America, Is That a Prayer On Your Lips That I Hear…
and Is That a Tear in Your Eye?
In the Spirit I saw hairline cracks appearing on the marble floor of the White House. As I saw these hairline cracks, I sensed the Lord speaking from Job 14:7-9:
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will grow again, and that the tender branch (of government) thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.”
I sensed the Lord saying, “As Samson’s hair began to grow again, so are the spiritual roots of this nation.” As I saw the cracking of the floor increase, it was like the very foundation of deception and greed was beginning to be dismantled…exposing the enemy! (The enemy is not a man but satan.)
I said to the Lord, “What has caused these spiritual roots to begin to grow again at this time?” I sensed the Father saying, “I have collected in a bottle every tear that swelled up in every eye that has mourned for this nation. These tears in My bottle are now being poured out over America, causing her roots of righteousness to begin to spring forth in the land.”
Paramedic Angels
In the spirit, I saw what appeared to be “paramedic angels” dispatched, dropping from the heavens, as in parachutes, landing on the front lawn of the White House. It seemed that those grass roots of righteousness that began to crack the White House floor had set off an alarm in Hell, summoning these angels with urgency to surround the White House.
I saw multitudes of other angels descending upon and filling up the mall of the nation’s capitol. I saw that these were Second Chronicles 7:14 angels who had the Scripture written all over them,
If My people who are called by My name shall humble themselves and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Warring on Corporate Prayer
These Second Chronicles angels seemed to have had assignments throughout the ages to descend upon nations that were in critical time frames where a nation seemed to be hanging in the balance of going either way. These angels warred solely and strictly on “corporate prayer” only! I sensed they had come to Washington, DC, but now were given orders to wait on the rising tide of “corporate prayer” from the heart of America.
Some certain angels were released into war for a nation only through tears…nothing else moved these ones. I asked the Lord, “Father, why ‘paramedic angels’? I have never heard of them.”
I sensed He responded, “I plan to give mouth to mouth resuscitation to America and kiss her face again!”
Oh America, is that a prayer on your lips that I hear…and is that a tear in your eye?
Bill Yount
Blowing the Shofar Ministry
Email: theshofarhasblown@juno.com
Website: billyount.com
Bill Yount has been a member of Bridge of Life in Hagerstown, Maryland, for the past 36 years where he is now an elder and a home missionary. He is currently an advisor at large for Aglow International. Bill faithfully served in prison ministry at Mount Hope for 23 years and now travels full-time, both in the U.S. and internationally, ministering in churches and Aglow circles. “Humility and humor” characterize his ministry as he brings forth a fresh word that is “in season,” proclaiming the Word of the Lord! The shofar (or ram’s horn) is often used in his meetings, breaking the powers of darkness over regions, churches, and households. The shofar represents God’s breath blowing into the nostrils of His people, reviving them and awakening the lost. Many of God’s messages, which Bill ministers prophetically, come out of his everyday life with his family and friends.
The 10 Days initiative has been birthed in a visionary call from the Lord to his church. Every year until the Lord returns, on the ten days from Rosh Hashanah (feast of trumpets) through Yom Kippur (day of atonement), God is calling His people to unite in worship and in repentance and prayer to see His kingdom come to our needy communities and to speed the Lord’s return to our troubled world. Impact Connecticut has watched the national 10 Days movement grow these past few years, as more and more cities and states have “signed on” to the vision.
“Babylon refuses to mourn, but My people will mourn before My return”
Are you eager to see the Lord’s hand move mightily in the state of Connecticut, and indeed our Nation?
Do you believe the Spirit of Revival is already here?
Is John 17 unity “Let them be one as we are one” part of your DNA?
When you see tragedy strike or unrighteous rule, do you long for the Lord to intervene?
Do you think the whole state needs to know: “God so loved Connecticut that He gave His only Son. Believe in Him and you shall not perish!” ?
This year, from September 13th to 23rd, let’s seek the face of God together for the great state of Connecticut!
Impact Connecticut is excited to trumpet this vision and support this initiative. Gatherings for worship, prayer, and repentance are planned all across our state during these 10 Days. Check the calendar of events for updates and make plans to join us for one or more of the gatherings!
Waterbury, Connecticut
Below, find schedule of worship nights (also indicated in “red” on the schedule), kicking off 13th of September (coincidentally on the last day of the Shemitah – 29th day of Elul in the Sabbath year of release), up the mountain of “Holy Land USA” in Waterbury. Yes, such a place exists in Connecticut! There are also many prayer additional times of prayer around the state (indicated in “blue” on the schedule), including 10 Days Hartford.
I had a dream in the early morning of July 4th. I was sitting next to Chuck Pierce (an international leader) in a mining cart approaching a tunnel. We were talking about the value of prophetic gifts to the Body of Christ. I said to Chuck:
You know, in the old days people would look at a land and go to a lush valley, saying: let’s go there, because there is provision, food, etc. And they would look at a desert or arid places and say – there is nothing there. But a word for the body of Christ is: if we have the technology and gifts, we can go to an arid place and live.”
Interpretation
Since this dream was on July 4th, I took that it was not only a dream for me, but for the U.S. Another interpretation of the date is that the dream is about our “Independence”, or freedom.
So, what might these words mean?
It pretty clearly points to a few scriptures which are worth mentioning here. First, and importantly, this seems to be almost a direct reference to Genesis 13.
Genesis 13: Abraham and Lot
The scriptures tell us that both Abraham and Lot were Godly men. However, strife was developing between their clans, and the Lord led Abraham to know it was time for separation. Without being set apart and consecrated, Abraham couldn’t walk into his inheritance.
So Abraham gave Lot the freedom of choice. Lot chose the lush lands of the plains of the Jordan. Abraham was left with the desert (Negev). Though “2nd choice”, Abraham trusted God would place him where he needed to be. Lot’s decision to go for the lush valley was “logical” because to the eyes of the flesh, it looked like a fertile plane. However, what looked right in Lot’s eyes, ended up in destruction (Sodom and Gomorrah), while Abraham was blessed and multiplied in the desert.
To the carnal mind, Lot used his leverage to pick first and got the better deal. But to the spiritually minded, Abraham’s desert was the very path God had made in order for him to receive his inheritance (v15). But who would want a desert?
Desert – Famine and Drought
A desert place is a place of testing and refining. Before Jesus stepped into His destiny on earth, he was tested in the desert for 40 days. Before Israel was able to enter into the Promised Land, they had to be tested, refined and prepared in the desert for 40 years.
I believe the Lord is saying three things to the church in this hour: One, the earth is entering into end-times shaking of world structures, including economic (Rev 18). Two, these troubled times will be a time used to refine the Bride before Christ’s return (Eph 5:27). Three, the world will not have hope filled answers, but the followers of Jesus will and it will be a time of great harvest. In other words, it will be the Church’s finest hour.
Instead of resisting this prophesied reality, we the remnant (sons of promise – Abraham) must separate ourselves from the world structures being shaken (Babylon, house built on the sand) and embrace the new path, because God is saying this is the path to our inheritance, the path to true independence from the spirit of this age:
Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19
Technology
My sense in the dream was that technology represents the “Knowledge of God.” Meaning: if we know God intimately, His ways, and we walk-out His Word in obedience, then we have everything we need – no matter what the climate. Through operating in the gifts He has given men, by the Spirit (Eph 4; 1 Cor 12), we can not only survive, but thrive in arid conditions. Miracles will be key.
I believe the knowledge of God also includes literal technology (like modern Israel’s high yield farming in the desert), but it really starts with faith in the “unseen”. Like Bob Jones once said, “You can’t figure it out, you have to faith it out.” Doing so isn’t logical. Therefore, the temptation in all this, is that it becomes a battle of the “gray-matter” – a civil war of the blue (heavenly minded) versus the gray (carnal minded).
Several years ago I had a dream where I was shown a dust-bowl scene of a great depression. People were on their stoops, out of work, lacking hope. It was very black and white. In the town’s general store, the shelves were bare. The only thing in stock (and the only thing in color: blue) was lots of “Bud Light”. In the dream, beer represented the knowledge of God. However, all that was on offer (from the church) was a “light” version. It was ineffective in such desperate times. No one was “buying it.” The message of the dream is that the only effective solution for people suffering in the times ahead will be the deep well springs of the knowledge of God (Psalms 42:7) – the strong drink (Prov 31:6) – because without the strong drink, people will perish (Hos 4:6)!
Summary
Now is coming a time of difficulty we haven’t yet seen (arid place). Embrace it, and God will show us the path of blessing and promise. Reject it, and we risk ending up on a path to destruction.
If we listen to God and conform to His will, He will make a way through the desert—not only a way, but a blessed way that blooms! An oasis in the desert from which we can help rescue others. God so loved the world that He gave His only son so that men would not perish! Jesus is the strong drink that perishing men need in desperate times.
The temptation will be our “gray-matter” (the carnal, logical, earthly mind – the “rebel”) getting in the way – telling us, no, no, no – God would never remove the economic prosperity He has given us! The mind would say: No! the way forward is the proven place – the old place of the lush valley (the way of the current “Egyptian”, “Babylonian”, or “Baal” economy of “bull markets” and “big government” – the fertile plane of Sodom and Gomorrah). But it’s a deception – a mirage – because ultimately, it is a place that will be destroyed (Rev 18:4).
God will prosper us and lead us into the promised land, but we must have ears to hear and a heart of obedience, for these are serious times requiring a sober watchfulness (1 Peter 4:7). What may look bad to the natural eyes, ultimately turns out great by God. In fact, in the end, Abraham inherited all the land, including the valley of the Jordan. Yes, our promised land will be found right in the midst of the desert! Let us have understanding.
Let us therefore be like the woman of Revelation 12:14:
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time…
The Lord is saying, follow me into the desert and I will nourish you!
That might sound strange coming from the author of The Harbinger and The Mystery of the Shemitah. But that’s the point. If I must be that bearer, then there has to be a very strong reason behind it. And so when I’m asked to write how America can avoid judgment or calamity, I find myself in a predicament. The reason is this: I don’t believe it will be avoided. And if we don’t look at the magnitude of the situation, we’ll be of no effect, impact or good in the matter.
What we are now witnessing is unprecedented in the history of America and modern culture. In the 1970s Ruth Graham made the statement: “If God doesn’t judge America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.” Those words were spoken at a time when the Ten Commandments were still displayed in public schools and government buildings, when marriage was overwhelmingly upheld, when the idea that God and Jesus could be mocked on national television as the object of comedy would be unimaginable, when the idea that there would come a time when half or more of American children would be born out of wedlock and the president of the United States would be endorsing homosexuality would be unimaginable. And yet if Ruth Graham could speak of God’s judgment on the America of that day, how much more true is it now, and how much farther is this nation down the road to judgment?
While individual believers, churches and ministries may see success in ministry and many brought to salvation, the state of the church as a whole with regard to the culture that surrounds it is another matter altogether. Despite what many preach, these are not the best of times and things are not getting better—but decidedly worse. There has been no great national revival on American shores in years. But there has been a great apostasy. And that apostasy has deepened in its intensity, widened in its scope and accelerated in its speed. And most of the church has been ineffective in slowing it down, much less stopping or reversing it.
We now find ourselves on the defense, having our jobs threatened for merely standing on the Word of God. And rather than causing us to grow stronger, too many believers and ministers have grown timid and weak, not wanting to pay a price for their faith. And in the midst of the greatest moral and spiritual decay in modern times, the pulpits have largely grown silent in answering it, more focused on how God can fulfill our will and desires than calling the church to fulfill the will and desires of God. And we wonder why the culture around us is going to hell. If the American church had been the salt and light it was called to be, there is no way that the culture could have grown so dark and rotting.
So do I believe that we can avoid God’s judgment, the hand of His shaking? No—not any more than could ancient Israel. No nation, so blessed with God’s blessings, can so blatantly war against the God of its blessings and expect those blessings to continue. I believe a great shaking is coming to this nation. Does that mean I have no hope? No, not at all. Rather I believe that America has grown so far from God that without a great shaking there would be no hope. I believe America has grown so deafened to God’s voice, that it will not be in His whispers but in His crying out and shouting that it has any chance of now hearing. Most of us came to the Lord, or drew closer to the Lord because there was some kind of shaking in our lives. If that’s true for individuals, why do we think it less true for nations?
In the days after 9/11, it looked as if there was going to be a national revival. And there was a window of time when it could have taken place. All across the nation, people flocked to churches and prayed for God’s blessing. But there was no revival because there was no repentance. And without repentance, there can be no revival. And so it was not only that America failed to return to God, but in the years following 9/11, grew much farther away from God than it had ever been before. I believe it will take an event even greater than 9/11 for America to wake up and return. I don’t believe that it’s a choice between judgment or revival. At this point in America’s descent from God, I believe it will only be through judgment, as in a great shaking, that revival would come—to those who will hear and turn.
Do we have a role to play in this? Yes. Do we have any biblical model to give us direction? We do. The prophet Elijah likewise lived in a time of national apostasy and judgment. And yet he was powerfully used to accomplish God’s purposes. What does he reveal to us about our calling in this day?
A Time of National Apostasy
Even in the face of great evil and persecution, Elijah never succumbed to the temptation to live on the defensive. He lived decidedly on the offensive. He knew that no matter what it looked like, God was in control and so as long as he followed God, he would be living on the winning side. Elijah lived, not to be acted upon, but to act upon the world around him. In the same way we must resist the temptation, in a day of great evil, to become reactionary and to live on the defense. The Lord didn’t give us that option. We are of the kingdom that only advances. We must therefore live proactively, resolving that we will not be affected by the world, but the world will be affected by us. We must set our hearts, make it our goal, to impact the darkness around us with the light.
Lights in the Darkness
Elijah was engaged with the nation and culture surrounding him. He was a light shining in its darkness. We must be the same. No matter what age we live in and no matter what the state of its culture, our calling to be the light of the world remains. The light doesn’t ignore the darkness. The light doesn’t pretend that the darkness isn’t really that dark. It doesn’t tone down its light to be politically correct or not to offend. It doesn’t hide its radiance in fear of persecution. Nor is it content to live a self-absorbed existence focusing on itself and its own prosperity. If it does any of these things, then it ceases being the light. What does the light do? It shines. It lights up the darkness. It changes the world around it. If we want to see revival, we must do likewise.
Weaned and Plugged In
Elijah lived in the midst of famine, and yet was unaffected by it. He had weaned himself of dependence on his culture and world. At the same time he became more and more dependent on God. The two things go together. Likewise, in the days ahead, we must become more and more independent of the world and culture around us. We must wean ourselves, our spiritual life, our emotional life, our thought life, our identity from the world. How do we do that? By becoming more dependent on God. The more plugged into God we become, the more independent of the world we will be. We must root and ground our lives all the more deeply and strongly on God and His Word. That which can be shaken will be shaken. But that which is rooted and grounded in God’s Word and truth will not be shaken.
Prayer, More Than Ever Before
In the same way, Elijah was a man of prayer. And the Bible records that his prayers were heard and effective. In the days ahead, we must become, even more so, people of prayer. In days of apostasy and chaos, it will be our sustenance and our strength, an anchor in the storm.
The Righteousness Key
Elijah was a man of righteousness. The Bible reveals that his righteousness was a key part of his ability to impact what happened to his nation. If we want to impact the future of our nation, we must likewise live lives of integrity and walk in righteousness. One of the most central Scriptures of revival, 2 Chronicles 7:14, involves as a key component that the people of God “turn from their evil ways.” If we walk in darkness, how can we be a light to that darkness?
If we walk in the ways of the world, how can impact it? And if we’re afraid of being different, how can we make a difference? It is crucial that we do whatever we have to do to live lives consistent with our faith, and walk in righteousness.
Living to Bless
Elijah knew nothing of a self-centered faith, focused on increasing his blessings and prosperity. Had he been focused on such things, he would have become of no effect. We must reverse the momentum. Instead of living to be blessed, we must live to be a blessing. That’s how Paul lived. That’s how Messiah lived. And that’s the vessel that God will use to impact the world.
Unadulterated, Uncompromised
Elijah never softened the Word of God and never compromised. In the same way, we must reject a watered-down gospel. If we want to see the full power of God’s Word, we must take that Word at full strength.
We can’t compromise to win people. Rather it is when we don’t compromise that we burn with the passion of God and shine with His glory—that’s when revival comes.
Your Own Revival
Elijah didn’t just preach the calling of God—He lived it. So we too must not only preach revival and pray for revival—we must start living in revival now. We can’t force others to walk in revival, but we can choose it for ourselves. If there is anything in our lives which has no place in the life of a saint, and which is under judgment, the time is now, not later, not tomorrow, to get it out of our lives. And if God has been calling us to answer His call, and we have not yet done it, the time is now, not later, and not tomorrow to answer it. Revival begins with us—or it doesn’t begin at all.
The Time for Greatness
We must not pray that God will spare America hard times, but rather that God will do whatever it takes to bring about repentance, salvation, and revival. The ministry of Elijah wasn’t hindered by calamity or persecution—rather it thrived. So the days in which we enter will not hinder our calling. In fact, these are the days that cause those who hold true to God’s Word to become great. When the dark grows darker, the lights grow brighter. Choose to do the right thing, even when it’s hard, even when it costs. Choose to be great and you will be—in His power. The eyes of the Lord search to and fro throughout the entire earth seeking the one whose heart is completely His. You be that person. And let us be that people. And God will greatly use us to accomplish His will on the earth for such a time as this.
Rabbi Jonathan Cahnis the New York Times best-selling author of The Harbingerand The Mystery of the Shemitah, president of Hope of the World ministries and senior pastor and Messianic rabbi of the Jerusalem Center/Beth Israel in Wayne, New Jersey. His teachings are widely known for revealing the deep mysteries of God’s Word.
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn shows how America is fulfilling Isaiah 9:10 by refusing to repent in the face of calamity at jonathancahn.charismamag.com.
In the past few years, the church has been pushed to the margins by culture and political forces. How do the people of Christ respond? Are we resigned to turf wars and rear guard actions…Or is this an invitation from heaven for the church to really become the church that incarnates the presence and ministry of Jesus to a society desperately in need of the gospel?
Impact Connecticut 2015 will feature inspiring perspectives on what God is up to and best case practices and testimonies of what God is doing here in our state.Just like last year, we’ve kept the conference as low-cost as possible, with group rates available and an early bird rate of $15/person, which is available through April 15th.
