Dear Friends,

Thank you for joining us for prayer! That is exactly what this Nation needs – consistent and faithful prayer! We are two weeks from the election, and the truth must go forth into our Land. Thank you for not giving up – we’re in the home stretch! 

As a ministry, when we pray, we pray according to the will of our Lord. We seek Him for our prayer points, and each is strategic in nature. Our only desire is for God’s will to reign in this land. In addition to the prayer points, we always pray the “7 R’s”; Repentance, Revival, Reformation, Revolution, Reclamation, Revelation, and Reconciliation. These will bring forth a Nation that honors God and promotes healing at the foundational level. I share this with you, in this particular intro, because I received a couple of articles yesterday (which I included below) that I couldn’t wait to share with you. They are a true testament to the power of national repentance and intercession. 

The Lord spoke to Nita in a vision promising that if she were faithful to the work of the Gatherings, we would see a major outpouring of Revival flow across this land before we saw war. Today, we are seeing the fruit of our intercessions from nearly sixteen years ago! 

The Native American people are rising to take their place in the healing of the land! What do I mean by this? In an unprecedented act, with spiritual ramifications beyond the understanding of most, 1000 North American Indian Tribes from the U.S. and Canada held a special ceremony on the Mall in Washington. As Chief Negiel Bigpond explained, they would forgive the U.S. Government for every treaty we made- and broke- with the Native American Tribes. Then, they would repent for rejecting God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and even for making excuses for their actions understanding that their people have suffered as a result of the unforgiveness throughout the generations. 

Healing and restoration have begun! This, my friends, leads to reformation; one of the 7 R’s. In our first “Gathering of the Eagles” in Florida (and for the next two-and-a-half years) we repented over the unspeakable crimes committed against the Native Americans. Our tears poured into the ground to appease the heart of our Father, entering deep into the soil and continuing the restorative work. After two-and-a-half years, the Lord directed us to begin our repentance on behalf of the African-Americans, but the tears shed over the horrific pain the Native-Americans suffered at the hands of the white man continued to heal the land. 

This decision to repent and forgive demonstrates a profound achievement on the part of these tribal leaders. The Word of God teaches us that if we break a treaty (or covenant), judgment will fall upon our heads. (Joshua 9:20 and Ezekiel 17) It’s a dangerous thing with God. Rarely was a treaty made with the Native Americans that we didn’t break. This opened the door for judgment to fall and both parties have lived in bondage to the sin and resulting unforgiveness of violating those treaties. Our repentance and intercession brought healing, but true freedom came when the Native American tribes chose to forgive. Were it not for the repentance of the intercessors 16 years ago, we would’ve seen war on our soil. Instead, our tears healed this land and paved the way for these tribes to take this step of faith and extend forgiveness to us. This step of courage frees the tribes from bitterness and us from bondage. Now, we can stand together, shoulder to shoulder, and bring Reformation to this Nation! 

Repentance, Reformation, Revival… our Nation cannot come into the fullness of what God has for her until the people of the land can stand together. When we do, when we see Native Americans, African Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Hispanic Americans and so on, all willing to embrace who they are, step forward to walk in love and forgive those who’ve wronged them, we will become an unstoppable force. Can you see why the enemy is working so hard to break us? The Elite manipulate and provoke people at every turn seeking to bring division between the races. Now it’s time for us to rise and fight against their efforts. We must do so in faith, rejoicing over the victories we read about today! Seeing the hope of the promises to come! 

It’s time for healing! It’s time for reformation! Read the articles and rejoice with us over these miracles and let’s continue to work toward healing! Stand with us and refuse to allow the enemy to interfere in our future any longer! Stand with us as we press through the next two weeks and be prepared for victory to sweep across our land! 

Blessings & love,

Ricci Wilson

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By Nita Johnson

NOLA Revival Services June, 2011

From last week...

Back to the experience, He was showing me that the moment the baby is born, heaven hears the cry coming from the innermost recesses of that child’s soul. The cry to be restored to its Maker and if the child is not brought back to that place like Tiffany was, then sorrow and pain will begin to form. If they are led out into the world to love the things of the world, the inner pains increase and begin to deepen like cancer burrowing into the skin. Does this make sense? If the soul is not returned to God in the searching, then it will begin to search out anything to stop this silent pain. Whether it is drugs, alcohol, career, addictions of any kind, wanting to be married, wanting to have children—all of these things are a quest to fill the void meant only for our Maker.

Matt 22:37-38 And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). This is the great (most important, principle) and first commandment.

