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EVEN IN HER FALLEN STATE, AMERICA IS A FIREWALL AGAINST EVIL

Posted by Alan Smith on October 19, 2021 at 6:24am
 

 

EVEN IN HER FALLEN STATE, AMERICA IS A FIREWALL AGAINST EVIL

by Mario Murillo | Oct 16, 2021 | Revival in America | 0 comments

I have a vision for America. Here is how the Lord is restoring our nation, right now. From our inception, we have been blessed for three reasons: To preach the gospel, as the pilgrims’ covenanted with God; to stand with Israel; and to care for impoverished nations and peoples.

Recently, in an interview, I was asked about that vision. I said, “Even in our fallen, backslidden, immoral state, we still stand as a firewall.

“As a firewall, the United States stands against demonic plans. Satan looks at America and says, ‘I can’t do what I want in bringing the antichrist, the beast, and world domination, as long as American freedom exists.’ And when we pray, that essential knowledge must be in our mind.”

I went on to say that I am calling both pastors and intercessors to recognize that we are currently at war with Satan’s plans. In discussing Psalm 11:3-4, I pointed out that David’s plea to the Lord assumed that the righteous are called to act, with focus on the Lord. ‘Lord, what can the righteous do when the foundations are removed? God is in His temple, on His throne.’

How would David know that, unless he was staring straight at the throne of God?

In the midst of his being surrounded by enemies, David, the warrior king, always kept his eyes on the Lord―and so must the embattled believers in America.

In the midst of his being surrounded by enemies, David, the warrior king, always kept his eyes on the Lord―and so must the embattled believers in America.

This war must be won! The Christian righteous have dug in their heels. They’re not going to compromise. That is why our thoughts are that freedom is coming because, as the sheep and the goats are being separated, the power of God will be manifested over America.

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God has called us to stand with Him, to do battle beside Him! The Power of the Christian faith is that anyone at any moment that says to the Lord, ‘Use me,’ has access to promotion, to equipping and to power. So, the fresh anointing is going to be this: People that no one had ever heard of, coming from places no one expected, will do things that people have never imagined.

Jesus said, ‘I send you forth as sheep among wolves.’ What is the predicable outcome for sheep who wander into a pack of wolves? Well, here’s what Jesus is saying, ‘That’s how you look: to the world, helpless. To the world, defenseless. To the world, ineffectual. But you do not recognize that the Lion who is standing behind those sheep, staring at those wolves, is The Lion of the tribe of Judah!

The Power of the Christian faith is that anyone at any moment that says to the Lord, ‘Use me,’ has access to promotion, to equipping and to power.

I am praying for an impartation of fresh anointing over all those who are interceding for America. In Isaiah, it says:

“No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord; this is the vindication which they obtain from Me, says the Lord” (Isaiah 54:17).

We are the sons and daughters of the God of the Armies of heaven. We must shake up our thinking, we must look in the mirror and realize that we come from a legacy of supernatural power. We are destined to do impossible things. That is who we are. That is what is needed in this moment, more than anything else. That is the fresh anointing God is pouring out on His Church!

 

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Rick Joyner and Chris Reed introduce a new season of Prophetic Perspectives on Current Events.

Posted by Alan Smith on October 13, 2021 at 7:39am

Rick Joyner and Chris Reed introduce a new season of Prophetic Perspectives on Current Events. Chris talks about a vision he had of a Coronavirus treatment that would come out of Israel. He shares about a dream and a riddle the Lord gave him concerning the significance of the timing of Prince Philip’s passing.

 

Take a look at Rick Joyner's new MorningStar Journal News. Rick is really pulling this off. Incredable accomplishment

 
 
 
 
 
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Perception: Two Realities

Posted by Alan Smith on September 28, 2021 at 6:02am

Perception: Two Realities

By: Alan Smith

  • John 18:36: Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place." (NIV)

Two realities; which one have you chosen to live in: this World or the Kingdom of God?  Both of them are real, but one is greater than the other.  To live in one means to be competitive and controlling; to live in the other means to be creative and at peace.  To live in one means to hear many voices; to live in the other means to hear only One voice.  To live in one is to live in fear and confusion; to live in the other is to have courage and resolve.  To live in one is to think prehistorically; to live in the other allows old thinking to be dissolved.

