"quasi-Christian" movement

If you’re like me, you’re going “What?!”

Lee Grady’s recent Don’t Join the Cult of the Backslider article is about a new movement being birthed here in the US that is purposeful deception.  Below are some excerpts (with emphasis added). 

Since the Wild Goose Festival was held in North Carolina’s mountains, you might be tempted to think it was a typical bluegrass festival. Think again. The organizers of this event, which attracted 1,500 people in late June, say their quasi-Christian conference “is going to grow into the largest, best run, most dynamic religious happening in the U.S.” ...
... But the founder of Wild Goose, a peace activist from Northern Ireland named Gareth Higgins, is convinced his movement will capture the hearts of young Americans who are questioning their evangelical faith and exploring other options.
To help them discover this new spiritual path, Higgins brought in an assortment of authors, artists, musicians and activists, all from the far left side of the Christian spectrum, to speak or perform June 23-26 at Wild Goose. They included Jay Bakker, son of TV evangelist Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker; Frank Schaeffer, son of evangelical authors Francis and Edith Schaeffer; and San Francisco pastor Paul Fromberg, who described his 2005 marriage to another man and told the crowd: “God is changing the church through the bodies of gay men.”
The appeal of Wild Goose is tragic. ... They want a kinder, gentler, softer Christianity that is acceptable to secular culture rather than one that confronts and contradicts it.

I think many of you share my belief that the last statement is the exact opposite of what we were directed by our Lord, Jesus Christ to do! 

Interestingly, just before reading this article, I had read an article by Francis Frangipane that perfectly prescribes the antidote for the above.  Below is an excerpt from his article: The Divine Obsession (emphasis added).

World Changers Needed
It is this very passion to be conformed to Christ that separates the third group from the others. Though smallest in number, its members are the most effective. Throughout history, these have been the world changers. These are the individuals who have understood the priority of God. They know that the Father's highest passion is to behold His Son revealed in a believer's soul. As much as they are moved with compassion for the lost, their primary quest is not to touch their neighbors' hearts, but to touch the heart of God. They know if they awaken the Father's pleasure, the power of His Spirit will go before them. God Himself will change the hearts of those around them.
It is my sincere quest in life to be like Jesus in everything. It stuns me to know that if I am truly conformed to Christ, I have the Spirit's promise that I will also awaken the pleasure of Almighty God. Here, in my transformation, is the power to touch cities and redeem cultures, for it takes transformed people to transform nations.

Please read Lee Grady’s entire article and be aware of this scheme of the enemy.  We need to stop this through prayer before it begins to build any momentum.  Let us pray with Lee “that [God] will raise up young leaders who are filled with compassion, empowered by the Holy Ghost and brave enough to point their generation back to biblical truth.”  Amen!! [So be it!!]

Glory Advance Conference – Wichita, Kansas

At a conference in Lawrence, Kansas, in November of 2008, Chuck Pierce spoke this word to the state of Kansas, "My Glory will overwhelm this state and move this nation into a new role of awakening. … There will be a national gathering in Kansas … words will be spoken that will commission the remnant to make its move."

Another portion of the word indicated that there was to be a national conference held in Wichita, KS, the following year and that it would be the beginning of the release of God’s glory not just to Kansas, but to our nation. This is that year. And this conference is that conference. Following is a synopsis of what was spoken this evening at the first service of this conference. My personal comments about what was said are included with square brackets ([ ]).

Early in the service, Chuck Pierce saw twelve (12) pieces of a mantle that had been over this nation but had been ripped apart into the 12 pieces “fly” into the auditorium. He said that God was going to reconnect it and remantle us in this nation. He indicated that we needed to pray for the wind from the north, south, east & west to blow upon it and cause it to come back together.

[Of course, 12 is the number of government. My sense was that this spoke of God’s government being restored to the His Church.]

Barbara Wentroble then declared Isaiah 54:2. “’Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.’” She began to prophesy to Kansas from that passage.

[This was a scripture that God gave me when I moved to Kansas. I can remember reading Isaiah 54 over and over when I was first here – even in the hotel before I had moved into my first residence – and particularly this verse, asking what He was trying to tell me. I felt like tonight He said, “Now is the time.” Little did I know when I moved here it would be 24+ years before I got to the “now” part!]

Chuck Pierce then directed the worship team to begin to sing and direct the wind to blow the mantle back together, which they did.

Barbara Wentroble brought the message for the evening. She began by talking briefly about the spiritual history of Kansas. She talked about Charles Parham and how one of his young students asked to receive the Holy Spirit and began speaking in tongues on New Year’s Day, 1901, in Topeka, KS. She mentioned his most well-known student, William Seymour. She talked about the impact of both Parham and Seymour and the birthing of the modern-day Pentecostal movement. But ,she also told about how they had been run out of the state of Kansas. Kansas rejected (aborted) what God wanted to do here. She talked about how, over the years, Wichita had become known as “the pastor’s graveyard” due to the number of failed churches and ministries here. And she touched on the issue against which we had struggled so long here, abortion.

Barbara then called one of the local pastors, Bubby Hudson, up to share something he had shared with her earlier in the day. In a book by Tommy Welchel, he tells the stories told to him by men and women who were children or teenagers that were part of the Azusa Street Revival at Seymour’s church in southern California. Included in the back of the book is a prophecy in which Seymour spoke of a revival to come 100 years later. That prophecy was given in 1908 or 1909. He said that 2008 would be a year of preparation and that a revival would begin in late 2009 and into 2010 that would never end. He indicated that this revival would bring the former rain and that latter rain together.

[In spite of being a student of church history, and particularly of what happened in Topeka & Azusa street, I had never heard about this prophecy. I will be getting a copy of the book, to read it exactly as recorded.
I was reminded of Jon Huss who had prophesied that, though he was martyred, there would arise another in 100 years that could not be stopped. Of course, Martin Luther was the fulfillment of that word, and the Protestant Reformation was started. I had the same sense about this “100 year” prophecy. I felt that the revival God attempted to start in 1901 at Topeka and then in 1906-1910 or so on Azusa Street veered off course in some ways and never reached its full potential. Now, as prophesied, 100 years later a move would start that would not be stopped. As one who has been crying out for Reformation, I grabbed this as encouragement that a second Reformation is beginning. Bill Hamon decreed last fall (end of 2008) and we would look back and mark that time as when it began. That would line up with this word that 2008 was the preparation for the beginning of this revival, awakening, reformation … or whatever term you choose to use.]

