This is absolutely amazing, and not in a good way. Can you say "proverbial frog in boiling water" ?

Chaplains Group Opposes Prayer Order- Washington Post, Thursday, March 30, 2006: "An association that represents more than 70 percent of the chaplains in the US Military, including many evangelical Christians, is opposing a demand by conservatives in Congress for an executive order guaranteeing the right of chaplains to pray in the name of Jesus.

Saturday we had our 3rd Silent Siege in Atlanta. In February we began sieging the Surgi-center Abortion Clinic on Spring Street and we will continue until we see it closed and turned into a memorial (God willing). Joined by our friends, Ferrill, Sharon, and Eva from the base in Ft. Mill, SC, we arrived to begin at 10am. The weather was a little better this time, as it was finally sunny, but still a little chilly. There was very little activity when we first arrived, and though it seemed quiet in the natural, there was a battle going on in the spiritual.

In my time with the Lord earlier that morning, He had lead me to Ezekiel 1 for personal reasons. As I continued to read, however, the Spirit continued to give me revelation on being called as a prophet to Atlanta. God has given us this assignment to "lay siege against" the abortion clinic as a prophetic act, just as He instructed Ezekiel to lay siege against Jerusalem. Just as He warned Ezekiel, He is also telling us to deliver the message (of LIFE) to Atlanta, by way of weak LIFE tape (see Eze. 3:17-21). We are literally prophesying against the death culture in Atlanta (Eze. 4:7)... he who has an ear, let him hear.

Also, just prior to waking up that morning, the Lord gave me a dream in which I was preaching to people who were going to siege that day. I was preaching the same message that Will Ford had given at the Rumble, about shifting the atmosphere, then the climate and so on. I believe that the Lord was and is saying that He is shifting things over this clinic and that we are changing the climate, so that LIFE will flourish there. In addition, different people keep coming to me telling me that we need to worship Him. The Lord has come to each one separately and don't know that there are others who have heard the same word. In essence, I believe the Lord is telling us to worship, and as we do, we will see the victory of the Lord over this clinic!

Interestingly enough, some scoffers showed up about halfway through our siege. These were fairly militant, pro-abortion people, who the Lord used to show us in the natural just a fraction of what is going on in the spiritual. There is resistance, and there may even be some witchcraft involved (insight the Lord gave us in a dream), but the Lord WILL overcome. Also, last time we sieged, He gave us a word that Winter is over and Spring is coming to this clinic on Spring Street! Yes, God! Salvation spring up from the ground that is crying out for LIFE!

We ended at High Noon with communion, worship, and prayer.

I am so humbled to be a part of what He is doing in Atlanta to end abortion and establish it as a City of Refuge.

Oh the pain of being in the wilderness. Dana Candler pens the experience perfectly that I've been having lately in her book Deep Unto Deep:

"We are trading in what we have always known and what others have always told us of ourselves for a book of blank pages. We leave all the old voices, however true or false, for the One voice who is temporarily very silent in our experience. He shows us so little of who we are in Him in the beginning because He wants us to experience the 'drop off' from the old ways and be willing to plunge into the unseen realm with eyes of faith. We face the pain of the barrenness of our souls. We face the reality of all that we do not yet know of Him when we once thought we knew so much. We spend a season in this dangling-in-between place--no longer identified as we once were, yet still so foreign and distant from who we truly are in Him and our eternal identity." (144-145)

I couldn't have said it better.

A trip to the Holy Land, by way of Loganville

Last night I did one of the more interesting and rewarding things I've done in a while on a Friday night (no, Mom, I didn't go on a date). I went to a Messianic Jewish congregation for a Purim celebration. Last week Jews celebrated Purim, the remembrance of when there was a death decree on the people and God delivered them by the hand of Queen Esther. Amazingly, the Lord had directed many of us to pray on the mic for Israel and the Middle East at IHOP this past week and it really awoke something in my heart. We just happen to have a token Messianic Jew on-staff at IHOP and so we got the 411 and headed over to Congregation Beth Ha'Mashiach.

It was so much fun! They had special dances prepared, that were of the Davidic Dance kind that were absolutely beautiful. The worship was simple, yet anointed. I felt Holy Spirit very present. I highly enjoyed the reading of the Torah and the singing in Hebrew. I felt like I was in the Holy Land myself (well, for a second anyway). Afterward, the Rabbi retold the story of Esther and the freeing of the Jews from Haman's death decree. While telling the story, he had the audience shouting, "yay," "boo," or "aww" for the different characters of Malachi, Haman, and Esther respectively. We also had these funny noisemakers that we used when we "booed" Haman. After the festivities, there was food, as I believe there is every Friday night, but they included special bottles of kosher wine, and Hamentaschen, or "Haman's Hat," which are pastries. It was very entertaining and fun, and who knows, maybe we'll go back to visit for the celebration of Passover...

