Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Realign Yourself!

Leslie Herrier:

"Today, the Lord Invites You to Realign Your Spirit with His Word and Promises"

Oftentimes, a breakthrough comes when circumstances make it seem most impossible for it to come. At least, that is how it often works in the Kingdom of God. And of course, satan knows this, so he will be working his hardest to throw you off track at that time. Being an opportunist, he will use this pressure point in your walk with God to bombard you with his most convincing lies and sideswipe you with rationality. His hope is to make you think you are being just a little too hyper-spiritual. After all, "Did God really say...?"

Don't Lose Confidence!

Today, the Lord invites you to realign your spirit with His Word and His promises (especially your personal promises—quit doubting, for yes, you did hear from God). Yes, that was His voice. Deal with your enemy today, for he is "prowling about seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8). But following this Scripture, the next sentence is the remedy: "Resist him, steadfast in your faith."

The enemies that speak such discouragement to you at these spiritually critical times in your life have names. The first of these is the spirit that acts like Rabshakeh. He is found in 2 Kings Chapter 18. The Rabshakeh was the title for a governor or chief of staff. In this case, he was an official of Sennacherib, King of Assyria. This is his voice:

"What confidence is this in which you trust? You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?...But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem'?

"Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses—if you are able on your part to put riders on them! How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master's servants...? Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, 'Go up against the land, and destroy it'...

"Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you from his hand; do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying,'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria'...

"...For thus says the king of Assyria: 'Make peace with me...and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, 'The LORD will deliver us.'

"Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?" (verses 19-35)

Rabshakeh's goal here was very strategic: Make them lose confidence in God by stating distorted facts. However, he forgot to leave out one little point—all those nations who were defeated by Assyria did not have Jehovah for their God. This is what our enemy does. He causes us to look at the natural world instead of keeping our eyes on things above. Like Peter and the waves of the stormy sea, he wants us to take our eyes off of Jesus.

God Will Bring You Safely Through Attack and Confusion

The second foe is known in the Scripture as Sanballat. Tobiah and others also worked with him, and were just as bad. They did their best to stop Nehemiah from rebuilding the fallen wall of Jerusalem. This is how they speak to us:

"...they laughed at us and despised us, and said, 'What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?'"—Nehemiah 2:19

"But it so happened that when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and mocked the Jews. And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, 'What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish—stones that are burned?'

"Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, 'Whatever they build, if even a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall.'"—Nehemiah 4:1-3

Later, Scripture tells us that as the wall went up, Sanballat and Tobiah became so angry that they conspired to attack Jerusalem (with the help of the Arabs, the Ammonites and the Ashdodites) and create confusion. But the faith and prayers of the people brought them safely through to complete the wall.

"Do Not Be Afraid"

I felt that I was to deliver this word to you, as the Lord has been bringing these Scriptures to me now for a few days. I sense that there are many that need to be reminded that there is an enemy out there who would like to frighten you away from your destiny and calling in God. But remember, the Lord is not daunted by the chariots of Egypt or the commanders of the army of Assyria, so He certainly is not threatened by your circumstances.

Your God is a living God who loves a good challenge. And He loves it when He can say of us as He said about Caleb, who did not fear the giants of the Promised Land: "But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it" (Numbers 14:24).

Recently one morning as I awoke, I heard the words, "Do not be afraid," three times. Immediately the Lord led me to 2 Kings 19:6: "Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard..."

Precious ones, many of you need to embrace that word and pick up your sword and your shield of faith and continue your prophetic destiny, trusting the Lord. God is not a man that He should lie (see Numbers 23:19).

"Now I saw Heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True..."—Revelation 19:11

Leslie Herrier
Email: leslieherrier@gmail.com

About Leslie Herrier: Leslie Herrier has been an intercessor for key ministries for over ten years. A graduate of Harvest Rock Church's ministerial school, Harvest International, she has been involved in powerful intercession with such leaders as Lou Engle for the nation and for the Body of Christ. She has ministered in many churches in countries such as France and Mexico, with a heart to inspire Believers to reach their full potential in Christ and to engage the Holy Spirit at a higher spiritual level. Regional intercession in these and other countries has been the very passion of Leslie's life and the fuel for her ministry. Leslie now resides in Ventura, California, where she is involved in teaching and prayer ministry.