Chuck began to prophesy that this meeting would be looked back on as the time when the Former Rain began. He said what would begin to happen would be called the Former Rain because it would be the beginning of a rain that would last for the next 100 years. So the Latter Rains would come much later.

Barbara continued, saying that this is a hour that God is hovering over this state (Kansas). God wants to come and visit this state in a new way. She indicated that by hovering over it, God was overshadowing Kansas, just as His Spirit overshadowed Mary and caused her to conceive. She indicated that conceptions are about to take place and that before we left this evening, God would impart the power and strength to bring it to birth and to deliver it safely. There season of spiritual abortions and miscarriages in Kansas is ended.

She talked about the fact that the Day of the Lord means destruction to God’s enemies, but it means deliverance to God’s friends. She said that God wants to bring His glory cloud into this state. He also wants to release His glory on the inside of us. (Reference Hebrews 3:3, Psalm 104:3 & Isaiah 19:1.) God has come to hover over you to bring His glory to you, individually, as well.

Barbara prophesied that God will raise up Healing Centers all over the state. People will come not only from other states, but other nations to be healed. Even in a time when the medical field will be in great confusion and not have the resources or answers, God will equip us to minister healing. But it will not be the kind of healing ministries we have known before. It will not be based on methods or formulas. It will be based on hearing what the Spirit of God is saying. There will be times when a whole room of people will all be healed without being prayed for individually. God will also use us to heal not only people, but cities. There will also be reports of people being raised from the dead. God released a life-giving spirit to us (to replace the spirit of death that had been entrenched here for so long).

[I received a word from the Lord in November 1997 that indicated basically the same thing about Healing Centers here in Wichita. This expanded them to other places in the state.
Because I have “seen” the raising of the dead happening with my spiritual eye since I was a teenager, I recently worked with a friend on a book that she wrote about raising the dead. (Church, Come Forth! by Diane Morrison) So, I say, “Yes” and “Amen” to hearing those reports … and even being involved in bringing them about.]

Chuck also prophesied that the spirit of fear that had come on many due to the errors or excessive of past moves was being broken off to free people to move into the new thing God is doing.

Then there was time of anointing and impartation by Barbara Wentroble for imparting a breaking anointing and the strength to see that which was conceived brought to birth.
Wow! And this was only the first service!!

Report from USAA - Day 2, Evening Session - Dennis Peacocke

Dennis Peacocke said his message was taken from the story of Ezra and Nehemiah which gives us the story of the restoration of a nation. Whatever reformation is going to happen in this nation must begin in the Body of Christ first. It has to begin with a flourishing, powerful, spiritual church. Then, out from that, reformation is a possibility. His message was a wake-up call to understand that Reformation is not “a walk in the park.”

His premise and conclustion was that “Reformation requires the assent and the buy-in of the unchurched as well as the churched.”

We have been the masters of “whooping the devil” – inside our church building. But we must understand this premise. It means our language must change. We must learn to speak “fish” [if we are to be fishermen.] We must learn to speak the world’s language. [Or, as Lance Wallnau puts it, we must go to Pharaoh thinking Hebrew (with our Biblical worldview) but speaking Egyptian (his language).]

We must even begin now to take care of what we say in our churches. If we really become relevant, the media will begin to dig in the archives of what we have said. He noted that there were some powerful voices present. He asked them to “please consider that whatever you are going to be saying from now on, know that the world is going to be listening.” He warned that “if you are unwilling to go down that road because you believe it to be compromise, realize that your part in reformation will be on a very private level.” Because, Reformation requires – in a pluralistic society, in the context of democracy – it requires the buy-in of the unchurched.

We are NOT going to take over. That is what the world is most afraid of. He stated that he is afraid of a church taking over that is a king, but is not a priest. He noted that his statement may shock people, but that he is grateful that we have not had more church leaders in politics, because he knows what they would have said. He has worked in nations at senior levels, with presidents, where presidents have set back the clock of the kingdom for a decade or more.

We are entering another ballgame. We can have revival doing what we are doing. We cannot have reformation doing what we have been doing.

Newspapers are the bait sheet of the fish. He exhorted us that if we can’t preach from newspapers, we will not be a voice in the reformation. (We need to be relevant to our generation, our culture.)

I Tim 3:16 – “We are the pillar and ground of truth.” The pillar and ground of spiritual truth? Yes. The pillar and ground of economic truth? Yes. The pillar and ground of epistemology (the science of how you learn)? Yes. The pillar and ground of environmental truth? Yes. There is nothing to imply that his verse applies only to the religious and spiritual activity of people. But, we have not been raised to believe beyond that.

The crisis we are in within the Church is that we have limited our understanding of truth to truth relative to religious activities. If we don’t get delivered from that and get a holistic, Christian worldview – which is comprehensive and includes all that man is and all that man does – we are not ready or prepared for reformation. Reformation is built on the assumption that God’s Church really is the pillar and ground of truth for nations, for all that man is and all that man does.

Rev 22: 1-2 – After the great white throne judgment, after all of sin has been judged and dealt with, we have an anomaly here.

“Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”

Why would we engage in reformation if it is only a temporal thing, if heaven is going to be some ethereal thing where all we do is worship and float around on clouds, and none of the things that bring us life here will transfer there? The word of God says nations are an eternal, geo-political phenomenon. The nations exist eternally. Psalms 2:8 – “Ask of Me for nations as thy inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” Nations are going to exist in heaven. Nations are going to exist on the new earth. We are going to remain an ethnic, geo-political people.

What was interesting to him in this passage is that after sin is dealt with, the nations still require healing. Why, when sin is gone, will the nations still require healing? In God, the process we engage changes us. Even if we don’t achieve everything we want to, the process will transform a church. [Here, he paused to let these statements penetrate those with ears to hear.]

The Great Commission: “Because the Father gave Me the nations, all authority in the heavenly realm and on the earth is given to me. Go, therefore...”

If the Master fought the enemy in the Word, we have no other choice. It was the Word and only the Word that was He used. We need to do the same. We have had too low of view of the enemy. Dennis gave him no praise, but noted that he is a master (he is very, very good) at what he does. The higher the level at which you play (engage the enemy) the deeper your visal roots must be in the Word of God.

