September 14, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

What Went Wrong

The 3W’s Series #1

When fear has taken root in our lives, you will find little hope and definitely no faith. Fear drives faith from our hearts and actions. Faith is your response to the will of God—the purposes and action plans of God. Without faith, there is no connection to God because you are not connecting to what God wants to do. It is just that simple! (Read Hebrews chapter 11: the people of faith did what God asked them to do. They were not afraid nor were they unresponsive to God’s requests.)

This is a time for faith not fear. Fear has gripped our nation and most of the world. The coronavirus is a plague that Satan, not God, is using to strike fear in the lives of everyone, even God’s people. It is time we stir up our hope and start to believe in the unbelievable. (Mark chapter 16 is where Jesus criticized His disciple for not believing in Him—i.e. what others said about Him.) It is God through Jesus Christ that we can shake off the demon of fear from our lives and begin to ask God, “What do you want me to do?” It is time to reach out to the Father through Jesus and accept the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives. These are the days of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus asked us to receive the Holy Spirit (‘stay in Jerusalem’) and also told His disciples that the ‘Father wants to give us the Holy Spirit’. So, let’s begin doing what God wants, accept His will for our lives, and respond to God’s purpose and action plan for our lives. It is time to allow the Holy Spirit to dwell in our lives and perform the works of Christ! (ReadIsaiah 61:1-3 and especially yesterday’s article, dated Sept 13th on my blog, wwjwmtd.com.)

There is no escaping what God has planned for our lives, and we must fight against the actions and purposes of the Devil. Wake up Church, get out of your pajamas and begin to respond in faith, not in fear, to the task before us…fight against this virus, the doctrine of BLM, and politically driven hatred!

If you are responding with fear to this virus, repent! If you have not responded with prayer and Bible verses to those who support BLM, repent! If you have not found what God wants you to do, repent! If you have not put on the armor of the Holy Spirit so to fight against the hatred, repent! This is the time for God’s purposes and actions. When did the activities of Satan override the activities of God? When has Satan’s power become greater than the power of the Holy Spirit? Let us not become people without hope but mighty in believing in Christ.

David Wilkerson (and others) warned us of this virus and destruction in our streets many years ago in one of his many prophecies. I warned you of this virus and the dangers of BLM many months ago. So why are we afraid? Rise up all Christians, take hold of the promises and power of God. Battle against all that comes from Satan and watch the virus & hatred vanish away as the winds of the Holy Spirit flow over this nation. This is a spiritual battle, not a medical, cultural, or political battle. The medical profession does not really know what to do other than tell us to, “Duck and cover by staying at home and avoiding all contacts.” It is evil within our culture that tells us everything is a political fight and to look for a political solution.

If I could get 12 people to agree in prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit in each and every city in America, to rise up and fight the spiritual warfare against the virus and violence, you will see the virus, hatred, anger, and unbelief confronted and overcome in our communities. This is what Jesus wants us to do! I am praying for those who will fight—I am praying that you will not lose your faith—the faith God has given to you and Satan is trying to steal from you.

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Sept 13, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Are you giving the Holy Spirit a chance?

Are you giving the Holy Spirit a chance to work in your life and bring you the promises of Jesus Christ? Too often we get in a hurry when it comes to the fulfilment of what we read in the Bible and/or what God has spoken personally to us. We want God to hurry up and do what He said to us without allowing the Holy Spirit to do what the Bible says He will do, as well as, what Jesus said through the Gospels about how the Holy Spirit works. We are impatient and think we know how God works thereby refusing and even denying the activity of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

God has rules (rules for Himself) and that is not more evident than in the operation of the Holy Spirit. The Bible gives us ‘the rules’ of the Holy Spirit—how the Holy Spirit works; it is these rules (or His attributes) that we find a relationship with the Holy Spirit (every verse in the Book of Proverbs). Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will not talk about Himself but will bring the Father and the Son to us (Gospel of John 16:13).

We think after-a-while that God has made us smart because we know so many verses in the Bible; thereby, we now know what God wants or how He does things. Oh, we are so foolish and are smart only in our own eyes. Jesus deferred His decisions to the Holy Spirit—Jesus only did what the Father told Him to do (Gospel of John 5:19), so where does that leave you?

