January Words For Praise Tabernacle Church

1. From: Pastor Steve Rahter

I feel as though the Lord gave me the word "endure", particularly in connection with 2 Timothy 2:3-10, where Paul tells Timothy to "endure hardship" as a "good soldier" and reminds Timothy that "I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, that they may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory."
Possibly in these difficult times, we need to be reminded of the call to endure through various trials and challenges for the sake of the gospel.

2. From: Mary Ellen Harrison

At the healing service last night I was reading the words around the wall and revisiting the Lord's blessings, thanking the Lord for the living stones around me. Suddenly the Lord showed me a clay vessel the shape of a honey pot. It was illuminated. Golden honey inside was increasing from honey combs that were being added. Broken chains were piling up at the outside base of the jar, as the chains could not enter into the honey. This was a moving vision, nothing was stationary and the Lord said He was not finished speaking about this.

The verses the Lord led me to are Proverbs 24 / Psalm 19
The Hebraic year that has begun 5769, Samekh Tet is a year in which the choice will be made clear, bowing down to the King of Kings Jesus, or the serpent, hot or cold for the lukewarm will be spit out (Rev.) "Taste and see that the Lord is good!"

3. From: Thoris Sappie
For 2009

THE WORD I GAVE FOR 2007 - we were walking as a people, as a nation altogether, with Pastor Steve in the front, up a slight incline. Because there are so many of us, not everyone can see where they, or we, are going, and as many people do, they have their heads looking down while they are walking. But we get to the top of the incline and find that we are on a ridge and everyone lines up across the top of the ridge in a single line like you might have seen in movies. We are all silent, because we are speechless. There right before us is a beautiful, lush, green pasture with a brook running down through the center, and wildflowers and the sun is shinning. After just starring at this lovely scene for a few minutes, people begin to break rank at the sheer joy of the sight and run down to the pasture and water. Some run right to the water and start to drink. Finally, water that quenches their thirst. Some are on their backs rolling back and forth on the cool, green blades of grass and as they roll wounds are being healed. We don’t actually turn into sheep, but I have a sense that we are very much like sheep. Deep wounds and sores, like bedsores, are healed, not just on their backs, but any place on their body, and they are being transformed as they are being healed. Transformed like they are turning into the person they really are, but not ever having known who they really are, they are surprised and very pleased as they become aware of the transformation. Like some spell has been cast off. They are whole and healthy and strong and vibrant and peaceful! Peaceful with a beautiful inner strength of confidence and purpose. (Psalm 23 comes to mind.) When everyone has settled down, calmed down from all the excitement and wonder, we sense that this is not where we will stay for a long time. It has been an oasis; a time of refreshment, a time of rest, and peace, a time of summer. But everyone is aware in his or her spirit that it is also a time of preparation before it is time to move on. There is an autumn that is coming, and a winter when the fighting will be hard and cold. 2007, or at least a large part of it, I believe, will be this time in the green pasture where the Lord will restore our soul.

I gave the above for the year 2007 at Praise Tabernacle as we were asked to pray for that coming year. Again, we were asked to pray for 2009 and I believe that what I received is a continuation of the above. As I reflect on 2008 I think that it was also a continuation of 2007. Steve taught on several books of the Bible this past year and I believe those teachings were like water that quenches the thirst of many who desire to know and understand the Bible in a simple yet profound manner. I also think that the many ministries that were newly established and those that continued throughout 2008 added to the healing and restoration of the people of Praise (CMAC, D-Groups, PBI, Sisterhood, Men’s meetings, Equipping Center, etc.)

I can liken what I feel and see for 2009 to a wagon train in pioneer days heading west. I have a sense that it very important to lighten the load. For 2009 I have a sense that it is now very necessary to get rid of “stuff” that burdens the spirit. Our individual wagons must carry only what is necessary for survival in the spirit. It is very important for us to travel light and fast.

