CATCH THE FIRE

Leap Forward! An Army Arising! Stress is Being Removed-Praise will Lead you Forth! (by Chuck Pierce, Anne Tate, and Keith Pierce)

We are in a season of warfare. Remember, in this week of warfare we are giving thanks three times each day (morning, noon and night) so that Lord Sabaoth can release the Hosts of Heaven to war on our behalf. Allow praise to prepare your new pathway! The prophetic word that came forward on Sunday morning was:

"I have a new way for you to leap over that which has been in front of you, a new way for you to go over and into that next phase that I have called you into. I have a new way. I have a new horse for you to ride. It is not the horse of the flesh but the ruling white horse of My Spirit. Get ready to mount up, for I have an army that is not confused. I have an army that I am mobilizing. I have a team of warriors that will now win the war! I am releasing royal horses of war, royal horses that have been prepared for the day of battle. They are made of My invisible, invincible power which is holiness. If you will mount up on My royal war horses you will move with power and distinction. You will be audacious in the victories you will win as I blow My wind over you.

"Today is a day that I am opening the heavens in a new way to heal and prepare My people for war, that they may arise and come on the power of My horse that I sent. I have come this day to heal the adrenal glands in this body. I have come this day to balance out the chemicals inside the thyroid. I have come this day to remove the panic that has laid and embraced in the soul because I am releasing from an oppressing connection and I am tying it to My Spirit this hour. I am REMOVING STRESS that would weaken you as you go forth for Me in days ahead.

"Praise Me seven days to be released from the anxiety and stress that have held you captive! Seven days of praise this week - morning, noon and night. Seven days of praise! For I am shifting you and setting your boat upright. These next seven days I am going to give you revelation over blood flow and strokes. I am going to heal how you got bruised in last season. I am going to remove reproaches off of you that have been hanging on to you. I'm going to do a new thing in you.

In recent weeks, I have felt God's heart of compassion for those in their 30s to 60s who are burned out, stressed out and have never realized their dreams. If that is you, know that you are very dear to God's heart and His eyes are focused on you. The Lord impressed upon me that it is time for a "quickening anointing" to be released. Imparting that "quickening anointing" is part of my mandate in this year. Wherever I minister, this is the message and the impartation: "It is time to step into a fresh baptism of God's love that will reawaken, revive and restore your anointing." The great awakening to the fresh baptism of His love is key to launching the love revolution that will release you to take your place in the coming revival.

Even now, the Lord is releasing a "quickening anointing" to those who have been crying out for revival and those who seem to have lost their vision and passion as the years and tears of life have weighed them down. You will carry a new anointing. But first – you are in need of the quickening anointing that will revive you. Then, fresh vision, authority and anointing will enable you to carry out your assignments and fulfill your destiny.

"The quickening anointing" will restore individuals to their sacred destiny and accelerate their gifts and anointing. To "quicken" means a reviving, a refreshing, an increasing of life (see Psalm 71:20; 85:6; 119:37,40,88; Isaiah 57:10). It often has reference to the resurrection from the dead (see 1 Corinthians 15:36).

Many in mid-life feel dead to dreams, visions and passion. It takes a supernatural impartation of the quickening spirit to release you from the spirit of this world. Position yourself to receive it. Cry out for it as you lie down in your home and soak in worship. Cry out for a quickening of your spirit and a fresh love revolution to begin with you.

Power, Love and a Sound Mind

Below are excerpts from Bob Jones, given just a few days before Rosh Hashanah in September 2011. You can view this word in its entirety on YouTube, just click here.

A few days ago the Lord began to deal with me on a thing.

The angel of this nation is called "Unity," or "Union." If you study George Washington's prophecy, you see that this is the angel that appeared to him in his darkest hour. And there were some miraculous things that took place with George Washington. His enemies in battle began to believe that he couldn't be killed because they would shoot at him, they would shoot the horses out from underneath him, everything else, but he had a Divine hand on him. I believe that Divine hand is coming again to America, and America is being called to come into a union. There is coming a civil war in the Church, and each and every one of you are going to have a civil war inside of you. It is going to be the gray matter, the rebel, against the blue, the revelation of the Son of Heaven. We have tried to bring a unity in our minds for a few hundred years in America. There has not been any unity. There can only be a unity when we become united in the Spirit.