We have “tip-toed through the daisies” in the Church. We have “cast out devils that are bothering us” in the Church. The seven mountains will not be taken by the seven dwarves! What part of that don’t we understand?! We will run into powers, principalities and forces that don’t even know our name. (As in, “Jesus I know. Paul is becoming known. But who the heck are you?”) [We need to gain the strength for our assignment – and not try to take on an assignment that is not ours.]

If we get into reformation, we are moving from sand lot, maybe high school, football into the NFL. Dennis was an all-star, high school football player. A funny thing happened when he got to college. Then he played against a couple of NFL players. They brought him to a new level of reality!

If we are going to engage in reformation, we are going against demonic principalities that play at a different level. We need to understand that. We are going to have to be r-o-o-t-e-d in the Scripture at a different level.

He has taught martial arts for almost 40 years, so he is a trained warrior. One of the things you have to know is where you can be hit and where you can’t be hit. If you get hit certain places, it’s game over – and you have to know that. We are going to have to become morally, sexually bullet-proof. If you think you can have a secret life and engage in reformation, do us all a favor and don’t go out to battle. [We do not need an Ai experience!] If you’ve got a problem with alcohol, you can’t play. If you’ve got a problem with pornography, you can’t play. If you’ve got something going on the side, you can’t play. If you’re cheating on your taxes, you can’t play. If you want to get into the reformation game where everybody’s “big” and everybody’s “tough,” then don’t even think about it. They will roll you up and take a bunch of us with you.

We have to get clear on who owns the earth. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” The Dominion Mandate – the world did it! We preached it (or at least we have lately); they did it. We are running into 400 years of secular momentum. It’s been that long since we had a kingdom-based church. The enemy forces are not going to simply give it back to us because we are coming in the name of Jesus. It is going to be disputed territory. We actually turned the world over to the devil and the antichrist (spirit) thinking we were doing God a favor. It would be different if we have fought inch by inch and were eventually pushed back. But, we gave it away because it was too much responsibility.

We need to assess reality before we start down this trail.

Who is lawfully given the stewardship of the earth? The Church.

We could go through Matthew 13 and talk about the wheat and the tares. Jesus says that the root structures of the wicked and the righteous are so intertwined that if He pulls out one it will kill the other. They have to be allowed to grow together until the time of harvest – until the kingdom of God has obtained full maturity and the kingdom of darkness has gained full maturity. They are co-existing for a witness.

Real players don’t ask the coach to take them out of the game. Real players would rather die than leave the field. The only reason you come out of the game is that your play is hurting your team.

Does the Word of God apply to all men or only the believers? Jesus said that “man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” Paul addressed it in 1 Timothy. God has one standard for the world – His Word. Every human being and every nation is judged and blessed according to the degree that they align themselves and their policies with the Word of God.

We are not very good at translating the Word of God into “fish” language, let alone applying it to any of the seven mountains. We are going to have to learn a whole level of communication that we haven’t learned. We are going to have to learn things like epistemology (how you learn). We’re going to have to learn how to say things without quoting Bible verses. The bird is not taken if the snare is seen (Proverbs).

We are going to have to become masters of jujitsu. Jujitsu takes the force that someone gives you and bends it where you want it to go. Jesus took the woman at the well for a ride. She wanted to talk religion; He wanted to talk reality. We are going to have to come to the place in our conversation skills that when we hear key words that unsaved people say to us, our internal conversation is, “Thank you, very much, I was hoping for that word, let me lead you …” [and lead the conversation to kingdom principles but in “fish” language]. Then, when they ask “How do you know all this stuff?” we can tell them. We need to be “ready to give an answer” when the question is asked.

Ecclesia was a political organization. An ecclesia was the town-governing body in the Greek city-states, starting about 600 BC. It eventually spread to the entire Mediterranean basin. In Acts 19, the riot at Ephesus was declared an illegal ecclesia. An ecclesia makes decrees in the spirit out of its lawful authority. The reformation is going to be fueled by another level of prophetic prayer than the one we are on right now. Dennis is working at his church to gather every “citizen” (every committed believer, everyone there by 1 Cor 12:8, placed there by the Holy Spirit, who know that is where they have been called to worship and be a part of government of God) and make decrees for where they have authority, which begins in our cities. If you want to change a nation, you do it one community at a time.

The church has to learn to speak the language of the fish. (Matt 4:19) We are going to have to go to the root issues. (Matt 3:10) When Jesus comes, He will not deal with symptoms. What we get on the news is just another report on the leaves and the twigs. We need to deal with the root structures.

You want to take seven mountains? You better get a deep shovel and a hard pick ax to start digging down in each one of those jurisdictions. What are the root issues that are driving that thing where it is? And what are we going to do to combat it? You can’t beat something with nothing.

“Until you can preach with as much authority out of the LA Times as you can out of the Bible, you should shut up.” We have to understand the Biblical roots of the fishing report. Our forefathers preached out of the newspapers. In the 1600-1700s the sermons were extrapolating Biblical principles into daily situations and issues of the nation -- and they were printed in the Monday paper, especially in New England. If you will go back and read some of these, you will realize how “dumbed-down” we are in the Church today [with respect to issues affecting our society].

The Kingdom of God has to have a three-pronged unity.

(1) The realm of spiritual authority in the supernatural. We are not going to have a reformation without signs, wonders and miracles. (The problem is that we [“us” and the signs and wonders camp] aren’t working together.)

(2) Methodology of God-centered discipleship. The biggest problem in the Church is that we are not making disciples. We are making believers. A believer is not a disciple. A disciple is a disciplined learner. We thought we got baptized in the Holy Ghost to have fun and speak in tongues. The Charismatic Renewal does not even qualify as a revival, historically. It did not even affect the whole Church, much less the culture. There has never been so much spiritual activity on the one hand and the surrounding culture moving in the opposite direction at the same time. We will not have a reformation without a small army of disciples. It is going to take disciplined learners.

If you think praying into those seven mountains by itself is going to “take” anything but energy, you are sadly mistaken. You will be dealing of the crème de la crème – the smartest people in the world at the top of those mountains. God is going to have to give us supernatural power and wisdom to seize what they have. Is it available? Yes. But, first the natural, then the spiritual. Until you have done your homework in the natural, do not expect God to give you supernatural wisdom.

Now that’s a hard word for God’s people to hear; but you said you wanted reformation. It is going to require hard work. The Holy Spirit anoints us to do hard work.