Wagon trains also had trackers that went ahead to scout out the land. I felt that the Lord was going to put men and women in place as “trackers” to work for and with the pastors and elders and to keep in close communication. These scouts will be able to see what is ahead perhaps in the area of an enemy attack and clear the way in intercession. Also, some events may not be an attack at all, but testings from the Lord to see if we are prepared and strong enough to move to higher ground. Discernment is a gift of the spirit that will come more to the forefront.

I think that the new year will be a period of co-laboring with the Lord not only in our individual lives by working out our salvation, but co-laboring with the Lord “to git’er done” We need to continue to pray and work towards unity in the body in purpose and action. I have a sense that time is short, very short and that it is necessary to move ahead quickly and easily and unencumbered with a sacrificial one-for-all and all-for one underlying unity. I feel such urgency in my spirit and a need to travel light and fast. Again, I can liken this only to a wagon train that needs to get over the mountain and through the pass before the winter snow sets in.

4. From: Pastor Joe Stabler
For 2009

Desperate desperation.

5. From: Barbara Perry
For 2009

As I prayed the Lord gave me the word expand. I continued to pray asking Him what we were to expand: land, buildings, programs etc. He said expectations. Expand your expectations.

Last night at the New Year’s Eve service I saw a picture of a jack-in-the-box. He said have expectations like a child turning the crank on the toy, knowing that at any time the jack will pop out, not knowing exactly when, but waiting expectantly with hope and joy.

6. From: Virginia Piccinich
For 2009

While praying, I had a vision:

I saw the crowning of a baby's head beginning to stretch through the vaginal opening. I clearly saw the top of the baby's head with dark hair on top of its head. With the baby's head still remaining visible; I heard the voice of the Lord say, “Its time.” End of vision.

Definition of Crowning
The term "crowning" used to describe when the widest part of the baby's head is passing through the vagina.

Interesting, the American Pregnancy Associations website states:
When your baby's head crowns, you will experience a burning or stinging sensation, often referred to as “the ring of fire,” as your baby stretches the vaginal opening.

Interpretation:
2009 - Its time. I believe the Lord is saying, the process has begun to receive that which we have been expecting. That which we have been laboring and travailing for, the Lord shall cause to bring forth into existence this year. This baby symbolizes the start of something new to be born according to God’s Word to us and His promises that will be "fulfilled." This is a revelation of the promise the Lord has given us which we are going to begin to experience the Lord do for and in and through us.

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God (Isaiah 66:9).

She was pregnant and she cried out in her birth pangs, in the anguish of her delivery (Revelation 12:2).

7. From: Pastor Joshua Kennedy

Prophetic Word for 2009

• 2009 – The Year God is dealing with our minds so we can be filled with His new wine.

Luke 5:36-39 Then Jesus gave them this illustration: "No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old garment. For then the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn't even match the old garment. "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine must be stored in new wineskins. But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. 'The old is just fine,' they say."

John 4:35 says that look up for the fields are ripe for the harvest, while Luke 10:2 says to pray for the workers of the harvest for they are few. The Lord of the Harvest is in the process of growing workers for the fields. He is removing old garments, (old ways), and old wineskins, (old thinking), so that we can be filled with new wine (His fullness). This purpose of this process is what Acts 3:21 describes as the restoration of all things. It is the end-time Harvest before His return.

Now this harvest does not just refer to the salvation of souls, but it is to make disciples of all nations. That means to bring God’s ways into every aspect of society in every nation. It is the Great Commission and the Genesis 1:28 Mandate.

God has been restoring His foundational truths as found in Hebrews 6:1-2, over the past few hundred years, and He has been restoring His five-fold ministry as understood in Ephesians 4:11 over the past sixty, seventy years. Now with these stones put back in place, God can build again His temple, which all of creation is waiting eagerly for (Romans 8:11), the manifestation of the sons and daughters of God walking in true authority bringing forth the will of Heaven on earth in all things.

