I am beginning an intercessory prayer time beginning on January 24, 2011. I would say a lot of prayer has gone into this decision. This is a culmination of many years seeking the Lord and praying what he tells me to. I have never stepped out to actually lead a prayer group, so in that sense it is new and quite malleable. I am not going into this with a set agenda or formula. I will say that my only agenda is to be led of Holy Spirit into prayer. He searches the deep things of God and reveals them to us his children.

Romans 8:26-27
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.

We are in a great position in regards to prayer. We only need to train ourselves to wait quietly before the Lord. He gives the objective for that particular time. It could be our city, our Nation, or a people group. I have an anticipation of impacting and changing history. We will do this as we humble ourselves and pray according to the Father’s will! In 2011 there seems to be a prayer initiative going forth in the United States. I know in our city of Albuquerque there is a new thrust of seeking the Lord for our city and our churches. Our cry is the same, “Bring unity and love to the Body of Christ, and then it will spread into our city streets.” How will they know of the love of Jesus unless we love one another?

I John 3:1
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God!

Heavenly Father has a vast love for his humanity! He created us, we are his dear children; created in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit’s image. He wants to pour out salvation. He has a plan of complete restoration of our spirit, soul, and body. The soul includes the mind, will and emotions. He created each one of us with a uniqueness; we have distinct personalities that become evident at birth and even in the womb. I know Father’s desire is to see us mature into sons and daughters of the King. He knows each of our destinies and it is his great pleasure to see us begin to walk in them.

So, can you imagine how he feels about people that have never known him? They are created in his image just like you and I, but have never stepped into their God given destinies. This must grieve his heart. There is much intercession coming forth from Heaven.

Isaiah 6:8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I, send me!”

This has been a favorite verse of mine for twenty years. Each time I read it or heard it read it has gone into the depths of my heart. It is a plea from our Father, “Who can I send?” “Who will go for us? The Father’s heart was crying out for someone to stand in the gap. In this context it was for Israel. We are his voice here on the earth. He needs us to show and speak his love and his plan for humanity. I also like the Father saying, “Who will go for us?” God has a father’s heart for his children. Jesus the Son is always interceding for us to know him. Holy Spirit is actively bringing the Kingdom of God into our midst. He abides in the born again believer prompting him to go into all the world and preach the good news of the Kingdom. Holy Spirit also empowers, and emboldens us to do the work of the Kingdom.

Ephesians 1:17
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

Let’s ask God to give us greater vision, greater perspective for our city and state, our Nation and all other Nations as well. I want a global perspective of the Body of Christ and a global burden to pray. This I believe is the Kingdom of God inside of us praying, “Come in! Come in!” Our Father through the Holy Spirit wants to bring more and more wisdom and revelation if we would just take the time to quiet ourselves, listen and pray what we hear.

I want to close this article out with a word from the Lord on December 30, 2010

You will shake the mountains, (strongholds, principalities) and the atmosphere of your city will change. Step out and pray my will over your city, over your nation and over the nations. I re-route armies as my people pray. You were called for such a time; to bring my Kingdom to the earth. I will do great exploits through this group. My blessing is on this. Go in the confidence the Lord, and in the power of the Holy Ghost!

Cedars of God Intercessory Prayer
Monday evenings at 7 P.M.

• Humbling ourselves through repentance
• Worship
• Holy Communion
• Quieting ourselves and waiting
• Listening to Holy Spirit
• Praying His thoughts
• Obeying His directives

All my fountains are in you

That was my prayer today, as I am in the process of learning how to depend completely and wholly on the LORD. He holds my world in his hands is a lyric from a song that has ministered to me the past few weeks. It is amazing to me how Holy Spirit uses one line from one song to prompt heart change in me. I gladly surrender to His Lordship. Jesus is everything I need!

So, I began pondering the cry of my heart, “all my fountains are in you.” I asked Holy Spirit to give me understanding of this statement. This is His response to me.

Everything that pertains to life is flowing from the spring of life, who is Jesus. All of your comings and goings, all of your desires, all of your writings, prayers, intercessions come from this well of living water. Jesus is your source of everything. As you have humbled yourself, submitting completely to his Lordship you are walking in the fountain more and more. There is an unceasing supply of living, clear water flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb. It is always available to you. It is when you make decisions on your own, stepping into things I have yet to ordain, then you have made for yourself your own cistern. You fill these vessels with your own waters of good deeds, decisions and plans. The word of God says they are broken cisterns, unable to hold what you have put into them.

