The millenialists!

God has been bringing a number of prophesies back to mind and has   asked me to set a series of meetings and speak about them. Here is the next one. Be watching for a date in July. I will be posting this on my blog as well.

On October 2nd 2006, late in the afternoon I had a vision. It began in darkness and then a small opening appeared pretty far away. There was a man standing in front of the opening and I could see a sea behind him. I could clearly see the insignificant size waves behind him. He moved forward and said in an audible voice,
“To the third person,” just in front of me appeared a person and I think the person was me. He, the angel or man, was addressing me as the third person. He then said in a stern voice,
“Tell the Millenialists to pound out a garden with green grass (where I can stand)”. I didn’t hear the ‘where I can stand’ part audibly but somehow knew he was saying it. Then He said,
“Then build a crevice in which I can pour greener grass and overflow.” In an instance it was over.
I didn’t have a bit of understanding. So I went to look up the word millenialists and the word pound. At that time I could find nothing on the word millenialists. But recently we found these definitions:
We’ve all heard talk about what BTD calls “the vaunted youth vote”, as we do every election, and we all know      about Obama’s overwhelming support amongst college-age kids and folks who are often referred to as “millenialists.”

A second definition of “millenialists” is:
Generation Y, also known as The Millennial Generation, is a term used to describe the demographic cohort following Generation X. Its members are often referred to as “Millennials”[1] or “Echo Boomers”[2]) . There are no precise dates for when Gen Y begins and ends. Most commentators use dates from the early 1980s to early 1990s.
Pound: to strike heavily or repeatedly: to inculcate by insistent repetition: to work hard and continuously.
The next morning I was getting ready for the day when I heard the Lord say,
“No one is laying hands on the young people and praying”. I saw, in my minds eye, a teenage looking kid and three people praying hard laying their hands on him. Then the Lord said,
“Pound out a garden where I can stand.” I instantly knew that the pounding was prayer, intense serious warfare like prayer. I had a clear directive then to go and tell everyone who has any spiritual authority over young people that they were to:
begin laying hands on the youth and pray! Not one minister saying a time appropriate prayer, but anointed intercessors laying hands on these young people and going at it until they sense a release;
warring in the Spirit through prayer;
binding assignments from the enemy;
breaking off the agenda of the spirit of the age;
loosing the gifts of the Holy Spirit;
encouraging with the written word spoken over them with clear directives from the Spirit; praying in Spirit and Truth;
and then do it again and again, until the garden is prepared and overflow comes.

Recent Word to combine Prophesies

Thursday Night Speaking Engagement

The first one after the Sons of Issachar Dream

Fox Valley Prophesies (Throughout 1999 and 2000)

The Fox Valley in north east Wisconsin will experience a season that God is calling ‘the dark night’. This “Dark Night” season began in 2001. During this dark night the following things have been prophesied to occur: see this link for detailed events:  http://www.shoutsofjoyministries.com/articles/FVP_CTR_outline.shtml

When the Dark Night will end three waves of the Holy Spirit will begin.

The First Wave (January of 2009)

One significant word that I had gotten in 2005 was about Integrity Church. I was told that when Pastor Mike Randerson would step down from his Pastoral position the first wave would begin. We at the House of Prayer (HOP) were waiting to see what Pastor Randerson would do and when.

Another indicator of the beginning of the first wave of the outpouring was that a specific man, husband to one of the HOP members, would begin to attend CCV. That was told to me while I was praying for his wife on three different occasions. Another indicator was that a good friend of ours, who had left CCV, would also return. These men were specifically named and a number of people knew these words as they were given. The last of these foretold indicators was that when the first wave began people who left CCV during the “Dark Night” would begin to return.

On January 18th of this year Pathways Church (formally known as Integrity) announced that Pastor Mike Randerson was stepping down from the Pastoral position and was going to change his focus of ministry to Africa. Also on January 18th both the husband that had not been attending church since Kingsway closed and the estranged man attended CCV. Both have been there every Sunday since. There were also people who had left during the turmoil at CCV who came back on that same Sunday as well.

Because all of these indicators happened on that Sunday I began to watch very closely the attendance of the subsequent CCV services. Both of these things were prophesied to have increases during the first wave. Checking the statistics with help from Lisa Boddie the church secretary, I found that during the 6 weeks prior to Jan. 18th CCV was averaging 134 people a Sunday. On Jan 18th there were 154. Over the next 6 weeks CCV showed a 21% increase.

Healing testimony (September of 2001)

Before I had given the CTR/Fox Valley Prophesies publically, and had just given Bill Lenz them privately the healing vision occurred.  I had had two disabling heart attacks and was working with Mayo Clinic with some experimental research.  Just before the final test was done I had a vision in which I received a message for the church and then was healed to prove the message was true.  Click this link for a short version of this testimony: http://www.shoutsofjoyministries.com then click the “Short Version of Joie’s Testimony” blue button link.

Rwanda (September of 2005)

During the time out given me by my Church leaders while they discerned the Fox Valley Prophesies I had a vision about Rwanda which occurred on 20 September 2005.

I was told that a man from Africa would come to tell me what Daniel 9 means, to reveal how and when I am to go to Rwanda.  See the newsletter title Africa? Click this link: http://www.shoutsofjoyministries.com/articles/articles004.shtml

I began to see that these messages in each of these seemingly separate event were coming together to form one larger message.  Along with the message that was evolving, God was creating a platform from of credibility from which to speak from.

