Critical Prayer Time Wednesday June 24, 2020 at 4:00 PM PST:
This Wednesday, we are having a critical time of prophetic intercession on behalf the nation and the upcoming election. The Lord spoke to Nita Johnson yesterday about a critical issue that must be prayed through on Wednesday, June 24th, at 4:00 PM PST. Typically, our staff would come together and pray these things through, however, the Lord has instructed us to bring the intercessors together on this one. Please join call in by 3:50 so we are ready to engage by 4 PM. It will likely last an hour, perhaps 90 minutes.
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Melchizedek:
Last week we hosted our long-awaited, Melchizedek Priesthood Conference! You can find these messages on our website under our Prophetic & Intercessor’s training ground. These messages contain powerful revelation to equip the Church for the days ahead. The messages were taught by Nita Johnson, Kin & Debbie Clark, and me. There is also a wonderfully informative Q&A at the end of each message. These messages will help bring understanding and revelation as to how this mantle will impact the body of Christ in the days ahead. We will do another Melchizedek Conference soon; I encourage you to prayerfully read through Nita Johnson’s book entitled “Melchizedek Priesthood” and listen to these messages. Take notes, write up questions you would like to see answered, and we’ll work to get them answered in our next session.
REMINDER--Kansas Gathering Postponed :
Due to the social-distancing restrictions handed down by the Missouri governor, we need to reschedule our GOE. Under the current restrictions, we would be limited to 120 attendees. We have more than double that registered and this does not include our staff or volunteers.
As such, we are working with the hotel to reschedule this event, however, it will likely be next year. We will notify you as soon as we have those dates secured. Most airlines will allow you to change your flight or use the funds toward the purchase of another ticket. We apologize for the inconvenience this is posing, we are all feeling the effects of this while at the same time, aching to intercede on behalf of the nation. As such, we will hold a Phone Gathering in lieu of the Kansas GOE. Details coming soon.
Blessings & love,
Ricci Wilson
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"Embracing the Shaking of 2020"
Part 3 (transcription from October 2019)
Ricci Wilson
I remember when I found out I was pregnant with my son and that absolute terror that I experienced. Even though I was a few years older at this point, I really thought long and hard about how I could go through labor again. My husband and I went through Lamaze class and during this process, I learned a few things about the labor process that I didn’t understand before. When I went into labor with my son, I realized when it was time to drive to the hospital because I remember the point of pain that I had when I had my daughter and I knew that I was close. We went to the hospital and admittedly, I was afraid that I was going to get there and they were going to tell me that I was dilated at 3-4 cm and had a few more hours. I was really scared about that but when I got there, I was at maybe 7-8 cm and in fact, things were moving so quickly that the nurse came in and said, “All right, I have called your doctor and I want you to know that I have delivered hundreds of babies and in the event that the doctor does not make it, we are going to be okay.”
So there she was, calm and collected in a situation that could have escalated rapidly. Nurses were flitting about, getting all the kits and prepping the tables. I felt a little panicky because I was expecting more pain but this nurse never left me. I overheard her asking a delivery doctor to come to my room immediately. She was very calm; she was wonderful. I do not think that the nurses get nearly the credit that they deserve, but she was right there with me. My husband was about to pass out, so it was really the nurse and I with him trying to stay upright.
She told me that I was going to need to focus. I looked into her eyes—they were the most striking eyes, a shade of brown so dark they were nearly black. I looked into her eyes as she walked me through contractions. She calmed my fears and brought me peace. She was so calm in the midst of my elevating emotions and she said, “Okay, you can do this.” She told me to breathe and, five seconds later, she told me to breathe again. She brought back to me the focus that we had learned while taking our birthing class. Lamaze is not really about eliminating your pain. Lamaze is about giving your brain something else to focus on besides the fact that your body is about to split into two. When you breathe and when you focus on that, you are really taking all of your energy and focusing on something other than your pain and how you are about to lose your mind. Before I knew it, she was telling me that the time had come to begin preparing for the birth and that my doctor was, in fact, not going to make it but “we” would be okay.
Within 45 minutes my son was born.
It was quite possibly the best experience you can imagine in giving birth. It is obvious that you would think that if your doctor is not there, your husband is about to pass out, and you hear the loudspeaker calling any doctor on the floor to your room STAT, it would create chaos in your heart, but it did not in mine because I had someone there who had immediately gained my trust. She was very honest with me, and walked me through the process.
That experience was the opposite of my first experience, so much so, that it healed me of the trauma of my first experience. I hate to be such a wimp, but I really went through trauma from my first birth because I was not prepared. They did not tell me that it would be the most pain that you could ever imagine, but “you can get through this, I will walk you through it. You can do this. We need to focus on something other than your pain and I will help you get through this, we got this, and at the end of this process, you are going to have life. Life! You are going to have your son.” It made all the difference in the world. After going through that period, that nine months of pregnancy and however many hours of labor, I really walked through that experience feeling like I could have ten more kids!