Revelation 22:1
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Can you imagine the purity of this water flowing from Jesus himself? Purity of heart comes to those who look to God; and infusion of the water of life. I know there are medicinal properties in these waters. There are trees that line this river with leaves for the healing of the nations. It is a nourishing flow straight from the Father’s heart available to all who will call on him; imagine being completely satisfied! I think of the Strength we gain by wading into this river. It begins in our feet and then into our calves and up to our thighs. I believe we can scale a mountain and take on an army!

Colossians 1:19
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him.

Colossians 2:9-10
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.

This is where we go to receive fountains of living water. We have access to Jesus who is filled to overflowing with everything we have need of. He has all the love, the forgiveness, the strength, the humility, the power. What is it you are lacking today? Jesus has the provision. I am beginning to see myself through the character of Jesus. I have only the strength he gives to me. I wake up in the morning breathing only because he has blown his breath into my lungs. I have desire to be the best companion to my husband only because of Jesus perfecting his love in me. He makes me a better person. I am solely dependent on him.

John 7:37-38
If a man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me as the Scriptures has said, steams of living water will flow from within him. By this he meant the Spirit

I remember how thirsty I was prior to coming into Christ in fullness. I was hungry for so many things, only to not be satisfied. We as humans have insatiable appetites if left unchecked by Holy Spirit. I longed to be loved and yet, I found myself yearning for more. This desire was never met in me until I came into the fullness of knowing Jesus! I wanted so badly to have a life that was good and productive, but was so dissatisfied with college, and being a waitress. I was living in Pensacola at the time; this was very close to the beaches. I walked off my college campus knowing I would not return. I drove to the beach and set out on the sand writing. I didn’t have a clue what I was supposed to do. I felt alone in my confusion. I knew what my parents wanted for me, but what was this desire stirring inside of me? I had a God hole that was gaping. I met my husband shortly after leaving college. He was filled with the Spirit and full of life! I felt as if I was breathing in fresh air when I was around him. He offered me living water that I had never experienced before. It was only when I was introduced to Jesus, that I was filled and no longer thirsty for the waters of the world. I certainly am not saying that college is evil; my husband has a degree and is in school right now. It was not the will of the Lord for me, even though I had access to a free education. So, the cistern that I had tried to fill was replaced with a beautiful river flowing through me. I am a channel of God’s blessings flowing out to the world. No longer do I house stagnant waters.

John 4:13-14
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

The water Jesus was speaking about to the Samaritan woman would give her eternal life. She knew of God by her statement to Jesus that she and her people were waiting for the Messiah; she did not have him living in her, infusing life into her. She was so thirsty for love, as she had been married many times and was presently living with a man. Jesus didn’t condemn her, he accepted and loved her. He revealed himself to her as the Messiah, he led her in the truth that quickly set her free and filled her to overflowing. We have eternity set in our hearts. His name is Jesus. He is offering to us an unfathomable gift of eternal life with Him. This includes great gifts right now. Complete wholeness in your spirit, soul and body. Peace that flows in and through us. He has given us a sweet relationship with himself, and he placed us in a beautiful body of believers that we call the family of God.

Jeremiah 2:13
My people have committed two sins; they have forsaken me the spring of living water and have dug their own cisterns that cannot hold water.

I was like the Samaritan woman many years ago. I did not know that I had access to the spring of living water. I believed in Jesus, but did not know he was my source of living water. I did not know he held the key to my future. I was seeking what to do in my life without allowing him to direct me. Oh, how things could have been different. Yet, I have no regrets. I embrace the hard times of my past, because it is partly who I am. I have better understanding of people in their search for life. Jesus makes all things beautiful in time; and he has made me beautiful in him. That day so many years ago when I was confused and searching, he was there silently directing me. I can imagine him saying to me, “Don’t give up Jan, I have an amazing plan for your life. It involves a handsome young man who will love you as I have loved my church.” Wow! I have no use for broken cisterns. I want Jesus in his fullness!

Philippians 3:3
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh.


