Month: September 2018

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And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. Revelation 5:5

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? Amos 3:8

THE COMMISSIONING: TO BE A WHISTLEBLOWER: TO BE A SON OF THUNDER

Part 3

Rosh Hashanah began on the eve of September 8, 2010. That Wednesday evening marked the beginning of the 10 Days of Awe. Those days of repentance and reflection would culminate on Saturday, September 18th; Yom Kippur-the Day of Atonement. I had been away from home since February traveling between Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina. Due to an allergic reaction to something in my house I had been forced to seek shelter with my children. I felt swept away; displaced-desolate.

During the Days of Awe, I had been invited to attend a conference in Durham, North Carolina at the Worship Center. Danny Steyne was to be the keynote speaker,  The meeting date had been set for Yom Kippur.

I had been sitting in a middle row watching people file into the vast room when a woman appeared asking me to come and sit with her at the front  The last worship song having ended, I looked up  to find that a young woman with tawny golden hair was sitting on the floor beside me where I had been kneeling in prayer. Her face was radiant as was her smile. She had picked up a single sequin from the floor- when I spoke to her she pressed it into the palm of my left hand.

Looking at the tiny shiny in my hand and back into her eyes I said, “Thank you. What is your name?”

“Carolyn,” she smiled widely. There was a golden light all around her.

The preaching having started she rose quickly to her feet disappearing somewhere into the back of the room.

After preaching, the LORD led Danny to give several words of personal prophecy. When he got to me he said,

“You will be a carrier of God’s glory in the end days.”

Danny stopped and leaned his head to one side as if he were trying to hear something clearly.

“This is what the LORD says, You will be carrying His Glory into both legal and illegal places!” He looked at me again and repeated it with intensity, “Lady, did you understand what I just said to you? The LORD will be sending you into legal AND illegal places with His glory!”

I nodded and stepped back to my seat pondering.

The meeting closed I gathered my things in my arms to leave. As I was midway down the long aisle that led to the Exit I heard  a voice calling out to me:

“That was an awesome prophetic word that he gave you!”

When I turned to see where the voice was coming from I saw Carolyn waving to me motioning for me to stop. I stepped past the seats and met her midway in the row.

” Could I ask you something? If you don’t mind, would you pray for me?”

“Certainly,” I replied. ” I would be glad to pray for you.”

I sat the bag and notebook down in a seat. When I looked into her face the LORD said, “You need to lay your hand on her shoulder”.  When the LORD said this I asked Carolyn if it would be okay. She nodded yes. As I began to pray I began to see the missionary Amy Carmichael and all these little children.

“The LORD says that He is calling you to a ministry like Amy Carmichael. He is calling you to help the little children.”

As soon as these words left my mouth Carolyn bent over weeping. The LORD  instructed me to wait. When she was able to compose herself she said,

“I have the autobiography of Amy Carmichael in the back seat of my car! I have prayed and prayed that I would be used by the LORD like Amy Carmichael!’

A burst of fresh tears streaming down her face, she bowed her head again lifting the palms of her hands towards the LORD.

As I began to pray again I had a vision:

In the vision, I saw a great Asian seaport. There were many large cargo ships and many crates and containers. To the right, the face of a man appeared. His eyes were angry fierce; murderous. He was looking towards the West.  Suddenly I saw Carolyn appear. I could both see and understand that she had come to rescue children from sex slave trafficking. The man was about to lift his hand against her when the heavens opened. I heard a ROAR come out of the heavens. When I looked up I saw the  LORD HIMSELF as the LION of the TRIBE OF JUDAH rising up, ROARING over Carolyn; when the LORD ROARED confusion took hold of the evil man; he fled in terror.”

As soon as I began to share the vision with Carolyn there was a loud shout from the far end of the other side of the room; a woman had begun waving, jumping, moving – running towards us.

“I am her mother! I am her mother! I heard what you said! I am the one that needed to hear that! You see she is scheduled to leave tomorrow to train to rescue children out of sex slave trafficking. I have had so much fear. I didn’t want to let her go. But she says the LORD has called her.”

The woman paused and bowed her head weeping.

“What you said is the same prophecy that our pastor gave to her. It is the same word. It is the same word. Now I know she will be okay.”

The ACME Thunderer was housed within the zipper pocket of my purse. The LORD said,

“I want you to give it to Carolyn. I want you to give it to her-NOW.”