2008 has been a year of God taking us back to the beginning, a return to the Garden. God stripping us of everything, until we are naked and unashamed. It has been a time He has been dealing with the secret things of the heart. He has taken us through tests and trials that reveal the state of the heart, giving us an opportunity to surrender, and therefore our heart to be formed like His. He has called us to return to intimacy despite our schedules, and learn how to have unbroken fellowship.

2009 is a time God deals with our minds, removing religious and cultural thinking that contradicts who He is. The tests and trials He takes us through this year are opportunities to examine our ways of thinking compared with His. A great advancement will take place in the way the church operates by the end of this year. There will be a great divide in the body of Christ from those who believe that the old is just fine (Luke 5:39), and those willing to embrace the new. The old will begin to shrivel and winkle and the new will begin to blossom and bloom.

Developing the mind of Christ should be the goal of each believer in 2009. Body ministry is key, who we are aligned to. It is necessary that we are aligned apostolically, for this take place.

Eph 2:20-21 Together, we are His house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus Himself. We are carefully joined together in Him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord.

Romans 12 are the key scriptures to mediate on for success in 2009.

Romans 12 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all He has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don't think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ's body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. In His grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly. Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying. When God's people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality. Bless those who persecute you. Don't curse them; pray that God will bless them. Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with each other. Don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don't think you know it all! Never pay back evil with more evil. Do things in such a way that everyone can see you are honorable. Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone. Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say, "I will take revenge; I will pay them back," says the LORD. Instead, "If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals of shame on their heads." Don't let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good.

• For those who have allowed God to transform their hearts in 2008 and their minds in 2009 will now be ready to be His sent ones in 2010. Moving beyond personal to society transformation, as God’s end-time harvest begins. The world as we know it will drastically change. Light will become clearer, and dark will become darker. As the kingdoms of this world now begin to collide with the manifestation of the sons and daughters of the Kingdom of God.

8. From: Lynette Wolfe
For 2009

For 2008 I kept getting" watch and pray". For 2009 I feel the Lord is
saying it double, " watch and pray, watch and pray" - stressing all the
more the importance of watching and praying.

9. From: Joanne Utt
For 2009

In praying for a word for 2009 these are things I heard and saw on 3 different occasions.

1. This is going to be the year that God brings forth His answers for many of the prayers that we have prayed over the years. There will especially be a move of the Spirit on family members that we have been faithfully crying out for. This move will not be dependent on anything except God's faithfulness to hear and respond to his peoples' prayers

2. Wed. Evening Service, Dec 31. All of us use our human senses to know the Lord. This year He is going to develop, for each of us, a sense that we have not yet developed to the fullest. For instance, He said that I would begin to develop my sense of TASTE for Him. ”Taste and see that the Lord is good". Which sense is he going to increase for you?

3. Sunday, January 4, 2009. I heard a voice yelling "ATTENTION!" It was a military command, during worship, and I felt the Lord was calling us to attention -as his army- and that we were going into battle. This was IT- the big battle we have been preparing for. Our weapons would be the SCRIPTURE, FASTING and PRAYER. Everyone who had finished training was to fall in and the battle cry had been sounded. We will get our orders soon and PRAISE TABERNACLE will be going around the world in it's resistance of evil, not in the flesh, for most of us, but in the SPIRIT! Are you ready? FALL IN BEHIND THE KING OF KINGS! We are a strange looking group but Satan is trembling.

10. From: Sandy Stone
For 2009

The Lord has really been laying a certain scripture upon my heart lately. It comes from Matthew 5:l6, Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. We have received prophecies that God will Shine in 2009 but this scripture reminds us all that we have a responsibility to let our light shine through the Power of the Holy Spirit to bring GLORY to our God. We know our country has been going through some hard times and we all need to be the LIGHT that will shine through the darkness. While I was looking up where that scripture was ( I Praise God I know some scripture from memory but I have to admit I'm not always sure where it is.) I found a couple other scriptures that go along with letting our light shine. They are 2 Cor. 4-6, Eph. 5-14, Psalm 139-12 and Isaiah 60-1. In the year 2009 I truly believe God is calling each one of us to let our light shine brightly in a dark world that needs it. Praise God we all know He is OUR LIGHT.

