Queen Esther's Fast

I haven't listened to this but I have listened to others describing why we need to have an Esther Fast this week.  I'm in!

I'm a mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is a tremendously special day for me!!  You see, 30 years ago today my first child came out of my womb and into the world!

I never knew how tremendously being a mother would change my life.  I can still remember the shock that shook my frame when these words sunk into my being, "I'm a mom now!  Like my mom is my mom, now I am Cora's mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nothing could have prepared me for being a mom.  Although I had read a lot of books about being a mom, NOTHING could have prepared me for the love that I would feel for my daughter and later my 2 sons who lived.  I even have a wonderful love for the many children that Robert and I have sent to live with Jesus already!  They are my children, too, and some day I will get to live with them and learn to love the wonderful things about each one of them!!!!  I am glad that we'll have eternity together to get to know each other!!

My now adult children just don't get how much their papa and I love them.  They don't get how we have worked our rears off to give them a good life and an opportunity in the business world.  They can't grasp how much effort it took me to grow and cook all their food while I was ill most of the time.  They don't have a clue what it's like to home school a child from elementary school through high school let alone 3 of them.  I hope that they never know the agony it was for me to try to figure out if I should do the laundry first or get school started and then stick some dirty clothes in the washer.  Perhaps I should do the milking before everything else seeing as it's half an hour late and the udders are full.  WHAT SHOULD I DO NEXT?

How could our children possibly know all that we have done for them?  How can they until they're 30 years down the road of parenthood themselves?

That's why this post isn't about my wonderful children--although they are all tremendous people!  This post is about ME!!!  How utterly selfish can I get?????  Dare I blow my mind and say in public that I AM FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  SO IS MY HUSBAND, ROBERT!!!!!!!!!

If you beg to disagree, go ahead.  You weren't here the past 30 years but I was.  Yes, God is the truly amazing one to guide me through life and to let me raise 3 of my 20 children for Him!  BUT I CHOSE HIM EVERY DAY EVERY STEP OF THE WAY AND I'M AMAZING FOR THAT!!!!

I hope that you'll enjoy this tribute to motherhood as much as I have.  YAY MOMS!!!!  YAY ME!!!!!!!!

Dawn

Chastened again

Hebrews 12:6 says, "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." 

Nobody likes to be chastened and I am perfectly normal in this.  However, over the past 48 years of serving my King, I have learned to welcome His chastening. I would rather He correct me than let me keep living in offense to Him!!  Of course, I'm always happy when it's a private chastening, which normally is the case.

This morning, though, I am feeling compelled to share with my readers the chastening that I received from my loving Heavenly Father just now.  After I sincerely prayed the prayer in this morning's email, I could see that others may need to pray it too.  That makes this a public chastening for me. 

I'm not going to go into detail but I have been guilty of mocking the Millennial generation for the soft life they've lived and how it has shaped them.  This article helped me to see my sin in not seeing their potential for the Lord and doing all that I can to encourage them to seek His face above everything else!  Yes, I repented and that's all that I'll say for now.  However, if you want to capture a vision for a country that is turned upside down for the Lord, then I urge you to read this too and pray the enclosed prayer as I just did.

When God gets a hold of the energy and stamina of this youthful generation, our country will be the country that we're all missing!!!  God CAN do what He says and He WILL do it.  We all need to pray for doors to open for the younger generation to grasp His vision for their lives!!

Amen?

Dawn

A Word to the Church:

"Recover THIS Generation"

Crystal Wade, Hico, Texas

Thank YOU for Giving to the LORD!

I'd like to THANK YOU, adults and senior adults, for your love and faithfulness to hold the line of righteousness and to pray through the last year into the USA presidential election as well as continuing the prayer shield.

To have seen in the last decade our nation fall so quickly away from moral standards that were society's norms for the last few hundred years, caused much sorrow and grief—and YET YOU PRESSED ON. Many will be the "thank yous" you receive in Heaven, but let me say it now: Thank you for NOT giving up. Thank you for pressing onward.

