The Power of Declarative Prayer

The Power of Declarative Prayer
By John Paul Jackson
www.streamsministries.com

Prayer is a powerful thing. I know you’ve heard that before and probably have experienced it, but in the ups and downs of everyday life, it is good to be reminded.

So saying, you are heard by Heaven. Heaven responds to you. Your tears are bottled up and kept forever. Your case is before Him. He is listening, and He is acting on your behalf. Don’t forget this, and don’t doubt, because doubting is a waste of your God-given time.

When we pray, whether we sense it or not, there are reactions in the spirit realm. In the same way, when we declare God’s truths over ourselves, they stick. They change the atmosphere. They change us. We are no longer the same, whether or not we’re aware of it.

I pray declarative prayers often. They get me out of my self-pity, anxiety, confusion and self-doubt. They change my mindset and reorient my thinking.

The prayer below is a wonderful prayer for this season, Be encouraged in this season, for the Warrior is with you, and He is mighty to save.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His authority, I cut off every curse that has been spoken against me to try to stop me from walking into God’s purpose for my life. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in His authority, I cut off all bloodline and spiritual curses that any person or persons may have placed upon me, whether by their actions or by any form of verbal declaration at all, whatsoever.

Through the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pronounce that, in His name, all these things are null and void as of this moment. Nothing that is against His purpose for me shall flourish. Nothing, in the name of Jesus, that is anti what He has created me to become will flourish from this moment on. And therefore, in His name, I declare that:

my family will prosper,

my children will prosper,

my finances will prosper,

my authority will prosper,

my favor will prosper,

my influence will prosper,

my understanding of Scripture will prosper,

my wisdom will prosper,

my discernment and discretion will prosper.

The power of the Living God will flow in greater measure through me, unencumbered. It will increasingly become more unencumbered and flow at greater rates, greater speeds, to change people’s lives and advance the glorious Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ within me.

I declare that God has determined the pre-appointed time for my life, the exact place that I would dwell, the exact time that I would be born, the exact location for my anointing. He has placed me where I am in order for me to touch and change that area, and that the enemy — the powers of darkness — would be broken because of the power of the Living God upon my shoulders.

He has done this, so that I would grope for Him, and that I would seek Him, and that in hope I might find Him, for in Him I live and move and have my being. As Paul wrote, “We are all His offspring,” and therefore I declare that I am flesh of His flesh in the Kingdom of the glorious Lord Jesus Christ. I am bone of His bone. I was born for such a time as this. No matter what has happened in the past, or what has been happening in the present, I will walk in victory, and I will see the goodness of God in the land of the living! In Jesus’ name, amen.

Thanksgiving Proclamation

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well as the iron and coal as of our precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October, A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

IS THERE A “CIVIL RIGHT” TO GAY “MARRIAGE”?

IS THERE A “CIVIL RIGHT” TO GAY “MARRIAGE”? 
By
Michael L. Brown, Ph.D.,
Director,Coalition of Conscience, www.coalitionofconscience.org
November 15, 2008

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As gay protests to the passage of Proposition 8 take place in cities across the nation today, it is important that we know the facts. How do we respond truthfully to the statements that are being made?

"I have the right to marry the one I love!"

If that is the case, then shouldn’t Patrick and Susan S. be allowed to marry in Germany? He was adopted as a child and didn’t know he had a sister until she was 16 and he was 23. He has served a prison sentence because of his love for his sister. They have had four children together and do not want to be separated. Why should the government intervene? Patrick says, “We are like normal lovers. We want to have a family.” Susan states, “I just want to live with my family, and be left alone by the authorities and by the courts.” Their attorney argues that the law against a brother and sister marrying “is out of date and it breaches the couple’s civil rights.” Does this sound familiar? If gays should have the “civil right” to marry the ones they love, why not a blood brother and sister, separated as children and reunited later in life?

"It is an outright lie to claim that legalizing same-sex marriages will affect what children are taught in the schools."

U.S. District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf ruled against the Parkers and Wirthlins who had requested that their children be removed from elementary school classes when homosexuality and transgenderism were being promoted. Judge Wolf argued that teaching diversity in sexual orientation was "reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy" and trumped both parental rights and their sincerely held religious beliefs. And, since same-sex marriage was legal in Massachusetts, where the Parkers and Wirthlins reside, on what basis could they ask for their children to be removed from class? Based on this ruling, the superintendent of schools in Lexington, MA, recently explained to a concerned parent that, "The court decided we are not required to inform parents in advance of teaching units that include same gender parents or required to release students when such topics are discussed."

"This is a civil rights issue no different than segregation. We are born this way and we cannot change."

Many black Americans are offended by this analogy and do not feel it is fair to compare the color of one’s skin with the sexual relations one chooses in private. Also, there is no such thing as “ex-black” whereas many people claim to be “ex-gay,” and recent scientific studies have confirmed that some homosexuals can, in fact, change, while other studies point to a large degree of sexual fluidity, especially among women. Even if you reject the possibility of change, however, and claim that homosexuality is inborn and immutable, how does that relate to civil rights? All of us reject pedophilia for many reasons, yet pedophiles claim that they were born that way, that they would never choose such a sexual orientation, and that they cannot change. Do we then grant them the “civil right” to their behavior because it is inborn and immutable? Or do we lower the age of consent to accommodate ephebophiles who are attracted only to young teenagers (and who also claim their orientation is inborn and immutable)? Why discriminate against them if our behavior and orientation can be justified based on being inborn and immutable?

"Children raised in same-sex households are no different than children raised in heterosexual households."

A meta-analytical study by pro-gay researchers Stacy and Biblarz indicated that children raised in same-sex households were more prone to promiscuity, crossing gender lines, and same-sex attraction. To cite one example, they found that lesbian mothers had a feminizing effect on their sons and a masculinizing effect on their daughters. They also reported that “the adolescent and young adult girls raised by lesbian mothers appear to have been more sexually adventurous and less chaste . . . in other words, once again, children (especially girls) raised by lesbians appear to depart from traditional gender-based norms, while children raised by heterosexual mothers appear to conform to them.” On a more personal note, Dawn Stefanowicz, raised by a gay father, wrote, “What makes it so hard for a girl to grow up with a gay father is that she never gets to see him loving, honoring, or protecting the women in his life.” Children do best with a mom and dad, but same-sex marriages guarantee that this possibility will never exist for children they raise.

"In the past, the Bible was used in America to promote slavery, segregation, and the suppression of women, just as it is now being used to suppress gays and lesbians."

It is true that the Bible was misused to promote slavery, segregation, and the suppression of women, but it was actually the proper use of the Scriptures that fueled the anti-slavery and anti-segregation movements, while there are numerous verses in the Bible that speak in glowing terms of the importance of women. In fact, anthropologist Rodney Stark pointed out that one reason that Christianity spread so rapidly in the ancient world was because it was so egalitarian and so liberating for women. In contrast, there is not a single verse in the Bible that extols homosexual behavior, to the point that even the gay-affirming biblical scholar Walter Wink noted that, “The Bible is negative toward same-sex behavior, and there is no getting around it. “ He also stated that "Paul wouldn’t accept [a nonexploitative homosexual] relationship for a minute."

"Giving us the right to marry would not affect the rights of those who differ with us, especially the rights of people of faith."

The Washington Blade (May 30, 2008) asked, “Apart from state- or federally funded religious programs, could the legalization of same-sex marriage in California prevent priests and ministers from preaching that homosexuality is biblically forbidden? Could churches in time risk their tax- exempt status by refusing to marry gays? That remains to be seen and will likely result in a steady stream of court battles” (my emphasis). Catholic Charities in Boston dropped out of the adoption business because they were required by the state to place children in same-sex households; Elaine Photography in New Mexico was found guilty of discrimination for refusing to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony because of religious convictions; and a doctor in California was found guilty of refusing to artificially inseminate a lesbian woman so she and her partner could have a baby, again because of religious convictions, and despite the fact that this doctor personally referred the patient to another doctor. As predicted by lesbian legal scholar Chai Feldblum, when religious liberty and sexual liberty conflict, “I’m having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.” A just-released study by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has also found that over 350 separate state anti-discrimination laws would likely be affected by the legal recognition of same-sex "marriage."

"It is a lie of the religious right that legalizing same-sex marriage will open the door to legalizing polygamy and incestuous relationships."

Actually, polygamy involves a far less radical redefinition of marriage than does same-sex marriage, since marriage is fundamentally the union of a man and a woman more than it is the union of two people. Polygamy is also legal in much of the world and has been the accepted norm in many cultures throughout history, whereas same-sex marriage has never been the norm in any nation at any time in the past. Because same-sex marriage so radically redefines the nature of marriage, marriage certificates were changed in California after the Supreme Court’s decision in May to refer to “Partner A” and “Partner B” rather than bride and groom, while birth certificates in Spain now refer to “Progenitor A” and “Progenitor B” as opposed to Mother and Father. It should also be noted that pro-incest and pro-polygamy cases currently before courts in the USA and abroad are pointing to same-sex marriage rulings for support.

