Scripture ref: Daniel ch. 3.  *Note vs. 23-27*

China: Communist totalitarian regime; extreme persecution of Christians; 

= 80M - 100M believers and rising

Indonesia: Theocratic Islamic regime; Extreme persecution of Christians;

= 33M believers and rising

Iran:  Theocratic Islamic regime; Extreme persecution of Christians 

= One million plus believers and rising

India: Hindu; Extreme persecution of Christians;

= 66M believers and rising 

The United States of America...?

I saw  what I thought to be an olive, being pressed and squeezed in between two hands…gently at first, then more and more intensely until I saw oil begin to come from the olive. I knew this was the Church.

Still more and more the olive was squeezed, almost to breaking point… And people began to scream - to shout - to cry out to the Lord…but these cries were different - cries like I had never heard before…these were cries that were coming up from a place of pressure.

As the cries reached Heaven, the Lord turned His Head…as if we had suddenly got His attention:

And the conversation I heard, went something like this:

The Lord: “Are you ready for me now?”

The cry from His People: “YES!”

It was from this place of weakness and brokenness that I saw the anointing oil was now flowing freely and unhindered from the Body of Christ…and it was also from this Place that the Bride of Christ began to emerge. The Place where we were, had now become a place of purity and holiness…an aroma of Life in the midst of the stench of death.

And The Lord gave me this scripture - 

“We are hard pressed on every side,but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” 2 Corinthians 4:8-12

But…If we want revival, we must want the LORD more than anything else…more than our own lives, we must want Him.

#FollowingJesus #2chronicles714 #ArmyOfTheLord

 

 This was a race for the soul of humanity…and with each lap, more and more people joined the race and started running…But no longer just gentiles - now it was Jews…I said to the Lord “the vale is truly being lifted…(Read Romans 11:25-26)

What does that mean for us?”

Then I heard the sound of a bell… the sound that you hear when a runner hits the final lap of a race…

And there were many people running…I sensed tension in the heavenly places: 

One after another, we entered the final lap - and each time the bell would ring. As a consequence, the bell didn’t stop ringing, but just kept on. And I heard “Last Call!”

This is a wake up call for the Gentile Church; 

This is the final time around: 

I saw nations and people groups I had not seen before…

Cultures and tongues I did not know (Matt 24:14)…

At the final bell, they entered into The Way, and joined the race with us (Matthew 20:1-16)…

And I felt the Lord saying to everyone, “Keep on! Don’t stop: 

“For the final lap is the one you must run the hardest:

Forsaking all else (Luke 9:23-24)…

Throwing off every burden (1Peter5:7)

And fixing your eyes on the Prize (Hebrews 12:1-3)!

The final lap is the moment where you MUST find strength that is not your own (2Corinthians12:9)…

Where you MUST realize that you can’t do it on your own…

And where My Church will truly understand that “man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word of God.” 

It is for this purpose, you have run this race…

So that I can bring you to this High Place - of weakness…

For where, except in your weakness could you ever really know Me - The True Power of My Grace…the Strength of My Salvation…?

Where else could you truly understand - My arm is NOT short that it cannot Save? ✝️ 

Beloved, you are going to need this”

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.  He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you. Deuteronomy 8:2-5 

(Revelation 3:14-22)

I believe this is the time…

and what is our source?

Nothing,  but the Blood of Jesus

#ArmyOfTheLord #FollowingJesus

 Luke10: 17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” 18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. 

But what Jesus says to his disciples next, is the ONLY thing that really matters….this is our FOUNDATION…from which the Bride of Christ must - and will arise. Once we learn to do THIS 👇…everything else will flow 

vs. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

#ArmyOfTheLord #FollowingJesus

 Only through genuine humility and repentance

…a turning away from the love of this world…

a laying down of our ministries…names…reputations…favorite preachers…wealth…resources…our very lives

…a tearing down of whatever we have built for ourselves…

forsaking all and turning solely back to God…

Only then, will we be able to overcome this COVID virus…and whatever will come after it.

Luke 9:22-25

This is not on America - her sin has become too great…This is on us, the Church…But when will we learn? - When will the lesson be learned? We cannot overcome the world by joining it.

Forgive me, but, to quote the words of Winston Churchill:  “You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!”…and this exactly where Christian pop culture and church elitism is taking us.

We have to run the other Way…

The only hope for this nation is revival…but the only Way to revival is through repentance and embracing the Cross ✝️. This is how we fight the good fight of faith. Lord make your Bride ready…whatever the cost.