(3) Discipling nations. You have the realm of the supernatural. You have the methodology of producing disciples. And you have discipling nations. Go and do what? Make disciples of nations. That’s what reformation is …

Reformation is turning a nation into a discipling project. Do it in a way that first deals with their fears and objections about what we want. We not only don’t want to take over, we clearly understand we can’t take over. And even if we wanted to take over, God would not allow it. His preeminent principle in the New Testament is choice. Anybody (Church or not Church) who employs coercion fights against God. God always allows choice. “Whosoever will.”
Capitalism works because it is aligned with choice. Anything aligned with choice will work. Anything not aligned with choice, God, Himself, will resist, even if it is in His people. Jesus doesn’t take prisoners. We become prisoners of our own revelation. He will not break a bruised reed or quench smoldering wick.

If we are going to have reformation, we have to bring these three spheres of the kingdom together. The “supernatural folks” are going off in one direction. They will never see the kingdom in its fullness until we go in together with a full orb unity. We messed up discipleship when we tried it. We have to learn to do it right. We must join with the nation-changers. There’s not many of them yet, but the number is growing. We have to work together. If we are going to have the blessing of God, we need the supernatural dimension, we need the methodology of training disciples for the reformation, and we need the nation-changers – men and women called to change nations. Men and women that are called to write letters to the editors that are so powerful they begin to sway everyone that is reading them. They begin to ask, “Who are these people? Where are they getting this?”

Economics:

Economics is the engine of dominion. With the exception of living things, everything that exists is the product of economics. The world understands that; the Church doesn’t. (We call economics carnal!)

As an economist, he projected that we may have 3 to 4 years and limp our way out to some degree from where we are. The real slam will happen in 4 to 6 years when the demographics of the baby boomers hits retirement age. Then God is going to say to this nation, “you didn’t want to deal with abortion as a spiritual issue, now I’m going to serve it up to you economically, and I’ll get your attention. You took somewhere between 45 and 60 million wage earners out of the demographics and leverage of the retirement that you now want. You took hundreds of billions of dollars of tax revenue and you said, ‘hey, it’s a woman’s right to treat the baby just like the white slave owners treated the Negroes.’” He pointed out that we still have slavery “alive and well” in this nation. With noted sarcasm, he went on to say “This fetus is my property.” He concluded, “I thought we resolved that in Civil War that one human being couldn’t own another human being, but apparently this nation did not resolve that.”

Now we begin to understand that you can’t separate spirit from matter and you can’t separate morality and ethics from the ability to prosper. They are inextricably tied together. When you put all the debt and currency that is being monetized right now together … The biggest issue we have right now is for God to prepare us an ark for that day. He projected that when that day comes, we will not line up in bread lines like we did in the 30s, because we don’t have the same moral infrastructure that we did then. We need to get some very specific strategies on a local community level as to how we can become an ark for this world. We will have an opportunity to demonstrate how we really feel about the poor.

How far will we get into reformation before that time? He indicated that he didn’t know. The problem with the truth is that once you see it, you have nowhere else to go.

He then began to speak to Dutch Sheets. He indicated that he had been “scoping him out” to see if he was serious about this. Dennis is 66 and indicated that he didn’t have time “to waste bullets.” He then addressed the congregation and said, “this guy [Dutch] has got it. It wouldn’t matter if it didn’t work; he’s stuck. I heard his spirit.”

Then he asked how many of us were “stuck?” How many understood that God loves unsaved people? How many understood that God loves nations? That God wants the sun and the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike? That God wants to raise up a witness of the kingdom of God in power and life – and then the end shall come? And if we don’t push the ball where it needs to go, we are trying to build our children and grandchildren to push it. And we are not demanding from Jesus the outcome, but rather asking for the privilege of putting our hands to the task.
It’s a great day to do business with God. It’s a great day to get rid of besetting sins. It’s a great day to get into a training routine with God.

What is your part of the fight? You need to know that so that you can bring your contribution to the war.

In closing, Dennis introduced Strategic Christian Services at http://discerningthetimes.com/. This is a site to analyze public policy from Biblical principles using secular language.

Dutch Sheets added that we cannot just waltz out there and take over. We have work to do. There’s a reason that the slogan says “Reformation in our lifetime.” We have a lot of work to do.

Report from USAA - Day 2, Session 3 - Tim Sheets

NOTE: These are my notes from the sessions. They are sometimes just bullet points or summary statements. If you want more information or clarification on something, please contact me.

Tim Sheets started by saying that “Everyone has a God ordained purpose.” It is vitally important that we understand it. Myles Munroe says that “the greatest tragedy in life isn’t death; it’s life without purpose.”

Tim's message centered around the fact that instead of expecting everyone "who loves God" to leave the secular world and move to the "religion mountain," we (as 5-fold ministers) need to be helping them identify the purpose God has for them, for their life, and then equipping them to fulfill it.

Tim provided the following statistics:
- 65% of our grandparents’ generation were actively involved in the Church.
- 35% of our parents’ generation were actively involved in the Church.
- 15% of our generation are actively involved in the Church.
Unless something changes …
- 4% of the next generation will be actively involved in the Church.

Christians stayed on the Religion mountain preoccupied with Christ’s coming instead of occupying until He comes. … We need to think occupation instead of evacuation.

God wrote your thesis before you were ever born; He had intents and purposes for you being born when and where you were. He gave you everything you need to accomplish your destiny – gifts, talents, and abilities. He then wrote your calling on your thesis.

Calling: a divine invitation to vocation or employment AND a divine invitation to ministry or service to the Body of Christ.

Jesus was born in a marketplace house. God wanted Him to have a marketplace mindset. His parables were marketplace examples: master builder, winemaker, farming – sowing & reaping, finding treasures, ranching, management & labor, family business, hostile takeover, observation & research before starting a business, venture capital in high risk investments, etc. The gospel is designed to work in the marketplace culture.

We need to embed the next generation on each of the mountains – trained in the skills they need in the natural [for their calling or vocation] and in the ways of the kingdom to help take that mountain for God. Remember, the 6% “Ruling Elite” control the mountain and the other 94% on it [and all the others that are influenced or affected by it].

