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March 11, 2013.
Topic Started: Mar 10 2013, 02:17 PM (985 Views)
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March 11, 2013. I prayed for you this morning! In my quiet time I was impressed to look over the list of our subscribers. I saw your name there. My fourth lesson in a ministry training class was on love and understanding. To both love and understand someone is not always easy. For over 55 years I have loved my wife Bev. Over these years, she has told me many times, "I don't think you understand me." It was always disappointing to hear, but I knew it was and is still true. Do I quit trying? No. I dig in and seek new insights into this incredible bride of mine. I always find some new sliver of truth about her that lets me understand her more. Today, I look for more redemptive and healing ways I can show my love and understanding to her and you. I do love you.
Proverbs 19:8 (NASB) "He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good." Ras Robinson

March 11, 2012. There is something you want. You want it badly. You think if you don't get this, it will be hard to go on. This is something big, with many challenges. But you think if you can get this you will be able to work out the problems as you go. You believe you will be successful. Do you want it now even if it is not best for you? There are some things, many things you need to learn before it is yours. If you don't learn, it will not be yours to have. Die to the things you are thinking. Get in on My plan, My will and My timing.
Psalms 101:5-6 (AMP) "Whoso privily slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off [from me]; he who has a haughty look and a proud and arrogant heart I cannot and I will not tolerate. My eyes shall [look with favor] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks blamelessly, he shall minister to me." Bev Robinson
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Tiffany Ann Lewis: Feed On God's Faithfulness

Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Psalm 37:1-3

In this Psalm, David is instructing the children of God not to fret when it seems like everyone around you is prospering, especially the unrighteous. Put in modern day vernacular, what that looks like is when you can't find a job and others keep getting promotions – don't fret. When you have been believing for a healing that hasn't come yet and others are walking around healthy as can be – don't fret. When your marriage is a wreck, your kids are rebellious, and your dog is tearing up the yard – don't fret. Whether certain people are Believers or unbelievers – don't fret. Even if your next door neighbors are the Cleavers – don't fret!

Easier said than done, eh? The antidote given by King David for "fretting" is to feed on the Lord's faithfulness. I can honestly tell you that the only true comfort I find is the faithfulness of God. Like Psalm 27:13 says, I truly would lose heart if I didn't believe that I would see the goodness of the Lord while I am living and breathing. Nevertheless, there are more times than I care to admit that the worries of the world knock me out. This is why it is crucial that we feed on His faithfulness. Yet, how do we do that? One of the primary ways is to feast on His Word. For it is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4).

We see a classic example of this in the third chapter of the Book of Lamentations. The author, whom we believe to be the prophet Jeremiah, was suffering through God's chastisement along with his people. As a result of his distress, Jeremiah confessed that his soul was far from any peace, that he had forgotten what happiness was, and that his strength was gone. He felt that God shut out his prayers and had lost his expectant hope in the Lord through his terrible struggle.

I see something that is a comfort to me today – Jeremiah knew all of this was coming. After all, it was he who prophesied to the children of God to repent and warn them of God's corrective chastisement (see Jeremiah 25). This reveals to us that, although we may know trials and tribulations are coming, it's hard to stay strong in the midst of the suffering. It's easy to give in to the despair and begin to fret. Can you identify? If so, it's important to see what he did next.

Despite all his feelings of being forsaken, Jeremiah prayed again! He boldly said, "Remember my affliction and roaming, the wormwood and the gall" (Lamentations 3:19). Now, this word for "remember" doesn't imply that God forgot His children. Heavens, no! The Hebrew word used here is zakar (Strong's #2142) and speaks of recalling something, meditating on it, purposefully pulling it up in your mind. Jeremiah was asking God to think on him, to focus His Divine intentions on him!

I'm not sure what happened between Jeremiah and God at that moment, but Scripture records a significant change in Jeremiah. You see, he was thinking on (remembering) the affliction (the roaming, wormwood, and gall) and his soul was sinking because of it: "My soul still remembers and sinks within me" (Lamentations 3:20). Yet, after praying again to God, something happened. Instead of thinking on his circumstances, he "turned to the Lord" and found hope. "This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope" (Lamentations 3:21).

Turn To The Lord

"Recall" is connected to one of the primary words used for repentance, shuwb (Strong's #7725), and means to turn back or return. You see, Jeremiah was thinking on his suffering, which was, in a sense, putting a spiritual distance between himself and God. All he had to do was turn his thoughts to the Lord, to return to Him. James encourages us similarly: "Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you..." (James 4:7-8).