Who: The Church in Connecticut
What: Impact Connecticut 2015 Conference Where: Vertical Church in West Haven
When: Friday, May 1st- Saturday, May 2nd, 2015
Registration: $15/person early bird; Register Now
Leaders including Bishop Joseph Mattera, Bishop Joseph Garlington, and Kevin Palau, among others, will be sharing with us. Worship will be led by Pastor Marcus Cole, and Saturday evening will be this year’s expression of the Connecticut United Night of Worship, featuring Zenzo Matoga, visionary and founder of the United Night of Worship. It’s two days to look forward to for sure!
A complete line-up of breakout sessions and conference details is available here.
Join us as we respond to the invitation from heaven to really become the church– incarnating the presence and ministry of Jesus to a society desperately in need of the gospel. Hope to see you there!
There are Rivers of Revival Undiscovered Deep Under the Surface – Who is Going to Dig?
While traveling on a recent ministry trip, I awoke from a prophetic dream that released a fresh vision of revival in my heart. I believe that this dream is a picture of a mighty generation of well diggers being released in this hour. The Lord began to speak to me about His plans for revival in this generation. He is raising up a radical company to dig the wells of revival and release the flow!
In my dream, I saw old wells and underground rivers. The rivers were undiscovered and lay deep under the surface. I then saw people with rods in their hands. I knew these to be the revivalists, those who are so hungry for a move of God, ministers who are pushing, praying, and seeking an outpouring. They were roaming the fields and lands searching for the old wells and underground waters.
The Holy Spirit began to say to me, “The pressure is building! The underground pressure is building.” There is a people who are hungry and thirsty for revival in the land! They are tired of ordinary meetings, seminars, and gatherings. Their hearts are longing for something greater.
There is a new breed of apostolic and prophetic leaders who have been raised up in this hour to tap into the wells and release the underground rivers.As I was processing this dream, I asked the Holy Spirit, “What do the underground rivers represent?” He quickly answered me and said, “These underground waters represent the deep works of the Spirit that have remained in the earth. No matter how far man’s heart has drifted, the rivers are still in the earth waiting to be tapped and released.”
I then saw regions of America that were once centers of the move of God but have grown so cold. Those regions have deep wells and underground waters that cannot be seen or sensed with the natural senses, yet they remain waiting to be tapped and released. The Father is bringing forth prophetic people in regions that can see beyond the natural to see the underground waters, the potential move of God. It is critical that the prophetic spirit is released within the Church to CALL FORTH this move!
It Will Come Bursting Forth in a Powerful Way Because the Pressure Has Been Building…
Anointing, power, and mantles remain in the earth even though a particular vessel or generation passes away. These rivers of glory are still present in the atmosphere. Just as natural water remains in the earth, so does the move of God. Each generation is called to embark on a journey of pursuit in order to unlock the former rain (that which was poured out and lay ready to be released again) and the latter rain (the unique move of the Spirit for this time)! It is not in the plan of God that we simply lose mantles and rivers because key leaders pass away.
In my dream the revivalists with the unusual looking rods in their hands continually searched for the water with intense pursuit. The Lord began to speak to me and say, “As they find it and tap into it, it will come bursting forth in a powerful way because the pressure has been building.”
Can you imagine how strange it would look to people to see a person now, in this time, roaming around with these old rods in their hands? This is a prophetic picture of those who are willing to obey God at all costs! We MUST be delivered from the fear of man, and particularly the ridicule that the religious spirit brings. The voices of religion are irrelevant to those whose hearts are longing for revival. God is establishing people in this hour who will look for the wells, dig the wells, not be moved by religion, and have daring faith to believe for Holy Spirit transformation of territories. I say, “Let it be so, Lord!”
Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for He hath given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Ryan LeStrange, Pastor & Founder
Impact International Ministries/Ryan LeStrange Ministries
Email: info@ryanlestrange.com
Website: ryanlestrange.com
Ryan LeStrange started in ministry after training and serving under his spiritual father Dr. Norvel Hayes. Ryan and his wife Joy lead Impact International Ministries based in Bristol, Virginia, which consists of several local churches and revival ministries. Through Ryan LeStrange Ministries, he travels the globe preaching, igniting revival, and moving in the power of God. Ryan can be seen weekly on his television program, Power 4 Today, airing around the world on GodTV. He is the founder and apostle of Impact International Apostolic Fellowship, networking and fathering ministers around the world. Ryan has authored several books releasing an apostolic and prophetic perspective to the Body of Christ. Ryan and Joy have one son, Joshua, and live in Abingdon, Virginia.
“The dominating power and authority of My Word is very plain and very
obvious in the Scripture. I made certain statements calling things that be not as though they were. I said a virgin would give birth to a child in the city of Bethlehem. And My Word dominated the heavens and the earth and peoples in the earth for over 700 years until that child was born in Bethlehem at the appointed time, by the appointed virgin, and the Son came into the earth at the exact proper time.
“I have spoken certain words over this Nation. They will come to pass. They are coming to pass now and all of the things that Satan has attempted to carry out in order to stop My voice in the earth has come to naught. For I said this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all nations and then the end shall come, and not before. It’s coming to pass, and this Nation is the cradle of that message. It has come out of this Nation, the revelations and the changes that have taken place. And over the years and centuries that have gone by, I’ve called upon this Nation to be My judgment arm. I’ve called on this Nation to be My voice. I’ve called on this Nation and many, many of your sons and daughters have answered My call and laid their lives on the line and I do not forget that.
“So hear, My people. Hear My voice. Yes. The door is open. Repent and come through it; for I have a plan, and it’s the “blessing plan”, and it’s far greater than anything you have ever seen before. I have a new birth for this Nation. I have planned a nation that, right at this moment, you really don’t have any concept of what it’s like. For think back to 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773 and a new nation was being born. But do you think that the men of that hour had any concept of what this Nation would look like 100 years from that time? No. They had no idea. It had never happened before.
“Hear My words, America. I have a new nation in My heart and in My mind and you don’t know what it looks like. The door is open. Step through it and together we will bring a new nation on the earth, one Nation under God that trusts in God. And there are those that would say, ‘How could that possibly come to pass?’ It can come to pass because I am God and I change not. And My plan has already been planned before the foundation of the world. And you listen to Me, and you walk with Me, and together we’ll see it come to pass.
“But for all of those who will turn their back on what I am doing now, you will be like those of old who get trapped in the desert, and your bones will fall in the desert, and you will not experience the greatness that I have in store.
“But I have a people. I have a people that have humbled themselves and have turned from their wicked ways, and I have more and more and more that are seeking My face. And I’ll tell you this: I’m easy to find. And I’ve raised up people throughout this Nation and I have a people all over this earth who are praying for the United States in this very hour, who are holding this country up before Me because they realize they need this Nation also.
“So these are the days of your deliverance. Rejoice, and be glad because I have given you your Nation back. And the manifestation of its new birth is at hand. So rejoice and lift up your head and be of good cheer. Your sins are forgiven you.”
Other Related U.S. Words
I’ve Given You Your Nation Back
Kenneth Copeland, Nov 4th, 2012
“Let’s go back to what the Lord said to Terri in 2008. He said: ‘I’ve given you your Country back, what are you going to do with it?’
Terri Copeland Pearsons, November, 2008
“I heard it. I heard it: ‘We’ve got our Nation back’”
“For instance, when I saw that clip of [Terri] that night – I thought of the word of the Lord came to you: ‘we got our Nation back’. Oh, do I remember that moment. I saw it and I relived it again. And Barack Obama had just been elected President (just after that). And we got our Nation back? What does this mean? Well, number one: God calls things that be not as though they were. And its like – I believe George said: ‘He gave us something to say.’ And that’s true. Now, that word was not Terri’s own. The Father that dwells within gave her that word. So now, we began to say that: ‘We’ve got our Nation back’. ‘We’ve got our Nation back’”
Kenneth Copeland – Southwest Believer’s Convention – August 4th, 2009
“This is not the time of the downfall of your Nation. Your Nation is under covenant with Me.
“You are witnessing not the failure of the United States, you are witnessing the failure of a worldly financial system that has eroded (over the years) My Word of prosperity, My Word of function, My Word that this Nation began on and prospered beyond any nation in the history of this world.
“No. The United States is not falling. No. I will not allow that to happen.
“I remember that this is the most giving nation in history and I will not, I will not, I will not let you go.
“No, no, no. I did not bring this financial disaster on this Nation. Now some have said that ‘this is judgment’, and it IS judgment, but I’m not bringing judgment on this Nation. The seed of sin and Babylonian world thinking has in itself its own judgment and its own disaster. And when you continue to walk out of line with My Word, and My plan, and My way, you will eventually fail. It’s not this Nation that’s failing, it IS the system it has eroded into by getting away from My Word and depending on Me. But fear not, I have my eye on it and it will go only so far and no further.
“And you will see it. You will see in it. You will be in it. You will be involved in the greatest spiritual awakening that this Nation has ever seen! This is My time!”
End of Babylonian System
Kenneth Copeland – November 2, 2009, Prayer Mountain, Branson, MO
“This is not the end of the United States of America. It is the end of the social Babylonian system trying to take it over for 110 years”
Everything is Going to be Alright
Kenneth Copeland, August 6th, 2010 Southwest Believer’s Convention
“The world is in serious trouble. But for the Household of Faith, and those that will cling to My Word and listen very carefully, and do this thing that I have demonstrated before you tonight, and night after night. You can do that. You can do it yourself. You can stand in your place and you can worship and you can praise in the face of hell itself. And you can praise yourself into that place where you say: ‘everything is going to be alright’.
“The world – I’ll tell you again – is in serious trouble. Some very hard things are coming in different places around the world. Very difficult times in a lot of places. They’re that way now. But they’ll not get better, they will continue to get worse and worse and worse. It is on a downhill run that the world cannot stop. But for the Household of Faith, everything’s going to be alright. Everything is going to be ‘all-right’.
“Oh yeah, you’ll have to make a stand. You’ll have to fight the good fight of faith. When did you not have to? These are dangerous times. They’re dangerous times financially. They’re dangerous times in the earth because the earth is weighted under a gross weight of sin. And there are things and places, and situations underneath the earth, in the oceans, in the heavens – things are being rattled and shaken and the earth is trying to break in different places.
“Well, stand on My Word and it will not come neigh you. Praise and worship My name. Don’t feed – feed fear and feed trouble into your life and into your mouth. No, no, no, no. Quit living in that house. Get on back over here in the Household of Faith. Feed on my Word. Not on the bread of sorrow. Feed on my Word. Look on My face. Praise and worship and praise and worship. In church, praise and worship and preach the Word. Praise and worship and preach the word. Everything’s going to be alright.
“For as I’ve said, and will continue to say until it becomes solid and strong in your spirit, your time has come. It is your time to excel. It is your time to do exceeding, extraordinary things. In the financial world. In the medical world. In all the areas that the world is in such dyer trouble and so confused that they are confused beyond their ability to understand how confused they really are. And they’re hurting because of it. And they’re crying out because of it. People are trying to take advantage of people because they’re so confused and because they’re so troubled. And I’ll tell you right now, there are politicians, there are businessmen, there are thieves, and there are all kinds of demonic folks that are trying to take advantage of My people during a confusing time, and I’ll tell your right now, you can write it down and you can know if for sure:
I won’t put up with it, and I’ll stop them for doing such a thing. And you are going to see some things happen. Fear not. I have My eye on them. They’ll go so far and no further. They’re end is already determined. I will not put up with it. I will not put up with it. They have pushed me and pushed me and invited me out of their lives and their thinking and many cases and many personalities and many people that are at the forefront of the news in this hour I have already turned over to a disobedient, reprobate mind.
I am the Lord God. And I’ll not have my people run roughshod. My people that are crying out to me. I utter my Word through My servant, and you make mark of it: ‘Everything is going to be alright in your house’.
Like How [2012] Election Turns Out
Kenneth Copeland, Oct 26th 2012, Prayer Mountain, Branson, MO
“You are going to be glad the way this election turns out. You are going to see and know things. You are going to understand things that you didn’t even know you knew. I have a revealing going on. There is a revealing going on with My people. You are going to be called on by other people. They are going to come to you saying “I don’t understand this. I just don’t understand this. You just seem to make it regardless of what happens”. There are people who are going to come to you thinking they are going to get political advice, and they’re going to find out that they are going to get heavenly advice. And God will use you to set their life loose. And make them free.
“Now, let me give you something here. You immediately think – “ah, hah! that election is going to go the way I’ve been wanting it to go.” But that’s not what He said. He said you’re going to like it. What if the other one were to get elected? You better get on your face and start liking it, because that’s your victory whatever happens! What ever takes place. If God’s Spirit said your going to like it before the election even takes place, what is going to be your response? Thank God I’m going to like the way the election turns out, before it even ever happens, before it ever takes place. I like it. I like it. Yes, I like it.
“That opens you and me up to see and know things. Amen. Because when He speaks His Word, put it in your heart, put in your mouth, put it in your ears, and don’t be moved by anything else.”
Kenneth & Gloria Copeland
Kenneth and Gloria Copeland understand just how life-changing the message of faith is. They started out just like any of us—struggling with continual lack, debt, sickness and discouragement.
Then they decided to trust God and base their lives on His Word. If a situation in their lives didn’t line up with what they read in the Bible, they changed what they did. Every time.
That decision made all the difference. They soon began to experience THE BLESSING—joy, peace, freedom, health and love—in every area of their lives. And as they witnessed their lives changing, they were eager to tell others.
Since 1967, thousands of Partners have learned to apply the Word to their lives, find their unique voice and live in victory. And those Partners are spreading the message, taking it far beyond what Kenneth and Gloria ever dreamed.
***Stop and remember your favorite moment of the last year. Then remember the moment that you thought, ‘I just can’t deal with this situation’! Then praise and thank God for both!!!! Ask Him to heal and restore you over any wounds! Receive and release forgiveness. As He inhabits the praise that you are releasing, rise up with new strength and vision!
NOW LET’S BE RESTORED FOR THE FUTURE!
After Death, Arise and Finish Strong!
“Your feet will walk in a different direction this year. For even though you felt shaking ground last season, now you will walk on ground that is being solidified. There will be many on your path that will flee from the anointing that is now rising up in you, from your feet. I will shod your feet with peace, in a new way. Then the enemies that have tried to get on your highway will move out of the way. For many enemies have stepped onto the highway that you’re walking, but because you stood in the shaking, now the wind of My Spirit will clear your path ahead (Isaiah 35).”
“I do have a fresh wind of My Spirit that is blowing, for I am coming with My breath in a new way. As in the beginning when I breathed breath into that first man, and he was able to rise up as a living soul, I am coming with a fresh breath for you. Even as it was in the Valley of Dry Bones, when I breathed breath into those dry bones, and I caused them to rise up in a new way and become a mighty army, I am breathing My breath into a corporate man in the earth, in this hour. No longer will it just be one person with the Breath of God, but a mighty army. A corporate man in the earth is arising with fresh breath.
“Even in this hour I am coming with a breath of God into lungs that have not been able to breathe. I am coming into My people in a new way. The healing breath of the Lord is rising up, and to those that the doctors have said, ‘There’s no cure for you,’ I say My breath is stronger than the report of the doctors. I am coming with fresh breath. So rise up in the strength of the Lord and let the breath of God come into you, and see what I am going to do.
“This breath is going to give voice to My people, in this hour. Where the enemy has come to stop the voice of My people, I am going to cause a voice to be released that will stop the power of the enemy. So let the breath of God come! Let the breath of God heal! Let the breath of God restore! For My breath is flowing in a new way, in this season.”
“My wind will be like a vacuum, and I will suck out of you those things that you thought you could have never have been delivered from. The wind of My Spirit will both suck and remove, and then refill how you need to be filled, to create the identity that I have for you in the future. This is My day where M’Kaddesh, the Sanctifier, will come. This is My day where Tsidkenu, the Righteous One, will rise within you. Know that there will be a moment when you feel like your breath has been sucked away, but it’s because I have pulled out things that you thought could never be removed. Then you will feel a breath come in that will fill you in a way that you will become buoyant with faith, in days ahead.”
This also reminded me of a prophetic word given on March 30, 2014:
“This is not the same as you’ve seen in the past. This is not the same as what you’ve asked for in other seasons. This is a different glory, a glory change that I’m bringing into the land! You will shudder at the changes that are on the way in your land, and in other lands and with other people! For this is a time that the blood that runs deep will now be sanctified. This is a time that My Spirit will go deeper than I have gone in the past. For this is a time of birthing what is new, but yet bringing forth that which is old, and treasures will erupt! Treasures will erupt! Treasures will erupt! I will bring forth what has not been seen, and I will cause your gifts to come alive in ways they’ve never come alive. You will feel the shuddering birthing pains within you, and from that you will bring to birth the change that is necessary for you to enter into this season.
“So know this: dragons are on the move, and even the “great dragon” is now mounting up. Nations that will align are now aligning. So watch carefully and look deep into the circumstances around you. For these are days of great change. Watch the signs on your road, for your road is now changing. New opportunities are coming. Watch now, for I will realign your path!”
Saturday, January 10, 2015 (update)
Dear Restoration-Minded Friends:
A Time for Restoration – Devotions for Days 6-10!
I know that many of you have been following the series of devotions on restoration. I had set aside 10 days to help us develop a new place of identity for the next season. May you be led into a new place of restoration!
10 Day Devotional: Restoration
RESTORATION DAY 1!
WE NEED THE POWER OF RESTORATION IN OUR LIFE!
God truly is a God of restoration, and He has a plan for the restoration of the human race. Through His Son, we are now able to return to intimate fellowship with God, renewed innocence and the promise of eternal life. Restoration is the very nature of God. Acts 3:19-21 says, “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.” The moment Adam sinned, God set the process of restoration in motion. Throughout the ages He spoke to His prophets about this holy reversal. Some of these prophecies have been fulfilled. Others, including the second coming of Christ, will be fulfilled in the future. We are in the midst of seeing the greatest plan of restoration the world will ever know unfold right before us!
The simple truth is that God is more interested in restoration than in judgment! Even in His judgment, God has a plan to restore. We see time and time again how God judged the nation of Israel for its wickedness and disobedience. Yet each time, God restored Israel to Himself. God’s nature and purpose in an individual’s life is no different. Though we may experience judgment for what we or those in generations before us have done, be assured that somewhere in all our suffering, God has a plan to bring restoration and to get us back on course so that we might receive our inheritance and fulfill our intended destinies.
To restore means to revive and return to life, or to bring back to a former or original condition. This definition, however, falls short of all that restoration in God means. God intends to do more than bring us back to a former or original condition. He intends to multiply and increase us beyond that point. He longs for our latter days to be greater than our former days. God’s plan for you is restoration!
