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As I write this, the Presidential election has not yet been decided, but Joe Biden isin the lead. As I watch this unfold in the news, two things come to mind. One is Jesus' Word to Chuck-JOHNEL years ago when it comes to electing a president. Jesus said in essence: "DO NOT LOOKTO THE MANBUT THE PREFERENCE OF THE NATION." The second thing is something I read recently which basically said (paraphrasing): "We must not look for a political
solution
to a spiritual problem"
Rod Dreher
Spiritually speaking, America is no longer the Christian nation it once was. The Church, as a whole in America, has rejected God and Jesus Christ, and so Satan has been allowed to come in and establish his kingdom, which is working to overthrow the Kingdom of God. Wh'atever we see playing out in the world, has its root in the spirit realm. To defeat the enemy of our souls in the world, they must be destroyed in the spirit. To these ends, the Net of Prayer can rest easy that we have done what we can in prayer and spiritual warfare to destroy the demons and their demonic infrastructure as Jesus has directed us this year. Unfortunately,removing the demons doesn't always change what is in a person's heart and so we see there is a preference for Satan and his kingdom of Hobah working through those who support the Democratic party. God will not generally overrule the decision of one's heart. There are even times, as in the case of when Moses confronted Pharaoh to let God's people be go, that it says the Lord actually hardened Pharaoh's heart to not release the people of God until the final plague. It is also of note that of those IO plagues, in the beginning they fell on both the Israelites and the Egyptians. It was only after a few of the plagues had struck, that God caused them to only fall on the Egyptians. There is the Law of Sow and Reap at work here where we will reap what we have sown as a nation. For us, as we pray to possess the Land as God the Father and Jesus Christ has directed us, this has not changed or been completed by any means. The Prophets and myself all knew when God the Father and Jesus first spoke to me about this, that it would take time . . . a lot of time, probably years. We also knew that it would be a two-fold process: #1 - ENTERING INTO THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST AND WHO WE ARE IN HIM, AND ALL HE OBTAINED FOR US. #2 - AND BY MOVING IN CHRIST MORE FULLY AND COMPLETELY, WE WILL POSSESS OUR LAND. WE WILL DESTROY THAT NATION/KINGDOM OF HOBAH SO WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD, PERIOD. Another way to look at this would be to say that we are to (1) POSSESS THE KINGDOM
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OF GOD WITHIN US, AND (2) FROM THERE POSSESS GOD' S INHERITANCE FOR US. As a nation, we are at a place along time in the making. Our nation did not get to this point overnight. Like a ship that is sinking, the time to take measures that would have saved the vessel is past. In recent years, the only thing we could hope for is that its sinking would be slowed for the sake of God's people to have time to prepare themselves for the inevitable. Unfortunately, one way or another the nation is going down. This is God's Judgment on America for turning away from God and rejecting His Son. The only solution for this place our nation is in is for God's people to come before Jesus Christ and repent of rejecting Him, seeking His face with a humble and contrite heart. If God allows Donald Trump to be removed from office, it very well may be because His people are looking to Trump to save them when they should be looking to God and Jesus Christ. To over focus on Donald Trump as a solution is to be looking for a political solution to a spiritual problem. If God deems it necessary for His people's spiritual welfare to remove Donald Trump, He will. If that is what it will take for God's people to be brought to the point of falling to their knees in prayer and repentance, then His will be-done. It is for this reason, that it becomes ever more important to pray for AWAKENING AND REVIVAL The people need to be made aware of their need for God and Jesus Christ, and be drawn to Them in a new way. The people need to experience Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in a personal, loving, life-giving, life-fulfilling way which is part of our new life in Christ. As we go forward in time, the battle with the forces of Hobah will not go away, so God is looking and calling for OVERCOMERS IN CHRIST JESUS. No matter who wins the election, the war between the kingdom of Hobah and the Kingdom of God will continue. Our call to light the Light of Liberty also continues as darkness seeks to extinguish the Light in the hearts of the people. As we pray for AWAKENING AND REVIVAL BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, this /S lighting the LIGHT OF LIBERTY, which is JESUS CHRIST MANIFEST IN HIS PEOPLE.
"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body of the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus ' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. " (2 Corinthians 4:6-11)
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AWAKE, AWAKE! God is calling all of His people - no matter their spiritual state - to AWAKE and COME UNTO HIM ANEW. Wake up and put on thy strength in Christ Jesus. To the Body of Christ, put on your beautiful garments, those which have been washed by the Blood of the Lamb, and be clothed in His righteousness. Shake off the dust of sin and be washed in the water of His Word. As you have been set free come into the Light and Presence of God with a heart of repentance and love, and be filled with the Spirit of God. For those who are dead spiritually, let them awaken, rise and come into the Life, Light and Spirit of Jesus Christ, for "WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY. " (2 Corinthians 3:17) Since March of this year we have been praying to light the Light of Liberty in the Land. Back in January 2020, God the Father spoke His Word, revealing that the Light in the nation had almost gone out and that He would have it re-lit. This hearkened back to the Word from Jesus to Chuck-JOHNEL back on March 12, 1979, when Chuck-JOHNEL was in Philadelphia, PA. on a prophetic trip. Jesus said then: "BY MY SPIRIT I LIT THE LIGHT OF LIBERTY IN THIS LAND AND THAT LIGHT FILLED UP THE LAND. NOW THE DARKNESS OF SlN is COME AND WILL EXTINGUISHTHAT LIGHTAND DARKNESSSHALLCOVERTHE LAND. YET, BY MY SPIRIT, WILLIAGAIN RESTORETHE LIGHT OF FREEDOMAND IN THIS VERYSAME PLACE AND THIS VERY SAME BUILDING AND THAT LIGHT WILL FILL UP THE LAND." In the beginning, and throughout the Light of Liberty Prayer Campaign, we were praying to be faithful to do as Jesus Christ directed us in prayer and spiritual warfare to destroy the strongholds and demonic forces of Hobah, Satan's kingdom in our Land. Each step of the way, we were/are praying to light the Light of Liberty by God's Holy Spirit by being vessels of His Light in the spirit realm. What has been interesting is that as our Light, the Light of God, shone forth, the darkness of Satan's kingdom in the world seemed emboldened and even flushed out into the open for all to see in a variety of ways, no longer hidden beneath
