Gathering of Tribal Nations 2023

Thursday night's service was full to overflowing of the Spirit of God! His "Shekinah glory" was a sweet, strong presence to our spirits! I invite you to come and see that the Lord, He is good in Warrior, AL at the Gathering of Tribal Nations 2023 hosted by Church International, Pastor Robin R. and Prophet Robin D. Bullock!

In these days of confusion, conflict, disunity, and selfish hatefulness, this is where His Children come to meet heart to heart and Spirit to spirit with the ONE TRUE KING! If you are feeling down, defeated, depressed, and need to be lifted up ... Watch this service and open yourself up totally to God!

 

Gathering of Tribal Nations 2023 

Where: Church International, Warrior, Alabama 

When: Thursday evening 8/10/23 to Sunday morning 8/13/23. The evening services on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, as well as Sunday Morning service, will be broadcast LIVE. The morning services on Friday and Saturday will not be broadcast.

Come and See! Maranatha!

Anna

A GREAT SILENCE IS COMING ...

Believe or Don't Believe ... we all have free will given to us from Father God to choose for ourselves. As for me, I am being obedient to get this word out to any who will receive it! I am providing the source for the Prophetic Word God gave to Julie Green and the entire prophecy here, as well. I suggest you print it out ... for a time in the near future where you will need it to strengthen your Faith! 

If you click on the link, not only will you go to this word, but you can also find other prophetic words the LORD has given His prophetess Julie Green.

Maranatha,

Anna

A Great Silence Is Coming - 3/5/22 by Julie Green

For I, the Lord, this day have clearly said victory is for the children of Almighty God. Nothing can come close to stopping My Will or My Words from coming to pass. I have spoken words of defeat over everything your enemies plan against you, My children. Not your freedoms! Your enemies will not get away with anything. NOTHING WILL STAND AGAINST YOU AND PROSPER. This is the hour and the year which I had chosen before the foundation of the world for the GREAT EXODUS. 

MY WILL IS BEING DONE, AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT FROM COMING TO PASS, saith the Lord of Hosts. Revel in this, My Children. I AM GOD. I AM THE ONE WHO CREATED THIS EARTH, AND I AM THE GREAT I AM WHO SAVES, DELIVERS, AND CONTINUES TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE. No power in hell can stop your freedom. 

So think about these words. You have the victory! You have your freedom! You have deliverance in every area of your life! Christ's blood destroyed your enemies' power and control over you! Dwell in My secret place. There is freedom in My secret place. Get in prayer with Me, and I will give you rest. My children, concerning all you thought was too impossible for Me, watch now as the God of the impossible shows up. My hand is moving the impossible out of the way and destroying that power over you. 

The word impossible is one of your adversaries' greatest tools they use for stopping a child of God from receiving because of doubt and unbelief. I am breaking those chains off My children. Rise higher and receive greater. Yes, it will be like a dream. My Glory and My splendor are moving all over this Earth. It will destroy every chain that has been on you. Every prison cell you have been in, your mind, body, finances, every area of your life is about to change. Suddenlies are about to take place all over this world. 

What I am about to do will shock this world. Is this even possible to see and believe, this amount of goodness being poured out? Blessings are being poured out all over this world. Blessings will raise My children higher than anything trying to keep them back or hold them down. Yes, blessings are empowerment, My children, and blessings surround each and every one of you.

Do not fear what is about to be told in your news. Do not fear what they are trying to do to you. I am on your side, and I am against them. My children, the Great I AM always wins. You are protected by Me.

Blackouts? Lord, why is this happening? I need to hear the prophets. I need to listen to the ministers. I need to listen to the Word, Lord. Why is the internet not working? This will be very temporary, short-lived. But when this happens, make sure you do not need the internet to know what to do. Speak to Me! Read My Word! When you experience this, know that an abrupt changing of the guard is taking place with an overthrow of everyone in this fraudulent government and destruction to everything they stand for. Your military is moving to take back power. 

My children, your lives will suddenly change. I know this silence won't last. This is a time to celebrate, not a time for fear. This is a time to spend with Me so that I may bring you joy. Joy you have never known. Peace you never thought you could experience. I will fill your houses with My Glory and freedom you never thought was possible. This time is similar to the Passover, My children. There will be destruction and death to your enemies while I deliver My people from anything keeping them captive.

Lord, this can't be. It's too unbelievable. Is it? I have done this before. Get into My Word and know the Great I AM that delivered a nation in one day. Yes, I have done this before, and I am doing this again. Who? All nations of this Earth? Yes, I am starting with the United States then moving into all nations. I am moving through with My hand swiftly to remove all against you. 

One day you will see your enemies, but the next day, they will be silent. You will not see your enemies again. This sign, My children, is taking place within Facebook. It will have another blackout. It will shut down. It will look like it was another system error but know it is a planned shut down by My hands destroying Facebook for what they have done against you. 

I will reveal all of Mark Zuckerberg's secrets. I will remove him. The news will announce he is stepping down, but this won't be his choice. I am removing him and all who took part against this nation for their actions against My Nation and the 2020 election. This removal will include others from other countries. Yes, all will be tried for treason. When you see this, My children, prepare for what you now see to be totally gone the next day. Remember, this silence is good for you. It is to destroy all that is against you. 

Watch for significant news from the Himalayas. This is yet another sign of your enemies' ultimate destruction.