We take too much on ourselves by assuming we know what God wants. We operate out of pride or self-confidence instead of being led by the Holy Spirit. Here is a history lesson for the ‘hard of hearing’; take for instance every past revival that God initiated; most churches and many Christians were against the Holy Spirit Movements in their lifetime. What a sad commentary of the Church, thinking they knew what God wanted or how He works.

Well, we are in such a time—at the very crossroad again. What has been done in the past is not how God will be doing things in the future. The only thing that has not changed is the command of Christ and His calling to His Body and the world. Remember and take notice that if you are not doing Isaiah 61, you are out of the will of God. This is God’s will for His believers and what the Holy Spirit wants to do: Isaiah 61:1-3. You cannot do this without the Holy Spirit!

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.”

Where are you, Judges of Righteousness?

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August 26, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

God’s voice is heard in the distance

The final article in the series, Judges of Righteousness

The series of articles (August 12th to 26th) started with God asking me to read the Book of Ruth (again); He caused me to focus on the first verse (In the days when judges ruled…). It was then that I heard the voice of God in the distance. Ever since then I have been standing on the wall as a watchman and blowing the trumpet, i.e. write articles regarding what I heard. So, I am sounding the alarm in response to His voice.

You can find all the articles on my blog (wwjwmtd.com). It is time to ask God if He wants you to hear His voice, blow a trumpet, let out a shout for the Lord, and begin to unite in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

During the next 80 days (beginning August 16th through November 4th) God wants to move through His Body of Believers creating Judges of His Righteousness confronting darkness at every level of our society. Satan has come in like a flood and God wants to rise up a standard/barrier to confront and diminish Satan’s power and authority over our lives (Isaiah 59:19). {Note: It is Isaiah chapters 60 & 61 that gives us authority to stop Satan and all the darkness he produces.}

So, I am calling you to take up the call! I am calling you to be judges! I am calling you to “fulfill all righteousness”! I am calling you to unite with fellow believers and take back what God has promised (The meek shall inherit the earth, Jesus said in Matthew 5:5). “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof” (Psalm 24). Satan does not own it nor those who do evil and follow Satan’s requests. This is your promise from the Lord that King David experienced, and you should fight the spiritual warfare as Jesus commanded just as David gave us as an example.

We are in a unique position to judge righteous judgment and God’s judgment comes to us only if we use His power wisely as the Spirit of God directs us. We must be willing to take back our communities, our counties, our cities, and our states as we humble ourselves, take on God’s righteousness and dress in the armor of God to do one thing—to be judges of righteousness.

As we join together as one person under Christ (no big I’s and little you’s)—as we all become servants (no leadership outside of Christ)—one body helping each other, supporting each other in Christ, then God will be our unity, our strength, and our voice.

Our message is Jesus Christ and His hope, His love, His forgiveness is what we speak about and show to the world. Christ becomes the healing force in our nation—not politics, not activism or division, not one group or ethnic group elevated above other groups. We are one in Christ; no matter who you once were or where your heritage came from. This is the healing a judge of righteousness brings to mankind. We offer the gospel of redemption and do everything possible to command evil to release individuals by proclaiming and working to the fulfillment of Isaiah 61:1-3.

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.”

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August 25, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

What Does a Judge of Righteousness Do?

True repentance is not ordinary nor is it without passion. True repentance changes who we are and what we think about ourselves. Neither is God’s righteousness; it is not something we can do and also comes to us only through great desire and sacrifice (Jesus said we must hunger and thirst in order to receive what God has to offer). God’s judgment is the final and third spiritual quality that the Holy Spirit wants to deposit and develop in our lives. God’s judgment challenges the world and confronts darkness. A judge goes through and incorporates all three qualities into their lives.

One cannot confront the activity of Satan nor stand against his power without first finding forgiveness (great mercy as King David did) and obtaining God’s righteousness in totality (as Paul did—giving up all his self-made righteousness for ‘God’s rightness’). Then and only then can one exercise the judgment of God against everything that exalts itself against Jesus Christ. We must in these last days fulfill the calling each of us has by “bringing all things under subjection to Jesus Christ” (Hebrew 2:8).

This is the purpose, the authority, and the truth God has commanded for every believer—bringing all things under the feet of Christ. This is the task in front of us and why the Spirit’s anointing and God’s calling rests on us. This is why we are in a constant state of repentance and always hungry and thirsting for righteousness; it is to bring God’s judgment on a world who has rejected His Son, Jesus. We can only do this with humility and relying solely on ‘God in us!’