Jeremiah went from thinking on his circumstances to thinking on God and was flooded with the two verses which have become a hallmark to our faith: "Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness" (Lamentations 3:22-23). O hallelujah!

He fed on God's faithfulness! He understood that even though they were in a season of chastisement, it was because of God's mercy that they weren't totally destroyed. They had sinned by departing from Him (spiritually and physically), thus they deserved the punishment. Nevertheless, while it's true that God was giving them a spanking, He was also giving them mercy and sparing them because He is compassionate (which will never fail) and He is faithful.

I want to be very clear here, due to the sensitivity of suffering, to say that not ALL suffering is because of the Lord's chastening hand; nevertheless, God will use ALL suffering for His glory and produce character in us. "...tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope" (Romans 5:3b-4).

The Picture That Spells God's Faithfulness

In closing, I would like to share with you a spiritual picture that the Hebrew letters for God's faithfulness spell.

The Hebrew word for faith in both the passages we have studied today is 'emuwnah (Strong's #530) and comes from a root with a word that I'm sure you are familiar with: Amen (pronounced ah-mayn – Strong's #539). At its core, amen means firmness and support. It is used to describe a foster-father/mother or nurse who supports and nourishes a child.

Amen is spelled: aleph – mem – nun.

Aleph – is a symbol of strength. It is the picture of a strong ox and represents a sacrificed animal.
Mem – is a picture of water and chaos.
Nun – is considered the faithful letter because it represents our faithful God – the steadfast, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, faithful Lord and King. As a picture, it represents life, seed, activity, and fish.

As we put these letters together we can see the strong sacrifice of Jesus, our Aleph, swimming like a fish (the nun), in all the crazy waters (the mem) of our chaos to support us, because He is faithful (the nun) and He loves us with a never-ending love.

In Revelation 3:14 Jesus calls Himself "the Amen": "These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God." Beloved, Jesus Christ is our Amen, our faithful God. He is our support when we are weary and will meet our every need. He is the Word of God, and as we feed on Him we will feed on God's faithfulness and be supernaturally satisfied. Amen and Amen.

Tiffany Ann Lewis
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Today while walking and worshiping, the Lord began to
excitedly speak to me in my spirit such as an excited,
expectant Father .....

Excitedly He announced: "The baby is coming ... the baby
is coming.... its time to PUSH ... there is no more
delay"!!!

What came to my spirit in the above is that AT THE
MINIMUM, people will be birthing TWINS .... but some will
be birthing up to QUINTUPLETS (5) because of GRACE!

I immediately began decreeing and contending in agreement
over this word for my life. So many of us have been given
promises: seeds have been planted in our 'wombs' long
time back and they have been 'awaiting fertilization'....

God has come and fertilized these seeds, whatever amount
of seeds HE has determined us to carry and we have been
carrying THE PROMISES within us and they have been
growing in the Womb of Hope, Faith and Love.....

many times the adversary has come to try to create 'hope
deferred' which has made our hearts sick, in order to
'mis-carry or abort' the promises .... but God protected
the precious seeds which He has planted within us.... He
over-shadowed them by the Blood of the Lamb!

I am hearing that TWINS means such that we will be
restored DOUBLE for our TROUBLE ... for others, God is
going to pour out 'exceeding abundantly above ALL we
could ask for think'..... up to QUINS!

No one will be upset if one carries twins, tripplets,
quads or quinns .... The Father has determined the seeds
given and they are for HIS purposes. Each one will
REJOICE and be exceedingly glad for these GREAT AND
PRECIOUS PROMISES .... NO ONE will birth only a single...
the minimum is DOUBLE FOLD = TWINS!

Again I am hearing the excitement of the Lord ... He is a
truly EXPECTANT FATHER and he is 'beside Himself' at the
'babies' that are being born NOW ....

I again hear Him saying, with more excitement than
previously heard:

THE BABIES ARE COMING, THE BABIES ARE COMING ... ITS TIME
TO PUSH!!!! THERE IS NO MORE DELAY!!! The head is
crowning .... God is ready to 'catch them' and present
them to us to nurse and steward!

GET READY ... THERE IS NO MORE DELAY!



Hallelujah! Glory! All Honor and Praise to the King
Immortal Only One God and to His Son, King Jesus! Worthy
is the Lamb, worthy of all our praises and adoration.. WE
give you praise and gratitude with thanksgiving for
protecting these precious seeds from abortion by the
adversary ... Thank you Abba Papa God... we RECEIVE your
gifts and will steward them by your Spirit with Your
Wisdom, Counsel, Fear and Might!! Amen!!!




