Dear friends,

Last week was our Seattle Gathering of the Eagles. God moved powerfully among us as we interceded for our nation. We thank the Lord for the privilege to to serve as intercessors for our Nation. We reached the heart of our Lord and believe we will see the fruit of our time together in the very near future.

Many of our staff members and some of our attendees stayed behind to help out during our CedarWood Pantry. I sent out an invite for our attendees to bring new (or gently used) coats and blankets with them and the response was amazing - they brought 15 blankets, 50 coats, and several other winter items (hats, gloves, sweaters) that we handed out Monday at our pantry. We thank those who brought supplies and those who stayed behind to help us on Monday!

Following is week three of the "Never Give Up!" Series. I pray it blesses you and helps prepare you for the days ahead.

Much love,
Ricci

OPENING PRAYER:

Lord, I want to escape this platform and be with You. Your Presence is drawing me so strongly. You are the Glory, and You are the Lifter of our heads. In You, we have no concern. We have nothing to fear. The rains may come, and the sun may come, but Lord, You are always near. My heart hungers for You. My soul longs for You in a dry and thirsty land! I don't want a walk with You, Lord, that is not tangible. I want to walk with You in the deep places. I want to feel Your Spirit and know Your ways, Lord. Let the rivers flow, Lord! Let them flow upon us. Let us feel Your tangible Presence. Oh Lord, I can feel the fires burning in my soul, for You are an All Consuming God! Burn in us, Lord. Burn in us! Let the fires of heaven burn in us. Burn in us, Lord! Let the fires that we cannot contain burn in us for Your glory! Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Jesus. Glorious One. Glorious! Glory to the Father! Glorious is the Son! How wonderful You are, Lord. [End of prayer]

I can’t believe I'm yelling like this! God is good. I have to tell you what I saw. It wasn't a lot, but it was so beautiful and awesome. We kept going higher and higher in our personal worship. Suddenly, it was as if the ceiling of this church disappeared, and I found myself going up into the heavens. When we look at the stars, they appear to us as if flat on the sky, right? But when you're up there, you can see that there are layers upon layers upon layers of stars. I went up through something like a vortex, which was swirling ever so lightly. It wasn’t whirling madly but lightly. I found myself going up into the center of this vortex. All around this vortex, there were moving stars. I don't know where this place is in the heavens, but it's up there somewhere. The stars were moving within the vortex in layer upon layer, and in the midst of all of this was the Glory of God. It was so beautiful that I didn't want it to stop. I just wanted to keep going higher and higher because it was so beautiful. I don't know what He was trying to show me. But I now know that the stars have layers, there is a whirling vortex up there somewhere, and His Glory is in the midst. Praise God.

I'm not that brilliant, but Jesus is. He is so smart, and I love that about Him. I love His intelligence. One time, when I was very young in the Lord, I was asking Him how He did certain things because I didn't know you couldn't ask those kinds of questions. I just thought you could, and He would answer. He said to me, "Would you like to see how a laser beam works?” I said, “Yes, Lord, that would be so exciting!" So He showed me how a laser beam works.

But I always double-check things to make sure that what I am hearing and seeing really is of the Lord. After that time with the Lord, I called the state college in Fresno and talked to the head of the science department. I told him what I saw, and he asked, "Um, what is your level of education?" I told him, and he said, "Why aren't you in college?" And I said, "Why?" He said, "To have that level of education and tell me what you just told me—you must have a great mind for science." I thought, That was one of my worst subjects. I said, "So are you telling me that what I saw was accurate?" He said, "How did you see that?" I told him I was a Christian, and God showed it to me. He said, "Well, I would say He was pretty accurate." Isn't that funny how people react to things? I don't think he knew what to say, so he just said the smartest thing that came to mind. I love it when the Lord shows us things. How about you?

This is going to be part three. We're definitely going to have a part four, and we may have a part five. After giving part one of this message, from the time I got up the next day until I’m not sure how late, I kept feeling like I had put on a pair of jeans, a cotton shirt, and a carpenter's belt on which you can attach different instruments. I was walking around with everything clanging from what was hanging on this belt. I sat down, and I silently asked the Lord, What is all this about? Why am I feeling like this? Well, He didn't tell me.

But within about an hour, I had the most incredible continuation of this. It went the next step higher, and I felt like a supernatural person. Now, you may think it's all because I've been sick too long so this alter ego is coming out. But I started feeling like a supernatural person. It continued to increase. I started thinking, Wow. I have to watch what I say because it feels like whatever I say I will create.

Now, I'm either going extremely out of my mind or God is trying to tell me something, but that same Presence is here tonight. Do you feel it? Does it feel like you're almost becoming a supernatural person? Does anyone feel it? Good, several of you. It's the Presence of God, and what we are going to do tonight is create by the Spirit. Now I don't want anyone thinking I'm into false doctrine. If I am, then we're going to have to talk to Jesus about it. But He has given us, in the Church, a place to create. I think He is doing this because He really wants to save America, and He can't get enough Christians to agree with Him. Everyone wants to fly or drive all over to hear the prophets tell you America is cursed, and God is going to lift His grace and His mercy and wave us on. They want to go all over and hear this stuff. And yet, God is saying, "I am going to discipline, but I am not going to destroy. I need the creative thinkers—those who will believe Me and let Me turn them into supernatural people."

I don't know how you feel about that, but we are going to be doing some of that tonight. We’re going to be creating. Are you with me? That's good because He needs your voices. He needs your faith. He wants to begin to create in America the new America, and we are going to let Him use us for whatever He wants to use us. When I felt that Presence come in, I thought, Oh, we're going to do some wonderful things tonight. So I wanted to share it with you.

There is another part to the experience I just shared with you. Early in the morning, when I awakened for prayer, I kept seeing an eagle perched on a large branch. It was positioned to catch the current and take flight. I saw this eagle for quite a long time. It did not disappear until a feeling came of being a creator or a carpenter in the Kingdom. It’s amazing to me because in the Spirit, I wasn’t wearing the clothes of a great spiritual creator; I had on the clothes of a carpenter. I think maybe that is why Jesus became a carpenter for awhile because He was saying that His life was building a temple in the earth.

I was taken up into the Spirit many years ago, and there I met Noah. Noah looked just like a carpenter. He was burly, not thin, and he wore a rectangular type of beard. He looked like a man who had been working in hard labor all of his life. He came to me to tell me several things, but one of the things that he said was, “You are”—meaning me and those who work with me—“creating an ark in the earth. And you must be faithful to this call.” I know the Lord sent Noah to give that message because if He had sent David, I would have thought of a different ark. Because it was Noah, I thought about how he saved his family and all the animals and so on in the ark. He said, "You are creating an ark in the earth.” Not the ark of worship that we think of when we think of the Ark of the Covenant but the ark that will save people and protect them in a difficult time. So here we are with our builders' garb on, and the Lord is going to teach us how to use our mouth to build the things of the Kingdom that He wants built in this country.

To be continued...

In His Love,
Nita Johnson