Forward to a FriendThe Lord told me last week that we are living in an Isaac time. If you remember, both Abraham and Sarah laughed at God, when after 25 years of initially giving the word of promise concerning Abraham’s seed, God reiterated it when Abe tried to offer Ishmael as the solution. As a matter fact Abraham fell down on his face and laughed at God. He was a 100 years old now, and Sarah was 90 and had been barren all of her life. The situation was more impossible and hopeless now than it was 25 years earlier when they first got he word. Everything changed though when they heard something that is recorded in Gen.18. After Sarah laughed the Lord said in verse in 14, “Is anything too difficult for the Lord.” I believe it is at this point they finally got it. It wasn’t, and never had been about them being able to produce a child. It had always been about Gods ability to do the impossible to keep His word. It’s says in Rom.4 that when Abe was about 100 years old He finally believed (again, that’s 25 years after he got the word). It says that in hope against hope, he believed. Looking at hopelessness straight in the eyes, he pushed back with hope, which gave life to faith because he now was fully persuaded that God was able to keep His word. In Gen.17 God told them to name the child Isaac which means He (God) Laughs. God always gets the last laugh. There of many of you who have held on to promises God has given you, and yet the situation seems more hopeless than it did when you first got the promise. Its important that you don’t waver in unbelief, no matter what the enemy tells you as he points out the situation in the natural. Push back. Throw back your head and laugh the laugh of hope and faith. You will see God get the last laugh.
We will also see this in the affairs of men and nations. Don’t despair by what your eyes see. There will be a lot of heartbreaking things happen around us, but we will see God getting the last laugh. Things will seem to go one way and then God will get His laugh. Even when we see world affairs being influenced by the powers of darkness, know that those things too will come under the laughter of God. We will the Elderly, and others who have been afflicted in minds and bodies for decades manifest the Laughter of God as they get healed in an instant when logic would say after all these years it’s hopeless. In this time of growing challenge and darkness we will Aslan’s Laughter rise up and grow stronger and stronger, and the Church will join in resounding praise in concert with the Laughter of God.
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An Isaac time 2/15/12
Song Dynasty update
I was really reminded of this word in my lighthouse time this morning. The Holy Spirit just kept shouting “Worship, Worship, Worship.” You want to arrive at the place? You know the Place! Yeah, you know, that Place where your Heart has always longed to be in the Lord. You can get there real quick by jumping in the Heavenly river that goes there. Direct route with no detours. Remember the Song Dynasty has overtaken the Heavenly river. Worship is the River that will get you THERE by direct route. Find the time, find the place, find the means to get with God and worship Him, regularly. NOW. if you do you will at some soon point you will realize you ARE THERE.
Holy Ghost Town (for Selma Alabama and more)
Two days ago while worshiping in the back of the church, just before the noon service The Lord spoke in almost an audible voice “This (Selma) is a Ghost Town. It’s a Holy Ghost Town.” He then began to remind me of how many people have said over the last decade that this was going to be a ghost town, but they didn’t mean it in a good way. The big joke was if you are the last one to leave town then turn the lights out. Well the Lord has taken their curses and turned them into prophetic proclamations. He does that you know. He reverses curses. There will be a number of Holy Ghosts towns in this nation and beyond, that God is raising up to be places of revival that will be twelve basket full towns where the revival will have plenty of left over to carry to other places around the world. Many of these will be places that the world and sometimes the Church has given up on. Those of you living in Selma need to rejoice for you are one of those places. You are now a Holy Ghost Town where God is, Nd is going to pour out His Spirit without measure Those are the kind of places and people that God is attracted to. Check out 1Corinthians 1:24-29, 2 Corinthians 12:9-12, and Galatians 4:27-28. Jesus just loves the afflicted. His Hero heart just propels Him forward on His white Stead to rescue the Perishing. Maybe that is you. Maybe you don’t live in Selma but just personally feel abandoned and the enemy has been telling you that the lights are about to be turned off. Rejoice, O Barren Woman. Your Hero Jesus, Your great Knight In Shinning Armor is coming to rescue you. We are living in a rescue time, where Jesus is riding along the streets and hedge rows looking for the Perishing so He can rescue them. This is an Ezekiel 16:6 time. “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ the NLT version says, “But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. As you lay there, I said, ‘Live. 1+6+7=13. As you 13 is the number for double portion of the Spirit, and 16+6=22 which represents things happening quickly. This is where we at, Jesus is seeing people and places helplessly kicking and squirming in their own blood and He is saying “LIVE” and they are coming alive in an instant suddenly with a double portion of revival spirit on them, fully alive. It’s the intercessors,secret warriors, who have now come out of the closet (the prayer closet) that prepared the way for the Hero Jesus to do this rescue work, for when everybody else gave up on Towns and people, they just wouldn’t. They hung on for the dear life of those places and people.