 You might be wondering, “How can I live in this reality of the Kingdom of God?”  Well, your “commitment” will determine where you live.  Commitment is the beginning of the growing cycle of a new reality; so once the choice of your commitment has been made, the creative forces go to work to bring forth the reality that has been chosen.  The Kingdom of God or the kingdom of this world: it is a choice of “your will”.  When building a house, you first have a thought within you of this house.  When you “commit” to this thought by an act of your will, creation begins.  When creating things of this world, you have two acts of creation.  First, a thought is formed in your mind.  Second, commitment to the thought is made and physical creation begins.  When creating things of the Kingdom of God, you have three acts of creation.  First, there is a thought in the spirit of man with a witness from the Spirit of God.  Second, the thought is transferred into the mind, which originated in the spirit.  The third and final act is the commitment to the thought.  In both cases commitment is the key factor in growing new realities.

 If your choice is living in the Kingdom of God, there are ways of the Spirit that are learned and lived as a lifestyle.  A lifestyle change has to be made to experience this new reality of “another place”.  After a true commitment has been made, you will notice that the forces of the Kingdom of God begin to work behind the scenes on your behalf.  They are subtle to the natural eye, but obvious to the spiritual eye.  You will learn to use your single eye of the spirit to walk in this new Kingdom.  This single eye is one that is not divided or distracted.  Its spiritual vision is 20/10 and its color is royal blue for revelation.  It is capable of seeing beneath the layers of the natural, into a world not seen by most.  This is the eye of the Kingdom of God; it sees what the Father is doing behind the scenes.  This eye is found in your spirit; but the light for seeing comes through your soul and then through your mind.  This is why it is very important to have a healthy soul.  For through it the light is changed from spirit to natural.  You can now understand why your soul is being changed from “glory” to “glory”.  With each changed “glory” comes more light into the soul; coming to the earth for new creations, beginning first in you.

 We must also keep in mind that the things of the spiritual world tend to progress in reverse of the natural world.  For example, you must go down to go up.  You must yield to go forward.  Things of the natural world are just a reflection of the spiritual world, causing an inverted image, which is the opposite of the image that is being reflected.

 Your next step in going forward in Kingdom living is to have a mind that is open to new information and instruction.  You must have a mind that is being renewed with fresh new perceptions for your journey of life.  A mind that is closed is a mind that cannot receive new perceptions to which it can be committed.  You must be willing before God will send new perceptions.  You must have a predetermined willingness to do what you will receive.  Usually, a person wants to see something before they will receive and believe.  Again, this is a reversal of natural progression, but this will set the kingdom in motion on your behalf.  A mind that is open is a mind which will progress in creative activity of the Kingdom of heaven upon the earth.  A mind that is open is like a funnel which captures all that is around it, directing all that it captures into the vessel in which it is attached.  All that is being captured by an open mind recreates the perceptions of the mind.  These new perceptions are not hard to commit to for they bring such life.  A person who is committed to fresh Kingdom perceptions is a person who is walking forward into the Kingdom and power of God.  Let’s read a personal account of an open mind which was committed.

  • Matt. 9:20-22: Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.  She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed."  Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment. (NIV)

My prayer is for you to have an open mind unto the Spirit of God and have a predetermined willingness to “touch Him” as He shows Himself to you.  May your open mind, your commitment, and your faith take you to a place where you have never been.  Just trust Him and hang on.  Your life is about to change.

 

Blessings,

Alan

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To Soar Like Eagles—Part 3 By: Alan Smith

Posted by Alan Smith on September 10, 2021 at 2:46pm

 

To Soar Like Eagles—Part 3

By: Alan Smith

 

Isaiah 40:31: “But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (NIV)

 “Eagles, start your engines. All aboard for flight number Isaiah 40:31,” I heard the still small voice say. Could this be the day that you “soar on wings like eagles”? I believe this can be true for you and for me. Let’s look a little deeper into this flight manual of the spirit.

 When I take an airplane flight, I must go to the ticket counter to check-in myself and my baggage. The goal is for my baggage to get to my destination with me. The attendant takes my baggage and weighs it to make sure it has not exceeded the weight limit, because the airplane cannot make lift-off if it has excessive weight. So how does this apply to the spiritual world? Good question! This verse not only identifies for us, but also calculates for us, what is too heavy for spiritual flight. Isaiah has identified the excess weights as “grow weary” and “not be faint”.

 Let’s study this excess weight further. We’ll look at the Hebrew word “weary” in the Strong’s concordance to capture the meaning of this first excess weight Isaiah identified: yaw-gah'; a primitive root; properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil: KJV - faint, (make to) labour, (be) weary. I don’t know about you, but this sounds like my Christian life! Are your labors for the Lord leaving you feeling exhausted and tired? Then this probably means you are carrying the excess weight of “weary”.

