Giving Tuesday for the Heart Healing Fund, by Susan Mitchell

Here is a brief timeline of the development of the Estuary Courts ministry:

2013: Lord rescued us into his healing hand.

2016: We started ministering to people as volunteers with House of Hope and Silicon Valley Healing Rooms.

2019: Established a sole proprietorship as Estuary Courts Consulting.

2025: Started the non-profit 501(c)(3) operating as Estuary Courts Ministries, EIN 33-4374906, so donations are

now tax deductible.

Now: As costs of living rise with inflation, many need the heart healing of Jesus, but not everyone can afford to

pay for the time it takes us to facilitate a session. In addition to our regular fee-funded service, for those who

couldn’t afford the full fare while in complex and urgent distress, we provided 157 pro bono hours in 2025, a

value of $12,560. With your tax-deductible donations on this #GivingTuesday, let's stand together and fund

the Heart Healing Scholarship Fund so we can continue operating while ministering to those unable to afford this

care.

Thanks: Our deepest appreciation to those who continue to chip in funds to sustain Estuary Courts' inner

healing, deliverance, writing, and research work! May the Lord God Almighty brood over you with love,

compassion, and healing.

Bride Ministries Advance Report

The week before Thanksgiving, at the Bride Ministries Advance in Houston, TX:

Dan Duval brought to the Courts of Heaven for a significant court case. All 600 of us demonstrated unity when together we demanded judgment and got a verdict from the Righteous Judge, with confirming words and testimony from the participants. Hallelujah!

Christian Duval helped us understand that Jesus conquered death in the personalized form of Thanatos and explained why Christ had to come into a Roman world of violently-enforced Pax Romana.

Todd Edwards exposited some parables and the critical roles of priest and king, and shared his vision of the reign of Christ as described in Revelation.

Ignite the Fire! Conference Report

At the November Ignite the Fire! Conference in Honolulu, HI,, we learned and experienced various things with Paul Cox (Aslan’s Place) and Rob Gross (Mountain View Church):

Roar and Retrieve: Demonstration that after the Lion of Judah roars, the chariots of fire can be sent to collect dissociated parts from where they’ve been stashed in the cosmos. That is very good news for everyone who wants their parts back. In our Personhood sessions, we’ve been inviting Lion of Judah to help in this way, and it’s very effective.

Apostles are sent-out ones who repair breaches, heal-deliver-equip-train believers, and set things right in terms of unity and harvest, for Christ’s return to claim his spotless bride.

Unity is a super power in the church, as there are some things that cannot be done except through unity. So keep short accounts. In a gesture of complete forgiveness, hand off to Jesus your records of wrongs and hurts people committed against you. Let Jesus take over the justice angle so you can have clean hands and a pure heart.

Who Killed My Dad?

By Dorothy Mitchell

My father is not in the best of health right now, but he is getting better. The primary spiritual culprit behind the attacks on his health was found a little while ago.

So it puzzled me that this month in August/Elul I began repeatedly hearing a lyric from the notorious anime Kill la Kill, a show that, in a nutshell, follows a girl on a quest to avenge her father’s murder (and stumbles on a piece of rejected armor): I’ve got to find out who killed my dad; I hear the voice of you in my mind...

As I pondered this all month, I assumed that God was saying I needed to figure out who or what had been plotting against my earthly father, but finally it dawned on me that perhaps I was wrong. He might have been talking about himself. I accepted Jesus and asked God to adopt me into his family a long time ago, so God is also my Father. Jesus knew him as Father and taught us to pray to him as Abba (Daddy) so we could know him as Abba Father.

God wants to be close to us. Sometimes, the enemy of our souls plots against God through us. The easiest way to get to us is not to let any relationship begin in the first place. Sowing doubt and sabotaging trust and relationship in us as early as possible makes sense to the rebellious ones. That’s what would surely hurt him most.

I spent a good deal of my early life acting and feeling loyal but detached from God, as if God were dead, uncaring, unreachable, immovable — the unknowable, ineffable, deist watchmaker god. But who gave me that idea? Who told me he was dead? Who deceived me and killed his image in my mind, and made it so I couldn’t approach him as Father, let alone as Daddy? Sure, the culture put words to the idea, and egged it on, and sure, my own earthly father wasn’t perfect. But it was completely blown out of proportion.

God’s not dead, he’s surely alive! He’s living on the inside, roaring like a lion...!

I also assumed that it was ME who needed to figure this out. But I think I was wrong. I realized that God has his own detectives (I’ve seen him deploy them); I merely needed to give him permission to use them.

Father God, I ask you to find all those culprits, plotters, and schemers who attempted to poison your image and sow discord and distrust into my relationship with you. Release your divine detectives. Track all sabotage back to its source. Account for every blow dealt against me and my earthly father and the fathers before him on earth and between earth and heaven in an attempt to distort relationship between me and my heavenly Father God. I ask you to take the culprits to court and deal with them most harshly. I give you my record of wrongs and ask you to get justice for me. I am sorry for any way in which I agreed with them knowingly or unknowingly. I renounce them completely. You are a good father. You are my good daddy. You are love. I reject all false blueprints or mappings that were superimposed over your image in my heart. Please tear them down and take them away. I want to know you, God, the way Jesus knew you, too.

Grace for Unlocking Creative Destinies

By Susan Mitchell

As the strike by writers and actors in Hollywood and worldwide continues, the Lord is pouring outstanding grace over his creative people. Get ready! In solidarity, our blog has been frozen for a season, but we are moving forward now and seeing a dramatic shift in the destinies of our clients to regain birthrights stolen from their family lines, with a rise in prowess, favor, and access to divine tools, counsel, and encouragement.

“For, behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard [openly] in our land. The fig tree puts forth and ripens her green figs, and the vines are in blossom and give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away!” Song of Solomon 2:11-13 (AMPC)

A rowboat bobs on the edge of a dock, with kingdom in sight across an expanse of water. We know where we long to go…

In particular, for all of you who long to use myth and fantasy to reveal timeless truths about God and heavenly journeys that can only be told by story and metaphor—we urge you authors, filmmakers, composers, lyricists, poets to tell the Lord right now that you want to claim your whole birthright. In addition to hurdles from the secular world, the church itself has resisted and offered its own stumbling blocks, judging and sanitizing the workers who have been called to this field. We don’t agree with their judgment.

Some of you have struggled to bring forth the quality in your creation that you yearn for but that remains elusive. Kudos to you for still trying because you have the vision for what you are trying to land. Others of you were told that your early pieces were outstanding, but their debut or sequels were received with lukewarm approval and compensation by gatekeepers or audiences. Or maybe you just aren’t sure how to stop relying on your own strength and invite God into your creative process. There are discernible spiritual reasons for all of these issues, and you may need to do some work to address them.

Your heavenly father longs to orchestrate the pieces of your life to bring your kingdom assignments to fruition. He wants to propel you into the marketplace and establish you in the Zone where you feel the Father’s great and sustained approval, pride, and love in your artistic endeavor—as you are working! Let him recover the treasure, clear the obstacles, and place you squarely in the oasis of what he designed you for.

The True Self part of your heart holds all of these hopes and dreams. If you feel thwarted in any large or small way in your career, and you want help to see what is holding you back from the promised “abundant life,” please ask the Lord if he wants you to book an appointment with us.