I awoke
this morning at 2:30 a.m., and the Lord gave me an urgency to pray, I didn't
know what to pray for, but I knew I needed to pray.
As I took the time before
the Lord in prayer, He immediately told me that He loved me, I can usually
recognize that when there is something that is on His mind when He prefaces
what he wants to say with a declaration of love. The Lord often puts His love
declarations in the form of a question, so that I have an opportunity to reflect
and to respond.
He then told me that it was essential that I partner with Him
to declare (or speak into
existence) what He wanted to
be done. He expressed great concern to me over many major cities in the United
States, and that he had angels at the ready (much like the national guard) to bring their message of hope to these
cities. Still, they needed to be commissioned and released to do what needed to
be done.
He needed someone to stand with Him and the cities to speak His words
over them. I was explicitly sensing that these angels (or messengers) assigned to the cities of concern (i.e., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento,
Minneapolis, and others) had
a name and a specific characteristic that would be released upon those cities.
For example, the three angels I saw which were assigned to Los Angeles were
"Mercy, Grace, and Unity." As I was praying, I was given instructions
to commission these three angels to go to Los Angeles and visit the many
disenfranchised people who needed these characteristics and to deposit these gifts
as an impartation of the Spirit in their lives.
I gave instruction these angels
to go into the city and seek out everyone from the least to the greatest and
impart these virtues that healing may be the result, physically, spiritually,
emotionally and socially. I then saw these angels depart to go on their
mission.
Three angels can accomplish a lot, and in fact, even a single angel
has the power to defeat an entire army that is threatening God's people with destruction.
"That night, the angel of the Lord went out
and killed one hundred eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the
people got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead bodies."
2 Kings 19:35 (NCV)
The time has come for binding and loosing, for the Lord
is recruiting many to stand between Him and the people, that they may pray for
an impartation of His Spirit. The Lord is making His desires known. He wants
everyone to hear Him, and for us who do hear Him to speak as clarions so that others will come
and taste and see for themselves the goodness of our God.
We can ask the Lord to show us
how to stand tall as sons and daughters of the King and begin receiving
revelation and direction in how to pray with authority and power to bring an
end to the rule of the evil principalities and powers that have kept the earth and its nations in bondage for eons.
"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven;
the things you don't allow on earth will be the things that God does not allow,
and the things you allow on earth will be the things that God allows."
Matthew 16:19
(NCV)
God has given a lot of authority to His people, which is
why we must put on the mind of Christ and allow our old nature to be
crucified at the cross of Christ Jesus. The Kingdom of God is a place that resides within
the heart of the Christian and is accessed by faith and released with power
through God's people who are led by the Spirit.
Jesus, grilled by the Pharisees on when the kingdom of
God would come, answered, "The kingdom of God doesn't come by counting the
days on the calendar. Nor when someone says, 'Look here!' or, 'There it is!'
And why? Because God's kingdom is already among you."
Luke 17:20-21 (MSG)
The Kingdom of God is like a deposit that has been placed
in our Spirit, that was activated when we came to Christ. Having received Him
as our Savior, we have become alive (born
again) into a new life in
Christ. It is now taking what we have received and approaching God that He may
teach us about our role as His sons and daughters. The bible gives us an
overview, and as we press into the Holy Spirit, He fills in the rest of the
details and opens the scriptures much deeper.
"But as for you, Christ has poured out his Spirit on
you. As long as his Spirit remains in you, you do not need anyone to teach you.
For his Spirit teaches you about everything, and what he teaches is true, not
false. Obey the Spirit's teaching, then, and remain in union with Christ."
1 John 2:27 (GNT)
We are on a new day with a mandate, a readiness to share
what God has given us. What is this readiness? It is a new word from His
Spirit; "It is time to
build my house."
There
is an empowerment that takes us to this place of obedience, and this empowerment
is to serve Him and love Him with everything that we have within us.
"This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: 'If you do
as I tell you and serve me, you will be in charge of my Temple and my
courtyards. And I will let you be with these angels who are standing here."
Zechariah 3:7 (NCV)
How vitally important it is to give voice to everything the Lord gives us, so that we can speak what is spiritual into the natural world. God is so God!
Be Blessed;
Stephen Barnett
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