School Bus Prophesies (July of 2006)

I am in a large house and hear the screaming of a number of people.  Go outside to see a number of school age children running out of an overturned bus.  They are on fire and no one goes to help them.  So I run to tackle them to the ground and put them out.  The Father comes and shows me that He is wanting so many to embrace the pain of the Church.  But so few will do this. Later He reveals to me that the people that are now attending CTR will be like this when that church splits.  They will be in serious pain and He will need us to love them enough to embrace their pain / them in their pain.  Click this link and then download the event titled “The Father’s Heart”.  Very worth the time it takes to listen.

http://www.shoutsofjoyministries.com/events/downloads.shtml

Dream about May 28^th Speaking Engagement

Telling the prophesies at some gathering with about 20 or so people.  The people in the crowd begin to pray about the prophesies and a woman in the back prayers about a school bus overturning, and how God is wanting us to be ready to love His people well.  She says that this will happen in August.  Then I tell the group that God is wanting us to be like the Sons of Issachar

Issachar is sometimes referred to as the tribe of the Torah since tradition says Issachar produced scribes.  Of the 200 ‘heads’ of the men of Issachar who came to David at Hebron, we are told they were “men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” (1 Chronicles 12:32). They knew how to ascertain the periods of the sun and moon, the intercalation of months, and the dates of solemn feasts.  They could also interpret the signs of the times. A company from Issachar came to the Passover celebration when it was restored by Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 30:18).  Additionally, the tribe of Issachar has an assigned portion in Ezekiel’s ideal division of the land (Ezekiel 48:25), and also appears in the list of tribes in Revelation 7:7.

He is telling us that He wants us to be like the sons of Issachar, and know what time we are in and that is why He is asking me to begin to prophesy consistently the words that He has given for the Valley.

Afterwards I call my friend and tell her about this and she immediately brings up the North Korea Prophesy.  I had just seen the man from the vision, the President of North Korea, on Fox News.  They were saying that he had just deployed two missals and that the President was calling for him to stop.  The prophesy was on my mind when she mentioned it so I went to look in the book where I document the visions.

Greece, North Korea, CTR-prepare to love the people

(July 20, 2004)

Three events were shown to me.  An act of terrorism that would cause the People in Greece to need water would happen first.  Greece burned substantially after four men set fires all over the country in August of 2007.  The second event would be that the President of North Korea would launch a bomb that would cover a large area in white dust and when this bomb hit a very large wind would emit.  Then he calls a number of troops to action.  In the vision this President is barking out and spitting his orders in such a way that seems to indicate that he is demon possessed.  The third event is that a large Church in the Appleton area closes its doors and the attention of the staff is directed on their own agenda and God is asking us to love the people as they endure this turmoil.

So, all that being said, God is calling us to prepare to love well the Body of Christ as is goes through these upcoming trials.  He is calling us to be like the sons of Issachar and know the times that we are in.  He has asked me to speak about these things at least four more times and open the engagements up to the public.

Keep your eye on North Korea.

Prophecies for America

Beginning last April the Lord began to speak to me about the turning economy and then began, piece by piece, to explain some things coming in the next few years. In March I was asked to share some of it publicly.
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Saturday, Feb 21, 2009
I was taking some time on Saturday, February 21, to seek God and pray. He began to speak to me in a way that I could not see Him but could hear Him. He told me a public event was going to happen that would spur an inordinate amount of violence in the U.S.

He said, “It would happen twelve twelve.” I didn’t know if He meant a date, or a time, or something symbolic. He said there would be some people, the majority of them would be black, in the big cities that would react by going out and rioting: start buildings on fire, loot, and destroy things.

As these acts would occur the media would begin to portray them as racially inspired actions. As the rioting continues and the media stirs up the race issue, random acts of violence against white people occur. Even rapes would somehow be associated with these outbreaks.

Everyone will be watching footage of these riots and fires and such on television and the internet. More instant viewable footage will be available of these events than any other incident in the history of mankind. People will be watching a lot of violence as it occurs.

As things are getting really out of control, groups of white people, the Lord called them militias, would begin to go out and find groups of rioting black people and become violent, even killing some. While this is happening, the media continues to stir it up.

Eventually I saw the military get involved, after what seemed to be an extended delay.

I was told young men would get together, looking for opportunities to commit violence against black people, even in small towns across the nation. Murders will happen. This will all be on TV. This whole thing doesn’t last very long, a month or just short of that. Once the military gets involved it dies down quickly.

(I only told Alwyn, the President of my Shouts of Joy Ministries Board; I just mentioned it briefly without any details. Then a few days later I told Douglas but I told him not to tell anyone.)

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Saturday, Mar 7, 2009
On March 7th my Pastor, Tim Snell, sent me David Wilkerson’s prophecy about these same events. I responded to Tim in brown just below each paragraph, in light of what the Lord was telling me. See email below:

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:10 PM, wrote:
Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel
From: “Bruce Dailey”
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 14:04:06 -0600

Subject: AN URGENT MESSAGE From David Wilkerson………

I received this, this afternoon. Read it and judge it for yourself. At best we are sobered and pause to think about what’s going on in our day and time. At worst this is dead on and we are warned and prepared. As 1 Chronicles 12:32 implies we must understand the times. men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do – 200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;

Something to think about.

— On Sat, 3/7/09, devotions@davidwilkersonglobal.org wrote:

AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE – EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.

For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires – such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.
My (Joie’s) comment:  This will begin because of what is going to happen in December.

There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting – including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (v. 3).
My comment:  I am not hearing that this is God’s wrath but instead a ploy from the enemy to cause immature people to fear, of which God is going to use in multiple ways.

God is judging the raging sins of America and the nations. He is destroying the secular foundations.
My comment:  The second sentence is true (at least from the part I am hearing; also this economy thing will financially wipe out a number of the immature churches built on the desire for success and not on the will of God. Many mega churches are not full of deeply mature people and when they hold back their tithing because of the fear of the economy, the big churches will not be able to meet their financial debt and many will fold). The sin of the believer is to fear their financial circumstance and thus hold back what the Lord has commanded us to give, that being the tithe. God will use this act of fear to clean up the big churches. This is the fire that the scripture is speaking about in I Corinthians 3:

10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work. 14If what he has built survives, he will receive his r eward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.”

The prophet Jeremiah pleaded with wicked Israel, “God is fashioning a calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh, turn back each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds. But they will say, It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart” (Jeremiah 18:11-12).
My comment:  He is speaking to the church here.

In Psalm 11:6, David warns, “Upon the wicked he will rain snares (coals of fire)…fire…burning wind…will be the portion of their cup.” Why? David answered, “Because the Lord is righteous” (v. 7). This is a righteous judgment – just as in the judgments of Sodom and in Noah’s generation.
My comment:  Not feelin’ this one.

WHAT SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT ABOUT GOD’S PEOPLE?

First, I give you a practical word I received for my own direction. Lay in store a thirty-day supply of food, toiletries and other essentials. In major cities, grocery stores are emptied in an hour at the sign of an impending disaster.