Saturday, May 2, 2009

The God Advantage

Dennis Cramer:
"Have You Experienced The God Advantage?"

My word in season this month for you is about getting and keeping any and all "spiritual advantages" which God may have for you. Certainly you would prefer to win rather than to lose. Clearly, you would rather defeat your enemy instead of being defeated by your enemy. Obviously, you'd rather be the victor than the victim. Yet, there are countless Believers who are spiritual victims because no one ever told them how to get the God advantage. Well, you're about to find out how!

Personal Prophecy = The God Advantage

Just as prayer allows you to talk to God, prophecy allows God to talk back to you. God has placed this "real-time" supernatural gift of prophecy in His Church to openly show you His heart. Prophecy reveals to you that God both likes and loves you. It shows you He is very emotional towards you! Prophecy reveals that God is for you not against you, and that He is not eternally angry with you.

But even more than this, God uses prophecy to give you the winning edge, the superior position, the benefit, the upper hand, to put the odds in your favor. In a word, God uses personal prophecy to give you the advantage in battle—the God advantage.

Seven Basic Power Points Of Prophecy

Sometimes all you need is one prophetic word from God to turn the battle in your favor, because a genuine prophetic word carries with it great power and authority. It is one of the deadliest weapons in your arsenal.

2 Kings 6:8-18:

Elisha Traps Blinded Arameans:

8. "Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, 'I will set up my camp in such and such a place.'

9. "The man of God sent word to the king of Israel: 'Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there.' 10. So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.

11. "This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, 'Will you not tell me which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?'

12. "'None of us, my lord the king,' said one of his officers, 'but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.'

13. "'Go, find out where he is,' the king ordered, 'so I can send men and capture him.' The report came back: 'He is in Dothan.' 14. Then he sent horses and chariots and a strong force there. They went by night and surrounded the city.

15. "When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. 'Oh, my lord, what shall we do?' the servant asked.

16. "'Don't be afraid,' the prophet answered. 'Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.'

17. "And Elisha prayed, 'O LORD, open his eyes so he may see.' Then the LORD opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

18. "As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, 'Strike these people with blindness.' So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked."

Here are seven basic power points of prophecy based on 2 Kings chapter six. Please read carefully verses 8-18. You may even want to make a copy of these seven points and carry them in your Bible.

1. During times of war JUST ONE PROPHETIC WORD FROM GOD can give you the God advantage! It can give you the "jump" on your enemy. It will serve to "warn" you and to make you "watchful," just like it did for the king of Israel. Read verses 8-10. Prophecy is for the purpose of giving you a distinguishable "God advantage" in your life and ministry. In life, the one with the advantage always wins! It's time for you to win!

2. JUST ONE PROPHETIC WORD FROM GOD will cause you to know God's specific strategy for your life! Read verse 9. Prophecy gives you God's personal strategy for your natural and spiritual life. A strategy is a carefully worked out plan of action. Today, you need His "carefully worked out plan" for your life. Prophecy provides it!

3. JUST ONE PROPHETIC WORD FROM GOD will cause you to look beyond the natural and into the supernatural! Read verse 16. Prophecy causes you to "see" and to think beyond your natural and often contrary circumstances. It causes you to think supernaturally, to think the way God thinks.

4. JUST ONE PROPHETIC WORD FROM GOD will reveal God's perspective for your situation! Read verse 16. Remember, His spirit realm based perspective may contradict with your natural realm based perspective. But prophecy always reveals God's opinion—the one opinion you need when the battle is raging. Remember, there are facts, then there is truth. With God, supernatural truth always wins out over natural facts. Prophecy reveals supernatural truth and will always override natural facts.

5. JUST ONE PROPHETIC WORD FROM GOD will cause you to see the "odds" in your favor! Read verse 16: It says, "Those who are with us are more..." Prophecy often gives you the outcome, the ultimate victory for your life regardless of the impossibility of the current natural situation you are facing.

6. JUST ONE PROPHETIC WORD FROM GOD will ultimately increase your faith. Read verse 17. Prophecy will give you insight into the spirit realm. You will begin to see what God sees, which is the key to living by faith. Ultimately, faith is the key to your victory.

7. JUST ONE PROPHETIC WORD FROM GOD will literally connect you to the unlimited power of God for your life! Read verse 17. In this verse horses and chariots represented God's power and presence in the situation. Prophecy unleashes the power of God into your life.