Restoration Day 2–The Holy Spirit: Our Agent of Restoration
Stop and ask the Father, through His Son to reveal to you His third Person in the Earth, the Holy Spirit. He is the only restrainer in the Earth of evil. He fills you and causes you to rise to a place of triumph in your life. The Holy Spirit is the person of the Godhead who is serving as the restorative agent here on earth. God the Father is the author of our restoration plan. He manifested Himself on earth through His son, Jesus. Jesus carried within Him that plan and, consequently, our future. He took the sin that would stop our personal future and let it be crucified on the Cross with Him. This act insured our restoration and future success. Jesus then said to His disciples, “Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. . . . All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you”(John 16:7,15). Only when we allow the Holy Spirit to work within us do we have the power to live a victorious Christian life. And it is He, the Holy Spirit, who does the work of restoring the fragmented, scattered pieces of our lives to something that is far greater than its former state. When we receive the Holy Spirit’s work in our lives, and yield to His direction, we have access to all that the Father desires for us. The restoration process can begin.
In the Earth realm, the Holy Spirit has the essential role in the life of every believer. He is available to fill your spirit man and cause you to rise above your enemies. He has a vast job description. Some Christians only associate the filling of the Holy Spirit with those things that are considered “charismatic,” such as tongues, and therefore prefer to ignore His function and life within them. They limit themselves to a very narrow view of the One whom Jesus called our Helper. The word “helper” in Greek is parakletos, meaning intercessor, counselor, advocate or comforter. What a beautiful promise of a constant help. Stop now and ask the Holy Spirit to Help YOU! Here are some of the descriptions of the Holy Spirit. He can HELP YOU in any or all of the areas below:
Breath of Life (Rev. 11:11)
A Dove (Mark 1:10)
The Finger of God (Luke 11:20)
The Guarantee of Our Inheritance (Eph. 1:14; cf. 2 Cor. 5:5)
The Oil of Gladness (Ps. 45:7; Heb. 1:9)
The Rivers of Living Water (John 7:38)
The Spirit of . . . Promise (Eph. 1:13)
The Spirit of Adoption (Rom. 8:15)
Counselor (Isa. 11:2)
The Fear of the Lord (Isa. 11:2)
Glory (1 Pet. 4:14)
Grace (Zech. 12:10; Heb. 10:29)
Holiness (Rom. 1:4)
Judgment (Isa. 4:4)
Knowledge (Isa. 11:2)
Life (Rom. 8:2)
Love (2 Tim. 1:7)
Might (Isa. 11:2)
Power (2 Tim. 1:7)
The Spirit of Prophecy (Rev. 19:10)
Revelation (Eph. 1:17)
Sound Mind (2 Tim. 1:7)
Supplication (Zech. 12:10)
Truth (John 14:17)
Understanding (Isa. 11:2)
Wisdom (Exod. 28:3; Deut. 34:9)
Restoration Day 3: The Process of Removal will make you Become New!
In the restorative process, God takes what is there, no matter how damaged, and makes something new. He wants to remake your vessel and pour within you a new wine filled with joy, strength, glory and faith. To make your present wineskin new, He wants to soaks you in the water of the Word and rub you with the anointing. Rubbing in the oil is the part of the process that makes you flexible for the future. Those hard things we go through are the oil that He rubs into us. And that oil also contains a new anointing. As we allow the Holy Spirit to take us through the process of rubbing, we not only become more flexible so that we can handle all God desires to pour into us, but we also become able to pour out in a greater measure. There is a process of removal before restoration occurs.
One of the things the LORD removes is legalism. Most Christians would be greatly surprised to learn how many legalistic structures they have embraced. Simply put, legalism is narrowing all of our mind processes down to the point that we can’t receive the mind of God. Rather than having a mindset that is saturated in His grace and love, legalism is a mindset that is steeped in man’s judgment and control. Legalism always leads to pride and unbelief. In Galatians, legalism is even equated with witchcraft. Paul reminds the Galatians that they were doing great. They were having a good time, growing in the Lord and walking in faith. Then he asks who has bewitched them? In other words, who narrowed their minds down to such a degree that they were no longer able to receive the grace of God? Who brought legalism into their midst?
Our restoration cannot be released while God is tightly locked in a box. We must allow the Lord to remove our legalistic, religiously rigid mindsets. For example, is there a situation in your life, in your family or in your city that seems completely unchangeable? Are behavioral patterns so deeply entrenched that nothing could shake them loose? If the answer is yes, then you are dealing with a legalistic mindset. We say nothing is impossible with God, but do we really believe nothing is impossible with God? In every area where we do not have this heartfelt assurance, we have a legalistic, bewitching structure that narrows God. Ask the Lord to reveal hidden places of legalism in your mind, and then be willing to let those old structures fall to the ground. Allow new faith to rise up within you. This is a key to becoming flexible wineskins.
The LORD also removes condemnation. Satan is a liar and a thief. He lies to us about our position with God in order to steal the restoration God has for us. One of his favorite tactics is to bombard believers with reminders of personal failures or failures in their generations to the point where they wear around a sticky garment of condemnation and guilt. They say things such as, “God can’t restore me because I . . . am divorced, had an abortion, had an affair, lied about a friend, took what was not mine, (fill in the blank).” These are lies! You don’t have to wear that old garment. The cycle of the past can end. Getting right with God and then forgiving yourself will break the schemes the devil intended to use to keep you draped in a shroud of guilt, no matter what you’ve done. Jack Hayford writes, “And once your relationship with God is restored, your guilt has served its purpose and no longer has any place in your life. Let it go. And refuse its argument to regain any place in tormenting your mind or your feelings.” Let the Holy Spirit soak you in His cleansing waters of forgiveness and renewal. This is another key to renewing the wineskin that will hold the wine of restoration.
The LORD removes judgmentalism. Just as we must put away our own condemnation, so must we put away condemning others through judgmentalism. Because of the law of sowing and reaping, we really can’t fully do one without the other. If we condemn others, we will be condemned. And what’s worse, the Bible says that we too become dangerously susceptible to falling into the same sin we accuse others of. Don’t be fooled. We are not to sit in judgment. Judgmentalism has serious spiritual ramifications and has the power to keep us from entering into restoration. Isaiah 58 says that if you will pray and fast, and let God determine the fast for you (don’t do it religiously), and if you’ll put away the pointing of that finger and looking outward, He will begin to break forth your light and your healing will spring up. Allow that process of God to bring you into the fullness He has for you. This, too, is part of making the wineskin clean and ready for the new wine.
Restoration Day 4: Let Him Draw You Near!
Submit yourself to God, resist the devil, and he will flee. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you (James 4:7,8). We hate the word submission. However, the word is not a bad word. The meaning is “to stand under”. You can never stand against your enemy until you submit. God has absolute authorities and delegated authorities. We must learn submission. No greater faith have I see in all of Israel than the one who understood authority (Matthew 8). In the process of our restoration and renewal, certain things must be restored to us in order to make the process complete. Here are three key factors that move us toward restoration:
1. He restores intimate contact with Himself and others. Relationship is difficult for many Christians simply because our society breeds fear of intimacy. We protect ourselves. We don’t want to get hurt. We don’t want to allow our emotions to be seen. And to complicate matters, those who have experienced broken relationships in the past don’t want to chance future intimacy. But the simple fact is that we need one another. We need God. Without one or the other, we will never enter into the fullness of restoration. We must begin to allow God to make us intimate communicators with Himself and then each other.
We need to begin by embracing an intimate relationship with God. The classic analogy is Mary and Martha (see Luke 10:38-42). We get so caught up in what we are to do that we forget what we are about. Mary sat at the feet of Jesus until she knew her destiny. Once she knew the purpose of her life, then she could go do the dishes with Martha, or anything else that needed to be done. She did not neglect the task. Through intimacy, Mary simply gained what she needed for her life and then tended to the business of the house. God is calling us into a new intimate place. From this intimate place, we gain our new strategies for moving ahead. But the intimacy is not for ourselves alone. Just as God wants to restore us as individuals, He is equally interested in restoring us as the Bride of Christ. For that reason, we must allow Him to bring us into intimate relationships with one another that will thrust us forward into our biblical destiny.
2. He begins to restore our Father/child relationship. When we do not know God as Abba Father and have not yet come into the spirit of adoption that God has for us, we really do not have the relationship needed to grasp our restoration and the inheritance that comes with it. This is important to understand. Many times God starts by dealing with our earthly father and authority issues in order to restore the Father/child relationship that we have with Him. In cases where our fathers have abused their authority, or did not take their proper role in the family, God must restructure our thinking, but we must let Him. He is neither an abusive Father nor an absent Father. He is a loving Father who cares deeply for us—so much so that He has a plan of restoration for our lives. We need to allow Him to bring us to that understanding. Once those issues are in order, the word of the Lord over our lives can begin to spring forth.
3. God restores our childlike faith. God sees all the war and wilderness places that we have been in. Through those times, He begins to increase our measure of faith. As this childlike faith begins to arise, the glory of God rests upon us. I have always considered myself a man of faith. I lead meetings all around the world filled with great faith and expectation of what God will do. Ask the Lord to create a scenario for you to ask Him for something simple. Ask, believe and watch Him restore your faith.
Restoration Day 5: The Grief Enemy!
When the Holy Spirit begins a process of restoration, He has placed us in a new season with new revelation and new life: a new wine. Most of us are familiar with the passage in Matthew 9:17 that says, “Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” Last month, we discussed grief. However, one of the biggest enemies of restoration is grief resulting from past loss. There are two instances in which grief can keep us from moving toward restoration.
1. When the cycle of grief is not complete. Deep hurts require deep healing. And the healing process is usually longer and more strenuous than we ever expect. In fact, counselors will often refer to a person in the midst of recovering from loss as doing “grief work.” This is a term used to describe a conscious decision to experience the emotions of grief as they come—no matter how uncomfortable they may be—and to see those emotions through to the end. The theory behind grief work is that as we allow ourselves to grieve through the ebb and flow of natural emotion, healing can begin to penetrate the pain. If we do not allow ourselves to heal and instead deny our emotions, the grief will fester and often manifest later in various harmful ways such as addictions, chronic depression, fits of anger or even physical illness.
We must also remember that we have an enemy who seizes our times of loss as opportunities to prey upon us. Unless we allow the Lord to take us through our seasons of grief and see them to the end, Satan can use our denial to create a stronghold of grief within our lives. It is often this kind of deeply embedded grief that keeps us from coming into restoration.
2. When the cycle of grief goes on too long. As necessary as grief may be, and as important as it is to see the process through, we can choose to grieve too long. Like the widow we just described, many people caught in the throws of pain can’t see that there is a time to cast off mourning. Even the great prophet-priest Samuel fell into this comfortable grief trap as we see in 1 Samuel 16:1: “Now the Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long will you mourn for Saul?’ ” God’s appointed season of grieving for Samuel over Saul’s removal from power had reached its limit. It was time for Samuel to either move on, or to miss the next move of God through David.
Ecclesiastes 3:4 reminds us, “There is . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”Just as Satan can use denial to afflict us, he is equally adept at prolonging our seasons of grief far beyond what God intends. By keeping us feeling as though we are in a state of perpetual mourning, Satan knows that we cannot move into the abundant life God has for us beyond our loss. Grief robs us of strength—often the very strength we need to move into a season of life that is far greater than we had before the loss. During an appropriate season of grief, God’s grace covers our lack of natural strength. But when the Lord is ready to move us on, that grace lifts. If we do not move with God, we can be left in a vulnerable and weak place, unable to cross over into our inheritance. God asked Samuel concerning the loss of Saul’s kingship, “How long are you going to grieve over Saul. Fill your horn with oil and go!” (1 Sam 16)
Joshua was a great leader in Israel. He was the one who actually led the children of Israel across the Jordan into Canaan and spearheaded the military campaigns that allowed the Israelites to possess the land God had promised. But what if Joshua had allowed his grief over the death of Moses to extend beyond the appointed season? Deuteronomy 34:8 says, “And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended.” But what if the days of weeping and mourning had not ended? Very simply, Joshua would not have crossed over into God’s inheritance for His people. His grief would have consumed the strength he needed for that vital hour in history. Instead, Joshua mourned appropriately, regained his strength, and moved on when the strategic time came.
End your days of grief and enter into a new level of restoration!
Restoration Day 6: Our Freedom!
We have established that God is longing to restore abundant zoe life to us—not just to a former state, but to a greater measure than we have ever known. For our devotions for days 6 – 10, let’s deal with specific areas that, as God works His restoration, will give us that vital, blessed, rich life worth living (many of these points will be covered in greater detail in later chapters). The first is Our Freedom!
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Gal. 5:1, NIV). God longs for His people to be free from whatever chains have held them in bondage. In both the Old and New Testaments, God has proven this pattern to be so. The people of Israel, for example, cried out in agony when they were enslaved in Egypt. God heard their groanings and remembered the promises He had given to their forefathers. The rest of the book of Exodus shows the extraordinary lengths to which God will go to set His people free and to keep His promises.
Later, we see how the prophet Jeremiah was freed from captivity and given several options. “And now look, I free you this day from the chains that were on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you. But if it seems wrong for you to come with me to Babylon, remain here. See, all the land is before you; wherever it seems good and convenient for you to go, go there” (Jer. 40:4). The word “free” in this passage is the Hebrew word pathach, meaning to open wide, loosen, set free, release, untie, unshackle or liberate. Through that freedom, that “pathach-ing,” Jeremiah was not only freed from the captivity he had been in, but he was then also able to make some choices and begin a whole new process in his life; shackles had been released and a new door had opened wide.
Of course the most beautiful example of freedom that directly affects each of us today was prophesied by Isaiah of the Lord Jesus, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound” (Isa. 61:1).
Jesus releases and liberates us from the dominion of sin and restores us to a right relationship with the Father. When that happens, the hindrances of restoration are broken. Sin resists freedom, but Christ delivers us into a freedom that reverses our death sentence and starts life in motion!
We must, however, recognize that we are indeed free. I once heard the story of a dog that had been tied to a post for some years. The dog would stretch to the end of its rope and walk in circles around the post. As the years passed, the dog trod out an entrenched circular groove in the earth. Though he could see much farther, his world could only reach as far as his restraints would let him.
One day, the dog’s master decided to free him from the post. The man untied the rope and watched, expecting to see the dog race off into the surrounding area and explore that which he had only been allowed to view from his restrained position. Strangely, the dog did not run or play or explore. Though his master tried to entice him away, the dog merely began to walk in the entrenched circle he had created throughout such a long period of time.
We, like the dog, are often unaware that our restraints have been removed. Even when the Lord would try to move us out into our new freedom, we may have a tendency to remain in the safety of the entrenchments we have created for ourselves. Declare that you will embrace the freedom that the Lord has provided for you – even if that means going beyond the boundaries that have seemed acceptable or comfortable in the last season.
RESTORATION DAY 7: OUR PLACE AND POSITION
“‘They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them,’ says the Lord. ‘Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place’” (Jer. 27:22). This Scripture from Jeremiah refers to the captivity of the children of Israel in Babylon. God had made a covenant to bring them out of that captivity. So when the time came for their captivity to end, God determined to put them back on their road to success and establish them in a new place. God will do the same for us. He earnestly desires to establish us in a physical place as a part of our inheritance.
Faith works in time and space. Without you being in your position spiritually, as well as physically, you cannot accomplish the full destiny of your life. Acts 17:24-28 (NKJV) says: “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’”
Your spiritual position is to be seated next to Christ in heavenly places. This is where you should live. You walk in this world and must contend with the god of this world. Satan’s biggest goal is to pull you out of your abiding place to create unrest in your spirit man so you can’t hear God. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of the Lord!
Also, your vision can be linked with the place you are assigned. Israel prospered for a season in Egypt and Babylon. However, their promise was linked to the boundaries established by God when He made covenant with Abraham. Declare now that the place for your promise will manifest. If you have been displaced, get back in place!
Restoration Day 8: Child-Like Faith!
God has to restore our child-like faith. One morning I asked the Lord to increase my measure of faith concerning all I was involved in. That same day I was on my way down to South Texas to lead a revival meeting. While I was preparing to leave, my son Daniel came to me and said, “Daddy, when you’re in South Texas, I believe God wants you to bring me back a parrot.”
Chuckling at him, I replied, “Daniel, parrots cost $1,500. Why don’t you go ask the Lord if He really wants you to have a parrot? If He does, He’ll get one for you.” Accepting my statement, Daniel darted out of the room. About 10 minutes later, he returned and flatly declared, “Daddy, I asked the Lord about my parrot, and He said He wants me to have one.” I could not believe it. What could I say? I left, shaking my head and wondering if I had somehow taught him to manipulate what he was hearing from God.
When I arrived in South Texas, I told the couple I was staying with about my conversation with Daniel. The man and I just laughed it off. But the wife looked at me and said, “Parrots fly over the border from Mexico through here all the time.” I looked at her and wondered what that had to do with anything. We could never catch a wild parrot. I got up at 5:00 the next morning for my quiet time. In the middle of my devotions, I heard something outside. As I looked out my window, I saw that the woman had set up a cage in a nearby tree and was down on her knees praying. I wondered if I had somehow led this woman into total delusion. Did she expect a wild parrot to just walk into the cage? Snickering, I returned to my quiet time. Later that morning I led a big prayer meeting, all filled with faith.
The following morning I got up for my quiet time again. This time I was in deep prayer for a major ministry—the very thing for which I needed faith. Again, I heard something outside. I opened my window and looked to see this woman shutting the door of the cage. Inexplicably, a large, beautiful parrot had flown into the yard and walked into the waiting cage all on its own! I looked up at the Lord and said, “Lord, I am in bad trouble for my lack of faith.” And it just felt like He agreed with me.
That day the Lord began to speak into my heart and say, “Your borders are too narrow. But I can cross your borders, I can bring the supply that’s needed. If you will have faith as a child, I will release that which you need in this hour.” Today that parrot sits in my house. I can’t look at it without being reminded of God’s supply in the face of childlike faith. I encourage you that no matter where you are in life, God has a plan to increase your measure of faith!
Restoration Day 9: Our Strength and Joy
“Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit” (Ps. 51:12). Without JOY, we have no strength. Without strength, there is no ability to withstand our next attack. This is the meaning of the word strength.
When time comes to complete a project or a season of our life, we must have strength to push forth to the end. Nehemiah 8:9-11 says, “And Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, ‘This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep.’ For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law. Then he said to them, ‘Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our LORD. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.’ So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, ‘Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved.’” (NKJV) The time had come to complete the Temple. The people of God had realized their sin that had led them to captivity. However, Nehemiah said, “This is Feast time. Rejoice and new strength will come! Let the past be behind you! Gain new strength to move forward.”