As for our spiritual reaction, we have but two options. This is outlined in Psalm 11. We “flee like a bird to a mountain.” Or, as David says, “He fixed his eyes on the Lord on his throne in heaven – his eyes beholding, his eyelids testing the sons of men” (v. 4). “In the Lord I take refuge” (v. 1).
My comment:  Resist fear. Resist acting in fear, making decisions in fear. Continue to tithe. Stick together. No to fleeing!

I will say to my soul: No need to run…no need to hide. This is God’s righteous work. YES! I will behold our Lord on his throne, with his eye of tender, loving kindness watching over every step I take – trusting that he will deliver his people even through floods, fires, calamities, tests, trials of all kinds.
My comment:  Yes and Amen! And we not only need to believe it; we must LIVE it! This time of chaos is coming and we should be ready but we need to have God’s perspective on it. Much of what is coming is coming from the enemy, not the wrath of God because of our sin, at least how I hear it. We as the church must continue on in hope, in joy, in love, NOT IN FEAR which is the plan of the enemy. To fear is to worship. Do not worship the flesh. Do not worship the enemy. Worship gives place to the one worshiped. This is serious and for now. God is saying that what we attend to, what we are giving attention to, we are worshiping. If we attend and worry and think about money or the lack there of, if we fear chaos, or turmoil, we are not pleasing the Lord. Do not take sides! Take love! Be aware of the ploy to push you to take a side. Take on LOVE only!

Note: I do not know when these things will come to pass, but I know it is not far off. I have unburdened my soul to you. Do with the message as you choose.
My comment:  Begins in December but I am not allowed to say why. Not yet anyway.

God bless and keep you.
In Christ, DAVID WILKERSON 3-05-09

My concluding comment:  Those are my thoughts and what I have been hearing from the Lord in the past short while. Jo

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Monday March 9, 2009
Early in the morning on Monday I had a short vision in which I asked the Holy Spirit if this, the things I had heard about the riots and all, were true and He affirmed that yes they were.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 afternoon
I was at Michelle Little’s house and had a vision. The following was what Michelle wrote, verbatim, as I had the vision:

This fear that is drumming up all around us is not from God. Fear of your circumstance is not from God. Fear of God is from God. Fear of circumstance is not fear of God. Fear of wrath is fear of God. But fear of losing your money or having difficult times is of the flesh.

When this public event happens people will be already wound up. The Holy Spirit was showing Joie how prior to this event, people will be wound tight with fear. Then when this event happens it will be like the straw that breaks the camel’s back. With fear and hate, the demons are being worshiped, so they are “stirred up” and that’s where the looting comes from.  Many black people will turn on whites and some white people will turn on blacks. There are many white people that are hating and waiting and will seize on that moment to act out in violence.

During this time many will pull back even more with their money. Money is not as big of a deal as people are making it. While all of this is happening, God will continue to beef up the economy of the Church. He has plans for good from what the devil plans for evil. God is positioning the church to be more powerful than it has ever been in these recent times.

The Holy Spirit said: Joie tell them about the building in New York that will not burn down. (Joie then explains that the building is the one where the street comes together in a triangle and the building is at the point; the building’s face is flat.) As she was explaining this to me the Holy Spirit said: In Manhattan. That building will not burn down. It is in Times Square.

The Holy Spirit continued: Speak peace. As you live peace. As you have peace. As you stand on peace. Always know that He who has begun a good work will perform it.

The Holy Spirit said: David Wilkerson is hearing the Lord through the language he speaks and the understanding he has. He is voicing things through his voice like Joie voices thru her voice. They are both speaking about the same thing. The same end will come through these events. The church will be purified. The world/flesh will be put down. And the wages of sin will be destruction.
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Friday March 13, 2009
I was at Michelle Little’s house working on the Rwanda pages on my web site. I had made a note to go over a number of pages that have not been updated for years. That afternoon I reread the poem that the Lord asked me to write and gave it in a prophetic way about Rwanda. This poem was written, oddly enough, on March 15th in 2006. At that time I was asked to write a post script and to post it publically even though it had nothing to do with Rwanda. After reading the short paragraph that I wrote when I posted it and then reading the entire poem I felt a very strong sense from the Lord that this last stanza was for now. It was after reading this poem that I began to pray about going public with what I was hearing. Below is the poem and the paragraph in its entirety. Please pay close attention to the addendum.

March 15, 2006
I had a series of deeply painful dreams. When I woke up the Lord began to speak to me. He said that the real pain of genocide is the ripping of the soul, the death and loneliness of the living, the pseudo survivors. The real survivors are those who go to the Comforter and receive life for their death. We, as the church, assist those survivors with our tears. We share their burden and ease their pain and legitimize their soul by weeping. We open a door of hope to their death, a door in which their very essence can hope for God. When a soul, any soul hopes in God, then there is life after all. In a vision I was given the mandate to write a verse. He called it a verse in the vision. He also said that the world would read it and He would cause the world to weep for Rwanda, for its walking dead, for those who could weep no more. And when the world would weep, the altar of death that Rwanda was, the altar constructed by Satan himself to bring worship of fear and even blood sacrifices to himself, this altar would be washed clean by our tears. I know that we the church will not fail Him again for Rwanda, but will allow our living souls to weep. May God have His way as I write the words that He has given through this prophet and comforted soul…

Weep for Rwanda
15 March 2006
by Joie Pirkey

The hate was stirring
The demons danced
Worship had begun
Fear came next, but not of God
The devil got his glance.
Moving
Moving
Ever moving
Searching for a chance.

“You’ll use it all somehow,”
the prophet whispered as he watched
“I know you always do”
What seems completely unfathomable
Becomes our deepest seeds
When our souls grasp round our deepest needs

You have stitched
No, I have stitched him in my soul
So deeply that we were one
When they pulled him from my grasp
I died a thousand deaths
Where were you?
Where were you then?

Slaughter all the evil
Oh God put it away
How can the soul survive the tear
When all is torn away
My pain is your pain
Our souls are linked somehow
Where, where are you now?
Father why?
Father why?

Tear the pain from me
It kills my soul
It takes away what I could be
It’s searing death inside of me
Why Father Why?

