John’s Story

by | July 29, 2022 | Blog, Dreams, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset

Personal Name: John & Sue Garfield (Kennewick, WA) (www.ReleasingKings.com, www.OnlineHeartPlan.com) Family: Sue, 4 kids, and 7 grandchildren Education: BS Chemical Engineering, BA Theology via a local church Business/Vocation: John Garfield Consulting, Engineer...

Tell Me Your Story

by | July 27, 2022 | Blog, Dreams, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset

Why Stories – People who tell stories engage us in the language of our hearts (pictures and movie clips). Leaders who tell us our story move us. We lead people into their greatness when we connect them with their own stories. It’s a prophetic process that you can do....

Workship

by | October 9, 2021 | Blog, Dreams, Greatest Hits

True worship that blesses the heart of God is much more than words. What thrills His heart is when sons connect with the desires in their heart, so from the heart, they co-labor with Him to build the Kingdom. 2 Sam 24:24 – I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord...

Opening Hearts With Purpose

by | March 14, 2021 | Blog, Dreams, Kingly Mindset

We all know people who are not open or receptive to God or us. I typically move on to people that are open, to buy time for the Holy Spirit to do His job and ripen the fruit. I think they can feel the abandonment in that attitude of leaving them behind. By contrast,...

A Personal Invitation

by | December 13, 2020 | Blog, Dreams, Greatest Hits

We’re starting two more Heart Plan On-line courses in January. One led by John and the other by Beverly. Why don’t you join us? More on the video and the short answers to your top 10 questions. For you – Getting connected with the purpose God wrote...

What’s in it For Me???

by | July 17, 2020 | Blog, Dreams

Healing for Warriors connects your health and your purpose. I’m writing to a group of people that are chosen and called by God. You have a fruitful Kingdom purpose, and I don’t think of you as “sick.” But, once you say yes to Kingdom, the enemy...

Goals Through the Eyes of a Seer

by | July 15, 2020 | Blog, Dreams, Kingly Mindset

Most of us have dreams or goals we want to materialize. I have friends who speak of 10X increase in their business. This blog reveals a great way to use your seer gift to discover the right goals for your dream and make them come true. What not to do – Most of us are...

How to Find Your Purpose

by | January 19, 2020 | Blog, Dreams

I watched a new department manager of projects introduce himself to a staff of 100 engineers. The one phrase that stuck in my mind was, “I am very results-oriented.” Now project engineers, including me, tend to be results-oriented anyway, so the remark passed without...

You Can Be a Seer

by | November 18, 2019 | Blog, Courts & Council, Dreams

We used to think gifts of the Spirit weren’t for anybody. Then we decided they were for a few. Now we know they are for anyone who has faith and maturity to operate in them. Becoming a seer is the same. It’s for everyone. First the why, then the how. Why see? – Seeing...

Where is Your Open Door to Kingdom?

by | November 10, 2019 | Blog, Courts & Council, Dreams

We would all like to be the hero of our story. We all want to hear, “Well done.” We all like the sense of his favor to fill our sails and to touch the miraculous on occasion, i.e., to confirm He is with us. The problem is the resistance is real. It’s not easy....

Communion – Shared Purpose

by | September 22, 2019 | Blog, Courts & Council, Dreams

We usually translate communion as remembering the sacrifice of Jesus’ blood in the context of our personal forgiveness. We think of the drinking unworthily as coming to communion carrying unforgiveness against other people. We check this box by extending forgiveness...

Seeing the Big Picture

by | July 28, 2019 | Blog, Dreams, Kingly Mindset

Have you ever spent a lot of time and energy in a big initiative only to find out it was a blind alley, a bad investment, or a waste of time? Or, have you missed the big picture and your time and energy produced something unprofitable; then felt like an “unprofitable...

Learn to Pivot

by | March 2, 2019 | Blog, Dreams, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations

Bad news – “Twenty percent of small businesses fail in their first year, 30% of small business fail in their second year, and 50% of small businesses fail after five years in business.” 89% of the Fortune 500 companies that existed in 1955 are gone today. Fifty...