JUST ONE PROPHETIC WORD FROM GOD Will...

  1. Give you the ultimate "God advantage"!
  2. Cause you to know God's specific divine strategy!
  3. Cause you to see beyond the natural into the supernatural!
  4. Reveal God's perfect perspective of your current situation!
  5. Cause you to see the "odds" are in your favor!
  6. Ultimately increase your faith!
  7. Directly connect you to the unlimited power of God!

So, go wherever you have to go and do whatever it takes to get a genuine prophetic word from God. You'll be glad you did! One prophetic word from God can change your life forever. It's time for you to win. It's time for you to get the God advantage!

Hope this helps,

Denny Cramer
Dennis Cramer Ministries

Email: denniscramer1@comcast.net
Website:
www.denniscramer.net

Prophetic Woman

Reeni Mederos:
"Oh, Prophetic Women!"
The Call of God to an Army of Supernatural Women!

The Lord is saying, "I have My eyes on you, daughters of the Most High God. You have not been forgotten and you will surely rise to your destiny in this last day move of My Spirit. You have been crying out and you have been birthing like a pregnant woman in labor about to give birth to the new thing I am doing in the earth."

He is saying, "Hold on! Your labor has not been in vain and your seeds of tears will reap a harvest of joy! Many children are you birthing and many lives will come to Me because of you. Hear oh Prophetic Women, you who love My heart, you who have poured out your life, engaging your soul in intercession and birthing supernatural miracles in the hidden places of divine conception—Heaven has come to you now!"

Prophetic Women Are Being Caught Up into His Presence

Like a new breed of Marys on the rise, God has implanted His divine seed in the hearts of many women around the world who hear His voice—who are being trained, who mother in the natural and in the spirit, who have nurtured, who have fought like an army of Warrior Brides, who have been faithful in times of persecution and times of hardship. They are making room and preparing the way of the Lord for a supernatural move of the Spirit to accomplish His will on the earth as it is in Heaven.

There are specific whirlwinds of the supernatural presence of the Lord where prophetic women of all walks of life are being "caught up" into the glory cloud of God and receiving divine visitations, divine impartations, divine healings, divine direction, divine strategies, divine wisdom and divine favor as they realize this is not the storm of the enemy, but the very high wind velocity of the Spirit of God.

Times and events are moving rapidly and the Lord is saying, "Come up here! For there is yet a work to do that I have planned especially for you that is higher than your thoughts and higher than your ways and extends to the highest Heavens if you will hold My hand; hold on and trust Me and I will teach you to soar with eagles wings."

God's women of all ages, races and cultures are emerging from the hidden places of obscurity to the frontlines of favor. They are like a generation of Esthers and Deborahs with a supernatural edge that is breathtaking and soothing to the soul. The older women's wisdom is deep like a well of living water that never runs dry and has been prepared by the Lord—that is ready for drinking. The younger women will exude life and vibrancy that reveals the beauty of the glory of the Lord that is contagious with the joy of the Lord.

Even the little girls and babies hold the preciousness of newness of life that reflects the very face of God and the nature of Heaven. When you look into their eyes, you see Heaven there. For the purity and innocence they possess is without question the very attributes of our Lord embodied in these little ones who are called by His name.

God's women are tender and kind with hearts of compassion, built with a warrior instinct like a lioness who cares for her cubs, nurturing and protecting the glory of the Lord while building the Kingdom of God. They are natural nurturers who feed and protect, support and encourage and train and develop. These are the attributes God is using in a supernatural way which He is causing to come to the forefront. The Lord is taking them higher in their capacity to nurture from a natural level to a supernatural level like never before.

To the broken they bring healing. To the homeless they bring hospitality and refuge. To the addicted they bring freedom of life. To the rejected they pour in God's acceptance and love to bring restoration where there has been devastation, trauma and tragedy. They war on behalf of their brothers and sisters, the Church, the lost—supporting men and women in spiritual battle who are called to set the captives free in every nation around the world. They are robed with supernatural favor, with righteousness and with a scepter of authority to bring down the strongholds of the enemy with the weapons of warfare called "God's love." They were born for divine relationship. They were born to display the beauty of the Lord.