“This is what happens when my children disobey,
Where, oh where is my church today?
Where, oh where was the church that day?”

I’d see him walking on the hills
He doesn’t recognize my gaze
Because he is gone forever
It’s only I who sees
Only I.
Only I…

When he was torn out
My very self went away
And there was nothing left
Except enough frayed self to feel the pain
Nothing but the pain
So I asked again
Father where are you?
Where are you in the pain?

The blood cries out from a thousand hills
Father can you see?
It’s the last and only whimper
When tears are no more
Who, who can weep for me?

Who will take my sorrow
And bare it’s ugly wrath
When I am all alone
Defeated in this aftermath
Who, who
Will weep for me
When tears are no more?

Tears are for the soul not destroyed
The rare beautiful soul
Which still possess tears
That soul is not among the hills
That soul is not here
Here we are the walking dead
So who will weep for me
Father can you see?

“My church, my church will weep for thee”
the prophet solemnly screams
“My church, my hands, my heart, my feet”
“My church will weep for thee”

Where has the church gone?
The prophet drops his head
Where oh where has the church gone
As he gazes upon the walking dead

“I am at the head,
you are feet and hands
I reside in the soul
Crying move!
Move!
‘Where was God?’ you said.”

The prophet scorned, shaking his head
The question must be instead
Where is the body
Not the head

“Weep, weep for Rwanda
Weep for every Jew
Weep for them in Somalia,
In Iraq
And for those among you.

Weep
And I’ll save your tears in a bottle”
The prophet cried today
“The Lord Almighty calls you to weep
To sing the weeping song
Repent for keeping silent
You, my Billion strong.”

“Deconstruct that altar
Wash away the sacrifice
Redeem the land with singing
And I will hear their cry
I, I will use it as a seed
To meet their deepest need.”

Added to the end as a post script, also on March 15, 2006, the Lord specifically said to add these lines:

Another time is brewing
There within your midst
Sound the alarm
Blow the trumpet
Begin to prepare to resist

Take up your strong arm
Mighty church
And wield your mighty blow
Or once again the world will weep
But this time in the snow. 

I want to just make a quick note regarding this poem. In the second to last stanza where it says “Weep for every Jew, Weep for them in Somalia, In Iraq, And for those among you” as I wrote the verse in 2006 I could tell that I was speaking about the future. As I re-read the poem those lines jumped out at me as well as a future warning. After some prayer and also some time with the folks from the House of Prayer I believe that those lines are prophetic, in that, in the near future those people groups will experience very difficult days. As I watched the news this afternoon and listened to one of the women at the House of Prayer also comment on the pirates in Somalia I am drawn to a sense of foreboding regarding their future. Please join me in prayer for these four people groups: Jews, Somalians, Iraqis, and those among us. 

 

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During the extended time that the Lord was revealing these upcoming events to me there were a few points that He kept reiterating to show me their importance. The first is that to fear anything but God is a sin and actually worships the enemy. The second is that He is going to use these upcoming events to clean up the church to make it ready for what He wants to do in the near future. Part of that cleaning process is to make sure that you are right in your heart about fear, prejudices, headship, and money. And thirdly, as mature Christians we are to be at peace, not fear, take on love, and act upon what we know is right. If we keep Him at our center and seek to please Him in all of this we will weather the upcoming difficulties well and will in effect help those around us.

I also want to say here that when the Lord speaks through a prophet about an upcoming event it is not the prophet’s job to set the plan for action, nor to lead those efforts. That is the job of the Apostles and the Pastors. “What do we do then?” has been a common question after hearing these words, but that answer, I believe, should come from the leaders. I suggest you go to your spiritual leadership and ask for discernment, and what they feel is an appropriate response.

If more comes I will be sure to post it on this blog and on the Shouts of Joy Ministries group on Facebook. In both of those places we can discuss, process, suggest, and question, so please feel free to make comments.

Greatest Easter Story Ever!

In 1996 the little Pirkey family moved into a farm house way out in Stockbridge, Wisconsin. This old farm was owned by my Great-Aunt Tootie and she was living with her really groovy daughter, Carol, so left us live on the farm for a few years. It was lovely out there. The rolling hills and the beautiful sunsets. It was so peaceful.

The kitchen sink was directly in front of a large bay window and I would stand their and do the dishes every afternoon. One summer day, just after we moved in, little Zeb, he was 5 years old, began to scream in a way I had never heard before from out side in the tiny field in front of the barn.

As all mothers do when they hear their children scream in a new way, I flew out that kitchen door like my life depended on it. In a second I was out in the field yelling to Zeb, “Where are you Zeb? Where are you!”
You see, random corn stalks and weeds had grown so high in this field that I couldn’t see the three foot red head anywhere.

I came upon him. There he stood, mouth agape. “MOM!” he said in a breathy excited voice. “Look!” He stood there pointing at the large circle of cement that once was the bottom of a large silo, abandoned years ago. The weeds were growing up all around it. I stepped up onto the cement, “Zeb, you scared me, why did you scream?” He pushed me off the circle of cement as if I was standing on holy ground.

I was confused and took notice of Zeb’s odd expression. “What is it honey?” I asked.

“Mom! Don’t you know what this is?”

“What is it Zebbie?”

“This is the stone from Jesus’ tomb. It blew all the way to here!”

I stood there stunned for a second. What? I began to laugh, but then tears welled up into my eyes. The faith of this little boy was most defiantly making this tiny field actual holy ground. I couldn’t get myself together to even speak to him. He stood there taking my difficulty trying not to cry as …belief. He began to nod. As if to say, Yup it’s the stone and my mom is finally getting it.

I patted Zeb’s head and said, “Wait until Daddy sees this!”

He has risen! And the stone blew off that tomb all the way to Stockbridge Wisconsin, who would have thought!

Remember Rwanda

Remember Rwanda.

Please join us for a time of prayer and honor for the survivors of the Rwandan genocide on April 30th at 8:oo p.m. in downtown Little Chute.  We will be gathering with our lit candles for a time of prayer, and testimonies from orphans who survived the massacre.  This event will be “kid-friendly” and will be an excellent time for whole famlies.  Please leave comments, prayers, words of encouragements below for the orphans and widows in Rwanda to read.  Many have access to this blog.  With all out love-the staff of Shouts of Joy Ministries

First Wave: January 18, 2009

 

 

There have been some really exciting things happening regarding the Fox Valley prophecies in the past month that I thought it would be beneficial to give everyone an update.