To birth, we must have strength. 2 Kings 19:3 says, “This day is a day of trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.” (NKJV) When the time comes, must have strength to bring forth our next season. To have STRENGTH, we must have JOY!
Our enemy longs to rob us of our joy and get us out of the salvation process. That does not mean that he can steal our salvation by robbing our joy, but he can steer us away from the forgiveness, healing, prosperity and restoration that are by-products of our salvation. His strategy many times is the same one he used on King David: he causes us to sin. Nothing will rob us of the joy of the Lord as effectively as sin in our lives.
But these are days in which God is longing to restore joy to His people through deeper levels of repentance. In repairing the breaches that sin has caused, God is able to restore joy. Proverbs 17:22 says, “A merry heart does good, like medicine.”Joy works like a medicine and brings healing to our bones. That is why Scripture says that the joy of the Lord is our strength (see Neh. 8:10); it brings with it the power to heal and maintain the health God has for us.
Even though David sinned and lost his joy, we see from Psalm 51 that he was able to ask the Lord to restore that joy to him. Through the blood of Christ, we are positioned with even greater favor than King David had to ask the Lord to forgive our transgressions and restore the joy of our salvation.
Restoration Day 10: Our Health!
In this year of REST (5775), we need to understand restoration! Usually there are three main issues linked with our struggles: Finances, Religion, and Health. We will spend more time on the Blood as we proceed but let’s declare our health restored.
God says, “‘For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord, ‘Because they called you an outcast saying: “This is Zion; no one seeks her.”’” (Jer. 30:17) Through sin we have become fragmented and scattered in a way that can result in physical illness, even to the point of decreasing our life spans. But God is the Mighty Physician who will restore our health. The Lord heals. However, many times, this is a journey in the fallen world around us. Environment changes and decay, bloodline and generational disorders, traumas of this world, and just close contact with a very populous society, are all factors that effect our health.
Jesus’ Treatment of Disease was Part of His Redemptive Plan of Freedom.
Jesus healed sick people. This was one of His major ministries. He dealt with many organic causes of illness, individuals, affected by madness, birth defects, and infections. The blind, the deaf, the lame, and sufferers approached Him for help. I love the story of the woman with the spirit of infirmity who “pressed through” in Mathew 9. To me, she is the best example of personal overcoming. She overcome the religious structure of the day, the reproach of being a woman, the stigma of being unclean and pressed through and touched the Lord. This caused the Lord to release virtue or power from His own Body that healed her condition.
In the Hebraic culture of the day, most believed that illness was the direct consequence of sin (John 9:1-3), resulting in punishment. However, Jesus shifted this concept of understanding in the people of that day by healing a blind man who had been sick since birth. He declared the sickness was not related to the man or his father, but was for His Glory. This shifted the paradigm of punishment related to sin. Many of our wrong choices produce consequences that affect our body. However, Jesus came to extend grace to bring us out from the bondage of the punishment of sin and into healing and wholeness. He had the power both to forgive sin and to heal (Matt. 9:1-8; compare Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:17-26).
On several occasions He used His own spit as an ointment or anointing (Mark 7:32-35; 8:22-25; John 9:6-7). I find this fascinating. One of the key ways to test DNA is through spittle. Jesus took Father’s spittle and placed it on the eyes of the blind and watched their eyes formed. Regardless of the cause of their distress, people found that Jesus could truly help. There can be no doubt that the ability of Jesus to perform miracles is seen most vividly in His healing ministry. Mental illness and epilepsy were not uncommon. Their sickness was usually associated with demonic powers. Sterility and barrenness were also major issues in biblical times. The Lord addressed fever and dysentery, also.
Therefore, know that the Lord wants to address your infirmity and weakness and restore your health. Never condemn yourself for imperfections and weaknesses. Rather, just get on a journey and relationship with a Holy God who desires to bring new strength to you.
Charles D. “Chuck” Pierce serves as President of Global Spheres, Inc. (GSI) in Corinth, Texas. This is an apostolic, prophetic ministry that is being used to gather and mobilize the worshipping Triumphant Reserve throughout the world. GSI facilitates other ministries as well, and participates in regional and national gatherings to develop new Kingdom paradigms. Peter and Doris Wagner complete the leadership team of this new wineskin. Chuck also serves as President of Glory of Zion International Ministries, a ministry that aligns Jew and Gentile. He is known for his accurate prophetic gifting which helps direct nations, cities, churches and individuals in understanding the times and seasons in which we live.
Chuck has a degree in Business from Texas A&M, Master’s work in Cognitive Systems from the University of North Texas, and a D. Min. from the Wagner Leadership Institute.
Chuck, his wife Pam and six children and nine grandchildren.
Of all the comments that I received following last year’s 40 Days of Worship initiative, some of the most encouraging were:
“Let’s keep doing this!” “Can we keep going?” “Let’s do this again!”
Well, we are set to do it again– on a slightly smaller scale and linked to a growing national vision.
A National Initiative Comes to Connecticut!
The 10 Days of Prayer initiative has been birthed in a visionary call from the Lord to his church. Every year until the Lord returns, on the ten days from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur, the Lord is calling his people to unite in worship and in repentance and prayer to see His kingdom come to our needy communities and to speed the Lord’s return to our troubled world. I have watched this movement grow the past few years as more and more cities and states have “signed on” to the vision.
This fall, from September 25-October 4 (marking the 10 Days of Awe on the Jewish calendar), Impact Connecticut is sponsoring 10 Days! of united worship, prayer, and repentance. The flavor of these gatherings will be very similar to last year’s meetings.
We will launch the 10 Days of Prayer! at 7pm at Wellspring on Thursday, September 25th. For the proceeding 8 days, there will be two gatherings per evening (full schedule available here). The final gathering will be held at the First Cathedral in Bloomfield. This final meeting will also be the 2014 expression of the Connecticut United Night of Worship (CTUNOW), featuring a worship team of over 100 worship leaders from churches across the state.
Check out the schedule below and go to our website impactconnecticut.com for more information. I hope to see many of you at these gatherings across our state as we continue to welcome the Lord’s presence in Connecticut through extravagant worship, sincere repentance, and united prayer.
Pastor Rick McKinniss
Pastor Rick has served Wellspring Church as senior pastor since 1986. He has two theological degrees from Bethel Seminary in Minnesota, where he also taught as an adjunct professor in preaching. In recent years he has been involved in the emerging global prayer movement as a partner in InterPrayer, an international ministry fellowship of prayer leaders from several nations. During that same time he has been used by God to call pastors and churches together for persevering revival prayer and for Kingdom breakthrough in Connecticut. He is passionate about seeing heaven-sent revival come to New England once again in his lifetime. Pastor Rick and Debbie have been married for 36 years and have five children (one by marriage) and four grandchildren (Eli, Hannah, Ezra, and Jonah). Debbie is the leader in Bethesda, the healing prayer ministry of Wellspring. Pastor Rick is an amateur decoy woodcarver and an avid supporter of Ohio State football, the Cincinnati Reds (he grew up in southern Ohio and has never recovered) and UCONN basketball.
Doors to New History Are Now Opening – A New Movement Will Now Move Forth
The following is a Prophetic Word given by Tim Sheets at the conference “The Cry” Thursday, 7-17, 2014 with guests Lou Engle, Dutch Sheets, Tim Sheets, Mark Casto, Jimmy Lovejoy, Isaiah Saldivar and James Taylor:
A New Movement
A Pure Stream of My Gospel
“The Spirit of the Lord declares to His Church – Doors to new history are now opening. A new movement will now move forth. A new stream from My Throne is flowing and it will be a pure stream of My Gospel. For the stream of My Gospel has been diverted and dammed up by those who wanted the benefits of reservoired blessings; but I will now blow up the religious dams. I will now discipline the spiritual hoarders and I will have a Gospel that flows freely with My Spirit.
“My movement will move. It is built to move and it will move empowered by the fresh winds of My Spirit and soaked with fresh oil. It shall be a pure Gospel stream that is lit with the fire of My cause, one that I can confirm with signs, with wonders, and with miracles, one that is not diluted with flesh or pride or immorality or greed, one that I can back with awesome Kingdom assets, one that I can marshal My angel armies behind; a Gospel of awesome power that will now surge forward, and the generations will synergize their efforts together for the revival of ingathering such has not been seen before.
“A Shift In Leadership Will Now Occur…Who Are They?”
Gideons
“And I am calling to My Gideons – come Gideons! Come from your hiding places and stop the raiding of harvests. I have seen you behind the winepress. I have seen your secret toil. I have heard your cries for relief. Now hear My cry. Now hear My voice rise and see the strong arm of the Lord your God. I have seen your heart and I will now empower you. I will defeat the enemy, and you will enjoy the spoils of victory. You will say, ‘Our enemy has resourced us. Our enemy has stored abundance for us. We have more because of war.’
New Breed
“A shift in leadership will now occur,” says the Lord. “A new breed of leaders will be revealed in My Kingdom. The obscure ones who have served faithfully will now receive promotion. Though man has not seen, I have seen. It will be said, ‘Where did they come from? Who are they?’
“And I will advocate saying, ‘These are they who have come from My presence. These are they who would not compromise. These are they who would not be muzzled. These are they who would not bow to darkness. These are they who would not appease humanity with enticing words but have stood strong with My words.’
“They did not flinch. They did not bow their knee to blended religion and doctrines of men. They did not tolerate the diluting of My message and the mocking of My ways. They have stood unashamed for Me. Now I will stand unashamed for them. I have proclaimed their victory and I will oversee it.
“The Birthing of Forerunners Who Will Run…”
Multiplied Grace
“Multiplied grace is now flowing. Bound souls shall be set free. Captive hearts shall be delivered. The blinded by sin and iniquity shall be liberated from Hell’s bondage as the revival of ingathering now springs forward.
“The synergized generation in sync with My angel armies and soaked in the presence of My Spirit will now leap forward into great revival. It will be a movement that moves – moves in power, moves with passion, moves in purity. Notable miracles will spring forth. They are leaping in your midst.
“The revival in the womb of My intercessors is now leaping. It is leaping from the womb of their travail. It is now time for the birthing of forerunners who will run. Leap into your destiny. Leap through the open door. Leap into your future.” –Spoken by Apostle Tim Sheets
Tim Sheets Tim Sheets Ministries | The Oasis, a CityGate Church Email: carol@timsheets.org Website: timsheets.org | oasiswired.org
Dr. Tim Sheets is an apostle, pastor, and author based in southwestern Ohio. A graduate of Christ For the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas, he returned to Ohio in 1979 to pastor The Oasis, a CityGate Church, in Middletown, Ohio. The site is one of the largest in the Cincinnati-Dayton area and is host to many ministries/conferences. His vision is to raise up people who will authentically demonstrate the Church on the earth and passionately evangelize the world. His heart is for awakening and reformation in America. He has written three books, Armed and Battle Ready, Being Led by the Spirit, and Heaven Made Real. Dr. Tim Sheets resides with his wife, Carol, in Lebanon, Ohio. They have two children and five grandchildren.
A timely and important word from Bobby Conner with Paul Keith Davis providing prophetic perspective and biblical understanding of the times we are in and the call of God’s people in the US…(click on above video)
Bios follow…
Bobby Conner
This “Gentle Giant” is uniquely anointed with refreshing humor and razor-sharp prophetic accuracy which has been documented around the world. Bobby’s dynamic capacity to release outstanding demonstrations of the miraculous — healings, signs and wonders — reveals the very heart of the Father toward us! Surviving a dramatic abortion attempt by his mother, being rescued again by the hand of God from drug dealing and suicide, the story of Bobby Conner is a display of a man who now walks in his God-ordained destiny to set others free! Out of his deep intimacy with Jesus Christ, Bobby is super-sensitive to what the Holy Spirit is now doing throughout the world! The Father heart of God, expressed so beautifully through Bobby and his wife, Carolyn, lastingly transforms lives in every service.
Bobby has an extensive ministry background as a Southern Baptist pastor and he ministers in a high level, proven prophetic anointing. He believes his calling is to equip the Body of Christ to hear and discern God’s voice in these times. He is well loved and best known the world over for his sensitivity to and leading of the Holy Spirit. Highly esteemed as an internationally acclaimed conference speaker, Bobby has ministered effectively to over 45 foreign countries as well here in the states for many years.
He has written numerous articles appearing in various Christian publications, including the MorningStar Journal, Charisma and Church Growth International. He has also written four books including “Thrones of Our Soul,” “Engaging The Revelatory Realm of Heaven,” and “Books of Destiny,” all dealing with prophetic mandates placed upon the end-time generation. His newest book, “Angels That Gather,” provides a biblical outline for the harvest and insight to help access our end of the age inheritance.
Paul Keith and Wanda, reside in Orange Beach, Alabama. Together they have five children and six grandchildren.
Paul Keith and Wanda Davis founded WhiteDove Ministries after the Lord sovereignly sent a beautiful white dove to them as a prophetic sign of their calling. They now travel extensively speaking at conferences and churches, imparting the end-time mandate of preparation for the Glory and Manifest Presence of Christ.
Paul Keith has a unique gift for imparting prophetic understanding of times and seasons with a message of preparation and expectancy for the Lord’s Empowering Presence. He spent many years in extensive study highlighting the ministry of revelation and power exemplified throughout the church ages with an emphasis on the 20th century church. His heart’s desire is to see the full restoration of Biblical Apostolic ministry manifested through the Spirit of Truth residing in God’s people, expressing salvation, healing and deliverance to the Glory of God and His Christ.
“There is peace abounding in your heart of love for people. And this is the message of the house; peace that abounds! There’s a peace no man has yet discovered. It’s a peace beyond recognition. It’s beyond words or understanding. It’s a peace that can only come when you rest in Me. The knowledge of peace is learning how to rest in Me. You can only rest in Me when you learn to trust Me. And you can only trust Me by loving Me without restraint.
“There has come a season in time when man is going to rest in Me. You will know those who mature to this degree. They will walk in the eternal realm with Me and be unabated by the natural world. The victory is mine, says the Lord, as ones begin to enter in this realm. There will be no discrepancy, no wondering who is Mine. You will know them by their fruit of love and peace.
“Bob’s last word was about the peacemakers and this is what I’m bringing forth this day. Peace was My gift to the world in the form of My Son. His peace was truth and love and there is no discrepancy between truth and love.”
Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law – Matthew 10:34-35
Below is the last prophecy Bob brought in January this year (click on link below) and I feel it’s significant and needs repeated. I believe the Father is confirming Bob’s word in the message He gave me June 18th.
God is a just God and I believe He will deal with those who withstand what He is doing through His peacemakers.
Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered. – Luke 11:52
There will always be those who are motivated by a religious spirit. Their main goals are to entice, distract and lead believers back under the law of man – doctrines of man and doctrines of demons. They have never had a relationship with the Holy Spirit of Truth and mock and ridicule those who do. These have fallen into such deception that their conscience has become seared. They have become deaf to the still small voice that once directed their path.
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron – 1 Timothy 4:1-2
The peacemakers’ journey begins by first loving the Father. From this love relationship they enter into a place of rest where the knowledge of peace is developed. They can only rest in Him when they’ve learned to trust Him. This kind of trust is earned by loving God without restraint. The peacemakers will bear the same fruit as our Lord Jesus Christ bore; love and peace. God is Love and Jesus is the Prince of Peace.
Bonnie is passionate about the love of the Lord and bringing that understanding to the body of Christ. Her desire is to see the body move in unity and learn to love unconditionally. She encourages the body to hear the voice of God for themselves and obey what they hear. She’s strong on the “spoken word” and believes that “you live with the consequences of the choices you make, so choose wisely!” Bonnie’s a real stickler for truth therefore carrying a strong mantle of justice. She has a great love for children of all ages and speaks into their destinies. She is also a strong advocate for women to move into their rightful place in the body of Christ in power and humility.
She met Bob Jones in the fall of 2005 and they married the following May. They traveled extensively until Bob’s health declined. Together they ministered prophetically releasing power, revelation, healing and miracles. Bob went to be with the Lord February 14, 2014. Bonnie continues to walk in the same type of anointing that Bob did and carries on his mandate to ask the body “did you learn to love?”
Bonnie Jones has written several books including The Shepherd’s Rod from 2008-2014, The Eagle, 341, Fruit of the Spirit and her personal favorite The Power of the Spoken Word.
For information regarding scheduling Bonnie Jones to speak at an event or conference, please contact bonnie@bobjones.org.
The Sound of a New March is Awakening Covenant Roots!
07-23-2014
Dear Watchers:
Yesterday morning I traveled to the East Coast for a series of key gatherings in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island. I am partnering with Dutch Sheets to release a word to each of these states, as well as our nation. Last night we began with an “Appeal to Heaven” in Boston at the historic Faneuil Hall (see prophecy below). Tonight we continue at the Patriot’s Theater in the Trenton War Memorial. Tomorrow we press on to Providence for a Revival Fire Night! With all that is occurring in the world at this time, I feel this series of meetings is pivotal, and would ask you to pray for the release of Kingdom decrees that will help establish a new rule in this land.
During our Pentecost Celebration in June, I released a word of knowledge that by today (July 23), things would turn. Little did I know that we would be in New Jersey for a gathering hosted by John & Sheryl Price called Turning Point!
THREE DAYS of WATCHING!
Before leaving Texas yesterday morning, I led our 5:15 Movement gathering in the Miracle Center. The Spirit of God was so powerful, and the revelation that came forth began to unlock vision and set us in a new formation where His strength could arise within us. Further below is a portion of the prophetic direction that came forward.
We are in three days of watching, and I heard the Lord say that we must overturn a second-generation demonic host that is holding back the root of His people from expressing themselves. We are warring over covenant roots, and the enemy is contending to withhold the covenant seed from coming forth. The Spirit of God said: “Athaliah, who is ruled by the night hag, must come down. In these three days, that which has paralyzed and attempted to paralyze vision will have to let go. You will war in every corner of your boundaries. Even though Athaliah screams out in the next three days and accuses you of treason, she will submit to the seed that I bring forth.”
I want to commission all of you to watch these three days. Wherever you live, watch over your nation, call forth your seed, and declare that God’s seed will be brought out into the open, so that our Kingdom future will be seen. This is a week for God’s rule to manifest, and for His roots to be awakened in the land!