11. From: Reg Sappie
For 2009

2009---A Great Revival After: John 16:2 But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service.

Radical Islam teaches this exact verse and I will deal with it this year.

The Madhi in the Well will be exposed to the moderate Muslim world as a nursery rhyme and as something not to be believed.

This is what I heard:
The Farmer in the dell, the Farmer in the dell,
Hi ho the Dario the Madhi's in the well.
It ended with -The Cheese stands alone.

Many Moderate Muslims will WAKE UP and come to the Lord this year. They will hear my mountain quake and cause them to wake up from their stupor.

For My people this year - Never Focus not on the problem but look at me says the Lord, look full at My Face and you will see the Glory of the Lord in “His Place”, you will hear a rumbling sound from My holy Mountain.
If My People want me to get closer to them, get closer to me.

Obama is my choice for this season. From His inauguration onward things will progressively get better, especially the economy. In 60 days the economy will begin to normalize. After three and one half years --things will Change. Read my Word for the rest of the story.

12. From: Kirsten Maser
Youth Aflame
For 2009

Colossians 3:15 was the verse I believe the Lord gave me. There was also another verse Zechariah 8:9. Thus says the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, you that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. In order for His temple to be solidified, we, the people of the church, must be strong (perfect, lacking in nothing) in every aspect of our lives lest we make people seeking err from His path. The Lord has started something and in order for it to be finished we must begin to really step out and believe on what He is speaking. I believe the Lord is saying that everything that is coming to pass and being spoken over the church should be taken seriously. But we must be very discerning more than ever as well.

13. From: Thoris Sappie
For 2009

I have such a burden that the people are not ready for what is to come. The time is short, shorter than we think. We had a word a couple of months ago (from Laurie Rahter) to increase our time with the Lord. It is extremely important not to waste any time but to increase our time of reading and praying and being with the Lord because there is coming a time when you will wish you had spent the time with God. Those who do not use the time wisely will regret the time that was wasted. They will deeply wish they had not wasted the time.

14. From: Laurie Rahter
For 2009

PROPHETIC WORD FOR PRAISE TABERNACLE 2009:

LOOKING BACK PRAISE CAME THROUGH A BOOT CAMP, AND WENT THROUGH SPECIAL TRAINING AND LEARNED SPECIAL SKILLS.

A FEW YEARS AGO A WORD WAS GIVEN THAT GOD WANTED WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE TO COME THROUGH TO OUR PEOPLE AND WE WATCHED THAT HAPPEN. KEEP THEM COMING AND PRAY FOR WORDS OF WISDOM, WE NEED WISDOM. DON'T STOP NOW AND REMEMBER THE ALTAR IS ALWAYS OPEN.

IN MY JOURNAL FROM 2002 GOD LED ME TO A WORD FROM JIM LUTZ. HE SAID "WE NEED TO HAVE THE SAME SPIRIT AS DANIEL". HE SAID THIS IS A DANIEL WORD. DANIEL'S NAME MEANS "GOD IS MY JUDGE".

THE SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE IS RECORDED IN DANIEL 5:12, 5:14 AND 6:3. THE STRONG’S 3493 IS: EXCEPTIONAL, OUTSTANDING, SO VERY EXCEEDINGLY EXCELLENT, 3498 STRONG’S IS TO REMAIN, TO HAVE LEFT OVER, PRESERVE, REMAIN, REST, LEAVE, REMNANT, MAKE PLENTEOUS, EXCEL, TOO MUCH, PLENTIFULLY - - THE WORD ORIGINATES FROM THE WORD EXCEL. DANIEL WAS AN EXAMPLE OF A "STEADFAST COMMITMENT TO GOD"