First of all for those of you who have not read the prophecies that were given beginning in 1998 regarding the “Dark Night” that the Valley would go through and then the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that would follow, click here for extensive synopsis.

The “Dark Night” began in 2001 and the attributes prophesied to manifest during that time can be read in the synopsis also. As the “Dark Night” would end I was told that an outpouring of the Holy Spirit would begin. They would transpire night to day without fanfare or sensation but the first of three waves would emerge like a tide rises.

There were a number of prophecies given for individual local churches that we decided not to go public with. I had not been told to share them publicly like I was with the CTR prophecies, so I documented them and waited to see each one come to pass. A number of people were told about these and the churches who had asked for them received only their own.

One significant word that I had gotten in 2005 was about Integrity Church. I was told that when Pastor Mike Randerson would step down from his Pastoral position the first wave would begin. We at the House of Prayer (HOP) were waiting to see what Pastor Randerson would do and when.

Another indicator of the beginning of the first wave of the outpouring was that a specific man, husband to one of the HOP members, would begin to attend CCV. That was told to me while I was praying for his wife on three different occasions. Another indicator was that a good friend of ours, who had left CCV, would also return. These men were specifically named and a number of people knew these words as they were given. The last of these foretold indicators was that when the first wave began people who left CCV during the “Dark Night” would begin to return.

On January 18th of this year Pathways Church (formally known as Integrity) announced that Pastor Mike Randerson was stepping down from the Pastoral position and was going to change his focus of ministry to Africa. Also on January 18th both the husband that had not been attending church since Kingsway closed and the estranged man attended CCV. Both have been there every Sunday since. There were also people who had left during the turmoil at CCV who came back on that same Sunday as well.

Because all of these indicators happened on that Sunday I began to watch very closely the attendance of the subsequent CCV services. Both of these things were prophesied to have increases during the first wave. Checking the statistics with help from Lisa Boddie the church secretary, I found that during the 6 weeks prior to Jan. 18th CCV was averaging 134 people a Sunday. On Jan 18th there were 154. Over the next 6 weeks CCV showed a 21% increase.

We believe that with the fulfillment of these indicators that the first wave of three, that constitute the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, has begun. (See the Fox Valley Prophecies synopsis for more information).

This means that the “Dark Night” is now fading. For the “Dark Night” to be finished the following three things still need to occur: the two stones, the abortion clinic on Gillett and the Paradise Club, will be removed, and Christ the Rock Community Church, which is the final church to be affected by the “Dark Night”, will split.

When the abortion Clinic goes down and closes permanently we have been instructed through a vision to go to the Saint John’s parking lot in Little Chute the following evening and pray for the sick. So be watching for that.

Another thing to be careful for is the prophecy about not being influenced by the two specific camps of Bob Jones and Dutch Sheets/C. Peter Wagner. Again, I was not told anything negative about these two camps, only that God did not want this outpouring of the Holy Spirit to be influenced by them. This particular word came before I was healed in 2001. And since then both of these camps have begun conferences here in the Valley. I believe that this is not a coincidence and that we need to take this word very seriously. The local ministers hosting these camps are creating a platform for the very camps that God does not want us to be influenced by and according to this word this is not God’s will. Therefore, I want to strongly encourage you, again, not to attend.

So, we are in the first wave, finally! Thank God!

Things will continue to happen quickly. We are praying that we in the Valley will understand what times we are in and what we should do about it like the sons of Issachar (I Chronicles 12:32). So please be in prayer and be watching for what God is doing. The more we hear from the Body of Christ, the clearer the picture we have.

Word for Zimbabwe with a miracle

Here’s what went down:

This past Saturday I took the day alone to pray about a lot of things but mostly to just listen to what the Lord was wanting to say.  Just after I started He began to speak to me about Zimbabwe.

Here is what He said:  Zimbabwe- Isaiah 41: 17-20

17“The afflicted and needy are seeking ^(A)water, but there is none,
And their tongue is parched with thirst;
I, the LORD, ^(B)will answer them Myself,.
As the God of Israel I ^(C)will not forsake them.
18“I will open ^(D)rivers on the bare heights
And springs in the midst of the valleys;
I will make ^(E)the wilderness a pool of water
And the dry land fountains of water.
19“I will put the cedar in the wilderness,
The acacia and the ^(F)myrtle and the olive tree;
I will place the ^(G)juniper in the desert
Together with the box tree and the cypress,
20That ^(H)they may see and recognize,
And consider and gain insight as well,
That the ^(I)hand of the LORD has done this,
And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

The Lord will release clean water to them.  He is going to take down the corrupt government.  He will expose it to all the world, to shame and reject and remove.  He will let good men arise and doers of His will emerge.  He will replace the week, remove the timid, strike down the men who do nothing to advance His will, His justice, His righteousness.

“Everyone will see this miracle and understand that it is the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, who did it.”

That was the first part.  Then He said:  Isaiah 42:9

9 Everything I prophesied has come true,
and now I will prophesy again.
I will tell you the future before it happens.”

He said, “You see and understand what is right but refuse to act on it.”

Okay, so that was it that day for Zimbabwe.  I was thinking, “How in the world am I supposed to get this information to Zimbabwe.”

Then this morning, it’s now Tuesday,  I received an email from a Pastor in Uganda.  I get a lot of these types of emails asking me to come to speak and in reality they are asking for me to bring resources.  So I usually simply add them to my Newsletter list and delete them.  The one I got this morning though I read.  Not sure why.  In it this Pastor was saying the usual,”I am having a conference, blah blah..” but right in the middle of it he mentions that he knows, “Dale and Pearl”.  So I laugh and think who in the world is Dale and Pearl?  Not sure why but this sticks in my mind, so I Google it.  I found a ministry on the web with folks from WI who also experienced a physical healing named Dale and Pearl.  So I sent them an email asking them if they knew this Pastor.