So, what does a righteous judge do—what does he/she look like? Simply a person does what Jesus did while on earth but only in performing greater miracles, facing greater battles against powers and principalities of darkness, and with all that we do, we do not keep any glory or honor for ourselves but give all glory to God and His Son alone.

We are to bring every thought, every action, every word expressed by others under subjection to Christ. We do not leave any act of darkness go unchecked. We are in a battle—we have been called to fight a fight against all spiritual wickedness wherever we find it.

The Church has been challenged since January 1, 2020. We have failed to answer the call to fight. We have run for cover, and the darkness has taken the offensive politically, culturally, religiously, mentally, and morally. We were not ready for what has taken place in America. We became complacent, unprepared, fearful, and weak spiritually. We failed God in so many ways.

God is calling us to take up the Sword of the Spirit—the Truth and Authority of the Bible—with confidence and boldness putting on the armor of God and choosing to fight. We are to pray without ceasing, proclaim the name of Jesus upon the mountain tops, and open the door for Christ to reign in our hearts and to live again in fullness.

As I mentioned in my previous article dated Aug. 14th It’s not Jesus who is hiding but it is us. God has sounded the call for His judges to rule in righteousness once again. God wants to give all of us the fulfillment of Isaiah chapters 60 & 61 like you have never experienced before.

If I may, please let me offer some suggestions to get you started:

1. Sing songs that bring repentance and righteousness. My favorite CD to do this is by Maranatha Music (1997), Stand in the Gap by Promise Keepers. Get the CD with narration—it will blow you away! BUY IT NOW!

2. Read chapters of the Bible that causes you to cry and rejoice. My favorites are Psalms 1, 2, & 37, Book of Ruth, and of course the Book of Judges—it will show you how to fight.

3. Get by yourself each day, invite God to ‘show up’, and pray until Go says to quit.

4. Get others to do what you are doing—be kind & humble but bold & unafraid.

5. REMBER to give glory only to God and do not let others give you praise or honor—it belongs to God.

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August 24, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Are You Living a Life of Lies?

This article is for the believer who wants to be a Judge of Righteousness.

The devil can only speak lies. He might quote Scriptures, but he can never speak the Truth. Too often we also tell lies either to others as well as to ourselves. It is ‘the lie’ that gets us into trouble and keeps us from fulfilling the purposes and goals God has for each believer.

Satan still comes to all of us as he approached Eve and Adam and even as he tempted Jesus in the desert during Jesus’s 40 days of fasting. Satan will always come to us before we embark on doing the will of God or before something miraculous happens in our lives.

Satan seeks only to stop you from accomplishing God’s purposes for your life or ministry and/or hindering you from repenting and experiencing forgiveness. He wants to deny you from being washed by the blood of Christ and making your robe (covering) of righteousness white (clean), effective, and acceptable to God.

Whenever we make excuses for ourselves, justify our behavior, compare ourselves to others, even question “Why me God?”, wanting the easy way out (not having patience), or our failure to understand the ‘Fear of the Lord’, we place ourselves at the door of failure; never finding the forgiveness that God offers through Christ.

Eve made excuses by blaming Satan, Adam blamed Eve, Job blamed God and his friends, but Jesus fought back! Jesus fought back using humility/meekness, quoting Scriptures, and denying himself to have any honor or justification for self-righteousness. Where does your righteousness lie? In self-motivation, in works of personal importance, or is it found alone in repentance and the manifestation of righteousness created by the Holy Spirit.

In the end, all individuals that fulfilled the purposes of God in their generation did so not with ‘their works of righteousness’ but with the Holy Spirit’s depositing Jesus’s righteousness in them, thereby producing the ‘Righteousness of the Holy Spirit’.

Now is time to say, “There is no good thing in me or any good I can do. If there is anything I do that is good, it is only Christ in me, the hope of the manifestation of the glory of God through me.”

Paul, Peter, King David, Ruth, Job, Samson, Moses, and all the other pillars of faith found and fulfilled their destinies in God only through repentance and manifesting the works of righteousness—not by their own efforts or deeds, but what God gave them through His great mercy.

Say this prayer every day, “God forgive for all my sins—all my hidden sins, unknowable sins, self-inflicted sins, prideful sins, sins I have even forgotten about. Search my heart for sins of resentment, jealousy, pride; sins of my spirit for resisting God moving in my life; for fleshly sins of lust, greed, unkind words—for any sin that hurt others, hurt Jesus, and hurt those I loved.”