WITH THIS I SAW AN AERIAL MAP OF PRAISE TABERNACLE CHURCH. I SAW MANY TRAILS LEADING FROM ALL THE PLACES THAT WE ALL GO. EVERY ONE OF US HAD TRAILS LEADING FROM OUR CHURCH TO ALL THE PLACES WE VISIT AND MINISTER TOO. IT SEEMED THAT GOD WANTED TO ENLARGE THOSE TRAILS AND MAKE NEW ONES. PRAISE WORLDWIDE MISSIONARY WILL HELP PRODUCE MORE TRAILS ALL OVER THE WORLD.

THE LORD GAVE ME EXODUS 17:3-7 AND NUMBERS 20:6-11. IN COMPARING THE TWO INSTANCES THAT MOSES WAS CONFRONTED WITH: WE NEED TO ACT IN THE NEW WAY AND NOT REACT THE OLD WAY MOSES MISSED THE VERY SOFT WORDS THAT GOD ASKED HIM TO SPEAK TO THE ROCK THE SECOND TIME, THINGS WERE DIFFERENT THE SECOND TIME. THEY FELL ON THEIR FACES AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD APPEARED TO THEM, MANY CIRCUMSTANCES ARE COMING OUR WAY AND WE NEED TO FALL ON OUR FACES AND GET THE INSTRUCTIONS, LOVE, PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING FROM JESUS REGARDING SITUATIONS. GOD IS ASKING US TO BECOME A PEOPLE OF OBEDIENCE.

JESUS IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF LIVING IN EXCELLENCE. GOD WANTS US TO REALIZE WHAT THAT MEANS TO EACH ONE OF US INDIVIDUALLY, SEEK HIM FOR THAT IN OUR LIVES. THE WORLD IS THIRSTY AND WE NEED TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO DRINK.

15. From: Elvis Barclay

Choose between the light and the darkness

16. From: Laurie Rahter
Soaking meeting on Jan. 9, 2009:

The body of Christ is entering a season of Great turmoil. “I am the Lord; I will remove anyone who does not respond to Me in doing things My Way”. The old measures are not going to work anymore, the old devices are not going to work anymore, and the old way of thinking is not going to work: My people shall be one. The Great divide in the body shall no longer be. My people have not been effective because of the Great debates in the body of Christ. I AM insisting that My people will begin to do things MY WAY.

No longer will I tolerate grudges being held, MY eyes will no longer look away from your lusts, adulterous hearts, and idol worships. I will pinpoint that thing in your life. If you are MY people you must humble yourselves and turn to me. I will no longer be mocked.

At sisterhood the Lord added to it: God is getting ready to invade our homes with His Holy Fear. The Seriousness of God is falling. I saw people in their homes dropping their daily activities and seeking Him, He is calling.

17. Linda Ryan
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

As I was fasting and praying and asking the Lord for a word pertaining to 2009, the Lord kept showing me all different kinds of clocks. I then asked what did the clocks mean and He replied, “It’s time, It’s time. It’s time! Then I proceeded to ask the Lord, ‘it’s time for what? It’s time. He said I have prepared these women,
I taught them to be steadfast, they are willing to do what I tell them to do, they know how to use their gifting. So what I am telling this body Sisterhood. It’s time to go forth. Arise and go forth in the name of the Lord. He is now holding us accountable to use the gifting we have learned to use, He is holding us to be on point wherever we go, to offer a fresh cup of water to those in need. It is no longer time to hold the gifting within, it is no longer time to keep it at church, it is no longer about you for you, now live for my glory. So arise and Go forth in the name of the Lord, Arise and go forth in the name of the Lord, Arise and Go forth in the name of the Lord. Always remember to come to me first and I will tell you what you will need for the day.