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...the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for
you because the Lord your God loves you. Deuteronomy
23:5-6

Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a
sudden good break can turn life around. Proverbs 13:12
(MSG)

A Turn Around Year!

As I fasted and prayed the first week of the year, I
really felt the Lord say, "This will be a turn-around
year for My people. Breakthroughs, miracles, advancement,
prosperity, opportunities, will all come into fruition as
people shake off the difficulties and discouragement of
the past years and arise in faith to see the promises of
God come alive even in the midst of an adverse spiritual
climate in the earth. I am turning that which has been
sent against you for evil to begin to work for your
good."

There is no doubt that the last several years have been
times of great challenge for individuals, for the Church,
and for nations – especially America. We are living in
times of great shaking, which will produce great
reformation for the Kingdom of God. I have often reminded
our congregation that there is no victory without a
battle, and that in order to be an overcomer one must
first have something to overcome.

This will be a year of tremendous turn-around for those
who are aligning themselves to the purposes of God and
who are obeying His voice.

It is a year where God will give us beauty for our ashes,
the oil of joy for our grief and mourning, and the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness (see Isaiah
61:3).

This will be a time when those spiritual forces and
circumstances, which have tried to rise against us to
bring us under a curse, will instead be turned to a
blessing for us.

I call Heaven and earth as witnesses today against you,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your
descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your
God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling
to Him, for He is your life and the length of your
days... Deuteronomy 30:19-20

Vision of the Piñata

On the last Sunday of 2012, during a worship service at
Vision Church, I saw a vision of a heavenly piñata being
broken open and spilling out the blessings from on high.
Having attended our grandsons' birthday parties a few
weeks earlier where a piñata was broken open, I
understood the significance of what I was seeing.

At a party, a piñata is suspended on a string and pulled
up and down while a blindfolded guest takes a stick of
some sort and tries to hit it hard enough to break it
open. The person operating the string will often pull the
piñata up and down to avoid it being hit. Eventually,
several partygoers, though blindfolded, connect enough
times and the piñata bursts open, spilling candy and
small toys on the ground, precipitating a scramble of the
children to gather up the spoils.

I felt the Lord say this: "The enemy has tried his best
to discourage My people by constantly pulling blessings
from within their reach, making them feel their warfare
and spiritual disciplines are futile to obtain the
promised blessings. But," the Lord says, "I am taking the
blindfolds off My people in this next season and they
will hit the mark and release the blessings from Heaven.
I have put weapons in their hands that will break things
open: praise, prayer, obedience, decreeing My Word...all
these things that will cause that which has seemed out of
reach to now rain down in abundance upon My people. This
will be a time of gathering up the spoils for those who
are positioned. These are spoils of miracles and
blessings as well as an outpouring unlike earth has ever
seen before."

I believe this year will be a year of outpouring and
blessings as God's Word acts like a hammer that breaks
the rock into pieces (see Jeremiah 23:29).

This will be a year of great contrast and distinction
between the righteous and unrighteous. We are certainly
living in times when we are seeing this contrast played
out all around us in the earth. We are in a time when
darkness will get much darker, and light will get
brighter in contrast. We will see more instability
governmentally, economically, and socially, but at the
same time we will see the people of God arise in great
glory, strength, wisdom, and power. I really felt God say
things will get worse in this nation and in the nations,
but that He certainly isn't done contending over America
and neither should we be.

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of
the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall
cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the
Lord will arise upon you and His glory will be seen upon
you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to
the brightness of your rising. Isaiah 60:1-3

1. Turning Robbery Into Recovery

The first mention of the number thirteen in Scripture
speaks of a rebellion which occurred. In Genesis 14:4, we
are told in the 13th year of the reign of Chedorlaomer,
an idolatrous pagan king who was oppressing the people of
the region, the kings under his wicked rulership said,
"Enough is enough." They rose up against Chedorlaomer,
but because of his superior military strength he crushed
their rebellion, emptying their lands of the spoils of
war, punishing them for trying to be free. One taken
captive was Abraham's nephew Lot and his house. Abraham
mobilized 318 trained, skilled men of his household and
this small band of mighty men overthrew the empire of
Chedorlaomer and took back all that was stolen, and then
some!

The enemy has tried to bring people into captivity, and
often in the process of appropriating our freedom that
Jesus gave His life for, we find the enemy rising up
against us with even greater power than before, trying to
keep us captive. This is a year for us to rise up as
mighty men, to break out of the oppression and captivity
of the enemy, declare "enough is enough," and to take
back all that has been stolen in this last season.