#2chronicles714 #WatchmanOnTheWall

Father, it is the final hour. Let me take NOTHING for granted…but let me look to you for everything, - because this is what YOU want!

The time is coming where we must choose: either we are in Goshen (under the Blood); or in Egypt (under the judgment)….

so, for our own sakes, God is going to humble His Church…

to the point where the only strength he will allow us to possess, will be the strength to cling to the cross…and nothing else 

Deuteronomy 8:2-5

And out of this humility will come revival…

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#2chronicles714 #WatchmanOnTheWall #ArmyOfTheLord

 

 #ArmyOfTheLord #fastforfamily

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

Ephesians 6:10-13

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

Genesis 2:18

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Ephesians 5: 22-24

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.

1Peter 3:3-6

 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,  because we are members of his body. 

Ephesians 5:25-30

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),  “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”  Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-4 

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 18:10

***🇺🇸Because the heart of America is the Church…the heart of the Church is Christ — and the heart of Jesus Christ is family…

And when I see the end times army of the Lord - I see families***

Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.

Ephesians 6:14-18

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Revelation 22:21

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                       Warner Christian Resources 

 Large crowds came to Him in the desert (the hard place)

Matt 14:13-21

But…

who was able to come to Him on the water? 

(the impossible place)

Matt 14:28

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. (Matt16:25)

Matthew 10

28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 

30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 

31 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. 

32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 

33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

***Read Matthew 5:9-12***

34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 

35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 

36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. 

***Light must be separated from darkness otherwise how could it ever be recognized as Light.  Do we want our families saved? Yes!  

But before there can be any reconciliation between sinful men, a person must first be reconciled and set apart completely to the sinless and Holy God…This means we must step over the line and separate ourselves solely unto Him…

Holding nothing back, and forsaking everything and everyone else…

Still living in the world, but no longer of the world. 

Offensive?…Yes - 

But this is how we are sanctified…

This is how we are able let our lights shine before our families…friends…enemies…even in the face of  persecution. (I speak from first hand experience)***

Matthew 19:29-30

Luke 9:23-26

John 17

37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

40 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. 

***Note: These instructions were given to Jesus’s closest followers - The Twelve. These same instructions apply to all of us who also desire to be Jesus’s disciples and to follow Him closely.***

Lord, it is the final hour…and we cannot perch on the fence any longer. Please make Your Bride ready…and if it takes persecution - so be it…because you love us!

Read Revelation ch.2 & 3

 

 I was thinking the other day…

“I am so, SO proud of my daughter!”🙌🏼🎉🥇

“Praise God!”…you may say. “What did she do?”

Do I need her to DO anything, to be proud of her…

As His children, does God actually need us to DO anything, to make Him proud - or has it already been done through His Son?

My daughter does most emphatically NOT need to accomplish anything to make me proud of her. 

Don’t get me wrong: There are inevitably times when our kids will DO things to make us very proud…and other times where they will  exhibit behavior that we are far from proud of. 

Give praise where praise is due…acknowledge hard work, effort and achievement…and discipline and correct immediately the need arises. This is biblical and exactly how the Lord does His parenting.

But, in a society that is pushing harder and harder for perfection - humanity’s version of perfection - we need, in the Church, to do it God’s Way.

Be proud of your kids NOW…before they achieve anything (TELL them you’re proud of them)…and they just might surprise you later. 

Don’t try and mold them into who you would like them to be: Love them for who they are…and let God mold them into who HE has CREATED them to be.

So…I have multiple reasons to be proud of my daughter…

but if you ask me why, I will reply:

“Because…”

“Yes, but why?”

“Just because…”

John3:16

#fastforfamily #FollowingJesus

Malachi 2:4–6

ESV

4 So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. 6 True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. (Referring to the whole tribe of Levi - the ministers and keepers of God’s House)

Proverbs 9:10

Father, is this not also our commission?…Is this not also how we should appear to the world…how you desire us to be. That we would walk before you in holiness Lord…bringing the Gospel of Salvation in truth, love and the fear of the Lord…that the world would see and know that you are holy. For how will they know unless we are telling them…how will they see unless we are showing them.

Romans 10:15-15

#2chronicles714

 

 Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.  

***Genesis 2:18-25***

Lord, is this not what you want us to look like? 