Major news is about to break out regarding generals and your military. They will stand down, suddenly retire, or so they will say. No, I am cleaning out your military in all branches. I am getting rid of all who sold you out, all those paid to look the other way for this coup to take place. Yes, they sold you out for money. You will hear major scandals concerning other generals and high-ranking officials. They will be stripped of all their medals and removed. More people will receive a dishonorable discharge, and many will be tried for treason—more than any other time in history. 

You will also see more world leaders and presidents in other nations step down or suddenly die. Yes, the Angel of Death is moving across this world to destroy all enemies holding nations captive. My children, once you see the rightful President of the United States, Donald Trump, take back his rightful place of power on center stage, the Angel of Death will move all over the world. And know there is a plan for your Nation's freedom as well. Everyone will celebrate around the world for Donald Trump's return. This is not just for your Nation, oh United States. This will be a signal for freedom worldwide. 

My nation Israel, I am correcting your last election. I have told you this before. Benjamin Netanyahu is your rightful Prime Minister, and his power will be restored. Then Canada, Australia, and the rest of the nations. Removals and great celebrations are at hand this year. Yes, My hand is bringing the great Exodus in 2022. You don't have to wait. The time has come for many Red Sea moments, for things I will do which no one could deny. The Great I AM is on your side, and I am the Most High God. 

Blinders are being removed. People who had turned their back on Me will flood to the altars. Get right before Me, so My light shines for you. My light will show the world you are My children. 

Yes, days of darkness are at hand for your enemies, but light will shine on all My children—no feeble among you during this time of the Passover. Yes, the Angel of Death and destruction will not touch My children during this hour of removals or the great exchange of government bodies, the rightful governments. Prepare now, My children. This time is coming sooner than you think. I am telling you these words, showing you signs to look for, so when your world is shaken, and you can't understand what you are seeing or experiencing, know I have told you this ahead of time. 

Silence means your victory!

Everything is about to change. Many in the government of the United States of America will die. You will hear and see this on the news, and they will ask what is going on. It is judgment! The Angel of Death is moving across this fraudulent government to destroy its power over the world. It is yet another sign to let you know they will all be removed, and freedom is about to be restored on a scale never seen nor experienced before. Hold on, My children, these days are upon you, so know I am with you. I have not forsaken you. I am delivering you and totally setting you free. 

Do not fear what is happening to the markets. A crash will try to bring fear on you. Do not fear! I am removing their power, their influence, and all their finances at the same time. All will be restored, but first, all will be shaken.

My children, your time to celebrate is now, saith the Lord of Hosts.

39 questions ...

 God says thinking people should ask themselves!

https://youtu.be/mdkf6o8DI-o 

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING WITH ROBIN AND STEVE - EPISODE 38

The entire video has excellent information!

[Transcript is taken from 28-41:09 minutes]

39 questions God says thinking people should ask themselves...

Beginning at 29:00 minutes in - The greatest deception of the ages is happening right now.

1. Over $1B in various currencies was put on a pallet and landed in Iran awhile back. $150B was promised. Why would Iran be given the money? Who gave Iran the money?

2. Why would Obama tell Russia "I can do more after I'm elected again."

3. Who said they would 'be up for a 3rd term as President if they could sit in a basement or something and put an earpiece in someones' ear and to it through them."

4. Who is the only President to stay in Washington DC when he was no longer President?

5. What President bowed to a Saudi King?

6. Who is the only President to organize over 250 community organizing groups since 2010?

7. How does someone sit in a basement with a face covering, run for President of the US, that can draw maybe 250 people to a parking lot, defeat an incumbent so popular they could hold 5 rallies a day and draw 15-20,000 people per rally?

8. How does that happen?

9. Who was it that said the next President would face a pandemic? In 2014 Obama, 2015 Gates, and 2017 Fauci

10. How does the VP of United States threaten a company in Ukraine with withholding $1B Federal Dollars if they don't fire a certain person and it be on video?

11. How does a man with clear mental issues, and is the most unpopular politician we know, become President of the United States?

12. How are the ballot places closed down in the middle of counting then, in the middle of the night, get caught pulling hidden ones out from under a table and adding them to the tally?

13. How does that happen and nobody goes to jail?

14. Why did things like this only happen in the swing states?

15. Why was $85B in war machines and stacks and stacks of cash given to the Taliban?

16. Why would Vladimir Putin put his own nation at risk of being alienated by the rest of the world?

17. Why are the photos of people in the Ukraine carrying cardboard / wooden rifles? They say training with wooden rifles but why would these photos be released?

18. Why would someone as wicked and corrupt as George Soros stand beside Ukraine against Putin?

19. Why would a planned event (pandemic), lead to a jab (Vaxx), and forcing / bribing people to take the jab?

20. Why does Joe Biden speak from a fake White House?

21. Why does Biden use a poorly interactive green screen?

22. Why could getting rid of DJ, Benjamin, and turning the world against Putin have in common? Who could it benefit?

23. Why is the giant hadron collider in Switzerland built on the ancient temple of Apollo?

24. Why was a statue of the false Hindu god, Shiva, placed outside CERN? Why did Obama appear on the cover of Newsweek magazine as Shiva? Why is Shiva statue at the head of the table when China met with WHO? In light of all these questions: What do they know? Who knows it? There is no such thing as coincidence.

25. Why was Obama called the Messiah and the Anointed One?

26. Why did CERN hold a dramatization in front of high ranking political figures?

27. Why did they simulate a sex orgy and breaking through a wall and bringing out a goat-man from the other side of it?

28. Why would they do this? [While they have the god of Shiva - destruction - outside their door and the god of Shiva shows up at a WHO meeting with China about something else entirely that has nothing to do about health issues and yet this thing keeps showing up and Obama shows up as that god? 38:05 minutes in] and China is the one that perpetrates something (virus) that led to the jab (vaxx).