Good Morning Holy Spirit-
I love you and thank you for all the wonderful encounters recently. My heart is stirred to seek you more, and to walk in complete deliverance and physical healing.

I delight in you. You bring joy to the Father’s heart. Hard lessons came and you have learned well. Take captive every thought that does not line up with your healing and make it obedient to what the Word (Jesus) says about you. A new level of faith has been established in your heart.

The Saturday before Thanksgiving I came down with a common cold. It quickly turned into pneumonia that lasted for approximately 4 weeks. On a Sunday 2 weeks after the diagnosis of pneumonia, I began experiencing urinary tract problems. I ended up in the Emergency room with pain in the bladder off the 1-10 scale. I began seeking the LORD that Sunday as to what was going on with me. He quickly told me it was a spirit of infirmity and to take authority in Jesus name over it. My husband had been napping that day and as he awoke he told me of a dream he had. He was praying for a woman and received a word of knowledge to evict the spirit at work in her. I immediately received that word and he prayed over me. We battled this for no less than 9 hours and finally relented and went to the ER. This was a difficult time, as I knew the LORD had spoken so specifically to me that Sunday. In the midst of the intense pain I began praising Him; not for the infirmity but in the midst of it. I continued to take the antibiotics and eventually recovered completely. I also continued to seek Him and press into the understanding of why the healing didn’t quickly appear.

We were in Tyler, Texas visiting our children recently for Christmas Holiday. It was an amazing time spent with all of our family. I experienced another attack, but this time it was a fear and insecurity that suddenly came on me. It was a tormenting spirit. I battled this in the ways I have always battled when under an attack. The word of God was given to me by the Spirit. I took authority over it in Jesus name. It still remained.

In all of these attacks this month there was a common denominator associated with the battle. I knew in my heart that Jesus was battling with me. He was interceding for me. He also was giving me knowledge of what I was battling; but was not delivering me out of it. He was allowing it for a deeper purpose.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10
To keep me form becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the LORD to take it away from me. But, he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

I was healed in 2004 of an aggressive cancer that characteristically does not respond to chemo therapy or radiation treatment. I received a creative miracle in 1985, that there was no medical explanation for. Many times he has intervened in my life and the life of my husband and children. We always pray in faith knowing it is the Father’s will to heal. When you pray and the healing is delayed or never happens, it is perplexing. I began to press in more, to praise him more, to seek him more. More revelation came as to why this happens in my life and in so many believers.

I Corinthians 10:33
For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.

On December 27th and 28th, I was seeking the LORD specifically about the attacks that I had encountered recently and He began shedding some light on it all.

Jan, the weakness you are feeling is actually my strength being perfected in you. I want you to walk in supernatural confidence in me. My character is being shaped in you. You should have no confidence in the flesh. I am shaping you for service, service to others, to the least of these. This takes being clothed in humility. This process is not comfortable. You recognized early on that I was at work in you. You were crying out for deliverance from your physical and emotional torment and I was right there with you walking you through it all. Character building comes through walking it out, not being delivered from it.

Philippians 2:3-11
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus; Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father

I believe these delays in healing are for a deeper purpose, if we allow the LORD to work good in them. He is working on clothing us in humility, shaping us in compassion. I have better understanding of walking in His authority, of walking in his power. I have no confidence in myself, but I am completely dependant on Jesus. He sees the bigger picture of our lives. Unless you have suffered how can you have compassion for the suffering of the world? Unless you have been tormented how can you press in for deliverance for the tormented? I want to fellowship in Christ’s sufferings. I want more compassion for the world, and for the Body of Christ.

For many years now, my husband Nate and I have known we were called to the least of these. We had an intercity ministry for several years and look forward to foreign missions in our future. In July of 2011, we are planning a trip to India to minister the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What does that entail?

• Complete deliverance from sin that has them bound.
• Eternal life with Jesus.
• Deliverance from tormenting spirits
• Physical and emotional healing
• Joy, Peace and Rest

I was one of the least of these when Jesus saved me gloriously. I have passion to share his love with all people. To those who have been forgiven much, love much. I would gladly fellowship in Christ’s sufferings to have a part in the blessing of the gospel. To God be the Glory!

Philippians 4:14
Yet, it was good of you to share in my troubles

Philippians 3:10-11
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.




Holy Spirit what does it mean to fellowship in Christ’s sufferings?