Ambassadors of the Most High

Culture will not dictate to these powerful women of God, but they will be led forth by the Spirit of God as ambassadors of the Most High to do a special work in their own special way. They are a powerful army but they are also individuals who are very much loved by the Lord, each and every one. They are paving the way for the upcoming generations to learn to stand as a "gateway from Heaven to earth," operating in the power of God with Godly wisdom, character and integrity.

They are anointed to teach and instruct, preach and prophesy, engaging in the heavenly realms, moving in the supernatural, peering into the future of what is to come—all the while equipping a generation to know how to walk intimately with the Lord with deep devotion, and they are not afraid to fight in spiritual battle as co-laborers with Christ. They are soldiers at heart, lovers of God, nurturers of the human heart, and are God's watch-women on the wall ready to move at the Lords command at any moment's notice.

Highly skilled in sensitivity, they are naturally gifted by God to feel the heartbeat of the Lord in a very unique and special way. They are masters of social skill, able to communicate the heart and mind of the Lord with clarity and conviction. They are intelligent, brave, tender-hearted, passionate and bold as lions in their pursuit of following hard after the Lord with their whole heart—empowered by the Spirit of God with His anointing and His grace. The essence of Godly virtue is their strength and the fear of the Lord is their privilege which molds them into the image of Christ with deepest humility. They are women of virtue.

Proverbs 31:25-26 says, "Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she smiles at the future. She opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue."

She is capable, strong, powerful and equipped with the very virtue of Christ. These beautiful ones in the sight of the Lord are mighty women of valor who are hearing the voice of the Lord calling them with clarity. They are not afraid to stand, not afraid to war, not afraid to give preference to their fellow brothers and sisters in genuine Godly humility as they yield themselves as servants and handmaidens of the Lord. The Lord is causing a new Godly confidence to arise from deep within to prepare them for the days ahead as they are given insight, foresight and apostolic strategy that are behind the scenes—the hidden treasures of the Lord who are bursting forth as a prototype of what the Bride of Christ will look like at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

They Will Shine Forth in Remarkable Brilliance

These are pioneers of newer and higher dimensions in the Lord that have been granted access into the heavenly realms as never before. They are secured in His love as they are first called to be intimate worshipers of God with a supernatural grace, live in forgiveness and extend mercy towards the injustices they may have incurred throughout the generations. Like Stephen, who was a man full of faith and Holy Ghost power, this mighty army of God's prophetic women will do great wonders and miracles among the people. Because they are so hidden in the love of God, the gaze of the glory of the Lord will shine forth from their countenance in remarkable brilliance.

The Lord says, "Her face is like the face of an angel. She will look steadfastly into Heaven and see the glory of the God and be a living testimony of one who lives under the open heavens of the Lord Most High. She is seated in heavenly places and many will gaze upon her and see the favor and pleasure of the Lord that is resting upon her shoulders in whom I am well pleased and have anointed and appointed for such a time as this."

Her voice is gentle and sweet and her heart is compassionate, proclaiming the Word of the Lord with boldness and producing peace and hope in the hearts of mankind. She is sensitive to the heart of the Lord as a Bride is in love with her Bridegroom. Deeply marinated in the love of the Father, these mighty armies of women have been training their inner perceptions as they have been gazing upon the face of the Lord in the midst of adversity. They have been learning at the feet of Jesus, broken like the alabaster box and now ready to be poured out to the nations as a sweet and beautiful fragrance to the Lord.

They are leaders and mothers, business women and politicians; they are housewives and pastors, prophets and seers, teachers and nurses, sisters and grandmothers, homemakers and children of the Lord who have crowned the King of Kings with their worship and praise as He is moved with compassion and love to restore the hearts and lives of many of these precious souls whom He cherishes with an undying love.

Prophesy Daughters of Zion, Prophesy!

The Lord is saying, "Come to Me, sweet daughters of Mine, and I will heal your broken hearts. I will heal your broken dreams. For the land that you once knew as desolate has become a land of promise flowing with milk and honey. You are of a different spirit, a different breed, of a different kind. Sit with Me in heavenly places that I may use you as a 'gateway from Heaven to earth'—releasing supernatural signs and wonders that can only be released as you are hidden and rested in My love."

God is calling, wooing, honoring and healing many women from the valley of dry bones. Like Ezekiel prophesied to the dead bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14, the Lord is saying to His prophetic women, "Prophesy daughters of Zion, prophesy! Call forth that which is not into that which will be and watch new life emerge within your being that will pour forth from your lips of praise as words of beauty, words of healing and words of comfort be dispersed to My people. Prophesy the Word of the Lord in your desolate places and be redeemed of the ancient ruins of the past.

