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Issue #27 Jul 09

There are many discouraged, disillusioned and dismayed warriors in the Kingdom of God. Every one of us is called to a different ministry and rank in the body of Christ but some of you are folding under the pressure. You may have a very significant calling, which is the reason why the enemy has released some vicious attacks against you but whatever the circumstance is you must learn how to be strong in the face of adversity. For those of you who have been doing the right thing and pressing in to God in prayer although it seems like the heavens are brass this is the word of the Lord for you – Don’t get weary in well doing because the time for what God created you to do is approaching and your season for His plan for your life is about to unfold. Weary, wounded, and worried Christians can not be effective in the Kingdom of God. Graham Cooke once said, there is a difference between soldiers and warriors. Every Christian is called to be a soldier but spiritual warriors are different. They are on assignment specific to God's command against the enemy.

Now is the time and the hour that My people must go through the fire of preparation so that they may be a pure people, a vessel fit for the Master’s use, one that is not tainted by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. This can only come by a willingness of My people to come forth to choose this work to be done in their hearts and lives. And as you come forth, I will start the purging, the cleansing, and the testing of the hearts to see what they are made of. Are they serving Me for what they can gain through the claiming of My promises, or are they enlisting in a mighty army that is ready to pick up their shield and sword and run towards the enemy to tear down his kingdom. The promises which are many are only a by-product of a true work that is being done in and through a yielded vessel.

Yes, this is the day for warring against the enemy like never before done since the time of man has begun. I want you to measure your affection for the things that you have and desire. I want you to measure the time you spend appeasing the flesh and entertaining yourself instead of preparing yourself before Me in My word basking in My intimate presence. For these are serious times, and many will miss out on My highest honor upon them. For it is not by might nor by power but by My spirit flowing through a yielded vessel.

At Early Morning Prayer I began to prophesy about a very narrow way coming for us. Next week I will write about a time of fasting. When Norma Sarvis listened to the prayer time in Israel, she was amazed. She wrote the following:

“In traditional Judaism the time period between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av is called ‘bein ha Metzarim’ which is translated between the narrow places or dire straits. It comes from Lamentations 1:3: ‘Amidst affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her IN THE MIDST OF HER DISTRESS’. This phrase IN THE MIDST OF HER DISTRESS can also be translated ‘between the straits or narrow places’. It is traditionally a 3 week mourning period in Judaism commemorating the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem on the 17th of Tammuz and the destruction of the Temple on the 9th of Av. It is a time of mourning with no weddings occurring during this season along with other mourning traditions.

For The Spiritual Leaders Around The Globe Who Are Obsessed With Fame

You have stolen my glory and put on a show. You are obsessed with fame for yourself. You do not truly care for my sheep. You do not truly care for the poor and the needy. All this money you have spent has been wasted on your meaningless programs. You are so good at making yourself busy and running from one place to another, but I am not in your programs and I will never be in your programs. You tried to put me in your box and limit my Spirit and power but I cannot be limited. You think just because my presence is in your services that surely I am pleased with your actions. I tell you, my presence is there for those who truly seek after me, not for you who are stealing my glory to make yourself look great.

Do you think I need your programs and money, can I not send you to the street and minister to those who need me and they would be healed by my power? It is not you who heal the sick. It is not your strategic planning that makes you excellent. You borrow all these terms from the world to make yourself sound all important, but do you think I care for all these superficial things?

+ My “forerunners” are in major transition in this most critical hour and, therefore, it is of the utmost importance that they judge [discern] ALL things with a righteous judgment. For truly I say to you, I am doing a “new” thing in the midst of all those who truly love Me.

....”Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment”.... John 7:24 NASB

....”I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images. “Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you”.... Isaiah 42:8-9 NASB

Glenn Jackson • Fergus Ontario Canada • June 29th 2009

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I can hear God say – “This is the time!”

It’s time to get back in the fight! When we look throughout biblical history, we see that it was always the victors who took the spoils of war. And those who were defeated either lost their lives or became slaves to their enemies – losing everything.

As God’s people, we must never surrender to the forces of darkness, and never give in! Not in our nation, not in our cities, our churches, or even in our personal lives, we must never give up the fight! To give up or to surrender is to declare our enemy the victor and the conqueror. As God’s people, our only surrender should be to our God and King!

It’s time for all those in the Body of Christ who have given up the fight, to turn back and get back in! We must not faint in the day of adversity! We must stand up and fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold of eternal salvation (I Tim 6:12), not just for ourselves, but for all humanity who needs to hear the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ! For all who will be saved!