Inheriting Your Purpose

by | February 17, 2019 | Blog, Dreams

I was a skinny six-year-old when mom got tired of me asking “What is there to do.” She told my dad to take me with him to do the ranch work. From then on, Ford took me everywhere in that pickup; him driving, the cow dog in the middle and me riding shotgun to open all...

Seeing Your Future Self

by | July 13, 2018 | Blog, Courts & Council, Dreams

The video is here. Our new book, Seers and Doers: Sons Bringing Heaven to Earth is on Amazon Our hearts build our identity around pictures and movies that replay whenever we think about who we are and why we’re here. We have role models or heroes that inspire our own...

Adding Nations to Your Purpose

by | June 11, 2017 | Courts & Council, Dreams

The video is here. Why Purpose? – It doesn’t matter if I’m a millennial living paycheck to paycheck or a retiree traveling the world, life without a purpose beyond “self” is empty. For believers, the irony of life in the Kingdom is that when we seek “things” they (and...

Growing Through Your Near-Death Experience

by | September 28, 2016 | Dreams, Kingly Mindset

The video is here. Two weeks ago I had an accident while leading some horses out of a corral. My memory was thankfully erased by the concussion, but somehow I got my head stepped on by one of my friends… 30 stitches, 10 staples, fractured skull and broken collar bone....

Recipes Don’t Work

by | May 2, 2016 | Dreams, Education, Kingly Mindset

We have all met people whom we admire. They seem to have it all going their way: something intangible that fuels them with energy, creativity, purpose and “Midas touch” results. Finances often follow such people, but their prosperity in life is much broader than...

Personal Reformation

by | August 23, 2015 | Dreams, Kingly Mindset

The video is here. There is a macro shift from revival to reformation happening now. The concept of getting saved and serving others for the rest of your life on earth doesn’t tap the real calling to a mountain that rests in our hearts. About 75% of young...

Dreams Do Come True

by | July 27, 2015 | Dreams, Kingly Mindset

  The video is here. Life is busy. Our culture doesn’t naturally get us connected with our own hearts, nor do any of our institutions teach us how. It leaves us plodding through life with no sense of destiny or purpose. We use entertainment to fill the gap in our...

Sharing Your Why

by | April 27, 2015 | Discipleship, Dreams, Kingly Mindset

The video is here. There is a sound in the Kingdom built around sharing your “why” – the real reasons for the motivations of our hearts. If we try to convince others to adopt our why, it feels disingenuous and raises the resistance we all have for a sales pitch. If...

Obedience Kills

by | January 18, 2015 | Discipleship, Dreams

The video is here. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant — not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 2 Cor 3:6 NIV The media has been full of stories about muslim terrorism. They believe that they are...

Embracing Vulnerability

by | January 3, 2015 | Discipleship, Dreams, Kingly Mindset

When we were in Dallas last weekend sharing about Releasing Kings and hearts, I shared my own stories of tragedy and triumph. There is some fragrance that comes into our lives when we experience a death and resurrection on a personal level. Everyone there was either...

The Education Mountain

by | December 14, 2014 | Creativity, Discipleship, Dreams, Education

The video is here. We usually put releasing Kings in the context of business and wealth creation because of my own personal bias. However, releasing hearts is a Kingdom principle that works in every mountain. Education is a great example. Since we were all full time...

The Lord of Hosts Is Encouraging

by | October 19, 2014 | Dreams

The video is here. When you say “Yes, Lord” to your destiny, you coincidentally sign up for some great victories and some additional warfare. A decision to be part of the Kingdom and have an influence in your mountain comes with an anointing for persistence, work and...

Only Believe

by | July 20, 2014 | Dreams, Initiative, Kingly Mindset

We all face issues in life that are beyond our ability to control or even to foresee. Our role in the Kingdom is volunteering to initiate something that is not possible to complete without God’s intervention. Faith always feels a little farther out on the limb than we...