"There is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage."

The California Supreme Court, by a four-three vote, recently claimed to discover such a constitutional argument, claiming that everyone has a basic right “to establish a legally recognized family with the person of one’s choice,” yet there is not a single sentence in the Constitution that can be fairly construed to support this “right” for same-sex couples. Moreover, following the Court’s logic, there is no basis for refusing the “right” of two gay brothers to marry and “establish a legally recognized family,” and it is with good reason that justice Marvin Baxter wrote in his dissenting opinion, "I cannot join this exercise in legal jujitsu, by which the Legislature’s own weight is used against it to create a constitutional right from whole cloth, defeat the People’s will, and invalidate a statute otherwise immune from legislative interference."

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The bottom line is that this is not an issue of civil rights or constitutional rights; rather, it is an issue of right and wrong, and it is dangerously wrong to tamper with the historic and sacred institution of marriage, one that exists for the benefit of the family and the state, and one that forms the bedrock of human society. We do well not to tamper with our foundations! It is also a well-known fact that many gay activists have promoted same-sex marriage for years, knowing that it would be a major stepping stone for the complete normalization of homosexuality in society. The implications of this are enormous, and while we should have compassion for those who sincerely desire the “right” to same-sex marriage, we dare not alter the foundations of human society.

Finally, it is utterly hypocritical for gays and lesbians to call for tolerance, diversity, and inclusion and then to label as “hate-filled bigots” all sincere people of faith (or non-faith) who oppose same-sex marriage on religious or moral grounds. Where is the tolerance, diversity, and inclusion? Why is the democratic process not enough? Could it be that those who espouse “tolerance” have the potential of being the most intolerant? Could it be that those speaking against “hate” are actually engaging in it?

It is no surprise, then, that today, as I write these words, protesters at a rally in Sacramento, California are holding up signs with slogans such as: Prop 8=American Taliban; Ban Bigots; Majority Vote Doesn’t Matter; We Won’t Go Away; 52%=Nazi; Don’t Silence the Christians, Feed Them 2 the Lions, and lastly, Your Rights are Next. We have been forewarned!

Those of us who claim to be followers of Jesus should adhere to the biblical injunction to overcome hatred with love and to conquer evil with good, reaching out to those who oppose us, sharing with them the message of forgiveness and transformation through the gospel, and standing firmly on our convictions, knowing that God’s ways are best.

We shall not be moved!

Michael L. Brown, Ph.D. is the Director of the Coalition of Conscience, a network of Christian leaders and believers in the greater Charlotte area who are working together for moral and cultural change through the gospel.

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e-mail: ministry@icnministries.org

A 9-Day Prayer Focus

Chuck D. Pierce
www.GloryofZion.org
Friday, October 31, 2008

Dear Friends:

With all the waters rising and rivers flowing, and societal structures changing, we must have revelation on how to interpret the times. The level of contention that is brewing in this land is overwhelming. You hear the concept of revolution and revolutionaries being discussed daily. This nation was birthed on revolution and will see revolution again. This political election seems like the two women in the Bible arguing over the one live baby (I Kings 3). There are some that have a righteous heart for the Lord. There are others who are motivated by political ambition, a Judas spirit. May the “one” who has the true heart of God for this nation be exalted by God and come into a new place of nurturing and leadership for our nation.

How we vote is how we will be visited. I do know the people of this nation will be allowed by a Holy God to choose their future. We could make a choice that would be detrimental in days ahead. As the word of God says in I Samuel 8, the nation of Israel chose a king. In Samuel 8:18 the Lord warns the people that if they choose a King that is not His choice, the following would happen: “And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day.” We are now determining our future. The real danger is the Lord turning His ear away from us in days ahead because we make a choice that is against His will. Kingdom people must do the will of God. We are a nation above other nations. Concerning this nation, the picture below is a great reflection of what I see ahead of us.

Notice in the picture the river and the rift or schism. I recently met Pam and some of my children at the Grand Canyon. I had been ministering in Las Vegas and then drove to meet them for one day before we proceeded on to Phoenix. When I was viewing this magnificent display of God’s power and creation, I saw something. What I saw quickened in me and reminded me of what I saw in August 2007. It was then that the Lord began to show me a nation divided. He has continued to deal with me from an intercessory standpoint to get prepared for a great schism that is coming to this nation. On May 31, 2008, I was ministering at the major gate of this nation in Liberty Park, New Jersey, and as the Spirit of prophecy began to fall I exclaimed what our nation would look like in the future. I have not yet had the liberty to discuss all that I saw. As my family and I looked at one of the incredible viewpoints on the rim of the Grand Canyon, the Lord spoke to me and said, “A new type of river is now rising in this land. This River will create a schism unlike anything this nation has ever known before.” Be prepared - this nation as we know it will no longer be the same. In the Hebraic Year 5769, the Year of the New Wineskin, we must be prepared for the structure of this nation to change.

A schism is a division or disunion of mutually opposed parties. In Ecclesiastical understanding, a schism occurs when a formal division or separation occurs where some doctrinal or administrative difference in one sect of the Body creates an offense resulting in division. Division is the opposite of multiplication. I Corinthians 12:20-26 states, “But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you’; nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.”( NKJV). A rift is means to burst open or split. A rift is an opening made by splitting. This can be like the picture you see above or can occur from a break in friendly relations or difference of opinion. We can agree to disagree without condemning each other. I see the River of God that has been released from the heavenly realm creating a new place for us to stand and cry forth for His power and glory to come into the earth.

"Rivers" and "waters" are frequently used in Scripture to symbolize abundance, as of the grace of God (Ps 36:8; 46:4; Isa 32:2; 41:18; John 7:38), of peace (Isa 66:12), of good things of life (Job 20:17; 29:6), and of God's providence (Isa 43:19-20). The fruitfulness of trees planted by rivers is figurative of the permanent prosperity of the righteous (Ps 1:3; Jer 17:8). However, rivers can also be related to affliction (Ps. 69:2; Is. 43:2). The drying up of rivers represents God's judgments (Isa 19:1-8; Jer 51:36; Nah 1:4; Zech 10:11), as can their overflowing (Is. 8:7-8; 28:2,17; Jer. 47:2) and moving outside of its originally intended boundaries. How the water gushes or flows indicates a message from the heavenly realm by the Father-God of creation to His people. How to enter the “Harvest Waters” is of utmost importance to understand at this time in history. This is a time of violent praise. This River must rise! We are nation that has many factions within it. I share much about the blood war in God’s Unfolding Battle Plan.

Watch this winter! Winter torrents sometimes come down with great suddenness and with desolating force. Get ready for accelerated changes that will begin this winter. What we see in the natural will become spiritual. That river will become torrential and devastating to some and refreshing and moving to others - bringing us to a new place of harvest. The river of God is stirring the fish. They are coming to the surface. The Lord will fill our nets if we will creatively stand in the rising river and not fear being swept away.

God’s river is life. His life always overcomes death. There must be a fresh release of His Kingdom River in America. Ezekiel 47:9 says, "Everything will live where the river goes." This river even has power to heal nations (see Ezekiel 47:12 and Revelation 22:1-2). Saying we need a release of the river of God is another way of saying we need a fresh outpouring of His Spirit. Nothing else will break this spirit of death and political schism that is rising in this land. We must return to the Lord. This means to repent, which means to change our minds. We must repent for having divisive political leanings that cause us not to represent the God of Righteousness in our choices we make. We are a nation above all nations and must always represent His Kingdom in our actions in the earth.

I love reading about Elijah. James said that we have an emotional make up like him. I have been studying the end of 1 Kings 18 and the beginning of 1 Kings 19, and asking the Lord for revelation over the “Baal” structures that would oppose our nation. Elijah faithfully carried the word of the Lord in his heart until the time came to intercede, bring God’s word into the atmosphere, and produce change. After the birth of the next season, he established himself in the gate of the nation. However, the strongman, Jezebel, made a decree that opened his eyes to the demon rule in the nation. I Kings 19:2, says, that he “SAW” her threat. That means that the demonic forces behind her threat could be seen in the atmosphere. He “saw” the demonic forces empowering her threat and could not stand before them. This caused him to vacate his position of victory and flee. He needed new strength from a new word of revelation that would produce a new faith so he could continue to stand.

Stand firm, do not run! Wait for the next word, and we will see a generation arise that will overthrow the Jezebel structure in the land. Babylonian spirits have brought great confusion into this land. There is coming of God something that will look confusing but will produce a new order in this land. We must not compromise or rearrange our support for God’s covenant land. Babylon is shaking. We must stand in our relation with Israel and watch God produce a people in this land who will stand for our future. Stand and command these spirits that would negatively direct our government to be blown from their position of influence.