18. Tommie Pasquini
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

You know God is so wonderful and His timing is so perfect. This morning my devotion was John 4; 21-25. “Woman believe me that the hour cometh when neither in this mountain or yet in Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship you know not what. We worship for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth.” For the Father seeketh those to worship Him.” God is a spirit and they that worship Him must first worship Him in spirit and in truth. So now is the hour for us women to worship Him in Spirit and in truth.”

19. Debbie Rice
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

At 6:38 this morning He spoke of “time.” He said it is time for change. I thought about the word change and immediately dropped into my spirit was: It is time to have the Courage which is the “C”. Honor which is the H. Courage to Honor and Acknowledge our never changing God.
The last letter is E for everything we need, everything we every hoped for, everything that we ever longed for. It is time for change. We all want a new beginning and we want God to do some new and wonderful things and He promises that. But only if we would Honor, Acknowledge and have the courage to step out and trust Him for everything. He will bless you and have favor on you, but what are we going to do. Are we going to live according to His Word? Are we going to obedient for what He has for us? So what He gave me at 6:38 and I couldn’t run from it was. It is time for change.

20. Lynette Wolfe
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

What I feel in my Spirit is, “It is time for war it is time for battle. The scripture in
Psalm 144 “Praise be the Lord my God who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle; The Lord is preparing us.

21. Linda Ryan
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

“God wants us to change nations, He wants us to change the cities, He wants us to change our family. It’s time. To walk in the authority that He has called you to walk in. It is time.” Every time you put your body on the altar in the morning make sure it is clean. Make sure it is pure and holy before the Master. The Lord has been saying; do not mock the blood anymore. He has been speaking to me. How we say, oh I can keep this sin in my life. I just confess it and apply the blood.” Sorry Lord, and go on. God asked those to put the blood on the top and the doorposts but not on the bottom. Not to step on the blood. It is too precious. Do not mock the blood this year. It is something we have been doing. We take it so lightly. There is so much in the blood. It is more than just a cleansing matter. He wants us to come to the cross and die.

22. Joan Johnson
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

Everything we do is in the will of God goes into the Glory. Every prayer, every tear that falls that is the compassion and the heart of God AND IT goes into the Glory of God. This is what He gave me that goes along with what Linda just said. What God is saying to me. I saw a vision of the Glory of God and I saw the glory entering the atmosphere of the heavens and the earth, the total universe. It is so hard to express a vision in words so I am doing the best that I can. I saw a drawing that encircled the entire world. It was a drawing in, a circle of light. It was smokiness, a drawing in from the outermost. I saw people falling off this Glory platform into a dark abyss. Some were in the circle and they were frightened and they ran to the edges of the glory circle and fell off. The glory circle kept drawing in and drawing in and became smaller and smaller, but those who were in the circle that understood, they didn’t fall off even though the circle became smaller and smaller. It came from everywhere, the whole universe, the whole atmosphere. The glory of God filled everything. It just drew in and drew in. It became like a fiery linear type tunnel that shot up to the heavens and back down like a fiery spiraling tornado and it was blazing and shot up and down and it was like an atomic bomb. It exploded and reached out to all directions to the far ends of the earth through the atmosphere, everywhere. It was star like going out. God wants us to know we cannot fathom His power. Nothing we have made is like His power, nothing. It reaches souls, like Linda was saying this morning. As we go and spread the gospel into the entire world. What we do here affects the nations. Our prayer, praise and worship it spreads out and we are to keep on doing it, keep on doing it. God is saying what I have given you don’t think it is just only for the local body and community. I gather and scatter. I gather and scatter. I am the Lord of the harvest. I am who I say I am. Do not grow weary. I am who I say I am. What I have given you is far reaching, it impacts and is massive. So don’t think what you are doing is just for here. It is far reaching, it all goes in to the glory and He moves and He scatters as He sees fit. So we do reach, we do reach throughout the world.