People need to ask themselves a question. Could I be seeing everything the way it's really happening or am I in a movie set bringing in real people to suffer to add the touch of reality.I want you to think about something; what's the biggest shows on TV now and have been for years? Reality programs!

29. Why did Hillary Clinton, when she was First Lady, call in two of the most powerful witches of the world to the White House?

30. Why did they hold a seance and why did Hillary channel the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt?

31. Why was there a human sacrifice performed by people in robes at the CERN facility?

32. Why was the temple of Baal destroyed by ISIS but the arch of the temple spared? All by a bunch of thugs in the back of Toyotas with machine guns? Why did that happen? They didn't have the technology to do that.

33. Why were truck drivers, I was talking to a truck driver I know very well during this time, he said they were hauling brand new Toyota pickups to the Southern Border (with Mexico) and ISIS was coming and picking them up and carrying them from the southern border to wherever they were going. Next thing the truckers knew, they'd look on TV and they'd be in those trucks driving down the streets.

34. Who ordered that?

35. Why was the Arch of Baal printed in 3D and showed up at the White House when Hillary Clinton was running for President?

36. Why was the Arch of Baal placed in the park across the street from the Judicial Building when Brett Kavanaugh was being confirmed?

37. Why did Boris Johnson dedicate an Arch of Baal in London?

38. Why did the President of Italy dedicate one as well?

39. Why was their plan to 3D print 1000 of them?

That is Question #39.

Thinking people  must begin to ask themselves these questions. If you find the thread that connects all these things, you will start to find your answer. And that is what the LORD said to read today. 41:09 minutes in.

Maranatha,

Anna

Don't Feed The Dragon

... make it smaller and smaller by not talking about it.. 

Amanda Grace Talks ... Letting Go Of Buried Issues, Trials Becoming Testimonies, & Healing!

Youtube 'Ark of Grace Ministries' channel

Amanda Grace discusses what she heard the Lord say in the Spirit and an image of a snake coiled around a dead piece of wood. She also discusses her personal; testimony, how broken she was, and how the Lord restored her after she was beyond recognition. Amanda shows the picture of what she looked like going through this trial for the first time publicly. The Lord truly took an aweful trial ad turned it into an incredible testimony!! Don’t give up! You are closer than you think to your Breakthrough!! God Bless you all!! If you would like to contact Amanda Grace via email please email her at amandagrace4him@gmail.com if you have questions or comments or would like more information into sowing into what she does!

 

I was watching the video that is linked above and I know that I needed to hear this. It is a timely word so I am sharing it with whomsoever will be willing to hear it and obey. Obedience is better than sacrifice!

What is highlighted in my heart at this moment is:

Speak the PROMISE don't speak the problem! Let it go. It is dead wood and needs to be removed from your life because it is causing damage as long as it is there. The dragon is the problem. Suffocate it. Don't give it air. Speak scriptures. 

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord! 

I will enter your gates with thanksgiving in my heart. I will enter your courts with praise! I will say this is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice for He has made me glad! He has made me glad, He has made me glad, I will rejoice for He has made me glad!

I pray this is a blessing to you!

Maranatha

Anna

Psalm 2021 ...

 If a Psalm were written today, what would it say? Perhaps ... 

Psalm 2021

(for the end time generation)

1. Lord is this the time you have told us of? Is this the end of humanity as we know it? Has the world passed the point of no return?

2. My spirit weeps, wailing prayers of tears without words. In my prayer closet, on my knees before you, I intercede for as many that would come to you before the door is closed forever.

3. Heaven weeps as well, for these lost ones who will spend eternity in torment without you.

4. Some have never known you. They are starting to come to you in record numbers: the ones that were not taught of Jesus but instead were raised with Buddha, Mohamed, and other false christs.

5. In these last moments of humanity, I pray they may meet you as all of your creation experiences the birth pains that lead up to the seven years of tribulation and ultimately Armageddon.

6. Some have said they know you, but to them you are really only a slot machine.

7. These will turn away and give their soul to satan as they prefer to keep the status quo. They will take the mark, in whatever form, be it mRNA vaccine or Bill Gates mRNA tattoo vaccine. Those who keep their lives shall lose it.

8. Selah – pause and reflect on this!

9. Your Bride, who knows you intimately and watches for your soon return, rejoices with Hallelujahs as she sees in these chaotic days no reason to fear.

10. These are the signs for her Bridegroom's soon appearing to catch her away to their wedding!

11. Israel did not know their Messiah would come as a carpenter and instead were watching for an earthly king.

12. In these few remaining moments, before the 70th and last week of Daniel, people have hardened hearts.

13. People say Jesus is coming forever ... but he hasn't and he won't. You are foolish to believe the lies of this myth.

14. Yet people are fearful, angry, lost, and confused. In these dark days, where good is called evil and evil is called good, Lord, only what you allow will come to pass. Our only hope is in you, Lord. The world is in chaos yet, after saving Noah from the flood and Lot from Sodom and Gomorrah, your word tells us you will not always strive with man. Is this that appointed time?

15. Your mature children know the horrors that are soon coming. We who are in Christ Jesus, and are counted worthy by His righteousness, will be caught away before the great Tribulation.