 Now, let’s look again in the Strong’s concordance at the second baggage that Isaiah identified as “to faint”: yaw-af'; a primitive root; to tire (as if from wearisome flight). Can you believe this one? To “faint” means that you are still tired from the previous flight.

 Please consider what I am about to say. To board and lift-off on this new flight of the spirit means you must leave the old baggage of the previous flight behind. On this flight of the Spirit, no baggage is needed. You do not need to take your clothes because the garments you will be wearing are the garments of another. They are white as snow, washed in grace, and their weight is an unbelievable weight of “zero”.

 How can I receive this weightless garment? You must first ask, and then you will receive. I am sure that many of you have already trusted in the Lord and have asked Him to come into your life. If so, I have only one question to ask you. Have you put on the garment that He gave you when you first trusted in Him, or have you put on the garment of religion? You might wonder how to know if you have or not. You can know because His garment is very light and is not a burden. You must trust His garments and not your own. Our garments have weight; His do not. When you put on Jesus Christ and His garments, you can soar on wings like eagles. When you soar you can feel joy, peace, contentment, and sometimes, just plain happy. This should give us reason to smile a lot!

 Blessings,

Alan

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To Soar like Eagles—Part 2 By: Alan Smith

Posted by Alan Smith on September 8, 2021 at 4:23pm

To Soar like Eagles—Part 2
By: Alan Smith

Isaiah 40:31: “But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (NIV)

Okay, do you still want to fly? Well, if so, then let’s look more at flight number Isaiah 40:31 and continue to prepare for take off. In our preparations from last time, we learned about the spiritual fuel that we need in our spiritual tanks. How our “hope” is to be in the Lord, and in return, the Lord will fill us with “faith”.

The writer of the book of Hebrews unlocks more of the mystery of this supernatural substance called faith. Hebrews 11:1: “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” This is unbelievable! Something that I cannot see has “substance”. So “faith” is some kind of spiritual substance, which must be preceded by “hope” before it will materialize. The writer of Hebrews goes on to say that the only “evidence” which I can use is the “evidence” that cannot be seen. This indicates that the “evidence” we see, life’s circumstances, is off limits and cannot be used. If we use this kind of “seen evidence”, it will only pollute the spiritual fuel that is necessary to get this eagle off the ground. Do not let your spiritual fuel be polluted with this slime. We need unpolluted, undiluted, unpooted spiritual fuel from heaven. Sorry, I guess I got a little carried away in my descriptive words. But regardless, we need to understand that the evidence of life’s circumstances does not equal a spiritual truth in our lives.

This evidence of life’s circumstances is not the prophetic voice that should speak into our future. Do not bring glory to these “past” events of sorrow and doubt. We should only let Christ write our future. Remember, we decide who writes our future: Christ or crises. Where are we to appropriate our hope? We are to appropriate our hope in the One who can give us the spiritual fuel of “faith” to take us from where we are to where we are going. We need to take this spiritual flight: a flight that will take us into the very presence of God. To a destination that only God of heaven could chart for each one of us. Remember, He wants us to make it more than we want to. If God is for us, I believe we will make it. Let’s put our hope in Him today!

Now, let’s look at the next part of this verse. It says: “They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” If we are going to soar like eagles, we must start running down this spiritual runway. The runway must be somewhat long because Isaiah exhorts us to not grow weary while running. If we continue to hope in the Lord, which is what gives us our direction on the runway, this verse indicates that the Lord will renew our strength. Our strength comes from above; not from within. Our hope is within. This hope will be sent on a spiritual journey on the wings of prayer to the One, who in return, will send us strength.

I encourage you this day to take your eyes off life’s circumstances and place your hope, more than ever, in Christ. You can trust Him. He will renew your strength to run down the runway of life and make it over the trees to climb into the heavens and live in the very presence of God.

Blessings,
Alan

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To Soar like Eagles By: Alan Smith

Posted by Alan Smith on September 8, 2021 at 6:33am

To Soar like Eagles
By: Alan Smith

Isaiah 40:31: But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (NIV)

I always wanted to be able to fly. Have you ever felt this way? Did you ever have a dream where you could fly over the countryside? You know, like Peter Pan. It appears this will never happen in my natural life; or could it? What about the life of the Spirit? Isaiah says there will be a people who will “soar on wings like eagles”. Let’s take a flying lesson from the scriptures on flight number Isaiah 40:31. Okay, prepare for take off.

How are we to get this “eagle” off the ground? The first thing this scripture tells us is we must have the strength to fly. So how do I get this strength—this spiritual jet fuel? I believe this verse is telling us we get it from the Lord. The Lord is my spiritual and emotional fueling station. I have included the word emotional because for this eagle to fly, I must get into the correct e-motion to get off the runway.

