give me one nugget that’s very important on forgiveness, or unforgiveness.

AJ: There’s a quote that I quote while I’m teaching on it that says that says “To forgive is to set the prisoner free and then realize the prisoner was you.”

Sid: You know that that’s so profound; I’m going to ask you to say that again slowly.

AJ: Okay, “To forgive is to set the prisoner free and then realize that the prisoner was you.”

Sid: That is amazing, and not only that, the reason that God the Father wants you free so you can walk in everything that he has for you no matter what happens in this world is there’s a great Jewish wedding that’s about ready to happen and you’ve had two visions tell me briefly about the two visions you’ve had of the wedding feast.

AJ: I have had, I had two visions of the banqueting table in stages of preparation and so the first one I had I was getting a tour of heaven by an angel.  And we walked out into this courtyard and there was this table that was so long that I couldn’t actually see where it ended.  But the area around it was decorated and they were putting like the table pieces down the middle; the decorations down the middle.  If you imagine an elaborate table you know they were putting that down the middle you know with candles and stuff.  And just starting to get place settings set out.  And the second time that He took me and He showed me the exact same table, they were putting down the plates on the table and I remember when I saw them putting down the plates and I could see that the decorations were done; we were now getting to the stuff we were going to eat off of.  I remember looking at that and thinking this is going to happen really soon and it was pretty exciting; it was during that whole vision that the Lord showed me the bridal chamber and whole bunch of stuff.  I was just like wow.

Sid: Tell me that second vision though that was at John Arnott’s home.

AJ: The first one was at John Arnott’s home where the angel was giving me a tour of heaven and the second one actually happened in England.

Sid: But you saw something called the library, tell me about that.

AJ: Yeah, yeah it was this huge room and I don’t even know how many stories that it would have gone up, but maybe three or four stories high and it was funny because it was bright and it was beautiful kind of like an old English Library but there was no lights, but it was lit.  So I was sort of confused by that but there was all of these leather bound books, you know just walls and walls of them and the angels accessing them, taking them down writing things in them and then putting them back up.  And I remember asking the angel that was showing me the room you know, “What are these books?”  And he said, “These are the books of people’s lives.”  And I was like, “Wow God, Your really paying attention to everything.”

Sid: Well, He says that in His word, we’ll be held accountable for everything we do.  I’m so glad about repentance and the blood of Jesus to wipe our slate clean and the power God gives us to overcome.  But I want in your words to describe what it was like when Jesus started dancing with you.

AJ: Oh wow, it was awesome, that was after I saw the table and we came back into the ballroom which we had walked through to go see where the wedding feast was and we came back in and I in the vision told Him, I was in this dress all of a sudden and I was like, “I don’t know how to dance, I don’t know how to do this.”  And He said, “You can stand on my feet and I’ll show you.”  And so I danced with Jesus, but I was standing on His feet and just dancing through the ballroom.  You have to understand the impact of that visual for me was incredible because when I was a teenager after my relationship had been restored with my Dad I had gone to this building opening with him and I remember he asked me to dance and we were; and I went out there and I said, “I can’t dance I don’t know how to dance,” and he had said, “You can stand on my feet.”  And so the Lord had echoed back to me a moment of intimacy that was an invitation to go to a place of intimacy with God that I hadn’t been yet.  And it was amazing, it was life changing.

Sid: We know how your relationship was; it was a disaster, what’s your relationship with being in God’s presence 24-7?

AJ: Well, as I said, you know it changes everything, and my life is a 100% different; I have a wonderful husband and two wonderful kids and I’m in full time ministry and the Lord shows up and changes lives and he really has redeemed everything that I’ve been through to help other people go through things and be able to walk into God’s hands and know that He’s going to take care of it.

Sid: Do you know what this is all saying to me, God knew that, God has every hair on your head numbered.  Not two sparrows fall to the ground without Him personally being aware of it and of how much more value are you.  I tell you right now by the Spirit of God you have value!  Yes, you, you listening to me right now, you; you have value.  God’s even healing people with back problems right now.  But I have to tell you, as you come into intimacy with God the Father and recognize how He values you, how he has the best interest for you at heart.  As you realize that we’re so fast approaching the return of Jesus and He has an assignment for you.  You will not fulfill your assignment until you understand your Father, your heavenly Father’s love for you and walk in it twenty-four seven.