Wealth Creation

by | June 29, 2014 | Dreams, Wealth

The Video is here. Helping people to make a connection with their heart and purpose in the Kingdom isn’t theoretical or just theological. Dreams come true when we connect our heart’s desires with our vocation and cash flow. One of the failure points of counseling,...

Is My Dream Too Big?

by | June 15, 2014 | Dreams, Kingdom Corporations

The video is here. Over the last two weeks we had the privilege of helping several dozen people in Poland and Denmark to get in touch with themselves and the dream that God wrote in their hearts (Heart Plan Workshops). It’s really a process of hearing God and...

Connecting With Our Heart

by | April 27, 2014 | Discipleship, Dreams, Kingly Mindset

The video is here. One of the most profound ingredients of “Kingdom” is making the transition from servant to friend in our relationship with Jesus. God is walking us all through this transition to Kingdom by teaching us how to connect with what He’s already written...

Ideas That Have Legs

by | April 6, 2014 | Dreams, Kingly Mindset, Politics, Wealth

The video version of this newsletter is here. With the advent of social media, viral ideas have the ability to travel the world at a much faster pace. The Utopian theory is that this global exchange of ideas would foster enlightenment and unity around the world… I...

Start Before You Are Ready

by | January 4, 2014 | Dreams

The video is here. Successful people start before they feel ready. The key: they respond to their heart’s passions with action before their mind can list all the reasons why not. It’s important to understand the difference between heart and mind. Our public schools...

Results

by | December 8, 2013 | Dreams

The video is here. Results make many believers a little nervous because it’s close to “works”… also known as dead works. We’ve all worked with people driven by a religious or workaholic zeal toward rules that were supposed to lead to results. The lack of relationship...

Letting Your Heart Breathe

by | August 11, 2013 | Dreams

The video version of this newsletter is here. Choosing Life – Releasing Kings is really fun right now. The wind is at our back and the enemy is in our face. All over the world, a mighty army is waking up to a breath of fresh air that is bringing life and vitality and...

Replacing the Sin Management Model of the Gospel

by | July 21, 2013 | Dreams

You can watch the video here. When we first experience Jesus in our hearts we are all naturally drawn to want to cultivate our obedience and elevate His lordship in our lives. It’s natural and healthy to want to please the father. Most of us struggle to get through...

Releasing the Fragrance

by | July 15, 2013 | Dreams

The concept of releasing Kings is all about defining your dream and seeing it come true in a way that displays something of your destiny in the Kingdom. It’s a Jailbreak on a personal level and it makes a real contribution at the Kingdom level – making disciples of...

Depression of the Heart

by | June 23, 2013 | Dreams

We were designed to have fellowship with God and to experience His presence, and to dream and see those dreams come true. The path of life can lead us through great challenges in both of those areas, and when we go through a valley it really does feel like depression....

Things We Substitute for Heart’s Desire

by | March 10, 2013 | Dreams

We are just entering a season where God’s people are beginning to grasp that His will can be found in the desires of our own hearts. That’s how we define a King. Traditionally, doing God’s business was always presumed to be sacrificing my will and picking up the cross...

Choosing Between a Diet and a Dream

by | March 3, 2013 | Dreams

God is graduating believers into the Kingdom right now. I hear many stories of both excitement and travail. We have all been discipled in a concept of holding ourselves accountable to live up to certain standards. Two things eventually happen after some amount of time...

Managing Imagination

by | February 24, 2013 | Creativity, Dreams

A tool of destiny – I want to suggest that our imagination is one of the ways that we discover our Kingdom purpose (aka the will of God). Here’s how it works: imagination or meditation is our journey through the desires of our heart to find the desires on God’s heart....

Finding Your Open Door

by | February 17, 2013 | Dreams

In my own life and the lives of all my friends, we are wrestling with finding an open door. Or, if a door has opened, how do we manage the flood of blessing and adversity that goes with it? Many hearts are longing for a door to open. Some don’t even know what door to...

Hang on to Your Heart

by | November 15, 2012 | Dreams

The Gospel of Salvation – We all have roots in the gospel of salvation; Jesus died for our sins and, if we accept his sacrifice and ask his forgiveness, we can be saved. People in desperate straits are indeed forgiven and heaven is their destination. When we translate...