Unlocking a Seed in God’s Covenant Root, to Turn the Course of a Nation!
by Chuck Pierce, Anne Tate, Janice Swinney, Lisa Lyons and Diane Roussel
“I am changing the order of the marching of My troops and I am putting a new step in My people. I am putting strength and an acceleration in their step today, and they will march in a different way. Their marching will create a wind and cause winds that have been held captive to be released. The marching of My people is now beginning, and I will go back to the root systems that have been captured. From the sound of the gatherings of My people, entire roots will be free to produce fruit. Your feet have even been captured and are moving out of sync with My sound and timing. But today your feet will be released and snares that were put on you will let go of you.
“You will begin to go into the places that I send you. You will be sent into places that don’t have the form for this hour. And in the midst of you going, the form will begin. You will begin to prophesy form, and you will prophesy structure; you will prophesy the power of My Word that has been held captive from coming alive. For resurrection will be in the feet of My people! From the sound of My people’s resurrection marching, things that were captured and seas that were held will now come alive!
“And not only will the ground shift, but the sky will shift. Where My name has not been able to manifest, My name will begin to manifest. People will say ‘Who has entered in?’ And I would say, ‘It is My people that have brought Me in, in procession!’ The procession of My power will now begin to shift and move!
Inheritance
“This is a day of contending and warring for the inheritance that has gone before you. By contending for that inheritance, I will cause new seeds to arise from even that which has fallen into the ground, and what you thought was lost will be seen. In this contending you will cause generations to align, and what was will become ‘is,’ and what is now will become ‘tomorrow.’ I decree this is a day of advancing. Let your heart come out of captivity! Let that which has held you in the captivity of unbelief break off of you; instead of subtle unbelief, you will have faith break open and you will see in a new way!
Lost Coin
“For this is the day that I causing the bride of My Church to find that lost coin she has searched for in her house. She will find the lost coin and a door will open that has not been opened for 2,000 years. All will begin to come in that Kingdom door and a new day will begin; it will turn and begin in a new Kingdom way!
Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. –Luke 15:8-10
Return to the New
“So Return to the NEW! Return to that which was new and fresh in your life! Return to the new! If you will return to the new, that which has been corrupted and that which has been taped over will become new again. March and return to the new and you will begin to see what I had planned from the beginning. For you have pressed forward to breakthrough, but you’ve lost sight of the new and what I planned from the beginning.
Demonic Infection, Paralysis and Fear
“Even today, where religion and demons of doctrine encased My will and formation, I will show you traces of demons and traces of religion that have infected your bloodstream and caused even your bone marrow and the Word in your bone marrow to be captured. Return to the new! For this will be a day of the turning point of My people where they turn back to the new and say, ‘We will go forth with all that You planned to manifest!’ Manifest, return to the new and manifest today that which you have returned to, that I declared new, and that has never been seen in the earth!
“Many of you started up and started into that place, but when you got to the place where you met leopards and lions and tigers, you tried to either camp or turn around and go back. But I am unlocking that which got captured in your faith. For you are now going to see the fear that came in and the demonic hosts that threatened you for what they actually were, and you’ll quickly go back to the place that you have left. You will return quickly and then go up into a place where you take the ground that will produce the seed for your future!
“The enemy that you met paralyzed you and convinced you that you did not have strength to go on up into the place of clear vision. Therefore, you settled for an older vision or a vision that is not full. You will now see that demonic force in a way you’ve never seen that demonic force, and one small word will cause that force to be vanquished. You will see the path for you which that force has covered. Go up, return! Go up, return! Go up again, and in going up, clear vision will now come!”
“Come up here, come up here! Come up here for it’s from above that I cause the clouds to part and from above that I open the doors of Heaven. So come up here! From this vision you will see the clouds part and you will see the doors of Heaven open.
“No longer will you be afraid to express My covenant, for within you I will loose the very power of My covenant. You will rise up and be a testimony in the earth to the power of My covenant. For fear has attempted to capture the marching of My people because fear came and caused My people to shrink back from their covenant alignment. But today I will turn a people back into the power of My covenant!
New Heart
“For My people have been faint of heart, and where their heart has beat slowly, their steps have matched the (slow) beat of their heart. But today I am setting a new heart in My people and it is beating with the ferocity of My heart in the earth. Your step and your marching will now match the beat of that heart that I am setting, a new heart in you today.
“So though your heart has been arrhythmic, a new beat will begin to form even though you’ve had to go and get help to have a clear beat. Today I will form a new beat in the heart of My people.
Back to the Root
“For I am bringing you back to the very root of My planting, and from the root of My planting – the root of My planting in you – I will begin to send a wind, and a new standard will arise! Let the blowing of My wind to the very core of where My word is hidden begin to occur. The name of God that has not been loosed in you to give you power over the enemy will now rise up in a new way.
“For in the beginning the serpent was a subtle creature that found his way into the garden. And even in these generations, he has found his way into the hearts of My people and into their lives. But I came and severed that authority of the serpent. I took away its ability and mobility. I crushed the head, and am releasing a new authority into this generation to remove that which has writhed itself through your lives and generations to set My people free.
New Authority
“So today I will unlock that new authority, and I will cause that authority to rise up. And in a generation that only knows religion, they will begin to worship and say, ‘But we have power to cause the roof and the ceilings to rise!’ This generation will rise up and they will find ways to break open things that could not be broken open. The seed that has been held till now, the seed that is part of My covenant root, will now be brought out and be seen in a new way! This seed will have a stronger foot than the generation before them, and this seed will place their foot on the head of serpents that have become manifested in the hybrid forms. This is a seed that will begin to arise with strength. This seed will be comprised of three generations that have come together with the Word. I am unlocking a seed in My root today that will turn the course of a nation!”
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
Next 3 Months
Faneuil Hall Prophecy July 22, 2014
“Father, these next three months you are going to infuse your people with faith beyond themselves.
“The Lord says I will change the course of your praying, for you have prayed through the circumstances of your life and your family, you have prayed through the issues of your city and your state, but I say to you, I will now birth you into not praying for a nation called America, but praying for a Kingdom to come in this land. I say to you, this type of praying will begin to shake loose many things over the next three months, but in you I will shake loose things that have been captured in other seasons that have even compartmentalized your faith. I say I will tear down walls within you that have been sealed up to keep your faith from synergizing and exploding!
“And I say to you this night, from this hall in Boston, you have returned to the new and now I will cause you to press through until the new fully manifests in this land you’re upon. Receive the commissioning from the mobilization into this next move of My Kingdom in this land called America that will touch every nation that America has ever touched.”
Charles D. “Chuck” Pierce serves as President of Global Spheres, Inc. (GSI) in Corinth, Texas. This is an apostolic, prophetic ministry that is being used to gather and mobilize the worshipping Triumphant Reserve throughout the world. GSI facilitates other ministries as well, and participates in regional and national gatherings to develop new Kingdom paradigms. Peter and Doris Wagner complete the leadership team of this new wineskin. Chuck also serves as President of Glory of Zion International Ministries, a ministry that aligns Jew and Gentile. He is known for his accurate prophetic gifting which helps direct nations, cities, churches and individuals in understanding the times and seasons in which we live.
Chuck has a degree in Business from Texas A&M, Master’s work in Cognitive Systems from the University of North Texas, and a D. Min. from the Wagner Leadership Institute.
Chuck, his wife Pam and six children and nine grandchildren.
I got up yesterday morning and knew I needed to write you. We just raised the Israeli flag in front of the Global Spheres Center. We moved the Appeal to Heaven flag to the Miracle Birthing Center where we are praying. We ordered a new Appeal to Heaven to replace the one that was out front. My thought was this: in the midst of a changing war, you must establish the appropriate standards that represent the warfare that you are in. “But God’s equipment was that of no ordinary warrior: He strapped on righteousness as His breastplate, put on the helmet of salvation . passion as a cloak, GOD PREPARED FOR WAR! When the enemy comes in . He will come on like a torrential flood driven by the Eternal’s winds.. His standard will rescue those of Jacob’s holy line. The Redeemer will come to make Zion right again.” (paraphrased from Isaiah 59:16-21 in The Voice). War is arising in the land. This is a Kingdom war.
I can’t say that writing is my favorite pastime. However, I know when the Lord wants me to communicate with those connected and pressing forward in this ministry. I have written several books through the years. As a matter of fact, over 75% of the books that I have written have been related to understanding personal, corporate, territorial, worship, and generational wars in the Kingdom of God. Two of the books, The Future War of the Church and God’s Unfolding Battle Plan, have been prophetic war manuals foretelling the wars of God’s people in the Kingdom through 2026. In fact, I am presently working on three books right now: The Apostolic Church Arising: The Triumphant Reserve’s Call to Gather, The Watchman’s Call to See and Decree, and A Time to War: The Next Season of Covenant Contending. This third book will help us understand the conflicts through 2026. Thinking about this book, along with the scenario going on in Israel, has compelled me to write you.
I have been asked the question of WHY? Why do you write about the warfare that the Body is called to enter? Why does war have to become part of our future thought process? Some have even said, “I would rather not know the war ahead. I want to live a peaceful life as long as I am on earth.” My answer is usually the same: “I want to live a peaceful life also, but in reality there is conflict; this conflict is accelerating, and the Lord says to be more shrewd than our enemy. He also says that He does nothing without first telling His prophets. Therefore, not knowing is not reality. Reality is linked with true worship in spirit and truth. I would rather live in the reality of His Presence than in denial.” Thus, understanding the reality of the war around you is important as to whether you triumph or experience defeat.
WE HAVE NOW ENTERED A NEW REALITY OF WARFARE!
The Heavens, as well as the Earth, are now in a new dimension of conflict. Nations are in conflict. Generations are in conflict. Israel is in conflict. Our friends and family live there. We feel the brunt of this warfare. Not only is this war personal, but we are devoted to the land of Israel, the people of Israel, and the God of Israel.
Warfare can create great emotional upheaval. For instance, Amber Pierce, with two small children, had to process two rockets exploding above the apartment they live in, in Jerusalem, earlier this week. Many couples who live in the land are having to process this war. Norma Sarvis said it this way, “Borders of war are shifting. I have a friend who always guarded the borders far away from Jerusalem. But now the border of war is nearby with the rocket attacks now in Jerusalem as well.” I believe all of our borders and boundaries are shifting in war.
Warfare can produce fear. War causes our will to make choices. This war is over boundaries. The war in Israel is over a new State trying to form and develop their identity for the future. On November 29, 2012, the General Assembly accorded Palestine non-Member Observer State status in the United Nations. Since that time, this State has been openly and fully opposed to the Hebraic nation that exists. The State has in mind a new type of government in the earth that will use many creative forms of weapons to defeat God’s ordained boundaries. Frankly, this means that this State is openly portraying themselves as an enemy of the God who made covenant with Israel. If you war along with this State in its formation and development, you are actually warring against God’s covenant plan in the earth. This war is not just with flesh and blood but with powers and principalities. If you are a Covenant Believer, submitted to the Lord Jesus Christ and empowered by Holy Spirit, this war is affecting you in your daily life in some way! You are probably sensing some warfare in your personal life and sphere. So why do we have to war if the work of the Cross defeated all powers and principalities?
A KINGDOM BY FORCE to be ENFORCED!
When our Lord overcame death, hell, and the grave, He broke the headship of Satan in the Earth. He ascended, gave us gifts, and then called us to enforce this victory! Now, we must enforce! To enforce is to compel obedience to, to obtain by force or compulsion, or impose a course of action on a person or entity, in this case Satan (the one who opposes us). Yeshua said, “And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. ” From the days of John til now. John started opening up in earth a new realm of aligned conflict that would bring forth Messiah. Jesus and His disciples had to take what John had accomplished and use a new dimension of power to take the movement to a new level. Jesus even connected into John’s baptism, but then received a new baptism by going into the wilderness. Jesus’ disciples would then baptize their followers into this new baptism.
In Matthew 11, this passage on force has a dual meaning. The question in this passage is who will win this enforcing battle, concerning the Kingdom of God. The Lord explains that one form of religion would attempt to produce a force to stop the next manifestation of the Kingdom of Heaven in the earth. Conversely, those representing the new movement would have to use power to advance the Kingdom against the religious and civil government. The war of the Kingdom would be: denial versus reality, stumbling versus standing, law versus grace, teaching versus revelation, soft religion versus kingdom power.
Choose SOFT RELIGION or KINGDOM POWER!
What do I mean by “soft religion”? These are people that have embraced one form of religious moral influence in their lives. This type of individual loves the portion they have received that helped their conscious come alive. They have learned laws and principles. They operate out of the teachings they know. However, they are open to new messages and limited manifestations beyond their last experiences. They will embrace these, if they enhance their personal advancement. Nevertheless, if a manifestation comes that is beyond their ability to understand, they stumble in their advancing. In this passage from Matthew 11, Jesus says, “Blessed is he who is not offended, put a snare or stumbling block in the way because of Me.” (In other words, is there something that would hinder you, personally, from continuing to perceive and advance the Kingdom of God?) If any issue threatens their present thinking, religious conscience, and comfortable form of worship, then they shrink back or actually attempt to enforce present boundaries rather than enlarging their territory to receive the new release of God’s presence. They stumble, rather than embrace the accompanying change in their atmosphere.
“Soft religion” embraces what will allow credibility from the world but rejects new power that makes a person uncommon from surrounding familiar relationships, families, and norms. There were many that accepted John’s leadership, his message, and the baptism he offered linked with repentance. However, the same ones (including some of John’s followers) fully rejected the new wineskin and set themselves to be a stumbling block to Yeshua’smovement. This would become a pattern, from generation to generation. Each generation would haveto choose to use the Kingdom force of love and power that comes from Christ, to advance His Kingdom. This is the remnant that is now arising to war and triumph today.
THE REMNANT’S COVENANT WAR!
This remnant group will always go before the whole, with a mission and heart to see the Good News of the Gospel shared, demonstrated, and embraced. This group would have both Testaments, Old and New, as Torah, for their field manual. This group would allow the government of the Kingdom to form within them. This is the movement that will fully advance and impact their culture.
In every generation, there is a group that has to choose to war for God’s covenant. Judges 3:1-2 says, “These are the nations which the Lord left (in Canaan) that He might test Israel by them . this was only so the generations of the children of Israel might be taught to know war, at least those who had not formally know it.” A covenant war always includes embracing the ROOT of the COVENANT and WARRING FOR THE FRUIT OF THE COVENANT. In our case, that root goes back to the land promised to Abraham, the Hebrew. A land and a people called Israel, and led by Judah, would always be included in the war of all those being grafted into this covenant. The same blessings in the root can manifest in the fruit of your war today. You do not have to be in Israel to be warring for God’s Kingdom plan, nor do you have to be in Israel to receive the same blessings that were offered to Abraham. However, you must know that you are connected to this land and people. Abraham’s blessings included a territory or boundaries, multiplication, generational inheritance, wealth and provision, and a sphere of authority and rule. Your wars are linked with the same blessings that Abraham was given by the Lord.
THE TIME and RULES OF THE WAR!
There is a time for war (Eccl. 3). There are rules or laws of war (Deut. 20). There is a commitment and choice to war (Luke 14). There is a garment for war. There is a stand that we must take in war (Eph. 6). There is an age-long warfare (Rev. 12). There is a TRIUMPHANT PEOPLE who must choose today to enforce Kingdom principles on earth!
Yeshua told His disciples in Luke 14:25-33: “. ‘If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it – lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace. So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.”
HOW TO MAKE A WISE CHOICE IN YOUR WAR!
The above passage gives us a list of questions to ponder in the NOW! Take an inventory of your call to war at this time. Know your border. Ask the questions:
What is my sphere or boundaries? Is this warfare inside my boundaries?
Am I willing to war in those boundaries? Do I go to war or stand and wait? Timing is key. Am I willing to war in these boundaries? What is my responsibility in the war?
How does this warfare affect my inheritance or portion? Am I willing to war for my present inheritance or a new added portion?
What responsibilities do I have that could clutter my decisions in my present warfare? Children? Job? Debts? Parents? Ministry?
Do these responsibilities usurp the voice of God in my life?
What emotions are ruling me? Does any emotional alignment in my life stop me from hearing the voice of God? A spouse? A child? A friend? A co-worker? Etc. Am I ruled by fear? Am I decisive or double-minded over every situation?
Do I know my role in the Kingdom? How am I serving? Am I communing with the Body or walking independently?
Am I advancing or stumbling? What issue has made me stumble or would make me stumble?
To conclude, this is a season of war. I am sure you are experiencing some sort of conflict in your life. The boundaries of your war are changing. Will you choose to triumph in your conflict? Will you join the Lord in the battle around you? God is raising up a triumphant people. I choose to believe that you are one of those!
If you need prayer in the midst of your battle, you are welcome to call us at 1-888-965-1099 or 1-940-382-7231. If you would like to sow into the ongoing work of this ministry, you can donate online, by calling our office, or by postal mailing your gift to Glory of Zion, PO Box 1601, Denton TX 76202.
Blessings, Chuck D. Pierce
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Dear Battle Ready Saints:
I hope all of you have taken the time to read the email we sent out earlier today on “A Time to Choose Your Wars Carefully!” What is occurring in Israel is not something distant or without impact on our daily lives. Rather, it is a sign of how all of our borders and boundaries are being challenged. Consequently, for our Celebration Service tomorrow morning I have asked Robert Heidler to teach on “The Battle is the Lord’s: Opening the Path to your Destiny!” Join us and gain insight on how to align with the God of Israel and His Covenant plan in the earth.
Also, watch next week for the announcement on our new school, the TRIUMPHANT FAITH INSTITUTE! We are finalizing our first module, and look forward to sharing the details on how you can be a part of this training venture!
Finally, mark your calendars for our next Firstfruits Celebration. Once again, I believe this is to be on a Sunday morning. So on Sunday, August 3 we will gather to enter into the Rosh Chodesh blessing for the Hebraic month of Av.
Charles D. “Chuck” Pierce serves as President of Global Spheres, Inc. (GSI) in Corinth, Texas. This is an apostolic, prophetic ministry that is being used to gather and mobilize the worshipping Triumphant Reserve throughout the world. GSI facilitates other ministries as well, and participates in regional and national gatherings to develop new Kingdom paradigms. Peter and Doris Wagner complete the leadership team of this new wineskin. Chuck also serves as President of Glory of Zion International Ministries, a ministry that aligns Jew and Gentile. He is known for his accurate prophetic gifting which helps direct nations, cities, churches and individuals in understanding the times and seasons in which we live.
Chuck has a degree in Business from Texas A&M, Master’s work in Cognitive Systems from the University of North Texas, and a D. Min. from the Wagner Leadership Institute.
Chuck, his wife Pam and six children and nine grandchildren.