"Call forth the way of the Lord into existence—the road of your future with the oracles of God that have been deeply planted in your hearts. Do not listen to the voice of the enemy. Only listen to what I say about you. Open your vision to a brighter day. Write down what you see ahead in a book of remembrance. Your beauty has captured My heart," says the Lord. "The beauty of your heart, the beauty of your sacrifice, the beauty of your countenance and the beauty of your inner being towards Me have become a song in My heart."

The Lord is Singing and Dancing Over His Girls

The Lord is singing over His vast army of women in these last days. A new song of restoration is being released. The Heavens will display new wonders as a result of the song that God sings over them. Generational curses will be broken, emotional bondages will be healed. Godly relationships will be renewed and broken ones will not be too late for God to restore. God is singing and rejoicing over His women as they are emerging to a greater level of authority and power and virtue in Christ.

The Lord is saying, "There is more, so much more! Open your eyes and dare to receive My favor upon you in a new way. Stretch forth your hands which hang down and dare to dream again. I have promised to wipe away the tears of despair and make new your shattered dreams. Am I not the God of resurrection that can breathe new life into that which is dead? Is this too difficult for Me? Surely not! Your dreams are not dead, just sleeping. Daughters of Zion, come forth!"

The Lord is literally dancing and singing over His girls in this season. He is preparing a banqueting table for them in the presence of their enemies. Jesus is the One who is personally serving them at His banqueting table bestowing honor, value, dignity and perfect love upon them as with their own personal crown. Like a royal wedding banquet, the Lord is feasting and celebrating His women who are precious in His sight.

"Taste and see that the Lord is good and eat of My goodness, drink of My love for the time of singing has come. Your time of celebration is here! Spring is in bloom and the winter is over. Rejoice, daughters of the Most High, rejoice! Dance, sing, and clap your hands! Let the songs of the Lord be released from your innermost being and birth life, for I am giving you many children to bear with joy! I am celebrating YOU!" says the Lord.

This is a New Day of Joy

As a result of God's move on the earth in the release of the daughters of Zion in greater measure, the Lord is healing barrenness and many barren wombs will open and will be a sign that the Lord has opened up the natural and spiritual wombs of many of His daughters. Fruitfulness and multiplication will pour forth in supernatural measure that will be a sign and a wonder on the earth.

The enemy will not close up the womb of God's women any longer, nor will he kill the birth of her children as she is hidden in the secret place of the Most High under the protection of the wings of the angel of the Lord. God has appointed the angelic host of Heaven to guard that which He is birthing. That which was doomed to death will actually live instead. Like Moses was hidden and spared for a divine purpose to deliver the children of Israel, so shall a generation of deliverers be born and raised up for the glory of the Lord as a result of the labor pains of these chosen ones.

This is a new day of joy for God's chosen women. It is a day to celebrate! It is a new day of giving birth to the move of the Spirit that will not become a still born because it is a sovereign move of the Spirit on the last day generation of Esthers and Deborahs.

The Lord is saying, "Believe again My daughters. Dare to believe the impossible and you will receive the impossible as you move into a new realm of the supernatural. I have chosen you for this time and you will be My beautiful Esthers and Deborahs in the land of the living, raising up that which was dead, delivering the oppressed and redeeming that which was lost. Restoring hope to the hopeless, your message is that of hope and good news as you are seated in heavenly places with Me; and seated in heavenly places you will remain which I have ordained for you from the foundations of the world.

"I have chosen you as the apple of My eye and I have loved you with an everlasting love that can never be quenched! For My love is as strong as death and I have been jealous over you. You have captured My heart. I honor you and I celebrate you with great joy!"

Love and blessings in Christ!

Reeni Mederos
Warrior's International, Inc.

E-mail: info@warriorsinternational.com
Website:
www.warriorsinternational.com

Reeni Mederos is a licensed and ordained prophet and psalmist under the covering of Dr. Bill Hamon and Christian International Apostolic Network (CIAN) of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, along with her husband, Rob Mederos. Reeni and Rob Mederos reside in the Atlanta, Georgia area with their three children and have been operating in prophetic ministry for over 20 years. They are the founders of Warrior's International, Inc., (formerly known as the Warrior's Cave), a cutting-edge prophetic and apostolic training worship center that is "dedicated to raising up a new breed of end-time warriors for the new millennium." Reeni is also the founder and administrator of Warrior's International University School of Prophet's conducting local and online prophetic schools and schools for psalmists for the past 10 years where she teaches, trains, activates, equips and mentors apostolic and prophetic students from around the world that is easily accessible to anyone in the world who has high speed internet access.