In the fall of 2012, I saw a vision of a boxing ring with
two evil opponents dancing around looking for someone to
contend with. One was named The Destroyer, the other was
named The Devourer. But no one was opposing them. Then I
understood why. I saw on the back of each of their robes
the words "This Is Just Life." People believed that all
the robbery and difficulty they were encountering was
"just life" rather than fighting to take back what was
being stolen. It might be wise to inventory what the
enemy has robbed from each of us in this past season,
then contend and demand a double payment in return.
Exodus 22:7 says a thief, when he is caught, must pay
back double. It's time to contend!

2. Turning Barrenness Into Blossoming

As I set my heart to hear what God is saying to His
Church as we began the year of 2013, I had several
visions which all had a theme of dry, desolate, desperate
situations turning around. I saw a desert that was hot
and dry begin to receive great amounts of rain from
heaven. As the dry ground received the rain, seeds which
had been lying dormant for years suddenly began to spring
forth and bloom. Where there was previously no point in
sowing in that desolate land, the rain transformed it to
become a place of great fruitfulness and blessing. This
brought to mind Isaiah 35, which speaks of the desert
blossoming, the dry land becoming a pool and springs of
water, blind eyes being opened, deaf ears being
unstopped, the lame walking, and the redeemed of the Lord
singing and rejoicing
at the transformation taking place all around them. What
caused this turn-around? The outpouring of rain from
Heaven!

In 1910, in the Pentecostal outpouring at Azusa Street,
William Seymour prophesied that in 100 years there would
be a release of God's Shekinah Glory that would be more
powerful and farther reaching than what occurred at Azusa
Street. In 1913, in the Stone Church Revival in Chicago,
Maria Woodworth-Etter echoed this prophetic word when she
declared, "We are not yet up to the fullness of the
Former Rain and that when the Latter Rain comes, it will
far exceed anything we have seen!" It is now that time,
and these dormant prophetic promises are coming alive to
produce unprecedented harvest for the Kingdom of God.

The Word dormant means that which has been asleep or
inactive. God wants to bring an awakening to His Church
as never before! He also wants to awaken gifts and
callings within each of us that have been lying dormant.
He is waking up prophetic promises which have thus far
been inactive. It is a year to see things blossom and
come to pass. It is a year of fulfilled promises!

Genesis 17 tells us of the circumcision of Ishmael at the
age of 13. But there is a far greater story here that
speaks of a time of fulfillment of promise. When Ishmael
was born, Abraham was 86 years old. At age 99, God came
to Abraham again, 13 years later, to let him know that
Ishmael was not the fulfillment of the promise. But even
though Abraham was willing to settle for a substitute
fulfillment, the God of covenant would fulfill His Word
His Way. This was the time God revealed Himself as the
God of Covenant to Abraham and instituted the sign of the
covenant, which was circumcision. That was the year God
supernaturally broke the spirit of barrenness off Sarah's
womb, and Isaac (laughter) came forth a year later when
Abraham was 100 years old.

Joseph received promises from God in two dreams. As
powerful as this revelation was, Joseph spent the next 13
years living the exact opposite of what he had been
promised...betrayal, slavery, false accusation,
abandonment, imprisonment... But because Joseph
positioned his heart to believe God and to continue to
stand on His promises, after 13 years of seeming failure,
God used every bit of suffering he endured to catapult
him into fulfillment.

This is a time when God is honoring prophetic promises He
has made to us, which we may not even be contending for
anymore. Either we have forgotten these precious promises
or, perhaps, we had a form of fulfillment that was less
than what God intended and we have settled for less than
the best. God wants to fulfill His whole promise to us
and break the spirit of barrenness off our lives so we
can produce all God has called us to walk in.

3. A Year To Turn Frustration Into Finishing

The Church is currently in a season of contending against
the Prince of Persia. This was the ruling spirit in place
during the return from exile from Babylonian captivity
(see Daniel 10). It was also the spirit in place over the
land of Israel during the
reformation/restoration/rebuilding of all that had been
destroyed during those 70 years away. It was a spirit
that brought hindrance, delay, and frustration in the
midst of the reformation period. The Books of Ezra,
Nehemiah, Esther, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi and Daniel
were written during this civil government rule. Ezra
deals with the rebuilding of the temple (the Church),
while Nehemiah deals with the rebuilding of the city.

When you study the Book of Ezra, you see the process of
what happens after Cyrus comes into power. He released a
decree which freed the captives, released wealth and
weapons, and authorized the Jews to return and build. But
I also clearly saw that two other kings came along to try
to undo all Cyrus accomplished. This threw the rebuilding
into 16 years of delay. These two kings actually wrote
counter-decrees that negated the decrees of Cyrus. The
first king was Ahasuerus, whose name means "I will keep
you poor and silent," and the second was Artaxerxes,
whose name means "Restrainer and Maintainer." Both of
these forces have been at work to hinder the reformation
momentum and keep people self-focused and discouraged.