23. Karen Drummond
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

As I was lying here, that what God was giving me. He wants us to pull off all traditions of men that make His Word ineffective. We are really to spend time with Him and His Word. We are to be intimate with Him and as we read and study His Word our minds will be transformed. The transformation of our minds will be Kingdom minded. And when she said we are Ambassadors of Christ that is exactly what He was saying to me on the floor. Everywhere we go we go and represent Christ and anything we speak we can speak in the authority that our Father has given us and it will be done. We have to come away from being fearful and stop thinking about our own lives and being consumed with what we are doing and do what Jesus did. Jesus wherever He went He went to touch people. He went to touch the lives of other people. He said as disciples we are to go into the world and we are to preach the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. We are to open blind eyes, cleanse the lepers, and raise the dead. There are so many people out there that are dead and we are so consumed with getting our own lives better. Our lives don’t get better we get better so we can touch the lives of others. We won’t be depressed, if we stop thinking about ourselves. We won’t fall into all these stupid pits, if we stop being consumed by our own lives. If we just start becoming kingdom minded people. We would go out and do the things people said we would do. We believe in Him and the things He did, we will do also. For He has gone to the Father so that He would be glorified. That is what He wants us to concentrate on. Doing the things He did. In the name of Jesus.

24. Debbie Rice NEW song
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

“At your feet, I cry Holy
At your feet, I cry Glory
It’s at your feet, I cry Holy
At Your feet, I see your Glory
Fill my cup Lord, I lift it up Lord
I cry Holy to You
Fill my cup Lord, I lift it up
Fill me up Lord, I need you
At your feet, I cry Holy
At your feet, I see your Glory

25. Lynette Wolfe
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

Jesus was crucified, Jesus was buried, He rose from the dead and He sits at the throne of God. He sits ever interceding for you. Know today that He is ever interceding for you. Get that deep, deep down in your spirit. He cares for you and He is ever interceding for you not against you. The Lord is continually interceding for you continually!

26. Sharon Schmidt
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

The Lord showed me a vision a few weeks ago of a woman with clothes on and she was on her back relaxed in the presence of the Lord and the next thing she was split in the middle, in two. There was no blood. What happened was that all of the things on the inside were exposed to the outside. I watched all these little things come out. Some were pretty and some were not and God began to speak about a few things at the same time. One of them was this is a picture of what the church was going to experience for next year. That it was literally going to be exposed from the inside out and others from looking outside would see what is occurring in secret. Another was for people who are split in the middle and He would bring restoration to many of the pieces that have been shattered in so many places they can’t count. Families if they would be willing to have the Lord be the one with the scalpel; it is painless to a degree because sometimes His anesthesia is holy laughter or He just knocks you out or He let’s you see things in a different way then what it ever would be. So He is so sweetly gentlemanly in that way. If we were willing to do that it would be His way. If we did it that way there would be no blood because Jesus was the one who spilled His blood so we didn’t have to because He took our place. If we would be willing it would be that way. Yet there could be another way if we wouldn’t lie down like the woman. You can’t run from what the Lord has you to do and that was a call to simply lay down your life, your profession, your time. All our time. God, all our time. It‘s all yours anyway what are we thinking.

27. Holly Mason
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

Holy Lord God. In Your power and in Your strength we come before You and we speak Your name and from You rivers of life and life giving waters come from You. We speak Your name and in the tabernacle there is a great anointing that comes forth. In the presence of God will be many mighty miracles. There will be healings, there will be faith, there will be sights that you have not yet seen that you have spoken. You will see the things you have read. They are about to begin in life and in power and in strength that you have not yet experienced but it is now to be, for it is the time, it is time, it is the time, for me a time for Christ. Now, the time has come for the risen Savior to rise up and there is time, things that you have never seen before come about. Once was and is and ever more shall be. From now, from now, it begins now, now, now.