Reeni flows in the area of web design, media and technology and conducts online prophetic webinars, live prophetic worship webcasts and has made many TV appearances on Atlanta's local TBN and Channel 63 stations sharing her testimony and ministering the spontaneous prophetic song of the Lord. Her heart is to set the captives free in worship and to equip the Body of Christ to be God's true warriors in service, warfare and intimate worship to impact a generation for the Lord Jesus Christ by making disciples of all nations and training them to operate in God's supernatural power along with the character and integrity of Christ, building the Kingdom of God in fulfilling the great commission to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.



Truth and Hope

Sean Feucht:

"He is Crafting Our Sound to Be a Voice of Truth and Hope in This Hour"


Hearing from God in the "City of Sound"

I recently spent a week in Nashville, Tennessee, putting the finishing touches on the largest, most expensive and immense recording project of my life. It's been an extraordinary journey of crafting and releasing the fresh sound swelling up from deep within my soul—for this exciting and thrilling season we are now living in. I had the incredible privilege of spending the week, during this recording in Nashville, at the home of Ricky and Sharon Skaggs. They are a father and mother to this "new sound" God is releasing and have blazed a trail that we are humbly following today. Every morning I woke up to the taste of a good home-cooked southern breakfast while gazing at the skyline of the City of Sound!

The Lord began speaking to me during these times, about how He is restoring the "sound of innocence" back to our communities, cities and nations. Where cynicism, offense, greed and wounding have come to rob the purity and simplicity of our voice, God is redeeming and restoring all of this in our day!

"Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, 'Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean.'" 2 Kings 5:10

Just like the story of Naaman in 2 Kings 5, there is an invitation to the cleansing waters of His Presence that will wash away this disease and restore back virtue. Because of his anger that his healing did not come in the way he desired initially, Naaman reluctantly went to wash himself in the Jordan at the words of the prophet and the urging of his servants. When he emerged from the water the seventh time, his flesh was restored like that of a "little child."

All across the world, it's time that we allow the waters of God's Presence to restore back our innocence and purity that we may become a voice of clarity in this hour. Even though it may be coming in a way in which we least expected, we cannot afford to miss the chance to have our innocence and purity restored like that of little children!

The Context of His Glory and the Miraculous

This voyage of crafting and releasing the fresh sound began a few weeks after the New Year when God began to awaken me with dreams, visions and stirrings of what was going to take place in 2009. This awakening is happening across the BURN 24-7 community. Every leader in the BURN 24-7 movement (spanning 75 cities and communities around the world, 40 across the U.S.) has experienced a sense of expectancy and urgency in their spirit when praying, dreaming and meditating on what is coming to the Body in this hour.

We have been courageously and relentlessly sounding the trumpet for our cities to gather from across denominational lines and ethnic boundaries to host the very Presence of God for periods of 24, 48 and even 100 hours non-stop on a monthly and even weekly basis!

From Kona, Hawaii to Long Island, New York to Kathmandu, Nepal, we are experiencing measures of His glory that bring healing to the sick, setting the captives free and opening the heavens for breakthrough in our cities and nations! We have witnessed miraculous healings in Buffalo, New York, homosexuals repenting and receiving transforming power in Washington, DC, and strung-out New Age hippies in Byron Bay, Australia getting blasted by the Holy Spirit and surrendering their life to the person of Jesus.

This is all happening in the place of His Presence as vertical Davidic worship, faith-filled intercession and prophetic proclamation rise like incense to flood the city. In the context of this outbreak of extravagant miracles, the surpassing glory and the radiating presence we are experiencing, a sound is being crafted and matured in the depths of our beings as we gather in one accord to build "a resting place" for God (Isaiah 66:1).