the surface.Further, we have seen that even as the forces of Hobahwere showing themselves right before our eyes, such as with the rioting and looting, and then with the deeds of Hunter and Joe Biden being brought to Light, so the forces of darkness work to cover for them. However, the fact that these things were brought out in the open and more people continue to step forward and reveal what they know, it is certainly a result of the warfare we have done these past many months. Another manifestation of our warfare, as Cathy-MARTHA pointed out to me, has been the confirmation of Judge Arny Coney-Barrett to the Supreme Court. In stark contrast to the Kavanaugh hearings, she was met with what I discern were weak attacks and resistance. The
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AWAKE A! continued bad news is that now the demonic Left is vowing to attack and double-down their efforts to try to make sure this won't happen again by working to change our Constitution and system of government and elections to their advantage, if they get control of the Senate and Presidency. One thing is for sure, the war against Satan's kingdom of Hobah will go on, but we have dealt them some severe blows and bought much-needed time for the Body of Christ to ready itself for whatever comes next. As Ilook through Jesus's Word over the years, this one to Chuck-JOHNEL on July 7, 1990. certainly fits the time we are in now. "AWAKEN MY PEOPLE AND HEAR MY WORD, YOUR TIME IS SHORT, AND I SEND MY MIGHTY ONES TO WITHSTAND A LITTLE MORE FOR SOME BUT NOT ALL, I KEEP OPEN THE DOOR THAT MANY MAY YET ESCAPE. BUT IN A TIME THE DOOR SHUTS AND ALL OUTSIDE WILL SOON BE GIVEN TO WOE AND LAMENTATION, SORROW AND PAIN, MISERY AND TERRIBLE LOSS UNTO DEATH. THE DOOR / HOLD OPEN, IT'S TIME TO FLEE AND ENTER IN, WHEN I SHUT IT, NO ONE OPENS AND THE TIME IS PAST. A TIME REMAINSWHERE THE DOOR IS HELD OPEN, ONLY A TIME NO MORE." We have certainly been praying to withstand the enemy for the sake of God's people, especially those captive to the power of the enemy. Also since January of this year, the revelation amongst the Prophets of this ministry has been that Jesus is the DOOR and it is time to enter in - NOW. How much longer that DOOR is held open is up to God, but I do know that it is corning to a close. Hence the call going out for REVIVAL AND AWAKENING across the Land. Jesus would then give His Word on September 15, 2020, telling me about the sweep of the nation to be done in October and that we were to pray for AWAKENING by the Spirit of God. In that Word, Jesus said: "FURTHER, PRAY FOR A NEW BEGINNING AND AWAKENING BY MY SPIRIT TO BE SHED ABROAD IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE. LET THEIR EYESBE OPENEDAND THEIR HEARTS CONVICTED OF THEIR SIN AND NEED FOR ME. PRAY TO LIGHT THE LIGHT OF LIBERTY BY MY SPIRIT WITHIN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE. LET GOD'S KINGDOM COME AND HIS WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. " From this, I could see that the work of lighting the Light of Liberty was corning down to Christ in His people and the Light of Christ being lit there first before it can ever shine nationwide as it did many years ago. When I thought about writing new prayers around this,
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AWAKE,AWAKE! continued. Ifelt it was important to express what AWAKENING and REVIVAL mean to me so we are all on the same page, so to speak. To me, when I think of REVIVAL, having never been a part of one and only hearing about them, }think of people being moved by the Spirit of God in a group setting, being touched by the Spirit to where, for some, demons are cast out, healing takes place, and people are "slain in the Spirit", where they faint or go unconscious due to the move of the Spirit. These kinds of gatherings seem to happen every so many years and then disappear. But is there more to it? It seems like people are touched by the Spirit of God for a while, but then it fades and they go back to the way things were before. It reminds me of the parable of the wineskins where Jesus said not to put new wine into old wineskins as the old wineskin will break and the wine is lost. The new wine must go into a new wineskin, for then it is retained. Next I looked up the Webster's Dictionary definition of REVIVAL and AWAKENING. The word REVIVAL is defined as: (I) the act of reviving (Restorationn to life, consciousness, vigor, strength, etc. REVIVE: (1) to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew. (2) to restore to life or consciousness. From this it strikes me that REVIVAL is for those who once had life in Christ, once had a walk and consciousness in Him, but have fallen away or let it die out. These are Christians, as least at one time, that need to be reactivated, invigorated, strengthened, and set in motion. The word AWAKENING has a similar meaning: (1) rousing; quickening (2) a recognition, realization, or corning to awareness of something (3) a renewal of interest in religion, esp. in a community; a revival. To me, an AWAKENING is not just applied to those who had a walk in Christ and fell
away, but includes those who are children of God who have yet to come that awareness or realization. As it says in Ephesians 5:14, "Awake thou that steepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. " This reminds me of the "Sleeping Elect" ChuckJOHNEL and I were shown IN THE SPIRIT. These were God's Elect who were asleep in deep underground caves, waiting to be awakened It's like they were in a coma; not really dead but not living their lives either. This was a spiritual state. The Spirit of God showed me years ago that some times in Scripture where being dead is spoken of, that "death" is really separation from God, who is Life. Thus, if one is asleep or dead spiritually, they are separated from God and their life in Him. So, praying for AWAKENING is praying for those who are spiritually asleep or dead, to arise and come to Life in Christ Jesus.
