Daily Prophetic Words--Praying for our Global Community

Greetings in the Lord! "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I AM doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I AM making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. The wild animals honor Me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to My people, My chosen, the people I formed for Myself that they may proclaim My praise." Isaiah 43:18-21. Today's word declares that God is doing a new thing! And especially in places where He has been forbidden to be worshipped freely, as the Scripture points to "wild animals," "jackals," and "owls," all of which are used to symbolize entities that are hostile to the Lord God Almighty, will turn to Him as a result of the living water He will pour out in those desolate areas. Praise God! The passage goes on in Isaiah 44:1-5 to tell the servants of the Lord to not be fearful of being s

Greetings in the Lord! Well, this is encouraging--I just came across an art project being done by the youths (18-24) of Tottenham to rebuild unity within the multi-cultural community in the wake of the riots. The article in Al Jazeera English edition goes on as follows: "With some people slamming their doors shut and others refusing to open them, it looked at first as though this community project might not get off the ground. But when marginalised young people in Tottenham , north London - the scene of the first of last week's riots in England - set about approaching locals to help with an oral history project, they soon gained the trust of community members, who then joined in to celebrate what is more often a denigrated postcode. The resulting exhibition, which opens next month, includes one of London's largest arts installations: around 150 giant photographic portraits of local residents. While British politicians lined up to condemn "feral youths"

Greetings in the Lord! As many of you may know, I have been living and working in South Korea and China for over a year and a half now. Both those contracts have been fulfilled and now I am preparing for a new place to live and work. But before I get to that, I would like to talk some about who I've been seeing and ministering to for the past 20 months: "exiled" Christians. What does that mean, you ask? Well, before I started my stints in South Korea and China the Lord spent a great deal of time teaching about the concept of "being put out of the assembly" for persistent , unrepentant sin. In the Old Testament there were many things that would get someone put out of the assembly. It was a procedure meant to cause the person some hardship and loneliness so that they would repent and desire again the closeness of God and the company of God's people back again in their lives....an ancient "time out," if you will. That's the same as how I

Greetings in the Lord! Well, today I spent a few minutes reading about all the riots that took place in England a little over a week ago--whoa, was that some trouble or what? Then of course I went back to re-read the prophetic word the Holy Spirit gave in July about the "season of confrontation" and fires that would appear in many cities throughout England. Whoa again. But I still had a question in my spirit about that prophetic word in July. The Lord included about confrontation with a spirit of witchcraft and sorcery and also that spiritual revival would erupt in those same places...but I had to think--how does witchcraft and sorcery fit into the riots? A spirit of anarchy, I could see that, but sorcery? It may be that those are very similar spirits, or that I am not familiar enough with the spiritual situation of England for it to make complete sense to me. Whatever the case, I have come to learn about the pervasive principality of witchcraft/sorcery that permeates and

Greetings in the Lord! Whenever the Lord gives me the same passage of Scripture three times in a short period of time I pay attention. In this case, it is a word from Isaiah 16. Over the years the Lord has given me that word many times for people, as unfortunately, the message is appropriate and timely for them. So what is the word? Well, in a nutshell, Isaiah 16 is a prophecy against Moab , the arrogant and perpetual enemy of Israel. They will be humbled because of their prideful despising and mocking of Israel. Did you know that God really frowns upon people hating others for no reason? That was the big problem with most of Israel's enemies--they hated them without cause or remedy. It was just plain hate. Maybe the driving force was jealousy or envy at the root, but in any case, they couldn't see the error of their ways because their own pride blinded them from seeing it, and well, jealousy is an endless pit. No amount of abuse or mocking would ever satisfy that vice.

Greetings in the Lord! Sorry for the long delay in writing, it's summer travel season, you know. But of course, that doesn't mean God goes on vacation, too! So I'd like to get back to work and share with you a recent vision and Scripture the Lord gave about England and surrounding UK territories. In the spirit one day I saw the flag of England and a map of the UK and was surprised to see the dots of cities in the south including Wales, and cities along the eastern coast of England shoot up in flames of fire. As I was trying to see what cities exactly were the ones lit up the map faded and a giant lion appeared and roared and roared! The lion of Judah had found its voice and was roaring loudly. It seemed that this was the season for confrontation and the taking back of land in the spirit realm. The spiritual enemy seemed to be witchcraft and sorcery...but also, that " spiritual revival will erup t " in the places where the fires broke out. The Lord referre