16. The world says that ignorance is bliss, but not during this time. To those in darkness, the unknown is fearful beyond their imaginings. They cannot imagine the magnitude of the horrors that await those that have turned away from the One True God!

17. Selah – pause and reflect on this!

18. The world has been brought to a standstill by the plans of evil men. Covid-19 is a tool in their hands and they use it to teach submission through fear to those who do not look to God as the author and finisher of their faith. They condition us to accept the mRNA vaccine for life to return to 'normal' but that time is gone; never to return.

19. Once the mightiest of nations, because you intended it to be so and blessed us as you did Israel during the time of King Solomon, we have abandoned you as a nation. You are letting us reap what we have sown.

20. As long as we followed and walked with you, you blessed this country. We have sacrificed our children to Moloch through millions of abortions. We have pastors in the pulpit that are pro choice and do not speak of the evil times we are living in. One world religion is the agenda now.

21. They are sought out by people wanting to hear only that God is a loving God who would never send anyone to hell. God did not intend any man to go to Hell. Hell was created for Lucifer and the fallen angels. Men make their choice to go there through their free will, they choose eternity in torment away from the living God. God's heart is broken for every one of his children that turn away and do not chose Him. He is our creator. We are created in His image. He feels the pain of rejection but will not go against our freedom to choose our eternity.

22. The USA is now corrupted from within. Since the days of FDR, when government increased astronomically, political corruption has grown to take this nation down to ruin through socialism. You hear of the Deep State, as if it is a new thing.

23. As Solomon said, there is nothing new under the sun. The Deep State is another name for socialism. There is no political party that has not been infiltrated. There is no more equal law and justice. The news is all propaganda that started with 'Mockingbird' in the early 1960's.

24. There is no Right or Left. Republican or Democrat. There is only Good and Evil! Even with obvious election fraud, the SCOTUS refuses to hear the case Texas filed with them. Where is the law of the land being upheld? Why is our Constitution being trampled on?

25. The wars in Revelation (ethnos) which are ethnic wars are happening more and more. Hatred is being stirred up today using the 'race card.' I tell you there is only one race! That is the human race!

26. There are only two genders. Male and Female as God created them. Anything else is a lie.

27. Man continues to mock you and exalt himself in many ways. He has built a modern day Tower of Babel. The CERN laboratory in Switzerland has the Large Hadron Collider. The world's largest particle accelerator.They are looking for the 'god particle' (the glue) that holds the universe together.

28. Socialism has been slowed for a season but it will not be stopped. God will allow it in this nation that has turned its back on Him and spit in His face time and time again.

29. Have you heard the story of the frog dying in a pan of hot water? Could he have saved himself if he had paid attention when the heat was increasing? We, too, are complacent and refuse to see, hear, or feel what is going on around us until it will be eternally too late.

30. Lord is this the time you have told us of? Is this the end of humanity as we know it? Has the world passed the point of no return?

     

    
    
    

     

     

     

     

    Maranatha,

    Anna
    

Everything I've Needed Lord ...

You've Always Been - Unspoken

Unspoken - You've Always Been (Official Music Video)

Lyrics
I’ve had good days, 
I’ve had bad days 
Tasted victory and defeat 
I’ve had problems big as planets 
Turn to pebbles when you speak 
I’ve had nothing to my name 
Never lacked for anything 
Cause you were there with me 

You’ve been my savior, sustainer 
When I’m at my end 
My healer, redeemer 
Again and again 
My mother and my father 
Brother, sister and friend 
Everything I’ve needed, Lord 
You’ve always been 
Everything I’ve needed, Lord 
You’ve always been 

When I stand before you guilty 
Oh your mercy bears my blame 
When in pride I think I’m worthy 
You point out the price you paid 
When I wander far away 
You keep calling out my name 
You don’t give up on me 

You are my strength, my rock, Jesus 
You are my hope, my song, Jesus 
Before my heart knows what to pray 
You’ve already led the way Jesus

I needed to hear this ... maybe you needed to hear it, too! 
Thank you Father for your Mercy, Love, and Grace!!! There is nothing I can do in myself, Lord, but only through your strength. Here I am Lord, please use me in any way you choose! In Jesus Name. Amen!

Maranatha,
Anna

WORSHIP...

Psalm 100

Serve the Lord with Gladness / A Psalm of  Thanksgiving

1 Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
2 Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
3 Know that the Lord, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
5 For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations. 

Psalm 100 is in Book 4 of the Book of  Psalms (Psalms 90-106). This is one of 50 Psalms whose author is anonymous. Some of the anonymous Psalms are attributed to Ezra but I have not found anything that would substantiate or deny a claim for his authorship. This is to be sung by God's people as they are on their way to worship Him. We are not to just burst in on God with no preparation in our hearts. He is Holy and we should respect Him as such always. This Psalm is very easy to understand for the young Christians on the 'milk of the word' but also very deep for the more mature Christians that can handle the 'meat of the word.'

According to my open bible timeline: 

Book IV of the Psalms has an anonymous Chief Author with a possible compiler being Ezra or Nehemiah. 

Basic content is an anthem of praise. 

Topical likeness to Pentateuch is Numbers: Wilderness and Wandering. 

Possible dates of compilation: until c. 430 B.C. The span of authorship for the book of Psalms is about 1000 years (c. 1410-430 B.C.)

This is a Psalm of Thanksgiving. 