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A DEEPER LOOK As I prayed about what REVIVAL and AWAKENING are on a deeper spiritual level, past the gifts that are associated with these movements, I believe it needs to be first and foremost about the Father God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit touching and revealing Themselves to the heart of the individual to where they are changed by the very Love of God to the point of wanting nothing more in their life than more of God and Jesus Christ. Past that insight, I sought to see if I could learn more about what helped shape the Great Awakening back in the 1700's, prior to the Revolutionary War, to see just how we might pray today, as we as a nation are indeed in need of such an AWAKENING. Out of curiosity, I got two books for my research. One is THE ESSENTIAL JONATHAN EDWARDS by Owen Strachan and Douglas A. Sweeney. The other is entitled, THE LIFE OF GOD IN THE SOUL OF MAN IN MODERN ENGLISH, by Henry Scougal (1650-1678), updated English by Paul Lamb. The first man, Jonathan Edwards, was a pastor, teacher and Bible scholar who lived in the 1700's and was part of the Great Awakening. He led his congregation in revivals for a few years prior to the Great Awakening, but those original revivals didn't last very long or move much beyond his congregation. Later he did meet and work with George Whitefield, the minister from England credited with being one of the primary leaders of the Great Awakening. The book by Henry Scougal was instrumental in George Whitefield's walk in Christ prior to the Lord using him in such a powerful way as to reach 80% of the inhabitants of the original 13 colonies here in America. Both of these men, Jonathan Edwards and Henry Scougal share from their own personal experience which fooled the basis of what they taught and prayed for others to experience. It wasn't just head-knowledge, but a deep, heart-felt, soul-impacted relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. For example, let's start with Jonathan Edwards. Born the son of a prominent pastor, Jonathan was raised in a Christian home, and had a good habit of praying and reading
Scripture. But one day while on a walk and reading Scripture, this happened as shared in THE ESSENTIAL JONATHAN EDWARDS: ". . . While silently walking along, a thunderclap of that instance:
struck in Jonathan's
heart. He later said
As I read the words, there came into my soul, and as it were diffused through it, a sense of glory of the divine being; a new sense, quite different from anything I ever experienced before. Never any words of Scripture seemed to me as these words did. I thought with myself, how excellent a Being that was; and how happy I should be,
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AWAKE. AWAKE! continued. (Quoting from THE ESSENTIAL JONATHAN EDWARDS continued) if I might enjoy that God, and be wrapt up to God in heaven, and be as it were swallowed up in him. (Works 16, 792-3)
This sensation of being "swallowed up" in God erupted into a fresh love for Jesus Christ: From about that time, I began to have a new kind of apprehension and ideas of Christ, and the work of redemption, and the glorious way of salvation by him. I had an inward, sweet sense of these things, that at times came into my heart; and my soul was led away in pleasant views and contemplations of them. And my mind was greatly engaged, to spend my time in reading and meditating on Christ; and the beauty and excellency of his person, and the lovely way of salvation, by free grace of him (Works, 16, 793)
Though he never formally said it, this was Jonathan's conversion experience. He had grown up with Scripture and had been studying it academically for years. He knew it very well and attempted to obey its moral and spiritual guidelines. As important as knowledge and obedience are, neither can save the soul and transform the heart. One must acquire what Jonathan later called the "true sense" of God for conversion to take place: A true sense of the divine and superlative excellency of the things of religion; a real sense of the excellency of God and Jesus Christ, and the work of redemption, and the ways and works of God revealed in the gospel. There is a divine and superlative glory in these things; and excellency that is of a vastly higher kind, and more sublime nature than in other things; a glory greatly distinguishing them from all that is earthly and temporal. He that is spiritually enlightened truly apprehends and sees it, or has a sense of it. He does not merely rationally believe that God is glorious, but he has a sense of the gloriousness of God in his heart. There is not only a rational belief that God is holy, and that holiness is a good thing, but there is a sense of the loveliness of God's holiness. There is not only a speculatively judging that God is
gracious, but a sense how amiable God is upon that account, or a sense of the beauty of this divine attribute. (Works 17, 413) [End quote from the book] So it was from this spiritual place that Edwards prayed, gave sermons and sought to lead people in revival. And when such a move of God began to stir in the hearts of the people, Edwards came under attack from a group of Protestant pastoral colleagues, who spoke against these revivals, "decrying them as mere enthusiasm that would pass in short order." This brought Edwards to issue a response, delivering an address in September 1741 entitled "Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God." This next part I find summarizes the
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truly is and what the true signs and
"A work is not to be judged of," wrote Edwards, "by any effects on the bodies of men: such as tears, trembling, groans, loud cries, agonies of body, or the failing of bodily strength" (Works 4, 230). Positive signs included love for Christ, opposition to Satan, reverence for God's Word, and love for God and man. The address illuminated the Christian's experience of these signs. In reflecting on the way that the Holy Spirit produces love for God in the hearts of the truly converted, Edwards explained that the Spirit "works in them an admiring, delightful sense of the excellency of Jesus Christ, representing him as `the chief amongst the thousands, altogether lovely [Song of Solomon 5:10, 16], and makes him precious to the soul" (Works 4, 256). The Spirit causes intense delight in the heart of the Christian as He "makes the attributes of God as revealed in the Gospel and manifested in Christ, delightful objects of contemplation; and makes the soul to long after God and Christ, after their presence and communion, and acquaintance with them, and conformity to them; and to live so as to please and honor them." This love flowed into the daily life of the Christian as the Spirit quells contentions among men, and gives a spirit of peace and goodwill, excites to acts of outward kindness and earnest desires of the salvation of others' souls; and causes a delight in those that appear as the children of God and followers of Christ" (Works 4, 256). This gets right to the heart of AWAKENING and REVIVAL, which is to have that the Love of and for God and Jesus Christ be such a part of each individual that it truly changes them from the inside out. When Jesus Christ and God the Father become our everything, we can come through anything in Them. As Henry Scougal wrote: ". But oh! How happy are those who have placed their love on Him who can never be absent from them! They only need to open their eyes, and they will behold the traces of His presence and glory everywhere. They can always talk with the One their soul loves. This makes the darkest prison or wildest desert not only supportable, but delightful to them." In Christ Jesus is our true life and in Him is freedom by the Spirit of God from the letter of the Law and ways of man. As we pray to bring the Light of Christ to the Land, we are praying to manifest and impart to others the Spirit of Christ which is liberty from sin and works of darkness. Unfortunately, there are those in the Church who haven't really experienced this Liberty as we find that not every Church is truly filled with and led by the