Holy Spirit asked me, “What did Jesus take on himself when he died for humanity”
My response to Him was. “Jesus took all pain, physical, emotional and mental.”
Holy Spirit replied, “Everything that happened to humanity because of the fall, Christ took on himself to redeem mankind.”

As you become more transformed into his image, the image of Christ, you begin to think his thoughts. You love more complete. What breaks the heart of the Father begins to break your heart. You fellowship in his sufferings, so that you can help mankind, through your prayers of intercession and through your physical actions. You are Jesus to them.

John 15:15
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

Jesus refers to us as friends, even close friends. He is intimately acquainted with our lives and we are becoming intimately acquainted with his. At least that is his desire for us. He wants us involved in what he is thinking and doing. He wants to share with us everything the Father shares with him!

We have to set a pause button on our lives. By this I mean we need to settle ourselves and center our thoughts on him. Take time, set aside time to just listen, quieting ourselves to receive a download from our Father through the Holy Spirit.

Two and a half years ago, Nate and I were taking time to listen. We were praying about going to The Netherlands for our youngest daughter’s wedding. We were planning on staying about two weeks. That was our plan! We began quieting ourselves and listening to the Holy Spirit, He asked us this question. “Would you consider staying two months?” That was how Holy Spirit phrased it to us, “Would you consider?” He is such a gentleman in the way he speaks to his children. We responded, “Of course we will.”

We had no idea how this would all play out. Where would we stay for two months? We both had fulltime jobs in the states. Were we to quit these jobs? How would we finance such a trip on our retirement salary? There was an excitement, an energy we had not felt in many years. I will not go into all the details, but needless to say, it was amazing! God orchestrated this trip. All of it was taken care of by the time we arrived in The Netherlands. It definitely stretched our faith, but oh it needed to be stretched a little! There were many ministry opportunities for Nate and myself. God ordained appointments with people from all over the world. In fact the young Indian Pastor that has invited us to India in July 2011 was one of those God appointments we encountered in The Netherlands at the YWAM base.

Wow! What if we had not taken the time to listen? I once again stand in awe of God and I am humbled by this thought. I would like to encourage you to take time to quiet yourself and listen for the voice of God. Take time to find out what is on his heart. That is a great starting place, “What is on your heart today, LORD.” I am listening and willing to do your bidding.

There are God opportunities everywhere each and every day. I am not talking about busying yourself with good things to do. That typically results in burnout and a lack of passion. It is a form of legalism that has the appearance of good works. Seeking guidance through Holy Spirit, who searches God’s heart and reveals direction to you, is a better way. This way produces lasting fruit and much joy in the giving and serving. I love this Kingdom walk so much. God’s progressive will for me keeps me full of anticipation and unspeakable joy. I have confidence that what he is leading me into is a perfect fit for my life. It will deepen my walk with him and will bless the people he leads me to.

I Chronicles 4:10b
Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me.

There is HOPE

Isaiah 60:22
The least of you will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will do this swiftly.

This is just one scripture that gives us hope for His Kingdom coming to earth through nations turning to Him. I have been giving a lot of thought to intercession for the nations lately. I know that this is by the Holy Spirit’s prompting. The LORD has a plan that all nations will come to acknowledge who He is. I believe we, as current believers, can play an active role in this coming to pass. It is through intercession for the nations

Mark 4:30-32
Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants with such big branches that the birds of the air perch in its shade.”

God’s kingdom is coming to the earth, you can count on it! The word of God is going forth daily all over the world, and it is bringing forth fruit. Many people are coming to the LORD through personal witness and also through supernatural visitations. Don’t ever underestimate the power of God’s word going forth. It will not return void, but will accomplish that which it was sent to do. (Isaiah 55:11)

Several years ago, Nate and I were leading an urban church. We were not seeing a lot of lasting fruit coming from the young people we were serving; even though we were consistent in our love towards them and also in delivering the word of God several times a week. I remember seeking the LORD as to what we should do. His answer remained the same for several years. It was to keep on loving them and speaking the word of God over them. We may not have seen the lasting fruit, but there is not any doubt in my mind that we were obedient. God will bring the increase! I am sure many of those young people are serving the LORD today because of what was sown into them! We have since heard from several of them giving testimony of just that. Praise God! He is faithful to perform what his word says! Do not ever despise small works! God can take what you have and multiply it.

