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GOOD NEWS ALERT!!!!!

I was awakened at 5:30am this morning to one word, “Elijah”. I immediately thought Mount Carmel, but as I was out walking the dog, thinking about this word, Elijah, and asking the Lord, what about Elijah, the Holy Spirit said, “The drought is over!” Oh how joy filled my heart immediately and the pep in my step was obvious. As soon as I got home, I began to read 1 Kings 17 and 1 Kings 18. Elijah called for the drought by the command of God and Elijah ended the drought by the command of God.

1 Kings 17:1 “Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

1 Kings 18:1 “Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth.”

1 Kings 18:41 “Now Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower.”

The Lord says, “The drought is over!!!!” Yesterday He said, Babylon has fallen, which is an Elijah word as well, because on Mount Carmel they saw the prophets of Baal fall to the God of Israel, then the decree manifested with the sound of the abundance of rain. You can’t make this stuff up. God said, “Elijah and the drought is over”.

This means the wilderness is over, the cave time is over, the famine is over. Cast off your heaviness, put on the garment of praise; the drought is over! Stop your fasting and start feasting, the drought is over! God changes seasons and when He does we need to change what we are doing, how we are acting. Shift quickly, pivot now, the rain is falling, the drought is over!!!! The days of mourning are over, the days of rejoicing are upon us. If you want to find me, I will be outside dancing and singing in the rain!

I was awakened this morning to the sound of a loud “thud” in the spirit. My initial thought was something had fallen and hit the ground, then the Holy Spirit said, before my eyes were even opened, “Babylon has fallen!”

Babylon has been a theme the Lord has been speaking to me since 2017. Over the past seven years the Lord has brought me back to this subject over and over again. When I started this journey around this mystery city, I had no idea what it was, what it was doing, or anything about it. But the Lord took me on a biblical tour, so now when He says “Babylon is fallen!” I know it is Revelation 18 and I know I am to decree what He is saying. So, again today, I decree “Babylon is fallen!”

Prophetic words are like time capsules, you speak them, they go into the atmosphere and then time elapses before them come to pass. Many people are weary of hearing prophetic words, for they say, “We have heard that before.” Maybe not out loud but in their hearts they are weary of another word about the changes coming, when nothing seems to change. But if God said it, we can hang on to it, for God is not a man that He should lie. And prophetic voices that are not profiting off of what God is saying, have nothing to gain or lose by only speaking what God is saying. So, I say it again, “Babylon has fallen!”

One final word of encouragement for you about prophetic declarations. Jesus said over 30 years in advance that the temple in Jerusalem would be destroyed. He declared it one day and over 30 years later it happened. Prophetic words are not instant oatmeal, they take time to come to pass, but prophetic words from God are seeds and they will produce the harvest they were sent forth to create. God said it, I believe it, now we wait to see it. “Babylon has fallen!!!!”

Two trees in the garden; two choices given by Moses (life or death); two paths (the narrow or wide); two cities (Babylon or Jerusalem). We have choices to make all the time. No one can choose for you. Every choice is only the beginning. Choices come with manifestations. Adam and Eve were the first two people to be given a choice as to who they would listen to, God who walked with them in the cool of the day, or the serpent who told them lies about Yahweh. Real love always gives you a choice, for real love is not a dictator, a commander, it is not controlling. Real love creates choices and lets you choose what you want. No wonder Joshua said to the people, choose this day whom you will serve, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua made his choice, but he could not choose for anyone else, they have to make their own choice.

There are two cities in the Bible which are prevelant and prominent throughout. Those two cities are Babylon and Jerusalem. There is so much to say about these two cities, but suffice it to say, Babylon is of the earth and Jerusalem is from above. These two cities offer us a choice as to which one we want to live in, where we want to invest, the culture we want to learn. Both have history and both are a mystery in many ways, but once you know about these two cities, you will understand they represent two systems and we must choose which we want to operate in. The church is standing at a crossroads, a decision point, one city is rising, another one is falling; one is coming down from heaven the other is going to be put under our feet. The question is which city has your heart?

Matthew 6:19-21 says, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

I am going to do a 4 week study on these two cities via zoom and if you want to join in email me at apostolicresourcecenter@gmail.com and I will send you the details. The church is not talking about this, but it is so prevalent in our reality we must discuss this for it is affecting us in ways we do not even fully understand. The invitation from the Lord is to come out of her My people, but how can you come out of what you do not even recognize you are in? Let me know if you want to be apart of these zoom meetings. It’s time!

Gregorian year 2024; Hebrew year 5784; Psalm 24 is what many are saying this year is all about. The year of the open door. Yes, yes, yes and yes again to all of it. Are we in a prophetic year of the likes we have not known before, I sure do believe so. Are we fully aware of all that God is going to do this year, of course we are not, His ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. However, He loves to give us clues as to what He is doing and about to do.