It’s a NOW IS time!!!!
25 Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
28 Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, 29 and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment
These two set of verses speak of two resurrections. Verse 25 says an hour is coming and NOW IS, while verse 28-29 speaks of a resurrection of the physically dead in the future. In following up on the word given yesterday, the Lord spoke so clearly again this morning saying we are in a NOW IS time. Verse 25 simply explains what Jesus had been doing as recorded in the Gospel of John. The religious man Nicodemus in John 3, the incredibly broken and rejected woman at the Well in chapter 4, the Nobleman and his son in chapter 4, and the sad man in chapter 5 at the Pool of Bethesda who had been in his tragic condition for 38 years, longing to be healed. In all these places they heard the voice of Jesus calling them to life, and those things that were dead in them came alive instantly, in a moment. There was no follow up counseling with the woman from Sychar, and she was messed up. In her NOW IS time Jesus totally set her free, raised her from dead, healed all the years of brokenness and devastation. Same is true for the for the man at the Pool of Bethesda. 38 years of accumulated sorrow, disappointment, and bitterness all gone. His broken body was resurrected in an instantly suddenly, but so was his broken soul. The Lord says that this is the time we are in. It’s a NOW IS time, not a slowly healed someday time. We are going to see before our eyes people healed and set free in an instant suddenly. Be prepared for God to use you. Through you, broken people are going to hear the voice of Jesus, and the dead things in their bodies, souls, hearts, minds, and emotions are going to come completely alive in an instantly suddenly before your eyes. It’s resurrection time, a powerful resurrection season like we haven’t seen since the first century. It is a NOW IS time.
Thy Kingdom Come
I’m sure that you have heard dozens of times already that the number 12 is all about government and authority, and that we are in the year of the twelves. Kingdoms are about government and rule and reign. Revival is about people receiving the Kingdom of God at a much deeper level of faith than before. Jesus announced that the Kingdom was here. It has been here on earth since His announcement 2000 years ago, but often the Church has become very passive in their receiving the Kingdom. Of course, Jesus didn’t just proclaim the presence of the Kingdom, He also demonstrated its authority over the kingdom of darkness by healing in every way all those who were oppressed by the devil. He established His reign and His rule in the lives of broken people. We receive the kingdom by faith. That’s what faith is all about. If God said it then you receive it. You receive it as substance even though your eyes can’t always see it. The eyes of your heart see it clearly. Well we are in that time. I’ve seen already in the natural people receiving the Kingdom and it being revealed at an awesome level. I can see the rule of Christ come over a person and they get set free in an instant suddenly, from the oppression of the enemy. I see this multiple times almost every day. There has been an obvious acceleration since we passed into this new season beginning 12/11/11. The word of the Lord is “Buckle up my Sons and Daughters, you have moved into My Kingdom Come time. You will see the oppressed go free before your eyes in an instant, suddenly. This will characterize this Holy season. Expect it. Look for it. Lots of suddenlies in this Kingdom time. Isaiah 66:7 “Before she travailed, she brought forth;
Before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy.
8 “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?
Can a land be born in one day?
Can a nation be brought forth all at once?
As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.
Darkness and suffering that people have struggled with for decades will suddenly be lifted in a moment. The intercession of my stealth warriors in the secret place has yielded a harvest of faith in my people who are now beginning to receive my Kingdom. My kingdom is full of glory and healing and freedom. As they march into the received glory of my rule the landscape of lives are altered forever in a suddenly. The signs and wonders of my reign are beginning to be revealed all over the world as my Church finally is being moved by disappointment in the kingdoms of this world into faith filled desperation for the Kingdom of My Beloved Son. The called out ones are owning their true citizenship. It’s happening fast, even faster than my servants have expected. I am raising up Town Criers who are once again in the power of the Spirit calling people to repent and believe the Good News that the Kingdom of Heaven IS here”.