Isaiah 61:11
For as the soil makes the sprout come up, and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.

I declare this to be true! Jesus will cause righteousness and praise to spring up in all people, in all nations!

How can we be apart of this move of God? We can partner with God through intercession for the nations, for all people. I have been in intercessory prayer where I know that I have touched the heart of the Father with my prayers.

This is how it works:
You ask Holy Spirit what is important to Him.
You listen to what He tells you.
You pray to Father God what was revealed by His Spirit.
This is praying in accordance to His will, thus we are partnering with Him on behalf of many different people groups.

Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

As we intercede revelation accompanies these times of praying. Holy Spirit searches the deep things of God and reveals them to us. He does this so that we pray more effectively.
There is such joy in reaching the heart of the Father. I have said many times, “I feel most alive when I am interceding.”

I have a young Navajo friend who has been with Youth With A Mission for several years, and is now serving at IHOP. She sent an update today via email. She gave testimony of praying for her family to come into the Kingdom. They are all presently serving the LORD. I cannot go into detail, but this was not an ordinary family. There was definitely baggage of many years of addiction and being torn by the enemy. She is giving glory to God, and rightly so. I will say that she played an incredible part in their redemption. She cooperated with God and is now seeing her family changed by the power of prayer.

Wow! Let’s get excited about what God is going to do through our times of intercession. He has extravagant plans that we do not know about yet. North America come in, South America come in, Europe come in, Asia come in, North, South, East and West come into the Kingdom. It is your destiny, your created purpose to serve the LORD!

My husband has had more than one dream about calling out to the peoples of the earth to come to the LORD. One of them, he saw so many people responding that in his dream he called our sons to come and help him with the needs of the people! This is going to happen and I say it is already begun. Expect it, ready yourself for it. God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all nations!

In January of 2011, I plan to begin a prophetic intercessory meeting at Global Destiny ministry house. It will be for the purpose of praying God’s heart over our nation and the nations. We will also pray specifically for our church and the other churches in Albuquerque as the LORD leads us.

Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all of his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.


I have been thinking about the fear of the LORD. I am wondering how I learned it and how I imparted it to our four children. It’s funny how we walk into some truths without struggling and with only very little knowledge of how to do it. I recently recalled a childhood memory that included walking in the fear of the LORD. I think in the beginning it was strictly a reverence for his house which was drilled into me through the nuns in our parish school. I didn’t exactly know why I was to be quiet, still and reverent but I was quick to obey! It turns out that this was a great discipline learned early on. Later in my life as I came into a sweet relationship with Jesus it was a natural response to the King of Kings. I had understanding of how much I had been delivered from; and I was in awe of the One who did this for me. Those who have been forgiven much love much. There is a reckoning of how things could have been so different had He not saved my soul and made me whole again!

Deuteronomy 11:18-21
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

April 25, 1986 the above scripture was given to me by the Holy Spirit. He said to me, this is a new ministry that I am calling you to. It is to your children. Teach them. I took Him seriously even though they were toddlers at the time. I began reading to them the Bible stories and telling them about Jesus. I would pray with them and teach them Bible verses. They were like little sponges taking it all in. I know that when God gave this command through Moses to the Israelites, they took it literally. They would wear the scriptures in little pouches attached to their foreheads! They were definitely walking in the fear of the LORD. They wanted to obey whatever the cost! I believe that as we learn the scriptures, and are obedient to them, we develop a healthy desire not to disappoint the LORD. God is creating a conscience in us; this makes us socially and morally good people. Thus, we live a long prosperous life here on earth.

When I hear that another young person has murdered or has lost his own life due to drugs and gang activity, I know he has been cut off due to disobedience. Many days are promised to those who fear the LORD. This is an incredible truth that needs to be taught from an early age.

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools (morally deficient persons) despise wisdom and discipline.

Another way of learning the fear of the LORD is through retelling our God stories to our children, grand children and spiritual children.

Joshua 4:21-24
He said to the Israelites,”In the future when your descendants ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.”

Wow, these are great stories, to tell and retell, to build our faith and also increase our awe of God. Then as we begin to have our own God stories, we tell and retell them to our children, grand children and spiritual children. Also, encouraging them to step out in faith and see God’s hand move on their behalf. We are now telling some of our children’s stories, because they are powerful and show a powerful awesome God!