And in particular, for us women…what we are supposed to look like in the eyes of God…to our husbands - 1 Peter 3:1-6

Please raise up seasoned husbands and wives (of all generations)…who have come…and overcome in the refining fires of testing…who will nurture, exhort and spur other marriages on…that we would GO THE DISTANCE in you Jesus…

for the Family…for the Church…for the nations of the earth…for revival!

 …For I have seen an end times army that looks like a family…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hz53l-x_i5E&list=PLbNl_0OCU0nuCOHd9VZl6y-Z3Ntt30WO1&index=32

This is the cause of my prayer and tears: This is the army…This Is Family 

#FastForFamily #ArmyOfTheLord

 #FastForFamily

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

Psalm 127 Unless the LORD builds the house,

those who build it labor in vain.

Jeremiah 22:13

Zechariah 4:1-7

 

Unless the LORD watches over the city,

the watchman stays awake in vain.

***”The Jew would ask, why is the house being built, if not for family? 

…And why are the watchmen protecting the city, if not for the families in it?” (Boice)

I believe this is also how the Body of Christ is meant to look***

vs2  It is in vain that you rise up early

and go late to rest,

eating the bread of anxious toil;

for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Matthew 6:19-34

***Because, to the Jew there was (and is) no greater heritage given by God, to a man, than his family. Everything else was supposed to take lower priority.***

3  Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,

the fruit of the womb a reward.

***A warning to Israel not to offer their children (a gift from The LORD) up to moloch…as was the custom of surrounding nations (Lev18:21).

And for us today…we are not to despise our children…they are not supposed to be a curse, they are a blessing!***

4  Like arrows in the hand of a warrior

are the children of one’s youth.

No greater weapon or privilege do we have, than to bring up our children in the Ways of the Lord…the survival of Israel as a nation was dependent on this. And for us…? Matthew 24:14; Mark16:15. - The torch must continue to be passed down!

Our children do not belong to society…they are a gift from the LORD…to us.

5  Blessed is the man

who fills his quiver with them!

He shall not be put to shame

when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

***Then and now, the family was the basic unit, and most important element of society (Boice)***

Our society may have been turned upside down, but we as a Church do not have to be.

It is my prayer that before His return, the Lord God of Israel, Yeshua ha Mashiach, will set us, His Body, right side up and united under Him who is our Head…And that, as parents , guardians, teachers, we would see every child given to us through the eyes of the Lord…

That as His Church, both men and women…husbands and wives…moms and dads…we would understand what our true and Godly priorities really are…and looking totally unto Him, we would walk in them (Zechariah 4:1-7)

For I have seen an end times Church that looks like a Family.

See also Psalm 128

 Nehemiah 4:1 Sanballat was very angry when he learned that we were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and mocked the Jews, 2 saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, “What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they’re doing? Do they think they can build the wall in a single day by just offering a few sacrifices? Do they actually think they can make something of stones from a rubbish heap—and charred ones at that?”

Lord, please  humble our hearts…cause us to be willing! - for you are more than able! Help us to rebuild and fortify this Place of Salvation - the Gospel of Christ and Him crucified - in these end times…while we still have time.

Matthew 24:14

John 9:4-5

 

Although my strength  is almost gone, HE is right here in the midst of the storm;

Although I feel at war within, I can rejoice for I have HIM;

and though my world comes crashing down, no power on earth can steel my crown; 

To my beloved LORD I belong; this is my strength, this is my song:

I WILL LIFT MY HANDS IN PRAISE

SOLD OUT TO JESUS ALL MY DAYS - glory to God forever and ever Amen!

 

 

 Do not be afraid of the furnace. When we are under the Blood of Christ, the only thing that will burn is our flesh (sin)

Exodus 3:2; Daniel 3:25; Isaiah 43:2

- Is this not the reason for the furnace?

 Warfare 101:

As an intersessor I have learned that the beginning of ALL prayer is PRAISE! This is a precedent set by Jesus Christ Himself in Matthew 6:9.  It begins with praise - and also ends with it. 

2Chronicles 20:21-22

This is how we overcome.......

 I am weeping and trembling as I write this - and you can call me crazy if you want…but I have seen an end times army marching under Christ, that is powerful…no, invincible…because it consists of whole FAMILIES…with (wherever possible) men at the head. These men were organized…and galvanized. They were dressed for battle and ready to fight…for their families - and specifically, their children.

This is why I fast for families…the heart of God IS family…America has fought so hard for the family: and the Lord knows, I am not ready to be raptured out, leaving families in disarray…fathers estranged for their children…children lost and walking the street. 