Tested Until We Trust

by | September 23, 2012 | Dreams

Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him. Ps 105:19 KJV When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. Matt 13:21 NIV This is an amazing season of testing for those pursuing the Kingdom in the marketplace. Many...

Why Children Talk to Themselves

by | August 19, 2012 | Dreams

Under the age of 10, children freely talk to themselves without inhibition. They are free from the boundaries that prevent the expression of their hearts. As we grow older and become more educated, we distance ourselves from our hearts and dwell more in our minds...

The Next Level

by | June 24, 2012 | Dreams

“3 steps to connect with your own heart” –          Stop living someone else’s script –          Become yourself (the way you were designed) –          Build the bridge between vocation and ministry –          Get started on the dream God put in your heart Where is...

The What, Why, and How of Life

by | May 20, 2012 | Dreams

“What” – Life has a purpose – The most fundamental question we ask in life is, “What’s my purpose?” Even if you don’t ask it overtly, your heart is searching for the reason in subconscious ways. I’ve heard believers say that it’s to glorify God. I’m not sure what that...

Doors and Keys

by | April 29, 2012 | Blog, Dreams, Initiative

Kings share one common phenomenon, particularly in this present hour: we are all contending for our inheritance and pursuing a dream. Servants content themselves with the blessed hope of heaven. Kings are focused on building the Kingdom here and now. That Kingdom...

My Dream Isn’t Here Yet

by | February 26, 2012 | Dreams

I received a comment on a last week’s newsletter that is very relevant. Many are going through a phase where aspects (or all) of our dream hasn’t arrived yet. Welcome to the club. I thought this articulated one of the excesses we can fall into: pursuing a legitimate...

Meditation – Exercising Your Heart

by | January 16, 2012 | Dreams

In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. (Acts 2:17) It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of...

Adding Substance to Your Dream

by | July 10, 2011 | Discipleship, Dreams

It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It’s the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won’t be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live. From The Rose Secular writers...

Hearing Hearts

by | July 4, 2011 | Dreams

I heard your heart – Once we learn to hear our own heart’s desires, we start a process of learning to distinguish between our hearts and our minds. When I say “heart,” I’m referring to a deeper level; “subconscious” or “spirit” may also be terms we could use to...

Heirs Together

by | June 9, 2011 | Dreams

Marriage is a great example of a relationship where the union is greater than the sum of the parts. Life is all about finding the people with whom we’re called to work, and enjoying the ride. The original couple was created to 1) be fruitful, 2) multiply, and 3) have...

Like a Child

by | May 23, 2011 | Dreams

One of the secrets to fulfilling our Kingdom and Kingly destiny is becoming child-like. When we were little, our philosophy of life was going after whatever we wanted. We would crawl or waddle over to the desired object and simply grasp for it. If we couldn’t get it,...

The Price of Success

by | May 15, 2011 | Dreams

Most of us have heroes or role models whom we consider successful. Last week we discussed the role of passion in finding our personal calling or purpose in life (Passion is in Fashion). This week we want to make it a little more practical and outline eight simple...

Passion is in Fashion

by | May 8, 2011 | Dreams

There is a shift in the Kingdom that allows Kings to embrace their passion. We are all attracted to public figures in music, sports, business, or politics who are passionate. They love what they do; they are really good at it, and their level of fervor, enthusiasm and...

Created for Success

by | January 31, 2011 | Dreams, Kingly Mindset

You win – Just like airplanes are designed to fly, God created you to succeed. Most of us have experienced enough failure in life or our upbringing that our computers are programmed to doubt that we can succeed. However, you can overwrite the negative software if you...

The Gospel of the Kingdom

by | December 12, 2010 | Blog, Dreams

I have one more insight regarding Warsaw. Our business conferences “accidentally” resulted in 30-40 salvations. The Lord spoke something into my heart regarding why it happened. This newsletter is an introduction to Kings and the Gospel of the Kingdom. It’s worth...

You Can Dream

by | July 26, 2008 | Dreams

“‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they...