They emailed back and said that they were headed to Uganda in a few weeks but did not know this Pastor and gave me their telephone number and asked me to phone them.  So I did.  When I asked them about their ministry in Uganda they said, “Oh we don’t have a ministry in Uganda but we do in ZIMBABWE”.  I say, “Oh oh. I have just received a word for Zimbabwe.”  They asked me to email it to them and they will be emailing me email addresses from Pastors in Zimbabwe.

Who would have thought on Saturday that by Tuesday I would be connected with people who have contacts in Zimbabwe?  God has ways of using us that we cannot comprehend.  he has miraculous ways.  And when He shows up with miracles the Bible says that those miracles confirm the word.  Amen.

Thoughts?

Weird thing happened during the Christmas season this year.  God kept speaking to me about this coffee shop on N just outside of Kimberly.  He kept telling me that he wanted me to go there, to bring people, to tell people about it, to go and speak to the owners, to help in any way that He shows me.  These thoughts kept coming to mind and then on Jan. 2 it got so crazy I broke down and drove over.  I met the owner and his name is Brian.  He’s a pretty cool guy.  I was worried about what to tell him if anything.  I mean what I am supposed to do, “Excuse me, yeah God told me to come here and help you.”  A bit uncomfortable.  So I made Bobby come with me and we went in and ordered hot chocolate because I don’t drink coffee and Bobby was fasting, ugh.  I was asking too many questions and felt that it was getting akward so I asked him if he could sit down and chat.  Bobby and I spoke to him for some time.  It was really encouraging.  I tried to come a crossed as normal as possible and told him that God was asking me to help him out.  He was really receptive.  I am stoked.  So, here is my pitch, God has asked me to ask you to go to that coffee shop.  How weird is that?  Hope to see you there.

Chocolate and Coffee

Great Lakes Coffee

On N in the new little strip mall on the top of the hill just a crossed the street from Kimberly High.

Let me know what you think if you go, and make sure to try the chocolate, it is actually better than Godiva.  Tell them Joie sent you.  LOL

What a Weekend!

This was a whirlwind weekend!  On Friday I was invited to meet Cate and John Gard who are running for Congress against Kagen.  The awesome thing at that event was that I found out about Cate Gard’s work in none other than RWANDA!!  Then on Saturday, Shouts of Joy Ministries had a booth at the Kermis Festival in downtown Little Chute.  I had the whole thing set up with a Rwandan flare.  Well who showed up around noon to shake hands and kiss babies?  John and Cate Gard.  Funny moment, John stood in front of the booth while I was speaking with Cate, and was saying, “Wow this is getting weird.  This booth is for Rwanda! Small world!”  Then I reintroduced myself to him and began to further explain about our work in Rwanda.  After many hours of greeting and informing most of Little Chute we packed up and went home.  Then on Sunday morning I was invited to a luncheon with Immaculee by Kathy Lochner, a wonderful woman who’s heart is both for the U.S. and Rwanda, imagine that!   Meeting Immaculee was oddly like a quick trip to Kigali.  The friendly, very open way of the Rwandese was emanating from her beautiful smile.  Hearing her speak later that afternoon was truly inspirational.  What was odd for me was that here we sat with thousands of people in the middle of my home land talking about Rwanda.  I don’t know how to explain it but somehow it was surreal.  The one thing that kept going through my mind was how the prophesy about how God stitching this area of Wisconsin with Rwanda for both of our benefits was actually coming to pass.  Well, here we go.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped with the Kermis Festival Booth and Immaculee’s event!  Your work is greatly!!!!! appreciated!

Speak the Truth

I am sure that many of you have heard about the Lakeland “Outpouring” in Florida, spearheaded by Todd Bentley of Fresh Fire Ministries that occurred this summer.  Many of you, I know, have been receiving emails and post cards from local Pastors who are claiming that they are bringing back the anointing that they received at this “Outpouring” and are “imparting” it at services and conferences that they are holding here in the Fox Valley.  For those of you who are not aware of what is happening with this event I want to strongly encourage you to click on the blue links below and do some research because something very important is happening in the Body of Christ and this is only the beginning.

(Here is a link to a segment that Nightline did on Todd Bentley on July 9^th)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69p-vJfWudo

(Here is a link to Fox News with Geraldo interviewing Todd)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–SEIA67rGI&feature=related

For the past month I have had quite a bit of time in prayer and study, good alone time with the Lord and His awesome Word.  Let me add to this list, my husband Douglas, because not only is he passionate about his own studies of the Word he is a wealth of Biblical information, good solid doctrine, a wise and engaged spiritual head, and a serious prayer partner.

Much of this time was spent hearing from the Lord about what He is about to do with the Church at large.  Many times He was confronting my small, local thinking and asking me to understand that He was speaking about the global church.  The underlying theme of what He was speaking to me was holiness and that He is calling the Church to truth and repentance.  The foundational scripture He gave to me for this season is

I Corinthians 3:10-15

“By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.” (NIV)

A small part of what He was sharing with me was about both what was happening and what was about to happen in Lakeland, Florida.  Out of these times of prayer and visions I have come with a call from the Lord to share with you some of what He has told me.

In early May He told me in a vision that Todd Bentley was in sin and that some of the sin was “deviant” (His word).  I was told that the sin that would be revealed would include sexual sins, problems with the money, and testifying to miracles that have not happened.  He said that it would be exposed but that was not why the event would end.  It would end and be exposed because he and his fellow ministers were not allowing Christ to be the Head.

I was told that He would allow the move to become well known and that I should watch to see who would (and I use His word here) “own” this.  Many ministers of prominence would “own” what was happening.  He didn’t say why this was important, but He wanted me to watch for it and to watch who did.

On June 25^th, a “Commission Service” was held in Lakeland where a number of well known ministers prophesied over Todd and gave their blessing to this series of meetings, bringing Todd under their apostolic covering.  Here is that series of links:

One of Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVdY9ufJmz8&feature=related
Two of Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A05WQYi7aQ&feature=related
Three of Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjl5wKso9eU&feature=related
Four of Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAnNSiZfgvI&feature=related

On May 4th, when I heard that Paul Cain, Kansas City Prophet, was to speak on the platform at Lakeland and then did the following night, I was trembling with the seriousness of how wrong it was to allow Paul Cain to have the platform.  I watched the video of the event sometime later and was amazed that this man, who had recently been publically addressed by people in his same camp for being homosexual and an alcoholic and who was not willing to submit to a restoration process, was here on the pulpit prophesying.  That night I went to pray about it and the Lord simply told me to continue to watch.