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AWAKE, AWAKE! continued. Spirit of God. Some reflect the fallen carnal nature of mankind instead of the new nature we have in Christ Jesus. These people need the Light of Christ just as surely as those in the world The ones that have come out of the Church system of man and are working towards and walking in true Christianity could be described this way, as Henry Scougal wrote about in the 1600's: Again, true Christianity can be called a life because it is an indwelling, unrestrained, and energizing source. Those who make progress in this life are moved to action by more than external motivations. They are not driven merely by threats, bribed with promises, or constrained by laws; but they are powerfully inclined to what is good, and delight in doing it. The love that a godly man has for God and for doing good comes primarily from his new nature instructing and prompting him, instead of from commands. He doesn't live this life of devotion because of mandatory obligations to appease God's justice or to sooth a guilty conscience. Instead, these religious exercises are the genuine manifestations of the divine life. They are the natural activities of the new-born soul. He prays, gives thanks, and repents not merely because they are commanded. He does these things because he is aware of his needs, the goodness of God, and the foolishness and misery of a sinful life. His generosity is not forced, nor are his gifts to the poor extorted from him, for his love makes him desire to give. And even if there were no instructions to do these things, his "heart would create a generous course of life." Injustice, lack of self-control, and all other character defects are as contrary to his nature and character as the lowest of actions are to the most civilized. They are as foreign to him as shameful behaviors and filthy speech are to those who are naturally modest. Therefore, I echo the words of the Apostle John, "No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God." In Scripture, Jesus told the parable of the seed and how it must be received in the "good ground of the heart" for it to take root, grow and bear much fruit by the Spirit of God. If it is not received in the good ground, but rather falls on hard ground, the enemy can pluck that seed away likewise it will not have been able to become established and take root so when troubles and persecution come, it dries up and withers away. The other possibility is the seed lands in a troubled heart with wounds, cares of this life and issues like anger and bitterness rising up like thorny bushes choking out the seed of God. Instead, the seed must be planted in good ground which is a humble, repentant heart filled with the Love of God. The seed, as Jesus explained, is the Word of God. What Jesus showed me about that Word is that it is not just a one-time thing, and it applies to ALL of God's Word, not just in Scripture, but also God's Word through Jesus Christ to His people directly, through a prophet or prophetic
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AWAKE, AWAKE! continued. Word, or by Holy Spirit insight and revelation. God's Word is also His Love. Last, but greatest of all, Jesus Christ IS The Word, the ultimate seed of all. So as we receive each and every one of God's seeds into our heart, the good ground of our heart, from there they will take root, grow and manifest within us in sweet, wonderful, transformative ways. This process of being changed and transformed from within through prayer and abiding in Christ may appear as though we are doing nothing, but in truth we are doing what Jesus commanded when He said we are to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him. In doing this, we are letting God and His Spirit do the work within us, for us, in ways we cannot do ourselves. This internal exercise may appear as "boring and tedious" to one used to "doing" things for God, and yet this is where the true foundation of our spiritual life is laid and built, and where our life in Christ resides. Henry Scougal addressed the advantages of this aspect of true Christianity this way: The exercises of true Christianity, which to others are boring and tedious, yield the highest pleasure and delight to souls possessed with the love for God. They rejoice when they are called "to go up to the house of the Lord that they may see his power and his glory, as they have previously seen it in the sanctuary." Their greatest joy comes when they have retired from the world, become free from the noise and hurry of life, silenced all their clamorous passions (those troublesome guests within), and have placed themselves in the presence of God. As they entertain fellowship and communion with him, they delight to adore his perfections, recount his favors, profess their affection to him, and tell him a thousand times that they love him. They delight in laying out their troubles or wants before him, and in finding release from the burdens of their hearts in his bosom. Repentance itself is a delightful exercise when it flows from the source of love. There is a secret sweetness which accompanies the tears of remorse, the tenderizing of the heart, the surrender of a soul returning to God, and the grieving over its former unkindness. The strictness of a holy life, and constant watch that we are obliged to keep over our hearts and ways are very troublesome to those who are only ruled and acted on by an external law, and have no law in their minds inclining them to the performance of their duty. But where love for God possess the soul, it stands as a sentinel to keep out everything that may offend the beloved, and disdainfully repulses the temptations that assault it. It complies cheerfully, not only with explicit commands, but with the most secret notices of the belove d's pleasure. It is ingenious in discovering what will be the most pleasing and acceptable to him. It makes mortification and self-denial change their harsh and dreadful names to become easy, sweet, and delightful things. (Unquote)
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AWAKE AWAKE! continued. An even simpler way to put this is that the more full of Light one becomes, the more one is accustomed to abiding in the Light, the less desire and appeal there is for anything of sin and darkness. This begins with letting the Light and Spirit of Christ into one's heart to the point where it changes and transforms us bit by bit into followers of Jesus Christ.
BEING A FOLLOWER of JESUS CHRIST said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him
"Then deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it " (Matthew 14:24-25) As I consider the type of Christian we all must be in the days ahead, and the type of Christian we are praying to be AWAKENED and REVIVED, God wants followers of Jesus Christ, as opposed to those who merely admire Him. God wants those - Jesus wants those who will deny themselves and their self-life, take up their cross, and follow Him. In doing this, one must be willing to lose their life, all they are and have, for the sake of Christ Jesus and Life through Him. If we seek to save our souls by hanging onto our old life, then we will lose our new life in Christ. This means embracing not just the "good" things that Jesus offers such as blessings, healing, victory over the power of the enemy, and provision of our daily needs, but we must also embrace Jesus Christ, the Son of God who laid down His life for us, and suffered to the point of being crucified. We too must be willing to lay down our lives if God so desires it, to suffer for our faith in Christ, and yet draw closer to Him and be filled with His Love and Peace while doing it. This is a true follower of Christ. I was recently reading another interesting book entitled, LIVE NOT BY LIES - A MANUAL FOR CHRISTIAN DISSIDENTS, by Rod Dreher. For this book, Dreher interviewed many Christians who survived living under communist rule in countries like Hungary, Poland, Germany, and the former Soviet Union. Each of those survivors are concerned because they see emerging in America what dominated those countries in the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. The part I was most interested in was what the author would share
about how those Christians conducted themselves and came through the horrors of communism and totalitarianism. From the start of his book, the answer comes down to "a total life commitment to Christ" as being the only way to be enabled to withstand the corning trial then and now. This brought him later in the book to reflect upon the difference between an admirer of Jesus and a follower of Jesus. Dreher put it this way: "Admirers love being associated with Jesus, but when trouble comes, they either turn on him or in some way try to put distance between themselves and the Lord. The
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AWAKE, AWAKE! - BEING A FOLLOWER OF JESUS CHRIST continued. (Quoting from "LIVE NOT BY LIES" by Rod Dreher continued) "admirer wants the comfort and advantage that comes with being a Christian, but when times change and Jesus becomes a scandal or worse, the admirer folds. As (Soren) Kierkegaard writes: The admirer never makes any true sacrifices He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, will not reconstruct his life, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires. Not so for the follower. No, no. The follower aspires with all his strength to be what he admires. And then, remarkable enough, even though he is living amongst a "Christian people," he incurs the same peril he did when it was dangerous to openly confess Christ.