What an exciting time we live in. It is so incredible to see with my eyes what I have been seeing with my spirit, the Afflicted are receiving the Good News and are being set free, and healed as the Government of Jesus establishes His rule in their lives.
Shevat 1/26/12
Shevat
Yesterday at sundown on Jan 25 began the Jewish month of Shevat began. The Jewish people have 2 calendars that they always follow. One is the secular calendar, which kings and governments use, kind of like our secular calendar which begins on Jan 1st, but their most important calendar, kind of like our liturgical calendar, is their sacred calendar, their ecclesiastical calendar. Shevat is the 11th month in the sacred calendar. Because it is the 11th month, it’s a month of transition from winter to spring. I believe that there are a number of things the Lord is saying to us through some of the elements, key elements, concerning Shevat, and I want to share those as a prophetic word for the body of Christ.
This is a month of transition, from Winter to Spring. Shevat is a time to celebrate that winter will soon come to an end, and that spring will soon be here. Glimpses of Spring and new life can be seen It’s the month of the tribe of Asher and the word “Asher” means happiness. Asher was also the 8th son of Jacob and the 2nd son of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid. Of course the number 8 means “new creation” or “new beginnings”. This is a season where many people who have been stuck in the time of winter, a time of struggle and darkness, are going to be moving into a time of transition. This is where God is going to begin to supernaturally show you the springtime in the spirit in your life, and you are going to begin to realize that the season of hopelessness, the dark season, the frozen season, is coming to an end. You are beginning to see the first signs of life. It’s a time for the body of Christ, the people of the body of Christ, to see the light at the end of the tunnel. For many of you who have gone through a long winter, gone through a long time of struggle and battle where you’ve almost lost hope, and your emotions have been in the pit for a long time, your feelings have been in the pit for a long time, God is restoring hope. You are moving into a time of hope, where you are able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. You are able to see that you’re coming into a time of new beginnings and new creation. You are coming into a time where there’s going to be new fruit, new life, a time of spiritual spring. And you feel it, you’re going to see hope begin to rise up inside of you again as God restores and brings forth and births new creation, new beginning things in your life. Because it’s the month of the tribe of Asher, the word meaning “happiness”, happiness that may have been lost, you may have spent a long night in sorrow, but this is your morning and joy is being restored to you. You are coming out of a time of mourning, and you are coming into a time of morning, the time of hope, time of new life. The dark night is coming to an end and you’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and happiness is being restored to you.lots of people are going to see real breakthrough for people who have battle with the bark night of depression.
Shevat is a time of songs, it’s a month of songs and the song of the Lord is being restored to your heart. There’s singing being restored to your heart. Ephesians 5 talks about singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. You’re going to discover that melody, that song rising up in you. It is being restored in you, and it may have been gone for a long time in the spiritual winter. In the Chronicles of Narnia, winter always spoke of the time when the enemy ruled. If you’ve ever seen or read the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, when people were in the wintertime, they were in the grips of the enemy, and the powers of darkness were ruling. But we are told that when Aslan showed his teeth, the winter had to flee. This is a time you’re coming into, where you’re coming out of the dark winter that you’ve been in for a long time, and some of you had thought that winter would never go away, that hope would never be restored, that the song would never be restored in your heart, that it would never be a spontaneous melody in your heart again. But Aslan is showing his teeth and the winter is beginning to go away and life is beginning to come forth again. This is a time of transition in your life, the time when you can see it. You’ve come to the edge of the Jordan and though you may still be in the wilderness, you can see the land of promise, you can see the land of inheritance, you can see the purposes of God, the promises of God, you can see that they’re real, they’re for you. You are soon about to cross over, to come into that place. You can see the new beginnings, you can see all the things that God is doing.
