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It's Time to Ring Out Those Bells and Start Receiving
by Kathie Walters with Beni Johnson
Jun 1, 2012

For several days now I have seen myriads of angels in the heavenlies standing in rows. "Myriads" is not a word I would use – it dropped into my spirit when I saw them. Myriad means "uncountable." Then I heard the sound of bells pealing over and over. Sometimes they got REALLY LOUD. At the same time I felt a strong sensing to clean the house and get rid of "stuff" I don't need. One time they were so LOUD I jumped up out of my chair and ran out of my office. Now, writing this, I smell the aroma of honey really strong (honey to enlighten the eyes and revelation).

Then I heard lots of people cheering and shouting. The only time I have heard bells like this is when there was a royal wedding or coronation. I couldn't quite figure it out. In one way I believe it's for everyone no matter where they are, but I suddenly felt impressed to ask people everywhere to pray for the UNITED KINGDOM.

Bells to Ring for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee

Then someone emailed me and said, "It's the Queen's Diamond Jubilee on the 5th of June." Jubilee means "loud, joyful noise." So between the 2nd and 5th of June there are going to be lots of celebrations in UK. (photo courtesy direct.gov.uk)

My friend Beni Johnson said that God has been telling her things for a year about the bells. God told her, "The bells are going to ring again in England. Bells that have not been rung in years." Beni said, "The bells are going to ring again and call people to prayer and worship as they did before. The bells will cause a sound in the atmosphere and it will be a sign to the UK. A sign of change (look back at the meaning of 'peals') and bring a shift."

Please, wherever you are in the world, would you pray and ask your friends and your church to pray for the United Kingdom THIS WEEKEND – it's the beginning of the celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

There was a prophetic word given in 1930 that I believe is about to be released and the bells are going to proclaim and declare it (see below).

On Sunday, 3rd June, there is going to be a wonderful pageant. Eight brand new large bells have been made and will be placed on a "floating belfry" that will float down the River Thames from Battersea Bridge to Tower bridge. The bells barge will be followed by Queen Elizabeth's barge, "Gloriana" and then 1,000 other vessels. The bells on the lead barge will peal (see what "peal" means below) along the River Thames. Twelve churches will also ring out their bells at 3pm, followed by at least 2,000 other churches across the country. You are welcome to join in wherever you are (click here).

Bells to Ring for the Olympic Games

Then there is also a great plan in place for all the church bells across the United Kingdom to ring at the beginning of the Olympic Games on July 27, 2012 (click here). All the bells across the country will PEAL at 8am. Please mark your calendar and pass this on to your mailing list and put it on your Facebook and repost it.

This is to welcome ALL THE VISITORS to the UK. Guess why? It's not just for the games, but to partake of the Wind of the Spirit being released between these two events.

I looked up the meaning of "Peal of bells" and guess what it says? 1) Set of changes 2) Set of bells tuned into each other 3) Loud joyful noise.

David Willson, CEO of the More Than Gold organization said, "This is just one more fantastic opportunity for churches to get involved with their communities and ring out their bells in celebration of the great things to come."

Martin Creed, Turner Prize-winning artist and musician said, "It's by people and for people. On the morning of the opening of the Games it's a massive signal that something is happening."

Jon Burns, UK Director of More Than Gold said, "It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for churches all around the UK to come together in this way. Let's ring the bells and make a noise for the opening of the Games, for our communities, and for all that is to come."

More than Gold website (get involved - it's a God thing): go to www.morethangold.org.uk.

Prophetic Word from 1930

Now, the prophetic word that was given to Arthur Burt (Wales) – I believe it's so relevant here. This word was confirmed by prophet Bob Jones to me, and he didn't even know what the word was that Arthur Burt had been given. He just told me when I arrived back from Wales, "Tell the man whose house you were just in that he will see the word." When I asked Bob, "What word?" he said, "I don't know but it was given to a group of people in 1930 and this man was one of those people. All the others in the group have died."

When I called Arthur Burt to ask him about it, he read me the word that was given to a group of people in 1930. Bear in mind that Arthur Burt is now 100 years old. This word was given to a group (Arthur Burt was a part of this group) in 1930 – this was also Bob Jones' birth year:

"THERE SHALL COME A BREATH AND THE BREATH SHALL BRING THE WIND, AND THE WIND SHALL BRING THE RAIN, AND THE RAIN SHALL BRING THE FLOODS, AND FLOODS AND FLOODS AND THE FLOODS SHALL BRING THE TORRENTS AND TORRENTS AND TORRENTS.

"SO SHALL THEY BE SAVED LIKE FALLING LEAVES FROM THE MIGHTY OAKS SWEPT BY A HURRICANE IN A GREAT FOREST. ARMS AND LEGS SHALL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND THERE SHALL BE NO EBB."

Prayer for the UK

While the bells ring on both occasions and make a declaration and celebration, let's all agree that God will rule and reign in the UK. Pray for the eyes of the Parliament to be opened to see the wiles of the enemy. Pray for the strategies of the enemy to be uncovered and discovered by the Spirit of God. Pray for a spirit of grace and POWER to sweep across the UK, just like the bells will be ringing across the country. Pray for God to send forth JOYFUL laborers, not heavy religious ones – UK needs the joy, UK needs the spirit of laughter. Laughter is a major warfare weapon, by the way.

Psalm 2:4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision.

The Olympic Day bells are an invitation to everyone to visit and partake of this anointing. So grab those bells, whatever size, and declare the goodness and mercy of the Most High God.

Please pass this on to everyone you know. Let me know you are going to join us. Here's a link to listen to the bells (click here).

Blessings,

Kathie Walters
Good News Ministries
Email: [e-mail]

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Kim Clement and Chuck Pierce: Two Prophets Speak Words Over Italy
by Kim Clement and Chuck Pierce
Jun 5, 2012

From the desk of Steve Shultz:

As our readers have heard me say before – Kim Clement and Chuck Pierce are both two of the most highly accurate prophets to the nations I've known, and they are both dear friends I might add. When these two guys speak about a nation simultaneously, it has my attention. Below are words they have both recently spoken about concerning Italy. There is so much rich history dating back to Biblical days in that region... so let's be praying for Italy and for God's blessing to increase and flow over that country.

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Kim Clement: "From Israel to America, to Italy"

May 19, 2012 - From The Den

"From Israel to America..."

(Singing) "I never want you to go away from Me, America. You were on your knees when you began. Where did you go, why did you fly away? Why did you go and run away from Me? America, why did you run away? But I will gather you together as I promised. Jerusalem. I will gather you together. I will cover you with My wings. I will bring you back to My altar. America! America! America! America!"

(Speaking) God says, "I'll bring you back. You've run away from Me but I've seen and watched how you desired to come back to Me." The Spirit of God says, "I'll draw you back to My nest and in this nation there will be fire, fire, fire, fire!"

(Singing) "From Israel to America there will be one sound, one voice. From Israel to America there will be one sound, one voice, one breath," says the Lord.

His omnipotence, His omniscience, God's omnipresence, His immutability, His infallibility – all are combined for our defense. "You cannot trust in your military; you cannot trust in your armed forces only. You have to understand, it's My omnipotence, My omniscience, My omnipresence, My immutability, My infallibility – this is your defense," says the Lord, "and I have given it to you. Therefore, rise up in praise, rise up in shouts, rise up in praise," says the Lord, "and I will fight for you during your summer," says the Lord.

Prophetic Song: The vastness of Your grace, the beauty of Your face, draw me to You, draw me to You in the night. The vastness of Your grace, the beauty of Your face draw me in the night, I see You in the night and though the nation's in despair, the nation has nowhere to go, where is Your grace in the night? Do You remember, America, in the night? Once a mighty, a mountain showing to the world the beauty of Your grace; don't leave us. In the light I come and sing; in the night they stood and fought. Will they fight again? Will they stand for righteousness of God once again? Will America shine their holy light once again? Show the world, show the world the beauty of Your face. Will You shine again in the night? Will You speak to them in the night? The vastness of Your grace, the beauty of Your face shine in the night. You are faithful to all, You never change Your mind; that's why I love You.

Song to Kim: "Kim, yes, I will return to this nation. Kim, I will return because you prayed. I sent you from Africa to cry out for America; I sent you with your wife and those who would go fight with you in the night. You called for the nation; from the beginning of time I sent you here and now you ask Me will I come, will I bless? Kim, yes, I will return. You went to China to pick the little children who would die without a breast, to feed them. Because you did this thing, many will come. They will draw the orphans as I did. Bring them from the night to the light, from the night to the light; from the darkness to the light. All alone, never again, because of what you did, taking them in. Hundreds will begin, then thousands will come. Take the orphans and lead them to My light."

The vastness of Your grace, the beauty of Your face shining on us, Your holy nation.