There are some of you that are taking three steps forward and then two steps back. The Lord says do not become weary, do not compromise and do not retreat. Do not allow the enemy to dislodge you or derail you from the place that I have you. Do not shrink back in fear. Many of you have begun a good race. Get back on the narrow path that I have for you which will lead you into blessings as you access My perfect will. Yes there will be tests and trials along the way and the enemy will try to come to steal, kill and destroy but you must learn how to endure hardness as a good soldier. I have given you the ability to be an overcomer. Do not regress but stand your ground, says the Lord.

Galatians 5: 7 - 9 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

2 Timothy 2: 3 - 4You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.

Elaine Tavolacci • This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it • www.awordinseason.info

July 09, 2009

I watch over MY every Word to perform it. If you are truly mine you will gladly live from My will and timing in ALL things. You can rest assured I will keep you from the evil one! It is time for good things to happen, it is time for the best things to happen! I AM going to hammer you with JOY unspeakable and full of GLORY.

Soon many of you will sign the papers on your own homes and lands that you did not pursue. Homes full of all good things, because you have left everything for ME! It is beginning even now my Glory is filling the atmosphere and is soon to come, I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT! Don’t worry about men, men will flee at the sight of ME!

Now there will be breakthrough after breakthrough after breakthrough. As you put on your ephod and enquire of me, embrace Me and My working in you, you will be changed into MY image FOREVER, There will be no more going back into the bondage of darkness. A Great light is arising and then MY Glory will be seen upon you.

Just before falling off to sleep I had a vision: of rain coming through the roof of my apartment, dumping puddles of water all over the place; just kept leaking and leaking. I’m on the ground floor and there is another apartment above me. I saw myself trying to get pans, buckets, to collect the water to prevent damage to the rug, and trying to stop the leaking or control how it came down, but it was impossible to stop or control it.

Then the Lord when asked what He wanted to say…

“Do you hear the sound of the abundance of rain? I am coming, and with Me will I pour out the latter day rains that will flood the earth with My Spirit. Just as you could not control the rain making puddles in your apartment, you will not be able to control this move of My Spirit. It will just erupt and there will be no controlling what I want to do! Man will find himself fighting directly against ME if he tries to control or stop it! I will frustrate all attempts to do so. Though many will shut it down, those affected will leave. There will also be many who leave the church in fear because of the way I will do things.

As the heavens are so high above the Earth, and even as the rain descends to water the ground, so the word of the Lord descends this day upon you, saith God. My word, my word,my word falls out of heaven this day upon this ground, upon this church, upon your holy lives. And I have been watching over my word to fulfill it; I have been watching over everything I have spoken. And I have been looking for a man who would stand in the gap, and reach up his hand into heaven and say, “God, all things are possible with you,” and who will walk the walk and talk the talk and do the deeds of God and will repent when there is a mistake, will not harden his neck, harden his hand and say, “I have nothing to hide; I have nothing to repent of.” But I am looking for a repentant Church, saith God. I’m looking for men and women who know how to fall before the altar of God and plead the blood of the Lamb, plead the blood of the Lamb, plead the blood of the Lamb for the shortcomings – their faults – and even for the indiscretions and the sins of those who have come before them.

“A New Phase of Life” and “Beyond Your Comfort Zone”

A New Phase of Life

Your life will change. Go with the flow because it is of Me. Go into the changes with hope and joy. I have a new phase of life ahead for your. Embrace it as a gift from your God. Don’t look back. Look up!

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Don’t go back. This new anointing, in its entirety, will be unsettling to My people, unusual and, in a sense, uncomfortable. They will seek to return to old ways, old patterns, old places of safety, to feel secure.

“Behold, I make all things new!” This is a new time and a new season. Be ready to “walk the tightrope” in the anointing, that is, the presence and power of God. Way out there, beyond your comfort zone, is where I AM right now. Follow Me. You can do it, in Me.

Mary Ellen Gilliland • Silverthorne, Colorado • June 2009

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“The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?” Amos 3:8 (KJV)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Yeshua. June 18th, 2009

Today I received a very serious message from Yeshua, in connection with Amos 3:8. I was just about to make brochures ready for dispatch as Yeshua spoke to me: “Take yourself time for Me, I want to speak with you!” As I went to my garden house for prayer and fellowship with Him, I saw on heaven a large wide open Bible and I received the word from Hebrews 2:8, which says about Yeshua’s glory:

“Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.”

I am sweeping My foundations clean so that what I build will now be a work of strength and endurance. It will be a work of righteousness that will bring forth My Bride without blemish. You, My people, are being built up into a holy habitation where I can dwell, says the Lord. What has been swept away is pretence and hypocrisy. My building materials will be those who will abide in Me and allow My Spirit to move freely; those who are totally yielded to Me, yet completely resistant to the works of the flesh and the devil. Yours is to yieldto Me without reservation or hesitation.