Greetings in the Lord! You know it's funny the ways the Lord chooses to speak to people; it's probably as individual as people themselves. As for me, the Lord will quite often use modern pop or rock songs to convey His messages. Yeah, He gives Scripture to go with it, but the song usually gives the heart of the word and tends to pack an altogether different kind of punch. Music can be so powerful that way anyway, but when you hear His voice in it, well, it's awesome. Like take the song " Hallelujah " by Leonard Cohen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSJbYWPEaxw&ob=av2e Last night the Holy Spirit sang the familiar word--I recognized the song in four notes! (even though I think I've only heard the whole song maybe once or twice before). It has that kind of melody that grabs you. So I listened to the song again and Googled the lyrics. Even though there seems to be some question over the meaning of those lyrics, I discerned the meaning the Holy Spi

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Daniel 5 and is another word about President Assad of Syria. In this story from Daniel 5, we read about King Belshazzar, son of King Nebuchadnezzar, who was having a great banquet one night with his nobles and family. During the evening of drinking and toasting their gods of gold, silver, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand, a strange and fearful thing happened, a hand appeared and wrote on the wall: MENE , MENE , TEKEL , PARSIN Eventually Daniel was summoned to tell the king what the words meant, as none of the king's other wise men could decipher it. So Daniel enlightened the king with its meaning, but first prefaced it by reminding King Belshazzar of what had happened to his father, King Nebuchadnezzar during his reign--the Lord had greatly humbled him because his heart had grown exceedingly proud and calloused. "Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he sp

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Ezekiel 24. There are 2 stories written about in that chapter, first the word to all of Judah and Israel about their lewdness (idolatry and corrupt living)--the Lord had been trying to show them the error of their ways so that they would repent and be made clean but they would have none of it. No matter the hardship the Lord allowed against them, nothing would change their hearts to live according to His words. Therefore the Lord was going to bring His wrath upon them and take away the "delight of their eyes": the temple. "Now your impurity is lewdness. Because I tried to cleanse you but you would not be cleansed from your impurity, you will not be clean again until My wrath against you has subsided." Ezekiel 24:13. The second part of chapter 24 is a story about Ezekiel being told that the Lord was going to allow his wife to die and that he was not to grieve over her publicly . Instead, he was to weep privately ther

Greetings in the Lord! As I was praying today and pondering in my heart some recent happenings, or non-happenings as it were, the Lord said " Judges 3 ." So I got out my Bible and began to read: These are the nations the Lord left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan (He did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience): the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians , and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains...They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the Lord's commands, which He had given their forefathers through Moses. Hmm ...OK, so these Israelites were not familiar with war, or for us nowadays, it is just like Christians not knowing about spiritual warfare, the need for true repentance, or still having to learn about spiritual discernment and wisdom. We need circumstances and experiences for us to

Greetings in the Lord! Every now and then the Lord will give me a word while I am praying that I want to share verbatim, just as He spoke it to me. So, today I will share a word He gave yesterday: May 14t h , 2011 "It's not too late for America! The hearts of her people are softening. There is a budding generation of kids that know My name and are passionate about doing My will. Clashes in the school place are/will be divinely inspired as an overwhelming wave of love and truth will sweep through. Expect a cleansing in the public schools of America. Teachers teaching lies are being uprooted, pruned off, and/or healed--returning to Christ and teaching and walking in His mandates. Let all the people say, "Amen!" and "Hallelujah!" Prayerful tears of intercession have filled My cups of mercy and I AM pouring them out over the American schools! Rise up My people! Rise up and take your stand on the wall! Rebuild the breaches, replace the doors, and post faithful

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from 2 Chronicles 32:24-33:25. The passage talks about the reigns of King Hezekiah in his later years; his son Manasseh , who reigned after him, and then his grandson, King Amon , who reigned briefly after Manasseh . While there are many elements to consider in each of the reigns, today I feel led to look at the act of repentance done by both Hezekiah and Manasseh for their pride against God, and the lack of repentance by the grandson, Amon . We can see a simplified cause and effect of God restoring both Hezekiah and Manasseh in their kingship for their humility, while Amon "increased his guilt"and reigned only two short years before being assassinated by his own officials. But as I was pondering over the significance of their repentance's it dawned on me: Hezekiah was going to die and pleaded with God for more time, so God extended his life by 15 years. Well, Manasseh was 12 years old when he took the throne. If Hezekia