And the Spirit of God says this to you, "To My people who have heard the promise and have felt My presence, I say to you, what you bring to Me, what you lay at My altar as the evening sacrifice, I will receive it. As I received Gideon's sacrifice, as I received Hannah's sacrifice, I will receive yours."

"I Will Stand With You, Italy"

(During song, "America, you are the light of the world"): Hold it there; listen to me. If you want to pray for your country, try and fit it in there. Italy, Italy, let's sing to Italy, come on. They're being attacked right now. Began singing, "Italy, Italy, you are the salt of the earth; Italy, Italy, you are the light of the world."

"I will stand with you, Italy; I will not let you go. You have housed religion. You have been there; the rise and the fall of leaders. Shall I raise up a good leader for you? Yes indeed, I will." Therefore, we pray for Italy, we pray for Europe – we pray, Lord God, for these nations. Release Your blessing upon them. Thank You.

Kim Clement
Prophetic Image Expressions
Email: [e-mail]


Chuck D. Pierce: "I Am Unbuttoning Your Mouth! Unusual Flood to Go through Rome!"

We continue to give thanks for how the Spirit of God met us so powerfully during our Pentecost Celebration. Below are a few of the prophetic words that the Lord led me to release during that time:

"I'm unbuttoning your mouth. You mouth has been buttoned and many of you have been zipped up. This is an hour of unzipping. If you will speak to that which is blocking your progress, I will unblock the way for you. Speak and watch the waters begin to flow. Speak and watch your finances begin to grow. Speak and watch things that you didn't know begin to come into you, so you will know. Unzip and speak forth!"

"There will be an unusual flood that goes through Rome. When you see this flood know that I am cleansing the Church from its straying way. When Rome floods I will wash My people in a new way and they will rise up out of their legalistic shift that they had too many years ago. They will come into a new power as first. When the flood comes through Rome, Antiochs all over the earth will rise again. I have shaken the mindset of the last seasons. Greece is a picture of the shaking. But now Rome and its accumulation will begin to be cleansed. As Rome is cleansed you will see a healing sweep throughout the Catholic people. That wineskin that has captured generation after generation will no longer be able to hold its captives."

"There is an uprising and a retaking of Bethlehem. So watch carefully, for I am going to re-order where the glory first came. The glory will come again and push out that which has tried to crowd Me out."

"Man's elections will not satisfy My heart this season. I will rearrange the leadership of nations. I will cause nations to submit in new ways. You can look from man's eyes, but watch Me for I will promote some and put others down. So obey and vote your conscience and then watch My hand order the future of this land."

Blessings,

Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries
Email: [e-mail]

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A collection of videos and/or music I wanted to keep track of:


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For Those Tears I Died - Lebanon County Chorus

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John Michael Talbot

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The James Family

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Angelic Chorus:

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Hallelujah Chorus - Various groups and venues

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Each and everyone one of us is going through tough times right now, but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith.
My instructions were to pick four people that I wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Please pass this to at least (4) people you want to be blessed and a copy back to me.

This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive.
There is no cost but a lot of rewards. Let's continue to pray for one another.

The prayer:

Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them your peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through your grace. Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. In Jesus' precious name. Amen.


(If the Lord lays upon your heart to send this to more than four people, you are truly blessed).

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Malina Enlund: All Things For Good
by Malina Enlund
Jul 21, 2012

Malina Enlund serves with the XP Ministries as Missions coordinator. She is a powerful, passionate woman of God with a heart to see justice served for children who are oppressed around the world. This month's prayer directives, All Things For Good, will bring encouragement and blessed assurance to the Body of Christ that God truly works all things together for good. Even in life's challenges there are hope and triumph in Him. Get ready to be blessed and uplifted!

Patricia King
Cofounder of XPmedia.com; XPministries

All Things For Good

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God...

One of the last things Jesus ever shared with the disciples was that in the world there would be trials and sorrows, but always to remember no matter what we face, He has overcome the world (John 16:33). Some wonder why the Lord would ever allow hardships or challenges in life. I believe it is so that we can learn to overcome them through the victory He has given us at the Cross, and in overcoming them we can learn to be more like Him – the Overcomer!

Hebrews 4:15 talks about how Jesus understands us all because while He was here on earth He faced all the challenges we do and overcame them. As we allow the Lord to carry us through the pain and difficulties in our lives, we learn humility and develop a heart for people going through their own heartaches. The battlefield is often where we not only win victories but also where we gain wisdom and compassion. It is not so much in the times of peace but in the times of suffering that we gain the greatest understanding of the unconditional love of Christ. And when we come to know that love for ourselves, we gain the ability to give it away to others. As one puts it, "Don't waste your pain; use it to heal others."

God never promised us that we will not go through hardships; He promised us that He will be there for us in the midst of them. Remember when Jesus told Peter that satan was going to try and sift him like wheat (Luke 22:31)? The Lord assured Peter that He would carry him through and that on the other side of the trial Peter would be able to strengthen his brothers. Isn't it interesting that the Lord did not say to Peter, "Don't worry – I am not going to let the enemy touch you." Instead, Jesus let Peter know that no matter what the enemy sent against Peter, Jesus would be with him, bringing him into victory, and the experience would give Peter a greater ability to care for others, just like Christ had cared for him. God does not send pain, difficulty, sickness or sorrows, but when the enemy attacks with these things, there are times the Lord uses them to transform and conform us more into His image.

I remember when I was going through a very painful breakup a few years back, and I was calling out to God. Never have I felt His presence so strong and tangible. God led me on a journey of forgiveness and healing. It took me two years to let go of the pain and watch my dreams for that relationship die. But through this journey I learned to forgive, I learned to love like Jesus, and I got closer to God. Even though it was difficult and painful, God blessed me with an incredible ministry and a wonderful new life. I would never have been gifted with the compassion and humility to serve others and help children at risk if I hadn't experienced the pain of that trial and the triumph of God's healing power for me. The Lord did not send the pain but, oh, how He used it to grow my faith, teach me to lay hold of His victory, and transform me more into His image. The most important lessons that God teaches us are usually found in our darkest times.

Beauty for Ashes

God will give us beauty for ashes, but we have to let go of the ashes first. Sometimes the enemy convinces us that the pain we experience is part of us, that the suffering is our identity. Many people wrongly stay in a victim mentality because they identify with the pain. Many are so used to having abuse in their life that they think that's what they deserve. Jesus died for us so we don't have to live within the walls of the prison of pain the enemy tries to trap us in. We just need to stop clinging to what is broken and embrace the new wineskin. None of us can fix the past, but all of us can enter our futures and create a much better world for ourselves and our families.

Romans 8:37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

Power from Pain

The most powerful leaders are Believers who have gone through the most persecution. They know what it takes to overcome, and they know the One who gives the victory! When people are in the darkest places of their lives, they usually reach out to people who can understand them. In our outreaches in Asia, I often meet women who have left a life of prostitution only to become powerful evangelists and leaders in their community. Yes, they have been through so much pain and hopelessness, but their triumph is what gives other women hope. You are God's tool to heal others.

Romans 5:1-5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

With Wisdom Comes Responsibility

God uses EVERYTHING for our good. Sometimes God uses the most painful journeys in our lives to prepare us for authority and bigger responsibility. Joseph went on to become one of the most important men in Egypt. Some of the most powerful people in the world, such as Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa, faced persecution, danger, and suffering as they stood up for what is right.

When we triumph over our pain, we develop passion for others to see victory also. This is the heart of God. He overcame sin and death so we might walk in the victory through faith. When He brings us through a test or a trial – whether it lasts a day or a decade – there is a fire lit within us to see others freed from the oppressions of the enemy. That passion, combined with our gifting and character, brings forth wisdom. Godly wisdom is the combination of revelation and understanding. When we realize what God is capable of (because we have seen Him do it in our own lives), we understand what He can do through us for others. Jesus put it like this, "Freely give what you have freely received."

Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Often we reach out to people around us who have gone through similar circumstances to help us on our journey. We need to share our pain and the overcoming victory we have seen through Christ with people who are able to understand it. This inspires and motivates them to believe, because there is someone who shares their experience, can relate to what they are going through, and has a message of hope.

Now it is time for you to inspire someone. When God restores and heals you, He also gives you the tools to help others. The most powerful tool you have is your life testimony. The Bible is filled with amazing men, like Joseph and Jeremiah, who endured painful years of their life but triumphed at the end. God used their pain for His purposes.

Genesis 39:21-23 But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison; whatever they did there, it was his doing. The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph's authority, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.

Prayers For the Body of Christ

• Pray that the Body of Christ will have a deeper revelation of God's love.

• Pray that through obedience we will hear His voice and follow His command.

• Pray that our destiny is not determined by where we live but by our personal relationship with the Father.