This process often takes time—it takes time to rid your life of deep-seated sins, forgotten sins, and even those sins that were offensive to God—sins you did not realize them as sins. God is in the cleaning business! Jesus wants to make your life perfectly clean so His righteousness has a place to grow and produce works of purity, judgment, and conviction that the world might be judge and believe.

From repentance to righteous to judgment—this is what the Holy Spirit wants to do in you! It took Jesus’ disciples 40 days to forgive each other and to find unity before Pentecost could arrive. God has given us 80 days to find forgiveness and His righteousness. It is time to get started!

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August 21, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

What Does This Mean…Becoming a Judge of Righteousness?

As I mentioned in my previous article, Aug. 14th, “It’s not Jesus who is hiding”, God has sounded the call for His judges to rule in righteousness once again. If you want to understand the Biblical significance of being a Judge of Righteousness, you need to read the Book of Judges, Book of Acts, especially the stories of Ruth, Gideon, Jericho, and the death of Jezebel.

For the next 80 days the Holy Spirit will be calling all who will answer His call to prayer, to be humble (full of repentance), and hunger and thirst for righteous. God wants to give all of us the fulfillment of Isaiah chapters 60 & 61 like you have never experienced before.

Time of battle is now because the time of righteousness is upon us! What did Jesus say?

(Matthew 5:3-6): “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the [a]earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled."

So, what does this mean for me? One cannot do, create, or imagine works of righteousness; it is a God thing. Paul said, that his works of righteousness are as ‘filthy rags’. God’s righteousness is produced by God alone—you cannot be ‘good enough’ or be ‘right enough’ to produce God’s righteousness. Jesus said, “No one is good but God.” All any of us can do is “hunger and thirst for righteousness,” and in & during that process of wanting deeply what God has to offer, we shall be filled and produce works of righteousness as Jesus stated and showed us by His example.

However, the issues that must be addressed in order to ‘hunger and thirst’ is found in verses 3-5 of Matthew chapter 5. First, we must continue and remain in a state of brokenness and repentance (v.3), not only for ourselves but also for others (v.4 to mourn for others to find forgiveness), and lastly, to be humble—meek—unworthy (v.5). It is in this state of humility that God fills us with His likeness, His righteousness, and His power to perform actions, words, and judgments of righteousness.

How do I know this to be true? It is because of what I have experienced in the past few weeks and especially the past few days. I have suffered pain, cried buckets of tears, harassed by Satan, and given unusual inspiration by the Holy Spirit. This revelation has come to me only in great sacrifice and through the blood of Jesus Christ. I could not have imagined nor realized the importance of what God wants to do through His people during the next 2-3 months.

It will come quickly! (More to come in future articles. So, get going, share with others, and prepare yourself to see and receive from God. God is going to amaze you!)

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August 14, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

It’s not JESUS who is hiding!

(A Call to Battle is Heard in the Heavenlies!)

I have been led by the Holy Spirit to give the Body of Christ encouragement, to redeem the time, to answer the call of His trumpet, to begin to battle against darkness, & to seek only His face and His will for the next 80 days.

The trumpet of the Lord has sounded; God’s voice is a call to battle.

The following statements/guidelines will help you ‘to believe and to take God at His word’:

1. The next 80 days is a call to fulfill the will of the Lord—not what we want but what God wants. This is the time for many revivals to spring up throughout the nation and answers to prayers you have been praying. Answers to past & forgotten prayers have been released by God for & during this time.

2. For the next 80 days (beginning August 16th through November 4th) you have to choose to pray and be vocal, be humble and possibly fast when asked to do so by God, and expect (have faith) with determination by looking for the Hand of God to move over this land. Do not become discouraged by what the enemy says through media outlets or social media—this is a time of Gideon, a time of Jericho, and a time of the Book of Acts.

3. Time of battle is a time of righteous so God’s judgment may flow over our land. We must allow God to wave His Hand (the Holy Spirit) over this land executing the purposes of the Holy Spirit to ‘convict of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment’ in the way God chooses. We must do this by doing works of righteousness—we must wear the righteous robe that God has given us. By wearing the righteousness of the Father & the Son, we will be motivated to do what Jesus did while on earth. (I am so excited! Do not think what you are now wearing is good enough.)

