Where do you think God’s focus for the end days might be. “CHILDREN”.

Children are at the time in their lives when they are in learning mode. They are not cluttered with excess baggage as many adults are. They are ready to learn and receive. That is why if you tell them about the anointing and show them how they believe you and enter in. The Bible says in Matthew 18: 3 unless you be converted (changed) and become as little children (under the age of 7) you will by "no means" (nothing else works) enter the kingdom of heaven. That is serious if there is not another way than being a little child, we must learn to be little. When Jesus said in Matthew 19: 14, "Let the little children come to Me and do not forbid them for 'of such' is the kingdom of heaven." (Membership in heaven is only for little children; the Father has only children and not adults.)

The Lord used to ask me all the time, "how old are you?" I said, "Lord you know how old I am, why do you ask me this?" But it took a couple of years before He made it clear that He was saying, "How old are you coming to me as?" Are you coming to the Lord as a little innocent child that is totally trusting and "care" free because everything you need Father takes care of, or are you a burdened, stressed, in-control adult?

Jesus said in Mark 10:15, "Assuredly, (this is truth you can take to the bank and cash), I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will be no means enter it." Also recorded in Luke 18:16. For those of you who have been receiving my newsletters for a while, you know that one of the key things in the intense Spiritual Warfare that the Lord keeps bringing me back to and reminding of, is to stay small. In other words, to be a very little dependent child. I remember one year the Lord showed me that a little child like a toddler needs constant supervision and help, but often they get independent and try to do it all themselves. The result is that the Mother who wants to do things for them and with them, ends up spending all her time cleaning up their messes and has less time to actually be with them. The Lord wants to be the Mom that we need all the time and we must depend on Him and not ourselves.

Once, in a vision of the Lord, I was in a pool of water that was like a little off-shoot of the River of life just below the throne of God. It was a sweet peaceful place. I was sitting on a big rock in the middle of the pool, and Jesus was in the pool with the water just below his waist. He wore a simple white robe. He looked at me with such love and said, "Your wings are dirty."

"I have wings?" I asked.

"Yes." He said walking behind me, pulling one until it was stretched out. They were white but dingy. He said,"The dust of this world clings to you." Then He took a rag out of his sash and dipping it into the water began to wash my wings.

"No Lord." I said, "You mustn't wash my wings. You are Lord, King, God of all. I'm the one who must serve you, not have you do menial tasks for me."

The Lord stopped and looked at me very seriously. "It is good that you have a servant heart, but where do you think you got it. You got it from Me because I have a servant heart. It grieves Me when you don't allow Me to serve you. I don't do it because I have to but like a Mother because I love you, and I love doing the little things for you. It is My joy. Please allow Me to serve you."

I saw such intense love in His face; I was grateful that His heart is to serve His children. I allowed Him to wash my wings, and my allowing Him to serve me was a form of love and worship to Him. It spoke volumes to me about who He is and who we must be. Once a long time ago, I was rocking my grandson in a rocking chair. He was only a few weeks old. It is a very special time holding a little one like that. The Lord asked me, "Do you love him?"

"Oh yes Lord." I said.

"Do you love him enough to die for him?" the Lord asked.

"Yes Lord," I said, "In a heartbeat."

"Why?" The Lord asked rather loud and harshly.

"What do you mean Lord?" I asked.

"Why do you love him?" He asked again, but I could only sputter, uncertain of how to respond. Then the Lord asked, "Is he going to earn a living for you?"

"No Lord, he's just a baby." I said.

"Is he going to do work for you like mowing the lawn and cleaning?" He asked.

"No Lord," I said, "He is just a baby."

"Is he going to make beautiful artwork for you?" The Lord asked.

"No Lord," I said, "He's just a baby. All he knows how to do is eat, sleep and dirty his diaper."

Again harshly the Lord asked, "Then why do you love Him?"

The Lord was demanding an answer and I didn't know what the say. Finally I said, "Because he's mine."

The Lord said, "Then why is it hard for you to believe that I can love you just because you are Mine. Not for what you have done or haven't done or what you can do, but just because you're mine."

It's not about what we can do to earn His love. We know that, but sometimes we don't act like we know it. But it is about learning to be His and allowing Him to love us and serve us by simply being His and trusting Him. We must be like little children under the age of 7. When my granddaughter was little, she loved in a special way. She would just hold your face and grin at you. She was too young to talk much. Then she would throw her arms around you and hug your neck really tight gritting her teeth to indicate that she was giving it all she had. Then she would just let go in my arms and snuggle in. I have never felt so loved. I would have done anything in my power to do for her because of her love that was shown in her allowing me to hold her and trusting my love for her. She is now only 4, but she no longer does that because now she can say it and go on. We need to get beyond the words and just be His, painting pictures in our heart of our love for Him and receiving His love.