9 Days for you to Make the Shift that God is Requiring NOW in our Lives at the Crossroads of History and the Blending of the Generations:

Day 1: Develop His MIND! Read Philippians 2 and Romans 8. Don’t lean on your own understanding. You will never make the right choice with your limited knowledge. Philippians 2:5-8 says, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus… who made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant … He humbled Himself and became obedient.” Romans 12:2 says, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Don’t let Satan’s scheme fashion you into one who thinks like the world. Don’t let outward appearances deceive you, causing you to miss what God is doing. We must prove the voice of God, and practice in everyday life what God’s will from heaven is declaring to us. Romans 8:7 says, “The carnal mind is in enmity with God”. Declare that the Lord will put His finger on every area of carnality in your thinking.

Day 2: Learn to express His heart! Memorize and Mediate on Proverbs 29:18 and 2 Chronicles 20:20. Prophecy is expressing the mind and heart of God. Let the Lord deal with your emotions. Invite the Spirit of God to subdue your emotions so His heartbeat can be heard. Declare that all self pity and hope deferred is being removed from you. Command bitterness and unforgiveness to leave your soul. Express the heart of God in your thinking. Don’t let inordinate affections cause inappropriate alignments in your life. The heart can have weights or attachments. I declare a “free” heart over you. Without correct prophetic revelation we perish.

Day 3: Change your atmosphere! Read Matthew 13. Speak faith!! Jesus could do very little in Nazareth because the atmosphere was so filled with unbelief. Jesus was the all-powerful God walking the earth, capable of signs and wonders, yet the atmosphere in Nazareth created a barrier for His intervention. Break the negative atmospheric presence around you by prophetic declarations of victory!

Day 4: Do exploits! Optimize resources! Memorize Daniel 11:32 which says “the people who know their God shall prove themselves strong and do exploits for God!” Remember to “optimize.” That means to see things from a positive standpoint. To do exploits means to take the resources you have and create new resources or bring them into a new level of fullness. This is one of the things that God means when He says to optimize resources. Read Psalm 30 and Genesis 1 and 2. In a Mudslinging Year (9, the Hebraic character Tet, means Mud and Mire), take all the mud that is being slung and be creative. The Lord was creative with mud. He made us from it!

Day 5: Watch for the “suddenlies!” Read 2 Chronicles 29:20-36. We’ve heard about the suddenlies happening, but now they manifest. If hope deferred and weariness is ruling you, you will miss the time when our Lord moves on your behalf. If fear is influencing you, you won’t understand when God starts breaking through on your behalf. The process that you’ve been going through is moving toward a SUDDENLY!

Day 6: Learn the process of going “OVER”! Read Isaiah 54 and memorize verse 17. We must have an “over” mentality. Overtake or be overtaken. Overthrow or be overthrown. Overturn or be overturned. Overcome or be overcome. Be sure you are being overseen. Also, define the sphere that you are overseeing!

Day 7: Develop a Kingdom mentality! Read Mathew 11, 13 and Luke 9, 13. The Kingdom of God is within you. We build the Church, but we get keys to the Kingdom. Study the Kingdom. Matthew 11:12 says, “.. now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” The Kingdom advances in victory. This occurs through violent spiritual conflict and warfare. Fear not! The Church is God’s warring agent. Worship and war! The Kingdom increases. Understand the sword and the fire because they are both important in the battle ahead.

Day 8: Find your new river of JOY! Psalm 30, Psalm 46 and John 11-12. Do not let the RIFT ahead stop you from standing. Praise causes Him to enthrone Himself in our midst. Jesus’ display of glory to raise Lazarus from the dead created a rift. Do not let upcoming manifestations create a rift that keeps you from experiencing God’s Kingdom plan.

Day 9: Experience a SHIFT in the Rift! Read Genesis 13 and 14. For God’s covenant plan to make the next shift, there came a rift between Abraham and Lot. This was really over provision and worldly choice. A “shift” is a change of place, position or direction. A shift also includes an exchange or replacement of one thing for another. A shift is a change of gear so you can accelerate. A shift can also be an underhanded or deceitful scheme. Therefore, in our shift we must recognize that the enemy is plotting to stop it. A shift also entails a scheduled time. Shaking occurs during a shift. Think of a fault line. A rift is the place of dividing. God has a time where division is necessary for His covenant to come forth in a new way. Jesus said it this way: “I didn’t come to bring peace, but a sword!” Let’s just be sure that we, in God’s Kingdom, don’t use the sword on each other.

TheCall California

TheCall California - November 1, 2008
Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego
10am - 10pm

TheCall.com

They came like waves crashing onto the shores of California. Leaving behind a legacy of glory and apostolic influence, great manifestations of the power and love of God broke in on past generations of hungry saints. Waves of God’s great presence cascaded upon her shores in 1906, 1919, 1947, 1948, 1967, 1971, 1980, and 1994. These waves are California’s revivals. In the midst of unspeakable decadence, corporate greed, cultural trend setting, and global pornographic exportation, there lies deposited deeply below California’s crusty surface gold-there’s oil in her hills. Something continually draws God to the scene. Could it be that God is drawn to her pain? Maybe God sees her shores as hosting planet's lost prophets with misplaced passions or maybe he is drawn to the cry of her wandering masses. Whatever be the case, He comes, and when he does, the entire world is changed. The tongues of fire that erupted at Azusa have lit up the world. The revivals sown in Hollywood loosed great evangelists like Bill Bright and Billy Graham. The Jesus Movement gave us Calvary love songs that have kissed the youth of the globe. The new wine of worship and healing came from California’s vineyards. These ancient songs awaken us from our nightmare and remind us something that was and can be again. Hollywood, the “woman at the well”, could become the great evangelist again in these last days.

In 1946, Franklin Hall launched a fasting and prayer movement out of San Diego with a book called Atomic Power With God Through Fasting and Prayer. Thousands were stirred to enter into extended consecration fasts. Shortly after, the great healing revival broke out in 1947, followed by the campus revivals, and the Hollywood revivals in 1948. In the very same year, across the globe in the heart of the middle-east, by God’s divine mandate Israel was again called a nation. Could there be that there was a connection between what God was doing in California and the orchestrating of His divine purposes in the creation of the nation of Israel? Is it possible that the outpouring of God presence and the igniting of prayer in California were in reality connected with God’s heart to birth an entire nation? I believe it was global Joel 2 moment in which the scripture promises that after the fast, God would restore the land and pour out his spirit on all flesh. I hear TheCall again; “Gather the people, call a fast, and afterwards I will pour out my spirit.”

Now 50 years later, California sits within a fog of Jezebel confusion. Recently the Supreme Court of California disregarded the votes of the people and legalized homosexual marriage. The entire world listened attentively as the mayor of San Francisco boasted, “As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. Its inevitable, this door is wide open. It’s going to happen whether you like it or not. This is the future, and its now.” The world is looking to California for moral leadership while California finds herself caught in the snare of idolatry and self-worship. Recently I received an urgent call on behalf of hundreds of pastors admitting that California wouldn’t be saved simply political petitioning and confessed the reality of an ongoing spiritual battle within the state and the need to mobilize for mass fasting and prayer. They asked us to bring TheCall to San Diego, not knowing that we received several powerful directives from the Lord a year ago that TheCall was going to go to the stadium in San Diego.

This bill mentioned is a reflection of how far down the line we have come in removing the very moral foundations that preserve society. The moral levies in America are breaking and once marriage is redefined, it will be a matter of time before the entire structure of morality collapses within our nation. In one sense, this bill mirrors our own inward moral concessions as a church to the prevailing culture, and it is the fruit of a compromising silence that has failed to confront the rising spiritual and political contenders. But it is not too late! This is not a time for hiding in caves. This is a time to resist mightily the spirit of peaceful coexistence and apathetic resignation in the face of this prevailing darkness. We are coming to a Mount Carmel moment, which I believe could be the church’s finest hour where she challenges her own compromise and then gains authority through prayer and action which is her true vocation. Then our light will break forth like the dawn and truth will no longer be trampled under the feet of renegade kings and judges. The church is not at the mercy of political decrees of destruction. Jesus is the Lord of history! Though these decrees stand today, they will not stand forever. God is the one who reverses the edicts of man, using the church as an agent of righteous revolution to displace kings and overthrow their decrees through the weapons of fasting and prayer.

Therefore, we are summoning believers from all across the state of California and the nation to gather for a Joel 2 moment. When there is no remedy, when there is no natural hope, God still has a holy prescription. Blow the trumpet in Zion, gather the people, and call a fast. Let the believers of this great state gather and cry out to God believing that California could become the flash point of real change in America not the open door to societal collapse. Let us return to the fasting praying womb in San Diego and seek the face of God on November 1st, 2008 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, CA.