But the Lord wants to do something through His Church, that is outside of our box…It will take reconciliation…it will take a miracle…it will take PRAYER

(If anyone feels led to join me PLEASE let me know…I need all the help I can get lol)

#fastforfamily #WatchmanOnTheWall #ArmyOfTheLord

To be continued…

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 I am overwhelmed and weeping. 

I had become so disillusioned with the greed and total corruption I had witnessed, even in the Church, these last few years - 

And then I went to a baseball game…and watched scores of children running the bases, curtesy of the Bowling Green Hotrods.

Children from around 12 to as young as 2 years old began to deeply stir my heart. They ran hard…they ran well…

Tears began to fill my eyes as I watched moms running with their children…dads picking up their smallest ones and carrying them, proudly across the finish line…

Older siblings helping their younger ones…whole families “running the race” and entering in together. 

And I saw through the eyes of the Lord…

I saw revival. 

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As I stood shaking at the top of the bleachers…trying to hold myself together around several hundred people, I was reminded by the Lord of my Fast For Family…

And I realized why and what it is that we are fighting for in this nation…what is God’s heart and soul towards America really…? 

It is Family 

Happy July 4th everyone 

#2chronicles714 #FastForFamily

 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John1:5

Do not be afraid My People…for hidden in Me, you can never be fully overcome. In Me you are the Light of this dark world.  And even when the darkness reaches its fullest measure, as a solar eclipse reaches its totality, even then there will still be Light… in fact the deeper the darkness, the brighter and more dangerous the Light will become. 

For as the Heavens declare My Glory, so learn this lesson from My Creation:

Just as the light of the sun can never be fully concealed...the Light from The Son will never be understood or overcome by the darkness…

 This is the continuation of a series of visions posted a few weeks back, based around the end times army of the Lord…

Men at the head…

I was in a trench, like as in a battle.  The saints with me in the trench were trying to charge over the top, but were being pinned down by such a barrage of enemy fire, that they just couldn’t move- and I saw that this was an army of men…the men of the Church.

I do not know what happened to suddenly galvanize every man in that trench…but it happened. I can’t say if people were literally being martyred. But somebody did fall…something happened that was significant enough as to galvanize every single man in that trench! (A wake up call)

And by the power of the Spirit, no longer considering their own lives, like a sleeping giant, the men of the Church suddenly arose as one, charged over the trench and up the enemy ramparts like a tsunami wave…

Towers & banners 

I saw Towers  on top of the enemy ramparts: specifically I saw the names of two:

 “Take out the gender”(identity) 

 “Take out the head”(authority)

I knew this was to do with the family and the role of fathers 

Further below I could see banners that I recognized only too well:

One was connected to LGBTQ; another one said “indoctrinate the children”

still another “orphan the children” 

I knew that every banner and every tower (Principality) that they represented,  was an assault on God’s institution of family and consequently a direct assault on men, as the head of the family 

The spirit of Elijah!

Then I no longer saw just men: I saw fathers, sons, grandfathers, brothers. I saw family!

These men charged up the ramparts and began to attack ferociously. As they did, I saw the heart of the father begin to arise within them…

as if a blindfold was  removed and they suddenly recognized who they really were as men: 

They began to fight differently: They fought as fathers, husbands, sons, brothers, grandfathers, defending their families.…

And as these men fought, they changed…they began to see… their place not just in the natural families, but in God’s family! 

Then I heard another trumpet (the first having sounded with the men charging the ramparts) and droves upon droves of women - mothers and grandmothers; wives and daughters,  came up behind the men and formed a huge firing line. We fired with discipline and deadly accuracy (I was allowed to participate in this one)The women and some children were following in  an attacking wave behind: we too fought ferociously…

but it was the men: who were once blind but could now suddenly see…

who suddenly recognized what it means to be the head… 

who recognized their place in God’s established order…and who were now fighting hard for it! …This had now become an End Times  battle of epic proportions!

When leading leaders lead in Israel, bless the Lord (Judges 5:2)…and in the Church, when God-fearing men arise to take their position in God’s established order…BLESS THE LORD! I believe satan is more afraid of this then anything else.

As women we have such a vital role to play - 

but this battle that I have seen, must…and can only be…led by the men.

I watched as the banners and towers that I had seen before, now began to burn under the terrific onslaught of both men and women, whom at this point were all fighting together. The men fought differently to us (the women)…they fought in a way that we simply couldn’t, and vice versa. But we needed each other…and it was when  we realized this!…when we fought together…That is when the attack of the Church became unstoppable (I remember thinking “nothing can stop it now”) We were fighting not only for our families, but for God’s ideal…for God’s heart…For The Family…for the Kingdom.