• Pray for more open doors for the Body of Christ to spread the Gospel and help the lost.

• Pray for wisdom and revelation for people in authority and leaders around the world.

May God's light fill your life every day of the year!

Much love,

Malina Enlund
XP Ministries
Email: [e-mail]

Malina Enlund serves with the XP Ministries in Thailand and Cambodia. Her passion for children and their wellbeing has resulted in the development of projects that aim to save and heal trafficked children in the region. The projects work in conjunction with local homes in Cambodia and Thailand. They are designed to help abused kids and allow them access to school and medical care while providing restoration and spiritual guidance.


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Tue, Jul 24, 2012 03:32 PM

This seems like a very encouraging word. I thinkyou are already acting on it and I encourage you to continue. God is our protector and defender, our guide and source of supply. I believe that the more you move out, the more He will bless you. This is a period of your life when God is strengthening you for great things to come. Resist the temptation to give up, give in, and you will get the blessings He has for you. Don't let the moments when you feel discouraged take over. Say, well that's how I was feeling for a while, but I'm not going to stay in that place!'

The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make His face to shine upon you, and give you His peace, now and forever, amen.

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Doug Addison: A Time of Completion - From Now Through September
by Doug Addison
Jun 19, 2012

My mom was a wonderful woman who loved God, prayed, and studied the Bible a lot. Although her life was tragically cut short from brain cancer in 1999, she still is one of my biggest intercessors today in Heaven. I inherited my evangelistic calling from her and the Bible she used for prayer and study daily.

This year I have had some interesting supernatural encounters with my mom's Bible. The Holy Spirit will speak to me a verse, and as I look it up in her Bible, I get amazing prophetic insight. I often find her handwritten notes that seem to be placed there just for me. I am sure that she had no idea that the small things she wrote over fifteen years ago would outlive her and help to encourage millions of people.

Fifteen Weeks of Completion

On June 12, 2012, I looked at my mom's Bible sitting next to me and I heard God's Spirit say, "Haggai" – a prophetic book where God asks His people to rebuild the Temple. The prophetic insight is that there are things that God is calling us to do over the next year that will bring an amazing amount of blessing and purpose into our lives, but first we need to complete things that have been left undone.

In the margin of my mom's Bible in Haggai, she wrote "15 week period." Knowing this was a prophetic word, I checked the calendar – and fifteen weeks from June 12 is Tuesday, September 25, which, interestingly, falls on the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. This celebration is also known as the Day of Atonement, where God examines our lives for possible promotion and spiritual advancement. Though we are no longer under the Jewish law and holidays, God is still on the Jewish calendar, and many celebrations continue to have prophetic meaning.

Over the next fifteen weeks, from June 12 to September 25, we have a strategic window of opportunity to finish things that have been hanging around undone or that God has been calling us to do. This is time to work hard toward completing things and tying up loose ends, as God is releasing new assignments this September. It is time to find anything that God had asked us to do and get it done! It is an exciting time of accomplishment toward your destiny!

In my own life, I have a few major things yet to accomplish. One is to finish and release my book, Understand Your Dreams Now, which is planned to be out in late September. A good thing to do in response to this word is to take a look for things that are unfinished, even if it's as simple or mundane as cleaning out the garage, signing up for school, or updating your resume.

Dramatic Turnaround: Building God's Destiny In You

We have been in a season where we have worked hard but received very little in return.

You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it. Haggai 1:6 NIV

This will all begin to dramatically shift as we move toward rebuilding God's greater destiny in our lives. God will be releasing greater destiny and purpose starting in October of 2012. It will prepare us to have a greater Kingdom impact into 2013.

Don't Believe Unemployment Reports

God is releasing something new in the spiritual realm in June. We will see the start of new jobs, connections, and unexpected promotions. Be prepared to move in this area if it is your need. The enemy has been using unemployment to hold people down, not just financially, but to keep you isolated and discouraged. Watch this break off as you take steps and get prepared. Watch also for lateral job changes that will lead to future promotions.

Time To Get In Time With God

I released a prophetic word last month on the Wind of Change that hit us on May 15th and has been moving since. The spiritual atmosphere is changing as God is blowing away the debris in our lives. This is not a word of judgment, but instead there is a lot of grace from God in this new movement that is happening right now. The changes that are happening right now are designed to get us on course and in time with God's plans and intentions for us.

June 20th

June is a time that we will need to work hard to break through old mindsets and ungodly thinking. God is removing all limits. The major limitation we face is our own thinking. Watch on June 20th, a window of opportunity is going to open that will allow us to see more clearly. By July, we will begin to understand and gain insight into God's new plans that are being established in us.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9

Don't be discouraged. It is time to contend and fight for the things that God has promised us!

I'm praying that as you read this God would speak to you about your old assignment and that you would receive grace to complete it so that you will be ready to receive a new, exciting Kingdom assignment for the next step in your destiny. It is great to see it unfold!

Blessings,

Doug Addison
InLight Connection
Email: [e-mail]

Doug Addison is a prominent international conference speaker, author, and has been a featured guest on television and radio for a number of years. His events are fun and high-energy as he uses media and stand-up comedy as a means of communicating deep insights. He is an experienced prophetic dream interpreter and a professional stand-up comedian.

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Tue, Aug 07, 2012 11:36 AM

A very interesting piece, biblically based, exploring the origins of dis-ease, and healing. I found it fascinating. Worth checking out for yourself. I'd be interested inhearing feedback from you on your response to concepts presented here. Blessings on your day. Becky

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Kari Browning: A "Quantum" Change
by Kari Browning
Aug 7, 2012

Change – you either love it or you hate it.

I love change, and my husband hates it. He likes to say that "he is a settler tied to a pioneer's wagon." I know that the wagon is moving again, and it's time to go boldly where no man has gone before!

I feel we are in the most exciting season of change we've ever experienced in the history of the Church. Some will jump onboard the wagon and be excited about this change, and others will resist it. Because it is God who is initiating the change, you cannot stop it!

God has promised that He will change the understanding and expression of Christianity in one generation. I believe we are that generation, and the way that unbelievers perceive the Church will radically change in the next few years. There is great understanding coming to the Church about the quantum realm, and I believe it will help facilitate the change that has been prophesied.

Albert Einstein said everything is energy. Remember his formula E=mc squared? He believed that energy and matter were interchangeable.

Everything is vibrating energy, including our bodies. Every word and every thought carries a certain vibrational frequency. A Japanese scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto, proved this when he did an experiment with water. He found out that water is affected by words. He took water droplets and exposed them to various words. He froze them for three hours and then examined the crystal formations under a microscope. The results were totally astounding. When positive words were spoken over the water, it formed beautiful patterns. Negative words produced ugly patterns. Since our bodies are approximately 72% water, we know that our bodies are greatly affected by negative speech. He did another experiment with rice where he spoke "I love you" to a jar of rice for 30 days. To another jar of rice, he spoke the words "You fool." After 30 days, the rice in the "I love you" jar was white and the rice in the "You fool" jar was black and rotten. (Facts taken from Dr. Emoto's book "The Hidden Messages in Water".)

It amazes me how science is validating the Bible!

Proverbs 12:18 The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death...

Proverbs 16:24 Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Love Has the Highest Frequency of All

It can be scientifically documented that everything has either positive or negative frequencies. Foods even have frequencies. Fresh food has a higher frequency than processed foods. On the other hand, coffee has a negative frequency. Prayer actually raises a person's frequency by 15 MHz. If our frequency gets low, we get sick. A healthy body has a frequency between 62-68 MHz. If a person's frequency dips to 58 MHz., cold symptoms develop. Flu symptoms appear at 57 MHz. Cancer may enter the body when the frequency falls below 42 MHz. The process of dying begins at 25 MHz. and goes to zero at death. (Facts taken from Dr. David Stewart's book "Healing Oils of the Bible".)

God provided a way to raise our frequencies by using essential oils. These oils were used Biblically for medicinal purposes. The oils were not used symbolically as we have come to believe, but these oils had healing properties.

For example, hyssop is a releaser of swallowed emotions and a spiritual cleanser.

Psalm 51:7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Prayer and essential oils together are a powerful combination, as both raise our frequencies.

James 5:14-15 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the Church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up...

In the Bible (Leviticus 14), they were told to anoint those with infectious skin diseases with oil on their right ear, their right thumb, and right big toe. All of these are reflex points where trauma is stored and are connected to the brain! When we store repressed emotions, it can make us sick. Our bodies are made up of 100 trillion cells. So, emotions get locked in our cellular memory. Physical healing can occur when we clear repressed emotions. For example, if emotions are stored in your stomach, you have stomach ailments. If they are stored in the joints, you can have arthritis.

Proverbs 14:30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

Change will occur when we get healing for our souls and walk in mature love and put childish ways behind us. We must speak words of life and not death. Love has the highest frequency of all.

