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Therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city. And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”  And Elisha prayed, and said, “Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. So when the Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, and said, “Strike this people, I pray, with blindness.” And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha (2 Kings 6:14-18 NKJV).

The back story for this is king of Syria decided to make war with Israel. He would tell his servants where he planned to make camp. Elisha, by the Holy Spirit, would tell the king of Israel where the Syrian king was going to be so that conflict between the two could be avoided. This greatly troubled the Syrian king especially when his servants told him the prophet Elisha spoke what the king said in his bedroom.

‘Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”

And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom” ‘(2 Kings 6: 11-12).

The king was then told where Elisha would be and so he sent a great army during the dark of night so they would be waiting in the morning for the man of God. When Elisha’s servant arose and went outside, he was astonished and afraid because he knew not what the two of them would do against such a vast army. But God! Elisha knew that no army standing against him would be able to stand against the army of God with him, but he also knew that his servant needed some encouragement. So he prayed for his servant to see who stood with them.

There is no doubt of the movement of the enemy these days. He desires to make war with God’s people and he moves his army at night. At times it may seem as though his victory is assured. He’s loud and getting louder. He is increasing in violent antics. His cloud of deception seems ever thickening. He plays dirty and unfair. While it may be dreadful, it isn’t going too far.

Be encouraged. There is nothing he does that Papa has not already seen and for which He has not formulated a plan. He has no new battle strategy. In his pride, he forgets he is already defeated and always shows his hand. The Holy Spirit reveals to us the secrets and plans Satan whispers in dark rooms so that we are well equipped to pray. Our intercession and war cries do not go unheard, putting angels on assignment with our decrees stopping the plans of the enemy before they come to fruition. Greater is the army on our side than what the enemy has on his and, like Elisha, we can pray the enemy be blinded.

Dear Papa, open our eyes that we may see the army You have standing with us. May we not falter or lose heart at the news reports and photographs circulating, but that we would be encouraged knowing our assured victory is in You. Papa, strike the enemies’ camps with blindness and confusion. May they fall into their own traps and snares. We pray that this would cause a change of heart for the people and draw them to You. Papa, reveal the secret plans made in the dark, shed the light of Your Truth on them and cause them to fizzle and come to naught. We speak peace and prosperity into our land, we speak healing and wholeness over our nation. We declare that what the enemy means for evil, You will turn it for good. You are our strong tower, You are our the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, You are our protector, You are our Dread Champion. We give You all glory and honor. In Jesus’ name, Amen. 

Additional Scriptures: 1 John 4:4; Genesis 50: 20, Psalm 46:7

Words

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Psalm 49:3 says, “My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall give understanding” (NKJV).  

I have been thinking about something a friend of mine mentioned earlier this month, while finally realizing this is also something, albeit on different levels at times, I have been quietly mulling over with Jesus for almost a year. She said “The question remains Prue where do we fight from, what are we hearing, and what are we speaking? As Intercessors? As individuals and as Christians?”[sic](emphasis mine) Powerful questions with equally powerful answers. Words are incredibly potent and so we must always choose ours with care.

Papa has been subtly speaking to me about my words, about choosing words that build, plant, and/or speak life. About choosing faith filled and fear demolishing words. He has been showing me that my words do, in fact, create my atmosphere. What words am I choosing to speak? Or rather, Whose words?

There have been times over the course of my life when I have opened my mouth and subsequently had to insert my foot. If our words had a taste, I would have gagged on them. I can be impulsive, impatient and lack enough decency to wait and think before speaking. Most of these times also reflected the state of my heart in that instant. Scripture is very clear that out of the abundance of our hearts, our mouths speak (Luke 6:45). Clearly in these moments what was in my heart came pouring out of my mouth and it was not good. I am grateful for grace and forgiveness.

It is good to laugh, is it not? But is it right to laugh at the expense of others? There are a few things the Holy Spirit has been showing me that, as a follower of Jesus, I should not be so quick to jump on the bandwagon. I will share a couple. One is the stupefying and emasculation of the man of the house, or paternal figure in sitcoms. While it may be written to be humorous, on a deeper level it shows a lack of respect for the head of the household and gives boys the wrong idea about what a healthy, loving, and unified relationship is. These types of words used in sitcoms can often humiliate, denigrate, or undermine marriage, family, and relationships in general. Another is the social media “meme”. There are plenty that are clean, funny, and uplifting, yet there are many, many using words which belittle or are downright mean and slanderous towards people or relationships.