Father, thank You for them and release their rewards, recompenses, and harvests with Your angels moving throughout their lives. Grant them the desires of their hearts and RENEW THEIR YOUTH in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen!

It wasn't just a life that was changed, but room for a nation to change and the world. Because of our Heavenly Father, the faithfulness of the generations before, and your service in prayer and faith, we stand at the verge of a movement of the Holy Spirit among students (Millennials and younger) that will eclipse the Jesus Movement. Paul Keith Davis has referred to them as the "harvest of harvesters."

Generation CHASM

May I ask for your help in removing the stones and preparing the way for them? First, a little background. There's always been a generation gap, a chasm, which means: a sundering breach in relations, as a divergence of opinions, beliefs, etc., between persons or groups. (Photo via Wikipedia)

However, we're looking down the mountain into a generation chasm (which could create hopelessness if we only look at the surface of things) for key change-agent reasons:

1. Information-technology age – highly increased speed and spread of ideas which, when based on the already crumbling foundation of the family's love, trust and mutual respect, highly inflames communication break-down creating an environment for rebellion.

2. Social media (this has completely changed the way people communicate. In just the last decade communication is completely different).

3. Social norms no longer back family values (society backed moral values and would reinforce those to the next generation. That, in itself, was a restraining force.)

Generationally Faithful to Broken Generations

Our Heavenly Father is generationally faithful—He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, three generations. This is something we need to STOP for a moment and think about. Faithfulness is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. It is a solid place to stand for children if their parents' marriages are intact. It's been broken down to the point that we can't imagine! But our God who is generationally faithful, has remembered the generations, the Millennials, of His faithful ones for ONE THOUSAND generations (yes! one thousand = millennials!) who now stand with Him in Heaven.

He's given parents the job to make it better for the children, and the children the job of building it bigger. And that is happening. However, with the breakdown of the family, the next generation has been building what was broken, bigger.

Father deals with generations. "The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here" (Matthew 12:42). Jesus said that the Queen of the South would rise with this generation and condemn it because she put effort into pursuing Solomon's wisdom. Here was Wisdom in Person—Jesus—and religious leaders would not walk across town, much less ride on camels across nations to receive Him.

Please understand many Millennials are going forward with Father. And we bless those who are! More blessing, more grace, more, Father, for them! Those who are not, yet, and who are joining marches and crying rooms together with the rest of the stereotypes, are called by our Father, too. And the God-following Millennials NEED the help of their generation to do the work Father has called them to—massive change on all the seven mountains of society. This is a "harvest of harvesters" at hand.

The Millennial Generation (which needs us to recover them) have learned knowledge—they have learned how to protest, how to march, how to voice their emotions. They have come to a time of change (as mentioned above) without due challenges. Peaceful transition of power in a nation is not a due challenge. It's a freedom that came at a high price. (Photo via Wikipedia)

Challenges DEFINE a Generation

One of the greatest generations were the young men and women when World War II began. In their late teens and early adulthood, they were presented with a global challenge that called to, and desperately needed their courage and strength. And they rose spectacularly to the challenge. The challenge and their courage combined termed them: Greatest Generation.

In the last 50 years, the Church (in broad terms) has been in decline as has the nation(s). Combined with the breakdown of the family and the rise of the "new" way of communication, these young adults and students did not have: 1. Solid family foundation. 2. Experiential knowledge of an intervening generationally faithful God. 3. Challenges that called to their courage and strength.

So, that's why we're seeing them use "protests," because the desire for change together with knowledge is present, but understanding and wisdom together with a love strong enough to lay aside itself for the good of others—those golden connector cords which are passed from the senior generation to the junior generation—have been absent.

 

Pass it FORWARD

Asaph, worship leader, priest and wisdom writer, understood and addressed the younger generation so that the trouble in the wilderness (40-year delay) would not be repeated.

"I will utter hidden things, things from of old—
things we have heard and known,
We will not hide them from their descendants;
He decreed statutes for Jacob
which He commanded our ancestors
so the next generation would know them,
Then they would put their trust in God
They would not be like their ancestors—
whose hearts were not loyal to God." Psalm 78:2-8

The Millennials too, will have a "new name" as they face their challenge (not an election) and meet their God and rise up in their courage and strength.