Absolutely amazing. The day after Lou posts a journal about us being the "Fighing 49ers" and that God is giving us air supremacy while praying for Israel and the Middle East, the news headines read:

"Largest Iraq Air Assault Since '03 Begins" - BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. forces, joined by Iraqi troops, on Thursday launched the largest air assault since the U.S.-led invasion, targeting insurgent strongholds north of the capital, the military said.

I am amazed of God's goodness in giving us strategy about what He is doing so that we may partner with His heart to see Israel protected and saved, as well as the nations. We serve such an awesome God!!

Keep pressing in, for we will see breakthrough, because "History belongs to the intercessor!"

"...The best, the bravest of men, are no more than what God makes them. When He renews not his courage, the stoutest heart is a coward. Yet God does not act arbitrarily, rather cowardice is one of the consequences of lost communion with Him: The righteous are bold as a lion (Prov 28:1)."

-A.W. Pink

God is so good. And He gives good gifts to His children. One of the gifts He's been teaching me about lately is His grace. It is such an amazing feeling to know that you accomplished something by the grace of God. Of course, we can only have a real understanding of His grace when we know how weak we are and that even the very breaths we take are because the Lord gives us grace. Today I experienced the Lord's grace in a number of areas and I am in awe of Him. When we truly learn to lean on our Beloved we realize that it is true, that His grace IS sufficient. In our weaknesses, He IS strong. With the grace of God, we can walk on water! With the grace of God, we can leap across mountain tops! God is so good.

"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." -John 6:63

To eat or not to eat?

The Lord just graced me with some revelation on fasting.

First of all, it's hard to fast. That little tidbit is not from the Lord, but from my flesh that is screaming, "FEED ME, SEYMOUR!" It is hard to say "no" to our flesh, after so many years of saying "yes". It is extremely hard, but the Lord is so gracious, and "will not allow [me] to be tempted beyond what [I am] able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that [I] may be able to bear it" (1 Cor. 10:13). In this case, the 'way of escape' is to feed my spirit with the Word.

When we voluntarily decide to say "no " to our flesh we are literally starving it and giving the spirit man a chance to take the driver's seat. I find it funny that I just referenced "Little Shop of Horrors" above (for all you 80's or Broadway fans), because it is the perfect example of what happens when we feed our flesh. When we feed the flesh it gets more greedy and wants more. After a while of saying "yes" to the flesh, it becomes an unruly monster and must be tamed.

So, my flesh has been rearing its ugly head. It's all I can do to keep from chewing my nails off (and I'm not a nail-biter). While reading James, the Lord highlighted a verse, which is very timely, since I've been asking Him to give me grace (and the understanding of His grace),

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. -James 4:6-7

When we fast, we humble ourselves, and when we humble ourselves further and say, "God, I cannot do this without you!," He comes and gives us grace. Then we get the added benefit of being able to tell the devil to get lost and he has to because we are covered by the Blood. And, it is good for me to endure temptation, because it also says,

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. -James 1:12

All of the above to was not necessarily the revelation that the Lord gave me. It is this, that each time we say "no" to temptation, we make it easier on ourselves when we face temptation the next time around. When we can truly learn to overcome temptation to easy things like food and yummy, fru-fru Starbucks drinks, then we will be able to look down the barrel of a gun in our face and say "yes" to Jesus. For this is what we are being prepared for my friends. I hope that in that day when my faith is really tested, when I am being persecuted unto death, that I will be able to say "no" to the temptation to save my earthly life and deny Christ.

Yes, I will say "no" to a Chick-fil-A sandwich today to be able to say "yes" to Jesus tomorrow.

JHOP Boston

I am so pumped with what God is doing in this hour! God is moving on the hearts of His people to again cry out for mercy on behalf of our nation in response to the building prayer over the centuries. Even as wickedness is on the increase, so is righteousness! A good example of this is what is going on in Boston right now.

I just spoke to one of the leaders of JHOP, who is in Boston right now for the Facedown 40 with the whole crew from DC. They are kicking off night and day intercession for an awakening at Harvard. Well, the cool story is this: they didn't even find a place to do this prayer until the last minute. And it was totally God. The church where they will be having prayer is a Baptist church built in 1817, that is in a major square in Boston, located between Harvard and MIT. Not only is the location prime, but the pastor of this small church has been given words by pastors all over the city of Boston for about the last year that his church is to be a "house of prayer." Recently a group of people gathered there to anoint the church and pray over it in 11 different languages that it would be a "house of prayer for all nations" (Isa. 56:7). That was before JHOP approached them to ask them about having 24/7 prayer in their church. God is so amazing! He WILL bring the things on His heart to pass! To see a picture and read more click HERE. Night and day prayer will spring forth from Boston!