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Marsha Burns • July 13, 2009

God has been leading me to read the story of Moses and the journey from Egypt to Canaan for some time now and I am seeing a bigger picture unfold of what He has been doing over the last season, and

also what He is doing now in this new season. As I look back over the words released through the Lord’s prophets over the last season, three themes clearly stand out—Transition (Shaking), Purification (Holiness) and Intimacy (Rest). During transition as portrayed in the journey to Canaan and throughout the Ministry of Jesus, the work we are called to do is to be purified and to rest—“Repent (be purified) for the Kingdom of God (faith/rest) is at hand.”

Elijah came to the gate of the city, behold a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said “Bring me a little water in a vessel that I may drink”. And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand”. And she said “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son that we may eat it and die”. And Elijah said to her “Do not fear, go and do as you have said but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me and afterward make something for yourself and your son. For thus says the Lord; the God of Israel, the jar of flour shall not be spent and the jug of oil shall not be empty until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.” And she went and did as Elijah said and she and he and her household ate for many days. The jar of flour was not spent; neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke to Elijah. – 1 Kings 17:10-16

My precious people I am calling you to live with open hands. I am calling you to live with your fists not clenched holding onto various areas of your life, but living with an open palm, releasing all to Me.

For fear, lies, doubt and anxiety is keeping many of you in a place where you are not releasing to Me that which I am asking of you. My beautiful people, as you live with an open hand, I will increase that which you release to Me, I will give you in return something even more glorious, even more abundant, but you must let go.

Grace, wisdom and understanding to you this day!

I had gone into the Spirit in prayer seeking the answer to a problem that friends of mine were facing. Quite unexpectedly, I received a lengthy word from God for the body of Christ in the United States. The word began with a clear vision of an army tank traveling across the land, and as I inquired what this vision meant, I received this word:

“The people of God are viewing their problems from the standpoint of emotions and morals rather than as a battleground where military strategy is executed.

“This refusal to mature in perspective is a form of self-indulgence which is reinforced by the enemy, who seeks to confuse and deceive My people about the mindset that they as “Christians” should have.

In the same way that many will receive judgment [great reward] for their spiritual support of those who are walking in true ministry in this most critical hour, those who have been used by Satan to hinder the true ministries that I am seeking to both establish and exalt in the midst of My glorious Remnant shall be judged with a judgment that is both intense and absolute. For I will no longer tolerate to ANY degree the abuse of those who have truly laid their lives down to pursue the establishment of both My Church and My Kingdom! These are the days wherein every self-exalting attitude will be both exposed and consumed in the midst of those who truly love Me - and truly I say to you, the last [those walking in faith and true humility] shall be first and the first [in their own strength and thinking] shall be last.

....“He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. “He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. “And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward”.... Matthew 10:40-42 NASB

....“Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. “But many who are first will be last, and the last, first” Mark 10:29-31 NASB

Glenn Jackson • Fergus Ontario Canada • June 27th 2009

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My people are running this way and that, forever halting between two opinions—and that is what they are My people: they are man’s opinions on what they THINK My scriptures reveal. Am I not the author of the Book, am I not the author of the Bible, THEN WHY DON’T YOU COME TO THE AUTHOR AND SEEK MY FACE FOR REVELATION OF MY SCRIPTURES!

There is great delusion in the land, they are saying peace, peace and safety and then suddenly destruction will come! Many in the western world have become fat with the teaching of My Word through the minds and *dogmas of men BUT WHERE IS THE LOVE IN YOUR LIVES, WHERE IS MY ANOINTING IN YOUR LIVES? Does it not say in MY WORD that the five virgins without OIL will be left outside of the marriage feast and does not MY Word say that they left it too late to purchase oil for themselves and when they arrived back the door to the marriage feast was closed, it was closed—it was closed!

The Spirit saying:

I Am doing something in your days such that you wouldn’t believe it even if someone told you about it. Be astonished, and astounded my children. In your midst I have been trying to get your attention. Many still will not hear My voice, even though I Am using every thing available to get them to clear their ears for My voice. For those who hear, I say that this is Our time to shine! When darkness covers the face of the earth, that is when I call forth the light. I Am calling forth the light that resides in you. In you I have placed hidden resources and great treasures that are now waiting to be revealed. The world is in need of those things that I have placed inside of you.