The follower recognizes the cost of discipleship and is willing to pay it. This does not mean that he is obligated to put himself at maximum peril at all times, or stand guilty of being an admirer. But it does mean that when the Gestapo or the KGB shows up in his village and demands that he bow to the swastika or the hammer and sickle, the follower will make the sign of the cross and walk with fear and trembling toward Golgotha." If you don't think that will happen here, it actually already is. At some of these Black Lives Matter rallies, for a time there, they wanted all white people to get down on their knees and repent of their "white privilege". They also were to take an oath to the Black Lives Matter movement, lifting their arm in "solidarity". From there, some individuals would harass people eating in restaurants to lift their arm in the black power sign or be set upon by the mob. Then, in Churches in New York City, there were priests who actually led the congregation to repent of their "white privilege" and take a sort of pledge to the BlackLives Matter movement
THE MAIN PURPOSE FOR REVIVAL If I were to sum up the main reason Jesus would have us pray for REVIVAL and AWAKENING, past the fact that Jesus would have all people be saved, the hour has come where REVIVAL is needed not to prevent Judgment from happening, but to enable God's people to be strengthened and equipped by the Spirit of God to come through the times ahead in Christ Jesus. To be able to handle what comes our way and not deny Christ, but bring glory to Him as He manifests in His people. As Ireread God's Word to Pamela-DEBORAH, a Lord's General in the Net of Prayer, from January 30, 2018, I find that Word serves well to explain where we are today. At that time the Holy Spirit gave Pamela-DEBORAH three words to use in prayer-intercession followed by His Word.
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AWAKE AWAKE! - THE MAINOSE FOR REVIVAL continued GOD'S WORD to Pamela-DE on Janna rBH30 2018 Fortitude: mental strength and courage that allows someone to face danger, pain, etc. Strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage. Undaunted: courageously DISCOURAGED.
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WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME NEED TO BE EQUIPPED AND FILLED WITH THESE THREE CHARACTERISTICS. PRAY FOR ME TO FILL THEM WITH THIS ANOINTING SO THEY CAN OVERCOMETHE ONSLAUGHT OF THE ENEMY WHETHER THROUGH TECHNOLOGY, PEOPLE, DEMONIC FORCES, ETC. (Onslaught means an especially fierce attack. ) MY PEOPLE AS A WHOLE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SUCH THINGS ARE IN THE MAKING NOR THAT IT CAN AND WILL AFFECT THEM. THEY ARE IN DARKNESSEVEN NOW. THE ENEMY IS SUBTLE IN HIS WAYS WITH MY PEOPLE, INCH BY INCH HE CREEPS INTO LIVES UNTIL IT GETS A HOLD ON THEM. SIN CROUCHINGAT THE DOORTO CLAIM THEM. PRAY THAT THEY WILL "COME OUT OF THAT DARKNESSINTO THE LIGHT OF MY WORD. RENOUNCEDECEPTIONAND EMBRACE MY LIGHT, MY TRUTH." What strikes me was that even back then, the Spirit of God was warning of the darkness and evil that was corning and yet also that God's people as a whole would not believe such darkness could really affect them. The message was clear: The enemy of our souls was corning in an "onslaught", seeking to overwhelm God's people through technology, other people attacking them, and demonic forces directly, but through Jesus Christ we can
overcome.This was God's messagethen and we are livingit now.Likewise,the Net of Prayer has been led by Jesus to move in Him and God's Spirit and Light to stand and fight against the onslaught of the enemy, destroying the demons and their strongholds within our power to do so. However,
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AWAKE AWAKE! - THE MAINOSE FOR REVIVAL continued (Jesus' Word of May 10, 2020 to Nancy-TONI continued) "BUT LOOK TO ME AND SEE BLESSED ASSURANCES AND PEACE.
THE ROOTS OF EVIL RUN DEEP IN PARTS OF THIS NATION, BUT IN THE END, IT WILL NOT PREVAIL. IT WILL TAKE TIME, SO SET YOUR HEARTS ON ME FOR THE LONG HAUL, THE ENTIRE JOURNEY. I WILL BE WITH YOU AS YOU ARE IN ME." In the following month, the Spirit of God would reveal just how deep the roots of evil run through the Book of Daniel, chapter 7. As shared in THE LIGHT OF LIBERTY - (NOT SO) FINAL REPORT (starting on page 3O), the Spirit of God showed me that Satan's kingdom, which Jesus called Hobah, was the kingdom of the Fourth Beast and that it was, in fact, WORLDWIDE When Jesus first showed Chuck-JOHNEL about Hobah, it was in relation to America, but also spiritually Israel/Jerusalem. Jesus actually identified the Land we are defending as Church Land, and it was being invaded by Lucifer, Satan and their demons. We've been at war with them ever since. The importance of seeing that Satan's kingdom of Hobah was WORLDWIDE helped me see the scale and scope of what we are involved in is so much bigger and deeper than anyone originally thought, but it makes perfect sense as the "fruits" or evidences of the demonic spirit of Hobah revealing itself in America, is also revealing itself in countries around the world at the same time. For those hoping for a quick resolution and victory over Hobah and its kingdom, I am afraid they will be disappointed as they are not truly discerning the depth and scope of the enemies' kingdom. I'll never forget when I first read Jesus' Word to Chuck-JOHNEL where Jesus said Hobah was Satan's kingdom in His Church. I thought, "Wow. We are not just looking at some infiltration, but a kingdom. A kingdom that's been established and has a network and roots in a variety of ways." Today, that kingdom has spread throughout our society from the news media, academia, social media, corporations, local, state and federal governments, and list goes on. On August 8, 2019, Father God would tell RichardDANIYEL that we were to pray the Hobah destruction prayer from then on, for and during the years ahead. Here is more of what God the Father said on August 8, 2019:_ "WHAT IS NOW BEING SEEN DAILY IN THE NEWS IS THE RISINGTIDE THAT WILL ULTIMATELY CULMINATE AND END WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA. YOU ARE NOW SEEING JUDGMENT "FOR REAL", AS MEN WOULD SAY. THE HOBAH DESTRUCTION PRAYER IS FOR NOW AND GOING FORWARD, AND IS TO BE PRAYED BY MY HOLY SPIRIT LEADING FOR AND DURING THE YEARS AHEAD. . . .