Words are weighty. The tongue contains both life and death; unbridled it can release a forest fire but used wisely it will bring life (Proverbs 18:21; James 3:5). Our tongues and the power of our words not only have the capability to pull down strongholds, to plant and cultivate orchards of fruit trees, they also have the ability to burn those orchards down and build those strongholds. Psalm 55:21 “The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, But war was in his heart; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.” As an intercessor, it is vital that I pray from the Father’s heart. I must be careful to pray what I hear from God for even those I do not agree with, or even like! Not only that, but to pray from a heart of love as only the Holy Spirit can give.

It is nearly effortless to get caught up in emotions and anger, easily drifting into talk of condemnation and cursing whether in every day conversation or in prayer. But Scripture advises us to bless and not curse (Romans 12:14). We must remind ourselves that despite the evil and wicked things people do, we must not stoop to that level in the Spirit. Regardless of what the person says or does, the last thing we need to do is react from the same spirit attacking us! This is a tactic of Satan and he is very adept at its use. Jesus died for them as people and He loves them too. When we speak life and God’s word over those people, we release them to Him. We are not binding them in shackles with our prayers, we are pushing back the demonic influence surrounding them.

Our words create atmospheres. They are weapons of warfare and tools for building and planting. Decreeing and declaring the Word of God will never fail us and these are the words we need to be speaking. Choose your words carefully for if you ever have to eat them, let them be sweet!

A soft answer turns away wrath (Proverbs 15:1a).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heaven Breaks Walls

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Led to share this again.

Heaven Breaks Walls

I saw a large wall, somewhat similar to the wall of China, but circling our nation. I also saw walls that connected the encircling wall, similar to spider webs. I perceived that this wall was not built to keep out anything, rather, it was built block by block through this nation’s apathy, complacency, culture of self, culture of sit back and let someone else, culture of me first, culture of abuse and power trips, culture of notice me. Every block was laid with the secret intent to break the back of the Lord and His people. But in the middle of this wall I saw a group of people. It was to this group of people I gravitated, feeling a kinship. As I moved closer, I could hear this group singing praises to God and saying “Come Lord Jesus, Come quickly, let Heaven come!” I found myself fitting into the group and we began to worship the Lord and intercede on behalf of our nation. We were unified in our praise and I realized we were the faithful remnant God has planted within this country. As we worshiped, I began to see other groups of people spring up along the wall in various places and join us in worship. Then the Lord showed me that as we worshiped and interceded, the wind of the Spirit began to blow and the blocks of the wall began to fall. Block by block they fell, they could not withstand the power and presence of the Spirit of the Living God, and the spirits behind the building of the wall were exposed and sent to flight.

I heard the Lord say “I AM the breaker of the wall, I AM invading this nation and I have called My Remnant to a higher place. That tugging and nudging you feel is My Spirit calling you to worship, calling you to come into My Presence and partner with Me as I sweep the dust from this nation. Do not grow weary of doing good, for every seed you plant, I will grow; every tear you shed, I will have you reap in joy; every prayer given in anguish, I will answer with laughter. Continue to stand in the gap, continue to call to Me, do not allow your voice to become silent, do not let the passion fall from your worship because I AM doing a wondrous work, a work within you to ignite the flame in the hearts of My people to come to Me and be healed and be vessels of healing in this land.”

He stretched out His hand over the sea,
He shook the kingdoms;
The Lord has given a commandment against Canaan
To destroy its strongholds (Isaiah 23:11 NKJV).

And it shall be in that day,” says the Lord,
“That I will cut off your horses from your midst
And destroy your chariots.
I will cut off the cities of your land
And throw down all your strongholds.
I will cut off sorceries from your hand,
And you shall have no soothsayers.
Your carved images I will also cut off,
And your sacred pillars from your midst;
You shall no more worship the work of your hands;
I will pluck your wooden images from your midst;
Thus I will destroy your cities.
And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury
On the nations that have not heard” (Micah 5:10-15).

When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually (2 Chronicles 7: 13-16).