Strategy
Tim had been praying for a strategy for Ohio. What he feels God gave him is a plan for each local church to work to send (at least) one young champion into each of the mountains. The concept of being called in spheres other than the church needs to be taught. Callings need to be identified. Young people need to be groomed [educated and equipped] to go into the sphere in which God is calling them.

If each of the 50 states raised up “just” 50,000 over the next 10 years, that would be 2.5 million young warriors on the mountains. Tim’s ministry has developed curriculum at all levels, starting with preschool, to teach the concepts of taking the mountains to all ages. (These are available for purchase from his ministry.)

Report from USAA - Day 2, Session 2 - Len Munsil

NOTE: These are my notes from the speakers sessions. They are sometimes just bullet points or summary statements. If you want more information or clarification on something, please contact me.

Len Munsil (attorney & professor of political science) felt the bias against Christians in the public arena early. At 20, as the editor of the school paper at Arizona State University, he wrote an article about homosexuality and the need for help for homosexuals. He also refused to publish the meeting notices for the gay & lesbian groups in the paper. He had 100 people picketing outside his office, with full media coverage. He continued to promote a conservative view both in the paper and in the very liberal school of law at ASU. He was one of four professed Christians in his law class of around 450.

Len says America is collectively suffering from amnesia of our heritage. Pres. John Q. Adams said that the Revolution had combined the bonds of government and Christianity. That was the worldview of our forefathers. We have lost that view!

The structure of our government is found in scripture – Isa 33:22. There we have the Judge (judicial branch), Lawgiver (legislative branch), and King (executive branch).

Chief Justice Joseph Story (served 1811 – 1845) was considered the leading authority on constitutional law for over a century. Books he wrote were used to teach constitutional law until the mid-20th century. His view of “separation of church and state” was that “Christianity should receive encouragement from the states.” Now, the course on constitutional law in most law schools focuses on case studies rather than on the actual constitution. Many constitutional law classes never require the students to actually read the constitution itself – only the briefs of arguments about it.

According to Len, we need to get past the lie that “You can’t legislate morality.” The law sets the moral line for a society. The Civil Rights movement was ignited by a Christian pastor to change laws that perverted morality. [Things that had been considered “acceptable” by society no longer were. The law cannot change men’s hearts, but it can (to some extent) change their behavior. At a minimum, it establishes what is “acceptable” behavior within the society.] Bad policy hurts people – for example, policies that allow abortion, pornography, or slavery.

God’s Purpose for Government:
· Keep peace and order
· Provide police force & national security
· Protect of human life (widows, orphans, weak)
· Provide justice without regard to race, gender, or wealth
· Collect taxes to provide for these limited functions
NOT
· Take care of the poor
· Redistribution of wealth
· Provide for retirement
· Provide all health care
· … and lots of other things they now do.

Religious left has concern for the poor & social justice – which is our responsibility, not the government’s. Religious right only engaged out of frustration (and sometimes anger) and were too harsh. We must realize that our political opponents are not enemies to be vanquished. They are hurting people. We oppose their policies and beliefs – not them. We are inexperienced in the legislative process.

Our responsibility:
· Resurgence in governmental prayer
· Increasing pro-life sentiment
· Growing interest in government & law among young Christians
· Growth in Christian colleges and worldview institutions

Footnote:
What’s happening in Arizona (where Len is engaged with others bringing transformation to their state):
In Arizona, they did a 21-day fast. Out of that, they declared a solemn assembly for 9/11/02 at the state capitol. To their surprise, 1000 people showed up. Arizona was in draught. As they cried out for their state during the solemn assembly it began to rain. The draught was broken. It was a turning point in Arizona. For the first time, Arizona now has a prolife governor and a prolife legislature.

Report from USAA - Day 2, Session 1 - Lance Wallnau

The morning session on Day 2 of the USAA Conference opened with worship, again led by Jeremy Burk. It was a deep, intimate worship where the line that seemed to be the theme was “This is no ordinary love.” There was also a period of time spent in crying out through song and other ways for God to extend mercy on this nation.

Lance Wallnau was the first speaker. He started by referencing the comments that had been made about Lincoln last night. He pointed out that Lincoln was not a strong revivalist when he was elected. He was shaped by the crucible in which he found himself. The situation within the nation drove him to prayer. Four months after the National Day of Prayer & Humiliation, the tipping point came in the war at Gettysburg.

Lance then moved into his message for the morning, which, of course, focused on the seven mountains or the …

7 Mind Molders

[Note: If you have ever heard Lance Wallnau speak, you know that trying to take notes is a challenge. He talks faster than Bill Hamon and while he does sometimes repeat his point, he never states it the same way twice. What follows are the notes I took from this morning, supplemented with points from previous messages I have heard from him along with some of my own thoughts or insights. Long sections of my “add ins” are in brackets, but shorter additions are simply woven in with the point. It’s my blog – I get to write it the way I want. :-)]

Lance first pointed out that Satan’s only power is deception. [This was a truth that God revealed to me many years ago and then substantiated for me in scripture. It is his only weapon. Yet he is good enough at it. So good, in fact, that he will deceive “the whole world.” (Rev 12:9)] Satan uses mind control to deceive.

Luke 4 tells us the elements to be mastered in each of our lives. Luke 4:5-6 talks about the kingdoms (plural) of the world and the domain in which they reside and their glory. Satan says he can give them to whomever he wills, which is apparently true since Jesus does not dispute his claim. At that point, Satan had dominion over all the kingdoms of this world – ruled the domain in which all these kingdoms reside. Jesus did not dispute his claims nor did He accept his offer. Jesus knew that he would receive the nations of the earth as his inheritance – legitimately.

While Jesus purchased back the legal right to these, most are still under the control of Satan and “whomever he wills.” Jesus is still intent on reclaiming (possessing) all of those kingdoms. Neither God nor Satan can move beyond the agreement of men. Satan cannot; God will not. How far either kingdom is advanced depends on the response of people. Jesus can not repossess that inheritance without us cooperating with Him to do so.

We need to understand that nations are part of God’s strategy. Satan seeks to suppress nations. God wants to liberate nations. The Holy Nation (God’s people) must get liberated first! Only then can we begin to liberate the other nations or kingdoms.

Kingdoms: Nations and spheres within nations (e.g. economic, political etc.)
Power: A remnant of people who dominate the spheres.
Glory: A liberation of the Church to show forth His glory. When the Church matures into fullness, God releases the fullness of the glory.