1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

It's time for quantum change!

Facts were taken from Dr. David Stewart's book "Healing Oils of the Bible" and Dr. Emoto's book "The Hidden Messages in Water."

Kari Browning
New Renaissance
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Kari Browning and her husband, Mike, have been involved in church planting for over 25 years. They are about to open a Healing and Creativity Center. This center will focus on releasing creativity and teaching on wellness. Kari has traveled nationally and internationally as a conference speaker. They have four children and five grandchildren.

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Keith Miller: A Word From God Can Change Everything!
by Keith Miller
Aug 17, 2012

A word from God can change everything in an instant for you, and for the Body of Christ.

"Sing to God, sing praises to His name; extol Him who rides on the clouds, by His name YAH, and rejoice before Him..." (Psalm 68:4). "Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; Oh, sing praises to the Lord, Selah, to Him who rides on the Heaven of heavens, which were of old! Indeed, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice. Ascribe strength to God; His excellence is over Israel, and His strength is in the clouds" (Psalm 68:32-34).

Paternal Inheritance: When revelation of Abba Father truly comes and your heart cries out to Him from the very depths of your being; of your inner man, His mighty voice breaks through the clouds in power and strength for you to claim, recover, possess, and delight in your inheritance!

Psalm 68:5 reveals God in His holy habitation as a "father of the fatherless, a defender of widows." It is this establishment in our hearts of who we are as His sons and daughters, this new place of greater revelation, that our spirits are stirred for the breakthrough and building up of the Body. When the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the spirit of Joshua, and the spirits of the remnant of the people, they "came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God" (See Haggai 1:14). Their hearts were stirred to finish the temple. They had renewed courage in the Lord, renewed faith in God who controls the future. Do you have revelation of Abba God, the Defender of the widow, the Father of the fatherless? Revelation of the Father in His holy habitation, in your heart and life, will stir your spirit for breakthrough, restoration, and a race to the finish.

The Grace of His Presence

Understand this: your Father who made the heavens, who established the earth, does what He says He will do! Rejoice in the Lord! When you are established in this truth, you will walk in such vastness that you will always be rejoicing as you fully walk as an heir of Abba Father. This is the Father who will never leave you, who will show you great favor, who will provide everything you need, and who will come and visit you. Most assuredly, you will have His presence.

From the realm of revelation of the grace of Abba Father in your life will also be the revealing of the "deep things of God," to give to your children (see Deuteronomy 29:29). The deep things that He chooses to give to you will open the eyes of your heart to see His vastness, and your children and their children will know how big He really is. And you will rejoice. And they will rejoice in all that He does and will do. He is not a far-away God—He is a far out God—big, capable, able, and willing to put it all in your lap!

Set in and Seated with Him

Jesus Himself called on God as, "Abba Father," as He faced the Cross. He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for You" (Mark 14:36). Whatever cross or burden you are bearing, calling out to Abba Father is calling out for the impossible to become possible. Your Father God has unlimited resources. You have access to a Father who knows the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning, so the trust factor is limitless. You can trust Him without end. He will never fail you. In fact, He is your summit! He is the full cycle of your entire life. He has everything worked out. When your flesh is silent, revelation grows such that you will be so seated with Him that you will be in a state of rejoicing.

But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God" (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). The Revealer searches all things in God's never-ending constantly full heavenly treasure chest, and pulls out riches from it to give to you. What an incredible blessing! The Revealer gives that which God has prepared, made and kept ready: profound and bottomless things, to those who love Him affectionately. He adorns us with His gifts.

The Holy Spirit expands the inner man not through head knowledge but through the revelatory realm of revelation of illumination in the inner man to a deeper, and yet deeper depth of His greatness. That you, being so rooted in Him as Father God, are set in for your coming moment, for your coming day in Christ for your destiny, which is His will for your life. This destiny is one that cannot be moved because you "see" how vast He really is. Nothing is impossible for Him. This deeper revelation roots us into a faith that brings forth works that really believe nothing is impossible for Him. Jesus said, "…nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will" (Mark 14:36). What He wills is the Father heart of God.

Pointing to His Presence

Are you willing to say, "Father, I believe You... I believe You?" when He says that it is possible to believe for a city in a day? For your family to be saved? For the funds that you need today? For the healing that you need today?

God sets the solitary in families. He brings out those who are bound into prosperity. He moves mountains. He drops plentiful rain from Heaven. He confirms our inheritance when it is weary and we dwell in it (see Psalm 68:6-11). Mountains move at His presence. Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God!

Everything—every treasure, the riches, the gifts, every increase is to bring attention to His precious presence. It will become a day of, "Behold now the Lord your God." They will see the gifts, see the treasures as you point and say, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You" (Jeremiah 32:17).

The priestly crowns, the blessings are for speaking His Word and ministering in service to the Lord. He crowns us as examples of His leadership as we spread the knowledge of Father God across the earth. God does not want us to spread anything but the knowledge of Him. Can you imagine a company of Believers gathered in a kairos moment for one sole, purpose? To spread the knowledge of God. That is, to spread the fame of His name, to make famous one name and one name only—the name of Jesus! Increase is coming in the vastness and greatness of God and His grace—the deep treasures are coming forth.

Crowned with the priestly blessing, as the royal priesthood, we are first ministers unto God. We are a chosen generation, a holy nation, His own special people, "that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9). We must come out of the old mind-set and into the mind of Christ where the blazing glory of His glorious presence literally rests upon us and the place as we minister first unto God, and then receive His strategies to touch and impact. Ascending and descending sends. Ascending to the Father and descending sends.

We come into that place of impact as His ministers saying, "Oh Father, Your Word says..." That is—the apostolic commissioning. The glory moves with us. The blazing glory was in Ezekiel's wheel, right where the beginning touched the end and the end touched the beginning. This is where we will be in the presence of God, where the beginning touches the end and the end touches the beginning so that we are not moved by anything in the natural because we know what He started and what He will finish! The Author of our salvation will finish what He started.

At one of our recent meetings in Houston, as we prayed for the sick at the service end, the Lord started to heal people and it was glorious to see Him move. There is always much excitement when God moves, and guess what? It excites Him too that we move with Him as He moves. As we follow His move—as we follow Him He opens the way, and we go!

Transition! Go through... Go through the Gates...

In the Book of Micah, the king goes through the gate. As God breaks through the gate, we transition and follow Him. As we transition, we lay course for the troops to come. A breaker is someone who moves with God as God breaks through. God goes through the gates and we go through too, preparing the way for the troops, for the people, building up the highway, taking out the stones, and lifting up a banner for the people (see Isaiah 62:10). Restoration is here, victory is here. God calls upon the faithful priests to join Him, to march forth to prepare the way. It is not Jerusalem's gate that we are opening. It is the Church's gate that once open will stand open day and night for all to pass through (see Isaiah 26:1-2; 60:11).

Consider this: when God went out before His people, when He marched through the wilderness, the earth shook. Great was the company of those who proclaimed His Word. Kings of armies fled. God provided from His goodness for the poor.
We are about to see a company rise up called "the Body of Christ" and wherever Father God sends His sons and daughters, we will not hope something will happen, we know it will, for He has already gone before us, opened the gate, and we are going right through it! Defeat will not be an option. It is not an option!

Grace=Incredible Breakthrough

The gate itself is God's grace. With His grace comes incredible breakthrough, an empowerment by the Holy Spirit to explode into who you are in the Lord! Shake off the dust, silence the flesh and the Lord will arise from His holy habitation, stirring you to arise with Him, crashing with Him through graces' gate for incredible, unbelievable breakthrough in every area. Revelation of the living, powerful, true, and sharp Word of the Lord in you and His vastness will pierce and penetrate the most ebon darkness or fearful shadow. As you follow Father God, expect to arise and never again sit down until He has accomplished His whole work in you. Never again settle for what was yesterday; this is your time, the Church's time for impact for today. The past and the present are not your realities! The realm of His grace is your reality as you ascend, descend, move and function in it for victory.

Receiving grace from the Lord is the act of a conqueror and victor. A new fullness and increased realm of His grace awaits you that will cause you to want to crash through, move, and function with your Abba Father. Thirst for this increased flow of grace, which I believe He is offering you, and drink your fill! His grace will mature and establish you so that you can ride in triumph with Him as a royal priest, a son or daughter of Father God, proclaiming His presence to Him, and still more, proclaiming in the wonders of His grace to a world of lost people who need to be pointed to Him.

Keith Miller
Stand Firm World Ministries
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Victoria Boyson: A Vision of Heaven's Song
by Victoria Boyson
Jul 17, 2012

Imagine with me a great multitude of people so immense you cannot see the end of it. You find yourself standing in the middle of this glorious, vast assembly, and as you look through the crowd you see that miles before you stands a magnificent throne.