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There is Power in Simple Faith!
His Banner Over You Is Love!

CHUCK PIERCE WRITES...

I am in Atlanta praying for each of you and declaring that you will WATCH FOR AMBUSHES along your path (Ezra 8).I hear the Lord saying, “Stop and watch. Do not be hasty today. Watch for three days and proceed with caution. There is a divine protection that I am positioning in place over your head as you move deeper into My plan. There is a divine alignment for war that I AM orchestrating for you to advance into the greater promise that lies before you. Keep an eye open for the enemy who would love to trick you into stopping the forward progression that I have developed in your life this season! Some have been waylaid and others stopped completely. I must get many moving again. I need you not to lose momentum this hour; advance, cautiously, but keep advancing. You are close to completion!”

Fan The Glory

Chuck D. Pierce
July 18, 2008
www.gloryofzion.org

Dear Changing Intercessors and Saints:

We are getting so many wonderful comments from the 3-Day Prayer Focus. These three days will be linked with a new sound being released, causing a new glory to break forth in you. Enjoy and enter in! The River is Rising! I recently heard the Lord say the following:

“There is a song within you that I have placed from the beginning. Now is the time for that song to come forth. These are days of deliverance for My people. I will deliver you from those strategies that would stop your new beginning. Many of the strategies are within your soul. I am preparing a people that will wear redemption, joy, and power into the future. I am preparing a people filled with My glory. My name rests within you and now is the time for My name to come alive within your inner being. I am ready to burn away that which has profaned My name within you. I am ready for My glory to be seen upon My people.

Your song is important. Your sound will create new moves within the earth. So let the sound within you come forth. THE SHOUT OF THE KING must come forth in you at this time. Worry not how you sound, but SHOUT THE KINGLY SHOUT that dwells deep down in your inner being. MY SHOUT will break the soulish power that is resisting your change. This will cause a flow of My Spirit to rise within you and the gifts that have been quenched will come alive again. My gifts create joy.

Your sound can uncover what the enemy is withholding and hiding from you. Your sound will cause the River of Revelation in you to be released. If you will allow Me to fill your heart with joy, you will be able to hear the Word I have for you. I AM bringing a new Word very near to you that will give you the strength you need to press through into your next contract, into the next business level, into the next level of favor. This is a Word that will cause you to secure your next portion. Sound uncovers what the enemy has covered.

This is a day of fanning the glory in your blood and not just trying to dissect and remove the iniquity that has resisted My WORD. If you’ll fan the glory it will push out the iniquity that has twisted your bloodline and caused you to miss opportunities in the past. If you will fan the glory you will hear My counsel! You have a glory that I have placed within you that will begin to move! Your heart will rejoice, and you will have strength to embrace the Word I’m trying to bring to you.

You are trying to hear Me without having the movement of My glory in your blood. You must hear Me NOW, but the Word I will speak will bring many changes to your life. My threshing sledge is coming to winnow and remove old iniquitous structures that have caused you to resist harvest increase. Don’t fear the separating power that I am bringing upon your life. The song of glory in you has been blocked, but I AM sending a wind of release. Your blood has been moving slowly but now your blood will sing a song of deliverance. Your blood and glory is awakening and will sing a new song. Hear MY Word, for it is very close to you! Tell your flesh to rest in hope because your blood is waking up to MY will. My Word is filled with fire and will burn out the passivity that has resisted My movement in you. You will win the war over your flesh and wake up the glory in your blood. This will cause your flesh to rest in hope.

I have yet to reveal to you the breaking forth of your entry way. My shout will work inside of you. Do not put your eyes on men or circumstances around you. Let My shout do its work until it comes into the atmosphere that encircles and surrounds you. Once My shout enters the atmosphere, you will start seeing the breaking of the new day.”

There are new spiritual songs that are being recorded to help you during these focuses. Please go to GOZRadio.net to hear those songs and other wonderful teachings and music to encourage you in your daily walk with the Lord.

Day 1: Read Ezekiel 28; Isaiah 14; Zechariah 3 & 4. Ask the Lord to show you what wealth has been hidden from you by the enemy. Ask the Lord to reveal the sound of deliverance that is within you! Hear the Lord rise up on your behalf and tell the enemy, “Enough is enough!” Make a list of every hindrance and obstacle in your path. Shout GRACE 8 times to each blockage. Declare you will see your portion that has been hidden!

Day 2: Read Psalm 16, Isaiah 60, Ephesians 4:25 - 5:21. Fan your glory until you sense the Lord rising in you in new way. Do this by taking off anger! Do this by breaking procrastination! Do this by looking in the mirror and encouraging yourself spiritually. Look beyond the outer reflection. Do this by singing a new spiritual song! Put on a new glory! Memorize two key scriptures from the passage in Ephesians. Ask the Lord to show you the new portion He has for you.

Day 3: Read Numbers 23, especially verse 21. Notice how the enemy wishes to curse you, but the shout within you causes even the enemy to bless you. Shout seven times against false altars that have been built against your life and watch the blessings of the Lord open up over you. Read Matthew 21, Mk. 11:10, John 12:13! Know that the Lord is going before you to deliver you! Sing Hosanna to the Lord!

Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce

Are You Ready?

Gery Kirchhoff
June 22, 2008

Are you ready my dear ones, to step out beyond your former experience. Are you ready to trust Me in ways you have not been asked before? The time is here to come all the way; to step into the river of My Presence, into the anointing, the fire I Am pouring out upon all who are not shying back. Do not look around what others may do or think. Let go of the second foot that was still planted as security in the things of this world. You have trusted Me so far. Now is the time to let go without restraint or holding back. I Am He who has led you to this point. I have not changed and I will surly guide and keep you still. Come into this river that will free you once and for all. Become fully alive in this Spirit of life and wholeness. Submerge yourself and be filled to overflowing.

Only after you choose to fully ignore any part of the natural side of life I can pour out the fullness and power I desire for you to receive. Make your decision and come. Forget the net of safety you thought you needed before. Come into this new experience I Am opening before you. Then the fullness of My power will be at your command. Signs and wonders will come quickly and be an every-day occurrence. Do not be concerned about the lives and needs of your loved-ones. I will surely meet all of their needs and keep them near and secure. You are the soldier I have trained for this time, in the army that is ready to be sent forth. Join the ranks of all the ones who aren't afraid to trust their God and Master. As always, I will be in you and with you. You have become My arms and legs in this decaying world, mighty warriors that shall always be victorious. The trumpet for the final battle is about to be blown. The ranks are filling for the time has come. Victory is guaranteed before we even start. Together we will remove the scourge of the ages and his followers Decide and come; it is a new thing and will be like no other before.

Awaken, My Bride!

Sally Raymond
June 15, 2008

Awaken, My Bride, from a past that caused you to slumber, for I set before you a new season. It already springs forth!

You have been made readied as a branch longing to bloom, for an expression of love that brings forth new wine.

Come away with Me into the mysteries of the heavenly places. Come, I've opened the way!

I have shrouded you in My Righteous garments of strength and given you new expression of song.

Jealously I beckon you from other biddings that come, for I have made you to express My passionate love.

I will keep you close until all darkness flees as you turn once again to behold My face. For all creation waits for sounds of our voices, touching the lost with tempting grace.

2008 Prophetic Words from Glory Mountain

Dolly Reives

Apostolic Company

Glory Mountain

www.glorymountain.com

The Revelation of the Name Jehovah-Jireh, Genesis 22:12-14. The meaning of this name is The Lord Who Provides. The name is literally, The Lord Who Sees, or The Lord Who Will See To It. This is what we long for when we have a need that is personal and special; One who will see to our needs and provide for us. This is what Jehovah-Jirehmeans; the Lord Who will see to it that my every need is met. One Who knows my need because He sees. One Who is able to meet my need in just the right time as He did for Abraham, and One Who can meet it fully. For Abraham, it was the ram caught in the thicket that was offered in Isaac's place. For us it is whatever we need.

We are marching forward thru Praise & Worship, unhindered, undenied
and unstoppable.

Doug Grills

Apostolic Company

Glory Mountain

www.glorymountain.com

The Father, his heart has been stirred by generations of tears, that have fallen to the earth.  His Father’s heart has been stirred by the pains and the groanings that people have experienced in the past.  But, He wants us to be clear that these things have not been in vain.  For every tear that falls to the earth is a seed that is planted in the ground to spring forth in this day.   

The groanings and the achings and all of the travail of sin that’s been upon the land and all of that has fallen to the ground and even those things that were evil, will rise up as new plants in God.   

And there will be fruit born and the darker and the bigger the seed that was planted, the more glorious will be the harvest that comes from them.  For the Lord will not allow, will not allow, the harvest of evil to be greater than the harvest of glory. 

BOB JONES AND TODD BENTLY SPEAK OUT!!!!