(Here is the link to Morning Star Ministries regarding Paul Cain being caught in sin as recently as 2004)

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000012967/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Special_Bulletins/2004/_6_Special.aspx

(Here is the link to Paul not submitting to the restoration process, same web site)

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000013152/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Special_Bulletins/2007/_1_An.aspx

The night that Paul Cain “prophesied” on the platform at Lakeland he lied about his sin, claiming that there were only “accusations against him” even though earlier he had admitted to these sins on his own web site. Then he went on to tell the crowd that he had led a celibate life even though he had recently admitted to having years of sexual relations with men.  I’ll post part of Rick Joyner’s article that explains what happened:

The History and Future of the Present Revival – Part 3

By Rick Joyner

“Later, Paul submitted himself to a restoration process and they declared him restored to ministry. When those who had led this process explained how they had accomplished this so fast, it set off more alarms in me. Some of the communication I had with them and with Paul only solidified my doubts. Even so, I had a great hope that I was wrong, or even if I was right about the validity of their restoration process, that the Lord would intervene some other way so that Paul could be delivered from the powerful strongholds that had taken such a grip on his life.

I kept that hope until Paul spoke in Lakeland about “the allegations” about him and his assertions of having lived a celibate life. That was pretty overwhelming evidence that he has still not repented of these serious transgressions. What Paul called “allegations” are abundant and overwhelming evidence, which Paul has admitted to. However, admitting something is not the same as repenting of it. As long as there is blame-shifting, an attempt to cover them up, or dilute the seriousness of them, the restoration process has at best fallen far short of its purpose.”

(Here is the link to the entire Bulletin that Rick Joyner wrote with his thoughts about Paul’s comments at Lakeland)

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000031954/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Special_Bulletins/2008/_6_The.aspx

What was happening to Todd’s discernment when he supposedly was spoken to by the Lord and asked to have Paul Cain come to prophesy?  What was happening to the discernment of the other leaders to even allow Paul to speak on the platform?    They were making strong claims of being in “the glory” and in “revelatory realms” and of receiving prophetic words from the Lord, and yet were none of them warned by the Lord that Paul was not in a right state to have the pulpit, to be allowed to “prophesy”?

At this point, in mid June, I thought that the Church needed to be warned and I went out on the internet trying to see if anyone had heard from the Lord before it happened about Paul Cain or about Todd being in sin.  I also felt that it was time to go public with some kind of warning. I asked the three men who oversee and advise me in the visions and prophetic words that I receive, if they thought that I should go public with what the Lord was telling me.  They all three agreed that unless the Lord specifically told me who and how to tell it that I should wait and remain silent until the Lord specifically directed me to do otherwise.

The week before Paul Cain spoke at Lakeland we were at a CCV House of Prayer meeting on June 10^th. The Lord spoke to me about having three intercessors and myself go away for 24 hours and pray and listen because He wanted to reveal some things to us.  We went on June 16 and 17^th.  The Lord began to speak to us about what was happening in Lakeland as soon as we began.  He told one of the prophetic women who were there that Todd Bentley was in sin and that the timing of the closing of the Lakeland event would be significant.

The Lord then began to speak to us about ‘speaking the truth’.  He made it clear that I was to speak publically not only about what He was telling me about Lakeland but also about the Fox Valley and the Church at large.  The exposing of sin in Lakeland and at some of the churches here in the Valley is only a small fraction of what He is about to do.  He intends to clean up the church.  This cleansing has to happen to prepare the way for true revival, for true reformation.  He wants the Church to function in the way that He has set up and commanded us to work in Matthew 18. He wants us to begin to speak the truth, calling those in sin to repentance.

Matthew 18:15-18

“If your brother sins go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.”  But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses every fact may be confirmed. “If he refuses to listen to them tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

He told us that when we speak the truth rain will come.

One of the truths that the Lord asked us to address publically in that same 24 hour meeting was the sin of idolatry.  He showed us that when Jesus Christ is not the center and our focus shifts to anything else, that point of focus becomes an idol; whether it be a man, an angel, sign and wonders, sensation, whatever.  As we were praying about what other specific truths to speak and how to proclaim them in a way that brings restoration and repentance instead of offence and division, my husband phoned and told us that he felt that the Lord wanted us to read Zech. 10.  Here is what we read:

Zechariah 10:1-4

Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone.  The idols speak deceit, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd. “My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD Almighty will care for his flock, the house of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle. From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler.

Almost two months after this 24 hour prayer time the news broke on August 12^th that Todd was divorcing his wife.

(Here is the link to Todd’s web site and a letter from his Board of Directors.  They initially wrote a letter on August 12 assuring the public that no infidelity was occurring on either part but then on August 15^th they wrote another letter seen on this link below stating that Todd had an inappropriate relationship with one of his female staff members.)

http://www.freshfire.ca/

Again I asked the Lord about this but all He said was “Watch the Leaders” referring to those who “owned” the event, seen in the “Commission Service” video clips above.  And again He said that this is not coming down because of Todd’s sin, but because he and his staff were not allowing Christ to be the Head.