The One sitting on the throne is radiant, with a brilliant, piercing light reflected like the facets of hundreds of gemstones all casting a different hue into the atmosphere. In front of the throne a shiny sea of glass sparkles like crystal.

You feel pulses of glory emanating from Him as they flow right through you, becoming more and more substantial. In them you feel glorified life – faith, joy, and love. Surge after surge, they rush through you until you are completely captivated by His presence and your entire physical body is enveloped by His glory.

Surrounding the great throne are twenty-four thrones for twenty-four elders wearing lavish crowns on their heads, clothed in white robes that seemed to flow into the river of glory that surges from Him who is seated on the throne. The effect of His glory is obvious on the faces of the elders as His overwhelming presence washes through them.

A hush falls over the crowd and you sense a heavy feeling of heightened expectation fill the room as every eye turns to the throne. People listen silently. You hear only the hushed breathing from the crowd.

Suddenly, intense thunderclaps fracture the air and lightning bursts out from the throne, pulsating with power. With it come heavy waves of glory that crash against you like a massive swell of energy. You feel as though you are in a giant womb feeling the vibration of your mother's heartbeat pulsating through you. You are shaken to your core again and again as you feel God's heart pounding through you.

Slowly in the distance before you, near the throne, you hear a sound rise... a quiet, gentle sound. And as you look intently off in the distance, you realize the sound you hear is ascending from four beings surrounding the throne of God.

At the center on each side of the throne stand four living beings – they are frightful and strange in appearance, with eyes all over their bodies. One is like a lion, the second like an ox, the third has the face like a man, and the last is like an eagle in flight (see Revelation 4:7).

And the song they sing is Heaven's song: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty – the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.

As the living beings worship the Enthroned of Heaven, the twenty-four elders, overflowing with love for Him, remove their crowns. Laying them before Him, they fall down and lay prostrate before Him, worshipping Him who lives forever and ever.

As they worship Him they proclaim: "You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For You created all things, and they exist because You created what You pleased." –Revelation 4:2-11 NLT

While the song builds in intensity, every heart in the room is overwhelmed with emotion as it fills them and each individual joins with the elders as with one voice – filling the atmosphere with passionate praise.

Countless numbers stand in this sacred room, each person filled to overflowing with the glory of God. He is saturating every soul, and now all are one with Him and filled with His holy love.

As you stand there, in the middle of the awe and majesty, you are filled with such overwhelming love. You struggle and even yearn for a way to express it. You long to give Him your whole heart, keeping nothing from Him, giving Him everything so you can express your love toward Him.

To lay at His feet is an expression of honor to display your overwhelming awe and love as your foremost desire. But what do you have to express your love? As you contemplate all of this, you realize you too have a crown of great price. Your crown represents the honor and love your Father has given you – your authority and your relationship with Him.

Your worship unfolds as a tender surrender of all you are – your crown you give willingly. And you lay at His feet every honor you've received – that is your privileged worship to Him. To give to Him what is dear to you out of the depth of a heart brimming with affection for Him. In essence, you surrender all you are to Him and say, "Let all that I am praise the Lord" (Psalm 146:1 NLT).

The worship He most desires, and what He's worked so hard and sacrificed so much to save, is you. Your love is what He longs for more than anything, because you are worship to Him.

He wanted you; He wanted to love you up close. The God of Heaven who dwells in glory, who is continually worshipped, reached down and rescued you, called you by His name and clothed you with His glory to make you His own.

The fact that He wants you so desperately is reason enough to worship Him every time you take a breath and every morning when you open your eyes. He is with you waiting to share the day with you. This is the One you worship.

Your worship is one of the most important activities in Heaven and earth; the throngs of Heaven await your expression of love for your Beloved. He wants you to know He loves it when you worship Him, even when you just sit and think about Him. And when you speak out the words the Spirit has placed in your heart, you captivate the attention of Heaven.

All of Heaven stops and listens as you declare what they all feel so tenderly; it ignites the praise of Heaven. In an uproarious thunder of praise for Him, all of Heaven combines with yours, joining in your song. The awesome praise lifts His glory higher and higher as it catapults to the roar of an angel-filled sky.

That is the power of your words, dear one. Let nothing stop your song. Heaven is waiting to hear you sing its song, the song of Heaven.

His Response

Now, imagine yourself in an anointed worship service. The band is playing passionate, explosive music. The congregation surrounding you is worshipping and engaging. And you are caught up in the Spirit as you give praise to God. In spirit and in truth you declare His greatness and your love for Him. Why? Because He is worthy!

He deserves praise, and you love to show Him that you know He is worthy. You long to give Him the praise due His name. It doesn't matter who's around you or what they are doing, you give Him praise and you don't care what others think. Your only thought is for Him, and nothing will hold you back from flooding Heaven with your passionate worship.

It doesn't matter what your personal life is like, or what difficulties you're dealing with. You know worship isn't just a response to the blessings God's given you – your love for Him is unconditional regardless of any circumstance in your life. You may feel broken and raw, hurting and desperate, but He is worthy and you love Him. Your hands stretch out toward Heaven as far as you can reach them. Waving them like a banner, you practically see Him now on His throne as you sing your song personally to Him; face-to-face, you cry out praise to Him.

How do you think He reacts to your praise?

He wants you to think about how your love and praise affects Him, because He is indeed soaking it all in. When you worship Him, He closes His eyes slowly, leans His head back, and breathes deeply. He starts to smile and is flooded with emotion at the same time. He is soon overwhelmed and filled with love and gratitude. He reaches His hand to His heart and begins to weep – He is undone.

That is what your worship means to Him.

As Heaven looks on, the Almighty Lord of all is deeply touched by your declaration of love. All in Heaven are deeply moved as they watch Him. Silence fills Heaven. Then, quietly and respectfully, they begin to join the earth. Singing slowly and very quietly so as not to drown out earth's praise, but with a quiet echoing response, they close their eyes, still listening intently to the earth singing Heaven's song.

Brimming with emotion, they begin to flow in response to the release in His heart, and they give in to their urge to roar with His praise. Heaven and earth join as one – hearts burning, as their desire for Him heightens. Now no words can comprise their hearts' passion, and a glorious thunderous response in Heaven gives way to riotous praise, uncapping the glory-wells of Heaven.

When His heart is filled with your praise, His glorious presence rushes to you and He grabs your hand as if to say, "Walk with Me!" You are both caught up in Heaven's song as He unfurls waves of His presence over you again and again. Unraveling your heart, He releases you to enjoy Him. His love melts your pain, drawing you to Himself. He finds you – His beloved lost lamb.

Beloved, there are many things you do for God that you may not realize He receives as worship. Your worship is so incredibly precious to Him; He listens and holds each word you speak close to His heart. He loves it so much because it brings you closer to Him, and you are what He wants.

"But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers" (John 4:23 NASB).

You have just read Chapter Five from Victoria Boyson's new book, His Passionate Pursuit.

Victoria Boyson
Speaking Life Ministries
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Paul Keith Davis: Empowered For the Unprecedented
by Paul Keith Davis
Aug 31, 2012

In our day of destiny, we will see the glory of God. But in order to see, we must believe.

Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?" John 11:40

No one could have anticipated Jesus' strategy as He tarried before proceeding to Bethany and raising Lazarus from the dead. That was an unprecedented display of His power and authority. It stretched the faith of Mary and Martha and prepared their eyes to behold God's glory.

Fresh and exceptional things are about to take place in the Church around the world. It will stretch our faith, but it will uniquely prepare us for an awesome demonstration of God's glory. The Bible foretells that the spirit of this generation will be as it was during the days of Noah. The Scriptures portray Noah as one who found favor in God's sight.

Through a divine visitation, God specifically prepared Noah for unprecedented events that unfolded in his generation. No human reasoning or natural wisdom could have provided the necessary insight and strategic blueprint for survival. Noah prevailed only by the Spirit of Revelation and obedience to the spoken word of the Lord.

Only in the supernatural realm can we receive the provision for our generation. This spiritual reality requires a far greater faith than we presently possess on a corporate level. Therefore, we must set our faith in order to access God's end-time promises to the Church. Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life and He desires to display His resurrection power and life, so we may behold God's glory.

Long Foreseen Promises

Many aspects of His divine life have not yet been discovered. The God-empowered life is wholly supernatural. It is profoundly prophetic and embodies unfathomable depths of wisdom and knowledge. The prophets and patriarchs of old foresaw the promises given to the end-time generation; they longed to see this manifestation of God's glory on the earth. They foresaw God's plan and marveled at the resources of Heaven reserved for this coming appointment with destiny.