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THE ONLY WAY MY PEOPLE WILL "SURVIVE" IS BY BEING OBEDIENT AND BY BEING MOVED FROM OUT OF THIS WORLD INTO THE KINGDOM OF MY BELOVED SON, JESUS CHRIST. PRAYER AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK AND IS FUNDAMENTALLY THE ONLY WAY FORWARD. ATTEMPTING NOW TO STEM THE TIDE OF RISINGJUDGMENT VIA A COMBATIVE STANCE OF AND IN THIS WORLD WON'T WORK, AND WILL LEAD TO PREMATURE DEATH. FURTHERMORE, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED, IF THEY UNWISELY SPEND THEIR PRECIOUS TIME WATCHING AND STUDYING THE ACTIONS OF THE ALREADY DEFEATED ENEMY, THEY LOSE. THAT TIME WASTED CANNOT BE TAKEN BACK. i HAVE GIVEN THEM THAT TIME TO PURSUETHEIR SIGN (JESUS CHRIST), WHO IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. LASTLY, I HAVE THINGS TO SAY, IMPART AND SHOW EACH ONE CALLED. VERY SPECIFICWORDSTHAT THEY NEED. UNIQUE TO THEM, SPECIFICTO THEM THAT CAN ONLY COME BY MY SPIRIT TO THEM INDIVIDUALLY. IF THEY DO NOT SEEK ME OUT BY AND THROUGH MY SON, THEY WILL NOT RECEIVE THAT WHICH THEY NEED IN ORDER TO LIVE AND BE ABOUT MY BUSINESS. I WARN NOW, THAT WHICH EACH NEEDSWILL NOT BE BROADCASTBY THE MSM (main stream media) NEWS, ALTERNATIVE NEWS, CHRISTIAN BASED SITES, ETC. LOOKING "OUT THERE" WILL NOT WORK FOR WHAT IS NOW HERE AND STEADILY COMING. IT WILL ONLY COME FROM/THROUGH THE TRUE SHEPHERD OF JOHN 10. I AM PREPARINGTHE CALLED SHEEPTO BE ABLE TO LIVE AND FUNCTION WHEN ALL THAT IS EXPERIENCEDDAILY AND TAKEN FOR GRANTED IN THIS PHYSICAL WORLD BEGINS TO CRUMBLE AND FAIL AND PASSAWAY. BECAUSETHERE IS NO LOVE OF AND FOR THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, THE GRAY OF
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AWAKE AWAKE! - THE MAINOSE FOR REVIVAL continued (God's Word of August 8, 2019 to Richard-DANIYEL continued) THE WORLD NOW is PROGRESSINGTO DARKNESSAS CENSORSHIP EMERGES TO
REINFORCETHE DAILYLIES. SOON, IT WILLBE NIGHTWHEN NO MANWILLBE ABLETO WORK. FOR MANYARECALLED,BUT FEWARE CHOSEN." Here we see yet another reason for AWAKENING AND REVIVAL. GOD THE FATHER actually has things to say, impart and show each one called. Something unique and specific to them that can only come by God's Spirit to them individually. For this reason, they must seek Him out by and through Jesus Christ, that they might receive what they need to live and be about our Heavenly Father's business.
THE SPIRIT OF HOBAH Satan's kingdom of Hobah can manifest in different ways under a variety of names, but it is always anti-God and anti-Christ. It promotes the idea of man being god. It is against freedom and destroys all it touches. It has gone by the name of communism, socialism, fascism, Marxism, and so on. Currently, the forces of Hobah have taken a bit of this, and a bit of that, to bring a new version of the same old totalitarianism. The enemy isn't dumb. They knew that what worked in the former Soviet Union wouldn't work here, at least not directly, so they sought about a new way to package their poisonous ideology to feed to a people who had rejected Jesus Christ and wanted to take matters into their own hands. The ideology of the spirit of Hobah has been taking Christian principles and ideals and using them to force Christians into silence or complicity, and into submission, all the while replacing Christianity with a man-centered, self-centered, Satanic ideology in rebellion against God: totalitarianism For the best explanation of this New Totalitarianism, I would like to share from Rod Dreher's book, LIVE NOT BY LIES. He wrote: Today's survivors of Soviet communism are, . . . warning us of a corning totalitarianism - a form of government that combines political authoritarianism with an ideology that seeks to control all aspects of life. This totalitarianism won't look like the USSR's. It's not establishing itself through "hard" means like armed revolution, or enforcing itself with gulags. Rather, it exercises control, at least initially, in soft forms. This totalitarianism is therapeutic. It masks its hatred of dissenters from its utopian ideology in the guise of helping and healing.