4. Yes, this is a time for God’s judges to rule. As it is stated in Ruth chapter 1:1, “In the days when the judges ruled,” so now is the time for judges to rule over the land of God’s people once again. God is going to rise up judges quickly and miraculously over America. There will be hundreds, no thousands of judges (even without number)—whoever will answer the call and wear God’s righteous will be anointed to judge. (I am seeing a truly Body of Christ ministry being born.)

5. It’s time for fulfillment of Isaiah chapters 60 & 61. If you will believe in Isaiah chapter 61, who Jesus is and accept who He is and what He has promised to do in your life, then Isaiah chapter 60 will be fulfilled before you. You will be amazed and humbled by what the Lord will do through you. You will come to realize that the fulfillment of these two chapters in your life, which comes only through repentance, humility, meekness, and your willingness to allow God to have all the glory keeping nothing for yourself. (This is so important—repentance and mourning precede revival.)

It is important that you do not place any restrictions on what God will do or how He works His judgment/righteousness in our land. Also, what God gives to you to accomplish His will, you are to give to others. We must ‘give and strive’ in order to stay in the unity of the Spirit at all times.

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August 12, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

A Must Read…It is that important!

What I will be sending out tomorrow, dated August 14th, is a Word from the Lord has been birthed by the Holy Spirit in my life over the past few weeks. It has come through much prayer, times of repentance and mourning, with fear and trembling, and waiting on God’s timing.

Please read tomorrow’s article carefully, and if so moved, send it along to others!

If you will humble yourself, pray and ask the Father for confirmation, seek the Lord for His righteousness (the manifestation of the works of Jesus in your life), and lastly, give the Lord all your thankfulness and praise; giving God all honor for what He does…

Then you will see the Hand of God move over the land life like you have never seen or believed would ever happen.

This is a word from the Lord and will happen as been spoken about through the Bible and recent prophetic words, as well as, fulfillment of prophecies spoken long ago.

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August 1, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

"3 Things to Hope for with Ecstatic Expectancy!"

By Mandy Woodhouse, Brisbane, Australia

This article came to me and caught my attention. Not only do I believe Mandy is correct, but it affirms things God has been showing me. Please take a read and allow God to work on your heart by preparing for what is to come, yes, if only we would yield to the Holy Spirit!

Mandy writes, “For weeks now I have felt, in the physical realm, the rumblings of something HUGE coming near me. Some days, I will randomly feel the ground begin to vibrate in the natural, and I hear with my ears the sound of what could be giant army tanks driving down the road toward my home, yet they never appear. These experiences feel like the rumblings and sounds that occurred when I first experienced a minor earthquake. I hear the sound of something massive coming toward me, and I feel the vibrations of the ground beginning to move at the weight of whatever it is that’s approaching – but I cannot see with my natural eyes what I am feeling and hearing.

"God, if only You would tear open the heavenly realm and come down! How the mountains would tremble in Your awesome presence!" (Isaiah 64:1 TPT)

There are many prophetic words right now regarding the months of September through November 2020. There are some words that are warnings with a call to prayer and intercession like never before. Still, other prophetic words are pointing to a great awakening and a renewal that God wants to pour out upon His Church in these same months, which also happen to be the start of the Hebraic New Year.

I will say that I have seen both scenarios in my spirit, and with them, I have also seen a company of watchmen intercessors rise up in unprecedented numbers. I am, daily, astounded at the number of people who are "suddenly" feeling called to prayer like never before.

I believe that what I am seeing and feeling in the Spirit is actually three things, and these three things are bringing so much HOPE and positive EXPECTANCY to my heart, it makes me want to burst! I want to bring hope and encouragement to your hearts as well, so please allow me to describe what I feel the Lord has shown me in regard to September – November 2020…and possibly beyond.

1. A Great Arising of Intercessors!

I closed my eyes and saw, in my spirit, a massive gathering of people who were marching down the road. There were so many people that the structures along the road were trembling and the ground vibrated with every step they took. I asked the Lord if this gathering was one of the current gatherings taking place across the globe in response to racism, and I heard Him say, "No… look closer."