A Prophesy for the Church for the End-Times

I became aware of masonry and bricks falling all around me. I asked the Lord what was happening and He said, “Its My shaking.” He went on to show me that the coming shaking will be to the church and it will be bigger than 9/11 – of greater impact. But it will be a self-inflicted wound. Three ‘huge’ ministries will fall along with hundreds of others. Millions of dollars will simply disappear leaving an enormous financial scandal.

It will be God shaking His people preparing the Bride for His Son. God will be clearing out the bad and keeping the good. Pruning the dead branches and throwing them on the fire. The aftermath will be a meltdown of the great denominations as they struggle to retain their wealth but they will lose 60% of all their wealth – land, property, and much of their historic artefacts. It will just disappear.

There will be a consequential rise in atheism and some persecution of the church and Christians in Western countries while the African and Asian church will make enormous strides forward. God will shake and destroy much in the Western Church of Europe and North America but He will prosper those of Africa and Asia. He is making His church HOLY.

Two words given on May 31, 2009

Susan: My Children, I am real, and I am alive, and I am the Living God. And for too long, My People have walked as if I was dead. As if I was unable to set them free, or resurrect them, or walk with them in the earth. I am Life. I am the Resurrected Life. And I am the Life that will be seen through you. For it is time that you transition with Me.

It is time for you to step into the reality of My Glory, and know Me as the King of Glory. For I am not dead, I am risen instead, and I walk with a People that are risen. I don’t walk with a People that are dead. I don’t walk with a People that walk in their head.

Patrick prophesied in the meeting Sunday night that many of us would be taken to Heaven by Jesus that night, and I said, “Lord I will go.

I was sitting at the sound table during the worship part of the service, when suddenly a few minutes later, the Lord took me into heaven in the vision.

I saw a river flowing down between houses, and I realized the river was the street, and the houses were all built along it…..it kind of reminded me of how Venice is built….the streets are all waterways ….. and the street of flowing water here in Heaven was very clear and it was full of light and life.

You Look a little higher; look a little higher. Did not the prophet of God call forth those revolutionary angels? They’ve been stationed here to protect this nation. The Angel of the Union that your forefather did see, is he not here; is he not here? You yourselves live in the Bible belt. Get out those bibles. Dust them off. Proclaim the words of God over this land. Proclaim the words of the puritans and the pilgrims. Pull out the sermons of James Kennedy; read them again; teach them to your young ones. That’s the truth; it’s not what you hear on the airwaves. Did you think that I would leave you here alone to fight? Oh, your forefathers, they did defense with the Angels of the Lord. It wasn’t a battle against flesh and blood. It was a spiritual battle in the world. And once again, once again that serpent has raised his head in a spiritual battle for the world. Would I leave you defenseless? Where do you think the Angels are? They’re not up here playing on their harps. They’re pouring down those golden ladders; they’re coming with the swords of the Lord.

In March of 2007 my band and I were in Ghana, West Africa, on a worship tour singing for crowds of up to 64,000. Before the trip, I was so busy as a music executive that I had very little time to prepare myself spiritually. Knowing that I should have contacted friends to cover us in prayer, I instead said a few hurried, solitary prayers while on the long flight to Africa.

Once on the ground, I quickly realized that the spiritual atmosphere in Ghana was intense and we desperately needed God’s power flowing through us to see real breakthroughs in people’s lives. So I called as many prayer teams around the U.S. as I could and asked them to intercede for us.

God was faithful and anointed our worship, and many people were healed. But after the trip, I felt like one of the disciples Jesus had to rebuke for a lack of faith and preparation.

Nearly all the musicians, including myself, battled serious illnesses. I cried out to God and repented for my sin, asking Him to help me find a way to put my call as a worship leader back into a place of primary importance in my life.

In The Watchman Repented (http://www.etpv.org/2009/twrep.html) Awinita Chenoa of Canada relates many visions and dreams she has had over time and then shares this recent one:

... This now brings me up to the 7th day of June, this year of 2009 [I have shared dreams, visions, words which I was led to share in this article]

On the 7th day of June, this year, I was looking out the window, taking a break. It was my 7th day of a fast. In my spirit man, I heard the Great Spirit Chief, the Almighty Lord God, Yhwh Elohim say, ‘I AM the Lord God of Israel. I am here. See the stone rolled away? I am risen. You overcome by My BLOOD and the WORD of your testimony. I AM the Word, come in the flesh and I live in you. Obedience now is crucial.’

As I listened to His voice within, I looked up into the sky, at the clouds and I began to see things. Following the prompting of the most Holy Spirit, I grabbed paper and a pen.

‘Death is coming to America.’ I saw in the clouds women and men wailing, full of confusion and fear. I saw many being wrongly imprisoned. I saw a woman huddling with a child and I saw great death, and a famine.