Of course first and foremost to have a fear of the LORD you should be in relationship with Him. Now what does that look like? Well for me at age seven it was knowledge of God without relationship. It was a good beginning. God does welcome us at any stage of faith. We should encourage relationship with God at an early age. Little children have the ability to hear from God early on. We would pray openly with our children, but we encouraged them to pray and hear from God personally at a young age. This also develops a good healthy fear of God. A reverence of someone that is much bigger than themselves and their parents!

So, let’s be diligent to teach our children. This includes those coming into the Kingdom. There are many people who walk justly and rightly in the schools, marketplace and everyday life without knowing it is a fear of the LORD. They just know they are to obey authority and treat others as they would want to be treated. Even though we call it conscience, it really is walking in the fear of the LORD. It is doing what is right because we have that inner voice telling us it is right. God’s awareness keeps us from many evils.

You know we are made in the image of Almighty God and bear his characteristics; so therefore we have a predisposition to do good. I know that we are born in sin and have a sinful nature, but we also have the DNA of our Father God. We desire someone bigger than ourselves to lead and direct us; God fits perfectly!

Holy Spirit, I am tuning my ears to hear from you. There is not anything any better than connecting with the one who created me and knows me better than anyone. I experience divinity infused into my situations, into my mindsets when I take time to just listen. Holy Spirit is yearning to meet with each of us to share the Father’s heart and the love of Jesus!

I was meditating on this concept of listening and also remembering some very important milestones in my Kingdom walk recently; as I was remembering I became aware that I could have missed some very important assignments had I not quieted and settled myself to listen. This brought the fear of the LORD instantly to me. Now, this is a good response, for it keeps me seeking and desiring to hear everything he has for me! I do not want to miss one thing!

So, tune your ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to you his church! It is critical in this day as it was in every past generation and generations to come. We do not want to miss our day of visitation which I think can be everyday. God’s grace is beyond limitation; he is patient and is intimately aware of the different seasons of our lives, so there is no condemnation being put out here! He is faithful to woo us back into rhythm! What an amazing Father we have.

Yesterday, I was listening and Holy Spirit began speaking to me about going to India.

My grace is covering your family and yes, my blessings are abounding. More increase and power will overflow into service. Continue to be yielded in obedience to what I am saying to you. The plans are great and encompasses many things; deliverance from oppression, healing for their broken hearts, salvation for many who do not know me yet. I will stand and partner with you and Nate. I have great plans. Prepare your hearts for harvest; the fields in India are ready. They are ready for harvesting. The fields are likewise plowed, furrowed and ready for planting. Turn your ear to me. Listen to what I want you to do and where I want you to go. I have great plans. They are beginning to unfold; you are catching a glimpse of the future.

Wow! What an amazing word to hear from the LORD. His plans are always bigger than our expectations, always bigger than our resources. They stretch us in our faith!

We have been invited by a young Indian pastor to go next July to India. He is getting married then and would like for us to be there. He also has connections for ministry while we are there. We began praying about the possibility of going to India two years ago. The plans are becoming clearer to us lately. So, we press into the LORD for wisdom and direction about making this trip, and he is speaking Kingdom thoughts back to us.

Isaiah 42:5-9
This is what God the LORD says- He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it, who gives breath to its people and life to those who walk on it. I the LORD, have called you in righteousness, I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the gentiles to open eyes that are blind to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness. I am the LORD that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols. See the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being, I announce them to you.

This is a prophecy of the coming King of Kings and LORD of LORDs Jesus Christ by the prophet Isaiah. This was being proclaimed to bring hope to the people of Israel. The nation of Israel would suffer great persecution and captivity in their future. They would need a God that would sustain them through these very awful times. Isaiah was declaring God as their Creator and affirming his supremacy. He encourages Israel that they are not alone in their captivity, that He will take them by the hand. He who covenanted with their forefathers will also hold to this everlasting covenant with them. Many thousands of years later the same God is speaking this promise to us. Encouraging us to take what he has invested into our lives and give it away. I love being stretched, I love that his will is progressive and ever changing. Enlarging us as we say yes, we will go.

Isaiah 54:2-3
Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.