Blow the trumpet…sound the alarm…for the day of the Lord is coming. It is close at hand– Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God… Joel 2:1, 13
While at home caring for my husband, I have had time to be quiet and listen more to the whispers of the Spirit. He has revealed things to me in the stillness that I’m not sure I would have heard in my former busyness. One of the things He has impressed on me is that we are living at the end of human history as we know it. In light of this, He has given me some practical assignments. One was to be the Honorary Chair for the National Day of Prayer 2014 this past May. He gave me the message I was to deliver, which was from Joel 1…the Day of the Lord is at hand. It was a message warning of judgment that is coming.
AN URGENT CALL TO PRAYER
July 1-7, 2014 and beyond
Just recently, He has given me another assignment, which is to call His people in our nation to prayer.
This assignment came indirectly from a Syrian pastor through a National Day of Prayer attendee. In obedience, I am blowing the trumpet…sounding the alarm…issuing a national prayer initiative entitled 7 7 7: An Urgent Call to Prayer. The Call is for God’s people to pray for each of the first seven days in the seventh month—July 1-7. Then on the 7th day, July 7, we are to pray and fast for 7 hours.
Join Anne Graham Lotz and thousands of other followers of Jesus Christ across our nation and around the world, as together we return to the Lord our God, rend our hearts, repent of our sin, and cry out to God for His mercy on behalf of our nation. Before it’s too late.
Pray! in the 7th month, July
Pray! on each of the first 7 days of July
Pray! and fast on July 7th for 7 hours (of your choosing)
The Purpose:
For God the Father to restrain, protect, and deliver His people from the evil that has come into our world.
For God the Son to be exalted, magnified, and glorified in His church, in our nation, and in our lives.
For God the Holy Spirit to fall on us in a fresh way, compelling the church to repent of sin and our nation to return to faith in the living God, resulting in a great national spiritual awakening.
Called “the best preacher in the family” by her father, Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz speaks around the globe with the wisdom and authority of years spent studying God’s Word.
The New York Times named Anne one of the five most influential evangelists of her generation. She’s been profiled on 60 Minutes, and has appeared on TV programs such as Larry King Live, The Today Show, andHannityLive. Her Just Give Me Jesus revivals have been held in more than 30 cities in 12 different countries, to hundreds of thousands of attendees.
Whether a delegate to Davos’ Economic Forum, a commentator to the Washington Post, or a groundbreaking speaker on platforms throughout the world, Anne’s aim is clear – to bring revival to the hearts of God’s people. And her message is consistent – calling people into a personal relationship with God through His Word.
In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!” – Isaiah 4:1
Although in Bible college all the single men thought this was the “bachelor’s verse,” yet it speaks of something more than just seven women and one man. There is coming a day when the Church will become so destitute of answers and agendas that she will turn to one Man, the Lord Jesus, and take hold of Him.
We have taken hold of the world and we have taken hold of clever ideas, but the seven women (seven churches – see Revelation 2 and 3) are about to lay hold of their Beloved. The longing of the Church will be for Him. We will want to be called by His great Name. The splendor of His beauty will remove our disgrace and make us a worthy partner to labor with Him.
There is coming a Magnificent Obsession which will grip our hearts. This obsession will be to lay hold of Christ and not ever let Him go! Like Mary did in the garden, thinking He was a gardener, until He spoke her name…then she wouldn’t let Him go! And like the Shulamite in the Song of Songs who, when she found her Beloved, held Him tight and wouldn’t let Him go!
The unveiling of Christ within us is about to be the most explosive truth ever to hit the Church, bigger than any movement, conference, or teaching! It will fuel the flames of our passion to follow Christ and be all He longs for us to become.
This glorious truth of His coming will capture us and compel us to lay hold of the One Man, Jesus Christ. It is not only the timing of His return that must consume us, but how He finds us when He returns. It is not if it is near or far, but rather if we are filled with faith, hope, and love.
It is not the anti-Christ who is about to be revealed, but Jesus Christ! As world governments desperately try to cope with global economic, environmental, safety, and health issues, we have all felt its tremors, but please be encouraged: God’s Kingdom is still safe and secure!
Lay Hold of Jesus Christ
He will be our Magnificent Obsession as we move into the realm of kisses and thunderbolts! The LORD wants to come to His seeking Bride! He is doing this to remove our fear and our anxiety…for perfect love casts out fear. The love awakening is here! The Bridegroom is in the land! Trim your lamps of prayer and go outside the realm of familiarity and meet Him!
LAY HOLD OF JESUS CHRIST, He is eternal life! First Timothy 6:12 says, “Lay hold on eternal life.” This means to take hold of, to grasp, to seize, to cling to! In the past we laid hold of ministry, a miracle, a mentor, now it’s only Jesus!
LAY HOLD OF and EMBRACE HIS OVERSHADOWING presence, His glory… Just to be in His presence changes you and makes you a carrier, a dispenser of His glory.
In the Book of Acts, they took note of the apostles because they had been with this amazing Jesus! I had a dream recently where I was told, “Don’t be proud Brian, Jesus makes anyone look good!” After the dream I felt fully qualified to be humble!
LAY HOLD OF PERFECTION, maturity, and fullness! It must no longer be our works, or ministry, but His FULL glory pouring into us. To lay hold of Jesus is to become a mature vessel of honor that He can use.
And by His faith, I will fully experience oneness with Jesus and the explosive power of His resurrection working in me. I will be one with Him in His sufferings and I will be one with Him in His death. Only then will I be able to experience complete oneness with Him in His resurrection from the realm of death. I admit that I haven’t yet acquired the absolute fullness that I’m pursuing, but I run with passion into His abundance so that I may reach the destiny which Jesus Christ has called me to fulfill!
Philippians 3:10-12 The Passion Translation
It’s TIME TO LAY HOLD OF JESUS for the last day’s GREAT AWAKENING! Cling on!
Brian and Candice Simmons have been described as true pioneers in ministry. As a spiritual father and mother, their teaching and spiritual gifts have opened doors in many nations to take the message of authentic awakening and revival to many. For the last 40 years they have labored together to present Christ in His fullness wherever God sends them. After a dramatic conversion to Christ in 1971, Brian answered the call of God to leave everything behind and become a missionary to the tribes. Taking his wife and three children to the jungle of Central America, they pioneered Church plants for many years with the Kuna people group. While serving as missionaries, they planted churches and established leadership for the new Believers.
Brian serves as U.S. Director of H.I.M., which oversees nearly 20,000 churches worldwide. Known as dynamic and anointed speakers, they now travel the nations releasing this message of end time awakening. Brian is the author of numerous books that reveal depths of insight that the Holy Spirit has released for the last days. His best-selling book, The Journey of the Bride, has been translated into Korean and French. He is also is committed to finishing the translation of the entire Bible into a new dynamic-equivalent version called, The Passion Translation. Brian and Candice have been married for 42 years and have three children and six grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Their passion is to be loving examples of a spiritual father and mother to this generation.
This Season Will Be The Most Productive And Powerful You’ve Ever Witnessed
I heard Him whisper…
“The season has changed, you have heard it before, but I declare to you: The seasons of time have changed. Eternity is now flooding into time. I am calling you into the ‘no time’ zone, the realm of eternity within you. This season will be the most productive and powerful you’ve ever witnessed, for I am hastening My word to bring it to pass. Long dormant promises will now spring to life as I bring you through the most rapid changes of your life.
Finances not a Limitation
“Finances will never hold you back, for I am the God who provides all that is needed and who supplies all that you lack. Never be held back by what you call ‘lack,’ or ‘need,’ for I call it ‘Miracles of Trust.’ As you trust Me, I will open doors of blessing and miraculous supply that you have never even considered. Remain faithful to Me, and I will show you My faithful and miraculous supply. My harvest of the nations will not be limited to the financial structures of men. There will be no limit of resources to see My harvest reached and to see My Bride made radiant.
Passivity to Passion
“This season of change will move you from passivity to passion. The fire of My love will motivate you to make sacrifices of time and treasure that you have never entered into before. Did I not ask Abraham for his dearest? For then I promised the anointing of taking cities and possessing the gates of your enemies. Great sacrifices will yield great prophetic promises. When I move upon your heart to yield to Me, to go where I send you, to do what I call you to do – even at great personal cost – you will see Me as the Great Provider and the Great Promise Keeper.
Changes will Demand: “Trust in God”
“The changes that are upon you will demand that you trust. For in the stretching of faith, you will find Me as never before. Leap for joy, and in that leap of faith, you will find My supernatural presence as never before. Faith leaps for joy! Get ready for the Kingdom of JOY to come even as dark shadows linger in your circumstances. Faith rejoices and will subdue doubts and fears. Watch new miracles flow through the seasons of JOY that I bring to you.
“Be ever ready to open your mouth and share your living faith with those who are near you. I will open hearts – do not I hold the key to unlock the hearts of men? Speak forth your praises, give your bold and courageous testimony, and watch me melt the hearts of men and women before you. A great harvest is now here. Not someday, but now – this day! Tell them TODAY you can come and be with Me in paradise!
Family
“This season of change will be most noticed in your family. I have committed My Spirit and My power to work on behalf of My people among their families. You will see many miracles – MANY MIRACLES – of restoration, healing of relationships, and joy returned to millions of homes across the land. I have blessed marriage and have never lifted that blessing that I first gave to Adam and Eve. The blessing of marriage will be one of the great lights that shine from the Church in this season of change. I have heard your many cries for your family to be healed and restored. I WILL SHOW YOU MY FATHER’S HEART as I restore, heal, renew, and gather My children with tenderness and respect once again. As I have forgiven YOU now you must forgive; and the veil will be torn as you speak the words, ‘I forgive you.’
Daybreakers and Dawnmakers
“The season of change that you have anticipated has now come. It will be your love for ME that will see you through. Disruptive revelation that brings the shocking truth to the media, to the government, to My Church – this disruptive revelation that overturns the tables of religious profit will bring the righteous ways of My 70 servants that I sent out, taking nothing with them. New mission strategies will come to you in dreams and through prayers. Great understanding of My mysteries will come to those who sit with Me on My blood sprinkled Love-Seat. The old order is quickly passing away and the new breed is arising, and they will be known as Daybreakers and Dawnmakers. They belong to Me, and to ME alone. As My fiery servants they will accelerate the changes I am bringing to the earth and will bring My Bride back into the ways of holiness and passionate love.
Declaration
“Have I not called you to love with all your heart and all your passion? This is the day of ALL, not part. You will see ALL My love and ALL My power at the disposal of those who have sought My face with ALL their hearts. The season of change has come; you have heard it before, but now I declare it: You will never be the same again, for I have placed My hands upon you, My Church and My Bride!”
Timothy, you are God’s man, so run from all these errors. Instead, chase after true holiness, justice, faithfulness, love, hope and tender humility. There is a battle raging, so fight with faith for the winner’s prize! Lay your hands upon eternal life. for this is your calling – celebrating in faith before the multitude of witnesses!
So now, I instruct you before the God of Resurrection Life and before Jesus, the Anointed One, who demonstrated a beautiful testimony even before Pontius Pilate, that you follow this commission faithfully with a clear conscience and without blemish until the appearing of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
1 Timothy 6:11-14 The Passion Translation
Brian Simmons
Apostolic Resource Center (ARC) & Stairway Ministries
Email: brian@passiontranslation.com
Website: stairwayministries.org
Brian and Candice Simmons have been described as true pioneers in ministry. As a spiritual father and mother, their teaching and spiritual gifts have opened doors in many nations to take the message of authentic awakening and revival to many. For the last 40 years they have labored together to present Christ in His fullness wherever God sends them. After a dramatic conversion to Christ in 1971, Brian answered the call of God to leave everything behind and become a missionary to the tribes. Taking his wife and three children to the jungle of Central America, they pioneered Church plants for many years with the Kuna people group. While serving as missionaries, they planted churches and established leadership for the new Believers.
Brian serves as U.S. Director of H.I.M. which oversees nearly 20,000 churches worldwide. Known as dynamic and anointed speakers, they now travel the nations releasing this message of end time awakening. Brian is the author of numerous books that reveal depths of insight that the Holy Spirit has released for the last days. His best-selling book, The Journey of the Bride, has been translated into Korean and French. He is also is committed to finishing the translation of the entire Bible into a new dynamic-equivalent version called, The Passion Translation. Brian and Candice have been married for 42 years and have three children and six grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Their passion is to be loving examples of a spiritual father and mother to this generation.
As a follow-on to the statewide 7NOW and 40 Days unity initiatives, the Impact CT 2014 conference will be held March 28-29th in Berlin, CT. This conference is for CT by CT and is made up of a multitude of participating Connecticut churches and ministries. The intention is to learn from and encourage one another. Here are a few words from Rick McKinniss, host of the event:
I’m so excited to host this celebration of Kingdom advance in Connecticut!
Over the past year, we have witnessed unprecedented expressions of unity in the Body of Christ in Connecticut. Now it is time for a Body united in spirit to unite in action! It takes the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole state.
Impact Connecticut 2014 will feature practical and inspiring best-case practices and testimonies of what God is doing here in our state. Impact Connecticut 2014 will fuel vision and help forge working partnerships to see the Kingdom impact all 169 towns and cities of Connecticut.
It’s time for the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole state!
Finally, I have received revelation for our 40-Day Prayer Focus. This will begin on Monday and will be called “The Fight of Faith: Opening the Portal of Provision, Revelation and Your Destiny for the Future.”
When I was teaching on the power of ascension at the Wednesday Kingdom Force Institute Worship Training, the Lord spoke to me from Genesis 22 and Genesis 28.
In Genesis 22, Abraham ascended in worship to Mount Moriah. Because of his obedience of worship and giving (his only son, Isaac), God opened a portal and came down in that place. He revealed Himself as Jehovah Jireh, the One who will cause you“to see your provision.” God then gave a new piece of revelation to Abraham. He showed him that his seed would possess the gates of the enemy.
Later, when Isaac was old, he had to release the blessing of the future. Instead of blessing the firstborn, Esau, the will of God was to bless Jacob, the younger. This resulted in jealousy arising from Esau, and him threatening to kill Jacob. When fleeing from Beersheba up to Haran, Jacob stopped on his journey and fell asleep. This was on Mount Moriah. The portal that had been opened with his grandfather, Abraham, was still open. Angels ascended and descended to bring him covenant revelation for the future. This initiated the evening sacrifice and prayer watch.
Beginning on Monday evening (February 10) and continuing for 40 days, we will be leaving the Prayer Tower open from 6 – 9 PM. We encourage those of you in the Metroplex to come and pray and worship. If God says something to you, we want you to feel free to release that revelation. At times the Prayer Tower will be filled with worship, and at other times it may just be a CD playing. For you on the web who are connected here, I suggest you tune into these times via live webcast and have your daily prayer focus at some point between 6-9 PM (CST). Those of you in other nations are welcome to join us during 6-9 PM our time or between 6-9 PM local time. Wherever you are, we want this portal at the Global Spheres Center to be opened to you, as well, so you can gain strategies to:
Break you out of the wilderness.
See you new door of hope.
See your provision.
Gain divine revelation.
Go over the wall that has blocked you in other seasons.
Find your honey in the land.
Access angelic hosts that are bringing you revelation and protection for the future.
These are key areas to focus on over these 40 days for breakthrough.
THE FOUR WATCHES The transition of day to night begins before sunset and lasts till after sunset. The change of night to day begins before sunrise and continues until after sunrise. The watches extended from 6 PM to 6 AM (Mt. 14:25; Mark 13:35). Acts 12:4 speaks of four parties of four Roman soldiers (quaternions), each of whom had to keep guard during one watch of the night. May the Lord use this to make you a good soldier in His army.
The First Watch: The Evening Watch (6 PM – 9 PM)
During the Evening Watch, we regroup. Most of us have worked all day and would love to just to “chill out” during this time. We like eating with our family, perhaps reading a book or watching a TV program – any way we can escape from the day’s activity. However, this is a time that we need to “still” ourselves from the world. Psalm 46 is a wonderful passage that says, “Be still and know that I am God.” In other words, there must be a time before we attempt to sleep when we quiet our heart. The evening watch is the time for meditation and angelic visitation bringing restoration from a hard day.
Try to find at least 30 minutes where you can meditate before going to bed. Then out of your meditation, find 30 minutes of prayer time to release your anxieties to the Lord. Power nap and dream.
Genesis 24:63 says, “Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening. He lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming.” In his place of meditation, he saw his future. When he lifted his eyes, there was Eliezer bringing Rebekah back to be his bride. This actually created the extension of the covenant of Abraham in the earth. When we meditate, we get focused on God’s covenant plan. Joshua 1 says to “meditate day and night on the words of His mouth” and you will be assured of success. I like to call the evening watch my time of focus so I can start my day with a mentality of success. I have had many anxieties in my past. The Lord has used the evening watch to purge me of the anxieties that would keep me from advancing into His perfect plan. This is the watch that Jesus also pulled aside into, to find His place of quietness. Try to do this before you go to bed each day.
Jacob then saw the Lord restore the power of the evening by visiting him in his fleeing season from Esau. This protected the covenant destiny that God had for the bloodline!
Beginning on Monday evening at 6 PM, I would suggest you begin praying one of these focal points each day. We will send out additional prayer points in the next few weeks that will take us beyond the first 21 days and through the full 40 days. We will be sending these prayer points out in various emails, as well as posting them daily on FaceBook and Twitter.
Day 1: Read Matthew 14:15-23 “When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, ‘This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.’ . And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there.” (NKJV) Pull away and find a place to seek the Lord. Ask the Lord to remove all distractions from you.
Day 2: Read Genesis 8, especially verse 11: “Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.” (NKJV) Ask the Lord to show you the changing of the season in your life.
Day 3: Read Genesis 24. This chapter is very important. The evening watch is when Rebekah meets Eliezer. The evening watch is also when Isaac and Rebekah meet.
Day 4:Read Genesis 22, 28! Jacob flees from Esau after receiving the blessing from Isaac. This was God’s desire and destiny for the bloodline. He stops on his fleeing path and visitation occurs. He finds himself at the same portal created by Abraham in Genesis 22. On Mt. Moriah, angels ascended and descended, bringing revelation for the future. Provisional revelation is released.
Day 5: Read Genesis 30, especially verse 16: “When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, ‘You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.’ And he lay with her that night.” (NKJV) Ask God for strategies of multiplication.
Day 6: Read Exodus 12, especially verse 6: “And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.” (KJV) Ask the Lord to give you your Passover strategies and help you break free from any bondage that has held you in the past.
Day 7: Read 1 Samuel 14, especially verse 24: “And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had placed the people under oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.” (NKJV) It was customary to break fasts in the evening. Ask the Lord to refresh you from the wars of the day.
