Bob Hartley with Kelly Baird: "The Year of Inheritance" and "The Journey to the Yellow House of Wholeness"

From the desk of Steve Shultz:

Here are two great words by Bob Hartley and Kelly Baird. Kelly Baird shares a short word before Bob's and is also a scribe for his prophetic words. Their articles are filled with Hope-filled words for the Body!

Bob's messages always carry a message of HOPE...and in this word he shares what the Lord showed him in his journey to the "Yellow House of Wholeness".

Here are a couple of excerpts from them:

Kelly Baird shares this word of the Lord: "It's time to get your hopes up! It's time to dream once again! Now is the time! There's no time to waste. I need you to be who I made you to be for these times and seasons."

Bob Hartley shares: In this season of inheritance, the Lord is inviting reformers to go into this "yellow house of wholeness". It is a place in Him where we will be upgraded in our love and in our face-to-face knowledge of Him.

Enjoy these words and let them encourage you in the midst of trying and dark times...that there is a journey of HOPE that the Lord wants to lead us on!

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Intro for Kelly Baird:

I would like to introduce to you a key member of our Voice of Hope team, Kelly Baird. Kelly is a Matriarch of Hope who brings peace and prophetic insight into our lives and the lives of those around her. She is one who continually seeks His face and her writing flows out of that place of connection and intimacy. I felt the Lord say to me that she was "ready to bring prophetic hope." My prayer is that you are strengthened in hope by this account of the "yellow house of wholeness" and that as the story unfolds throughout the next months, you find yourself invited into your personal wholeness journey by Holy Spirit Himself.

Bob Hartley
Bob Hartley and Deeper Waters, Inc.

Kelly Baird: Prophetic Hope for 2016: The Year of Inheritance

Recently, I was pondering on what having a "prophetic hope" means. I sensed the Lord saying that it is "a hope that goes beyond." Beyond what? "Time, circumstances, situations...a hope that sees into its future and anticipates a wonderful, better-than reality...a hope that is outside of your current status." The Lord said, "It is time for the Hope Reformers to take their spots in the battle against hopelessness."

Reformers are ones who bring about the nature and ways of God which transforms cultures, cities and nations. In order to bring our unique God-given expressions to the world we will need more wholeness as the Hope Reformers He has made us to be.

Sometimes we need this hope supernaturally infused to us through the Holy Spirit. Especially the ones that have been on a long journey where the hope that they had seems continually deferred and it feels like life has knocked them down. It may almost feel futile to get up just one more time.

However, I feel the Lord saying, "It's time to get your hopes up! It's time to dream once again! Now is the time! There's no time to waste. I need you to be who I made you to be for these times and seasons." (Photo via flickr)

The year 2016 is the "Year of Inheritance" for the Body of Christ. Back in January, the Lord stood by Bob Hartley, handed him a shovel, and said: "Isaiah 45:1-3. You must stay focused on being very thoughtful and intentional about digging up this great treasure of your golden inheritance. I am in the redemption business and I want you to dig up in the year 2016 - Psalm 16." Psalm 16 is about preserving the original design and bringing restoration. We choose Him alone as our inheritance and He lavishly gives us Himself. He is enough for all of our dreams.

Kelly Baird, Scribe for Bob Hartley
Email: handpickedfloral@gmail.com

Kelly Baird resides in Redding, California, and has been married to Mike Baird since 2003. Together they have three world-changing revivalists, Seth, Sophie and Annalise. Kelly and Mike are sold-out lovers of Jesus and they love to bring hope into the lives of those around them.

From Bob Hartley, as scribed by Kelly Baird:

Introduction to the Yellow House of Wholeness

In 2002, the Lord gave Bob Hartley a series of dreams in which he was holding Bob's hand and there was a beautiful yellow house in front of them. There was an invitation in it – a sense of knowing that if he chose to enter, there would be a great wholeness that would be developed within him. Over the years, the Lord added to the dreams and added different rooms to this yellow house. (There are many rooms within this Yellow House of Wholeness – rooms that have a special healing purpose, but today is just an introduction and overall picture.)

The Lord spoke to Bob and shared that while he was being healed as a reformer and made whole, others would see his process and become healed and whole as well. It's no mistake that the Lord chose the house to be "yellow".

Yellow is the color of friendship, it's joyful, bright and inviting. Wholeness is our inheritance! It is an empowering process to enable us to be how He originally intended. Hopeful! Joyful! Full of Love for ourselves and others. How He has always intended us to be! (Photo via Pinterest)

Psalm 61:5 in the Passion Translation says, "You have heard my sweet resolutions, to love and serve You, for I am Your beloved. And You have given me an inheritance of rich treasures. Which You give to all Your lovers."