28. Kathy Brown
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

And there are times when darts, words, and curses come against us and they knock us down. Sometimes they immobilize us so that we cannot think. We don’t know truth and we lose sight of it and we are totally swallowed up by it. But the Lord tells us, He is our shield and that shield whether it’s the darts, circumstances the words. The Lord is our shield and He is our Glory. He is the Glorious one. He alone is the glory and lifter of our head when those darts are coming and coming and coming. Many of us get swallowed in those circumstances and we can handle the first ten, but the eleventh, twelfth, fifteenth, and twentieth it knocks us down and we lose sight of truth and we can’t even remember. So He tells us in Psalm 3:3. He is our shield. Let’s keep our focus when our head is sinking from everything around us. Be reminded. Know that you know. He is the lifter of our head.

29. Lynette Wolfe
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

A word came through the Prophetic Ministry of a wagon going west. If you play that song (Be the Center) think of that as you’re in the wagon going West and He is your Vision. When they headed out west, they had no idea where they were going, what it would be like, what tribulations were ahead of them but they got in that wagon and they went. The Lord has a focus; He has a vision for us that we are to get in that wagon. Even as they went along they had to unload. (Word for 2009) We are to each unload the garbage that is holding us down from moving forward in that vision and that goal. I just encourage you today, as the Lord leads you to unload your wagons and head West in the vision of the Lord.

30. Linda Ryan
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

The Lord just said something about that too. Are you willing to unload some of your stuff for the people that are hurting and who are not going to have jobs? Are you willing to give your clothes? Are you willing to give jewelry to bless someone? None of it is yours. Remember that in the days to come.

31. Grace Smith
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

The Lord has been speaking to me, that He knows how difficult it is for us. When we say to Him, “Lord they reject me, Lord they say this. He is saying so what. And you think, don’t you care. I care, but I have strengthened you to do this. I see where you are, I go with you, go do it. That is the thing you’re laying down. The way people look at you, the way they think about you, the way people talk about you. You are there to be a living sacrifice for Him.

32. Judy Wright
Sisterhood, Saturday January 10, 2009

Last week I was home and it was early in the morning and we have a grandfather clock and it ticks pretty loudly but you usually hear it during the course of the day. I was sitting there quietly by myself and I heard the ticking and this has to do with all the words that came forth on time. I sitting and I hear this tick, tick, tick. Every 15 minutes it gongs. All of a sudden I thought, oh my, what am I doing with my time?

33. From: Regina Daly
January 7, 2009

This word concerns those in the body of Christ that are especially gifted in intercession.
We are all called to intercede, but some have the heart of a prayer warrior.
A plot has gone forth to upset the warriors. Sidetrack them, dishearten them.....
These prayer warriors are key players in the battle. (Although we all have a key part
in God's plan, these pray-ers are being targeted). They hold prayer in very high regard. Yet, they are struggling to keep their focus. This is due, in part, to an attack specifically targeting the prayer warriors. The distractions may come in a sense of worthlessness, hopelessness and futility. It may also manifest itself as depression.

The body of Christ is to seek out these pray warriors, especially if we have noticed that they are not so visible lately. Find them; seek them out to uplift them.
Tend to their wounds. Don't be sidetracked by the masses who call for attention.
In fact, some who continue to cry for help, are actually detracting from the real and urgent need for our prayer warriors.

DISCERN..... attend to the troops. The ones who rarely ask for help for themselves, need some special attention.
Pray, discern.... how each of us might encourage our brothers and sisters in the Lord.
DISCERN..... pray, visit, send a card, phone call, bring a meal, flowers...... Listen as to how the Lord wants us to tend to the wounds of the prayer warriors. This "move" is key to the strategy of God for the future. Be sensitive, most of these pray-ers are givers, it is sometimes difficult for them to be on the receiving end. Don't force your "help" upon them, be attentive to how God leads you to help and love them.

(I believe this word is a directive that follows "ATTENTION!!” that Joanne Utt gave for 2009. This word also aligns with Lynette Wolf's word of "watch and pray" and
Laurie Rahter's word that spoke about acting in a new way, and not react in the old ways