October, 2009

Blessings to you,

I have surely missed being able to communicate with you all.  As I’ve been traveling these past three months, I was not always able to pick up a signal or keep it once I had connected.  It has been a very busy but fruitful time as I’ve   been traveling.  Abba is making many changes and doing so many exciting things, truly blessing His own. 

So many of you have written wondering why you did not receive the September and October newsletters.  In truth I was unable to write them so you have not really missed any of them. 

This month (October) is almost gone and the Fall Feasts of the Lord are all over, completing another yearly cycle of the Lord.   It has been such a blessing to be in KY and TN to celebrate them with so many of you.  The Feast of Tabernacles celebration in Corbin was awesome!  His Presence was so precious!  Hallelu Yah! 

As I have been traveling from city to city this past year I’ve had so many people ask me, “Where is God in all that is happening?”  “Why is He allowing all of this to happen to us?”  Why doesn’t He stop it all?”  Therefore He has sent me, and I’m sure others as well, to defend Him and defend the faith.  I’ve been told to remind the people that He is not the One who is responsible for all that is happening to America.  We as a nation are responsible. 

Think back to the 60’s when we allowed one woman to take prayer out of the public schools and we allowed abortion on demand to become the law of the land.  Then in 1969 a gathering in Woodstock, NY ushered in a generation and culture of decadence that spread all across America and eventually it encircled the globe. 

In 1973 I had my first vision concerning America.  I saw an enormous sea with all of our idols, things we just can’t live without, bobbing up and down in the water and spread across all of that was a huge American flag.  At that time, He said, “Pray for your nation, Myrna, for she is drowning in a “Sea of Materialism.”

In 1980 I was called to begin to study the history of the Church.  I saw how one man, Constantine, was permitted to sever the Church from its Jewish roots and lead the Church in to paganism.  It also caused many splits in His Body and denominations began to form

In 1983 He called me to Israel and showed me the God given responsibility of the Church toward Israel and the Jewish people.  He also showed me the anti-Semitism in the hierarchy of many of the denominations that had been formed.

From 1990 through 1997 a remnant of us (approximately 1500) were sent in to one gateway city after the other to spend a week fasting and praying for every aspect of life in America as well as for the Church and for Israel.   As we gathered in Dallas, Texas in November of 1997 the Lord would not permit us to pray as we always had before.  We were only permitted to pray for the Church and Church leadership as He laid the blame for America’s condition at the feet of the Church. 

In January of 1998 as many of us gathered together in Jerusalem for the International Prayer Conference, to my amazement the elders of Israel, with whom we met and prayed, were more concerned about the Church in America than they were about little Israel with all of her problems.  Various pastors and intercessors from the nations began to stand to their feet and share the burden the Lord had put on their hearts to fast and pray for the Church in America. 

Coming back to America, on the airplane, the Lord shared the following with me, “Myrna, America is unclean!  Yeshua (Jesus) is her only answer. Because of the concerts of prayer and fasting that have risen before Me as a sweet incense, I AM coming to America, but I AM not coming the way they think I AM coming. I AM coming as refiner’s fire and fuller’s soap.  As I do, I will require of My Remnant that they walk in a spirit of repentance, fast as I call them to fast and pray as I lead them to pray. Prevailing prayer will send forth across this nation the mercy and the grace that is needed to cause multitudes to come in to My Kingdom.”

Once I was back in America, Abba called me to work with Him to call the Church to repentance and equip the remnant for the ministries that He has for each one.

In 2000 He called me to KY and TN where He showed me that His intercessors were like little tiny islands spread all over the place. He went on to share that they did not have the fellowship that they needed and they were unable to function in the gifts which He had imparted to each one, therefore He could not develop them in their gifting as He needed to do.  He told me to go in to city after city, as He would lead the way, call the intercessors together and allow them to function in their gifting.  At that time I was also told to teach on the responsibility of the Believers toward Israel and raise up intercession for His Land and His people.         