The second thing we must do is check our fuel tank readings. As we scan the gauges, we find the fuel gauge, which has a name called “hope”. Over the gauge are these words: “FILL ONLY WITH HIGH QUALITY FAITH”. I have always wondered how much faith I have in my tank; but I know I can’t tell you how much faith I have. I don’t know if I have a little or a lot; but I can tell you how much hope I have. So, hope is the way I can read how much faith I must have to get this eagle off the ground. A little hope equals a little faith, which equals a little spiritual fuel. Therefore, a lot of hope equals a lot of faith, which equals a lot of spiritual fuel. Now I have more understanding of why life’s circumstances are trying to rob me of my hope. My spiritual enemy knows that if he can keep my spiritual fuel tank empty, I will not even attempt “take off”.

Life’s circumstances are like tall trees at the end of the runway. It is amazing how we look at the tall trees and say, “I know I can’t make it over them; I can’t make lift off. I know the trees, which are life’s circumstances, are just too tall. I will never get enough momentum to clear them.” This unbelief is a lack of hope. Unbelief is a hole in our spiritual fuel tanks in which “faith” will leak out upon the ground. Our hope is not to be appropriated in the tall trees or in ourselves or in the evidence of life’s circumstances. Our hope is to be in the Lord. As we appropriate this “hope” in the Lord, it is supernaturally and instantaneously changed into “faith”. Hope is what I send to the Lord; and Faith is what He sends back into my spiritual tank. Faith is a gift from God.

Eph. 2:8-10: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast. (NIV)

God sends us this spiritual fuel because He wants to by His grace, as you can see in this scripture. We do not deserve it; He just wants us to make it. He wants us to make it off the runway and soar with the eagles and get a perspective that we can only get from high places.

Blessings,
Alan

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To Soar like Eagles By: Alan Smith

Posted by Alan Smith on September 6, 2021 at 6:00pm

To Soar like Eagles
By: Alan Smith

Isaiah 40:31: But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (NIV)

I always wanted to be able to fly. Have you ever felt this way? Did you ever have a dream where you could fly over the countryside? You know, like Peter Pan. It appears this will never happen in my natural life; or could it? What about the life of the Spirit? Isaiah says there will be a people who will “soar on wings like eagles”. Let’s take a flying lesson from the scriptures on flight number Isaiah 40:31. Okay, prepare for take off.

How are we to get this “eagle” off the ground? The first thing this scripture tells us is we must have the strength to fly. So how do I get this strength—this spiritual jet fuel? I believe this verse is telling us we get it from the Lord. The Lord is my spiritual and emotional fueling station. I have included the word emotional because for this eagle to fly, I must get into the correct e-motion to get off the runway.

The second thing we must do is check our fuel tank readings. As we scan the gauges, we find the fuel gauge, which has a name called “hope”. Over the gauge are these words: “FILL ONLY WITH HIGH QUALITY FAITH”. I have always wondered how much faith I have in my tank; but I know I can’t tell you how much faith I have. I don’t know if I have a little or a lot; but I can tell you how much hope I have. So, hope is the way I can read how much faith I must have to get this eagle off the ground. A little hope equals a little faith, which equals a little spiritual fuel. Therefore, a lot of hope equals a lot of faith, which equals a lot of spiritual fuel. Now I have more understanding of why life’s circumstances are trying to rob me of my hope. My spiritual enemy knows that if he can keep my spiritual fuel tank empty, I will not even attempt “take off”.

Life’s circumstances are like tall trees at the end of the runway. It is amazing how we look at the tall trees and say, “I know I can’t make it over them; I can’t make lift off. I know the trees, which are life’s circumstances, are just too tall. I will never get enough momentum to clear them.” This unbelief is a lack of hope. Unbelief is a hole in our spiritual fuel tanks in which “faith” will leak out upon the ground. Our hope is not to be appropriated in the tall trees or in ourselves or in the evidence of life’s circumstances. Our hope is to be in the Lord. As we appropriate this “hope” in the Lord, it is supernaturally and instantaneously changed into “faith”. Hope is what I send to the Lord; and Faith is what He sends back into my spiritual tank. Faith is a gift from God.

Eph. 2:8-10: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast. (NIV)

God sends us this spiritual fuel because He wants to by His grace, as you can see in this scripture. We do not deserve it; He just wants us to make it. He wants us to make it off the runway and soar with the eagles and get a perspective that we can only get from high places.