I want to share just a few things that happened in ministering to the children that may bless us all. First, I want to explain corporate anointing. Often by the Lord's leading with the children (as well as when I minister to adults even to pastors), we all hold hands or stand in a line touching the shoulders of the one in front of us. We are very careful to repent of our sins and wash in the Blood of Jesus before starting, and clothe in His righteousness. We will impart and share what we have, so we must be clean vessels, or we will impart sin. Some children already know how to get into the river or into the anointing as I have taught them before. I teach them Ezekiel 47 where he talks about the Lord coming in through the east gate of the temple. Who is the temple? We are. The east gate was the front. From beneath the altar, the river(s) flow. If we are the temple, the altar is our heart. Where His love meets our love, the river flows, and everything will live where the river flows. But it is plural rivers because there can be a river flowing out of each one of us.

I teach them to picture the Lord Jesus in a very real way because He is very close to them, even in their hearts. Then to tell Him why they love Him, and what they love about Him. Don't picture a Jesus that is stern and just looking for an excuse to punish, but a Lord that invented joy, laughter, and fun. Then once that is established, paint themselves into the picture with Him loving on them. When they begin to feel the anointing and get into the river, they must not just drink it all in for themselves, but also let it flow down their arms to the person on either side of them. In this manner, those who have trouble entering in are lifted to a higher level by a unified whole, and the one in the river also goes deeper because the other rivers joining with his makes for a deeper flow.

I teach them not to enter the river through their mind, but only through their heart. Not to feel in the flesh, but in the spirit. When I touch them, I can tell if they are in the head realm or heart realm. If they are in the head realm, I put my hands on their heart and help them gain the heart focus. I don't give them enough anointing to cause them to fall. It is not time for that. If you do it too soon it can even distract. But just enough to plug them in then I go on. When I come back around, if they are back in the head realm, I help them again. By this they begin to learn the difference of plugging in from the heart and from the head and how to then adjust it for themselves. When I pray for one of them, and they are receiving the anointing and then it stops, I have them take note of that and learn from it. This is how I receive the anointing and it works, and when I do it like this, it doesn't work. Thereby, they can adjust it for themselves and learn to receive and stay in the flow.

I teach them not to fall until they absolutely have to. Often I simply won't let them fall. Many children are indirectly taught to fall when people pray for them because that is what they see others do. But if they wait for the anointing, it takes them much deeper and causes permanent changes in their lives. They experience the Lord instead of just hearing about Him. If all they do is hear about the Lord, they will be easily shaken when problems and temptations come, but if they have a deep experience, they will never forget this Lord is real, and He is their personal Lord. They will not be shaken. They have not just been told of His love, they have experienced it for themselves.

As all of the children join in, the anointing comes deeper and deeper. Many things happen in the thick anointing that we did not have to try to make happen. The anointing breaks the yoke. I teach the children to be sensative to the Holy Spirit and how He wants to move. Not to look at what someone else has but allow Him to move with them as He needs to. When I begin to suddenly feel no anointing or very little anointing, I look up and always there are children who started talking, looking around (I always say no eye balls, look only at the Lord), messing with others. I will ask the group of kids what they feel. They always respond," The anointing got very little, what happened?" I will explain that they grieved the Holy Spirit by not respecting His presence (Ephesians 4:30). Grieved means to injure or cause distress. Since we are all part of the same group, we must all repent and ask the Holy Spirit to return.

The three R's that need to be a way of life are: REPENT, REBUKE, RESTORE. Repent of the sin, Rebuke what may have entered because of the sin like the curse or the lie, then ask the Lord to Restore the damage. So if a person has cancer because of unforgiveness and all you do is pray for healing (Restoration), that will not work. First, they REPENT of the unforgiveness or bitterness, then they can REBUKE the bitterness and the spirit of cancer, but you are still not healed. The cause is removed and now the healing can come, but it isn't always instant. We must ask for it, because now we are in position to receive-- the prayer for healing after Repentance and Rebuking the enemy is the RESTORATION. It is the same in emotional healings and every aspect of your life. We must use the three R's for damage control.

Then the anointing will return, and we will continue. The children therefore learn to respect the presence of the Holy Spirit and what to do if they mess up and how to return to the anointed place. The results are amazing. Children see visions, children are saved, filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. They hear the Lord and feel things, and they have great deliverances. One child said, "The Lord Jesus came to me and made the demon leave. The demon was very angry and said 'I will be back' but the child said, "I don't think so." Many saw demons or curses leave or the Lord protecting them from demons.