As expressions of God's grace, windows and doors of opportunity will be granted to many of us, granting access to the supernatural dimension of faith. For many decades, we have implemented our various programs and organizational strategies to evangelize the world. Although we are thankful for all who have been touched by these means, it has not produced the bountiful harvest foretold and described in the Scriptures.

Strictly by the demonstration of the Holy Spirit and His power will such a harvest be realized! As we stand on the threshold of the new millennium and the dawning of a new day for the Church, we would be well served to examine our heritage and comprehend more clearly our future. Many Scriptures outline the pattern by which the Lord established His Apostolic Church. However, the Book of Hebrews records some characteristics of God's Kingdom:

"God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will" (Hebrews 2:4).

In reality, this passage is forthright and underscores the cooperation between Heaven and earth in presenting the Gospel. Such pointed language as this requires no interpretation, only our faith to believe it. To attempt to explain away this supernatural dimension of our heritage would provide a refuge for cold formal religion and a hiding place for unbelief.

The Great Commission

Examining Jesus' commission to bring light to this dark world and to evangelize the nations leaves little room for doubt that the supernatural realms of Heaven are essential in accomplishing His divine mandate. The overall superior strength and abilities of many in the world leave most in the Church feeling inadequate when it comes to natural capabilities and proficiency.

However, when united with the assistance of Heaven and the impartation of the supernatural dimension, we can confidently press ahead, generously equipped for the rich demands placed upon participants in the end-time army. Scripture indicates that God chooses to transform base and common things to confound the wise. Our confidence cannot be drawn from our own strength, but from His. Presently, the Holy Spirit is looking for the qualifications of a broken and contrite spirit and those who "tremble at His Word."

In no way does this imply an endorsement of ignorance or a lack of excellence. Quite the contrary! God does not intend that we approach the world on its own terms. Our standard is a representation of Heaven according to the perfect model established by Jesus and emulated by the early apostles. Like the apostle Paul, our Gospel cannot rest upon superiority of speech and human wisdom but, rather, by demonstration of the Spirit and His supernatural power.

Those who approach this Great Commission without the undergirding of true supernatural power and authority from Heaven will most likely return without lasting fruit. For it is Christ in us who is the hope of glory and the fulfillment of the assignment placed upon this unique generation!

God of the Impossible

We cannot approach impossible tasks without being equipped by the God of the impossible. Through Him, we can boldly proclaim that all things are possible. Our only opportunity for victory is to be clothed with Christ and make no provision for the flesh or for human arguments that would deny the power of Heaven.

Many of us have endured much anguish and hardship during our sanctification process that prepares us to share in the harvest and walk in union with God. Great value exists in understanding the purpose for seasons of oppression and privation – they assist in the lofty endeavor of discovering God's rest and experiencing supernatural faith in God's Son. The refining process has as its goal the perfecting of our faith and preparation for divine encounters with our Teacher.

Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left. And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, "Be gone!" Isaiah 30:20-22

It is also through experiencing various trials that we discover the fullness and magnitude of our own weaknesses as well as our great dependency upon Him – Christ in us, our hope of glory. Any form of self-reliance ultimately works counter to God's higher purposes. That is the lesson Peter learned in the three days following the Lord's crucifixion. His sifting experience was an integral part of establishing him for his phenomena on the Day of Pentecost.

The Living Word

Around the earth today, the Holy Spirit is releasing fresh dimensions of enlightenment regarding His Word, His desires, and His strategies. They are for a mature Body of Believers to access and disseminate, allowing them to operate more fully in the power and revelatory realms of Heaven.

Throughout history, when God's people walked before Him in truthfulness and faithfulness, He made known His presence through visible signs, visions, and displays of His might. A reverential fear of the Lord arises from such demonstrations of God's virtue. That is the quest for this generation.

Presently an opportunity exists for our spiritual eyes and ears to be illumined, thereby birthing truthful and faithful hearts. As A. W. Tozer once expressed it: "My thoughts aren't adequate, Lord, to enable me to lead Your people through the quagmire of today's society. Nor are the thoughts of the writers, the teachers, the preachers, and the psychologists that bombard me from the pages and the airways. I'm only going to be effective as a spiritual leader as I learn to think God's thoughts."

Scripture instructs us that where there is no vision, people perish. Discouragement and unbelief – resulting from deferred hope and seemingly unfulfilled promises – will be overcome as the Church apprehends the revelatory realm of Heaven and secures the thoughts and ways of God. That is our Biblical promise and spiritual mandate for our generation.

Paul Keith and Wanda Davis
WhiteDove Ministries
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FIRST THINGS FIRST @ FIRST
By Pastor John M. Bjorge


God's Great Passion is to Be With You


Some movies start at warp speed. Case in point: Star Trek. From the opening scene to the end it barely lets you breathe. If you slipped out for popcorn you were sure to miss something important.

Some think that the way to maximize the movie-going experience is to be in your seat at least 20 minutes early. Never done that? Then next time you go to a movie look around and spot the person that is in the prime seat dead middle, eye level with the center of the screen. That's what 20 minutes early gets you. Popcorn and drink in hand, nothing will move this person from their secured spot for the duration of the movie.

That's where you need to be for God's story. Its opening scene also starts with a relentless pace that doesn't let up. The first line reads, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1).

Right off the bat we find the main character in the story is not you or me. It's God. And the rest of The Story will unfold out of the nature and person of this character. Just ten words in and there is enough action to leave you breathless.

It doesn't take long to find out what God's great passion is. Birds? Nope. Animals? Not quite. Sun, moon or stars? Bright guess. No, in Genesis 3:8 we find that God is walking in the Garden with Adam and Eve in the "cool of the day"

Sounds nice if you are in a hot, humid climate, doesn't it? And yet the"cool of the day" is not the focus. God is, and he is near. He is right with Adam and Eve. And he is right here with us. His simple vision for his creation was to spend time with them every day, to take a walk with them. God's supreme passion is to be with us.

Some of you have lived your life with the idea that God is some angry cosmic kill-joy who sits in the heavens and watches you, waiting for you to make a mistake so he can zap you. Or, you feel he is distant and doesn't care or has simply forgotten you.

But from the beginning he has shown us this is not the case. He wants to be with you. He has not forgotten you. In fact, this might be the perfect time for you to go for a walk.

[Honeylioness]

You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air.





The sound is high above you.



A trumpet?



A choir?



A choir of trumpets?



You don't know, but you want to know.....



So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up.. As you do, you see you aren't the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car doors are open, and people are staring at the sky..





Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store. The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parents are searching the clouds And what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.








As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part.... A brilliant light spills onto the earth... There are no shadows.... None.






From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen.. Riding on the flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.






North.. South. East... West.





Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting,


"Holy, Holy, Holy..." The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship.






Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is.... Jesus.





Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King. He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:






"I am the Alpha and the Omega."





The angels bow their heads... The elders remove their crowns...






And before you is a Figure so consuming that you know, instantly you know: Nothing else matters... Forget stock markets and school reports: Sales meetings and football games.. Nothing is newsworthy.. . All that mattered, matters no more.. For Christ has come.







Please let me know the exact time you read this. It is mystical--honest.





This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, he saw me, and he asked: "My child, what is your greatest wish for today?"






I responded: 'Lord please; take care of my family, my friends, the person who is reading this message, their family and their special friends. They deserve it and I love them very much..'






The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginnings but not its end.




This message works on the day you receive it.





To some it may sound dumb, but the person who sent this to me was impressed with its timing. Let us see if it is true.





ANGELS EXIST, but sometimes, since they don't all have wings we call them FRIENDS, SUCH AS YOU.

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James Goll: Come Again Holy Spirit!
by James Goll
Sep 11, 2012

One of the most consistent ways the Lord speaks to me is through the avenue of dreams. Many of my writing and speaking assignments are given to me in such a manner. Prayer assignments over the years have almost always come in the forms of visitations and visions. This is true especially if it is a strategic assignment.

While ministering in Brazil in this past July, I was seeking the Lord for His mind and thoughts concerning future movements of the Holy Spirit. I went to sleep in my hotel room in Belo Horizonte and woke up out of a "stunner of a dream". The manifested presence of God was riveting on my body as an aftereffect of this dream encounter. It shook me.

I have yet to tell the full dream experience publicly, but I have been directed to present portions of it to you now. Perhaps I will be released at a later date and in the proper setting to actually proclaim the message. For now, I am going to steer away from my craft of interpreting and just bring you the raw message.

I Saw Southern California as a Womb for the Body of Christ!

Like an eagle in flight, I was hovering over the globe in search of a place to land. Suddenly the entire West Coast of the United States came before me. I was zoomed in upon the state of California and with the eye of an eagle I saw glimpses of redemptive purposes and plans. I then turned in flight over portions of Southern California and I saw something that seemed unusual. Southern California was a womb for the Body of Christ. She had been used to conceive the Word and the Spirit over the last one hundred years of the Church and to bring forth different movements of God.