Day 8: Read 1 Samuel 17, especially verse 16: “And the Philistine drew near and presented himself forty days, morning andevening.” (NKJV) Stop and get quiet. Declare every word the enemy has been using to convince you of failure will be overturned.
Day 9: Read 1 Samuel 30, especially verse 17: “Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.”(NKJV) Declare that you will recover all.
Day 10: Read 1 Kings 17, especially verse 6: “The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.” (NKJV) Ask God to bring you the supply that you need in the midst of any transition you are going through.
Day 11: Read 1 Kings 18. Ask the Lord to let you hear the prophetic words that He is speaking over you today. Meditate upon the words that He has spoken over you.
Day 12: Read Ezra 3 and Ezra 9, especially verse 5: “At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God.” (NKJV) Ask God to show you your small window and opportunity for reviving. When you awaken tomorrow morning, declare you will enter in.
Day 13: Read Esther 2, especially verse 14: “In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who kept the concubines. She would not go in to the king again unless the king delighted in her and called for her by name.” (NKJV) When you meditate in the evening, ask God for His plan to prepare you for the future. Esther went through a time of preparation.
Day 14: Read Psalm 59, especially verse 6. Ask the Lord to silence all the enemies of your day.
Day 15: Read Daniel 8 – 9. Ask the Lord to visit you in the evening watch. This is a time that perhaps you will see angels.
Day 16: Read Zechariah 14, especially verse 7: “It shall be one day which is known to the LORD – neither day nor night. But atevening time it shall happen that it will be light.” (NKJV) As you seek the Lord ask Him to reorder His light around you.
Day 17: Read Matthew 16, especially verse 2: “He answered and said to them, ‘When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.”” (NKJV) Ask the Lord to give you a clear interpretation of the day ahead.
Day 18: Read Mark 14. Ask the Lord to anoint you to watch. Read Psalm 90. Be refreshed and expect miracles
Day 19: Read Luke 24. Take communion during this time and ask the Lord to bring you into a new place of seeing Him.
Day 20: Read John 20. Expect the Lord to reveal Himself to you in unusual ways.
Day 21: Read Acts 28. Ask the Lord for a new dimension of power and strength.
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
The NEXT 14 Days! The Fight of Faith!
03-03-2014
Dear Faith-Filled Friends:
This is a time to remove the covering that Satan has used to hide blessings. Ezekiel 28:14 says, “You were the anointed cherub that covers with overshadowing wings…” WHEN HE FELL, HE KEPT COVERING OVER RESOURCES AND BLESSINGS THAT ARE IN THE EARTH. God is saying, “The covering that was over certain things — whether it’s land, resources or favor that the enemy’s been trying to overshadow and cover — is being ripped off and ripped open. When the angelic hosts come in, all of a sudden they re-align My people, and cause My people to get in a new formation.”
Start noticing the movement around you. Once God starts setting us in a new order, then you are able to see where the breach is that the enemy has broken down or opened up. Therefore, you are not just going to war constantly against everything, and you’re not rambling with revelation. Rather, you are seeing the breaches for which you need to ask, “Lord, what is that? And how do I step in it?” Once you see the breaches, that is when the new assignments from God come.
The Lord says, “If you’ll step in this and stand until that breach is rebuilt, then I will open up and I will remove what the enemy was doing to stop you from progressing. My people will now enter a new fight of faith. They must be ordered, they must be moving, and they must understand where glory is absent and where breaches have formed. But the fight of faith for the next season now has been released, and I have a people who are gifted. I have a people willing to submit. I have a people that already have provision that is ready to be unlocked. I have a people that cannot and will not be stopped!
“The Lion of the Tribe of Judah is now creating a formation that has a sound that will cause the enemy to go into confusion. The first breach was in My Garden, and because you were willing to stand in the coldness that that breach had caused from last season, I now am producing blessings in your midst.
“Now the next breach is linked with the provision that needs to be unlocked. Therefore, all God-robbing spirits will be broken. The next breach is linked with the lack of fruitfulness of the last season. I will prune away that which has created cancer and infirmity in My body, and new fruit will come up. You have now been commissioned into the next fight for faith, and I have an army that will triumph.”
We decree that you will find your place in the movement. Thank you for being part of a new formation!
A New, Open Door! Renewing Your Shield of Faith!
When we read about the shield of faith in Ephesians 6, the shield referenced is “thuria”. Here are some excerpts from Restoring Your Shield of Faith to help you in the YEAR OF THE DOOR! We have placed this book on special for $5 since it is almost a must for everyone. These next two weeks, the Lord wants to build to your shield so that you triumph!
Revelation is a book that provides deep insight into the nature and tactics of the enemy. In the book of Revelation the apostle John had a supernatural visitation during an extreme time of persecution. In the midst of this persecution, he began to see that the Lord God omnipotent reigns! He seemed to agree with Paul that those who would follow the Lord in their daily life would enter into and be involved in continuing spiritual conflict.
As the Lord visited John, He gave him a message concerning the seven key churches of that region. This message also reveals to us God’s heart concerning the Church today.
We then find John sharing with us in Revelation 4:1 the following: “After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, ‘Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.’” The shield of faith is closely related to the concept of a door—the Greek name being thureos, from thura, a square shield that can also be seen as a door. A door is an opening for entering or leaving a house, tent or room. The door is used symbolically in the Bible in many ways. We find the Valley of Achor, a place of trouble (see Josh. 7:26), is later promised as “a door of hope” (Hos. 2:15). It will become a reason for God’s people to trust Him again. Our trouble can be turned into an entry point into a new place of victory.
Jesus called Himself “the door” (John 10:7,9). Faith in Him is the only way to enter the kingdom of God. God gave to the Gentiles “the door of faith” (Acts 14:27), or an opportunity to know Him as Lord. Jesus stands at the door and knocks (see Rev. 3:20). He calls all people to Himself, but He will not enter without permission. We need to give the Lord permission to take us through new, opportune doors and allow Him to come in and give us the power to go through these doors. Let us open the door of our heart so that we can go through our new door of opportunity.
Paul constantly sought new doors of service! These were open doors for him to go through so that he could minister in the name of Jesus Christ. First Corinthians 16:9 reads, “For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.”
There are many doors of opportunity ahead for each one of us. However, the adversaries behind those doors will overtake us unless our door of faith is in place.
Let us lift up our shield, or door, of faith. We do not need to be afraid to go through the opening and into the new places to which the Lord would lead us. Even though many adversaries will be on our path in days ahead, our shield of faith will quench all of their fiery darts. Jeremiah 46:3 (NIV) is encouraging: “Prepare your shields, both large and small, and march out for battle!” Let us go forth with confidence, with our shield lifted high, and our victory will be assured.
Roman Shields That Protect
As Paul saw the kind of attack Satan unleashed against God’s people, he perceived that the spiritual warfare of Christians is analogous to the physical warfare of the Roman army. In ancient warfare it was common for armies to use a storm of arrows to terrify their enemies. If we were soldiers and thousands of flaming arrows began to strike all around us, the number one thing in our mind would be, “I’ve got to get out of here!” Sometimes that is how we feel when Satan attacks us.
The Roman army had a piece of armor that provided a solid defense against this kind of attack. In many cases it was the secret weapon that brought the army victory. This piece of armor was the battle shield.
This shield was not like the round metal discs we often see in movies. The Roman battle shield was a large rectangular defense of metal that covered the entire length of a man’s body. Roman soldiers would line up shoulder to shoulder with their shields held in front of them and move across the battlefield like an armored tank. When the apostle Paul thought about our struggle against Satan, he realized that God has given us a shield like that. It is a shield of faith.
When Paul described our shield, he used the word for the Roman battle shield. The word is thureos, and it means a door-shaped shield (the Greek word for door is thura). The thureos was a large rectangular shield about five feet high and three feet wide. It was also called a castle shield. In other words, it was a portable fortress. I found it interesting to study how this shield was made. The thureos was very large; therefore, if it had been made of solid wood or metal, it would have been difficult to carry. To construct a thureos the Romans began with a wooden framework. Over that framework they fastened seven layers of tough leather from the skin of a bull or a calf, until the shield was four or five inches thick, and then nailed them securely in place. As the soldiers got ready to go into battle, they dipped the shield in a nearby river to saturate it with water so it would not only stop an arrow, but it would also quench the fire.
Our Shield Who Is Named Jesus
As I studied the Roman shield, God began to give me a revelation. Just think about how this shield was constructed. The skin of a bull or calf was stretched out over a wooden frame. In the Old Testament, the animal required for a sin offering was a bull or a calf. The skin of the bull or calf is a symbol of a sacrifice for sin. A single layer of leather was not sufficient for the Roman shield to be effective. The shield maker built up seven layers of animal skin to provide the necessary protection. Seven is the number of perfection. This provides a picture of a perfect sacrifice. The perfect sacrifice was stretched out and nailed to a wooden framework. Its purpose was to take upon itself all of the arrows intended for the soldier.
Look at what this shield represents. God has provided a perfect sacrifice for sin through His Son, Jesus. This perfect sacrifice was stretched out and nailed to a wooden cross. His purpose was to receive upon Himself all the afflictions Satan intended for us! God wants us to know that He has given us a shield and His name is Jesus! Jesus came to be our shield. He came to take upon Himself every arrow that Satan intended for us.
Day 22: Release all guilt from the past. Jesus took our guilt. God caused the guilt of us all to fall on His Son (see Isa. 53:6). Jesus took our guilt so that we can have His righteousness.
Day 23: Command the spirit of infirmity to leave your bloodline. He took our infirmities. He bore our sicknesses and our weaknesses upon Himself so that we can be healed (see Isa. 53:4-5).
Day 24:Break ties with poverty! He took our poverty.“Though he was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich”(2 Cor. 8:9, NIV). Jesus took our poverty so that we can have His abundance.
Day 25: Declare every word curse attached to your blood and held there by familiar spirits to leave! He took our curse. He became a curse for us, so that the blessing of Abraham would come on the Gentiles by faith (see Gal. 3:13-14). Jesus took the curse so that we can have the blessing.
Day 26: Read Genesis 3. Notice that the enemy has a voice to bring deception into our life. Ask God to show you any deception or lie the enemy has brought into your life.
Day 27: Read John 8, especially verse 44. Notice the devil is the father of lies and can only work with any resource that we give him. Cut ties with anything in your soulish nature that is holding you captive.
Day 28: Read 1 John 2-3. Ask the Lord to fill you with His love so that you can break any sin strategy in your life and destroy the devil’s work.
Day 29: Read Luke 4. Notice how Jesus resisted the voice of the enemy. Ask the Lord to fill you with the Sprit in the midst of your wilderness so you can resist and receive new power.
Day 30: Read 1 Sam 30. Trust the Lord to connect you with those who can pursue and overtake your enemy. Break discouragement; develop a strategy of pursuit and recover all.
Day 31: Read Ezra 8. Stop and let the Lord show you the enemy that is on the road ahead of you.
Day 32: Read Nehemiah 2. Let God develop the plan to rebuild that which is broken down in your life.
Day 33: Read Matthew 12. Thank the Lord for the cross. Declare that the passion of the cross arise in you.
Day 34: Read Ezekiel 28. Let God reveal to you the supernatural qualities that the enemy possesses.
Day 35: Read Isaiah 14. Continue to allow revelation to come into you on Lucifer’s hidden characteristics.
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
The Final 5 Days!
A Desperate Time to Awaken to the Reality of Change!
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Dear Friend and Watchman:
Sunday’s Purim Celebration Service was just amazing. The worship, videos and revelation propelled us towards our door of opportunity. Like Esther, we have a choice as to how we respond to the Lord’s call to celebrate at this time. If you were not able to join us, I would encourage you to watch the webcast replay this week. Declare that the enemy’s decree will be confounded and you will rise up in victory!
We are completing our 40-Day Evening Watch this week. The following 5-Day Prayer Focus will assist you in understanding:
-the desperateness of the time that we are living in,
-the intensity of the time to produce change in our lives and the atmospheres that surround us,
-the economic shift that needs to occur in this season,
-and the disciplined, unwavering, single minded need for God’s children to stand in this hour.
This focus integrates Purim, Passover, and Jesus’ unwavering determination to release redemption in this hour. All three of these events were and are taking place during this time frame. We are in a key season like we have not known in the history of the generations that are presently in the earth. The nations are at a divine crisis point.
5-Day Prayer Focus: A Desperate Time to Awaken to the Reality of Change!
For the next several weeks this prayer focus is key for us. Even though it is a 5-Day Prayer Focus to complete our 40-Day Evening Watch, there is enough revelation here for you to use repeatedly. Use this over the 21 Days preceding Passover. At that time, I will send out another focus to help all of us participate in cleansing our homes of spiritual darkness.
Since we just finished Purim, let’s begin by understanding its significance. Overall, this 5-day focus is more devotional than most, including study suggestions to help you develop for such a time as this. This prayer focus is also more confrontational than usual because of this time frame. You may choose to read through each day’s focus in the morning and then go back and seek the Lord with the scriptures at noon and at night.
(Day 1) A Time to Embrace Change, but not to be Tossed to and Fro by the Wind! The clear message of Purim is that anyone who plots to destroy the Jewish (Kingdom) people will always fail. History is full of examples of this truth. Pharaoh plotted the destruction of the Jewish people in Egypt, but the Egyptian army was drowned in the Red Sea. This is celebrated during the Feast of Passover. Haman’s attempt to kill all Jews failed, which is celebrated at Purim. Antiochus Epiphanes tried to wipe out the Jewish people. His failure is celebrated every year during Hanukah. Hitler tried to blot out the Jewish race. Both he and his “Third Reich” were destroyed. Instead of annihilation, the state of Israel was born! We must understand that God’s covenant land will never be destroyed. By watching closely the world events that are centered around Israel, we can better understand God’s sovereign plan.
-Read Psalm 121
-Read Exodus 2-6
-Read Esther 1-4
-Memorize Ephesians 4:2-16 (Review your positions and connections in the Body)
(Day 2) A Time to Pass Over and Go Through into FREEDOM!
Purim falls approximately one month before the beginning of Passover. The Biblical Feast of Purim (Esther 9:18-28) is celebrated in the final month of the Hebrew calendar. I believe this is a significant timing so we “end” a season in victory and are “freed” to cross over into our future. Nisan, the first of months, begins at sunset on April 14. This leads us into our Passover season (Leviticus 23:4-8). Passover was the time of crossing out and over into FREEDOM! The dates of this Feast are very significant. Passover commemorates the final plague on Egypt when the firstborn of the Egyptians died and the Israelites were spared. Passover is linked with the power of the blood smeared on their door posts (Ex. 12:11, 21, 27, 43, 48). Passover was also called the feast of unleavened bread (Ex. 23:15; Deut. 16:16) because only unleavened bread was eaten during the seven days immediately following Passover (Ex. 12:15-20; 13:6-8; Deut. 16:3-8). Unleavened bread reflected the fact that the people had no time to put leaven in their bread before their hasty departure from Egypt. The observances of Passover are found in Joshua 5:10-12 (the plains of Jericho near Gilgal), 2 Chronicles 30:1, 3, 13, 15 (during the reign of Hezekiah), and 2 Kings 23:21-23 (Josiah’s unique Passover).
During New Testament times, large crowds gathered in Jerusalem to observe this annual celebration. Jesus was crucified during the Passover event. He and His disciples ate a Passover meal together on the eve of His death. During this meal Jesus said, “This is my body,” and “this cup is the new testament in my blood” (Luke 22:7, 19-20). The New Testament identifies Christ with the Passover sacrifice: “For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us”. The word denotes the lamb that was slain at the feast (Mark 14:12-14; 1 Cor. 5:7). The use of wine (Luke 22:17, 20), of sauce with the bitter herbs (John 13:26), and the service of praise were introduced. Passover was a type of the great deliverance wrought by the Messiah for all His people from the doom of death on account of sin, and from the bondage of sin itself, far worse than Egyptian bondage (1 Cor. 5:7; John 1:29; 19:32-36; 1 Pet. 1:19; Gal. 4:4, 5).
Get ready to cross over! I would encourage you to read the chapter on “The Blood War” inGod’s Unfolding Battle Plan.
(Day 3) A Time for Leadership to Awaken and Overcome at the Gate!
The day related to Purim was the date set by Haman by casting lots (pur) to murder all the Jews in the kingdom. Because of the alertness of Mordecai at the gates of the city, and the fasting and intercession of Queen Esther of Persia and the Jewish people, this day became a day of battle with great victory for the Jews, as their enemies were destroyed. In the time of Esther, we find that the enemy had entered the gates and was planning to overthrow the covenant blessings God had for this people. In the book of Esther, Mordecai had exposed the enemy’s plan and taken his authority at the gate. The Lord says in Matthew 16: 18, “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” This is not a time for hell to prevail at your gate. Esther and Mordecai worked together for deliverance! Haman, who used astrology and the casting of lots, was overthrown by God’s ordered timing.
I am praying for you to have favor at the gates (or doors) and be raised up for a time such as this. Biblically, a GATE is a place for contending, watching, making sacrifices in worship, doing business transactions, administering justice, and giving public addresses. The GATE is the object of a foe’s attack and therefore must be strengthened (Judges 5:8; Psalm 147:18). Now review your call to leadership and contending in days ahead.
Read Isaiah 1. Also read John 1, which will show you how the Lord called Peter. Read Matthew 16 to see Peter’s revelation and then his emotional resistance to change.
God is raising up new Mordecais and Esthers, to influence the world in days ahead. These individuals will do radical exploits in His name. Esther is a book that demonstrates how God’s authority at the gates legislates and causes to manifest the covenant destiny of His people. The gate of a city was where all business transactions and legal matters occurred. The city gate was also the place where entrance into the city was permitted, or forbidden. A Biblical gatekeeper was one who guarded access to a place. Mordecai was a good gatekeeper. He knew the enemy had a plot and plan. The enemy will attempt to set a decree against you. Mordecai overheard the plan, linked with Haman, to annihilate God’s covenant people. Mordecai also knew he needed a connection to prevent the enemy’s plan from prevailing. Esther was his connection, who had been positioned by God for “such a time as this.” Many of you are being positioned to see the plan of the enemy. Others of you are being positioned to be the connecting point to overthrow the enemy. I am praying that any plot of the enemy to try and stop the covenant blessings of your inheritance from coming forth in your life would be revealed. Find your divine connections and overthrow the enemy’s plan!