BOB JONES TRANSCRIPT FROM FLORIDA: "THIS IS NOT A REVIVAL, THIS IS MATURITY"

Transcribed by Sandy Warner

The following is the Word of the Lord through prophet Bob Jones with Todd Bentley at the Lakeland Florida revival, 5/13/08 evening service, via God TV.
Transcribed by Sandy Warner, www.thequickenedword.com

{All scriptures Bob did not directly quote are inserted by Sandy Warner}

Bob Jones website: www.bobjones.org/
Todd Bentley website www.freshfire.ca/
Lakeland, Florida Revival: www.ignitedchurch.com/

THE GOLDEN EARRING

BOB JONES: “This is what the Lord would say to thee: Tell them of My way. What do I require of them this day, so that they may draw close to Me and stay that way continually? For I have come close to them this night. I brought the golden earring you see. And the awl was to pierce your ear to where you would ever be a love slave to Me. For I say those who are love slaves to Me will be the closest to Me you see. They will come and minister to Me. They will say unto Me how they love Me and how I am everything to them both night and day.
So this is what the Lord is saying this day. Come and totally give yourself to Him in every way. So that His awl can go through you and He can use you in these coming days. For it is many ways He will use you, you see. Because you’ll be right at His bed. Your ear will be tuned to Him and you will hear what He does say. And you will take it to those whom He speaks to you clearly. So what He is saying, what will it cost you to have great intimacy with Me? Everything you see. But what have you got to lose? For I have got everything awaiting for thee. For you were created to minister to Me, saith the Lord.

And this day I am calling you to come close to Me. And I will put the golden earring in your ear and then your main testing will begin you see. For then you will be responsible for obeying what you hear from Me. Get ready to hear and obey - clearly, that’s what you’ve been wanting. And those who surrender themselves to Me, out of them shall flow My river of life which has already begun this very day. Those that are My servants you see, sometimes they will heal - sometimes they will deliver. But they will always be in My will in what I am saying that day. So they will do many different things, so dont measure on one thing you see. For My Son did many things when He was down here with you in His day. And now I am raising up sons and daughters that look just like Him. For this is the only thing that pleases Me is His nature in all of you. And that it will remain there continually, as relationship increases between you and Me.”

TODD BENTLEY: “There’s such a great anointing here. It’s a historic night and there is a prophetic Word. Things are being release and confirmed. Decree a thing and it will be established. I know tonight’s the night where God is turning the page in this outpouring. And we just love Your Presence Lord!
Do you know one thing Bob, that God told me when I came, and that anointing started to show up. He asked me if I would take time every day to be with Him....He told me the glory would only keep falling if we stay in His Presence.”

THE 100 YEAR PROPHESY

BOB JONES: “What is the Lord doing? I brought a 100 year prophesy for a long time, let’s look at it.

· The 1950’s reveal the power of God. William Branham, Oral Roberts, AA Allen. The 1960’s reveal the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit invaded the denominations. The 1970’s reveal the great teachers of God and they began to raise up.

· The 1980’s reveal the prophets of God.
· The 1990’s reveal the government of God.
· The 2000 would reveal the glory of God. You haven’t seen anything. Wait till you see the next two years!

· The 2010 would reveal the faith of God. It’s not have the faith “in” God, it is to have the faith “of” God. And it’s going to be those that have that earring in and hear what God is saying. And what you’ll do, you’ll proclaim it. And you’ll bring it into being.

· The 2020’s reveal the rest of God. To where you can rest from your labors and God will work His work through you in your rest and in your peace.

· The 2030’s will reveal the family of God.
· 2040’s will reveal the kingdom of God.
· 2050’s will reveal the sons and daughters of God.

· I only saw til 2060 and the church was still here and it wasn’t defeated by any means. It had really grown and looked a lot like Christ. So if you’ve got short range plans, make long range plans.”

THE JOSHUA GENERATION

BOB JONES: “Now I know that non of you are over 50 out there. (smile) But last year I brought a Word for those over 50. The Lord is looking for a Joshua generation, they were all over 50. And those that’s over 50 if they get a vision for God – Usually when you get over 50 you want to retire, want to sit around and do nothing and also make out your funeral arrangements and you’ll shortly need them. But if you get a vision of serving God, there is no telling how long you will live. Because Joshua and Caleb when the took them across, they were 85 years old. And they lived a long time after that. And the Lord is after people that’s got a long range vision. And if you begin to serve the Lord and what He has called you to, I wouldn’t put any date on when I was going home because you don’t know and the Lord’s purpose will be fulfilled in your life before you do.”

BOB JONES DEATH EXPERIENCE

“It will be 33 years this coming August the 8th. I stood before the Lord in death because I brought some prophesies the devil didn’t like. Like there would be some homosexual disease you couldn’t cure. Abortion was going to be formed in such horrible ways it made people sick when I brought them, so they didn’t welcome me back in their churches. And I bought words like there will be chemicals, cheap chemicals they mix together and there would be a horrible, soul killing drug: Meth labs. And I went to the Lord because of these prophesies. And I died in great pain.

And I went into a tunnel and there was a man that stood beside me. He was all white. I have never seen His face. He is the Parakleet, the Holy Spirit.
John 14:16 KJV And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

NT:3875 GREEK FOR COMFORTERparakletos (par-ak'-lay-tos); an intercessor, consoler: KJV - advocate, comforter.

I walked out of a tunnel and a light come on me, that I wish I could tell you how good it felt. Of all the good existence that you have ever lived, if you put them in one sentence, they would actually be nothing compared to how well I felt. I felt so secure, so loved. I was wrapped up in the anointing of God, it was like white light. I never felt so loved. I asked the Lord what is this? He said it’s the love of God. I said, the love of God is white? He said no, the glory of God is white. What is this? It’s the glory and love of God in John 17.
John 17:22-24 AMP

I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also whom You have entrusted to Me [as Your gift to Me] may be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory, which You have given Me [Your love gift to Me]; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

As I drew close to Him I saw the great and the small. I saw on one side, people going to hell. And they were great number. On my side there were few. And when they come before Him. He would only ask you one question when you stand before Him. Did you learn to love? You are born in a fallen condition. If you learn to love, then you are going to do all the other things you are supposed to do. {I John chapters 3,4 & 5}

So He said, the enemy killed you before your time, I want you to go back. I told Him I’m not doing any good, nobody is listening to me. He said, you are a liar because you spoke My Words and My Words will happen. I said it was pretty painful back there and He said, you are sort of a coward too. But when you were a Baptist, you had a love for souls. If you can look at those that’s going another place, and want to come in, I will bring you in. But if you go back, you will see the beginning of Me bringing a billion youth unto Myself. The greatest harvest of all times!”

TODD BENTLEY: “Bob did you know right now the vision of God TV, is one billion souls?”

BOB JONES: “Well they are just agreeing with the Lord!”

MORE ON THE OVER 50’S

BOB JONES: “By the way, why does the Lord need the over 50’s? Because this billion youth are coming and you are not going to stop them. They are looking for the truth. They are looking for an absolute and they are not finding it anyplace. There’s only one absolute, that’s the cross of Jesus Christ. And the Holy Spirit is getting ready to reveal it to them.

The only problem if you dont have the over 50’s and the pain and failure in their life to help guide, motive and direct them – it will become a fad. So the over 50’s it’s time that you really begin to put that golden earring in your ear and you get a vision for living into 120 because you can.

And also another thing that the over 50’s have got. They’ve got the bucks and it aint going to do you any good in the grave. But when you invest it into the kingdom, you are not going to have to worry about your health insurance, because you are going to be healthy. There are things that are happening now; we are in a change, one of the greatest changes of all times.”

ABOUT THE GLORY OF THE LORD

TODD BENTLEY: “Now Bob let me just back up real quick again. It was 1975 wasn’t it, when you died and went to heaven? {Bob: “Yep.”} And you were sent back because the Lord told you, you would be preparing a generations for a billion souls to come into the kingdom at one time?”

BOB JONES: “Well He actually told me I want you to touch the leaders. I am going to change the leadership in a big way. I want you to touch them. I am going to raise up leaders that will have a heart for Me and have a heart for people. You touch them and I’m going to bring in the billion. You go back, and you will live to see the beginning of it. It has begin!”

For years I have known men and women of God that prayed. I have known holy prophets that looked for this day. They are gone now, but they were seeing this day. They knew this day would come. This is a harvest of harvesters. In the next 2 years, you are getting ready to see the glory of God fall on you as you begin to witness. I doubt if many of you ever saw it. When I saw it removed from the earth, I asked the Lord I didnt want to live without it.”

TODD BENTLEY: “Now that was in 1977 wasnt it? When the glory left and God told you it would come back when?”