This is also a time when historically, Deborah the prophetess in Judges and Miriam, the prophetess, are remembered. Deborah’s song in chapter 5 is the song for you to meditate on and grow from. Miriam’s song in Exodus 15:21 is a song for you to meditate on as God is bringing you out of wintertime and bringing you into spring, life and restoration. Miriam’s short song “Sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted, the horse and his rider, he has hurled into the sea”. This is just a song remembering the supernatural ability of God to deliver and set free from your enemies, from those who are pursuing you. This is your song, this is to be your song, the song of Miriam. And also Judges 5, the song of Deborah, which is also a song about victory and the enemies of God being defeated. So though it may have felt like the enemies of God had set up camp in your life, in the land of your life, maybe for a long time, again, the winter of defeat is coming to an end and you’re about to cross over into the land of freedom, the land of victory and fruitfulness, life and new beginnings, new creations.
During this time also, particularly this month of Shevat, we’re going to see Deborahs rise up, we’re going to see Miriams rise up. There’s a real anointing on women who are called of God to minister prophetically, to give forth words, you’re going to see on an international level powerful women of God who are prophetesses, just speaking the word of God prophetically, profoundly giving revelation that God has given them. If you are a woman of God who has a prophetic anointing, this is the time to really seek the Lord, to get His heart, to get His word and to proclaim the things that He says to you.
Shevat is also a time of trees, a time where God is taking people out of those fragile seasons where they felt like they were so weak and so unstable and establishing them as oaks of righteousness. As you move out of this wintertime into a time of fruitfulness, harvest and new life, you’re going to discover that there’s a stability, there’s this strength in you that is supernatural, that God has accomplished. During this winter time, when it all felt like it was loss, felt like it was battle and defeat, in reality God was causing the roots of your life to go deep as you clung to Jesus, as you clung to Him during this wintertime and as God brings you into this new season of new life, you’re going to discover that suddenly, God has done something in you that you didn’t realize was happening because He had drawn your roots so deep into Him, because you had to be so utterly dependent on Him in this time, that you’ve come out of this place as an oak of righteousness, rooted very deep so that the storms of life can’t blow you over. This is a time of trees, a time of God establishing in people the spirit of an oak of righteousness. This is also a time when those of you who’ve been called to ministry, you’ve labored in the fields, maybe for many years, and God says there’s going to be a great anointing on you and those people that you’ve sown into, people you thought maybe would never “get it”, and maybe you felt like you were supposed to give up on them, you’re going to discover that they’re going to start becoming oaks of righteousness and you’re going to see it.
I also believe the Lord has said during this time over the next season we’re moving into, that Shevat is declaring to us that God is going to be raising up young oaks of righteousness, young people in their 20’s and 30’s, oaks of righteousness. He is going to plant them in Israel. They are going to be strategic plants of God, His light, His salt in that land as they go through this time in their lives of great darkness and great light. He is going to plant oaks of righteousness there to stand and provide shade. This is also a time, during this month of Shevat, during this next month in particular, where there’s going to be a lot of connecting, a lot of long distance connecting. God is going to be connecting you with people that have been out of your life for many, many years. He’s just going to supernaturally put them on your heart, put you on their heart. You’re going to come across them in some way. God is going to be reconnecting and if that happens, you know it’s the Lord. If He puts someone on your heart, you follow up on that, there’s a righteous and strategic reason to it all.
During Shevat, one of the things that the people of God did, in Deut 1, is that Moses recited and took the people through the Torah, the Pentateuch, the 5 books of Moses before they crossed over into the land so they would remember the word of the Lord and even today, among Jewish people, during Shevat, the scriptures of the first 5 books are read and studied.
I believe that during this season, the Lord is going to be ministering the word of God. The word of God is going to be very tasty. This is a time for you to set yourself apart, to get into the word of God, to discover the depth, the joy of the word of God. It says this about Asher in Jacob’s prophecy over Israel: “As for Asher, his food shall be rich and he shall eat royal dainties”. I believe that during this season, the word of God is going to be very rich like a royal dainty, it’s going to be very powerful. In Ez 42: 13, it says,” Then he said to me: the north and south rooms facing the temple courtyards are the priest rooms, where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings”. I believe this is a time, particularly this month, when the word of God is opened up like a banquet table and you’re going to discover the word of God to be very tasty, like royal dainties and God is going to allow you to eat the most holy things. This is a time of revelation to come forth, particularly from the word of the Lord, for you to get alone with God and just expect Him to feed you the richest stuff. It’s going to be very tasty. You are to taste and see that the Lord is good in His word and take advantage of that. I also believe that during this month, there’s going to be a particular anointing for healings to come to people who have stomach issues and for people who deal with issues with the esophagus.