Why is THIS analogy the one the Lord brought back to me? I have not thought about either of those experiences in years; it has been almost 30 years. However, the last couple weeks, these two experiences kept coming to mind so strongly. This is why:
When we go through labor, there is a specific period when you have transitioned from the first stage of labor into the second stage: the birthing stage. When you have moved into the very last part, you are now in active labor, your contractions are coming every one to two minutes and they last 60 to 90 seconds because your body is at the very last part of giving birth to life. It is at this part that while I was in the hospital with my second child that that nurse took me from a place of panic to unbelievable focus. She convinced me, wholeheartedly, that I was going to make it through, despite the fact that my doctor was not there and my husband was about to pass out (poor guy). I knew I was going to be okay; I trusted her. Because of this trust, because she walked me through this, I went from panic to focused excitement.
When we are about to go through a difficult time, we have choices to make. Are we going to allow the difficult times to swallow us up? Are we going to embrace them? Are we going to “fake it ‘til we make it”… in other words, just survive them? Or are we going to allow the Lord to do a deep work in us during those difficult times? What is our response going to be when the shaking occurs?
To be continued next week…
Blessings and love,
Ricci Wilson
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Acts Book II (Part 4A) A Change Is Coming
by Nita LaFond Johnson
He comes and satisfies the hungry heart. The key to attaining wonderful places in God is hunger. If you can look at your life in God and think that He does not give you enough attention, then I question your hunger because He always satisfies hunger. He desires for you to hunger and thirst after Him. The tides are changing; the world is becoming a new place and we must also change. The Church must change; she must come to understand that her place in God is higher, greater and more profound than she has ever thought before. This is a very important picture of what is coming. I believe God put this Scripture in the Word for us today. Some might argue that He put it there for many generations but no generation has needed it like we do today: Hebrews 11:24 “[Aroused] by faith Moses, when he had grown to maturity and become great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.” There is a day when God touches the heart of each one of His children and gives us the opportunity to refuse to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. It is not a decision we can simply make or take lightly. Deciding that we are going to separate ourselves from the life of Pharaoh means a complete alteration in our passion, desire, direction and outlook on life, God, the Church, and faith. It requires a complete alteration in the way that we perceive everything with which we are connected. It takes maturity. This is why the Bible says “…when Moses had grown to maturity…” A child cannot make this decision. This kind of separation requires a grace that God has worked within you over time which develops a maturity of faith. Moses preferred to share the oppression, suffer the hardships, and bear the shame of the people of God rather than have the fleeting enjoyment of the sinful life; this came through maturity. It takes mature faith. Therefore, God works to develop this faith. He in fact spends a great deal of time and energy on developing a relationship with you, so you can have this faith. Faith is an honest and pure relationship with God; your faith is as substantial as your intimacy with Christ. Where this intimacy ends, so does your faith. It is very difficult to have the faith that you need to come out of this world and go deep in God without intimacy. Will a child run to a father she does not know? No. Will the boy sit on the lap of a dad he has never met? No. Even so it takes the intimacy of a relationship to develop the faith that is strong enough to leave the world behind and go deep in God. We are in an era when the voice of the Lord is going into His Church and calling those who are willing, to come out of the world and go deep in God. My dear brothers and sisters, never have we needed it more than we do today. We cannot deny that the world is changing before our very eyes; you do not have to be a genius to see it. You do not even have to be a Christian to see it. The unbeliever sees it and they are standing at the precipice of fear because of it. They do not know what it is changing to and what it is going to mean for them in the end and that creates fear in their hearts. God’s seasons are changing. We're leaving summer, moving through fall and will find ourselves thrust into winter very quickly—faster than we can know. I never understood the time clock of God like I understood it when I sat down to write my book, Prepare for the Winds of Change. The things that the angels had given me were taking place in the natural before I could even get the book written. I had to keep updating my book even as I was writing it because within months things were being fulfilled before my very eyes. Then, I understood that God’s time is running and to keep up, I must run. It is not like before, where we waited 2,000 years for Israel to become a nation. Here we are in 2009 [this the date this message was given] and things are changing, moving more quickly than we have seen them move before, so quick that even in the Church many are fearful. The world is fearful because they do not know who is going to save them and the Church is fearful because they do not know how He is going to save them. If all I say is true and if where we are headed is into the arena of the antichrist, what must we do? If evil is coming and it is getting greater, so much so that we are looking behind every rock to see who the antichrist is, then what does that speak to us of our faith? It tells us that if we are going to be established and stable during an unstable time, we must press into God. If we do not press in, we will find ourselves standing on a magnitude 10 earthquake of instability. My point is that we do have a choice and my purpose in this message is to help you make the right one. To be continued next week… In Him, Nita Johnson |