"Throughout history both bad and good revolutions frequently begin because student-aged young people are hungry for change and willing to lay down their lives for a cause, whether political, social, or spiritual." –James Goll

Recover the Lost Generation

The future Father has planned (and light-scribed in their spirits) for the Millennial and younger harvesters, is so wonderful. They deeply desire massive, sweeping change. They are called by Father to create massive social and spiritual change in this nation and beyond. They will be and give rise to the next CHRISTIAN senators and congressmen (and women) and judges. They will demand the nation shift back to God-values. They will deal justly and compassionately with social ills—they will go to a level that we have not even imagined possible. They will, in the Church, be concerned with the well-being of people from the womb to the tomb.

It's time to recover this lost generation.

I invite you to take some moments, read through this prayer and pray it from your heart for them. We can help remove the "stones" in their hearts through prayer and pave the way for the LORD to come.

Prayer Strategy

Father, please cover me and my family with the Blood of the Lord, Jesus Christ. No warfare is allowed to cross the Blood-barrier around us. We have the right to come to You boldly, to receive grace and mercy and to pray to You without interference of any kind. Father, thank You for the hope and future good plans You have for the Millennial generation and those to come.

Father, on behalf of ourselves, our families, and Your family, we confess as sin and making negative decisions (judgments and curses which release assignments) against the Millennial generation, based on what we are seeing and hearing in the media and on the news—rather than taking the time to hear from You.

Every negative thought, word or action (that was out of alignment with Your will for them, that we, our families and Your family has released), we bring to bear the power of the Cross of Christ to them. Destroy the power of agreement there and wash us clean. And we bring to bear the power of the Resurrection for release of the NEW thoughts, words, and actions to be released on their behalf in accordance with Your good will and covenant purposes.

Father, forgive where we, our families and Your family have missed the time of our visitation through the generations just like the Pharisees and Sadducees did. Father, forgive where we, our families, and Your family have not listened to the faith and courage of Joshuas and Calebs through the generations, but rather listened to the doubt and unbelief of the unfaithful spies and have spent needless years wandering in deserts. Father, forgive where we, our families, and Your family have followed rigidly the traditions passed down by spiritual fathers and mothers, thinking we were pleasing You, when You were moving forward and we were stuck in tradition.

Father, forgive where we, our families, and Your family have had forms of godliness, religious traditions, and yet have denied the power of the Cross. Father, forgive where we, our families, and Your family have been stuck in generational patterns and caused trouble to those who were moving forward with You, creating fear strongholds which kept successive generations in yokes, bondage, prison and captivity by binding the administration of Your government. Father, forgive where we, our families, and Your family have broken the hearts of our children and given them no room to grow in freedom, based on the truth of Your Word and the movement of Your Holy Spirit.

Father, this is what the Millennials have been handed. Please forgive us. We bring to bear the power of the Cross to bear on these sins—please wipe the record and our hearts and theirs, clean. We bring to bear the power of the Resurrection—please bless and release them into the amazing NEW that You have for them! Their NEW PERSON in Christ! (Photo via Pixabay)

We are coming to You, Father, to offer these prayers of repentance to remove the stones, the hard places in their hearts, and to redeem the time. Father, we agree with Your good plans and Your hope which You light-scribed in the hearts of the Millennials. You have called them to create massive (good and God-ordered) change. WE BLESS IT! GRACE, GRACE! Let the capstone, Christ Jesus our Lord, be laid in their hearts to our shouts of GRACE, GRACE!

Father, we call for the release of their Kingdom generational legacy, their Kingdom purpose, their Kingdom DNA in Christ, their Kingdom release, as they meet THE KING. Father, orchestrate it so that they have a massive encounter that speaks to their individual hearts with the KING who gave up His life and suffered a cruel death, because they are of such great value and worth to Him. Do it for them individually in amazing, miraculous, personal ways so that they KNOW they have met their King, the God of their fathers. Give them grace to receive the Lord, Jesus Christ. Give them grace to be who You created them to be and who they want to be. Release them from their prisons, bondages and captivities, and bring them HOME to Your Heart as their loving, strong, kind and protective Father.

