The main news is the upcoming trip to France and Rome. God is opening some amazing doors. I know this will be our best trip ever. I am so excited because Rev. Linda Miller will be going with me on this trip. She just recently went with me to India and was such a blessing. We still need finances for two for plane tickets, train tickets and other expenses. It’s time for a financial miracle but God is good for it. I always just peek around the corner wondering how He’s going to work the miracle this time. Who knows, it could be you.

 

Please pray for this trip, finances, protection and the power of God to manifest. I know it will. I am going to be working with some pastors that are new to me, in the Paris area. I am believing the Lord will touch them and minister to them and their families in a mighty way. I pray for extreme favor. Your prayers and your standing with me before, during and after the trip, make all the difference.

 

This is a busy month and a busy year. As most of you know my daughter, who has twins that are 19 months old will soon have twins again. These twins will be one boy and one girl just like the first set. She needs a lot of prayer. My other daughter is also expecting. Due to some previous car wrecks, she has a high-risk pregnancy but I am believing she is and will be completely healed and be able to enjoy this wonderful miracle from God. Of course my son is getting married on June 28^th. So it is indeed a busy time.

 

I just got back from a lovely weekend retreat at Billy Brim’s Prayer Mountain. It was refreshing. I even slept between sheets that had healing scriptures printed on them. It was a lovely modern cabin that didn’t look modern at all. Thank you to Missionaries Bill and Mona Jolly for inviting me and paying my way. But it made me think. There are many of you that could use just such a refreshing time away, and some personal as well as corporate ministry, in a quiet peaceful setting. How many of you would be interested in such a retreat? This particular place has three cabins, with a total of 6 queen size beds and 2 twin size. There is plenty of room if someone wanted to bring an air mattress (which I suggest for those low on funds that need a retreat). If you are interested in such a retreat, please drop me an email. If enough people are interested we just might schedule it.

 

For those of you who were praying for my recent ministry trip to Ohio, thank you. God moved intensely. At times the power was so overwhelming I was amazed I could stand. We ministered in the church, in the Bible School, in special meetings and even in one on one times. It was a bit more dangerous than usual this time. I won’t go into details concerning the battles because there are still things the enemy doesn’t know and we don’t want them to know. But we were able to accomplish a lot in a short time, tearing down strongholds and stopping the enemy in his tracks. Praise God.

 

One of the things we had to deal with more than usual this trip was poison, physical poison. One of my dear friends who stands in the battles with me continually was getting sicker and weaker as time went on. The Lord showed me it was physical poison. Then I saw in a vision her car sitting by itself in a big parking lot where she works. (Which she verified that on certain days she gets to work so early that her car is often in the parking lot alone.) Then I saw someone with a sugar mixture of water and poison brush it on over her door handle, especially underneath. I could tell it was cold weather. I asked her when she started getting these symptoms and she said November. The symptoms were growing stronger and she was growing weaker.

 

Then I heard the Lord say it was arsenic but I didn’t say anything until I could verify it. I called another friend who was a nurse and described the symptoms to her. I said if we were talking poison do you have any idea what kind of poison it would be. And she said, yes it would be arsenic. The interesting thing about arsenic is it doesn’t ever pass from the body. It just accumulates and that’s why the symptoms were building over a period of time. Every time she put her fingers under her car handle to open the door some of the dried sugar solution would get on her fingertips, then she would rub her eye, nose or mouth and that would give the arsenic entrance. Her daughter, who also drove the car from time to time, had similar symptoms but not quite as much. 

 

What we did was pray and remove the physical and spiritual poison. After doing that a few times they had relief from the symptoms. Praise God and was able to gain strength and feel well. The funny side of the story (sort of) is I prayed for her car and when I got to that door handle I rubbed the anointing oil all over it. I wanted any curse gone. (She knew I had because the next morning every time she tried to open the car door her finger would slide off, because of the oil.) But the next morning I felt terrible. I asked the Lord why? He said I had rubbed so thoroughly that I had absorbed the last of the poison from the handle. I felt a bit silly; I should have known that. But after prayer and some serious intercession, I was fine.