The Church has a kingdom to proclaim, but the kingdom is larger than the Church.

Kings (those who currently control each of these mountains) need to either be converted or replaced. We need to begin believing that.

We must restore the Church mountain to receive the Honor of the bride; the Family to Strength; the Education system to Wisdom; the Government to Power; the Media to Blessing; Arts & Entertainment to Glory; and Business to Riches (Wealth). Then the Lamb will receive “power and riches and wisdom and might [strength] and honor and glory and blessing.” (Rev 5:12)

The Church must transition to become an equipper for people to go out and possess their mountain. Someone will be at the top of each mountain – either a sheep or goat. If the sheep do not take it, the goats will! Israel was warned that if they did not “drive out the inhabitants of the land” then those whom they left there would “become as pricks in [their] eyes and as thorns in [their] sides, and they [would] trouble [them] in the land in which [they lived].” (Num 33:55) Further, Isaiah 2:2 tells us that the House of God is at the top (or chief) of the mountains.

Each sphere is sovereign. The church is not intended to rule over the other mountains, just as they are not intended to rule over the church (religion mountain). Each has its role – its responsibility and authority. The religion mountain is intended to affect each of the others by training people who are on each of those mountains in the ways of the kingdom. Those kingdom people then instill kingdom values and kingdom principles in each of their spheres of influence. In order to have sovereignty in a sphere, we need to raise up those with sphere authority in that mountain.

One signature of the kingdom is that it removes demonic structures from the house. When the kingdom of God shows up, the demons have to go. Kingdom people should be bringing freedom (deliverance) everywhere we go.

You have sphere penetration when you receive favor from someone with sphere authority. For example, David accomplished sphere penetration when he received favor from Saul. [Realize that favor can be a temporary thing!]

The secret to gaining favor is realizing that you are there to solve a problem. You first look to solve the problem. Only after you have successfully solved their problem do you earn their trust to be able to save their soul.

[Today there are LOTS of voices pointing out the problems in our nation or society – not only here in America, but in other nations as well. I believe we MUST get this point. We need to be reaching out to the non-believing world with answers to the problems being experienced on the various mountains – not just a finger pointing at all the things that are wrong. We need to become the solution people, not just the critics.]

You can move from a place of obscurity to a place of sphere preeminence in a moment, if you have had proper preparation – even if that preparation is with “just a few sheep.” (See 1 Sam 17:28 where Eliab rebukes David for inquiring about the challenge from Goliath asking him “And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?”)

When David went out to meet Goliath, he knew he had to deal with “the head issue.” He hit Goliath in the forehead and knocked him out. He then cut his head off. He could have done any number of things. Once he was knocked out, he could have run the sword through his heart or bowels. But he dealt with “the head issue.” When David did that, it also broke the mind control off the Israelites, and they ran out to route the rest of the enemy camp.

We need to understand that favor is often just part 1 of the message. Part 2 of the message can be backlash. The biggest backlash will come from the religious spirit of those who are threatened by what you have done. David felt the backlash! Saul would one minute love him and the next try to pin him to the wall with a spear. [Usually it is the very ones that we use our gifts and abilities to help (often at their request) that then turn on us the worst. When they are “in their right minds” (not under the mind control of deception), like Saul with David, they will admit we have only done good towards them and ask forgiveness. But, when the mind control settles back upon them, we are once again having to duck to dodge the spear. We have to realize that they are acting out of their insecurity. Instead of viewing the gifts or abilities that we have as an asset to complement theirs, we become viewed as a threat because we were able to do something that they could not. This situation is often worsened if those around the situation compliment (or praise) what we have done to the insecure leader. “Saul has slain his thousands, but David has slain his tens of thousands.” We have now, unknowingly, become a threat to the security of “their” kingdom. This is especially sad in that we were sent there by God to help “secure” the kingdom for them!]

When we experience sphere overlap we get to what the military terms forced multiplication. An example of this would be when the “kings” or sphere elites from the business realm finance the use of the media to promote a particular political agenda. Here we have three spheres working together to accomplish a goal, resulting in a synergistic multiplication of efforts. The world understands this. Islam understands this. In Islam, a successful businessman is expected to fund a mosque or a training center or something of that sort. If a Christian businessman tries to do the same, he is viewed with suspicion. Likewise, Islam constantly mixes religion and government. If a Christian runs for office, they are critiqued on their religious views rather than on their knowledge and capabilities for the office for which they are running.

We need to begin to raise up a generation that will move into these mountains in a stealth mode – under the radar. We need Remnant Elites in each of the mountains.

When we begin to have emerging democracies (such as in the Soviet Union and the countries that had been part of the Soviet block or in some of the emerging African nations), we did not address the corruption that was present at the top of the government and the top of the financial sector. Failure to deal with these “ites” caused the failure of the fledgling democracies. Further, the message of salvation that we have brought to these nations, has impacted them adversely. For example, in Africa, we have a growing disparity between the rich and the poor. That is because of our doctrines of benevolence of caring for the poor rather than stamping out systemic poverty.

So, what do we need to do? We need to identify the current elites at the top of each sphere. Wallnau suggests identifying the top five (5) in each sphere. We need to be praying for them. If they are not believers, we need to pray for their conversation and the conversion of their households (spouse, children, and those under their sphere of influence). We need to pray them into the kingdom or at least to a place of working with kingdom principles or pray them out of position. We also need to identify and be praying for the emerging elites.

We need to understand and employ the concept of micro-churches. These are groups that are formed for a particular assignment. It is through these that we will mobilize the kingdom elites. An example of this is the Clapham group that was formed by John Thornton and led by William Wilberforce in the late 1700s / early 1800s. This group changed not only England but the world. They had sphere elites from all seven mountains and knew how to link forces to get the force multiplication factor working for them to blitz the people with information and education to bring about a change in thought on a matter. They not only ended slave trade, but slavery itself in Great Britain and then in other nations. They even influenced many in America, including Pres. John Q. Adams.

We are beginning to see the emergence of “cross-functional apostles.” These are apostles who can work with those in the other spheres. Not all apostles have been able to do that. These apostles can activate saints to go and possess their inheritance in the other mountains.

We have to learn how to apply kingdom principles in a covert way. Once there is acceptance and buy-in to the principles, then (and only then) can we deal with the souls. Solve their problem. Gain their trust. Then they are willing to hear what you have to say about your God.