This Shevat is very important. Allow hope to rise up in you. Allow the Song of the Lord to rise up. Spring is just around the corner.
Spiritual Writers Block Lifted 1/25/12
A season for important books to be completed
The Lord showed me this morning that this is the season when a lot of books that have a real importance for the body of Christ will be completed. It’s almost like there are some people who had a vision to write some things and have been stuck like with a spiritual writer’s block. But a lot of that was just warfare and flax and the the timing of the Lord, but now, it’s time for the release. I particularly see in the spirit some really significant breakthrough books about prayer by men and women to whom God has revealed some secrets, secrets of His heart concerning prayer. But there will be other books, books of instruction, books that reveal the ways of God. This is a time for those who have in their heart, who’ve been carrying in their heart for years, holy books, books about prayer, to now be completed and written. So let’s just pray that those things will be released and that the spirit of revelation and the spirit of perseverance and creativity will break forth and those important pieces of God’s purposes be released on the earth.
God is raising the Roof 1/24/12
God is raising the roof
I heard the Lord say that he was raising the roof. I saw this vision of the roof being raised in a church, so high that you couldn’t even see the roof anymore. What I heard the Lord saying is that we have set ceilings in our worship, even the most free worship has had its ceiling, but God is now raising the roof so that when we lift our hands in praise to Him, our hearts to Him, our hearts and hands will now be lifted up into the 3rd Heaven We’ve heard about, and known about people who have come before the Lord and experienced being in the 3rd Heaven, and all the awesome things they experienced there. All around the world, we’re going to see God raising the roof for the whole body of Christ, and taking worship to a new place to where whole congregations of people are really lifted up to the 3rd Heaven, as their hands and hearts reach up in worship. It’s as if in the spirit, their hands are going to reach up and whole congregations of people are going to enter into a 3rd Heaven experience in their worship in that place, where God’s perfect will is always being done. As people reach up and enter into that place it will be a corporate throne room experience. It’s there,in the 3rd Heaven during the worship, that we’re going to start seeing massive amounts of people healed and delivered and set free, for the glory and the power exist there.
God is raising the roof. We’re in a time where worship is now moving to new heights. As much as we think we’ve come so far in worship and praise in the charismatic movement, God is now taking us to a new place, and he’s raising the roof so that now when we reach up to Him, when we lift up our hearts to Him, we’re going to find ourselves in the 3rd Heaven. While our hearts and hands are lifted up into the 3rd Heaven, it will affect everything that happens down here where our feet are planted on the earth. It will release the power and glory of God. We’re going to see so many signs and wonders and miracles manifested as our very fingertips and hearts transcend into the 3rd Heaven during worship. God is raising the roof.
The Song Dynasty
There will be a word posted in a day or two about God raising the roof in worship, but this morning He said the Song Dynasty has now taken over The Heavenly River. We live in a time where I’ve never seen such a flow of anointed worship songs being written. Many thought the same thing in the 70′s, 80′s, and 90′s. That was only the beginning. What we are seeing now is unprecedented in Church history. The Song Dynasty is still in its infant stages, but it is growing by leaps and bounds in its power, and influence The flow will continue grow, with God preparing more and more worshippers with a song in their heart to emerge. The creativity boundaries have been obliterated. The age limits have been lifted. The Song Dynasty has overtaken management of the Heavenly River, and it is on the sounds of Heaven that is being released into the hearts of true worshippers, that is going to carry the Church into the Heavenly Places. As we see the Kingdom manifested at an accelerated rate in these days of released Revival, know that it’s the river that is bringing us there. As the manifest kingdom, and it’s Glory transforms things around us, and in us, it will be a Song Dynasty that we will be living in. In this Song Dynasty, the melodies in our hearts will be a heavenly river flowing out of our inner man to God. There will be no more room for murmuring and complaining. People on the streets will hear the sounds coming up out of you even if you aren’t making a sound. It will be as if God has released His Church into the streets as a Heavenly choir, serenading the world with the sound of hearts in love with Jesus. The Lost willed drawn to the Heavenly Sirens, and will be lured into loves submission and join the Heavenly chorus of joy, delight, and freedom. The Meek and the Mastered are surely inheriting the Earth. God’s priority is cultivated Lovesick True Worshippers in these days. Join the Choir. Surrender your hearts to the Song Dynasty.