BOB JONES: “He said you will be white headed. You will live to see it return, it will never leave again. {Large shouts and praise from the audience}
I want to tell you something about the glory, you’ll walk into a restaurant and you will hear something scream. And demons will scream and leave people just because of your presence. {You can see on the camera that Bobby Conner is sitting on the platform. Bobby says, “Amen!!!” with a large smile and shakes his head in total agreement.}

You’ll be in a grocery line and people will come and stand right by you and say the depression left when I stood by you - do you mind if I stand pretty close to you? You wont have to witness, they will come to find out. In the oceans down around Pensacola, it’s called Jubilee. That’s when the fish jump out of the water and land on the banks. Last year it did this twice, where you would go and pick them up. This is what I am talking about; God’s Jubilee. Where they are going to jump out at the bank, coming at you. And they are going to keep coming because you’ve got the answer. You’ve got the hearing ear. One thing about that golden earring, is that you do less talking and more listening and obeying.”

THIS IS NOT A REVIVAL, THIS IS MATURITY

“So these things are coming to pass. What’s some of the other prophesies out of the past? One of them was “It will begin the wind blows in the mulberry trees. {2 Sam 3:24,25} That’s the wrong interpretation. It will begin with the wind blows in the balm trees. What’s balm? It’s healings! You’ll know it’s begun when the healings are consistent.

I have saw a lot of revivals. I’m really not that much interested in revival any more. I saw the dead raised. I have saw revivals where everybody got healed. Some of them lasted as long as 3 days and it was gone. Some of them lasted just one day and it was gone. Bobby and I, we saw it to where everybody got healed including the cancer victims, but then it was gone. Revival is just like a rocket that goes up and then explodes. And it is darker afterwards. This is not a revival, this is maturity.

This isn’t meant to ever stop. I’m still pretty young. I probably wont live over 200 years, so I am not setting my faith for that. But everything that we do, and we move to will live over 200 years. We’re getting ready for holiness to come on a scale like you’ve never seen before.

Now I want to tell you something about the glory of God. What’s happening here? John 14:13 is what’s happening.
John 14:13 NKJV

And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
The Holy Spirit is glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ, He is not keeping it. He sends it right straight up to Papa. And the glory is billowing over the throne of God.

The worship leader in heaven, he rebelled and took the praise leaders with him. So Papa covered His throne with thunder, His voice, His lightening, His power and the shouts of the saints. I want to tell you what some of the shouts of the saints and glory is: healings. Do you know Who gets the glory for all these healings, all these miracles, all these deliverances? Daddy. It’s building up on the throne now. As it keeps building up, do you know what He is going to do with it? He is going to drop it down on His Son’s body. It’s a circle. Dont touch it. Dont take credit for what He is doing. For this is why He pulled the glory back. Give the Father the glory.”

“... One of the things He asked Me is this. What’s going on here, it isn’t a revival, it don’t’ measure up. If you are 13, can you ever backslide to 11? Can you become 9 again?

Do you see what I am trying to show you? What has began, is “Grow up.” The restoration of all things is maturing in the Lord Jesus Christ and taking on His nature.” (Acts 3:21)

THE JOY OF THE LORD IS YOUR STRENGTH

“I want to read something that Papa is doing now. I’m in the 78th Psalm, 68th verse. Ps 78:65 AMP

Then the Lord awakened as from sleep, as a strong man whose consciousness of power is heightened by wine.

What would give My Daddy wine? Wine is joy. A sense of really well being. The fruit of the Spirit is the only thing you can give to God. You can give Him the fruit of the Spirit as a gift in your life. When you begin to let the joy come within you, that sense that everything is alright. I’m alright. I’ve got everything nailed to the cross. I’m alright. That’s the joy of God. It goes up to Him. The joy of the Lord is your strength. It’s better worded like this: You’re the only thing that gives your Daddy joy. He will strengthen you. And He woke up and here is what He is going to do: Ps 78:66 AMP And He smote His adversaries in the back [as they fled]; He put them to lasting shame and reproach.

This is all about Papa. You’ve had revelation of the Savior 2000 years ago. You had revelation of the Holy Spirit over 100 years ago. This last revelation is Who your Daddy is. And if you know who your Daddy is, you know who you are. I want to tell you something about bloodline. The child always takes the Papa’s bloodline. What blood line are you. See there is you and I. You see I know I am God’s favorite. What about you? No I really believe that. (smile) I also know that I am exceedingly beautiful cause I got scripture on it. Isaiah 62:3
Isa 62:3 AMP

You shall also be [so beautiful and prosperous as to be thought of as] a crown of glory and honor in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem [exceedingly beautiful] in the hand of your God.

And this is what He has called His people to, that you would have holiness in your mind. And the wind is blowing in the balm trees.

And here’s another word I brought back then was, this will only happen when the Canadian dollar is equal with the American.”

TODD BENTLEY: “Now that was 15 years ago Bob?” {Bob: “Yep!”}

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

BOB JONES: “So what’s going on? 25 years ago I brought a prophesy. The prophesy then was that the greatest showing on earth was going to begin. I would live to see it. It would be a 3 ring circus. The front ring would be Praise.
The center ring would be Proclamation. What Todd has been doing here isn’t prayer. It is hearing and obeying and proclaiming what God is speaking to him. This is creative from now on. It’s going to be called in. You’ve never seen it before, you’ve never heard it before. It’s going to be brought in by the Spirit of Prophesy. Bobby I think has already shared the scripture for it. Isa 48: 6,7.
Isa 48:6-7 AMP

You have heard [these things foretold], now you see this fulfillment. And will you not bear witness to it? I show you specified new things from this time forth, even hidden things [kept in reserve] which you have not known. They are created now [called into being by the prophetic word], and not long ago; and before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, Behold, I knew them!

There is nothing to compare it to. This is a harvester of harvesters...”
“...What He is doing with all of you is He is scrubbing you with pumice. He is cleaning your conscience of every defilement. And if you’ve got a clean conscience, your conscience is your spirit.
Heb 10:23 NKJV Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

And if your conscience is cleaned, get ready to be joined in communion with the Holy Spirit. And He will relay what Papa is speaking. And you don’t pray to God anymore, you pray with Him. And you proclaim for Him. And you begin to speak over towns. You begin to speak over colleges. This 3 ring circus that has began here: you’ve got a lot more intercession that is behind here than you have any idea, because a lot of them are home now. And we’ve been praying for years for this.”

TODD BENTLEY: “So the 3 ring circus is Praise which brings in the anointing where we don’t work for God, we work with God. And that’s the proclamation. And then the intercession. That’s the 3 rings, Praise, Proclamation, Intercession.”

BOB JONES: “Yep.”

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GOD IS CHANGING THE "FACE" OF THE CHURCH!!!

Mark A. Griffo
Glory Mountain

http://www.glorymountain.com/

Word given by Mark Griffo - Thursday April 17, 2008 at School of the Supernatural

"I am changing the face of the church, for what has been saddened will be turned to light and life and what has been downtrodden will be filled with life. For I am changing the face of my church and there will be a glow that will radiate from them in the days ahead. And that glow will bring a healing to the nations and it will bring strength to the weak. And it will bring a freedom to those who have been bound. And they will see the changing face of the church. And they will say where have you been?"

"And the church will say, 'I have been on the mountain spending time with God, for I have been in the intimacy of my Father and I have sat with Him on the mountain.'  And the Lord says as you go down from off that mountain and you go into the city, your shadow will bring healing to those that will need it. For it will be my supernatural radiance that will change the face of the world, for I have changed the face of the church."

Thank you Lord that you are changing my face. For there is a transformation and a transfiguration taking placing.  God is taking me into the realms of His glory.  His glory is within me!  Thank you Lord that you are imparting the radiance of Your face upon my face today.

"And I declare that there will be a day - and it will be soon, if not today - that our shadows, when they are being cast upon the people, of our society, that healing will come and they will stop and say, what has happened and who has touched me? And you will say, I have not touched you, but it has been the glory of God that has transformed you.  And I declare that this group tonight and those that have embraced the supernatural, that their shadows will bring healing to the nations and to those that they are in contact with on a daily basis."

Declare that you will walk in this glory!  This is the glory I want to walk in!  How about you? The shadow of the disciples had glory on it. That is what brought the healing! This is where the church is going!

I DECLARE THIS HERE IN SAN MARCOS, I DECLARE IT IN SAN DIEGO AND I DECLARE IT HERE IN CALIFORNIA, THIS NATION AND AROUND THE WORLD. SHADOWS WILL BE TOUCHING PEOPLES LIVES IN JESUS NAME! GET READY!

8 Day Prayer Focus by Chuck Pierce

Chuck Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries
www.gloryofzion.org

The following 8-Day Prayer Focus will assist you in understanding: 1. The desperateness of the time that we are living in, 2. The intensity of the time to produce change in our lives and the atmospheres that surround us, 3. The economical shift that needs to occur in this season, 4. The disciplined, unwavering, single minded need for God's children to stand in this hour. This focus integrates Purim, Passover, and Jesus' unwavering determination to release redemption in this hour. All three of these events were and are taking place during this time frame. We are in a key season like we have not known in the history of the generations that are presently in the earth. The nations are at a divine crisis point.