A "Gold Mind"

If anybody says something in church that offends you, you are going to blow them off, but God is calling for the mind to become a gold mind, and being offended is not a thing that is an option to you. A gold mind is going to have what a person needs when they need it.

A gold mind is a mind that has settled their affection on things above, not on things on the earth (see Colossians 3:2); so our soul (mind) has enslaved our spirit, but it was never meant to be that way. You don't worship the Lord in your soul, you worship Him in spirit and in truth. So, you are going to have to worship Him in the spirit to get the truth. We have been trying to do it here (mind), when this (mind) should be our servant and this (spirit) should be the master, for the revelation gifts are in every one of your spirits.

Through the Voice of the Innocent

The Lord says, "Suffer the little children and lead them into My presence. I am calling them to come to Me. I am awakening your youth and it will be from the mouth of babes that I will speak; I will speak to them through dreams and visions, and they will encounter angelic visitations from My throne room. Through the voice of the innocent, whose minds are fresh and new from My heart, they will speak and declare the oracles of the Lord at the least expected times, but they will hear and they will say what is from My heart. They hear My voice and they see My face, for My Kingdom belongs to them and I have opened their eyes to see Me.

"Watch the children in the peculiar things they will do that will astonish you and inspire you. I have already chosen them and anointed them. Watch them as they play, watch them as they grow, watch them as they speak, watch them as they sing. For they will prophesy out of the honesty and purity of their hearts and they will restore hope to the downcast and to nations at unrest. I will give them a dream and they will say, 'Mommy, I had a dream last night.' I will speak to them and they will say profound words of wisdom that you know can only come from above. You will know it is not their natural minds. It will be divinely inspired by Me and I will anoint their words."

The latter glory of this house [with its successor, to which Jesus came] shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts; and in this place will I give peace and prosperity, says the Lord of hosts. Haggai 2:9

2012: The Return of God's Glory to the Church

This is the year the glory returns to the Church. Forty-two years ago Bob was told that God was removing His glory from the Church and writing Ichabod over it. Ichabod clearly means "the glory has departed" (see I Samuel 4:21). Bob inquired of the Lord as to why He was removing it. The Lord said that man had marketed it for self-gain. Man touched God's glory and He will not share it with anyone! The Lord said that Bob would live to see the returning glory, and from that time Bob has believed it would take place in 2012.

Friendship means understanding. Do you feel understood by God? Do you feel you understand God?

I was driving in my car a long while back and I was having a conversation with the Lord. I was talking to Him about what I perceived to be the level of expectation in my life from Him. I felt like I just couldn't measure up to what He was expecting of me. I finally asked in a pitiful cry, "What do you want from me anyway?" and He answered me back almost as soon as this question was out of my mouth, "I want to be your friend, Luke, and I don't NEED anything from you, but I WANT your love and friendship."

This raised an interesting question because I was feeling judged by God even though at the core of who I am I didn't know what God really wanted from me. It's funny, because I assumed God felt a certain way about me, but it was an assumption based on religious performance and not true friendship.

So what does it mean to have a friendship with God? Most of us ask this question at different points of our lives... We have many different relationships, but not necessarily friendships.

Acquaintance or Friend?

Moses met with God face to face as one friend speaks with another friend. Jesus met with us on this planet in the form of a human being and spoke to us face to face. Then the Holy Spirit came and lives in us and speaks to us even now face to face as a friend. One major factor that all these have in common is this: they all came to reveal the emotions of God to the hearts of men.

When I began looking at being a friend of God, the Holy Spirit asked me this question: "Is the Lord an acquaintance or a friend to you?"