Daily Prophetic Words--Praying for our Global Community

Greetings in the Lord! Well, it is the new year on the Jewish calendar and the word for this year is "The Sword of the Lord," as taken from Jeremiah 25:15-38. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from My hand this cup filled with the wine of My wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.  When they drink it, they will stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them." So I took the cup from the Lord's hand and made all the nations to whom He sent me drink it: Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn and cursing...; Pharaoh king of Egypt , his attendants, his officials and all his people,...; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and Ashdod); Edom, Moab and Ammon; all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coast lands across the sea; Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in distant places; a

Greetings in the Lord! The word for this week is from Isaiah 16.  I know this passage well, as the Lord spoke it many times earlier about Syria--she is the "Moab" that is being overrun just like in chapter 16.  The passage recommends to the fleeing Moabites to "send lambs as tribute" to be better received in the lands where they are trying to flee to, even to Israel, the land that they have acted so arrogantly to over the centuries.  So it is with the Syrians.  In fact, it is and was their hatred--especially of Israel--that has opened the door for the gates of hell to prevail against them.  Even when I lived there, the Lord would often give me words of warning for them about their continual arrogant hatred of Israel.  Their prideful hostility was vile in the Lord's eyes.  "Your hatred only hurts you," I would say, but they would quickly begin to justify their hatred with rationales and handed-down logic.  Their behavior and justifications had been us

Greetings in the Lord! Well, this has been a very unusual week with the Lord.  On Monday, I came home from work exhausted not just from the start of the busy school year, but more because I felt the ramping up of vile wickedness in the spirit realm and cried out to God for strength to endure, "Have mercy, O God!"  As I rested in prayerful meditation, I heard a knock at my bedroom door, but upon answering, found that there was no one there.  Only one other time had that ever happened to me--right before Hurricane Katrina.  That morning the Lord woke me up very early with a knock at my bedroom door--three times until I finally mustered up enough courage to answer it as I was home alone and it was 4:30 AM!  This time, however, I was not afraid.  Rather, I recognized His presence and was alert the rest of the week expecting to discern more from the Lord about what is up. Sure enough, three days later I saw a young man I recognized from the year before, a student who is bent o