To a new Christian, this particular psalm reflects a spirit of gladness in coming before God's presence. We are to be thankful, praise Him, and bless his name for The Lord is good and merciful forever with His truth enduring to all generations. This Psalm lifts us up spiritually but also sends our witness out externally as we honor God, draw near to Him, really see Him as our creator and shepherd as we grow and learn the commands here. Just as there is a certain protocol to meet with earthly kings, so too is there a protocol to meet with the King of the Universe. 

This is a very powerful Psalm, especially since it is only five verses long. As a christian matures, they may be shown there are four verses of exhortation with the last verse giving the reason for the exhortations. The five verses contain seven commands that I consider steps of protocol to enter into the presence of our holy God then the reason for the commands. God always meets His children where we are. If we don't know the proper respect, He will not turn us away but will fellowship with us. Proverbs 9:10 tells us the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 

Action words listed by the verses:

Verse 1 SHOUT joyfully 

Verse 2 SERVE and COME before Him

Verse 3 KNOW

Verse 4 ENTER, GIVE THANKS, and BLESS

Verse 5 is the REASON we are given the previous commands.

As Christians, we represent our Savior Jesus to the world. If we walk around in life looking like Eyore in Winnie the Pooh – with his gloom and doom demeanor – would people see anything they want in our life that would encourage them to know our Lord? If we are joyful, and show that God is worth shouting about, people will be drawn to the joy we have in our relationship with our Savior! 

We are to serve the Lord with gladness not because we have to but because we want to. God loves a cheerful giver and that includes being cheerful in our service to Him. Singing will bring us into His presence. He inhabits the praises of his people. When we sing praises to God there is a sweet aroma sent to Heaven.

We all go through high points and low points in life. We are God's children so we learn to know Him, trust Him and lean upon Him. His strength is perfect when our strength is gone so in our weakness we can rise above our circumstances. We will be consistent in our witness to the world but also be able to live with the peace of God calming us in a world in chaos. Thanksgiving in our hearts, which grows the more we know God, leads to greater worship as we enter into the presence of our one true King! 

Verse 4 tells us to 'Praise His name.” The word praise means to kneel to show honor to God. True worship always involves falling at God's feet. In the presence and authority of God, the strength of his creation (man) will leave him and his spirit will naturally bring the body into a kneeling posture.

All of the above are a prelude to true worship. Wanting fellowship with our Lord, we enter into his courts with shouts, praise and singing, we bless his name, and our spirit opens fully to the majestic glory of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. There is no higher experience in this life than to be in the presence of the One True King experiencing heartfelt worship. We are covered in His goodness, love, and faithfulness. At the same time, we start to understand the name of God. In His presence, we recognize even deeper the holiness, greatness, wisdom, truthfulness and loving kindness that is His name!

Psalm 100:1 to Psalm 95:1

Psalm 95 is a call to worship the Lord. The importance of worshiping the Lord is expressed in both scriptures.

Psalm 100:3 ...it is he that hath made us...

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, …

The connection in the old testament Psalm of God being our creator is now complete as this new testament scripture gives us our identity with being created in Christ Jesus.

This psalm is among the most well-known psalms in the Bible. It is memorized by Christians and its basic structure has been placed into the opening line of one of the most well-known prayers taught to children, myself included: “God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food.” 

This psalm is a hymn of praise. The poetry is so very beautiful and calls to our heart as we read it and sing it. The poetry elements appeal to songwriters from generation to generation. Many songs have been written from Psalm 100 alone! I myself can think of a couple right offhand. Here is one from my days as a brand new Christian. 

I will enter his gates with thanksgiving in my heart. I will enter his courts with praise. I will say this is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice for he has made me glad. He has made me glad. He has made me glad. I will rejoice for He has made me glad.

Knowing that the auditorium church only allows time for a prelude into worship, I know how deep worship is and that I desire and need this close fellowship with God. This will only be accomplished in my life as I spend time with Him, alone and not distracted by this world, to walk the steps of protocol into an audience with the King of the Universe. There is nothing in this world that could ever satisfy my heart and spirit than this communion at His feet in His glorious presence.

Maranatha,

Anna

 

An Amazing Man of God ...

[Original publish date: 6/26/20]

Went Home to Jesus yesterday, June 25, 2020.

I met William (Brother Billy) Forrest 53 weeks and 6 days ago. My best friend of 37 years and I went to lunch at Denny's & invited an older gentleman from her daughter's church to eat with us. Little did I know how that one lunch meeting would change my life!

Brother Billy's wife, Christine, went home to be with the Lord on December 31, 2010. He told us that it was 8 years, 6 months, and 13 days since she left him. During our lunch conversation it was revealed that Brother Billy and his Christine met in school. She was the only girl that Brother Billy ever kissed on the lips! After graduation, they married and started out as share croppers with $100 to their name. Brother Billy became a preacher and started churches in Georgia. Brother Billy said his Christine taught him the value of saving, so they always put a little back. He played guitar, self taught, and sang! It was always a joyful time to hear him play and sing! He always sang to Christine each night before he would go to sleep.

I have never seen a mortal love so deep as the one that Brother Billy shared with his wife, Christine! The purity of his love for her and hers for him will stay with me for the rest of my life and beyond! Yes, Jesus loves me unconditionally and nothing compares to that love! Brother Billy would totally agree!