Ezra 4:4-5 says, "Then the people of the land tried to
discourage the people of Judah. They troubled them in
building, and hired counselors against them to frustrate
their purpose all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even
until the reign of Darius king of Persia."

What broke the spirit of delay and hindrance? What bound
the Prince of Persia from withholding resources? The
prophets began to prophesy! When they did, the people
were mobilized, they shook off the discouragement of the
last season, and the power of Cyrus's decree trumpeted
what the other decrees proclaimed. We must understand
that when God issues a decree, the enemy always issues a
counter-decree to hinder and delay. We must decree what
God has said, then we will see an even greater miracle!
In Ezra, the subsequent kings added strength to Cyrus's
decree. They added greater wealth transfer, greater
authority in the land, and an acceleration of completion.

Ezra 6:14 So the elders of the Jews built, and they
prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet
and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and
finished it, according to the commandment of the God of
Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius,
and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

When the people heard the voice of the prophets and were
mobilized, they went from fatalism and frustration to
finishing!

One other significant example of this finishing anointing
is seen in the fact that it took Solomon 13 long years to
finish his palace. After this point he entered a season
of rapidly building a number of other structures. I
believe this signifies that as we press through to see
certain things finished in this year, it will result in a
shifting of gears into a season of acceleration for God's
reformation process.

4. A Year To Turn Around From Battling To Survive To
Battling To Possess & A Year For Victory Against
Incredible Odds

We all know that Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40
years until an unbelieving generation died off. For 40
years Joshua and Caleb battled to survive. But at an
appointed time they were to come out of a survival,
maintaining mode and shift into battling, possessing, and
advancing.

Joshua was the appointed leader of this possessing
campaign. He led the nation in supernatural victories
against the enemies in Canaan. His victories began by
defeating Jericho by the strategies of the Lord. To do
this he had to actually pick a fight with an enemy that
seemed impossible to overcome. But God gave him
strategies for victory against impossible odds. This
strategy involved marching around Jericho once a day for
six days, then seven times on the seventh day, blowing
the trumpets. On the seventh time around, on the seventh
day, this was actually the 13th time they encompassed the
city. On this 13th time around they blew the trumpets and
shouted and the mighty walls of Jericho fell down flat!

This was the first of many great victories in the
conquest of Canaan. This was completely impossible in the
natural, but when Joshua and the armies of Israel
fulfilled their obedience, God was standing ready to
avenge them of their enemies. Walls of impossibility fell
down flat! This signaled a new era of possessing the
gates of their enemies.

We are now in the same season, but it will require us to
shift out of a survival mentality into a mentality of
overthrowing and possessing. We will see this application
in the spiritual realm first...then we will see it
manifested in overthrowing mindsets, philosophies, world
views and unrighteous systems.

Esther's Revolution

In the Book of Esther, during a season of reformation in
Israel, Esther had been chosen to be queen within the
ruling Persian empire. God positioned her, not just for
personal favor, but for preservation, legislation, and
retaliation against the enemy. In the story, Haman
manipulated the king to sign a decree for the
extermination of the hated Jews. This slaughter was to
take place on the 13th day of the month of Adar. But when
the king heard Esther's plea regarding her people, the
king instructed her to write a new decree in the king's
name and seal it with his signet ring.

So Esther and Mordecai did not just nullify the attack of
the enemy but rather wrote a new decree authorizing the
Jews to rise up and destroy those who would have tried to
destroy them. On that day, Haman's ten sons were killed
and 75,000 that tried to kill the Jews were instead
destroyed themselves. This ushered in a new time of favor
in the land, even under Persian rule. This also marked a
new feast day for the people of God....Purim. This was a
time they celebrated.

...as the days on which the Jews had rest from their
enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy
for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they
should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending
presents to one another and gifts to the poor. Esther
9:22

This year we need to be so filled with faith that the
enemy will be forced to back off his strategies of
destruction, knowing that his curses are being turned
back on his own head. It is a year of turn around and
gaining ground for God's Kingdom sake.

5. A Year To Turn Famine Into Fruitfulness

Interestingly, there are 13 famines mentioned in
Scripture. This will be a year when God will
supernaturally give strategies to His people as to how
they are to respond to famine. We are in a season of
spiritual famine but also a time when many are
experiencing economic famine as well. Abraham and the
widow of Zarephath were both strategically repositioned
during a time of famine without losing out on their
inheritance. The widow of Zarephath and Isaac both sowed
strategic seeds in times of famine that released a
supernatural harvest for their land and their house.