One Thing (1/16/12)
8 “[m]Listen! My beloved!
Behold, he is coming,
Climbing on the mountains,
Leaping on the hills!
9 “My beloved is like a gazelle or a young [n]stag.
Behold, he is standing behind our wall,
He is looking through the windows,
He is peering through the lattice.
10 “My beloved responded and said to me,
‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along.
11 ‘For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.
12 ‘The flowers have already appeared in the land;
The time has arrived for [o]pruning the vines,
And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.
13 ‘The fig tree has ripened its figs,
And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance.
Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along!’”
14 “[p]O my dove, in the clefts of the [q]rock,
In the secret place of the steep [r]pathway,
Let me see your [s]form,
Let me hear your voice;
For your voice is sweet,
And your [t]form is lovely.”
Whenever the Lord calls you up to a new place in Him, there are just some things you have to let go of. The new summit is awesome, but the price may be painful. You have to decide if it’s worth it. The Lord will love you if you stay below, for that place is His place too. The real question is, how high do you long for. If the highest heights are what you dream of, then the climb requires you to let go of some stuff, maybe even good stuff. We are in a climbing season. The slopes are prepared. The new Vista is waiting. How bad do you want it? Will you camp in the Foothills, or will you suffer the joy of pushing onward. Pushing upward. Have a great day CLIMBING.
Breaking the Curse Cycle 1/5/12
It’s time for the curse cycle to be broken
The Lord is saying that many of you have been living under a curse and the cycle repeats itself. This could be true for you personally, but also for your family and therefore, it would be an ancestral curse. As a matter of fact, if you don’t stand now and break the power of this curse cycle in your own life you could be the one that begins a generational curse for your family descendants This particular curse cycle that must be broken is the result of some choice that either you made or your family has made, and the result of it is that the warfare was so severe that there was a curse placed on you or your family where there seems to be a cyclical sin activity, a cyclical warfare that keeps occurring.
In a family, it could be the same kind of sin that keeps occurring over and over again, or the same kind of battles being fought over and over again, generation after generation.
For you as an individual again, it could be that from that point forward, things just seemed to get so much more difficult. There seems to be failure after failure after failure, repeating itself almost cyclically. It’s like there’s just this cycle of things being negative that you can’t seem to break out of.
The Lord is saying that we’re now in a time where the curse cycle must be broken. It’s no mystery: all you’ve got to do is get alone with the Lord and ask him to show you where the curse cycle began; where it started. He is faithful. The Holy Spirit is the leads us into all truth. He’s the revealer, and he will be very faithful to show you where it started. At that point, on behalf of your whole family, you need to call it what it is. The choice that opened the door for the curse to enter needs to repent of, on your behalf, or on behalf of your family, just like Nehemiah did, and others in Scripture did on behalf of Israel. You need to repent of it and then you need to renounce it, and then it needs to be placed under the blood of Jesus. Once you’ve done that, you need to consciously and verbally celebrate your freedom from this curse cycle and the freedom for your family from this curse cycle. Not every trauma or sin invites demons that bring curses, but some do. The way you can tell is the cyclical nature of darkness that keeps affecting you. It’s time to get FREE. NOW!!
Summer Soldiers, and Sunshine Patriots
Summer soldiers and sunshine patriots
Dec 20, 2011
Just before Christmas, the Lord spoke this to me that in this season of harvest and fulfillment, there will be a lot of people who get taken out by the enemy, who desert the ranks, before their harvest can come.
We’ve gone through a year of strong transition, the year of 11’s. We’ve come into a time where the clock has struck 12, and over these next years, we’re going to see some real harvesting, Harvesting of prophetic words and promises that people have been standing for and believing for. Many of them people ave been contending for for a long time. We’re also going to see rapid harvests during this anointed Season where the normal laws of time involved in sowing and reaping will be suspended. People getting words from the Lord, believing, and seeing them coming to pass quickly.