My "knower" was on high alert as I flew over Los Angeles and Orange County that this womb had already received another word - implanted at least a year earlier - and that another long-term, almost overdue, birth was imminent. I then soared over Pasadena and the next thing I knew, the eagle suddenly flew into the historic Mott Auditorium on the hallowed grounds of William Carey University.

I Saw John Wimber Standing on the Platform!

The Mott Auditorium was packed with worshipping Believers with standing room only. The place was electric with the presence of God. Rabid worship was happening with occasional authoritative declarations by various leaders. I noticed a few desperate pastors I know crying out with anguish for God to visit them once again. Then things suddenly shifted.

All of a sudden, the late John Wimber, former leader of the Vineyard Movement and voice for the Third Wave, was firmly standing on the newly purple-carpeted platform. The cultural atmosphere was now pregnant with a realm of the glory and the thick majesty of God. Then I heard and felt the voice of John Wimber echo an invitation that rattled the entire place. He simply declared, "COME AGAIN HOLY SPIRIT!"

People started crashing to the floor en masse under the impact of the power and authority that resonated in those simple words. Once again another sound wave was released, "COME AGAIN HOLY SPIRIT." It was not gentle Jesus showing up or the comforting dove of God manifesting. It was not just another renewal or revival meeting - though it seemed to include all of those qualities. It was the violent invasion of Heaven entering a time and space world. It was a Church quake.

I felt the reverberation coming off the sound waves of the voice of the invitation. It shook the very building, the grounds and all those present. The fear of the Lord fell and an earthquake of a 5.7 magnitude resulted. The quake resulted in an anointing resting on Psalm 57: "Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me. For my soul takes refuge in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge until destruction passes by. I will cry to God Most High, to God who accomplishes all things for me. He will send from Heaven and save me."

People screamed in terror as the entire grounds and buildings were rattled by the sound of God's voice being heard and felt once again. Signs and wonders broke out but it appeared as an aftereffect, not the primary goal. Then a third time I heard the pronouncement from John Wimber, "COME AGAIN HOLY SPIRIT!" People crashed onto the floor in droves.

As I pen this, I just now realized some things I had forgotten. I was reminded of them as they just flashed suddenly within me as I compose this. I also saw the late Jill Austin, one of the fieriest prophetesses of the last decade, gazing in upon what was happening and smiling. I heard her laugh echo over the occurrence as to say, "I told you He was coming!" I saw a great cloud of witnesses including Aimee Simple McPherson and others who were gathering around to peer in upon this strange outbreak. The convergence of old anointings - still seemingly resident upon California - were now colliding.

Suddenly I was Awakened!

My senses were heightened. It was July and I was ministering in Brazil – a land pregnant with revival - but suddenly it appeared to be another season. It was Fall - right at the time of the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah. Then pages of a book flipped quickly from one chapter of time to another and suddenly it was 40 days and nights later. I smelled smoke in Mott Auditorium as if the place had been filled with the burning fiery sacrifices of violent praise and worship. I smelled burnt flesh. I smelled aromas of life and death simultaneously at work.

Short messages from different anointed vessels were a part of this new sound wave but again it was not the main thing. Miracles happened - they just suddenly occurred. But again, this was not the aim. It was not why the people even assembled. Yes, there were even short passionate pleas and desperate cries for help! But even that was not the central focus. This move of God centered on the radical worship of the One – Christ Jesus the Lord - and the welcoming with abandonment of the third person of the Godhead – the Holy Spirit! The jealousy of God permeated the experience.

It was not a conference. It was not polished. It was not even 24/7 as we presently know it. It was raw and overpowering. It was not rehearsed. It was an invasion of the Holy Spirit Himself.

A window of opportunity had opened and this uncontrollable surging sound wave jumped spontaneously around the globe. A man appeared on a pogo stick gleefully jumping from city to city and nation to nation. The man on the stick was William Seymour of the historic Azusa Street Revival. He leapt across the nations and everywhere his pogo stick landed, light came for a brief moment! The nations were in an uproar - and fire and light were falling around the globe.

Then I Heard One Last Word:

"A Line Has Been Drawn in the Sand." Terror gripped me. I shook. I honestly did not know what was coming next. I still do not know having pondered deeply on this experience. Was it Days of Glory or impending societal chaos? Was it times of economic collapse or reformation where a new order was created out of tumultuous uncertainty? I honestly was left not knowing what the outcome or the result was or would be.

But this I knew: Hope for the fragmented Body of Christ and the nations was being released. An invitation was being sent from Heaven to earth and a line was being drawn in the sand.

The word went in me. The word penetrated me. The word has disturbed me. But this I know, Heaven has a word that must be heard in the earth realm, "COME AGAIN HOLY SPIRIT!" And the invitation must have an urgent and appropriate response.

In the Fear of the Lord,

Dr. James W. Goll
Encounters Network • Prayer Storm • Compassion Acts Team
Email: [e-mail]

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Kim Clement: What In the World Have I Created?
by Kim Clement
Oct 12, 2012

John 17 I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to me, and they have kept Your word...

But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

Jesus (the Word) was not sent to the earth at the most perfect time with the most perfect environment. The Bible says, "One day, however it happened, Jesus invited Peter, Andrew, James and John to follow Him." What would our world be like if that had never happened? These were not perfect creations, but human beings with many flaws. At the end of their time together they had not caused much of a stir. If you could have been there on that day after Jesus died...if you could have seen the Roman Empire and its Pax Romana, its 250,000 miles of roads, its extensions from Asia to Africa to Europe, and its history of dominance and social status that was envied throughout the Mediterranean...and then if you could have seen a few dozen failed, frightened, demoralized, defeated, confused former followers of an executed carpenter... If someone had asked you to place a bet on which group would still be around in 2,000 years, all the smart money would have been placed on the Roman Empire...which is now EXTINCT. God took what He had created and formed something so powerful that these few chosen disciples turned the world upside down...or right side up.

What You Have Created Cannot Be Uncreated. So What Can Be Done About Our Present Pathetic State?

The trouble is that we have been in a pathetic state of maintaining. To maintain means "to keep in existence or to keep in a specified state or position." There is a huge difference in "keeping in existence" and "bringing into existence." As I've taught before, there are two realms of divine truth: historical truth and creative truth. Both are equally as important, and in fact, the one cannot exist without the other. The trouble is that historical truth is easier to maintain as it has already been born and is established. Another term that I use for historical truth is "truth in the tomb."

Gaston Bachelard wrote, "One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort." Creative truth, on the other hand, removes all of these efforts, and instead of imaginative effort, we are now plummeted into a whole new world of creative imagination.

Nothing Exists Until Or Unless It Is Observed

Prophecy presents an image to the hearer. One of the words for image in the Greek means "logos." Remember, the divine word/image is a seed that, once planted in your soul, will grow. How does it grow? In the imagination! So, once the future is revealed to an individual, the next step is creative observation.

Observation Is Creative

How is it that people keep thinking about what they don't want even when they're hugely motivated to manifest something new? It's simple. What you don't want has affected you because you've experienced it in the past, dragged it into your present, and therefore it is foremost in your mind. We have to ceaselessly pull away from it. You must refrain from thinking and focusing on its continuation. Before something that you desire can manifest, you have to discontinue manifesting what you DON'T desire becoming or being. Let me give an example. Why is that when my intention is wealth, I'm still poor? Why is it that when I pray for and desire a new career, I'm still stuck in the old one? There is no such thing as observation without creation. Don't spend time observing your present misery!

There has to be a MANIFESTATION of your IMAGE – your prophetic word. What has God shown you about yourself that is NOT manifesting yet? Write it down.

Uncreating Is Impossible

You cannot "un-create" what you've already created (or manifested). Remember, in every deed there is a seed. Our actions create our future, good or bad. It's your choice. Someone once wrote, "Today is the tomorrow you dreamed about yesterday." We can add to this, "Today is the tomorrow you prayed about yesterday." However, prayer is not enough. Faith without works is dead. Deeds make seeds. Once something has manifested in your reality, it's too late to un-create it, and the more you OBSERVE it, the more it is perpetuated. How about destroying the bad you've created? It's not that easy. Well, how about recreating what you've created? I love the words that God speaks through Isaiah about Jacob:

"But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel..." (Isaiah 43:1).

Take note that God says that He created Jacob. Remember, Jacob was a supplanter (schemer/deceiver). To supplant means "to take the place of another." In fact, he ran from his brother who desired to kill him and ran from his house after deceiving his own father. God didn't kill Jacob, but he "formed" ISRAEL out of this mess. Think about this for a minute. God is the Creator and creates Jacob who turns out to be...not so nice. God has a plan. Form something out of this mess. And He does a great job of it! We need to follow this example and possibly take note of the mess that we've created and form something beautiful out of it. God could easily have looked at Jacob lying on the ground in the city of Luz and chosen to wipe him out. That's the easy way out.