Tammie and I went to visit Brother Billy last Saturday, June 20th. It was 53 weeks to the day since I first met him. Brother Billy joined in as he could when we sang these songs:

Power in the Blood,

Yes, Lord, Yes,

I'll Fly Away

When We All Get To Heaven

Amazing Grace

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After worship in song, Brother Billy led all of us that were there in Communion. It was a wonderful time! I knew that this would be the last time I would see Brother Billy this side of Heaven! He passed away 4 days later. I cannot be sad ... he finished the race ... loving Jesus with his whole heart, mind, soul, and strength!

I just wanted to do a quick blog post to honor the man that the Lord allowed me to meet and gave me the privilege and honor to minister to through prayer cards and letters. I pray for a special anointing of Salvation on those cards and letters! That anyone that touches them or reads them will feel a mighty call of Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as their Savior! I don't think he ever knew what a blessing he was to so many, myself included! Brother Billy, after 9 years, 6 months and 25 days: you went home to meet Jesus and are reunited with your beloved Christine! We will miss you very much but are so happy you are HOME now and free of pain!

In Loving Memory of Brother Billy: Power in the Blood

REV. WILLIAM J. "BILLY" FORREST, JR.

Be encouraged everyone! Look to the Lord! Rely and Trust in Him! We are in the final seconds before Jesus' return, nothing is happening here that God hasn't allowed. Christians, this is as bad as it gets for us! We go in the Rapture before the Tribulation starts. If you aren't saved, you need to give your heart to Jesus while there is yet time!

UPDATE: I also did not know, until a couple of weeks later, that meeting with Brother Billy at his house to sing and take communion together would be the last time my BFF & I would do anything together face-to-face. I did reach out to her in a letter on July 10, 2020 but nothing came of it.  God knew how, why, and when this would happen. Trust in Him for everything!

Maranatha,

Anna

The Reason Behind the Reason, Prophetic for the Body #3 of 3 - John Fenn

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 Prophetic: Election and 2021 - John Fenn

Snowmelt-runoff fed Medano Creek in Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado  

Video date shows May 2019. I hear the waves can be up to 3 feet high earlier in the snowmelt-runoff season!

Hi all,

I closed last week talking about how Gallio the Roman Senator and Judge, had refused to make being a Christian a federal offense, but the laws were soon to change. 

Within a few years the Caesar's changed the law, making it required federal law to worship the Caesar and proclaim loyalty to Rome. Christians died by the thousands over the next 2 1/2 centuries because they refused to worship Caesar and proclaim their loyalty to the Empire. They were executed as traitors. 

Worship of the State or the Leader

Historically, once the process of judging one's loyalty as a citizen by a person's religion starts in a nation and culture, it progresses over a relatively short time. Daniel was initially treated well, fed the best food, the best education. But over a short time the enemies in society turned his faith in God into being unpatriotic to the King. Daniel's open worship of the Lord was twisted as a statement of disloyalty to the king and laws of the land. 

In New Testament times, what started in Jerusalem as a dispute among Jews about a sect who believed Jesus is the Messiah, within a few decades turned into the accusation Christians were unpatriotic towards Rome. Their values were different, their allegiance was to Jesus rather than the government; they were counter culture. 

In Nazi Germany laws were made in 1920 against Jews, followed by others in 1933 and 1935. Dachau, the first Nazi death camp, opened in 1933 with rapid expansion within 10 years to over 1,000 camps through 1944. Besides Jews and Christians, political conservatives were accused of being unpatriotic to Hitler. Look at China today sending Christian Uyghurs and ethnic Han Chinese to 'reeducation' camps, which are well publicized yet nations still do business with China. 

What to watch for is this: 

Faith in Jesus will be looked upon as weird, unpatriotic, and worse; the reason a nation has trouble. First leaders, and then society and common culture will change because they will want to quiet or eliminate in some way, the influence of those with faith. As with Daniel, Jesus, 1st century Christians, Jews and Christians and conservatives in Nazi Germany; we will be blamed for the ills of society. We will be viewed as prevention a nation from progressing. 

What starts small, even on a local level, becomes federal within a few years. Fear that 'religious' people will force their values on a nation. Hatred for the principles that build nations and families becomes the norm. The State seeks to control everything. Media becomes a tool of the government. Character assassination and lawsuits directed towards selected situations, individuals, leaders, and anyone who differs with the State policy happens.

Neighbors spy on neighbors, laws are enacted to facilitate such things. Daniel was called a traitor after being spied on by coworkers. Jesus was betrayed by a disciple, and Peter, Paul and thousands of Christians in Rome were labeled enemies of Rome. The State tries to control everyone, and the media and culture help, seeking conformity and punishing those who are different. 

No matter the nation, the mob mentality wants everyone to conform and those who don't are labeled, separated, hated. In The Revelation, if you want to buy or sell, you must first state your allegiance to the system/man and then you receive a mark that allows you to buy and sell. Conformity. Uniformity. Allegiance. 

We see these things developing around the world today in whole nations all at the same time, and some Christians just as they did in Paul's time, will conform to the values of the ruling elite. But others will not. Thus we will see some churches going the way of the world in the name of being relevant, and some Christians who refuse to conform. We're not only different, we refuse to be the same.

What Jesus is doing 

So that is the direction the world is going, but what is Jesus doing? He is moving in the opposite direction. He started in the home with Adam & Eve and has never left. His values have never changed: I was hungry, thirsty, naked, a stranger, sick, in prison, and you fed, watered, clothed, befriended and visited me. He is meek, lowly, approachable, come and be taught by Him. Jesus is about the people in the pews, not about the laser light show at the 'worship' or the coffee shop in the foyer. His idea of being relevant means taking care of people where they live.