Report from USAA - Day 1 - Robert Henderson & Dutch Sheets

Tonight was the first session of this year's United States Apostolic Alliance (USAA) National Conference in Colorado Springs. For those not familiar is the USAA, check out the link. They summarize their vision and mission in the following statement: "Awakening in Our Day - Reformation in Our Lifetime." Hence, the conference is focused on hearing the strategies of God to bring these things to pass.

The meeting was kicked off with an extended period of worship that was some of the best I have been in for a while. Once worship leader Jeremy Burk "found the vein," he stayed in it and the press into the heavenlies was awesome as we continued to cry out Holy, Holy to the Lord.

Robert Henderson - Lessons from the Potter's House

Robert Henderson followed that with a brief teaching from Jeremiah 18:1-4.

"1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying: 2 'Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.' 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make."

His primary point was that God will bring reformation through vessels that have been marred, but allowed God to "make them again" into another vessel, as seems best to Him. He pointed out that the vessel was not marred due to a lack of skill of the potter, but rather due to the deficiencies (impurities) within the clay. Still, the potter did not discard the clay; rather he reshaped it into a different vessel that was still useful and could fulfill its purpose. He then shared four (4) points to answer the question, "How does God use marred vessels to bring Reformation?"

1. We must realize where we came from - that we each have our areas of deficiencies (imperfections).


2. We must understand that the Potter (God) can take the good that is in the clay (us) and re-form us into something of use and value.


3. We must get positioned to hear from God. Jeremiah had to go to the potter's house. Once there, God, Himself, "caused" Jeremiah to hear His words. If we are not in the appropriate place, we will not be able to hear God speak.


4. We must become instantly obedient. (See verses 7 & 9 where God says, "The instant I speak.") We can not hesitate or "continue to pray" over a matter once God has spoken. We must learn to act immediately, when God says to do so.

Dutch Sheets - Time for Action

After a few opening remarks, Dutch Sheets brought the message for the evening. I will digress to share some of his opening remarks.

Two statements that particularly caught my attention were: "You can be left-brained and be prophetic. You can teach and be prophetic." Those who know me well, will know why I am delighted that others are finally figuring that out!

He stated very clearly that it is time that we, the Body of Christ, put the grief (including the hope deferred and the disbelief) of this past election behind us.

He expressed the fact that he could, genuinely rejoice for the healing that had been brought to many African-Americans by having an African-American elected as our President. Unfortunately, it was not one that shares our values and beliefs. (Those are my words, not a direct quote.)

Nonetheless, "It's time to put the past behind and focus on the moving forward." He shared a dream (or vision) that one of the state leaders had recently that involved someone trying to drive a car while looking constantly in the rear-view mirror. You cannot steer where you need to go when you are totally focused on where you have been. It's time to get our focus back on the road ahead of us. With that directive, he began to do that.

Cindy Jacobs had called him today with a word for the meeting for tonight. She had been reading in a book by Derek Prince and had come across his reference to Pres. Abraham Lincoln's having appointed a National Fast Day. Dutch read us the following:

"Senator James Harlan of Iowa, whose daughter later married President Lincoln's son Robert, introduced this Resolution in the Senate on March 2, 1863. The Resolution asked President Lincoln to proclaim a national day of prayer and fasting. The Resolution was adopted on March 3, and signed by Lincoln on March 30, one month before the fast day was observed."

The USAA conference started on March 30. According to the word of the Lord through Cindy, the USAA conference had been delayed (it was originally planned for a different week) in order for it be held on March 30 - and that Dutch was to decree the beginning of healing in this nation.

Lincoln's proclamation (as written by the Senate) is too long to quote fully here, but take the time to read the entire statement. You will see that other than not being in the middle of the Civil War, it is equally applicable to this nation today. The proclamation was a call to "set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation" because of the condition of the nation. In part, it states,

"And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. ...

"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

"It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

By signing this proclamation, Pres. Lincoln did "designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. "

As an apostle to this nation, Dutch has called for "a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer" this April 30. (Interestingly, April 30 of this year is also a Thursday.) I, personally, urge all who want to see reformation come to this nation as well as to the Church to join in on this day of prayer and fasting. We realize that it is just a few days before the National Day of Prayer - but this is a matter of God's timing, not man's. And, following what Robert Henderson taught earlier in the evening, when we hear God, we must obey.

From that point, Dutch said God had pointed him back to the prophetic words given at the "Starting The Year Off Right" conference (held each Jan 1-3 in Denton, TX) after his message there. In that message, God had given him "the first half" and told him to preach "the first half" and then call certain of the prophets to then prophesy "the second half." As he looked back over a transcribed copy of those words, God told him to re-read them tonight and then have certain people pray into each of those words, which he did. Each of the words to too lengthy to even begin to take it all down. Following are the titles he gave to each one and a brief recap of the word and the key point that was prayed over it tonight. [Note: The recaps are from the notes I took. They may not be totally accurate to the original wording.]

1) The Jacob Generation & the Josiah Reformers - We have been a generation of supplanters, deceivers, who did not deal rightly with one another. God is raising up Josiah reformers. The children will be a hidden weapon in this nation. Revival is coming to the children. Though we have not believed it, God is saying, "I am coming to visit your schools. I am coming." These reformers will tear down the altar of humanism. God is going to visit the 8-year-olds (which was Josiah's age when he became king). "The sign is flashing in the heavens for a time of visitation." [Note: The word used for "visitation" in the New Testament is the same word translated as "bishop" and means "to watch over, look after, cover or oversee."] The prayer centered around release for the children to come forth and begin to understand their role and take their stand for righteousness.

2) The David Generation & the Kingdom Generation - Many have been in hiding, as David hid in the cave of Adullam. These are those that religion does not know what to do with them; those that tradition does not know what to do with them. God said, "I will bring them forth for they hae a vision of My kingdom." They were willing to stay hidden in the cave until God brought them forth. God is saying to them, "Arise knowing that you were born for such a time as this." God said, "By the 8th month, the 12th day, I will bring a change" that the government and political system cannot stop. "Get ready. I am releasing your marching orders." Some key issues from the prayer was repentance for putting the kids in "the back of the church" (children's church) instead of training them in worship and ministry and a call for the Esthers to link up with the Mordacais to work together across the generations to bring about the reform. The word was that this was to be a three-generational movement.