Let's look at the words "created" and "formed." Every day we create life and/or death by our words and our actions. In the Hebrew language the word create is "bara," a primitive root that basically means "to create, to select and to feed." So, when you create something by your actions, you have the choice to continue feeding it in its present state or recreate it. The word "form" used in Isaiah is "yatsar," which means "to squeeze (into shape), to mold into a form; figuratively, to DETERMINE." Another explanation is "to place purpose into something." Look at some of the things you've created and are in existence today because of your bad choices and actions. Do you see any purpose in it? Then make purpose. Shape it.

The story of one of the greatest presidents of Harvard College, Charles William Eliot, is worth recalling. Born with a serious facial disfigurement, he discovered as a young man that nothing could be done about it, and he must go through life with this mark. When his mother brought to him that tragic truth, it was indeed "the dark hour of his soul."

His mother told him, "My son, it is not possible for you to get rid of this handicap. We have consulted the best surgeons, and they say that nothing can be done. But it is possible for you, with God's help, to grow a mind and soul so big that people will forget to look at your face."

It's impossible to focus all your attention on the future without thinking of the present. How can you not think about being broke if you don't have the money to pay your accounts? That's where the prophetic comes into being, and it works! Even though your history may have brought you present misery, your destiny can bring you manifested freedom; and once you taste of that freedom, you are driven and motivated to move toward your goal rapidly. So we are stuck with our present situation – how do we make it go away?

As I said, you can't un-create it, but you can form something out of it, give it a purpose, and actually conquer it. The beginning of prophetic imagination is to begin CONQUERING your mountain. A mountain doesn't always disappear, but it can be conquered. Step-by-step, foot-by-foot, it can be conquered.

What did Caleb do at the age of 85? He said to Joshua, "Now therefore, give me this mountain" (Joshua 14:12). The mountain was filled with giants, but Caleb knew that unless he conquered the mountain and took control of it, he would never rule over it. If your mountain won't move, then conquer it!

We are focusing on conquering our mountain in 2012, and I believe with my whole heart that many of you will be manifesting freedom from debt, bit by bit, quicker than you could imagine.

God's intention has to catch your attention. Once it's caught your attention, it must be your top priority so that His intention can manifest in your life.

Kim Clement
Prophetic Image Expressions
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October 05, 2012

Dear DDD

I read this as a very encouraging word. I declare that you WILL get the job you need and deserve, because you are God's daughter and He wants to bless you. You have been faithful and consistent ( I know you are imperfect and God knows it and He still loves you beyond belief) and you are about to receive the job with all it represents. I think you should contact the people you need to and ask the questions we have discussed. I know this does not mean that you will get that particular job, but I think you should do it anyway. Trust me, your father and I know better than anyone else, how what you are going through feels. When I think about how he got his last job, it seemed absolutely impossible and yet it happened--so just do it and I absolutely believe you will see the job you have been waiting for appear. Faith is the evidence of things NOT seen. Thank you so much for all you did to make the week in Florida a success. I wish that some things had gone a little better, but over all, I think it went well. I know you were disappointed that you did not get to do some of the things you wanted to. Me too. Try not to let that be the most important part of your memory of our week. I need to know how you want me to proceed with the transfer of some of papa's movies to dvds. We'll talk soon.

All my love, Mom

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Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda: It's Time to Seek the Lord
by Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda

Oct 5, 2012

Last week, the book of Jonah was read in synagogues across the globe on Yom Kippur. You're probably wondering, "Jonah? What does Jonah have to do with the most Holy Day of the year?" It is a rather far cry from the solemn image we have of the High Priest going before the presence in the Holy of Holies each year. But Yom Kippur is a prophetic picture of the day Jesus' Blood would make a way for true repentance that leads to eternal salvation in the presence of the Living God. And Jonah's comical story of a prophet on the run who is swallowed by a whale is the greatest event of corporate repentance in recorded history.

The book of Jonah is timely for the season of corporate prayer and fasting that we began on Friday, September 28. He is a type of the Church, a carrier of God's message and anointing for deliverance in this hour. His journey is one we can relate to. God chose an unlikely hero, using him for the most amazing evangelistic outreach in spite of His chosen servant's reluctance, blunders and outright resistance.

Awakening!

We all know Jonah's story. God tells him He has a message for Nineveh. Jonah watches his life flash before his eyes at the thought of such a dangerous mission and gets the notion that a vacation in Tarshish is just the ticket. As he boards the ship in the opposite direction from Nineveh, the Bible tells us Jonah's true intent – to get "away from the presence of God."

What is the answer for America? God's presence. Everything begins and ends when we seek to be a people of God's presence. Let us seek God's face!

Things start going wrong right away. A furious storm barrages the ship. The crew does all they can to fight the storm, but things are looking pretty grim.

Was God out to punish Jonah? No! God's mission still stood, and Jonah was still the man God had anointed to bring the message. He was drawing Jonah back to his destiny. He was awakening Jonah to His presence. Ironically, it is the heathen captain that God uses to wake him. "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish" (Jonah 1:6).

Jonah has lost his bearings. He has gone as low as he could go, as far as he could run, and finally fallen asleep to his call and destiny. But God is using his natural circumstances to shake him out of complacency. He wants to bring deliverance. America is in a season of shaking. But this is not a time to fear. God is calling to His Church, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you" (Ephesians 5:14). The whole earth is groaning for the revelation of God's anointed servants in this hour. God wants to bring awakening, starting with us.

In the Belly of a Whale

Once Jonah is identified as the source of the trouble, the Captain asks, "What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?" (1:8). Jonah comes to a moment of truth. He is a servant of the Living God. He has a mission. He is a Hebrew. He tells the crew, "Throw me overboard!" Jonah makes a change of direction. Instead of running from God, he puts himself at the mercy of God and throws himself into the storm.

Fortunately for Jonah, none of this is a surprise and God already has another vessel chartered for Jonah's journey to Nineveh. Within moments, Jonah is settled into the luxury suite of the belly of a whale. We took note a few years ago when scientists spotted a gray whale off the coast of Israel. The whale was thousands of miles outside of its normal habitat, and had never been seen in this region before. The large fish God had prepared in advance to swallow Jonah may have had a journey of several weeks just to arrive to pick up his cargo! We believe this whale sighting in Israeli waters is a prophetic sign that we are in a season of deliverance. God is moving on behalf of His people Israel and His Church in this hour.

"I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, and He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice" (Jonah 2:2). Have you had enough debt? Enough joblessness? Enough of calling good evil, and evil good? America is in the belly of the whale and it is time to seek the face of the Lord.

Turn Around

God is telling America, "Turn around!" It first takes personal repentance. Jonah is headed in the wrong direction, but God sends a fish to help him make a return. During his three-day journey Jonah comes to a revelation that God is the Lord. "But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord" (2:9) He turns his heart, and God delivers him out of the whale onto the shore of his destiny.

Thanksgiving is one of the keys to our turnaround. We can't let the storms pull us down into depression, despair, doubt, or fear. As we fast and pray, let us stay in an atmosphere of praise and thanksgiving. Begin thanking God now. We believe we are in a season of miracles and His deliverance is at hand!

"Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time" (3:1). As Jonah unceremoniously walks up to Nineveh to deliver God's message, he is covered in seaweed, whale vomit, a bit shriveled, and a lot worse for the wear. He must have looked and smelled atrocious. But he delivered the message and the city that was infamous for evil turned to God in repentance, fasting, and prayer. It was a kairos time for Nineveh, and the people recognized their hour of visitation and stepped in.

It had little to do with Jonah. It had everything to do with the Lord. The most wicked people in the wickedest city responded because of the anointing. The king laid aside his robes and covered himself in sackcloth. 120,000 people fasted and prayed for mercy from God. The spirit of repentance sparked a revival that exploded in a supernatural wave of power that changed and the course of history. 3,000 years later, Jonah's message is still bearing fruit. Nineveh is a Christian city to this day, electing the only Christian to the Iraqi parliament, and has a culture of following the Lord.

We are in God's set time for deliverance. We are in God's kairos time for favor. If God could use this man and turn this wicked city, nothing is impossible. America is a Christian nation with a destiny that still stands. It's time to awaken from slumber. It's time to remember who we are. It is time to seek the Lord.

"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14). You are God's representative to America. We invite you to join with us as we harmonize with Christians across America in 40 Days to Save America (started last week). We are praying for a supernatural turn around for America. May the Lord send the spirit of repentance to our land. As we set aside this season to humble ourselves in prayer and fasting, may He hear our cry and have mercy on our nation.

Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda
Chavda Ministries International
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