Then I was brought back to a vision of a few months ago…where I saw the Church lined up like an army…an army that consisted of whole families…

Because God is coming back for men who are positioned at the head of their family…God is coming back for a Church that looks like a Family.

(Malachi 4:5-6)

I will continue the vision in a later post, as the Lord directs me, but with His permission, I am giving you the following video clip from the movie Glory. This is literally the only way I can bring to life for you, what I have seen…and it comes pretty close. May God speak to you through it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz3sZiVAO0k&t=33s

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 Daniel 2: 31 “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue,awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold (Babylon), its chest and arms of silver(Media/Persia), its belly and thighs of bronze (Greece), 33 its legs of iron (Rome), its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. (Revived Rome- The kingdom of anti-christ)

Feet of iron and clay. It’s strength is deceptive; it’s unity is an illusion. Iron and clay can never hold together. Yet this kingdom, for a time, will unify the nations, holding a decisive and destructive power over all who belong to this world….Why? Precisely because they love the things of this world and seek after the treasure of it…Revelation 13:16 It (the false prophet) also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark,which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. 

To refuse this mark is to be heavily persecuted, and at the very least, deprived of even our most basic needs. If we do not learn to make Jesus Christ our source, and seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness …if we do not begin to store up for ourselves things of Heaven instead of this earth…and set our desires on the same…we too will be ensnared by the power of the prince of this world.

Read Matthew 25:1-13;Genesis 19:12-26

We must set our affections on Christ NOW, not considering anything of this world but awaiting expectantly for His return. 

Because…

34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands.It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. (Revelation 19:11-21)

Matthew 6:19-21, 31-33; Colossians 3:2-5

I may not always be able to 'stand' 

    but thank you Lord I've learned how to kneel!

 

April 6 2021

 “The danger and deception across the nations is great: but a truly greater danger and deception to the nations and my Church is this: Genesis 11:3-4; forced and manufactured “revival” (in My Name, but for man’s glory). For this reason I Am allowing the earth to be shaken; and I also  will not remove the flame from you My beloved Body...so that what I Am about to do in My Church, I alone WILL do, with My own Hand - and far beyond the reach of any human one” (Isaiah 55:6-9). 

I must walk before You surrendered and obedient; For will you be truly lifted up in your church, as long as there is any other high thing in it? How will this great awakening not go the same way as all the others have gone before, unless we Your Church learn to keep our hands off it?...

Therefore He will not remove the flame from under us...He will continue to put us through the Olive press...to humble us...to break us...until we realize that we are One Body...that we have only ONE Head - under whom everything must bow.

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“The sound of Christ will beat down the politicians of Baal...And My People shall be baptized...with a Fire...with a Fire...WITH A FIRE’, says the Lord” (Kim Clement, Mt Carmel 2008)

 The line between good and evil must again be defined: So why is God shaking everything that can be shaken? Why is He keeping the flame under the nations of the earth? Because the evil therein has to be exposed...the evil of communism...the evil of totalitarian states and radical religion...of anti-christ agendas, is and will continue to reveal itself for what it is...so that those held captive in its grasp will REALIZE their captivity...and will begin cry out...as Israel did in Egypt...for the LORD’s Salvation (this is a why the Gospel must go out to all the earth). This is why, once Salvation has been realized by these, they will never let it go...resisting to the point of death if needs be...but NEVER TURNING BACK - because in choosing this, they know they are actually choosing Life:  No one values freedom more than the one who who KNOWS they have been enslaved...no one recognizes true Life more than the one who once was dead.

So when our persecuted brothers and sisters in those dark countries of the world ask us to PRAY, pray, pray...it is not so much that the persecution would stop...but that they would stand their ground...that the Lord Yeshua would be glorified through them...that whether in life or in death, a great harvest of souls would be reaped through them. For the day may come when this could be us...

and history shows us:  He is NEVER ever glorified through compromise. Revelation 12:10-11.

Am I ready for persecution…? #John16v33

 I teach the Word of God - but one of the most important lessons God has taught me is this:

It is not always my job to reach my students...It is ALWAYS my job to TEACH my students; 

The Lord Himself is the One who will reach them,  through the Word that I teach them...Because His Word will never return void, but will accomplish that for which He has sent it (Isaiah 55:11).