Even though there was a lot of warfare surrounding the year of transition, as we move towards this season that begins in 2012, (actually began on 12/11/11) the warfare is not going to diminish now that we’re in this time, it’s going to increase, at least it’s going to feel like it increases at times, because the devil doesn’t want you to experience the fulfillment of promises. He wants you to waiver in faith and abandon your stand so that you cannot receive what God has for you.
In 1776, the American colonial army was in very bad shape; Washington had lost several battles and he had wintered his forces, and the morale was low. During the season he had just come through, 11,000 troupes had abandoned the colonial army to go back home. Thomas Paine, who had been used before to stir up a passion for independence, wrote a pamphlet around Dec 20 called “Crisis in America”. To this day, it’s still considered in history classes as one of the greatest patriotic writings. It’s the one that starts off “These are times that try men’s souls…”. The day after the pamphlet was published, Washington had it read to all of his troupes. He sent couriers around to make sure all the troupes would read the pamphlet or have it read to them. In this pamphlet, Paine refers to those soldiers who had abandoned the army as “sunshine patriots and summer soldiers”. it was a pretty common thing for soldiers to sign up in the spring, when their crops were planted, and to serve during the summer, then abandon the troupes and the army during the Fall to help with the harvest at home. Also, there were many who would leave when the weather got really bad and it became difficult and painful to continue to camp with the soldiers. So Paine referred to these soldiers as “sunshine patriots and summer soldiers”, and the situation of soldiers leaving the Battlefield got worse in 1776. I believe that we’re in that particular season in the Body of Christ, and I spoke the word last summer about the heat being on and the heat wasn’t going to be turned down.
It’s going to feel at times like the heat’s been turned down, because there’s going to be such glorious victory in harvest, and fulfillment, in this season that we’re in, but the heat will be turned up and the purpose of the heat is to get people to abandon their stand. The Lord works in our lives according to our faith, and there are promises God has put in our hearts, and things that God has spoken to us prophetically that we’ve been standing in faith for. During this time, we’re going to harvest the purposes of God and the glory of God. We’re going to harvest the prophetic destines of God that he’s planted in our hearts, We’re going to harvest the things of God. What the enemy desires is to get you to not persevere. To leave the field of battle. To abandon the fight. Hebrews 6:12 says “By faith and patience, we inherit the promises” and what the enemy wants to do is to get people in the heat of the battle, when the conditions are the most severe, instead of standing and believing till they see in their hand what they believed for, to abandon the fight and not receive or hold in their hand the things that God has placed in their heart and that they’re believing him for. It is so important for you to understand that if this warfare has increased, it is because you are so close to a breakthrough, It must mean that you are very close to a crop, that you’re very close, just around the corner, from receiving the fulfillment of the promises that will be destiny altering, and life changing. Your destiny in the spirit realm is tied up in this. It is so significant that you don’t allow the enemy to cause you to run, to desert, to abandon the battle. Again, this is a really important word for you to hear. If the heat has gotten turned up, it’s because the glorious victory must be just beyond you. Thomas Paine said in his pamphlet, “tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph; what we attain too cheap, we esteem too lightly”.
If the conflict has gotten very difficult, become very hard, if hell seems to be resisting, then you must stand, and keep standing, because you are just on the verge of obtaining the glorious triumph that God has promised you. Harvest time is an incarnation time. Faith starts with us receiving things in our heart; faith finishes when we hold those things in our hand. That’s incarnation.
The scripture says,“The word became flesh.” That is incarnation. Harvest is when what you’ve received in your heart is now a crop that you can touch with your hands.As a result of Paine’s pamphlet “Crisis in America”, a few days later, on Christmas Day, (the day of Incarnation) at 11 o’clock at night, George Washington crossed the Delaware and when he did, he defeated the Hessian army at Trenton, NJ. He crossed back over the next day, and then on Jan 2nd crossed over it again and confronted Cornwallis’ troupes and eventually, defeated them at Princeton on Jan 3rd. The result of all this is that the morale of the colonial army was greatly emboldened and in some ways, was a real turning point in the war. What the Lord was showing me was if people will stand and not run from the battle, by giving into unbelief, or fatigue,they will have victory, they will have their Incarnation day. These truly are times that will test men, and women’s souls, and faith. Glorious victories are at hand. Don’t be a Summer Soldier, or a Sunshine Patriot.