The word of God is living and active (Hebrews 4:12) that means it speaks in now time. This does not alter the reality of what it meant in now time then, but it also means it speaks in now time right now. I was reading John 11 this morning and one phrase jumped off the page at me and the Holy Spirit said, “Year of the open door!” John 11:39 says, “Jesus said, Remove the stone.” Immediately as I read this, I saw the stone as a door and Jesus commanded it to be removed. Jesus is opening graves, tombs, caves and though there may be a bad stench for some things have been dead for a while, Jesus said in John 11, “I Am the resurrection and the life!!!!”

I hear it roaring in the spirit, “REMOVE THE STONE”; can you hear it? Can you feel that in the spirit? The God of heaven is declaring over the earth, “REMOVE THE STONE!” Church we have been given authority to remove the stone with our prayers, with our prophetic decrees, with our songs, with our money, with our shofars. The decree of heaven is remove the stone. The stone was the door to the cave, the grave and Jesus said and is saying, “REMOVE THE STONE!” Dead things must come to life, buried things must be unearthed, the God of resurrection life is living inside of us. It is the year of the open door, 2024, 5784, “Remove the stone!!!”

The voice of God is like a waterfall of revelation and truth pouring out. We may be staying indoors due to weather conditions but the spirit of God is moving among us in all seasons of our nation. In prayer this morning, the Holy Spirit spoke so clearly, yet again, saying, “We need to have a sword in one hand and a hammer in the other. We need to know when to swing the sword and defeat our enemies and when we need to grab our hammers and rebuild the walls.” This was a nod to Nehemiah 4.

Nehemiah 4 speaks of some leaders in Samaria who are resistant to the Jews rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Whenever someone is resistant to what you are building, they are gaining something off of the broken down walls and the breaches which are not repaired. It is hard to believe, but people profit off of other peoples brokenness and when builders come in their lives, the enemy makes it clear his disdain for the rebuilding of their lives.

The call of the Holy Spirit to us this morning is to be ambidextrous. He wants us to be as skilled in building with a hammer as we are with swinging a sword. He wants us to be equally productive spiritually as we are practically. We have many people who have one strong arm, either in building a business or family, but they are not strong spiritually. Then we have others who are strong spiritually and can build a ministry but they can’t serve someone practically. The Lord is wanting us to be ambidextrous so we can be skilled at both the sword and the hammer.

Nehemiah 4:17 says, “Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon.” This is our call in this hour. We must be able to do spiritual warfare and rebuild the walls around our nations, our families, our friends, and our communities. The days of only being able to do one or the other are over, we must become equally spiritual and practical if we are going to fulfill the mandate on our generation. Let’s go my friends, Jesus has equipped us for such a time as this.

The giants in the promised land are the talking heads of Babylon. The Bible calls them teraphim. While in prayer this morning the Lord showed me the heads of the giants that need to be taken off and he called them the teraphim (talking heads) of Babylon. These talking heads (teraphim) are in the church, businesses, education, healthcare, families, entertainment (audio and video), and government. They are talking heads, it is no wonder the famous phrase says “the pen is mightier than the sword”, for words outlast weapons all day long.

Immediately the Lord showed me David and Goliath and how David removed the talking head called Goliath. The Holy Spirit then said, “These are the giants in the promised land and they need their heads cut off.” Then I heard, “The sword of the spirit is sharp, you swing through not saw through to take off these Babylonian talking heads.” I grabbed my yard stick and began to swing it like a sword and the talking heads of Babylon were lopped off with one swing. It gave the phrase “heads are going to roll” a whole new meaning this morning.

1 Samuel 7 says, God fought this battle for David, hence the sling, stone and staff, but once Goliath was defeated by God, David took the sword and took off Goliath’s talking head. In 2 Kings 23 during his reformation campaign, “Josiah removed the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem.” The Babylonian talking heads (teraphim) must be removed from our land. It is a spiritual battle, a voice war if you will. God is removing the Babylonian talking heads with one swing of the sharp sword of the spirit. We are about to see God parading the talking heads He has defeated through the streets, so the people can shout victory over their enemy.

I walk when I pray, movement helps me focus my attention when I am praying. I have a circle I walk in every morning as I pray, it is around the chairs in our living room. I also hold a yard stick, this is new to my prayer time but it has proven to be a prophetic symbol of what God is doing as I pray, so I walk and carry a yard stick as I pray. I tell you that, because as I was praying this morning, I stopped at one point and had the yard stick above my head being held with both hands. As I stood in that posture, I saw a piñata above my head in the spirit. I gazed at it and as I did the Holy Spirit said, look up the history of the piñata.

What I learned about the piñata is its origin is not Spanish but Chinese. The Chinese brought the piñata to Europe and the Spanish grabbed on to it and brought it to Mexico where it really took off in popularity, henceforth, where America picked it up from. The Chinese piñata was a clay pot filled with seed and they would use it as a time of celebration at Chinese New Year (Gong Xi Fa Chai) which happens late January early February. They would break the decorated clay pot which was filled with seed and the seed would fall on the ground as a sign of a good harvest for the next season.