There is no other peace in this life but to be owned by God; anything else is fleeting and temporary. Remember Jesus told the parable of the man who looks over his kingdom and is so self-satisfied? He talks about how he will tear down this and that, and build something better and larger in its place. He is so self-satisfied with all that he has accomplished and done and Jesus said: Thou fool, this day your life is will be required of you! He did not say he was a good man, just a little misguided. His efforts cost him his life. Satan plays us for a fool, encouraging us to chase after other things so that we never fill that space with Him and we are the only ones that can defeat the plans of the enemy.

God is grace, and He gives grace. He gives a lot to those who truly seek His face. When you get to heaven, you will never be able to say to Him: You just did not make it possible. You will never be able to say it because just by the time you open your mouth, you will see the film of your life played out before your eyes, and in it, you will see how hard He tried to help you. You played the part of the fool, and you did not seek the One that was seeking you.

It is not about whether God wants you. He created you to want Him; it is about whether or not you want Him badly enough. Will you give your mind over to thoughts about God instead of dwelling on thoughts about the temporal? I know we have to do things in life. I am not saying you have to become monastic, that is not the point, but will you give your mind wholly to Him? Learning how He thinks by being in the Word. Will you give your heart wholly to Him and learn to love the way He loves and desire the way He desires, living in the passion in which He lives? I know it is not easy, is it?
How do you give your whole soul to the Lord when it is so filled with lusts of the world? You say that to a congregation, and 99% of the congregation will say to themselves: I do not have a lust for the world, but I do wish He would close this service because I am getting hungry! I wonder if that car is still available? Maybe the wife and I should take another look when this is over.

We deceive ourselves. How do we get a soul that is wholly given over to the Lord?

First of all, you learn to love prayer. When a husband and wife pray together, and it is always so beautiful in the eyes of God. That cannot be all of it; there also has to be separate prayer and solitude in the presence of the Lord. You have to learn to love prayer so much that you always want to come into it with every moment possible until you've made your workplace a place of prayer. Or, when you have to go out and do errands, and that becomes a place of prayer, and you learn to hate anything and everything that will get in the way of you coming into communion with God which a lot of things do—right? But you begin to fight those things and to despise their nearness and their contamination of the holy place you want to live in. That is the goal, to love prayer that much.

Secondly, you must love the Word. Yes, but, my problem is that I do not really understand the Word. I have an answer for you; pray that God will give you an understanding of the Word. When you read a chapter, do not leave that chapter—just read it and re-read it over and over. The entire time you are reading, make sure to ask the Lord questions (God, help me understand this. What does this mean? Why did You put this in this chapter? What were Your thoughts?)

I cannot tell you how many times Jesus has come personally to teach me His Word. He will pull out passages from an entire chapter and say: This is what this means when the writer wrote it, this is what the Holy Spirit was communicating. I just sit there in awe unable to believe this. No one says this stuff. You cannot go to the Greek or Hebrew to find these treasures. People are talking in words, communicating in culture.

I will give you an example.

John 1: 14 And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacle (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth.

What does that mean? I just want to get you thinking, I did not know what it meant either until He came to me and let me experience what this means. He was full of glory. Not just full of glory like you can experience when you are overwhelmed with the Spirit—it was not like that. There was no sinful nature in Him, so His soul was permeated with the life of God, and you could not separate the Man Christ from God. Christ who was God; Christ who was the Son—they were One and could not be separated. There was no sinful nature. He was living Truth. He was the Word, but He was the living Word. Everything that went on inside of Him was the living Word. His character was the character of God; love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, kindness, mercy, compassion, and humility were the character of God. It was not like looking at some One who was a mature, humble and respected Christian and admiring them, or being a Christian with a lot of joy in His life so He must be doing something right in God. He is joyful and just always happy.

It was not like that. It was not human joy or happiness; it was Divine joy because He was God. It was Divine peace, Divine love, Divine humility, Divine meekness and of course all that is truth. He was the living Word full of grace and truth. How do you describe the grace? I do not know how, all we know is that the Bible tells us that when He spoke, He spoke with great grace and the grace would fall upon the people who would stand in awe of His Words. It was not human grace; it was Divine grace. He walked in Divine faith. It was the faith so high and absolute that He knew that anything He prayed, anything He said would come to pass because He had the faith of God which is a lot different than human faith and also, He lived in the matrix hub of the Godhead while on this earth. The reason I know all this is because the Lord let me experience it. I felt it. I felt how Christ, who was all man and all God lived in the center of the God Head all the time on earth. He did not know life quite the way we know it because the world was not connected to His soul.

To be continued next week...

In His Amazing Love,
Nita Johnson