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Genesis 18, a story about Abraham being visited by the Lord and 2 angels. Of course, they came to Abraham looking like 3 men, but Abraham discerned and recognized them right away as the divine and rushed about to wait on them hand and foot. It's hard to imagine that scenario most likely, but suffice to say that it does happen and we are encouraged in the New Testament to extend hospitality to all because we may not know when we are entertaining angels. Anyway, after Abraham had fed and refreshed his visitors the Lord told Abraham that he and Sarah would be having a baby in a year. Now that's a very shocking announcement given their advanced age and Sarah couldn't help but to laugh in disbelief...and is called out by God. Is anything too hard for God? After eating, the men get up to leave and Abraham walked with them to see them on their way. It was then that the Lord shared with Abraham His intention of destroying Sodom and

Greetings in the Lord! Wow--the news just doesn't stop, does it? Well, that was the prophetic word for this year. I took a few minutes to re-read some of the recent words the Lord had me publish as well and saw just how often He talked about the raising up of Babylon to carry out His purposes around the world; to uproot leaders and execute judgement against the wicked. Make no mistake about it, God is on the move these days in a powerful way. In March I had a vision of the Lord riding off on a white horse--and He was in hot pursuit to carry out His business. Look out nations! More things are on the horizon! On that note I want to share with you the passage the Lord is leading me to read today from Daniel 11. This chapter talks about the kings of the "South" and of the "North" fighting against each other until the coming of the 'anointed one' or as most Bible scholars understand, the coming of the a ntichrist figure. "He will be succeeded by a cont

Greetings in the Lord! I want to share with you a word I received exactly 7 years ago while I lived in Syria. It is taken from 1 Kings 12:1-20. The main person in the passage is the young king Rehoboam , Solomon's son, as he begins to rule over Israel after the long reign of Solomon. I knew at the time the Lord was referencing President Bashar Assad as the young king Rehoboam . " Rehoboam went to Shechem , for all the Israelites had gone there to make him king. When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt. So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: "Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you." Rehoboam answered, "Go away for three days and then come back to me." So the people went away. Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who ha

Greetings in the Lord! As many of you may know, I live abroad teaching English and this week my classes will be discussing the language for various weather conditions and natural weather phenomenon . So it was curious that in the middle of preparing lesson plans the Lord drew my attention to Matthew 16:1-3: The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven. He replied, "When evening comes, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,' and in the morning, 'Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times." Hmm ...that's certainly food for thought given the current world events. It seems to me that this prophetic word is saying that there must be people not seeing the signs of the times that are happening around the world at the moment. Or maybe, and more specifically, there may be some

Greetings in the Lord! About three times in the past week the Lord has given me yet more passages of Scripture talking about the rise of Babylon these days and of them subduing countries. Two such passages were from 2 Chronicles 36 and 2 Kings 24. Both of those accounts tell of Babylon overrunning Judah and of the final days of Judah's kings, the destruction of the temple, and exile to Babylon. And while I understood the stories I was still yet unclear about the spiritual significance of this word and what exactly the Lord is talking about. But alas, the Lord speaks again the same word--the season is now for the rise of Babylon (United States) in the world--so I will continue to tell it as He gives it. Today's word is from the book of Habakkuk , chapters 1 & 2, and sheds more light on the word at hand: "Look at the nations and watch--and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." "I AM r

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Jeremiah 27. It is an interesting chapter because Jeremiah gives the word not only to Judah, but also to all the kings of Edom , Moab , Ammon , Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys that had come to Jerusalem to visit King Zedekiah. ...This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Tell this to your masters: 'With My great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please. Now I will hand all your countries over to My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him. All nations will serve him...until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him." "'If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the Lord, until I destroy i

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word actually was given February 22nd, and then a week or so later, and now I really feel a prompting to share it here. It is from Isaiah 65:13-19) Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: "My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame. My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit." "You will leave your name to My chosen ones as a curse; the Sovereign Lord will put you to death, but to His servants He will give another name. Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My eyes." Also, Isaiah 32:5-8) "No longer will the fool be called noble nor the scoundrel be highly respected. For the fool speaks folly, his mind is busy with evil: He practices un

Greetings in the Lord! Well, I have a bit of an update to share, one I didn't even know to watch or that it was happening, and I'm sure most of you won't remember this word either. But nevertheless, I like to share such things because it's important to acknowledge when God fulfills His word--it's a testimony--and also its a good reminder for us that although we don't get to see His seed growing in people's hearts, it is. I find that very encouraging. Take, for example, a blog I wrote way back in January of 2010 about a woman I vaguely knew anything about, British comic Jennifer Saunders (and her comedic partner, Dawn French). When the Lord put her on my heart from out of the blue in October of 2009, I had to do some research about her on the Internet . I had never heard of her comedy series "French and Saunders" or most of the other projects she had done over the years, except for her TV series "Absolutely Fabulous." And while I found th