8-Day Prayer Focus: A Desperate Time to Awaken to the Reality of Change!
For the next several weeks this prayer focus is key for us. Even though it is an 8-Day Prayer Focus, there is enough revelation here for you to use repeatedly. Since we just finished Purim, let's begin by understanding its significance. Overall, this 8-day focus is more devotional than most, including study suggestions to help you develop for such a time as this. This prayer focus is also more confrontational than usual because of this time frame. I would suggest you read through each day's focus in the morning and then go back and seek the Lord with the scriptures at noon and at night.

(Day 1) A Time to Embrace Change but not to be Tossed to and fro by the Wind! The clear message of Purim is that anyone who plots to destroy the Jewish people will always fail. History is full of examples of this truth. Pharaoh plotted the destruction of the Jewish people in Egypt, but the Egyptian army was drown in the Red Sea. This is celebrated during the Feast of Passover. Haman's attempt to kill all Jews failed, which is celebrated at Purim. Antiochus Epiphanes tried to wipe out the Jewish people. His failure is celebrated every year during Hanukah. Hitler tried to blot out the Jewish race. Both he and his "Third Reich" were destroyed. Instead of annihilation, the state of Israel was born! We must understand that God's covenant land will never be destroyed. By watching closely the world events that are centered around Israel, we can better understand God's sovereign plan.Read Psalm 121Read Exodus 2-6Read Esther 1-4Memorize Ephesians 4:2-16 (Review your positions and connections in the Body)(Day

2) 2008-- A Year to Passover, Overcome, and Go Through into FREEDOM!Purim fell approximately one month before the beginning of Passover. The Biblical Feast of Purim (Esther 9:18-28) is celebrated in the final month of the Hebrew calendar. I believe this is a significant timing so we end a season in victory and are freed to cross over into our future. Nisan, the first of months, begins at sunset on April 5. This leads us into our Passover season (Leviticus 23:4-8). Passover was the time of crossing out and over into FREEDOM! The dates of this Feast are very significant. Passover commemorates the final plague on Egypt when the firstborn of the Egyptians died and the Israelites were spared. Passover is linked with the power of the blood smeared on their door posts (Ex. 12:11, 21, 27, 43, 48). Passover was also called the feast of unleavened bread (Ex. 23:15; Deut. 16:16) because only unleavened bread was eaten during the seven days immediately following Passover (Ex. 12:15-20; 13:6-8; Deut. 16:3-8). Unleavened bread reflected the fact that the people had no time to put leaven in their bread before their hasty departure from Egypt. The observances of Passover are found in Joshua 5:10-12 (the plains of Jericho near Gilgal), 2 Chronicles 30:1, 3, 13, 15 (during the reign of Hezekiah); and 2 Kings 23:21-23 (Josiah's unique Passover).During New Testament times, large crowds gathered in Jerusalem to observe this annual celebration. Jesus was crucified during the Passover event. He and His disciples ate a Passover meal together on the eve of His death. During this meal Jesus said, This is my body, and this cup is the new testament in my blood (Luke 22:7, 19-20). The New Testament identifies Christ with the Passover sacrifice: For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. The word denotes the lamb that was slain at the feast (Mark 14:12-14; 1 Cor. 5:7). The use of wine (Luke 22:17, 20), of sauce with the bitter herbs (John 13:26), and the service of praise were introduced. Passover was a type of the great deliverance wrought by the Messiah for all His people from the doom of death on account of sin, and from the bondage of sin itself, a worse than Egyptian bondage (1 Cor. 5:7; John 1:29; 19:32-36; 1 Pet. 1:19; Gal. 4:4, 5). Get Ready to Crossover! I would encourage you to read the chapter on The Blood War inGod's Unfolding Battle Plan.

(Day 3) 2008-- A Time for Leadership to Awaken and Overcome at the Gate!The day related to Purim was the date set by Haman by casting lots (pur) to murder all the Jews in the kingdom. Because of the alertness of Mordecai at the gates of the city, and the fasting and intercession of Queen Esther of Persia and the Jewish people, this day became a day of battle with great victory for the Jews, as their enemies were destroyed. In the time of Esther, we find that the enemy had entered the gates and was planning to overthrow the covenant blessings God had for this people. In the book of Esther, Mordecai had exposed the enemy's plan and taken his authority at the gate. The Lord says in Matthew 16: 18, "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. This is not a time for hell to prevail at your gate. Esther and Mordecai worked together for deliverance! Haman, who used astrology and the casting of lots, was overthrown by God's ordered timing.I am praying for you to have favor at the gates and be raised up for a time such as this. Biblically, a GATE is a place for contending, watching, making sacrifices in worship, doing business transactions, administering justice, and giving public addresses. The GATE is the object of a foe's attack and therefore must be strengthened (Judges 5:8; Psalm 147:18).Now review your call to leadership and contending in days ahead. Read Isaiah 1. Also read John 1, which will show you how the Lord called Peter. Read Matthew 16 to see Peter's revelation and then his emotional resistance to change. God is raising up new Mordecais and Esthers to influence the world in days ahead. These individuals will do radical exploits in His name. Esther is a book where the destiny of God's covenant manifest by legislating authority at the gates can be seen. The gate of a city was where all business transactions and legal matters occurred. The city gate was also the place where entrance into the city was permitted or forbidden. A Biblical gatekeeper was one who guarded access to a place. Mordecai was a good gatekeeper. He knew the enemy had a plot and plan. The enemy will attempt to set a decree against you. Mordecai overheard the plan linked with Haman to annihilate God's covenant people in the land where Haman had prepared a noose for God's covenant people. Mordecai also knew he needed a connection to prevent the enemy's plan from prevailing. Esther was his connection, who had been positioned by God for such a time as this. Many of you are being positioned to see the plan of the enemy. Others of you are being positioned to be the connecting point to overthrow the enemy. I am praying that any plot of the enemy to try and stop the covenant blessings of your inheritance from coming forth in your life would be revealed. Find your divine connections and overthrow the enemy's plan! Trusting in God is one of the ways that you overthrow a curse. With Passover beginning at sunset on April 19, we think of Moses! One of the keys to Moses' life was that he was ordained as a prophet from birth. Even though his insecurity would tell him he could not speak, God had ordained him as a prophet. His mother and father's faith would eventually result in delivering all of Israel. This would also give Moses authority to split the sea for the escape of God's people. He also would receive the Law that would set the commandments and boundaries for mankind. There are new boundaries for you to obtain this month. Let the prophetic gift arise in you. Let a new level of deliverance begin. He waited 40 years to be found and put in service. Do not be discouraged. The Lord knows where you are.

(Day 4) A Time of Spiritual Discipline and Preparation! In our day, we are still in a time of battle and victory, a time of voluntary fasting. The Fast of Esther (Esther 4:14-17) is still relative for us today to enter into a new place of authority and gain favor. Men and women must work together this hour to defeat the enemy s plan. The key to Mordecai s life was his watchful eye at the gate on behalf of the King and God s covenant people. The key to Esther was her positioning and preparation. The word prepare means to make or get ready, to put together, to produce a frame for a future building, to gird oneself for action. This is a time to remember that in the midst of hostility we can be prepared for such a time as this. Through preparation and discipline the favor of God can rest upon us. Esther went in to the king, gained favor and grace in his sight, and was exalted into the royal position of queen. In Possessing Your Inheritance, Rebecca Wagner Sytsema and I devote a chapter to discussing the spiritual disciplines necessary for us to develop in our lives: meditation, prayer, fasting, giving, warfare, worship, work, and rest. Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 in each discipline. (Details on how to purchase Possessing Your Inheritance are below.)What does this say to us? If we allow the anointing of God to rest upon us and allow the beauty of holiness to surround and transform us, we can gain great favor. If we remove the leaven from our lives, we will be ready to depart into a new place as the Lord leads. Read Psalm 92Read 1 John 1 and 2

(Day 5) A Time to See Your Hidden Blessings Manifest! Esther is a non-Jewish name. Her original Jewish name was Hadassah, but her Jewish identity was a secret, and remained hidden. Esther became the bride of the king. The prophetic reference to the Church as the Bride of the King, but with Jewish roots despite a Gentile appearance, is very interesting. Esther would not escape the fate of the Jews, just as the destiny of the Church is directly linked to the Jewish people (Israel). Hadassah (means Myrtle) is an evergreen tree with glossy leaves and white flowers. They were used for perfume and as seasoning for food. The myrtle tree had a religious significance for the Hebrews (Zechariah 1:8-11) and was a symbol of peace and joy. Ask the Lord to show you what is hidden that belongs to you. Ask Him to let you hear the blowing of the wind in the trees in a new way.Read Isaiah 52Read John 3Read Matthew 13 & about uncovering the hidden treasure.