3) The Melchizedek Spirit & Kingdom Warriors - It is a day to engage in the battle. That which is to be birthed requires intercession equally as intense. Angels of the Most High God are dismantling governing structures of the enemy. These warriors will be "fearless in the face of the mockery of the enemy's camp." The giant that has ruled this nation will fall. The enemy will free the sound of faith, the sound of righteousness, and the sound of the Word of the Lord. "I see fire on the east coast. I see fire on the west coast. I see floods in the [middle of the country]." The Lord says, "America, you have not completed your destiny." The prayer centered around calling for the release of these kingdom warriors and for them to arise and fight for their nation, their city, and the Church.

4) The "Covenanteers" - Sharon Stone indicated she kept wanting to use the word "reformer" and God was saying "Covenanteers" - those who were in covenant. "A fresh covenant is released when it is a day that people understand defining choices." There will be a release based on craving the presence of God. He will cause a "hero's spirit" to rise up in those who crave His presence. There will be a release of a promise to bring forth a national destiny that is not yet fulfilled. "By the 9th month, the 12th day a new cycle will begin." God's presence and His glory will be seen not just in the "churches" but on the streets. There will be "risks [taken] that will produce proactivity of destiny rather than only a vision of destiny." There will be "suddenlies" that will be signs and wonders in the land. "I have some strategies to initiate reform that accelerates you engaging your community and sphere." The prayer proclaimed an announcement to the Body of Christ to "come out of the pain of personal lose and pursue to overtake and recover all" as David did at Ziklag. A shifting was decreed, for strategies from heaven that would shift and move a nation. The "covenanteers" are the ones carrying the covenant - just as the priests bore the ark of the covenant on their shoulders. We, the covenanteers, must step out into the Jordan, even though it is at flood stage (and doesn't look like a good time to cross) and watch God perform the miracle to lead a nation across and into the promise.

WOW ... and this was just the first service!

A Season of Change

We here in the U.S. know how the mantra of “Change” resonated with the masses, even if they didn’t know what was going to change or how. On the other side of the ballot was a pair who labeled themselves as “reformers.” That message also resonated with their supporters.

Why?

Why is it that people who normally prefer the “don’t rock the boat” philosophy suddenly embrace the idea of turning it over and forcing everyone to “get involved” in the process – swim or sink!

Why? Because we have entered a season of change.

Like it or not; embrace it or fight it; things are changing.

What is changing?

In the U.S., the first answer is “the Administration.” Technically, it is the executive branch of our national government – the president and his cabinet. (There is also some change within our legislative branch – the Congress.) The fact that this is changing is not new. It happens at least every eight years, and, potentially, every four. This time, however, there is the “feel” of a much more drastic shift than we have previously experienced.

The current changes in the economy is not restricted to the U.S. It is much more widespread. While the U.S. is going through everything from the housing crisis to the potential meltdown of the “Big Three” automobile manufacturers, both Europe and Asia are experiencing their own economic challenges.

Other major cultural shifts are also occurring in both the U.S. and other western countries. The vocal minority is managing to exert the political influence needed to cause laws to change to empower behavior and agendas with which the majority do not agree. This runs the gambit from the legalization of same-sex marriage in various states in the U.S. to the legalization of the execution of Islamic Sharia law in parts of the United Kingdom.

I could spend pages enumerating the issues that are having negative impact on our societies and seem to be moving us further and further from godliness and righteous rule. For those with a theological view that things will continue to get worse and worse until God finally snatches us out of here to save us, it might seem that the end is near. I’m hearing more and more people say, “Come quickly, Lord Jesus!” It seems as though they are simply waiting to leave – and hoping it won’t be too much longer.

Not me. I know that (among other things) Christ is held in the heavenlies until His enemies are made his footstool (Hebrews 1:13) and until “times of restoration of all things” (Acts 3:21). Since neither of those things have yet happened, He cannot yet return. So, instead of retreating and waiting on the evacuation, I’m sharpening my sword.

Those of us with a different understanding of scripture also have a different view of the current situation. Rather than being ready “to throw in the towel” or to hunker down to “hold the fort” while we wait for God’s emergency airlift to evacuate His people from the planet, we’re sharpening our swords and trying to “strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees” (Hebrews 12:12). We know that while “the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people” that “the LORD will arise over [us], and His glory will be seen upon [us].” (Isaiah 60:2)

Change is not just coming to the secular world.

Change is also coming to the Church.

God is restoring the revelation of the true message of what the Kingdom of God is about. As we begin to understand, embrace, and walk out that message, we know that we will begin to take back the territory we have allowed the enemy to take. We know that the gates of hell shall not prevail against us. (Matthew 16:18) We know that gates don’t move (or at least not easily!); they are stationary. We have come to understand this passage means we storm those gates and take the territory that the enemy thought was protected behind them. It is time we go on the offensive and invade his territory to reclaim it for the Kingdom of God. How else will we ever reach the “times of restoration of all things”?

What territory do we need to recover for the Kingdom?

First, we need to retake any real estate the enemy still holds within the soil of our own heart or mind.

Then we need to pull down any strongholds he has built within our families, in the lives of those we love or with whom we have covenant relationships.

Then the territory under enemy control in our businesses, places of work, neighborhoods, stores or restaurants we frequent or anywhere “[our] foot shall tread” (Joshua 1:3) must be recovered.

Finally, we need to reclaim those areas within our governments – at all levels including city, county, state and national governments – that are not functioning under principles of the Kingdom of God.

How?

There is much teaching and training to be be done here. Let me boil it down into a very brief summary for you to think upon.

We must understand what it means to be “kings and priests” – and start functioning in both roles here and now in this present age. If we are going to impact our world, we must do as Hebrews 6:5 tells us. We must taste “the good word of God and the powers of the age to come.”

We need to be able to access heaven to see the solution to earth’s problems and bring that solution into the earth realm. Then and only then will God’s will be done on earth (here and now) as it is in heaven (as we look into the heavenly, eternal realm and see it).

Then “the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.” And then, “the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” (Isaiah 60:2-3)

Why will the Gentiles come to your light? Because you have light and they don’t.

Why will kings come to “your rising”? Because you have the answers to the problems they could not solve.

When we begin to access heaven (from our priestly position) to bring heaven’s solutions to earth, then we will begin to rise upon our mountain and displace the kings who currently rule there (establishing our kingly position).

Selah!