He is all about everyday things like one's basic provision, connectedness, relationships, friendships. When the early church was born at Pentecost Acts 2: 42 says their meetings included these 4 elements: Teaching, fellowship, food, prayer. Fellowship is holy, not an afterthought to a meeting as in, 'After our service we will have fellowship in the kitchen area.' They met in homes and knowing one another was important - and that is where God moved to heal, answer prayer, connect people in caring godly relationships. 

Without fanfare Jesus is moving in the midst of relationships among believers. We are seeing more healings, more miracles, more answered prayer in our network than ever before. It doesn't matter whether it happens in a web meeting or in someone's home, around the world the Lord is on the move. Being meek and lowly in heart, He doesn't seek media attention - He just goes about His business as He always has. 

In the visitation of December 2019 and in a recent visitation, the Lord expanded His comments to me about how house churches would be known as the place to go for answered prayer, provision, and miracles in one's life. .  

Christianity must be spiritual and have the Spirit of God moving in our midst

If we don't regularly have the Holy Spirit in us and through us towards others we end up having a form of godliness yet denying the power. It's not their fault: The auditorium church structure of service doesn't allow for everyone to move in the Spirit or receive prayer in small groups. As a result, we have Christians who know all about Jesus, but have never seen the Holy Spirit move in their midst. 

Worse yet, we have pastors who know how to lead a service but not how to move in the gifts of the Spirit. We have worship leaders who know how to lead a service, but not how to set the stage for the Holy Spirit to move in the midst. Many Christians know about Him, but don't know Him. They don't know the Father. 

We all need to know that Christ really does live in us and speaks to us, and guides us, and shows us things to come. Without Him in our midst we have a form of godliness but don't know the power thereof. 

Just like in the early church in Acts 2-4, just like in Rome during times of persecution, just like in nations in the last 2,000 years that have persecuted Christians, there is coming a time when many of those Christians who are in close relationships with others in home based meetings will have their needs met while many on the outside will be in need. Even in the US, we may have a reprieve, but that is all it is. Remember what the Lord told me 2/4/2001: "As it was in the beginning so it must be now; I'm moving in relationships." 

Sobering to think about - new subject next week, until then, blessings,

John Fenn

Church Without Walls International

This is a series for the times we are living in. I am sharing all three installments of the topic with prophetic video at the beginning of each one.

Maranatha,

Anna

 

 

The Reason Behind the Reason; Refusing to be the Same #2 of 3 - John Fenn

 Prophetic: Election and 2021

Hi all,

Last week I mentioned the reason the church has been persecuted through the ages is because they were different from the culture and society around them. But not just that we are different; we refuse to be the same.

This is what is going on now in the body of Christ in nations largely considered to have Christian roots: Christians are choosing to either quietly integrate and adopt the values of the culture around them, or they are choosing to be different by standing firm on their beliefs, morals, and convictions. 

The pattern of persecution - it starts with culture turning against

We find what first happens is a change of culture that turns people against one another. Consider Daniel was 'turned in' to the king by his peers and coworkers. People even start reporting on their neighbors. In Acts 5: 12-13 it says many healings and miracles happened among the believers, who met in home-based churches. 

But outside of those home meetings and that circle of people on the 'same spiritual page', in society as a whole it says the people who weren't believers were afraid of them and no one dared join themselves to them. Why were they afraid of them? Persecution? In part. But they were also different from the culture and they refused to conform. Yet in their difference from society God was manifesting Himself in healings and miracles. So a tug of war began in the hearts of the people: The average citizen might say, 'Here is a group hated by the authorities which makes me afraid, yet God is in their midst which is what I want most of all.' 

In the very next verse it says many became believers and were added to the faith. 

That apparent contradiction reveals a split in society at that time - there was fear among the unbelievers and yet disciples were being made. They were different from the culture of the day, everyone knew what they stood for, and you were either for them or against them. 

Selected leaders to be made examples of

Soon the rulers in Israel began a policy of orchestrated arrests. Peter and John were brought before the leaders in Acts 4. Steven's arrest and execution in Acts 7 escalated the persecution. Saul of Tarsus became chief prosecutor after Steven's death, and in Acts 9 Saul, the future apostle Paul, meets Jesus outside Damascus. This stopped the Jewish leaders in Israel's efforts to carry the persecution of the church beyond the borders of Israel.

By Acts 12 we are told (in Jerusalem) Herod had killed the apostle John's brother, James, by the sword and arrested Peter with the same intent. 

Notice the seed of State persecution began when the leaders were successful in making citizens afraid of Christians. The fear of the Jews in Jerusalem was that these Christians would try to force their beliefs (religion) on them, threatening the Jewish religion and laws and the culture of Israel. But at this point the federal government of Rome is not yet fully involved. 

Character assassination

In Mark 14: 55-58 we find the leaders prosecuting Jesus at trial with false witnesses, some of whom took His words out of context and twisted His words from original intent to fit their agenda.

In our day we see the same character assassination, words twisted, words out of context for anyone who does not conform to the prevailing anti-conservative anti-Jewish/Christian culture. Here and there are cases against selected people who stand in the way of the larger agenda. But a time is coming as it did for the church and Rome, where the whole of the culture will turn against and even blame Christians, Jews, and conservatives for whatever is wrong in a nation. 

They try to make persecution a federal case

It is about 52AD in Acts 18: 12-18, roughly 20 years after Pentecost. In Corinth, Greece we see persecutors of the faith taking their case outside the region of Israel in an effort to get the federal government of Rome involved against Christians.  

