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Dear Friends,
A wake up call is being trumpeted in the earth and the hearts of men are being stirred for a deeper hunger and consuming passion for Jesus, the Glorious Intruder.
Prophetic Intercession Conference
It’s always amazing to me when the atmosphere becomes saturated with the beauty realm and the tangible weight of our Lord’s presence rests over an entire room. Last month as I ministered in San Diego, heavenly realms opened up and many peoples’ lives changed dramatically as He sovereignly met them according to their need and hunger.
During the Friday night session, the fire of the Lord ignited the hearts of people to become carriers of the glory in their everyday lives. Intercession and travail for their lost loved ones and friends gripped the gathering. It was wonderful!
Opened-Eyed Visions
On Saturday night the place exploded sovereignly with several people experiencing opened-eyed visions. One person saw angels ascending and descending - a Jacob’s ladder. A seasoned pastor commented that he had never felt such a heavy weight of glory resting upon him before. It continued the following week with him as well!
Sovereign Deleverance
In the middle of preaching on Sunday night, the Lord gave me a vision of the word "Icabod" written over the church. I saw the church as a bloody battlefield where families were ripped and torn apart. Righteous anger struck my heart as I prophetically broke the power of judgments and curses.
As I broke the Jezebel and witchcraft spirit off the church, a visitation came into the room. Over fifty people began going through deliverance sovereignly. Eventually I had them come forward for ministry and they were weeping and shaking under the power of God, being set free from demonic bondages. Heaven kissed earth ... and corporate deliverance freed the church.
A pastor attending the meetings later shared with me, "Last year an evangelist came to our city and did 18 weeks of renewal meetings. Then he left his church in another state to start a new church a few blocks away from us. It split our congregation and the renewal and move of Holy Spirit was given a bad name. You brought healing to our whole county. Thank you!"
People, we can identify a church that is plagued with a Jezebel spirit, but you need the Manifest Presence - the power of God - to take the battle-axe to break it off. Of course, we need conviction and repentance, followed by restoration and walking in new life patterns, but we need the Holy Spirit to confront this demonic spirit. Does the fire, power and demonstration of the Elijah anointing back you up?
God Wants to Bring an Elijah Revolution! A Governmental Confrontation!
By Jill Austin
The spirit of Jezebel is an international principality, devastating nations and multitudes of our sons and daughters. This demonic power not only came against the man, Elijah, but also the God of Elijah. This same power comes against the passion and heart of God today, the Bride of Christ. As it was for Elijah and the people of God in his generation, so it is today in our lives and families. We, as a prophetic people, need God’s Manifest Presence in order to overcome His enemies and win this battle!
When we compromise with sin and don’t fully embrace the power of Holy Spirit, Jezebel has an open door to spawn her offspring into our midst and affect the church corporately. The Lord has promised, in His Word, to remove our lamp stand unless we repent and return to our first love.
Jezebel separates us with religious and controlling spirits cloaked in the name of righteousness. The fire of the Holy Spirit challenges and shakes the government of society, church, and our very lives. When God’s people are in compromise or trying to control His Manifest Presence, the convicting power of Holy Spirit eventually leaves the sanctuary. Delegated to back rooms, the fire goes out on the altar and the church moves in a form of religion without the power.
War is Declared!
God has created a cosmic courtroom where the battle between the forces of Satan and the power of God is to be demonstrated.
War was first declared in Genesis and has endured in each generation through the ages. But today, I hear an urgent and fresh call of God for His people to rise up in purity and fearlessness to bring about the consummate showdown with this religious spirit.
Blazing, holy fire consuming the profane; pure, consecrated passion coming against demonic perversion; nobility of life exploding out of superficial lifestyles; meekness and humility warring against the strongholds of sin.
No Common Ground
Do you have a secret life with God? Do you live a double life where you go to church worshipping and praying, yet you’re entertained in dark movie theatres, polluting your eye gates with violence, witchcraft, and uncontrollable fantasies! Perhaps it’s Internet pornography? Or, are you addicted to gambling?
These things and many more give common ground to the Jezebel spirit. We will not be able to effectively confront demonic strongholds in our own lives or society until we are changed.
How can we take back territory for God when we’re bound up in compromise? How will we confront the depravity of our world when we’re engaged in its darkness? When the holy fire goes out on the altar of the church, we leave dark barren houses.
Are You Barren?
Do you feel the tangible presence of Holy Spirit in your life? Are you still on fire with an insatiable hunger for more of Him? Or, is your walk complacent, apathetic, and boring? Are you comfortable and no longer wanting to risk and live on the edge of faith?
Have you been seduced by intellectualism, elitism, a political arena of the church, and the fear of man? Are you no longer yearning for the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit in your life? Would you rather be respectable in the house of man or anointed in the courts of God?
A Masquerade!
Some hide behind the statement, "We want the Holy Spirit but we want balance. We don’t want to offend people and lose credibility in our community." This deception is the fear of man masquerading as wisdom. "Unless the Lord builds the house, you labor in vain."
Many leaders are afraid of the manifestations of Holy Spirit and consider them mere emotionalism. They would rather have someone weeping quietly during the service than having them being radically gripped by the love of God. Not wanting to clean up the stall, they lose the "white horse" of visitation and revelation.
May we become true defenders of the faith, stalwart soldiers of the Kingdom, and totally given over to the will and purposes of God in our lives and in the global world we live in.
Let Your Hearts Cry Out!
"Lord, help us to be like the prophet, Elijah. Help us to confront the evil in our generation. We need to be so transformed by your beauty that we, too, can change the course of history. Make our hearts hungry and thirsty, Lord. Fill us with Yourself so that we no longer move in man’s political arena but in Your passion and zeal. Change our lukewarm hearts into burning flames of desire for multitudes to be saved, healed and delivered. Come, Lord, in your Manifest Presence. Allow us to see into eternity. Visit us in Your magnificence and glory."
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