In 2004 as I was sitting on an airplane returning from a large prayer gathering in Washington, D.C, the Lord gave me a lengthy word which I will not be able to share in entirety here.  The main portion of it spoke of America having turned a corner and would know much sorrow over the turn she had made.  He went on to say that America’s testimony has not been as ‘holy’ or as a ‘light of truth’ to the other nations.  He said, “I AM not the true God of corporate America.”  He also made mention of the fact that the Church had not risen up to stand or seek His face for this land. He ended by saying that He would confront the ‘materialism’ and ‘apathy’ of His people as well as the ‘pride’ of men in America.

In 2005 He said, “America, you have profaned My holy Name.  You preach a politically correct Gospel that is not even truth.  You despise everything I love, and love everything that I despise.”   

At the same time He said to His Remnant, “My people stand strong upon your Rock!   Be a voice to those around you, telling them “It is time to repent!” In spite of all the destruction that America has seen, she has not come to the realization that all these things coming upon the nation is a result of the sins of the nation. The sins of America and the people of the nation are calling for My justice, therefore I will bring America to her knees!”

Just two weeks before the last election in America, Abba began to rail against America.  He said that He had been longsuffering but to no avail.  He called America a ‘proud and arrogant’ nation that has tramped on His heart again and again as well as on His cross and the blessings that it has brought to America.  He also made mention of the fact that we have proclaimed liberty from all of His Commandments therefore our independence has been strangled. 

He went on to say that as a nation America has chosen her own course, wanting to be her own God, even worshipping herself.  As a result, all semblance of liberty will be shattered in America.  He went on to say that as a nation, America has challenged God and has lost and then He ended by saying that America did not want Him as her taskmaster so, “we will soon see how much she likes the one which her rebellion has chosen to take My place!” 

To sum this up, Abba has been calling America to repent and turn back to Him, His way, since the 60’s, but as a nation, and as the Church, He has not seen repentance and a turning back to Him, His way.  He has seen just the opposite. 

This past Rosh Ha Shana when the Shofar sounded, ushering in the civil New Year 5770 on the Hebrew calendar, it marked a little more than forty long years since He began raising up prophetic voices to call both the Nation and the Church to repent.  He is saying, “Enough is enough!”  The meaning of 5770 is, “a year for sharpness of spiritual vision and of coming full term to birth.” 

It is a new day!  It is a new season! It is the beginning of a new decade on Abba’s calendar.  A time for change!  He is making many changes!  He is calling all of us to come up higher in Him.  We must stay close to Him, tucked under His wing and be ‘obedient’ and He will bring us through all that is coming.

Keep in mind, too, that He is a ‘holy’ God and if we are called by His Name, we must be ‘holy’ as well.  We must be available to Him, stay flexible and know that He will help us to adapt to any situation, no matter how difficult or impossible it may seem. 

The Remnant that He has called unto Himself and prepared in the wilderness will be a people who will endure to the end and will not deny His Holy Name or His Word.   All of the tests, trials and fire that they have been through has been used to develop within them ‘patient endurance’ and ‘faithfulness in hardship’.

Jackie Webb writes:  “The Lord says, many call Me Lord and say they are following Me, but they are not.  They are following the counsel of their own lusts for they have forsaken Me, the “Fount of Living Water”.  They have departed from sound doctrine and godly counsel and the Lord would say to them, “Repent!”  Return to Me, your first love.  I will receive you, I will forgive you, I will heal you,  I will deliver you and by My Spirit you will become an over-comer.

“Furthermore, the Lord says, “If you see one who has forsaken Me, if you see one who has departed from sound doctrine and godly counsel, you, who see, be faithful to pray for that one, and declare My Word to that one, for it just may be that you will snatch that one from the fiery pit of destruction.      

“The Lord is taking us through a time of troubles. We will be sorely pressed and cry out to Him saying, “I don’t need trouble in my life!”  But He says,
“Yes, you do!”  “It is trouble that will drive you to your knees, it is trouble that will drive you to My Word and it is trouble that will drive you to a closer and deeper walk with Me.