One brother and sister had similar visions, One saw an angel standing behind her. "It was wonderful," she said. But behind him were three demons. She knew the Lord was protecting her from the demons. Her brother, only 7 years old, saw that he was in the river of heaven with angels. On one side, crocadiles came, but the angels killed them and drove them off; on the other side, electric eels came, and the angels chopped them up with their swords. Both were seeing the demons in one form or another trying to attack, and now the angels were in position to protect them.

One child saw the angels fighting in a great battle with the demons. "But they did not fight with weapons." he said. I asked him to explain and he said "they spoke the word for their weapons, they did not use swords or guns." What a revelation.

Another child only 7 years old saw Jesus with His angels. The Lord said to him, "Your time waits, we are ready for you, come." Those are not the words of a 7 year old. I asked him what he thought it meant. He said that "the Lord was waiting for him to get this deep in the river." I asked, "Is that to prepare you?" and he said, "Yes."

Another child saw Jesus fighting demons with the Word. Many saw heaven or saw Jesus or angels. One boy named several others in the class; some he knew, and some he didn't. He saw houses in heaven with their name written over the door. He did not know what it meant. But I believe it means they have a place prepared for them in heaven, and he saw this to encourage those children. One child asked if they were mansions, and he said, "No they were just houses." I told them the Lord gives us the place that means home to us.

One night the Lord asked me to share something with the class I did not want to share. It was a talk about my personal battle with suicide in my life. I was uncomforatable with that. But the Lord insisted. I kept it short not explaining much of why. So I told the children about the time when I was 7 that I carried a butcher knife out into a field to kill myself. The Lord spoke to me at that time and said simply, "If you take your own life, that is murder; will you go to heaven?" The Lord said nothing more and did not answer the question, but the fear of not going to heaven stopped me. I talked about later in life as a Christian going through many extremely painful hardships that I wanted to die, and if suicide wasn't a sin, I would have considered it. But the Lord spoke to me clearly and said, "If you do not want your life, may I have it because I want it." I was so touched that the Lord really wanted me. I promised to live my life only for Him and give Him my whole life. Both incidents kept me and turned me from this harsh focus in my heart.

I knew in my heart that there were several children that had considered suicide, but what if I were wrong. Then a child who was only in my class for that one evening spoke. He was about 10. He said, "A couple of weeks ago, I tried to kill myself with my pocket knife." When I asked him why, he said he didn't know why. His dad had been like that, and "It's just the way I am," he said. So when we prayed for him, this boy fell out in the spirit again and again, going deeper and deeper into the presence. The Lord showed him the enemy was trying to destoy him because he was called to serve the Lord and that he should get mad and rebuke the devil. Suicide is not the way he is; it is a lie from the devil. I am sure this saved this boy's life.

Many of the kids had words for other kids or words from the Lord in general. Many were delivered and healed of deep emotional wounds. Several nights, several children wept for hours in intercession. They wept so hard and so long I was concerned for their well being and had to help them when it was time for them to stop because they didn't know how to stop. How important that intercession was, and how important for them to be used of the Lord so they could see their value. Several children were used to minister to others and pray for others. I would put my hands on their back and allow the anointing to go through them guiding them as I went, while they prayed for the other child so they could understand how to flow in ministry and sense things in their spirits. It was wonderful to see them like birds learning to fly.

I would explain, "we do not push or lay hands harshly or inappropriately". One boy felt we needed to pray special for one girl. She was new in the class this night. It turned out she did not have the in-filling of the Holy Spirit and because he was sensitive to that, she received it. One girl felt like a blanket had been put around her, and it brought great peace. She could really feel the blanket physically. One night Francine Lovell came and taught the children about the Huguenots. Francine is French, and I think she is descended from the Huguenots. These people died for their faith and loved the Lord at the cost of all. But the amazing thing was, it started with the children, and then again when the leaders and pastors were killed, the Lord moved through the children, especially with a spirit of prophecy. Children as young as 18 months would sit up in their cribs and begin to prophecy in perfect French (which these uneducated people did not speak). So she laid hands on the children to impart that anointing. It was very special.

Each night, as we prayed for the children, it was not just a 10 minute thing. We would often stay in the anointing for 2-4 hours. Then let the children share. Even though it was usually after midnight, many of them would ask to get back in the anointing again because they loved it so much. There is just too much to tell; but the Lord has done wonderous things, and it is a challenge to us adults to press in. If the children can do it, so can the adults. Though I prayed with adults from time to time and ministered to them the word, it is nothing compared to what the Lord did to the children. What a special blessing to be part of it.

I should be back in my home in Harrison either Wednesday or Thursday, the 7th or 8th. Please keep this ministry in prayer. I also pray for you and for the prayer requests that I have received.

Love in Christ our Lord,