Blessings,
Alan

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We are living in a time where many people, and our country, have no direction. The Kite with No Tail By: Alan Smith

Posted by Alan Smith on September 2, 2021 at 6:30pm

The Kite with No Tail
By: Alan Smith


We are living in a time where many people, and our country, have no direction. Have you ever been
there? It seems we are just blowing in the wind; letting the cares of life take us where they may. We are
just floating along life’s journey with seemingly no purpose or direction. Are we giving up? Do we not
care? Well, God cares, and we also need to care.


I had a dream/vision about this very issue and have written a little parable that will perhaps help us gain
new life and new direction for the season that is upon us.


“Parable of the Kite with no Tail”
Imagine this: it is springtime. The flowers are blooming, the trees are budding, and the grass is green. All
the colors of spring are very bright. Everything is growing and coming to life. The excitement of new life
fills the air, as we smell the fragrance of a new day dawning. Old things are passed away and all of
creation is coming into newness. This is where the vision starts unfolding and here is what I saw.


I saw “children” as they learned to fly their kite. The children were in the meadow flying a kite. It was
obvious that they were on a great adventure; but they were not having very good success with their
kite. The kite would go up in the air fast, and then go side to side as if to say, "I will go where I please."
The kite did not have a particular direction in which to go. It just knew that it wanted to go somewhere
without anyone controlling it. Only the resistance of the string would hold the kite down. The kite was
so fighting the resistance that it would go around and around until it would crash to the ground. The
children would launch the kite again, only to repeat the same events of the day.


Suddenly, there appeared an old man: a grandfather of the children. He sat with them and taught them
about the laws of the wind and told them that their lives were like a kite. He told them how the wind
was created for their good; how his Father enjoyed blowing onto the ground with his breath, making it
possible for things of the earth to soar. He told them that God created them to fly and soar in life just as
the kite. He shared with them that it took three things for the kite to soar. The first thing was wind, the
second thing was a tail for their kite, and the third thing was resistance.


The grandfather first addressed the wind. He said to them, “The wind represents the Holy Spirit of God.
When He blows into your life, you have the power to soar. Without the wind the kite cannot leave the
ground. Its power must come from another, for the kite has none of its own. The wind of the Spirit is
always in unity with the Words of God.”


Next, the grandfather addressed the tail of the kite. He told the children that their kite did not have a
tail, and they asked him why it needed a tail. He shared with them that the kite needed direction for its
journey. He told them that without a tail the kite could not go very high and that it would crash to the
ground every time. He said that the tail felt like a weight to the kite; but in fact, the tail gave the kite
direction. He said that the tail of the kite would not let the kite go astray when it was attached to the
kite. He then told them that the tail was "the Word" for them that day. He said that it was very
important for them to hear "the Word"; for it was “the Word" that would give them direction to fly
higher in this new season and not crash to the ground.


As he shared, he looked to the ground and saw the tail of the kite lying there. The grandfather asked
them why the tail was there. The "children" said that the tail kept getting tangled in the string and they
thought that it could fly better without it. It appeared to be in the way. The grandfather took an old
Bible out of his pocket. He tore the pages out of it and tied them to the kite’s tail. The old man taught
them that the kite represented their lives. He told them that life was a great adventure through which
everyone would fly. They would want to fly high and fast so they could see everything. They would want
to go where they wanted to, anytime they wanted to. However, without the Word of God to give them
direction, they would only fall to the ground.


The last understanding the grandfather addressed with the “children” was resistance. When they resist
the Devil, which is a negative force, then the wind, the Spirit of God, which is a positive force, would
blow against them. He told them that without resistance the kite would not have a "negative" from
which to trust unto a "positive". When the kite agreed with the resistance and used it for its good, it
would take a negative resistance and "transform" it into the power that would cause the kite to go
higher. He then told the children what his heavenly Father had told him.
Romans 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who
are the called according to his purpose. (KJV)


After sharing with them, the grandfather told them it was time to go home, and they could come again
another day.

When the Word of God is attached to our lives, it is then that we have direction. This will cause us to
soar higher and higher in life. When we soar higher, we can begin to see things as God sees them.
What truly supports the fabric of a kite? It is the cross that is behind it. Open the fabric of your heart
today because the cross of Christ is supporting you. The fabric cannot support itself. Let the wind of the
Spirit of God blow against you. Take the Word of God and let it give you direction for this new season.
When resistance comes, remember that it is necessary for you to go to higher places than you have ever
been before. Do not despise the resistance as it can be used for your good. It’s your choice. Choose this
day to believe God. He will take you on a journey that is unbelievable!


Blessings,
Alan

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