Isaac sowed in the land in the time of famine and reaped
a hundredfold in the same year. The man began to prosper,
he continued prospering until he became very
prosperous...and the Philistines envied him. Genesis
26:12-14

A Year of Double Fruitfulness – The Joseph Factor

Do you realize there were actually 13 tribes in Israel?
There were the original 12 sons of Jacob, one of which
was Joseph who was carried away into Egyptian captivity.
Joseph, whose name means "increase," actually prospered,
and caused Egypt to prosper in the time of famine. During
this time, as the right hand man to the Pharaoh of Egypt,
Joseph married an Egyptian woman and bore two sons while
in Egypt. Egypt is a symbol of the world. These children,
birthed at what was a seemingly inopportune time in
captivity in the world, became his double portion of his
father's inheritance. After being restored to his family,
Jacob adopted Joseph's sons as his own and instead of
giving Joseph his single inheritance, he gave each of his
sons an inheritance, resulting in a double portion for
Joseph.

The first son was Manasseh, whose name means "God has
made me forget all my trouble and all of my father's
household." Ephraim...who would be considered the 13th
born to the lineage of Jacob...his name means "Double
fruitfulness" because Joseph said, "God has caused me to
be fruitful in the land of my affliction." When Jacob was
asked to lay hands on Manasseh and Ephraim, Joseph
positioned his hands so that his right hand of blessing
would rest on Manasseh as the older of the two, but Jacob
crossed his arms over and gave the firstborn blessing,
which is a double portion, to Ephraim.

For 13 years Joseph suffered, but at the end of that time
he was promoted and stepped into the blessings of the
Lord. This is a year to forget your troubles from the
last season and embrace the fact that God can cause you
to be fruitful even in the land of affliction.

It is time for the Double Portion blessing of
fruitfulness on our lives. As we choose the life of God's
Spirit we will see every curse turned to a blessing; and
all that the enemy meant for our evil, God will see to it
that it produces that which is good! Happy 2013!

Jane Hamon
Vision Church @ Christian International
Email: click here
Website: visionchurchci.org
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SUSAN O'MARRA
www.intheimageofhisglory.com



Vibrations, Swords, and the Heavenly Nurseries Visions

March 11, 2013

Vibrations from Heaven

I was lying in my bed when the now familiar heavenly vibrations filled the room again, and shook my bed and coursed through my being. They came in waves and would last for a few minutes and then recede. Then another would come. The Lord comes more frequently and fills me with Himself and the vibrations of heaven lift me up to the heavenlies. The vibrations from heaven are coming more, because God's people are now to rise into their heavenly purposes and the Father is signaling them to respond and to yield to His higher communications and revelations.

The Swords from Heaven

In the vision, I saw many giant swords with tips facing downwards slowly descending from heaven to the earth. These swords were brilliant, with great glowing colorful stones in the handle and etching carved into the blade. The swords went and landed tip down into every nation on the earth. Some nations had many swords while others had one. There were a few that had none. The swords came down and the tip of the sword went into the ground just enough to establish itself into the soil of that nation. Then the stones on the sword glowed very bright and released shafts of colored lights throughout that nation. The people of the nation that saw the lights began to be drawn towards the sword. Many were afraid and would not draw near, but when they saw others draw closer to it, they also drew near. Others mocked the sword and tried to throw things at it. As the people drew near one by one, and they touched it, they were then drawn inside of the sword, and the sword grew bigger with each one that touched it. The more people that touched it, the larger and brighter the sword became. Some nations had many big bright swords, and some had smaller dimmer ones, but over time they all grew. The nations with swords eventually were filled with light. The ones that opposed them fled to the nations that did not have any swords in them, and those nations stayed dark.

The Heavenly Nursery of the Nations

I am standing in a baby nursery. It is filled with clear bassinettes all lined up with many babies. Each clear glass bassinette had a baby and an angel attended each baby that was there. The babies were all different and they each had a sash wrapped around them with their countries flag on them. Each baby was from a different country. There were many rows of babies and many clear bassinettes. Some babies were crying, and some were passive. Some were sleeping. The angels moved very caringly over each child watching over them with wonder and seriousness.

I walked over to a bassinette and looked down at a small baby with a sash that had a nations flag that I did not know. The baby was a new born and was sleeping. The angel nodded at me as I watched the baby. The angel said, "This nation is still very young in it's journey and is in need of Godly leadership to help it grow to it's full potential in Christ in the earth. It has not risen to any status yet on the earth, but will soon awaken to it's course. It will affect many nations as it grows among men. Many will look to it for leadership when the greater things begin."