Knowing what we know now about Todd’s personal life, viewing the videos of the actual revival and those prophesying about Todd brings on a whole new set of questions.  Here are what a few of those ministers prophesied about Todd at Lakeland:

“You have no guile in you” – Paul Cain June 17th at Lakeland

“Your power will increase, your authority will increase, your favor will increase, influence and revelation will increase”  – C. Peter Wagner June 25^th at Lakeland

“Knowing that you have walked in a manner worthy of the Lord, pleasing Jesus in every way, bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the intimacy and knowledge of God…”
– Che Ahn June 25^th at Lakeland

“The spirit came on me and said, Todd, because you asked, like so very few men on the face of the earth asked, to see my glory, I will begin a revival through you, that will pass beyond gifts in to the very heart that moves God, to release gifts to his children and Jesus filled with compassion healed the sick and Jesus filled with forgiveness said he who is without sin cast the first stone, and Jesus filled with justice and truth threw over tables and took out whips and cleansed the temple of God.  Todd, I have chosen you because of your background, because of your background, because of your background to release my nature, when you release my gifts to become a living epistle like the Word who became flesh, and people saw the glory of God and I will use you to father a movement that operates in such revival power. But it is coming out of the very nature and heart of God and you will teach people how to behold God until they are transformed from glory to glory, from compassion to mercy, to loving kindness, to truth, to justice, to forgiveness, and a whole generation will move in such signs and wonders and power. But everyone will give glory to God. And I feel like, Todd, that when you were 12 years old and I just graduated from Baptist seminary, the Holy Spirit fell on me and he started to speak to me over and over and over again about a generation that would come on the earth that would do signs and wonders and change society and society would not change them and you are a first fruits of that generation of nation changers that will release the glory of God in all its fullness in Jesus name.”  –Stacey Campbell June 25th at Lakeland

How could so many prominent ministers of our day, many who claim to be hearing directly from the Lord, not have had an inkling that something was very wrong?  What was actually happening to Todd as he obviously knew what was being spoken over him was not true, and yet was still jerking his head back and forth, as if the Holy Spirit was manifesting in a miraculous way to confirm the words being spoken?  And why were so many in the crowd doing this as well?  As lies are being falsely prophesied over a minister in front of thousands wouldn’t you think that the Holy Spirit would be communicating to the believers a message of grief, or at least that something is very wrong?  And yet thousands were “manifesting” jerks and movements as if the Holy Spirit was confirming what was being said.  What was going on here?

I have cried out to the Lord asking why so many people seemed to believe so many things that were not true.  What He told me was that He created them to follow;  that He gave them gifts;  that He gave them discernment, and prophesies, and teachers to tell us what is Biblical, Pastors to help tend to the flock and to direct us.  At so many levels the church is breaking down and not functioning as it should, as it is fashioned and called to do.  So what are we to do in this situation?

God is telling us to speak the truth.  After speaking so many times about the need to speak up and tell the truth; the truth about what He is telling us, the truth about what we know that is uncomfortable to confront, the truth of the Word of God, He gave me these scriptures for the Church:

Ephesians 5:11-17

Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. For this reason it says,
“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.” Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

and

2 Corinthians 4:2

Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

When we speak the Word of God into any given situation the truth is active and alive and can divide what is from the Lord and what is not.  So in the example of Lakeland, for those who knew about Todd’s adultery, had they spoken the truth in love in the very beginning, the Spirit of God could have had His way.  But when the truth is covered up the sin grows and spreads and destroys not only that beloved believer but the ones around him as well, especially when they are in a leadership position.  And when lies are spoken to cover the truth, the enemy is then released into the situation, because he is the father of lies.  Although the truth can be very difficult to speak, especially in these circumstances, we as believers are in covenant to take up that cross and speak the truth in love.

One thing the Lord has been asking me to do through this process is to call the ministers who publically supported and endorsed the Lakeland event to repent.  Call them to admit what they have done wrong, to own how they have misled the people, and simply repent so that they can be restored to the body as the leaders and ministers that they are.  Until then, I believe not only the Bible, but also God prophetically, is saying to these ministers, not to continue in ministry until they have publically repented and have appropriately been restored from this situation.

These events in Lakeland become exceedingly important to us in the Fox Valley because a group of ministers closely affiliated with Todd, and what happened there, are now coming to Valley Harvest Church in Neenah in October. In their previous invitations they have claimed to have gone to Lakeland, picked up the ”anointing” and brought it back to the Fox Valley to impart it to the believers here. Since the sin that was happening at Lakeland began to come out, some of them have simply scrubbed off the name Lakeland and have continued ministry as usual.  With everything we know now, including what the Lord has spoken about this, I wonder what exactly they are bringing to the Valley.  Pastor Bidal Torrez and Jeff Jansen, who are hosting this October event, have also not only promoted Lakeland in their invitations but have just recently held a conference with Paul Cain as well.

As a prophet I have heard many times in the past that we, the Church in the Fox Valley, are not to be influenced by the Bob Jones camp, which includes the ministry of Todd Bentley.  These words about not being influenced have been widely circulated among the men hosting these events, my pastor and spiritual leadership, and many who attend the CCV House of Prayer.  For years now, we had been told not to be influenced by either the Bob Jones camp nor the C. Peter Wagner / Dutch Sheets camp.  City Church, hosted at Valley Harvest, was an organization of local churches and ministries who were praying for unity in the Fox Valley and for a promised Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.  When Jeff Jansen first began to minister with the City Church, before he was closely connected with Bob Jones, we received him with open arms.  But as his ministry matured, he became more closely connected with the Bob Jones camp, taking on their distinctives, beliefs, and experiences. The Lord spoke to me just after the Fire and Glory Conference in January of 2006, which the City Church was hosting, that we were to no longer have Jeff Jansen minister with us for a season so as not to be influenced by the camp he was affiliated with. I was specifically told that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that was coming to the Fox Valley was going to be very different from what was happening in these two camps and that the Lord did not want us to be influenced by them.  Consequently, until that outpouring came, we were to discontinue having these camps minister here in the Fox Valley. It was the response to these words from the Lord that caused the City Church to split apart.

For a season the Lord told me to remain silent.  But now He has asked me to speak the truth about these very difficult things.  They are difficult because I sincerely love and respect both Jeff and Bidal.  However, they are opening a door to the Fox Valley to a movement that the Lord does not want here, to a movement that is going through a deeply questionable time at best.  In light of the sins being uncovered at Lakeland; that Paul Cain is not in right standing for ministry and yet both Bidal and Jeff have been ministering with him; that so many ministers prophesied for and endorsed all of this and have not publically repented, I am asking the Body of Christ to lift up a standard of holiness and love by calling these people to account.

I am also asking the local Pastors to please pray about speaking out publically regarding what they are discerning about this matter.

I received a phone call from a much respected minister in Rwanda this past week.  I had been discussing this matter with him for some time.  He phoned to encourage me to speak up and tell the Church what God was saying even in the face of rejection, persecution, or death.  May we all heed his encouragement to be free with each other and share what we believe the Lord is speaking to us.  How else will we reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ?

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