Trusting in God is one of the ways that you overthrow a curse. With Passover beginning at sunset on April 14, we think of Moses! One of the keys to Moses’ life was that he was ordained as a prophet from birth. Even though his insecurity would tell him he could not speak, God had ordained him as a prophet. His mother and father’s faith would eventually result in delivering all of Israel. This would also give Moses authority to split the sea for the escape of God’s people. He also would receive the Law that would set the commandments and boundaries for mankind. There are new boundaries for you to obtain this month. Let the prophetic gift arise in you. Let a new level of deliverance begin. He waited 40 years to be found and put in service. Do not be discouraged. The Lord knows where you are.
A Time of Spiritual Discipline and Preparation!
In our day, we are still in a time of battle and victory, a time of voluntary fasting. The fast of Esther (Esther 4:14-17) is still relative for us today, to enter into a new place of authority and gain favor. Men and women must work together in this hour, to defeat the enemy’s plan. The key to Mordecai’s life was his watchful eye at the gate on behalf of the King and God’s covenant people. The key to Esther was her positioning and preparation. The word prepare means to make or get ready, to put together, to produce a frame for a future building, to gird oneself for action. This is a time to remember that in the midst of hostility, we can be prepared for “such a time as this.” Through preparation and discipline, the favor of God can rest upon us. Esther went in to the king, gained favor and grace in his sight, and was exalted into the royal position of queen. In Possessing Your Inheritance, Rebecca Wagner Sytsema and I devote a chapter to discussing the spiritual disciplines necessary for us to develop in our lives: meditation, prayer, fasting, giving, warfare, worship, work, and rest. Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 in each discipline.
What does this say to us? If we allow the anointing of God to rest upon us and allow the beauty of holiness to surround and transform us, we can gain great favor. If we remove the leaven from our lives, we will be ready to depart into a new place as the Lord leads.
-Read Psalm 92
-Read 1 John 1 and 2
A Time to See Your Hidden Blessings Manifest!
Esther is a non-Jewish name. Her original Jewish name was Hadassah, but her Jewish identity was a secret, and remained hidden. Esther became the bride of the king. The prophetic reference to the Church, as the bride of the King, but with Jewish roots, despite a Gentile appearance, is very interesting. Esther would not escape the fate of the Jews, just as the destiny of the Church is directly linked to the Jewish people (Israel). Hadassah (means Myrtle) is an evergreen tree with glossy leaves and white flowers. They were used for perfume and as seasoning for food. The myrtle tree had a religious significance for the Hebrews (Zechariah 1:8-11) and was a symbol of peace and joy. Ask the Lord to show you what is “hidden” that belongs to you. Ask Him to let you hear the blowing of the wind in the trees in a new way.
-Read Isaiah 52
-Read John 3
-Read Matthew 13.about uncovering the hidden treasure.
(Day 4) A Time of Confrontation and Overthrow of the Enemy’s Stranglehold!
This is time to overthrow decrees that have been set against God’s covenant people that would stop us from corporately advancing. Those anti-Semitic decrees hate God’s sovereign plan for the Jews, as well as Christians that have been grafted into that plan. Nations that profess Christianity must rise up now. Esther prayed and fasted three days prior to setting the wheels in motion to overthrow the enemy’s plan. She had faith to go into the King’s court, because she was fully prepared at the end of these three days of fasting. Fasting helps prepare you for what you must face for your victory ahead. Esther was at the right place, at the right time, and did the right thing. Therefore, she had victory over the enemy. Your faith can overthrow any decree the enemy has established against you. The enemy prepares a noose to tighten around God’s promised plan for your life. Faith breaks the power of that noose. Declare your Haman’s noose will begin to break.
The Lord is releasing new revelation on strategies to overthrow the enemy’s plan. There were two things I was quickened over. There are times when we cannot “win” by pressing to overturn/reverse an unrighteous decree. Whereas this is usually the norm (and what we press for in the laws of our nation), Esther gives one example where a bad and evil law was irrevocable (according to the laws of the Medes and Persians). So the strategy the Lord gave to her (through the pagan king) was to make another law which would stand against the first law, and enable deliverance and life to come to the Jews. In this “Purim Month” the Lord may be releasing similar strategies whereby we can counteract and overcome evil edicts and laws in our society and nation.
Securing victory and overthrowing our enemies can often involve several stages of war. Whereas Esther and Mordecai successfully warred to secure a decree that would allow the Jews to protect themselves, this was only another step in their deliverance. It’s quite possible the Jews could have survived the day that their enemies hoped to overpower them, solely based on the new level of fear their enemies had for the Jewish people. However, if they had not gone on the offensive and destroyed their enemies, as their decree allowed them to, they would not have secured lasting protection. In that case, in due time, under new leadership (like the Hebrews in Egypt with a new pharaoh), the Jews could have been oppressed and targeted for destruction once again. We must not be content to settle for preserving victories and the issuing of righteous decrees. Rather, we must fully war to the end of our battles to see complete deliverance and victory enforced, and the opposite of the enemy’s plans occur.
This is a season to speak faith and ask for new revelation! Ask the Lord to anoint your speech and open your eyes to the revelation He is releasing at this time.
Face Your AMALEKITE and Break the Power of his Noose!
In Esther 3:1, the evil Haman is described as being a descendant of the Amalekite king, Agag (1 Sam. 15:8). Therefore, besides the Book of Esther, another passage from the Tanach (Hebrew Bible) is read at Purim, Exodus 17:8-16. This is the account of Joshua’s defeat of the Amalekites at Rephidim as Hur and Aaron held up the exhausted arms of Moses. When Moses’ hands, gripping the “Rod of God,” became heavy, the warriors in the field began to lose the battle. Verse 12 says that with Aaron and Hur’s support, Moses’ hands remained steady until the coming down of the sun. In the Hebrew, the word “steady” is “emuna” – “and his hands were faithful until the coming of the sun.” After the battle, Moses built an altar and named it, YHVH-Nissi: the LORD is my Banner. The word “banner” can also be translated “miracle.” STUDY THIS AND DECREE MIRACLES ARE BEGINNING TO COME INTO YOUR ATMOSPHERE. The spirit empowering Amalek is at the back of all anti-Semitism. Exodus 17:16 states that “The LORD has sworn, the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” Deuteronomy 25:19 commands that His people are to join in with Him in the battle until the memory of Amalek is blotted out – that Israel must not forget!
Deuteronomy 25:17-18 further describes the tactics of the Amalekites: “They met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary” (emphases ours). So Amalek does not only seek to take occasion from the tiredness and exhaustion of leaders, but he also lurks behind to pick off those inexperienced foot soldiers who are “faint and weary” and lagging behind. To remedy this, Israel developed a “rear guard” (see Numbers 10:25 and other places). The Hebrew for “rear guard” is “me’aseph”– its root is the same as that for the verb “to gather.” In ancient armies, old, experienced soldiers would be placed at the rear, not only to guard from enemies attacking from behind, but also to “gather” the loose ends, the stragglers – and to keep them pressing forward. The word “Amalekite” means “to toil or work under hard labor”. This is a time for you to break out of legalistic, hard labor. The Amalekites were a nomadic tribe of formidable people that first attacked the Israelites after the Exodus at Rephidim. Amalek, the grandson of Esau (Gen. 36:12), inhabited the desolate wasteland of the northeast Sinai Peninsula and the Negev. They were the first to attack Israel after the Exodus (Num. 24:20). This is where the Lord revealed Himself as Jehovah Nissi. He declared that we would war with Amalek from generation to generation. The antichrist spirit today is linked into this Amalekite spirit. Israel won the initial battle (Ex. 17:8-16) and because of their atrocities, God commanded Saul to exterminate the Amalekites (1 Sam. 15:2-3). Saul disobeyed, and the Amalekites were not defeated completely until late in the eighth century B.C. (1 Chron. 4:43). Haman the Agagite(Es. 3:1-10; 8:3-5) is thought by the Jews to be Amalek’s descendant, from whence sprung Haman’s hatred toward their race.
Prepare yourself and watch your Haman hung on his own gallows. Break all compromise. Watch your enemy overplay his hand and you will end up victorious! Cross over and watch your new doors open!
Memorize Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 28:6
Declare over your nation that the Amalekite structure will be revealed and overthrown.
(Day 5) Pray the Prayer of Confrontation!
To confront someone or something means to face them in hostility or defiance, or to come with opposition. Unlike the prayer of travail, which brings forth new birth, the prayer of confrontation directly addresses a structure that has been set in place in opposition to God’s will. This type of prayer not only outwits the devil, but also humiliates him and his forces in the process. God allows us to enter into this type of encounter to show His power over the territorial spirit(s) to which a particular group of people has been in bondage. As the LORD displays that His power is greater than that of a given demonic structure, that structure begins to crumble and those who were held captive are then free to follow Christ.
A wonderful biblical model for this type of prayer was Moses’ confrontation with Pharaoh. As Moses declared God’s will to Pharaoh in the earthly realm, he was also confronting in the spiritual realm the gods of Egypt – false deities (territorial spirits) – linked with the oppression and captivity of God’s covenant people. Through the plagues and destruction unleashed upon the nation of Egypt as a result of Moses’ confrontation, God’s plan was fulfilled, the power of oppression was broken, and His people were released. In The Future War of the Church, Rebecca Wagner Sytsema and I examine how each demonstration of God’s power through Moses was actually a power encounter with a specific Egyptian god.
-The Rod Becomes a Serpent (Exod. 7:8-12): Confrontation with serpent gods
-The Nile Turns to Blood (Exod. 7:14-25): Confrontation with the Nile gods
-The Plague of Frogs (Exod. 8:1-15): Confrontation with the frog god
-The Plague of Lice (Exod. 8:16-19): Confrontation with the earth god
-The Plague of Flies (Exod. 8:20-24): Confrontation with the god of toiletry
-The Cattle Die (Exod. 9:1-7): Confrontation with the Egyptian cow goddess
-The Plague of Boils (Exod. 9:8-12): Confrontation with the god of learning and medicine
-The Plague of Hail and Fire (Exod. 9:12-35): Confrontation with the original sky god
-The Plague of Locusts (Exod. 10:12-15): Confrontation with the god of the air, atmosphere & dry winds
-The Plague of Darkness (Exod. 10:21-23): Confrontation with the sun god
-The Slaying of the First Born (Exod. 12:29-33)
The tenth and most devastating plague was directed against a family of three deities. The first was Isis, the most important of all Egyptian goddesses, who assumed all the attributes and functions of virtually every other important goddess at some point in Egyptian history. Her primary functions were motherhood, marital devotion, healing the sick and the working of magic spells and charms. The second deity was Osiris, the god of the dead and the ruler, protector and judge of the deceased. The third deity was the son of Isis and Osiris, Horus the Child, a suckling child represented as a young boy sucking his finger. This final plague so overwhelmed the Pharaoh and so thoroughly defeated the gods of Egypt that the Israelites were finally set free. (Excerpted from The Future War of the Church)
God’s power has not diminished in the years since Moses! Power encounters through the prayer of confrontation that see people groups released from demonic structures are going to become more and more common, as we enter the future war of the Church. We need to enter into an expectant mind-set that believes God will display His power greatly over the earth, and over demonic structures, in order to see great throngs loosed from Satan’s grip. And from that mind-set we must pray with unwavering faith prayers of confrontation according to His will.
This is a season to move into POWER CONFRONTATIONS! Allow Holy Spirit to direct your prayers in a new way.
Charles D. “Chuck” Pierce serves as President of Global Spheres, Inc. (GSI) in Corinth, Texas. This is an apostolic, prophetic ministry that is being used to gather and mobilize the worshipping Triumphant Reserve throughout the world. GSI facilitates other ministries as well, and participates in regional and national gatherings to develop new Kingdom paradigms. Peter and Doris Wagner complete the leadership team of this new wineskin. Chuck also serves as President of Glory of Zion International Ministries, a ministry that aligns Jew and Gentile. He is known for his accurate prophetic gifting which helps direct nations, cities, churches and individuals in understanding the times and seasons in which we live.
Chuck has a degree in Business from Texas A&M, Master’s work in Cognitive Systems from the University of North Texas, and a D. Min. from the Wagner Leadership Institute.
Chuck, his wife Pam and six children and nine grandchildren.
While in a time of praise, Bob saw an apple tree in full bloom. As he prayed for understanding the Lord revealed to him that many people have been in the bud. They have been waiting on promises that go back many, many years. Now the Lord is saying that before the apple tree blooms this spring, their buds shall bloom. Although some of them are ancient promises they will bloom in the spring before the apple tree does and they will begin producing the fruit of righteousness.
Peacemakers Bloom
In the fruit of the spirit prophecy, the apple represents peace. Therefore, this means that a lot of peacemakers shall bloom or come into their divine calling by this spring and they will bring forth the fruit that God has called them to bear. So get ready for the peacemakers to come forth with the fruit of God and reveal the Son of Peace to the world.
The peacemakers that are coming forth in this next season are those who can make peace between the human soul and the Father. As they reveal the Father’s love to the human soul, it will bring stability to the body in every way. Through the administration of these peacemakers, first and foremost, they will bring man’s soul into the place where it can enter into the peace of God. And this peace is beyond all human understanding. They will also enter into the love of God, which will create the fruit that He wants produced in the body now. This is literally the beginning of the fruit that’s needed for harvest.
And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4:7)
Peace beyond understanding is what God is offering us. Unfortunately much of the body has seen the Father from a wrong perspective. They see Him as the cruel master and judge instead of being the God of love and justice. Ninety-five percent of the body of Christ thinks the Father is the judge that is squashing them all the time. They accuse the Father of bringing calamity and traumatic situations where in fact it is Satan. The Father simply removes His hand where He is no longer welcome. But now we will begin to see Him as He really is; LOVE and love beyond any expectation of love. When we have peace with the Father then the bloom will begin to turn into fruit. And this fruit will begin to come forth this year yielding more next year and even more the following year.
Armory of God’s LOVE
The Lord has opened His armory,And has brought out the weapons of His indignation;For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts In the land of the Chaldeans. (Jer 50:25)
God is arming the body of Christ with weapons of His divine love that the enemy has no defense against. We’ll begin to see the army of God come together in unity, a common union, to where the enemy will have to leave entire cities. This army is getting ready to take entire cities and eventually entire states. In certain places in the world, they’ll take entire nations.
This is the year the army of God comes together with angels beyond number and weapons that cannot be defeated by the enemy. Angels are here now preparing the body for the harvest and there will be a mighty victory. This year, even the blooming of the trees is something that Satan can’t stop from happening.
Vision of God’s Armory
In a vision Bob was shown the armory of God that is now open and the Father is releasing weapons of warfare that has never been available to man before. In this vision there were weapons put into my hands that terrorized me to even touch them. There’s nothing in the entire world that can withstand what the Father is bringing out of His armory. Some of the first things He will deal with are in Jeremiah 51. In fact the first thing He’ll deal with is the church that’s been withstanding Him.
Jeremiah 51:20-25 You [Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon] are My battle-ax or maul and weapon of war–for with you I break nations in pieces, with you I destroy kingdoms,
21 With you I break in pieces the horse and his rider, with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer,
22 With you I break in pieces man and woman, with you I break in pieces old man and youth, with you I break in pieces young man and maiden,
23 With you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, with you I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen, and with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.
24 And I will [completely] repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil that they have done in Zion–before your very eyes [I will do it], says the Lord.
25 Behold, I am against you, says the Lord, O destroying mountain [which is burning out, you who will be as barren and desolate as an extinct volcano], you who [would] destroy the whole earth. I will stretch out My hand over and against you and roll you down from the [burnt] crags and will make you a burnt-out mountain [of combustive fires]. (Jer. 50:20-25)
Ministry of the Peacemakers
What He’s doing right now in the church is uniting whosoever will with one another. Because these weapons that’s being released cannot be handled by one person. It will take teams to handle them and usually teams consist of about twelve people. These teams will be united with one purpose in mind and when they go to war they will make decrees and declarations according to the heart of the Father. These decrees will be established according to the will of the Father. (Job 22:28)
You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways.
This is what I see; the blooming of the apple tree will be our blooming in the spirit and worshipping the Father in spirit and in truth. It’s our human soul making peace by the knowledge of the Truth. It’s bringing the soul in submission to the spirit and allowing the spirit man to be in control of our conscience (actions, deeds and thoughts). Then the body will understand the Father’s divine nature; love. He loves you! Scripture plainly shows that God loves us; it’s His nature because He is LOVE. (1 John 4:8) The peacemakers’ entire nature will be characterized by His love and love will be the fruit they bear.
Now come the peacemakers and they make peace with God and with man. They show the Father’s nature, LOVE! The love of the Father is all authority to His sons and daughters. I don’t know how fast the fruit is going to mature after they bloom. But I do know that by the middle of May the blooms will be over and the fruit will begin. And from what I see, this fall will be awesome.
Bob and Bonnie Jones: Bob Jones is known as a contemporary prophet with a great love for the Lord Jesus and His truth. His prophecies have spanned over four decades as the Lord has enabled him to foretell earthquakes, tidal waves, comets, and weather patterns. Like Daniel who functioned at an incredible level, Bob has often told leaders their dreams and experiences, as well as the interpretation. After his death experience in 1975, God sent him back to minister to Church leadership and reach the multitudes with His love, truth and equipping the saints with understanding of the spiritual gifts. God promised Bob that he would see the beginning of one billion souls coming into the Kingdom in one great wave of the end time harvest. Bonnie has a great love for the Lord, the Word and the Cross of Jesus. She loves children and enjoys blessing them with a gift of joy, truth, love and encouragement. Bonnie moves in a seer prophetic gifting as well as healing and miracles. Her passion is to see women set free from the fear of man and step into their gifts and calling. She is a great advocate of women stepping forth into their rightful place beside their husband.
Bill Yount – Sep 11, 2015
I said to the Lord, “What has caused these spiritual roots to begin to grow again at this time?” I sensed the Father saying, “I have collected in a bottle every tear that swelled up in every eye that has mourned for this nation. These tears in My bottle are now being poured out over America, causing her roots of righteousness to begin to spring forth in the land.”
In the spirit, I saw what appeared to be “paramedic angels” dispatched, dropping from the heavens, as in parachutes, landing on the front lawn of the White House. It seemed that those grass roots of righteousness that began to crack the White House floor had set off an alarm in Hell, summoning these angels with urgency to surround the White House.
These Second Chronicles angels seemed to have had assignments throughout the ages to descend upon nations that were in critical time frames where a nation seemed to be hanging in the balance of going either way. These angels warred solely and strictly on “corporate prayer” only! I sensed they had come to Washington, DC, but now were given orders to wait on the rising tide of “corporate prayer” from the heart of America.
There are Rivers of Revival Undiscovered Deep Under the Surface – Who is Going to Dig?