 

I had also experienced some symptoms of poison before I came. These were more closely related to strychnine. I am not sure how that was slipped in, but at another time something was slipped in my water. I could tell the seal on the bottle was broken, so I didn’t drink it. These people mean serious business. This is spiritual warfare but it carried over to the natural as well. These demons manifest at times, throwing pillows, or knocking things over, turning on the Internet (this gives them access through the many portals. The Internet is just a series of rooms and doors that ALL interconnect. Though I use it, I never leave it on.) They have put potions and other items on the vehicles or the house before but the Lord always shows us and tells us what to do.

 

Here at my house I have found holes poked in the siding where potions or other things were put in to bring a curse. Recently the Lord had me check again (I had taped up the previous holes) and there were new holes gouged deep. One had some sort of strange greenish rock jammed deep inside. The rock was full of holes and very strange. But the Lord showed me what to do to stop the curse. It would take too much time to list all of the things they try, but this is one of the reasons, your prayers as we go, and even after we come back, when they try to retaliate, are so important.

 

 Because there are some people still in the middle of this battle I will not say much. The Lord has shown me a huge push of the enemy, not just in one area but also in many areas, concerning the use of tar and combining the forces of death, the grave, other large demons of the ground and tar. Tar is made mainly when things die over a long period of time, like the tar pits that dinosaurs died in. This becomes a holding tank for these spirits, the results is like a living tar. (Sounds like Spiderman’s Venom doesn’t it? It is. When I compared what the Lord showed me about these entities with the detailed write up on Venom, what the Lord had shown me was almost word for word the same. Amazing. And our children carry it around and role-play with their little idols, uh action figures.)

 

One friend discovered the seriousness when they attacked her house. It seems her area is over ancient tar pits. She could hear construction deep in the ground as they were physically digging to access key places. They worked on her road and while other streets were cement, hers was spread with tar and it stayed like that, unfinished, for an uncommonly long time. She began to see spirits. When I went to pray over her house I wanted to see what they had done in the construction on her street. Why does one intersection, on a quiet street with very little traffic, need 7 manholes and 8 huge gutter railings? The answer is access. I told her the local city people didn’t do this but the enemy sent different people in to dig these holes for them. She said she knew it because she saw the work truck come at night and it was from a township that was very far away. Why were they digging here? Interesting isn’t it.

 

Because of the sensitivity of this battle I won’t go into more details but we were able to put a huge spiritual wall around her property to protect her and her family. It made the enemy extremely angry. You could smell wet dirt in the living room, which suddenly came from nowhere. It was so strong it choked you. There were physical symptoms as well as other symptoms. This was serious warfare. But if we allow them to combine forces, many will be hurt by it. It’s some thing to be aware of.

 

This is a special season in the body of Christ to cross the Brook Kidron and go to the top of the mountain to meet the Lord. The Brook Kidron was the brook Jesus crossed on the night He was betrayed. John 18:1 It was mentioned specifically to show us something. This brook was one of the most defiled places in all of Israel. It is where they crushed the idols to powder and threw them in the water. (2Kings 23 is one of the examples of that.) The cliffs of it were full of graves and at flood time bones might wash from the graves. The brook was dry most of the year and flooded during rainy season.

 

It was a symbol of defilement and flesh. We have to cross that brook. It’s just below the temple mount. At the top of the hill on the other side, Jesus faced the Garden of Gethsemane. It is an emotional time of confrontation and death of the flesh and self will. In the vision the Lord gave me I saw many swimming across the turbulent waters. Some almost drowning in the waves. But as we made it across self, to the other side, we left a shell in the water, the flesh. The enemy attacked the shell full force but we were no longer inside. We had gone on.  Ephesians 4:22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.

 

After crossing the brook there was a place of healing and restoring, and then a new river. It is called the River of Joining. It glowed with the golden light of a new sunrise, a new day. The journey changes from here, from fighting flesh and unity with self, to walking in unity with the Lord. The journey from here is to become one with Him. In a series of visions that I will just share only a little of, I saw myself (representing us) on top of the mountain. There was nothing there and nothing desirable beyond it. As I stood on the peak I saw three rivers flowing from the throne of God. One was the familiar River of Love. It is who God is. The other was a somewhat familiar Rainbow River, which stand for the character of God. The third was the River of Joining, full of strength and joy. It is our journey from this side of the Brook Kidron. The three rivers represent Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The River of Love is God (God is love.) The Rainbow River of the Character of God is the Holy Spirit as Galatians 5 tells us about the fruit of the spirit, which is the character of God. The River of Joining is Jesus. In Him we live and move and have our being.