We can sow the seed; we can water the shoots...we can pray, pray, pray:  But then comes the real test of faith:  Can we let go and allow the Holy Spirit to do His job?...to do what only He can do (John16:8) ...Because it is the Lord who reaps the harvest. (1Corinthians3:6-7)

Also Zechariah 4:1-6

 I have come through a lifetime of intensive deliverance and deep healing: I have seen the LORD work absolute miracles in my soul: It has happened, not through the repetition of random verses of scripture, over and over like a parrot (as some would teach)...but through real encounters and a real relationship with the LORD, in His Word (John1:1)...

And this has happened, not through emotion or experience (although these are a part of it) ...but through reading God’s Word properly, in its context...and looking to find Jesus Christ within its pages, rather than (as is popularly taught) trying to find myself in them.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John1:4)

Jeremiah 29:13; Zechariah 4:1-6; Ephesians 1:17

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When we look at this hour and this season, are we in any way seeing God’s mercy? ...

Because at any time, God would have very good reason to pour out judgment on the nations of the west - and at the top of the list of these reasons would be greed, murder and most of all PRIDE.

And yet...it is because of His Mercy that we are not (completely) consumed...

And because of His Mercy that He has raised up a remnant in His Church who will take a stand, kneel in prayer and fight the good fight. 

So are we looking at this season all wrong?...through our eyes instead of the Lord’s? 

Or do we understand, that the fact we still exist as the ONLY nation and the only people left with  freedom to proclaim the Gospel, IS the mercy and grace of God? (Matthew 24:14🇺🇸)

If we understand this, then surely we must not waste it. 

In this time of MERCY, God will send His Fire...to burn to ashes in His Church, that which is corruptible...so that all that remains is...WOW! Only He knows. 

Thank you for Your Mercy #2chronicles714 #ArmyOfTheLord 

 Why I believe the Church must endure tribulation:

I believe in a final great awakening...and as hard as I try, I cannot shake it off... it is in my DNA...

I saw the great eagle that is the USA suddenly arise like lightning from the earth, for (what I believe) would be her last , but finest hour... and at the same time, the gospel move like a great psunami wave, across the earth, to the farthest islands of the sea, in a playing out of Matthew 24:14; 

I saw my own nation explode into the flames of revival; Europe was on fire; I watched as the continent of Africa ran red with the blood of Jesus...I saw other nations that I am not free to disclose...I saw people drop everything and run, run, RUN through the narrow gate - compelled by the deepest darkness the world had ever known...I watched the most hardened and vilest offenders stagger through this same gate and fall to their knees before the Lord...I saw in Africa, hands lifted up from souls that were literally drowning in iniquity, reaching out for forgiveness...and brave sold-out believers in Christ would grasp their hands and pull them to safety. I heard the ground shake with the voice of true Heaven sent, blood-bought freedom...it was a sound I had never heard before...bought from shear pain and anguish...but the sound of an Army...an ecclesia who had come (and overcome) through great persecution; who had been winnowed , divided, broken down and brought down, on God’s great threshing floor...but had arisen again , pure, holy, fearless and United. I have seen a global move of repentance that began within families and understated gatherings...a  turning to God from shore to shore...sea to shining sea...where no tribe or tongue is excluded....

But I  have also questioned the Lord: How can this be? No local revival has lasted more than a few years...much less a global one. Why? ...Because of course people cry out for Salvation in the hard times..but as soon as the pressure is lifted...well we are prideful by nature...and we think we know better than you...we just cannot get ourselves out of your way...nor keep our hands off what you’re doing. Is this not how every revival in the past has died?

So surely for such an awakening as this to stand the test of time, you must keep the flame of refining trial underneath us...we the Church must remain continually in a place of Gethsemane (the place where the anointing oil flows most freely)...where we have no option but to continually look to you (not ourselves) and rely on you for everything. We need to let go of compromise...because this is a place where the world hates us... wants us out of the way, whatever it takes...and our continual state is therefore one of humble reliance on You...where we “love not our own lives unto death” (Rev12:11).

This then begs the question: Is there anything in Scripture to even support such an awakening as I am talking about?...One that is global and inclusive...one that, even in the midst of the fires of persecution, cannot be stopped and will not die out, until we are raptured out?

Yes...there is one place:

 This clip from Moses Prince of Egypt and the accompanying prophesy is a word from God, to the Church in any nation that reads it...to all of us...now...and especially the church in the U.S.A.... and the UK: When I looked, I saw Britain...in revival!🇬🇧...The spirit of the nation was still there...and had not changed (that same spirit of WWII and before)...

but the Face of the nation had...it was what I can only describe as multi-cultural...it was strong...it was beautiful...It was the Body of Christ in the nation of Britain.