(Day 6) A Time of Confrontation and Overthrow of the Enemy's Stranglehold! This is time to overthrow decrees that have been set against God's covenant people that would stop us from corporately advancing. Those anti-Semitic decrees hate God's sovereign plan for the Jews as well as Christians that have been grafted into that plan. Nations that profess Christianity must rise up now. Esther prayed and fasted three days prior to setting the wheels in motion to overthrow the enemy's plan. She had faith to go into the King's court because she was fully prepared at the end of these three days of fasting. Fasting helps prepare you for what you must face for your victory ahead. Esther was at the right place, at the right time, and did the right thing. Therefore, she had victory over the enemy. Your faith can overthrow any decree the enemy has established against you. The enemy prepares a noose to tighten around God's promised plan for your life. Faith breaks the power of that noose. Declare your Haman's noose will begin to break. The Lord is releasing new revelation on strategies to overthrow the enemy's plan. There were two things I was quickened over. There are times when we cannot win by pressing to overturn/reverse an unrighteous decree.Whereas this is usually the norm (and what we press for in the laws of our nation), Esther gives one example where a bad and evil law was irrevocable (according to the laws of the Medes and Persians). So the strategy the Lord gave to her (through the pagan king) was to make another law which would stand against the first law, and enable deliverance and life to come to the Jews. In this Purim Month the Lord may be releasing similar strategies whereby we can counteract and overcome evil edicts and laws in our society and nation.Securing victory and overthrowing our enemies can often involve several stages of war. Whereas Esther and Mordecai successfully warred to secure a decree that would allow the Jews to protect themselves, this was only another step in their deliverance. It s quite possible the Jews could have survived the day that their enemies hoped to overpower them, solely based on the new level of fear their enemies had for the Jewish people. However, if they had not gone on the offensive and destroyed their enemies as their decree allowed them to, they would not have secured lasting protection. In that case, in due time, under new leadership (like the Hebrews in Egypt with a new pharaoh), the Jews could have been oppressed and targeted for destruction once again. At the close of this Seven Year War Season, we must not be content to settle for preserving victories and the issuing of righteous decrees. Rather, we must fully war to the end of our battles to see complete deliverance and victory enforced, and the opposite of the enemy's plans occur. This is a season to speak faith and ask for new revelation! Ask the Lord to anoint your speech and open your eyes to the revelation He is releasing at this time.

(Day 7) Face Your AMALEKITE and Break the Power of his Noose! In Esther 3:1, the evil Haman is described as being a descendant of the Amalekite king, Agag (1 Sam 15:8). Therefore, besides the Book of Esther, another passage from the Tanach (Hebrew Bible) is read at Purim, Exodus 17:8-16. This is the account of Joshua's defeat of the Amalekites at Rephidim as Hur and Aaron held up the exhausted arms of Moses. When Moses' hands, gripping the "Rod of God", became heavy, the warriors in the field began to lose the battle. Verse 12 says that with Aaron and Hur's support, Moses' hands remained steady until the coming down of the sun. In the Hebrew, the word "steady" is "emuna" - and his hands were faithful until the coming of the sun." After the battle, Moses built an altar and named it, YHVH-Nissi: the LORD is my Banner. The word "banner" can also be translated "miracle." STUDY THIS AND DECREE MIRACLES ARE BEGINNING TO COME INTO YOUR ATMOSPHERE. The spirit empowering Amalek is at the back of all anti-Semitism. Exodus 17:16 states that "The LORD has sworn, the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." Deuteronomy 25:19 commands that His people are to join in with Him in the battle until the memory of Amalek is blotted out - that Israel must not forget!Deuteronomy 25:17-18 further describes the tactics of the Amalekites: "They met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary" (emphases ours). So Amalek does not only seek to take occasion from the tiredness and exhaustion of leaders, he also lurks behind to pick off those inexperienced foot soldiers who are "faint and weary" and lagging behind. To remedy this, Israel developed a "rear guard" (see Numbers 10:25 and other places). The Hebrew for "rear guard" is "me'aseph"- its root is the same as that for the verb "to gather". In ancient armies, old, experienced soldiers, would be placed at the rear, not only to guard from enemies attacking from behind, but also to "gather" the loose ends, the stragglers - and to keep them pressing forward. The word Amalekite means to toil or work under hard labor.This is a time for you to break out of legalistic, hard labor. The Amalekites were a nomadic tribe of formidable people that first attacked the Israelites after the Exodus at Rephidim. Amalek, the grandson of Esau (Gen. 36:12), inhabited the desolate wasteland of the northeast Sinai Peninsula and the Negev. They were the first to attack Israel after the Exodus (Num. 24:20). This is where the Lord revealed Himself as Jehovah Nissi. He declared that we would war with Amalek from generation to generation. The antichrist spirit today is linked into this Amalekite spirit. Israel won the initial battle (Ex. 17:8-16) and because of their atrocities, God commanded Saul to exterminate the Amalekites (1 Sam. 15:2-3). Saul disobeyed, and the Amalekites were not defeated completely until late in the eighth century B.C. (1 Chron. 4:43). Haman the Agagite (Es. 3:1-10; 8:3-5,) thought by the Jews to be Amalek's descendant, from whence sprung Haman's hatred toward their race. Prepare yourself and watch your Haman hung on his own gallows. Break all compromise. Watch your enemy overplay his hand and you will end up victorious! Cross over and watch your new doors open! Memorize Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 28:6Declare over your nation that the Amalekite structure will be revealed and overthrown.

(Day 8) Pray the Prayer of Confrontation! To confront someone or something means to face them in hostility or defiance, or to come with opposition. Unlike the prayer of travail, which brings forth new birth, the prayer of confrontation directly addresses a structure that has been set in place in opposition to God's will. This type of prayer not only outwits the devil but also humiliates him and his forces in the process. God allows us to enter into this type of encounter to show His power over the territorial spirit(s) to which a particular group of people has been in bondage. As the LORD displays that His power is greater than that of a given demonic structure, that structure begins to crumble and those who were held captive are then free to follow Christ.A wonderful biblical model for this type of prayer was Moses' confrontation with Pharaoh. As Moses declared God's will to Pharaoh in the earthly realm, he was also confronting in the spiritual realm the gods of Egypt - false deities (territorial spirits) - linked with the oppression and captivity of God's covenant people. Through the plagues and destruction unleashed upon the nation of Egypt as a result of Moses' confrontation, God's plan was fulfilled, the power of oppression was broken, and His people were released. In the revised Future War of the Church, Rebecca Wagner Sytsema and I examine how each demonstration of God's power through Moses was actually a power encounter with a specific Egyptian god. The Rod Becomes a Serpent (Exod. 7:8-12): Confrontation with serpent godsThe Nile Turns to Blood (Exod. 7:14-25): Confrontation with the Nile godsThe Plague of Frogs (Exod. 8:1-15): Confrontation with the frog godThe Plague of Lice (Exod. 8:16-19): Confrontation with the earth godThe Plague of Flies (Exod. 8:20-24): Confrontation with the god of toiletryThe Cattle Die (Exod. 9:1-7): Confrontation with the Egyptian cow goddessThe Plague of Boils (Exod. 9:8-12): Confrontation with the god of learning and medicineThe Plague of Hail and Fire (Exod. 9:12-35): Confrontation with the original sky godThe Plague of Locusts (Exod. 10:12-15): Confrontation with the god of the air, atmosphere & dry windsThe Plague of Darkness (Exod. 10:21-23): Confrontation with the sun godThe Slaying of the First Born (Exod. 12:29-33)The tenth and most devastating plague was directed against a family of three deities. The first was Isis, the most important of all Egyptian goddesses, who assumed all the attributes and functions of virtually every other important goddess at some point in Egyptian history. Her primary functions were motherhood, marital devotion, healing the sick and the working of magic spells and charms. The second deity was Osiris, the god of the dead and the ruler, protector and judge of the deceased. The third deity was the son of Isis and Osiris, Horus the Child, a suckling child represented as a young boy sucking his finger. This final plague so overwhelmed the Pharaoh and so thoroughly defeated the gods of Egypt that the Israelites were finally set free. (excerpted from the revised Future War of the Church)God's power has not diminished in the years since Moses! Power encounters through the prayer of confrontation that see people groups released from demonic structures are going to become more and more common as we enter the future war of the Church. We need to enter into an expectant mind-set that believes God will display His power greatly over the earth and over demonic structures in order to see great throngs loosed from Satan's grip. And from that mind-set, we must pray with unwavering faith prayers of confrontation according to His will. This is a season to move into POWER CONFRONTATIONS! Allow Holy Spirit to direct your prayers in a new way.