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AWAKE, AWAKE! - THE SPIRIT OF HOBAH continued (Quoting from LIVE NOT BY LIES by Rod Dreher continued) To grasp the threat of totalitarianism, it's important to understand the difference between it and simple authoritarianism Authoritarianism is what you have when the state monopolizes political control. That is mere dictatorship - bad, certainly, but totalitarianism is much worse. According to Hanna Arendt, the foremost scholar of totalitarianism, a totalitarian society is one in which an ideology seeks to displace all prior traditions and institutions, with the goal of bringing all aspects of society under control of that ideology. A totalitarian state is one that aspires to nothing less than defining and controlling reality. Truth is whatever the rulers decide it is. As Arendt has a wherever totalitarianism has ruled, "[I]t has begun to destroy the essence of As part of its quest to define reality, a totalitarian state seeks not just to control your actions but also your thoughts and emotions. The ideal subject of a totalitarian state is someone who has learned to love Big Brother. Back in the Soviet era, totalitarianism demanded love for the Party, and compliance with the Party's demands was enforced by the state. Today's totalitarianism demands allegiance to a set of progressive beliefs, many of which are incompatible with logic and certainly with Christianity. Compliance is forced less by the state than by elites who form public opinion, and by private corporations that,, thanks to technology, control our lives far more than we would like to admit. Many conservatives today fail to grasp the gravity of this threat, dismissing it as mere "political correctness" - a previous generation's disparaging term for spoiled "wokeness." . . . . Today in our societies, dissenters from the woke party line find their business, careers, and reputations destroyed. They are pushed out of the public square, stigmatized, canceled, and demonized as racists, sexists, homophobes, and the like. And they are afraid to resist, because they are confident that no one will join them or defend them. The Gentleness of Soft Totalitarianism It's possible to miss the onslaught of totalitarianism, precisely because we have a misunderstanding of how its power works. In 1951, poet and literary critic Czeslaw Milosz, exiled to the West from his native Poland as an anticommunist dissident, wrote that Western people misunderstand the nature of communism because they think of it only in terms of "might and coercion." "That is wrong," he wrote. "There is an internal longing for harmony and happiness that lies deeper than ordinary fear or the desire to escape misery or physical destruction"
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(Quoting from LIVE NOT BY LIES by Rod Dreher continued) In The Captive Mind, Milosz said that communist ideology filled a void that had opened in the lives of early-twentieth-century intellectuals, most of whom had ceased to believe in religion. Today's left-wing totalitarianism once again appeals to an internal hunger, specifically the hunger for a just society, one that vindicates and liberates the historical victims of oppression. It masquerades as kindness, demonizing dissenters and disfavored demographics groups to protect the feelings of "victims" in order to bring about "social justice." . . . This is what the survivors of communism are saying to us: liberalism's admirable care for the weak and marginalized is fast turning into a monstrous ideology that, if it is not stopped, will transform liberal democracy into a softer, therapeutic form of totalitarianism. (End quote) In case you are wondering what he means by a "therapeutic" form of totalitarianism, I looked up therapeutic and it means: "as pertaining to the treating or curing of disease; curative." In other words, those pushing this softer version of totalitarianism are doing it under the guise as being a cure for what ails our society. They believe they are just doing us a favor, and we don't get it. Well, no, we don't Just look at the topic of Climate Change and you see a prime example. Under the guise of saving the planet, they want to take away our freedoms and control our lives. However, this does help explain the passion with which many celebrities attack President Trump and anyone who support him, and push fascism at the same time. They truly believe they are completely in the right and have the best of intentions so therefore because they believe they have the moral high ground, the ends justifies the means. What they don't see is that at its core are LIES, and we know who the father of lies is: Lucifer. Lucifer is using the hunger and desire people have for a "just society" and a "just world" to deceive them into serving his fallen kingdom of Hobah. This is what we are up against. We will need to be more in Christ, being rooted and grounded in Jesus and His Love as never before, to navigate through the times ahead
RISING TO GOD'S LEVEL Romans 14:17 "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and
peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. " Romans 12:I-2 "/ beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacred, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service And be not conformed to this world.' but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may know what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. "
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AWAKE, AWAKE! - RISING TO GOD'S LEVEL continued Colossians 3:1-4 "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are
above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead*, and your life is hid with Christ in God When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, than shall ye also appear with him in glory. " *Romans 6: 58 "For we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection . For if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. " I share these Scriptures because they all have one central theme: in prayer and in relating to God, we are not to try to bring God down to our worldly, carnal level, but rather we are to rise to His level. God the Father and Jesus Christ and our true life in Them is in Heaven, in a spiritual realm. So often when we pray and cry out to God, we may not realize it but we are actually trying to bring God down to our level, hoping He will respond in a way that we can grab onto with our soul. However, that isn't the way God prefers to operate. That would be like relating to a child by giving into its temper tantrum. It is not something He wants to encourage. Instead, God wants us to quiet ourselves and come before Him, seeking Him out, at His level for His Will to be done in our lives. After all, He knows us better than we know ourselves -- He created us! Then we have what it says in Hebrews I O:19-23,explicitly telling us that Jesus has paid the price and made the way for all of God's children to enter into the Holy of Holies and come before the Throne of God, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, hispesh, and having an high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts
sprinkledfrom an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; our he isfaithful that promised,)" (Hebrews 10:19-23) The beautiful thing is that Jesus, who is our High Priest, has done everything necessary for us to have access to God the Father. Through Him, with our sin under the blood of Jesus, we are sprinkled from an "evil conscience" and our bodies washed with pure water. In the last few months, the Spirit of God has made it real to me what it means to have our hearts sprinkled from an "evil conscience" and how it effects our ability to not only come to God but have true victory over the power of the enemy.
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AWAKE,AWAKE! - RISING TO GOD'S LEVEL continued What got me praying about this was something I read written by Watchman Nee. He said, "Spiritual warfare requires a consciencewithout offense, and the blood alone can give us such a conscience." In a quick look through Scripture, it was mostly just the Apostle Paul who wrote about the conscience, speaking of the importance of a "pure conscience", and of ". charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned" (I Timothy 1:5) So what is an "evil conscience", especially to someone who is a believer in Christ? What I have been shown is that our "evil conscience" is made up of things we have determined to be or been led believe are "good" or "bad". The problem with these determinations is that theywere made before we became Christians and apart from God and Jesus Christ. It was formed by partaking of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and through our life experiences. Therefore, this conscience is evil because it was made apart from God and is part of our sinful, former life we must give up to gain our pure, good conscience in Christ. One example of an evil conscience might be that as you are praying to come to Jesus and enter the Holiest, a voice inside you says, "You are not worthy." As a sinner, this is true for everyone, but with our sin under the blood of Jesus, we are all counted as worthy and therefore can enter in. So where is this corning from? In all likelihood it is the enemy speaking to you, through the opening of what is in your "evil" conscience, seeking to trip you up and cause you to withdraw yourself from God and Jesus. Instead, the answer is to put it all under the blood of Jesus and pray to go through the veil, which is Christ's flesh, and come before God anyway. It no longer has any power over you in Christ Jesus. Now back to what Watchman Nee said, the reason spiritual warfare requires a conscience without offense is because it isthroughourown"evilconscience"thattheenemycanattack us by giving them grounds and opportunity through taking offense or holding onto judgments we have made apart from God, even judging ourselves. So, even as we pray individually and together as the Net of Prayer, let us first draw unto Jesus Christ with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our heart sprinkled with His Blood from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water, the water of God's Word. Let us present our bodies as a living sacrifice through Jesus Christ, holy and acceptable unto God, praying to not be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds by the Spirit of God (Romans 12: 1-2). Praying to be risen with Christ, to seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Let us set our affections on things above, not on things of the earth. For our life is hid with Christ in God, and when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, may we all appear with Him in glory (Colossians 3:1-4).