“Look At Your Life Through Heaven’s Eyes”

“Pray My people...humble yourselves and pray. For I Am birthing a culture of HONOR in My Body: 

Not an honor for big ministries and big names...not the Tower of Babel that this world is building...but honor for one another...from the least to the greatest...

That you would see yourselves and one another through MY EYES...One Body...many MANY diverse parts...no one more important in MY EYES than the other...each one essential to the health and effectiveness of the Whole. 

Because through MY EYES, Church is not a pedigree...Church is a UNITY...an Ecclesia...a miraculous and (sometimes messy) but always beautiful, coming together...of EVERYONE and EVERYTHING! Because I gave My Life for EVERYONE (John7:37-38)...and EVERYONE is welcome!...That is what makes you so STRONG and dynamic...

Because you are NOT a pedigree breed- (pedigrees are highly prized and valued by this world, yet lack resilience and are more prone to health problems)

But my Church is and always has been a strong mixed breed...despised by the elites...seen as valueless by this world...yet, where one part’s weakness becomes another part’s strength...where one part’s gifting meets another part’s need...where the very thing that is seen as valueless - her huge diversity - is what is making her so strong and resilient!...

And all under One Head...and all bought by the same Blood....so none can boast (1Cor 1:26-29).

If you claim to honor Me you must also honor those in whom I dwell...You must learn to honor one another.

Therefore I am about to birth a spirit of Honor in My House, because you must LEARN to function side by side, as one...(Nehemiah ch 3 & 4)

“Though you never know all the steps, you must LEARN to join the dance” (Heaven’s Eyes 1998)

 ...and when My Body, in all its wonderful diversity of shapes and sizes learns to “dance together as one”, she becomes a formidable army, who is able to set the captives from Babel free and compel those on the outside to come in and LEARN to do the same.

This is a call from Heaven:

 “My People stop looking for pedigrees (celebrities and superheros) in My Body - you will find non(Romans3:22-23)...Stop trying to build Babel in My House...What you build will be tried and tested  by My fire (1Cor 3:11-17) 

Rather humble yourselves...and ask Me Church...Ask Me!...that you may look at your life...and each other’s...not through the eyes of man... but look through Heaven’s eyes.

 Excerpt from12/25/2020 

“They came up (from the tomb) as an Army (Ex12:51), fully equipped with the armor of God, but something in particular, struck me as significant: The church that came up from the tomb was, if you will, nameless and faceless. Each saint was robed completely in humility and their faces were covered by the helmet of Salvation. (These garments alone seemed to protect them from everything of this world). Everywhere they moved, they brought shafts of Light into the midst of deep darkness; everywhere they were, the blood of Jesus was right there with them.

...because when He arose from the grave, He brought His Church with Him; as He abandoned His grave clothes, so have we.(Col.2:12-13; 1Pet1:23)...

...and as I watched this movie clip, it wasn’t only The Lord abandoning the grave clothes and stepping out of the tomb - it was the Body of Christ.

Ephesians 5:14 Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead,and Christ will shine on you.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Mnsxj2N7Y&list=PLbNl_0OCU0nuCOHd9VZl6y-Z3Ntt30WO1&index=11

I thank God for the scars; I do not wish them away, nor pretend they were never there. For the scars remind the devil- and say to all, that I have been in the battle, and have overcome (Revelation 12:11); that I was thrown in the furnace, where my bonds where burned but I was not(Daniel 3; Isaiah43:2); that I have been wounded, but that by His wounds I have been healed (1Peter2:24; Isaiah 53:5):

And He (Jesus Christ) Himself bares His own scars. Why? So that He would be recognized...that people may know that it was He who took the curse of sin and death, when He was nailed through His hands and His feet, to a tree (Gal3:13); that it was He who brought forth a new covenant in His own blood when He was pierced in His side. (Luke 22:20; John20:25-27); 

So what do our scars show to the world, except that we have passed from death to life, torment to peace, fear to security, hatred to Love... damnation to Salvation.

What is a scar? 

*A wound that has been healed, but has left a mark. When we have been healed by Jesus, we WILL leave a mark!

*The final connection between us and a dying world that needs to know...!

*A way of saying “Look what the devil did...but LOOK WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE!”

(Matt28:5-6)

So don’t be ashamed of your battle scars: Jesus’s scars showed His disciples Salvation; our scars will show the world the Way to Salvation.