Shalom ♥

Praying and Prophesying the Word of God

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I shared the following on my personal Facebook page as well as a FB group I belong to. For those of you who gathered dirt into jars to speak love, life and blessings to, joining me on this fantastic prophetic journey, please continue to do so! Do not relent in speaking heaven into the earth. Heaven is joyfully relentless in its pursuit of us, we need to be just as relentlessly pursing the Kingdom’s manifestation here on earth.

Be light. Be love. Speak life. Speak love.

Praying and prophesying the Word of God.

The Word of God is living and active, it does what He sends it out to do and never, ever returns void. There is power in declaring personalized Scripture over people, nations, situations, etc. Our nation is in turmoil and now more than ever we need to declare the word of God.

The following are my Scripture prayers and prophetic declarations for our nation, let us join together and become one unified voice. Where the light is, darkness has no power. Let us shine our lights.

Psalm 91

They who dwell in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my nation’s and governmental leaders refuge and fortress;
our God, in Him we will trust.”

Surely He shall deliver us from the snare of the fowler
And from the perilous pestilence.
He shall cover us with His feathers,
And under His wings we shall take refuge;
His truth shall be our shield and buckler.

We shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

A thousand may fall at our side,
And ten thousand at our right hand;
But it shall not come near us.

Only with our eyes shall we look,
And see the reward of the wicked.

Because we have made the Lord, who is our refuge,
Even the Most High, our dwelling place,

No evil shall befall us,
Nor shall any plague come near our dwelling;

For He shall give His angels charge over us,
To keep us in all your ways.

In their hands, they shall bear us up,
Lest we dash your foot against a stone.
We shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent we shall trample underfoot.

“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”

Colossians 1:9-14

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for our nation and governmental leaders, and to ask that they may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that they may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified them to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered them from the power of darkness and conveyed them into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom there is redemption through His blood, and the forgiveness of sins.

Ephesians 3:14-20
We bow our knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,  that He would grant this nation’s leaders, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith; that we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—  to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Praying for the Nation –  Presidential Prayer

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My family and I arrived back home yesterday after a cross country drive to New Mexico. We celebrated a couple of major life events with my sisters’ and their families, finally having all siblings and spouses in one room. This has been a difficult feat as my sisters and spouses are a part of military life and have had many overseas deployments, making reunions everyone can attend scarce. It was a blessed time; we brought our three year old grandson who was able to see family he hadn’t met since an infant and play with his cousins. 

Since I was enjoying our time together, I have not paid any attention to any political news reports. I really didn’t pay much attention to begin with anyway as I believe our media is skewed in its reporting, but I caught wind of rock throwing protestors rallying in a couple places now where one of our candidates is campaigning. My heart is heavy for what our candidates are dealing with in this season, and it is heavy for our nation. As we begin to draw closer to election day, I feel the Lord beginning to focus prayer more on our candidates. 

We are still to bless and not curse. We are not to pray to move the hand of God our way, we are to agree with heaven to bless each candidate in ways that move them towards His purpose and an encounter Him as the Living God. We are to agree with heaven for the removal of the political and religious spirits we have allowed to run rampant, seeking forgiveness on behalf of our states for the things the Holy Spirit brings to mind. We must also remember to pray for the people of this nation. We have become divided on many fronts, caught up in protesting and standing against causes instead of walking in love at all times. 

Intercessory prayer points:

  • Continue to speak life and love over your jar of dirt. Bless and do not curse the land, the people and the government of your state. Prophesy to your jar of dirt, releasing heaven.
  • Pray for our presidential candidates. Pray for encounters with Christ, for Holy Spirit boldness, for a revealing of any hidden plots and schemes from the enemy, for physical protection over them and their families, for perseverance, and for them to be blessed. Please put aside your personal feelings for the candidates, we are praying heaven’s will not ours. 
  • Pray for our current president. Pray for safety, for Papa’s will to be revealed in his life, for decisions influenced by heaven and for the enemy and his plans to be thwarted. Pray also for the Office of President, speak life into it, prophesy heaven’s future plans into the office. 
  • Pray for local governments and schools, speak life and love into their offices, pray for blessing and protection as well as for the influence of the Holy Spirit. 

At all times, bless. Always.

Thank you for journeying with me. Love you all!

Shalom 🙂