As I looked at the faces of the crowd marching past, I realized that these were not rioters, but they were INTERCESSORS who had gathered in Spirit and in truth. I saw that many of them were watchmen, some were prophets, some were seasoned prayer warriors, and some were new to the idea of this type of prayer. They had somehow found each other through networking and divine alignments, and they were on a mission. He then showed me that many of them were only just waking up to the fact that God has called them to pray with authority and see things shift and move, yet prayer was burning in their hearts.

The number in this gathering of intercessors was overwhelming to my senses as it was a greater number than in any other time in history! The sheer power, authority and passion in each step that these people took was enough to shake the ground and cause a tremble in the heavenlies. I saw that they held redemptive keys to the answers many are asking for.

2. The Mountains Will Tremble at His Presence!

The scene shifted, and I then saw that the presence of God was thicker and more tangible than it had ever been in this generation. I saw individuals, in their very own prayer closets and bedrooms and quiet spaces, encountering God and having a personal revival like no other! I heard the Lord say that as His children seek His friendship and His love, He will indeed draw closer to them than they could ever have asked (James 4:8).

I then felt that there is a great shift in the hearts and minds of His people right now, which has occurred because of this personal revival, and it is causing such a tremble in the heavenlies that even the societal mountains are quaking! The mountains of society and culture are shaking and trembling at the presence and glory of God that is so weighty upon those who have experienced the fire and branding of a personal revival.

I saw these "revivalists" infiltrate all arenas of every facet of society, and I saw that with every step they took there was a tremble in the kingdom of darkness that once had tried to influence the mountains. I saw demonic manifestations in individuals and in areas of culture like never before, but I saw that they were occurring because the children of God were finally understanding the authority and weight of glory that they carry.

The harvest around the mountains is ripe for deliverance and for salvation. Darkness only manifests when great Light is around to drown it out! "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it" (John 1:5 ESV). The darkness is being exposed as the presence and glory of God moves about the mountains through His revivalist children.

3. "Here I Come…Are You Ready?"

Several of my friends and I, as well as others whom I do not know, have been hearing this phrase in a variation of ways over the past few months. I believe that these phrases are huge statements that are like brush strokes on a painting – every stroke is a bit different yet adds another dimension to the overall masterpiece. Just like the Body of Christ, each part has a role in the Kingdom. In these phrases, some people have heard warnings that they are to pray and release hope and redemptive solutions, and yet others have seen and been praying into an outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is so great, it changes the fabric of Christianity on the globe. Still, others have seen and heard this in reference to the great end-times Harvest. Personally, the Lord spoke to me about a great JOY that is pouring out upon the Bride!

"Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return with glee to Zion. They will enter with a song of rejoicing and be crowned with everlasting joy. Ecstatic joy will overwhelm them; weariness and grief will disappear!" (Isaiah 35:10 TPT)

In the midst of feeling these tremors on the earth, I had a dream where I saw two mountain peaks. On one peak, shoulder-to-shoulder with full armor, stood the Bride of Christ in all her glory. On the other peak stood a tall demon, the size of a small giant. Although the Lord spoke to me about this demon, I don’t want to glorify it, but I will say that it was strong, tall and clever. It had tools to distract, discourage and disappoint the Bride to the point of weariness, depression and despair. It was throwing everything it had at the Bride, and some of the arrows were getting through the crowd as well as the armor and causing wounds – UNTIL, some of the Bride began to smile. I then saw the Bride, one-by-one, throw their heads back and begin to laugh! My eyes were opened further to see that the weighty, fiery presence of God had been on each of them, and in His presence, there is FULLNESS of joy (Psalm 16:11).

The laughter grew louder and louder until it became ecstatic joy; and with every hearty laugh I saw the demon shrink until it was the size of a little mouse! It confused the demon as well as frustrated it, and it absolutely disempowered it.

"Now may God, the inspiration and fountain of hope, fill you to overflowing with uncontainable joy and perfect peace as you trust in Him. And may the power of the Holy Spirit continually surround your life with His super-abundance until you radiate with hope!" (Romans 15:13 TPT)

"You love Him passionately although you did not see Him, but through believing in Him you are saturated with an ecstatic joy, indescribably sublime and immersed in glory." (1 Peter 1:8 TPT)

I believe that there is an OUTPOURING OF UNCONTAINABLE JOY coming for those who know the Lord! Joy is not a feeling, but it is our strength (Nehemiah 8:10), a fruit of the Spirit that is at work within us (Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 3:20), and part of the Kingdom of God (Romans 4:17). I saw so clearly that the demon lost power as the joy of the Lord saturated the Bride, because the demon could not understand or speak the language of joy.