We stand with You, Father, and welcome them Home to Your House. Draw their hearts with the presence of the Holy Spirit and your bands of love and kindness.

Please direct them, each one, into the "net" that will best fit their needs. Please bless and anoint all the ministers, ministries, laypeople, grandfathers and grandmothers, mothers and fathers, siblings and friends, which are positioned to receive them—and grace them with the prayer support, buildings, equipment, resources, time multiplication, and all that they need to be able to run the marathon You've set before them to heal, deliver, train, equip, release, and support these who are coming HOME! And rearguard and seal them with Your Glory.

Father, restore and DO MUCH MORE for the Millennials! In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List go here.)

 

Crystal Wade writes to throw out a lifeline of hope for people to receive connectivity to trust the Father and be internally aligned to relate to Him, and thus receive His relationship and the blessings that naturally flow from Him. She loves to discover the redemptive plan of the Father in people, places, and things. She co-authored Pure Joy and wrote Perfect Peace together with its audio album, tools for healing trust and growing the spirit. She is managing editor of HopeStreams.net. Crystal and her husband Stephen share a passion to position the next generation to be anchored in truth so they can fly in the spirit. To that end, their family launched Let's Wade In, a media outlet, which is both a community for children and teens and a tool for parents and caregivers to anchor students in truth so they can fly in the Spirit. They have three wonderful sons.

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The host of Heaven

Hello everyone,

I am finally able to say that pneumonia is behind me once again.  It's been a long haul but God is amazing to heal us over and over and over again.

Better yet is THIS approach.  I've been listening to Kat Kerr for over a month now and I am changing as I learn of the power I have to command the host of Heaven to pull down EVERY stronghold of evil that has been used against me and my family!!

This is brand new from Kat and it thrilled me beyond imagination!  The victim's mentality that I have had my whole life is NOT part of God's best plan for my life!!!  NO, IT'S NOT!!

No matter where you are living in this world, I encourage you to watch this video.  Kat shares God's words of hope for Christians in EVERY country.  God IS taking over the world in this Kingdom age!!!  YAY!!

I PRAISE GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS TO ALL PEOPLE'S EVERYWHERE!!!

See you,

Dawn

Peace in Turmoil

For about a month I've had a lot of pain with a tooth and had it pulled on Monday.  This morning I learned of my uncle's death and my brother's approaching death.  My uncle, I know for certain, loved the Lord and is with Him in paradise from the moment of his death.  Equally as certain I dread the results of my brother's judgment.  One of the most selfish people I've ever met cannot find a home in Heaven unless he repents of his sins before he dies and asks the Lord Jesus to cover them with His perfect blood.

So much is stirring inside of me coupled with the pain in my mouth, I'll just say it's been a long time since I was this miserable.  YET, I know the one who has gotten me through all so far will also get me through this pain and dealing with the approaching death of one of my perpetrators.

Anyway, you know how I love poetry so I went digging for a poem to comfort me.  May this one also comfort those of you who are beyond endurance and who are, like me, clinging to the Master for a reprieve.

I LOVE YOU!!!

Dawn

                     PEACE  IN  THE  MIDST  OF  TRIALS

For   Mrs. Billy Ann Gray    By  Dean Beaty  8/25/04

 

So many things we do not know.

The why of trials through which we go.

And yet to Thee, all things are known.

Someday to me, they will be shown.

 

Upon Thy palms you’ve scribed my name.

You don’t forget, dust is my frame.

Your loving heart sees to my care

Giving no more than I can bare.

 

I turn my face unto the wall,

For this alone, on Thee I call.

The strength to trust Thee as I should.

To know all things work out for good.

 

I dare not ask my life prolong.

Outside Thy will, it would be wrong.

But this one thing Thou givest me.