In Corinth was a Roman Senator and Judge, Gallio. He is well known historically outside of the Biblical text for several reasons, among them that he was the brother of the famous Roman writer, Seneca. Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus was his full name, and when the Jews brought suit against Paul in federal court, they claimed Paul caused people to disobey the Jewish law and therefore they felt, Roman law.

Gallio 'cared for none of these things' and dismissed the case. He sent it back to the Jewish religion and their courts, not involving the federal government of Rome. His dismissal sent a clear message legally speaking, that unless these Christians clearly violated federal law Rome would not entertain such a lawsuit. 

For Christians, Gallio had such influence being a Roman Senator and Judge, that the church overall had relative peace on a federal level for about 10 years, until Nero began his persecutions in the year 64. Though Paul was continually persecuted by unbelieving Jews during this time, the bulk of his letters which form our New Testament were written in this decade. (Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, I & II Thessalonians, Philemon, possibly Hebrews)

Soon however it wouldn't be the unbelieving Jews that would scheme to show Rome that Christians violated Roman federal law; Christians would do that for them, for Roman laws were about to change. 

And that is where we'll pick it up next week. Hopefully you see a pattern, for what I'm sharing of our past is now in our present, and soon to be in our future. Until next week, blessings,

John Fenn

Church Without Walls International

This is a series for the times we are living in. I am sharing all three installments of the topic with prophetic video at the beginning of each one.

Maranatha,

Anna

 

The Reason Behind the Reason; Conformity #1 of 3 - John Fenn

This is a series for the times we are living in. I am sharing all three installments of the topic with prophetic video at the beginning of each one.

Maranatha,

Anna 

Prophetic: Election and 2021 

 

Hi all,

I made the observation in my book Return of the First Church that the early church was a counter-culture movement whereas the modern auditorium church is now merely a sub-culture of the world around it. 

A sub-culture is a small self-insulated group within a larger society, and has it's own beliefs, terminology, world view, and often its own manner of dress. Back in high school days sub-cultures at your school may have included the athletes and cheerleaders in one culture, the gangs in another, the skaters, the nerds, and so on each in their respective cultures. Each sub-culture in that school was unique, yet existed in the larger society of high school, all moving in the same direction - towards graduation. Sub-cultures generally move in the same direction as society as a whole. 

The sub-culture mentality is why churches have fallen into the error of thinking if they had the quality of the world in their facilities, if their 'worship' resembled the world's rock concert, if they had professional elements of a concert, they would attract new people to their auditorium church. They look like the world, sound like it, talk like it, in an effort to be relevant. They are moving in the same direction as the world. They are a sub-culture. 

A counter-culture is a way of life with values that are opposed to the prevailing society. A counter-culture is moving in the opposite direction of local culture and the world. 

Most of what Jesus said was counter-culture. Consider Matthew 5: 43-48: "You have heard it said to love your neighbors but hate your enemies. But I say to you to love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute you so that you may be like your Father in heaven." 

That is counter-culture. He commands a way of life and values directly opposed to the prevailing society and culture around Him. That was powerful. Life-changing. Opposite of all that culture and society believed. Love your enemies. Pray for them. Do good to them. That is counter-culture. 

That is where the power of the body of Christ lies, within its place as a counter-culture. 

Blame God for this one; The Counter-culture

God is the one who started the early church at Pentecost, and He birthed it to be counter-culture because it (we) adhere to the teachings of Jesus. God had moved out of the temple and into human beings and that was exactly opposite of the whole religious culture of the day. The synagogue system was run by aristocratic elites who said God lived in the building, while the church was run by uneducated fishermen who said God lives in people. 

The Jewish elites were centralized to the temple system, which directed all money, power, and attention to themselves. The church was decentralized as God moved out of the temple and into human beings, giving them the freedom to meet together with other living temples as they chose, to give to one another, to support one another and their leaders at will. All this and more was exactly opposite of the existing temple system which dictated what the people heard, how they gave, how they were to include the temple in their lives, and how to interact with one another - Having Christ in people as living temples was and remains a counter-culture. 

The reason behind the reason persecution happens

If we can lay aside for a moment what we all understand as the spiritual reason for persecution - we all know the devil hates God and God's people so he stirs people to persecute us - to look at it from cultural perspective, we will see something.

What made the rulers of Babylon persecute Daniel? 

What made the rulers of Babylon persecute the 3 Hebrew men to the point they put them in the furnace?

What made the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem persecute the early church?

What made the Roman Caesars persecute the Christians? 

What made Nazi Germany persecute the Jews and Christians? (Neot only did about 6 million Jews die in the camps, but another roughly 5 million Christians and political prisoners died there as well.)

What made the USSR persecute Jews and Christians? 

Why are Christians being persecuted today in nations dominated by religions other than Christianity? 

The answer is simple: They were different. 

The deeper answer beyond that: Not only were the different, but they refused to be the same. 

The still deeper answer beyond that: They insisted on their own identity rather than how the State identified them. (Using an emotional crutch, traitors, rebels, mentally ill, dangerous to society, etc)

In each example they were hated because they were counter-culture. A counter-culture refuses to conform to the expectations of society. A counter-culture moves in the opposite direction as the common culture of the day. 

In nations considered culturally Christian, the Father and our Lord are making it so the body of Christ is a counter-culture once again. And we'll pick it up there next week. For those who have ears to hear, you'll recognize this is prophetic....until next week, 

Blessings,

John Fenn