Holy Incubators

I have begun to see the Lord use these furnaces of night and day worship, enjoyable adoration, relentless intercession and extravagant outreach as "holy incubators" preparing us for what lies ahead. Much like the Cave of Adullam in 1 Samuel 22:2, God is calling the distressed, the discontented, and the disillusioned (as well as the cynical and the religious) to come and be transformed in the place of His Presence. This will result in a pure, raw and authentic sound being released from the worshippers across the Body again.

With the shakings, quakings and shiftings in economic and political spheres being constantly trumpeted by the media, the world is searching for a "sound of truth" in this hour. The sound being shaped in Adullam's cave must be released to the world! They are longing to hear a song filled with faith and hope to awaken their broken and disillusioned hearts! We must be a burning and shining people who know where we are headed, who understand the end of the story, and are fixing our eyes on the unseen glory to come!

Fresh Vision at Yale - The Dead Shall Be Raised

Last month, I was on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut with our Burn crew. We spent time prayer walking, strategizing and dreaming for a move of God to sweep over the campuses of America. As David chose his smooth stones to come against Goliath in 1 Samuel 17, we began to pray and believe for a Davidic army of lovers who would rise up and release their smooth stones of worship, intercession, and the song of the Lord—smooth stones that will cast down the spirit of humanism and usher in an awakening to millions of college twenty-somethings, floundering to find a "higher truth."

During our tour of the campus, I noticed many Bible verses and prophecies etched into the stones and foundations of the school by the forefathers and first Presidents of our nation. My heart was filled with grief and despair at how far we've fallen from the original purpose and dream of these "ministry schools" created to rise up a godly generation.

I began to weep and asked the Lord the infamous question: "Can these bones live again?" At that moment, we crossed the street and found ourselves in front of the campus cemetery where the founding fathers, professors and missionaries are buried. Chiseled with bold letters into the large stone gate over the cemetery in plain view of everyone on the campus it read: "The Dead Shall Be Raised."

Singing Over Barrenness

Hope flooded my heart, cynicism vanished, and I began to comprehend the divine strategy of God in this hour. He spoke to my heart with a clear voice and said: "I've called you to sing over the barrenness of the land and watch it come to life."

I was then taken to Isaiah 54:1, which has become the roadmap for everything we are now doing in 2009 across the globe:

"Sing, O Barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband."

There is a sound of innocence, purity and life that God is longing to release through His Body in this hour over the barrenness of our churches, cities, regions and nations. It's a sound awakening sons and daughters to throw off their grave clothes and enter into the promises prophesied over this hour in history!

We are expending ourselves to mobilize the nations this year to come into unity with this sound. We are calling forth historic gatherings with this army this summer in:

  • San Francisco for a 10-day release of sound in Golden Gate Park during the 40- year anniversary of Woodstock.
  • The history triangle of Virginia for a 3-day "Blaze Manifesto" worship explosion over July 4th reclaiming the destiny of the nation.
  • Sending four "Burn Wagon" buses filled with young zealous revivalists to the four corners of the nation.
  • Dozens of mission trips to the most unreached nations of the world (including Iraq, Turkey and Indonesia).
  • A 6-week BURN EURO tour across 5 nations in Europe to awaken this sound!

We are also releasing projects carrying the sound of rebirth, reclamation and hope. The first project we just finished is the most incredible spontaneous, melodic, instrumental album I have been a part of with psalmists and minstrels across America. Appropriately titled "Sacred Mountain" (which will be available on the ElijahList soon), this sound breathes forth resurrection life through the rhythms and melodies and takes the listener to high places in the Spirit. The second project is a studio album we've been crafting that will be released later this summer and features Leonard Jones, Jenn Johnson and Ricky Skaggs imparting their sound!

Let's allow God to craft our sound in the place of His Presence into a unifying redemptive, faith-filled, fresh voice that will beckon the world to see and experience the goodness, mercy, grace and glory of God!

The world is looking for such a voice of truth and we must be those who release it.

Sean Feucht
Founder and International Director, BURN 24-7

Email: info@theburn247.com
Website:
www.theburn247.com

About Sean Feucht: Sean and his wife Kate are the founders of Burn 24-7 - powerful, prolonged experiences of worshiping the Father and intercession for the nations. Their undying vision is to ignite and establish places of continual worship and prayer that will affect the spiritual atmospheres, climates and cultures of cities and regions for the Kingdom of God. Sean has released five prophetic worship albums and travels around the nation leading worship and speaking at conferences, camps, services and BURN 24-7 furnaces.