I walked over to another bassinette, and there was a dark skinned baby with a sash that had a red flag on it. The angel that cared for this baby watched me as I reached in to touch the baby. The baby was passive and was cold to the touch. The angel said, "This nation has not seen the light and the love of God. The care of this nation is given to those who have learned to love and to bring healing and vision to those who have none."

I saw another bassinette and it held a very, very tiny baby that looked very frail but it was beautiful. It has a tiny blue sash and was looking at me with translucent wondering eyes. It was so cute, I reached down to touch his cheek. It's cheek was warm but felt almost fragile to my touch. The angel that cared for it nodded. "This nation is not yet recognized on the earth yet, but soon will become a nation. It's destiny hangs in the balance. There must be a vision for it to exist within the hearts and minds of the people that dwell there for it to grow into a full nation and successfully mature. Sons are needed to inspire it's people to become united and to pursue the direction for which it is intended. As they choose to become a nation, the sons will be able to help the nation form correctly and rise to it's place among the other nations."

The next bassinette I walked over to had a chubby flushed skinned baby in it that was crying and kicking his feet and reaching aggressively with his arms. He was definitely wanting attention. The angel just smiled and watched the baby. I reached down and touched his cheek. He immediately quieted and turned his face to my touch expecting me to feed him. I thought, "great, what am I going to feed him?" The angel laughed, and said, "This nation is ready to be led by leaders that have God's wisdom and know the ways of His Kingdom. This nation is destined to rule many nations in the end, but must have the right leadership to guide it in the right paths of leadership so that it can be entrusted with many nations care. The Lord has many sons arranged for it, that will care for it till the nation is full grown and will walk rightly in the other nations sight. You are one of the sons to care for him." I looked down at the babe that was waiting for the food. "I am? What nation is this?" I reached down to see what flag was on the sash and it was America. I was shocked. The angel only nodded.

"The Father has allowed your nation to come to the place where it can no longer care for itself or tend for itself and is now like an angry child that is looking for someone to bail it out, or something to give it aid. The peoples are angry and look for their aid from men. When the people of a nation lose faith in God and look only to men and to the leaders of the earth for it's guidance, then their vision fails and national weakness sets in. The enemy then plants itself deep where their faith dims, and then darkness roots and sends out it's shoots, and the people are then bound to the rule of those men. If something is not done then it will quickly begins to lose it's national seat. But the Father has determined that it is time for your nations faith to begin again. Light is being sown into your nation again in this hour. It is your nation's time to decide to believe in God again and to rise up to your heavenly call, or it will eventually fall. It is your time to choose which type of nation you will be, sheep or goat. It is your time to believe in your heavenly destiny, in the purpose for which you were created. It is time to pick up your national scroll and grow up fully into it. You have a set time to reach out for it and to obtain your end time banner."

Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish; but he who keeps the law [of God, which includes that of man]--blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace [national well-being] and I create [physical] evil (calamity); I am the Lord, Who does all these things. 8 Let fall in showers, you heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness [the pure, spiritual, heaven-born possibilities that have their foundation in the holy being of God]; let the earth open, and let them [skies and earth] sprout forth salvation, and let righteousness germinate and spring up [as plants do] together; I the Lord have created it.

"The Father is doing this with many nations right now. The path of many nations is now precarious because of the infiltration and dominion of the darkness within them, and heavenly intervention is now necessary so that many of their national destinies will not be aborted. The Father has determined in His mercy to bring change to the earth, so that the nations can begin to realign correctly according to their original destinies in which they were birthed. So there will come a season of national chaos and turmoil on the earth, to undo much of the evil that has been sown into them. You must help the nations transition in their national end time roles. You are just one of the many sons who will come forth that will help steward the wisdom of the Father, and to dispense it to the nations you will be sent to, to help them realign to the Father's purposes set for them on the earth. Some of you will have many babes to care for, and many nations to pray for and help. You are here to learn more about what sons do. There are many duties of sons, and this is only one of them. The nursery is a place of vision being birthed. If a nation does not learn to obtain a vision for it's purpose it will fall apart and cease to exist. Your nation has lost it's vision. You must help your nation regain it's national vision again, and you must impart life and purpose into it's people so they can stand correctly again. It is time for all nations to either become sheep or goat nations, for a new era has dawned. Look over there," the angel pointed.