I have Thy peace, till I’m with Thee.

Kat Kerr shares Heaven with us

January was an incredible month for me!  Friends came for Andrew and Marie's wedding reception who told us about Kat Kerr.  Have you heard of her?  Well, I never had but I rejoice beyond measure that I know of her now.

This lady has been taken to Heaven hundreds of times over the past 20 years.  I just finished reading her book REVEALING HEAVEN and I am filled with joy to KNOW that it is far more fantastic than I had ever dreamed of it being.

I started watching this video today.  I plan on watching it all weekend.  If your heart is sad in any way, then I urge you to watch with me.  If you love the Lord Jesus Christ, then YOU will be so happy to hear what Kat reveals about her visits to Heaven.

Perhaps this isn't calling your name right now.  Well then, I urge you to go to Youtube and check out the many videos that Kat has left there for us.  I especially recommend the one that explains how to loose from our souls the evil that has been planted in there as we have lived in this sinful world AND how to bind God's love for you to your soul instead!!  OH FOR JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At any rate, Shabbat Shalom dear ones.  HEAVEN IS REAL!!!

Dawn

LOVE TRUMPS HATE!!!!!!

Love trumps hate every time.  It may take awhile.  It may seem like it's loosing but, in the end, LOVE ALWAYS WINS!! 

 

I know that many of you have lived loving lives and now are being punished in some way.  That's because evil has been ruling this Earth for far too long.  We've allowed evil to become powerful and now we must deal with it! 

 

I just read this article and it makes so much sense!  Perhaps you, like me, have been in shock since the election to see the Left's reaction to our new President.  What's the matter with these people?  We didn't carry on like fools when the former President took office or was reelected. 

 

If you're stumped by all the violence and destruction of property, then I encourage you to read this article.  In fact, I challenge everyone to read this article so that we can all get an understanding about the hatred that we've all seen on the news.  Oh yes, hatred the media loves to cover, don't they?

 

It may come as a massive disruption to your peace to learn that the Left hates us!!  They literally hate us and one must ask why?  One thought I had is that we make them look bad.  The light shines on the darkness........

 

Please read this article and please earnestly pray about what the Lord would have you do to protect yourself from the hatred that is now powerful on this Earth.

 

In His service,

Dawn 

The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly.

 Posted: Feb 06, 2017 12:01 AM

 

They hate you.

 

Leftists don’t merely disagree with you. They don’t merely feel you are misguided. They don’t think you are merely wrong. They hate you. They want you enslaved and obedient, if not dead. Once you get that, everything that is happening now will make sense. And you will understand what you need to be ready to do.

 

You are normal, and therefore a heretic. You refuse to bow to their idols, to subscribe to their twisted catechisms, to praise their false gods. This is unforgivable. You must burn.

 

Crazy talk? Just ask them. Go ahead. Go on social media. Find a leftist – it’s easy. Just say something positive about America or Jesus and they’ll come swarming like locusts. Engage them and very quickly they will drop their masks and tell you what they really think. I know. I keep a rapidly expanding file of Twitter leftist death wish screenshots.

 

They will tell you that Christians are idiots and vets are scum. That normals are subhumans whose role is to labor as serfs to subsidize the progressive elite and its clients.  That you should die to make way for the New Progressive Man/Woman/Other.

 

Understand that when they call Donald Trump “illegitimate,” what they are really saying is that our desire to govern ourselves is illegitimate. Their beef isn’t with him – it’s with us, the normal people who dared rise up and demand their right to participate in the rule of this country and this culture.

They hate you, because by defying them you have prevented them from living up to the dictates of their false religion. Our rebelliousness has denied them the state of grace they seek, exercising their divine right to dictate every aspect of our puny lives. Their sick faith gives meaning to these secular weirdos, giving them something that fills their empty lives with a messianic fervor to go out and conquer and convert the heathens.   And the heathens are us.

