Daily Prophetic Words--Praying for our Global Community

Greetings in the Lord! It seems there have been lots of words lately about nations and leaders.  I discern that for the truly corrupt ones, the Lord is putting a date on His calendar for their removal and for the setting free of their captives, the weak and the needy whom they should have been protecting.  I am fully expecting to see amazing things in this regard in the not so distant future.  While living in Syria, there was one verse and word that the Lord had me share with a teammate of mine.  She was a Muslim, but the Lord had gifted her with wisdom and discernment of dreams and visions.  I told her about the vision I had of a great fire from heaven coming down to completely destroy the land of Syria.  She actually discerned the current trouble for Syria before I had fully understood the vision!  But the word to her was also very important.  It came from Matthew 6:22-23: "The eye is the lamp of the body.  If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.  Bu

Greetings in the Lord! It's amazing to see how many riots and violent protests are happening all around the world right now.  In Venezuela, Ukraine, Thailand, even in France--over the potential building of an airport, of all things.  And as I was reading about these and other events, I also was curious to compare what various news outlets had to say about the happenings.  Most news sources give the same major details, but usually from slightly different viewpoints with varying degrees of elaboration.  However, there are a growing number of conspiracy theorists out there.  They never fail to offer really "interesting" twists and bits of information, but it always seems like I'm entering a fog when I hear what they have to say.  It makes me nervous (fearful) in my spirit, really, and so I naturally will back away and hear what the Lord has to say about them and all the major news events going on these days.  Hear the word of the Lord: "Do not call conspiracy

Greetings in the Lord! It's been awhile since I've gotten these words from Scripture...from 2005-2007 or so, give or take.  They are from Isaiah 46-47 and Jeremiah 51.  If anyone has ever read these passages they will recall that both prophets are decreeing the destruction of Babylon and her idols, and calling for Israel to separate herself from those people's ways to avoid partaking in their coming disaster.  At that time, the Lord was having me preach and teach from those Scriptures that major trouble (read--His correction) was on the horizon for the United States.  Over the course of those years I gave prophetic words about the coming storms that would hit the US: hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, the financial crisis, the coming election of ungodly leadership to lead us astray, and the rise of our enemies against us.  While those were deemed the most newsworthy items, the most important words were for Christians.  The Lord was going to bring major co

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from 2 Samuel 6 and Daniel 5.  Both stories are a reminder for us to have reverence for the Lord Almighty.  For though God is patient and merciful, He is also Sovereign over all and is to be revered and honored.  The Lord plays no favorites either--His judgments can break out against believers and non-believers alike, as the passages will show.  The stories go like this. First, in Samuel 6 we read about King David wanting to bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.  He loaded it onto a cart like the Philistines had it, and began to make their way to Jerusalem.  Well, he was wrong already.  The Lord had prescribed how the Ark was to be moved, on the shoulders of Levites--not on some cart pulled by oxen.  Well, when the oxen stumbled, the Ark slid and a man familiar with the Ark (it had been kept in his family's tent) reached out to steady it.  His touch was forbidden by the Lord, and he died for his "irreverent act."  K

Greetings in the Lord! We have much to thank God for today--3 words of deliverance!  The first comes from Isaiah 37--a passage about Jerusalem being surrounded by the Assyrian army.  At that time the Assyrians were on a successful violent conquest, overtaking the lands around them in their fierce and cruel manner.  As they encamped around Jerusalem, the Assyrian messenger came to boast of their campaign, taunting and ridiculing the Israelites and telling them not to trust in their God, but to give up easily. King Hezekiah sought the counsel of the Lord through Isaiah the prophet, and the word was given. Isaiah said to them, "...This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard---those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.  Listen!  I am going to put a spirit in him so that when he hears a certain report, he will return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword."  Isaiah 37:5-7. The two

Greetings in the Lord! This morning I awoke from a dream that I discern is a warning dream.  It went like this. A woman who looked like Margret Thatcher arrived in a large city that seemed to be Moscow.  Her straw-like blond hair shown brightly in contrast to the dim, wintry afternoon.  Though it was perfectly coiffed, it gave hint of her mean, deceptive, inner thoughts.  Her stylish grey-white trench coat emanated importance and a strong, foul presence.  The planner of trouble and death had arrived.  She rejoiced at all the regal, red brick buildings that surrounded her, as they seemed to confirm her will to dominate, her assumed nobility and right to power and status.  With a big, smug smile she inhaled deeply the unfriendly, freezing air.  "I like it here," she said with a seductive drawl to her male assistants who were wearing all black.  "That's because it's as cold-hearted and cruel as you, my dear," he complimented with a sly grin.  That made

Greetings in the Lord! I remember getting today's Scriptures (Micah 2-3) quite a bit when I lived in Aleppo, Syria.  And, unfortunately, even at the time that I lived there (2003-'04), I heard firsthand accounts from several people who were suffering from the injustices I was reading about....I can only imagine how corrupt things are today! Woe to those who plot iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds!  At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.  They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them.  They defraud a man of his home, a fellowman of his inheritance. Therefore, the Lord says: "I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves.  You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.  In that day men will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's possession is divided up.  He takes it from me!  He ass

Greetings in the Lord! I am reminded that it was one year ago while returning from South Africa that I had a dream of a corrupt military man losing power and a woman took his place.  I found out yesterday that at the time of my dream, it was a reality happening in the country of Central African Republic!  They were swearing in their new female president, Catherine Samba-Panza.  She is a Christian leader, with the tall task of stopping religious violence between the Christians and Muslims in her country.  Today's word is for her and for the Christian community there, and for any other Christian who is blessed to go through trials for His namesake.  "Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?  But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed.  Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened.  But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord.  Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.

Greetings in the Lord! You know those stories we sometimes hear about how the interviewee was in a terrible situation and calling out to God and they were saved at the last moment?  Maybe someone passed by at just the right time and heard their cries for help, or the rescue team came upon them right before they would have died and gave them the help they needed?  Those saved almost always give thanks to God publicly.  Probably because only they know how urgently they were calling to God for help before the help miraculously arrived on the scene.  And, as we know, it wasn't their desperation that got God's attention, but the fact that they had put their faith in Him to deliver them.  Just like in the middle of a playground where kids are laughing and screaming and making all kinds of noise, a mother can recognize her child's cries immediately and runs to see what's the matter.  That's the way it is with God; He hears the cry of faith, the one who turns to Him as t