Matthew 25:32 All nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them [the people] from one another as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats;

I looked to where the angel pointed, and outside of the nursery were these very large wicked demonic entities that look like part man, part fish. They were very tall and stood up on men's legs, but they had large gross heads of fish or marine creatures. They were very angry and wanted to get into the nursery but they could not. No matter what they tried they could not enter, for the Lord had closed it to their influence and presence. They wanted to come and enter those babies and kill them. They wanted to destroy the newborn purposes for the nations. They did not want the nations to change, or to come into their God-given identities, and end time destinies. Their assignment is to kill vision in peoples and nations. The enemy wanted to destroy the nations of the earth. But they could not enter the nursery of vision. I also saw that these demonic entities fought with anyone who was a son, or who was destined to be a son. They hated any man or woman with vision and would do all they could to sabotage their faith and belief in God's will for their lives.

The Lord then was by my side looking at the babies with me, and said to me, "Everyone that is destined to enter the nurseries must learn to fight the enemy. I do not mantle babies, but I do mantle sons. I will not entrust the destiny of nations to babies, but I do entrust the nations care and oversight to my sons. It is time for the sons to come forward and to pick up their mantles, and begin to nurture the peoples of the nations and the earth back to spiritual health. It is time to raise up the nations that are in my nursery in My Ways. For the world is entering into an Era of Great Change, and every nation shall be changed, and what I have written and destined for them shall be done. The mature sons shall help them find their way, so that each nation can grow and mature, and their full courses can be run. The babes are ready for their fathers to come. I have many women and men on the earth now ready to be my sons, and they are ready to father nations. I have planted my vision within them. The signal has been given, and the time to rise and come forward is now. Set your face towards My nurseries and pick up your national mantle, for the nations destinies are now ready to be shaped and stewarded by the leaders that I have called for this great hour. It is time to help the helpless to now stand in My Power. It is time to teach the broken to stand in My Might. It is time to lift the downcast up fully into My Sight. It is time to reach out to the unloved and fill them with My Love. It is time to impart vision to the blind so that they can receive My Sight. It is time to raise the dead and give them My Faith instead. Such is the care of your Father who has chosen the Sons of His Might. Those sons who have endured the trials and tests, and have become victorious in this hour, will be able to field the national swords, and impart the vision of their Lord."

Then the visions ended. I went into the living room to write these things down and when I was done, I looked up, and I saw my Sword hanging on the wall in my living room. Patrick bought that for me years ago. The Lord knows more about our courses than we do! But it is time we learned! It is time to get a vision for the nations! It is time to father the nations! It is harvest time!
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PROCESS OF PROVING CHARACTER

March 11, 2013

Assumptions are not the same as fact, and fact is not the same as truth, and truth is not the same as total truth. For having the total truth is having that which is pure, not tainted with flesh or fact based on circumstances. For what is written in My word is total truth not tainted with any type of mixture from man or enemy.

When you have total truth, you have substance on which you can stand, a solid ground, not sand which gives a weak foundation. When you have total truth hidden in your heart, you have nothing to worry about for I am not a man that can lie, neither can I change My mind. If I said it, you can be sure that I will bring forth what I promised to do.

For this is coming up to the end of an age, and I am preparing My people to go to a different dimension in My truth where I will be adding another layer to what you already know, but I will be adding substance to it. I will be bringing forth what you have been believing in the faith realm to full manifestation. That which you have been believing for you will be able to see with your eyes, grasp with your hands, and walk in the full reality of it.

Do not waver in unbelief when you feel there is a delay in manifestation, only know that My timing is perfect, and the steps to bring you to manifestation is more valuable to you than what you have been believing for.

For you have proven your determination to wait upon Me, to trust Me through the fire of purging, the preparation of heart to receive. For in these steps you have been conforming into My image as a mature son of God.

In order to enter My kingdom you must go through much tribulation which brings about patience and a proven character, a vessel that I can move through with My glory, one that I can trust not to rob Me of receiving glory for the works that I do through you.

So I want you to thank Me for the hard times, for the trials that brought about the purging, bringing your faith through the fire so it would be like gold. Even rejoice through all you have gone through for there was no other way to bring about this deep work in you.

In order to be like Me, you must be willing to go through the fire. You must love not your life unto death or have affection for material things of this world. For you are a supernatural people, and you must not limit yourself to temporal things, for what I have prepared for you is of so greater value!

Rejoice in the work I am doing in you. Rejoice that you are Mine, My beloved, My bride, for I love you with an everlasting love, and what I am preparing you for will last throughout eternity. Be Kingdom minded, and you will prosper, be in health, and your soul will surely prosper!
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