My friend, Pastor James Graham, says that the origin of joy is directly from the heart of the Father, thus not fleeting or changing. The heart of the Father is wholly for His Bride, and I believe that He is coming with such an outpouring of His heart over His Bride that even the demons will shudder, shrink and be disempowered when the ecstatic joy overwhelms His people!

I also heard the Father say that as He comes with an outpouring of joy, we must be ready to be misjudged, misunderstood, and misinterpreted. When He said to me, "Are you ready?" I immediately knew in my Spirit that He was calling us to be men and women of a different spirit, like Caleb (Numbers 14:24). As joy flows from us in all circumstances, and as we laugh in the face of the demonic, and as we bring righteousness, peace and JOY into all atmospheres, we may face misunderstanding from those who only see the "giants" in the land.

However, as we enter each atmosphere and mountain of influence with rejoicing, and as we are overwhelmed with ecstatic joy that comes from the Father’s heart, we will see before our very eyes the promises of God unfold! We will see weariness and grief disappear (Isaiah 35:10)! We will see the desert blossom like a rose and rejoice (Isaiah 35:2)! We will be immersed in glory (1 Peter 1:8) and we will radiate with HOPE (Romans 15:13).

I believe that the atmosphere on Earth and in the heavenlies will TREMBLE and SHAKE at the laughter of the Bride as she throws her head back in joy and confidence at the sight of the giants in the land!

I am still feeling the ground tremble beneath me, even as I type this. Yet, I see intercessors awakening. I see societal mountains tremble at the weight of glory that His children are beginning to carry. I see darkness exposed as the Light shines brighter and more radiant. And I see an indescribable, ecstatic joy coming upon the Bride that causes giants to shrink and hope to arise! YES, LORD, so be it!”

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What would Jesus want me to do?

Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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July 28, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Satan Has Distracted You—Church

The Christian Church has been distracted by the virus. It allowed Jesus to be marginalized as well as disregarded its calling to be a light in the world. How did it do this? It is easy to cave into political and media pressure when the power of the Holy Spirit is not in operation in local church bodies.

Months before the virus began to affect America I stated that God was calling all of us to a season of repentance, prayer, and asking for forgiveness. We were to search our hearts and see if there are any wickedness in our lives. The wisdom of Jesus in Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” We are to be in a constant state of repentance, brokenness, and contriteness. The Holy Spirit will always find things in our lives that need repentance and fixing. This is the very first quality every Christian should have based on the teachings of Christ.

Also, I wrote that Mark chapter 16 was to be the chapter for the church for the coming year. This chapter was written to be a calling to all disciples of Christ to truly believe and remove all doubt from our hearts so we might act like believers. Mark 16 verses 17-18: “And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.” If you are a believing Christian then these signs are manifested in your life.

The Church should have been on the front line fighting the virus instead of being afraid of failure and ridiculed by the media for the belief that Jesus could and will heal all those who have the virus. What a miserable failure of our churches. Why have they failed in this time of great need? What stopped the church from offering the promise by being the Body of Christ?

The answer is found in John 2:13–16, “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” Our churches have become a business and pastors watch their ‘bottom-line’ more than the manifestation of the Gospel of Christ. Christianity has become a business just like went on in the temple of God in Jesus’s day. The Scripture is now fulfilled, Book of Daniel 5:27, which I have listed for you from multiple versions of the Bible:

Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

tekel; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

‘tekel’—you have been weighed on the scales [of righteousness] and found deficient;

tekel,You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting;

Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

‘Tekel’ means that you have been weighed on the balance and found deficient.

tekelmeans that you’ve been weighed on the scales, and you don’t measure up.

‘T’kel’ — you are weighed on the balance-scale and come up short.

These are the times of trial sent by God to try His people and see if they will measure up to the righteousness in Christ. No matter how you state what God means it is simply, “We have no righteousness, and if we did, we would have responded to the virus in a different way.”

We became distracted by Satan, by looking to money to measure our success and not to works of righteousness (works that define our belief system in Christ), “They will place their hands-on sick people, and they will get well.”

The church is producing works of the ‘antichrist’ rather than the works of Jesus Christ. We need to repent quickly, ask God for wisdom and power, and attack the works of the devil. This is what Jesus would have done rather than hiding behind a mask of social justice and medical assistance.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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