Daily Prophetic Words--Praying for our Global Community

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from 2 Kings 6:24-7:20. It's a story of a seige that happened to Samaria by the Arameans when King Joram was king and Elisha was prophet. The seige lasted so long and was so severe that even the most unedible parts of unclean animals were hugely expensive (80 shekels of silver)...and some people even resorted to eating their young! King Joram was beside himself--he felt abandoned by God and wanted to get rid of Elisha because he felt Elisha was partially responsible for the disaster to the city. However, just as the king arrived to Elisha with his guards, Elisha told him: "Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow, a seah of flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria." The head officer with King Joram doubted it and Elisha told him he would see it, but not eat of any of it. The story goes that the next morning 4 men with leprosy went to the Ar

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Acts 8:9-25, Deut. 29:18, and Habakkuk 3. The passage in Acts tells the story of Simon the sorcerer, a man who was famous for engaging in the magic arts around Samaria. However, when Simon saw the signs and miracles being performed by Phillip, he was astonished and followed him around everywhere. Scripture even says that Simon "believed and was baptized." Just as many in Samaria were being baptized and believing in the Gospel, Peter and John came from Jerusalem to lay hands on those believers so they would receive the Holy Spirit. When Simon saw the Holy Spirit came at the laying on of hands, he offered the apostles money to be able to do the same thing. Peter quickly rebuked him. "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. Repent of this wickedness...Perhaps He will forgive

Greetings in the Lord! The Lord gives us psalm 87 for today: "He has set His foundations on the holy mountain; the Lord loves the gates of Zion more thanall the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are said of you, O city of God: "I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge Me--Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush--and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.' Indeed, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her." The Lord will write in the register of the peoples: "This one was born in Zion." As they make music they will sing, "All my fountains are in you." I've always thought this was a wonderfully curious psalm as it forsees the ingathering of the nations to Zion, and not just any nations, but of those that specifically had been long enemies of God and Israel. The psalm even repeats itself for emphasis: "This one was born in Zion," as

Greetings in the Lord! Very early in the morning of Halloween I had a dream that made me think maybe I was just upset about it being Halloween, as I never liked that "holiday." Anyway, in my dream I watched a golden snake eat big chunks of sweet bread that were being torn off and fed to it. The bread was so sloppy with sugary frosting and the chunks so big I watched in amazment that this golden snake would even eat such stuff. Then, when I looked again, the golden snake was eating a very expensive and decorative tie! It actually was loving eating this really nice tie, even though I saw the snake expand beyond what looked possible. Surely the snake would die from eating the huge chunks of sweet, gooey bread and expensive clothes. When it was done it curled up in a ball and didn't move at all, like it was truly sick and might die. Perplexed after a dream like that, I got up and prayed for understanding. The Lord had me turn to Acts 12:19-25, the story about King Hero