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THE POWER OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP As we pray to "rise to God's level," as I put it, what we are really doing is praying to move by the Spirit of God, to seek Him and abide in His Presence through Jesus Christ. As we so move by God's Spirit in this way, so we can enter into true worship and praise of God Almightyand Jesus Christ,entering into the realm inwhichTheyreside.Afterall,Jesus told us in John 4:23-24: "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the
Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. " In this Scripture and the preceding verses, there are true worshipers and then there are those who professed to worship God but did not really know Him. Therefore, it becomes necessary to diligently seek out God for oneself, as it says in Hebrews I 1:6:
"But without faith it is impossible top/ease Him. for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. " This hearkens to Jesus's own Words in Matthew 7:7-8:
"Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you For every one that basket receiver and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocker it shall be opened. " God the Father and Jesus Christ want us to seek Them out. They want us to ask, to seek and to knock at the Door, which is Jesus Christ, to enter more fully into the life we have there. This was brought home to Adele-SARAH recently as on August 26, 2020, Jesus gave this Word to her: "TRUST IN ME. TRUE RESTCOMESONLY IN MY REALMWHERE I REIGN. AS YOU COME TO ME AND ABIDE IN ME, YOU MUST ASK THAT I TAKE YOU TO THAT REALM. YES, YOU MUST ASK. YOU DO NOT ASK ENOUGH. ASK TO BE TAKEN INTO MY REALM. ASK TO BE ABLE TO SEE. ASK TO BE ABLE TO HEAR. ASK TO BE ABLE TO WALK WITH ME IN MY REALM. ASK FOR THOSE HEARTS. ASK FOR THE WINESKIN. ASK THAT THE DOOR BE OPENED. ASK FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL NEEDS. DO NOT WORRY OVER THE PHYSICAL NEEDS, BUT ASK FOR THE NEEDS FOR SPIRITUAL CHANGE AND RENEWAL. ASK TO BE PART OF ME. MERCYIS PART OF ME. ASK FOR THOSE PARTS OF ME THAT I CAN GIVE. ASK."
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AWAKE, AWAKE! -RISING TO GOD'S LEVEL-PRAISE AND WORSHIP continued. In praying further about this Word, Richard-DANIYEL and Adele-SARAH were shown a key element to entering into the spirit, God's realm, is praise and worship. As we praise and worship in the spirit, so the Door is opened and the Spirit of God can flow more freely and completely. This, in turn, brought Cathy-MARTHA to share of her own experience with the power of praise. "Praise is a powerful weapon! As a baby Christian in Bible college (1967-1972 Portland, Oregon) I struggled. Surrounded by Preacher's kids and missionary's kids, the class curve was always set high. Freshmen were always given a 50-question test. The same test was given when they graduated three years later as Seniors. It gave the administration an idea of their curriculum's effectiveness Well this Frosh barely knew what the four Gospels were, let alone their proper order in the Bible. One day the topic came up among my schoolmates, What's your Life verse?" I had never heard of having one verse that would apply to any situation throughout your life. I prayed for weeks and looked at verse after verse before the Lord led me to Psalm 34:1"I will Praise the Lord at all times. His Praise shall continually be in my mouth." Since then i've tried to respond with Praise to every situation good or seemingly bad. Yes, Praise is a powerful weapon. When we respond with Praise, it allows our Heavenly Father to release His blessings It allows Him to turn a test into a testimony, a mess into a message and a victim into a Victor. I didn't realize how much it had become a part of me until about 20 years ago. One day at the Chuckwagon, one of my former fifth grade Sunday school students, now a husband and dad, stepped up to pay his bill. With tears in his eyes he said, "Cathy, would you pray for my nine-year-old son, Andy? He was just diagnosed with leukemia." Before I could stop myself, I stepped around the counter, stood in front of him, took his hands in mine, looked up into his eyes and said, "Praise the Lord!" He blinked a couple of times in shock, but I continued, "The Lord is going to receive so much glory when Andy is healed. Your son has been prayed over since before he was born. The Lord has important things for that young man to accomplish. The enemy cannot have his way." I blathered on explaining how there is no weapon formed against love. The enemy doesn't know what to do when God's children respond to attacks with Praise. Praising lets you focus on the problem Solver, not the problem. The young dad smiled, stood taller and blinked away the tears. He nodded in agreement and we had a big hug before he left. A week later, the doctors found the boy only had an infection! The next time I saw the dad, he hugged me into the air! We Praised the Lord right then and there
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AWAKE, AWAKE! - RISING TO GOD'S LEVEL - PRAISE AND WORSHIP continued So, as we pray going forward, let us "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting: and His truth endureth to all generations." (Psalm 1OO:4-5)
A TRIBUTE TO MY SISTER-IN-CHRIST, LYNNE-ELIZABETH GRIMES As you know, on October 12th, the second prophet of this ministry, Lynne-ELIZABETH went home to be with Jesus. In my haste to get out the last mailing, I failed to give CathyMARTHA the opportunity to share a few words on her behalf and so am including her tribute here. I knew I liked this woman the first time I laid eyes on Lynne 42 years ago at the New Feast, Sept. 1, 2 and 3, 1978. Over the years, she proved to be solid friend who loved the Lord and was a whiz at computers However, she ended nearly every email with an apology: "Please forgive all the typos and grammatical errors " Lynne's walk with Christ ran deep. She could size up an issue pretty quickly, then back it with scripture However, if her Spirit bore witness to something, which she couldn't quite remember, she was like a pit bull. She locked on and wouldn't let go until she had the full story. I admired Lynne's perception and clarity when it came to spiritual matters. I will miss my sister-in-Christ...until Cathy-MARTHA
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