...Galatians 6:14,17...

 

 The blood of Jesus has kept me and my entire family safe from death. I used to be afraid of proclaiming this; I guess it’s a lot to do with the culture I was brought up in. “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched”, people would say; or: “Isn’t that tempting fate?” 

Now God has opened my eyes to the truth- the opposite: that it is right in this hour to thank God we have been kept safe. Because...how do we overcome?

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony...

This is how we also must overcome! Put your trust entirely in His Blood...And proclaim that you are doing so.

 Psalm91

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you....

That is, as long as we are....Dwelling in the SECRET PLACE of the Most High;

What does this mean? That we need to stop hiding from Him (Gen3:7-10); and trust Him enough to start hiding in Him (Ps.32; John6:29-58)....then, as promised, we will find REST in the shadow of the Almighty.

 ~~2Chronicles7:14~~

The hand cannot say to the eye I do not need you. We need each other; the famous cannot say to the unknown “you’ve got it wrong”, just because he is an ‘unknown’. We do not earn the gifts or the calling on our lives: if this were the case, the Church would be the proudest most competitive structure on earth. God gives gifts and callings to whomever He will, and in whichever season He chooses: The purpose being that we would work together, to enhance and fortify each other as One Body: We are not the ‘Club of Hands’ or the ‘Society of Eyes’: We are the Body of Christ; where the eyes need the nose as surly as the foot needs the toes. When we work together under One Head - especially in the prophetic, we validate, strengthen and clarify what God is trying to show us, providing we do not contradict  His will (revealed in the pattern of his Word). So if one prophesies persecution, while another prophesies revival, let’s get on our knees and prayerfully take to heart  both: Because I believe that one is needed to produce the other. It’s not that the one prophesying persecution does not believe in God’s goodness and mercy- not at all. We see in part and prophesy in part, which is why we work together. I am no prophet: I only know what the Lord has shown me: The Church in the West has been asleep - deeply, comfortably asleep; and in order to see an awakening of this magnitude, there must be a significant shaking. If God has to shake us HARD to wake us up, that we would run ONLY to Him; cling ONLY to Him; stand in the gap and cry out ONLY to Him, that mercy instead of judgement would fall on this nation....If God has to shake us to wake us; to send the fire in order to prepare us for the rain...if He HAS TO do this...is this not the goodness and mercy of God?

1Corinthians 12; 1Kings18:38-44; Romans11:20-22;Ezekiel 22:30; Psalm119:71&75-76; Hosea 5:15

 For we have been born of God; born of the Spirit; not of natural seed to inherit the ‘Tower of Babel’ that this world is building; but of spiritual seed to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. What fellowship can Light possibly have with darkness? We are no longer of the lineage left to us by our earthly forefathers(which will perish): We have been born again of seed incorruptible: 

The wind blows wherever it will. No one knows where it comes from or where it is going- so it is the same with everyone born of the Spirit. Now, like Melchizedek the Priest of Salem, we are a puzzle to this world; we leave no paper trail except to the Cross: We have no lineage except Christ, who is all and who is in all who believe: We have no identity except in Him - and we do not need one. All that matters is a new creation. God is our Father; He hems us in, in front and behind. Our past is under His Blood; our present is hidden in His Body; our future is in His Glory: We will not truly recognize ourselves until that Glory is revealed. My life is nothing, but Jesus Christ.

John 1:12-13;  1Peter 1:18-19,23;  John 3:7-8;  Hebrews 7:3; 9:14,22;  Romans 6:1-11;  Colossians 3:3-4;  1Cor 2:2;  Psalm139:5;  1John 3:2

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 “For He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep “(Psalm 121:4).  

The Lord does not sleep- and neither does His Body: For as surely as the sun sets over one nation - one continent, it is rising upon another, and the prayers of the Saints- the watchmen of the Lord, unified and unceasing, continue to rise as incense before His Face: 

We are One Body in many nations, but what makes us so formidable is that where some of us are resting, others of us are wide awake, continuing to radiate and reflect His Glory. So in essence, we, like our Lord, neither slumber nor sleep.

This is the Body of Messiah: Sanctified; Unified; Glorified: 

Through the Blood; beyond the vale: This is who we are.  This is why we must never, ever stop communing with Him; It is only through Yeshua our Head, that we become One Body.

For this is where everything else begins (just you and I Lord): To discover that secret place, is the reason for the season we are in. 

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