He bids us in a beautifully tantalizing way to come in and experience this process of wholeness with Him. He beckons us with excited, laughing eyes because He knows that if we will yield to what He is wanting to do, we are becoming all that He designed us to be. In this season of inheritance, the Lord is inviting reformers to go into this "yellow house of wholeness". It is a place in Him where we will be upgraded in our love and in our face-to-face knowledge of Him.

The yellow house is a place where He will give us a love for people to the point that we hope in them and help them put their crowns on and never take them off. A place where He gives you a love for life, were the toil of the transformation/reformation process turns into sweetness. Where He gives us a fresh love for the planet, where we hope in those unto God like in Jeremiah 32 and 33 – an indomitable hope – a hope that doesn't let go or give up on another.

Beginning the Journey of the Yellow House

As we choose to embark on this journey with the Lord, He is reminding us that He is with us and has our hands tightly in His. Still, as we walk toward the yellow house, He says that we still may feel a slight sense of trepidation – even though it is appealing and enticing, the own fissures in our hearts can skew the view of who He is and how He wants to heal us.

Let Him speak to you about the process. Look into His joyful, tender eyes. Put your childlike, trusting hand into His capable, loving one. Let your heart come into alignment with Heaven. "Walk with Me and work with Me," as He invites us in Matthew 11:28-30. "Watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with Me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."

Key Statements the Lord Shared

The Lord spoke several key statements to Bob as he started walking towards the yellow house, and decided to embrace the process. The Lord said, "I want your change to be out in the open; this is an upgrade. Please know that you are not 'in trouble'. You are far better than you know!" He continued on to say, "Bobby, I want you to eagerly anticipate this process. There is an excitement in becoming whole; this is play therapy. I will give you a love for repentance and a desire to turn to My ways." (See 2 Corinthians 7:10-11.) "You will sorrow with hope."

As We Go through the Journey

The journey of the yellow house is a journey into each of our hearts. There is a significant importance to the posture we have before we choose to enter in. The Lord desires a humility, a childlike trust and willingness for Him to be the Potter and us the clay. He longs for that yielded readiness to let Him take over and touch upon woundedness within us. For us to be open and to have Him look upon all the compartments of our heart.

If we have tremendous love for Jesus, we can grab on tightly and look into His eyes, and He will give us the grace to dance upon the difficult places. The Lord shared with Bob that, "A reformer's pain is a unique pain and must be treated and healed in a novel way." Some of the most beautiful hearts are closed up and are not able to release the beauty within because of fissures within them.

We are not to feel the pain and then get stuck in it, but we feel it in order to identify it and heal it, and then help others through the process. Correction never leads to change without understanding. He first comforts us, then takes us by the hand and counsels us, then guides us into glory.

The Call

Zechariah 9:12 says, "Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you." We are all called to be "prisoners of hope" – confidently expecting God to move in goodness for us. The journey of the Yellow House of Wholeness beckons each of us. We are all called to be hope reformers in these days, and He desires that we would be complete, lacking in nothing.

In the months to come, I will share on the specific rooms that the Lord has shared within the yellow house, but for now think upon this: One person who goes through this journey of the yellow house and comes out on the other side could reform the earth – as one who knows Him and is whole will shine like the stars and light up the whole planet and put others on their right path (see Daniel 12:3).

Bob Hartley
Bob Hartley and Deeper Waters, Inc.
Email: deeperwatersofhope@gmail.com
Website: www.bobhartley.org

Bob Hartley is the founder and CEO of The Hartley Group, a conglomeration of five successful businesses. He is also the founder of the Deeper Waters, Inc. Before entering the marketplace, Bob served as a Pastor at Metro Christian Fellowship. He was a missionary in Africa and Israel, an area director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and a chapel leader for the Kansas City Royals and the Kansas City Chiefs. Today Bob is stepping into the best season of his life as a Patriarch of Hope. He is a highly sought-after prophetic voice of hope locally, in America and also around the world. Bob shares wonderful enlightening stories about the knowledge of who Jesus is and about this wonderful journey of hope wholeness through The Yellow House. He has been commissioned to crown the hope reformers around the world with the glory of their true essence through his message of love, joy and friendship with Jesus. Bob loves his family deeply and is a proud father of four amazing children.

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