 

The River of Love and the Rainbow River were direct connects to the throne but the River of Joining seemed to wander here and there aimlessly. Because the point of the River of Joining is to join with the Lord and not just to get from point A to point B. The purpose is the journey itself, not just where you are going. As I saw the beginning where the three rivers meet, it was powerful and turbulent. It is a strategic time in the body of Christ, but a difficult time. Here our river changes from earth bound to Heaven bound. Heaven bound, inaccessible to the enemy. God is a refuge. Refuge means, high inaccessible places. But how could I ever access such a river, so high above me?

 

Suddenly the Lord told me to fly. I felt sad. I couldn’t fly and I didn’t know how to fly. I became aware of wings. They were His, on loan to me but I didn’t know how to use them. Then He told me the wings are Mine. They are like homing pigeons. Just tell them to take you home and they will bring you to Me in this river, where we can journey together. It is still a learning curve but I am much encouraged and blessed by this new river. It has not been easy but as I saw, it is turbulent and challenging. But it is very good and only the shell of flesh will be left behind.

 

I want to encourage you to learn to fly on the Lord’s wings. The rivers are there and this is the season to plug in to them. It’s a transition time. In the natural impossible but with God all things are possible. We must go from earth bound to Heaven bound in this season. It is God’s time. As we adjust to the rivers and begin the journey many things will change. There is more health, finances and inner healing in these rivers. It will be a new and glorious journey.

 

 Chuck Pierce, a well-known prophet of God, gave some instruction recently about Harvest Time. He said that we are entering a season of Harvest and we must give in a special way to begin the process and sanctify it to the Lord. I had been feeling something similar as well. The Lord instructed us to pray about a special First Fruits Offering that would not necessarily be money. It would be something that really meant something to us, from our heart, that the Lord dealt with us to give. It might have no monetary value at all, but for us it was a sacrifice. It was the first fruits of the heart.

 

Each person prayed and sought the Lord for a couple of weeks about what to give. The result was one of the most powerful meetings I have ever been in. Almost every person wept, a lot. It cost them something, and it was a great exchange. One person gave a Teddy Bear that she sleeps with and holds tight every night. She doesn’t like being alone and it is a comfort to her. It was well worn and not in good shape but it hurt her deeply to give it. Because now the Lord would be her Teddy Bear, so to speak, her comfort and confidant.

 

One gave a painting that she loved very much, that spoke of a life she had left behind, a life that she liked. When she gave the painting, the Lord was able to shut that door in her life and help her move forward. Another gave a big bag of books. Doesn’t sound like much to you but to her it was a fortune. She loved her books and never even loaned them to others. She guarded them. She slept with one under her pillow every night. They were her escape. Good Godly books but they had a hold on her. But this day she gave them. Another had no money at all, but she had a plastic heart her 5-year-old daughter gave her. It was such an element of trust to give it. One tied up her assets where she could no longer access them, because money had become her security, even a little god. It hurt, but she was determined to trust God now.

 

Another gave a piano he had for over 30 years that meant a great deal to him. One gave an expensive diamond necklace that she never took off, even when she slept. She didn’t want things to have such a hold on her any more. Another gave a sum of money, because he had been angry with God about his money. Now he realized that was wrong and he wanted to put money in its place. On and on it went. Each one a heart rending story torn from their hearts. King David said, “I will not give an offering to the Lord that did not cost me something,” and these offerings cost.

 

In most instances we wouldn’t have ask people to testify about what they gave but because of the nature of this offering the testimonies were part of the gift. They admitted their problems and things that held them and then gave it to the Lord. One woman wept intensely as she finally gave her son to the Lord. It sounds easy but it was very hard for her to do.

 

We let the people know that we would not keep these items but pass them on to others in the ministry. We didn’t want them to think we were manipulating their heartstrings in order to have wonderful gifts. So all of these items will be given and none of them will remain with the leadership of the church or myself. Praise God what a meeting. People were so set free. We prayed with each person, and asked the Lord to put a piece of Himself in the hole this gift had left in their hearts. It was powerful. I encourage you to see what kind of first fruits of the heart offering the Lord would have you make. It will free you and release a season of harvest for you in the Lord.