 

Oh, there are different leftist sects. There are the social justice warriors who have manufactured a bizarre mythology and scripture of oppression, privilege, and intersectionality. Instead of robes, they dress up as genitals and kill babies as a blasphemous sacrament. Then there are the pagan weather religion oddballs convinced that the end is near and that we must repent by turning in our SUVs. Of course, the “we” is really “us” – high priests of the global warming cult like Leonardo DiCaprio will still jet around the world with supermodels while we do the ritual sacrificing of our modern comforts. Then there are the ones who simply worship themselves, the elitists who believe that all wisdom and morality has been invested in them merely because they went to the right college, think the right thoughts, and sneer at anyone living between I-5 and I-95.

 

But all the leftist sects agree – they have found the revealed truth, and imposing it upon the benighted normals like us is so transcendently important that they are relieved of any moral limitations. They are ISIS, except with hashtags instead of AKs, committed to the establishment of a leftist caliphate.

You wonder why the left is now justifying violence? Because they think that helps them right now. Today it’s suddenly OK to punch a “Nazi.” But the punchline is that anyone who opposes them is a “Nazi.”

 

You wonder why they ignore the rule of law, why they could switch on a dime from screaming at Trump for refusing to preemptively legitimize a Hillary win and then scream that he is illegitimate the moment she lost? Because their only principle is what helps the left win today. That’s why the media gleefully, happily lies every single day about every single thing it reports. Objectivity? When that stopped being a useful thing, it stopped being a thing at all.

 

They are fanatics, and by not surrendering, by not kneeling, and by not obeying, you have committed an unpardonable sin. You have defied the Left, and you must be broken. They will take your job, slander your name, even beat or kill you – whatever it takes to break you and terrify others by making you an example. Your defiance cannot stand; they cannot allow this whole Trump/GOP majority thing to get out of control. They must crush this rebellion of the normal, and absolutely nothing is off the table.

We’ve seen them burn UC Berkeley and how the police controlled by the leftist state government of California stood by and watched as Americans were beaten by the mob. Why? Because the government of the State of California approves of the violence. Do you think it’s a coincidence that California is doing everything it can to disarm its normals?

 

The Left won’t say it out loud – at least not yet – but make no mistake. If violence is what it takes for the Left to prevail, then violence we will have. You saw it, and you were meant to. Berkeley was a message about the price of dissent where leftist hold sway. And they seek to hold sway everywhere

How to we respond?

The first step is to end the denial. Open your eyes. See what is happening. Don’t allow yourself to be deluded by false nostalgia for a past period of cultural peace that existed only because, at that time, the Left was winning. They hate you. Look at Twitter. Look at Facebook. Try and tell yourself that leftists are just nice people who disagree with you on a few policy details. Stop fooling yourself.

Understand that this must get much worse before it can get better. We may wish to stop the cultural/political struggle, but they can’t stop. Their religion tells them we are greedy, racist, sexist, homophobe morons who hate science and love Hitler. How could they tolerate us? How could they ever allow us power?

They can’t. Their sick ideology and false theology requires that we be enslaved or exterminated – we can’t be tolerated, and we certainly can’t be allowed to hold the reins of power. I hoped that my novel People’s Republic, about what lies at the bottom of this blood-soaked slippery slope, would be rendered moot by the GOP’s victory in November. I was wrong. The Left has redoubled its efforts.

So the only outcome is that one side wins and the other loses. There’s no truce to be had, no possibility of a tie. And the frightening thing is that the Left is so foolish, so stuck in its bubble that it has no understanding that it can only push so far before the people with all the guns and all the training push back. That’s the problem with kids who were raised on participation trophies and who never got into a fistfight – they don’t consider the possibility that they will lose, and lose hard.

 

We must ensure they do. Understand your enemy. Understand that the Left will exploit your principles and morals to make you disarm yourself – figuratively and literally. Don’t play their game; don’t fall for their manufactured outrages. Never concede their lies, never take their side against the people defending your liberty. Most of all, accept the truth that if we let them win we will spend the rest of our lives on our backs with a giant Birkenstock pressed into our collective face.

They hate us. And however they come at us, we need to be prepared to fight.