“And during this time of troubles, God is enlarging us to receive strength and courage for the days that lie just ahead, and to complete the tasks that He has called us to do.  And for His faithful followers and anointed ones, He is increasing their spiritual authority.  The Lord says, “Just be faithful to declare My Name and proclaim My Word, for I am authenticating My Word by the working of miracles, the likes of which have never been seen.  Miracles will abound and My Glory will be seen by all nations and all mankind.”

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Abba’s happy campers have returned from Israel after a job well done.  Lawrence Haby, Linda Forbus, David, Cori, Julia and Farah Creco  joined HaYovel Ministries in Israel to help the Israeli farmers harvest their grapes.  They spent their own money to go, slept on a roof top in the heavy dew, worked tirelessly sun up to sun down and never complained. It is said that they were very kind, praising and worshipping the Lord a lot.  After harvesting 70 tons of grapes, both the harvest team and the Israeli farmers danced together in the fields.  What a testimony!

Pastor Sadie Connor and her team have returned from their outreach to Jamaica.  They, too, came back happy campers!  Apart from all of the healing that took place, thirty-two souls came in to the Kingdom of God.  Glory to God!

Paul and Joane Gelep, along with their team, have returned from their trip to Israel.  God bless them, they have so many stories to tell.  They have been given great favor in Israel, especially among the secular and orthodox Jews.

Thank you so much for your prayers which covered all of these, and may I ask you to begin to pray for Janet Radford as she will join a team leaving for Israel November 28^th through December 9^th.  This will be Janet’s second trip to Israel.  Her most recent trip was to Singapore, which brought great joy to her heart.        

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Pastor Douglas Shearer writes, “I’ve never witnessed such an openness to the Gospel, not even forty years ago at the height of the Jesus Movement.  Scores are coming to Christ and we’ve been baptizing new believers every Sunday for the past couple of months.

“How long has it been since believers were stepping forward asking to be trained in evangelism?  It is happening!  We have been teaching on evangelism at a pre-service Sunday morning class and it is the most well attended class in many years.

“The church’s primary mission is evangelism and when that is neglected the church atrophies.  The church was never meant to draw back in to itself.  The church is meant to always reach out to the unsaved, regardless of opposition, and there will be plenty of that, but reach out anyway and the grace of God will fall like rain. 

“Remember always, life is only worth living when we find a cause worth dying for, and that cause is our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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“Be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”  (II Timothy 4:5)

Kriston Couchey writes, “In the last fifteen years I have personally witnessed and heard testimony of numerous organizations and individuals devastated by abominal leadership teachings that rob the people of God of their dignity and freedom in Christ.  Much of this is done in the name of “Apostolic” Ministry.  As one example: the moving of God’s Spirit in the 1990’s was followed by a totalitarian response from the Antichrist spirit in the unbiblical “covering” doctrine, a carry-over of the shepherding movement.  It is one of many false leadership teachings that have leavened today’s “apostolic” movement. These are Nicolaitian teachings. Nicolaitain means “subduing or lording over the people.”

“In many cases the church has become a state in which leaders are totally dependent upon things that are spiritual.  A “lay person” (an unbiblical term applied to the church) that hears God speak differently than leadership is liable to be cast out as a rebel.  One pastor recently said, “I don’t need to hear what God is speaking to you.  I have high level prophets that tell me what God is saying.”

“God is bringing a greater revelation of the purpose, heart and function of the ascension gifts in this new day.  There is coming a great diminishing of the positions and titles of men in the church, simply because God is putting the church back in to order, His Order!  While God is establishing apostles in His church He is not building an apostolic hierarchy of superiors and inferiors.  He is building (forming) Christ in His people. The church is not a structure of dependency on an apostolic network.  It is a world-wide family that is becoming in nature and authority the expression of Christ on the earth. It is a kingdom of priests. The job of apostles and prophets is to see to it that Christ is formed in people, which means teaching people to be dependent upon Him, and letting Christ be expressed as He wills through His people.”

Shalom & Blessings,