Revelation comes in so many ways, today it came through the history of the piñata as the Lord immediately brought me to 2 Cor. 4 which says, “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves.” The piñata I saw in the spirit is filled with seed for the harvest of the earth and as we pray we are breaking that clay pot open so the seed inside can come out and we can have a harvest on the earth. There is a piñata above your head filled with seed, as you pray it is breaking and God is about to seed you with everything you need to advance His kingdom on earth. Sling your words up to heaven, grab your yard stick, circle your chairs, pray my friends, pray, the broken pot is reason to celebrate 🎉!

One of the greatest challenges we face here on earth is the thought that God does not hear us when we pray or remember the promises He has made to us. When time enters into the equation it is easy to think we have been forgotten. I was reading Psalm 74 and verse 2 says, “Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance.” As I read this verse I heard a cry going up to heaven from the earth, remember us O God, remember us. It wasn’t loud, it was a longing of the hearts of those on earth that God would remember us.

What I did not expect, but heard so clearly is the response from heaven. As the earth lifted up their longing to be remembered heaven responded “I will and I do.” It was like a call and response. In the Lutheran church we would say, “For the Lord is good…” and the congregation would respond saying, “And His mercies endure forever.” A more modern way to explain a call and response is when I say, “God is good…” and you would say, “All the time”; I would then say, “And all the time…” and you would respond with “God is good!” Call and response. This is what I heard earth calling out saying, “Remember us…” and heaven responding, “I will and I do.”

As I continued to listen, heaven began to cry out to earth, “Remember Me…” and the earth responded, “We do and we will.” Back and forth from earth to heaven and heaven to earth was this call and response. It was such a symphony of sound, I was enraptured in it. God is closer to us, more attune to us than we even know. Then as this was fading, I heard one more prophetic word as the Lord said, “I remember what I have promised you; I remember the desires of your heart!” It was beyond words encouraging as I knew heaven wanted us to know, we are not forgotten. The people on earth smiled as they were reassured God is for us, He has not forgotten us and heaven rejoiced knowing we had not forgotten all He has done for us and Who He is to us. He remembers us and we remember Him, it’s a perfect match!!!!

Do you realize we have been given a multiplication mandate? When a multiplication mandate is on something it must multiply. In Genesis 1 God spoke the same thing to the animals and to the male and female man He created. “And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26-27). The only difference between these two mandates is man was given dominion, but both have a multiplication mandate on them.

The multiplication mandate means we will never run out of food, for the animals and the plants must multiply. It is a mandate, not a suggestion, not a if you are willing or interested, it is a this is what you are going to do, you are going to multiply. God decreed a multiplication mandate so no man, no media, no narrative can override the multiplication mandate God has placed on us and the animals. We will never run out, we will always have enough. Now can man try to stop the supply chain, yes. Can man try to control the narrative, yes. But the truth is, we are under a multiplication mandate and nothing and no one can change that.

After the flood of Genesis 6, when God and Noah were discussing life in this post flood world, the Lord gave Noah the exact same multiplication mandate He gave the male and female man. “And God spoke to Noah, saying, Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives with you. Bring forth every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground—that they may breed abundantly on the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.” (Genesis 8:15-17)

My friends, no one can change the multiplication mandate God Himself has placed on us. There is nothing to fear, we will always have what we need. No matter what the news says or names who claim to know something say, they are but mere mortals, they cannot change the meta narrative God has spoken and He has decreed a multiplication mandate and He is not changing His mind about this, for the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness there of.

Statistics say that anxiety, fear and depression as well as all of the negative behaviors that accompany these things are at a higher than normal level. Some attributed it to C-19, others say it is WW3 looming, still others say it is related to the financial situation in the nations. Whatever the cause may be, it is something our senior leader at Hope UC Nashville has targeted as something we want to squash in our region. One of the ways we do this practically is with what Dustin calls “Friendship Benches”. These benches are available on our property and if anyone sits on one and one of our members notices them there they go up and talk to them. Our church is open 7 days a week, so we host over 250,000 people a year in various ways in hopes of speaking life all week long to those in our community.

People need words of life spoken over them. My husband says all the time, people hear enough negativity and fear on the news, they do not need to hear it in church. I thought of Pastor Dustin’s vision for our church and my husbands words as I read Proverbs 12 this morning when Solomon says, “Anxious fear brings depression, but a life-giving word of encouragement can do wonders to restore joy to the heart.” Moses said it this way, “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” What we hear we speak, what other speak we hear. I want to speak life, I want to hear life. I know there is a lot going on in the “world” but if I am not mistaken I am to be in the world but not of the world. So, I have to take the negativity of the world and turn it into words of encouragement for those who hear what I say.

Isaiah 61 says the spirit of the Lord is upon me to…to do what? To bring good news, to bind up broken hearts, to proclaim liberty to captives, to proclaim freedom to prisoners, to declare the favorable year of the Lord, to comfort all who mourn, to give the mourners hope. Then we will rebuild ancient ruins and repair ruined cities. Friends cities are people not places. Let’s get to work on building lives with our words and our actions, for people are the greatest treasure on earth and they need us to be dispensers of encouragement.