I retrieved the Thunderer and pressed it into Carolyn’s open hands.

“What is this?” she inquired. I recounted to her the testimony of the call to be a Whistleblower-the call to be a Son of Thunder.

“I can’t take this from you,” her eyes moved from the whistle back to my face.

“Yes you can, ” I said. “JESUS says it’s your turn now. He will go before you. He will always be with you. Yes, you can.”

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Psalm 2:4-5

A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Proverbs 20:8

The LORD thundered from heaven, and the  most High uttered his voice. And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. 2 Samuel 22:14-15

 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: John 1:12

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.  Luke 10:19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. Job 27:23

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square, the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet. Job 29:8

THE CALL: TO BE A WHISTLEBLOWER: TO BE A SON OF THUNDER:

WILL YOU TAKE YOUR SEAT AT THE GATE?

PART TWO

It was 2005; the LORD sent me to Charleston, South Carolina. A local assembly was hosting a conference.  I packed my bags and began the journey south. The ACME Thunderer whistle housed within a zipper pocket deep inside my purse.

On the last day of the three-day conference, I was invited to join the intercessors who prayed each day before the services began.

A  hazy yellow light enveloped a circle of empty chairs which had been placed in the middle of a small square room. One by one the empty seats were finally filled with- a company of women. Two women came in just as the door was being closed for prayer; they sat down facing me in the circle.  One of the women was slight of build with bright eyes that brimmed with fire -combustible.

Towards the end of the prayer time, this same woman was asked to share about her recent trip. She told us that she had just returned from Ireland. She began to share a scripture from the book of Job about clapping and whistling the wicked out of their places.

“Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss (whistle) him out of his place.” Job 27:23

“I think we ought to just do it!” someone shouted.

The scripture was read- then prayed. Suddenly all of the intercessors began to clap their hands and whistle. The clapping was loud and strong, but the whistling was not. As I was taking it all in the LORD reminded me of the ACME Thunderer hidden deep within my purse.

“Take it out now!” the LORD said. “Take it out NOW!”

I reached down for my purse, unzipped the pocket and took the whistle out. The silver glistened in the hazy light. It was swinging on the end of a long black lanyard.

“I have a whistle; I have a whistle?” I lifted the whistle up above my head.

The lady from Ireland put both hands on her knees leaned forward with a huge grin and proclaimed,

“Well get up, girl! Get up! Blow it, girl! Blow it, girl! Blow it!”

With that exclamation, she jumped up out of her chair; she began to clap her hands violently with joy.

At the sound of the whistle, the entire room exploded in prayer and praise.

The tears streamed down my face once again as I blew the Thunderer as a prayer for all who needed deliverance out of the hands of the wicked. I remembered the crossroads; the hard red bricks; the woman’s eyes of desolation.

I also remembered the unexpected call about the wicked being exposed and apprehended.

The Bible tells us that there is a  SOUND OF DELIVERANCE. In Psalm 89:15 it is written: “Blessed is the people that know the JOYFUL SOUND: they shall walk, O LORD, in the LIGHT of THY COUNTENANCE.”

The word “joyful” means literally “blowing, loud noise, a blast, a war cry, a cry with applause- a signal for war“. The “joyful sound” is the SOUND of the LORD’s DELIVERANCE.

The word “hiss” in Job 29:23  means literally, “to hiss, whistle, pipe- as a signal”.

In Job 29, Job recounts the days when he “took his seat in the Gate”.  

“The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.”

If silence is complicity, can we be silent anymore?

In Tuam, Ireland 800 mass graves of babies and young children were uncovered. These children died at the hands of those who said they were of GOD.

“More than five decades after the Home was closed and destroyed — where a housing development and children’s playground now stands — what happened to nearly 800 of those abandoned children has perhaps now emerged: …forgotten, with neither gravestones nor coffins. ” (June 3, 2014: Terrance McCoy)

The abuse and trafficking of children is a devastating reality in our times. It is not just the outlying unbelievers and pagans, but just as in Josiah’s time this sin is rampant in God’s House among many who call themselves His ordained leadership.

If silence is complicity, how can we continue to name the Name of JESUS and keep silent anymore?

Will you take your seat at the Gate? Will you be a Whistleblower? Will you be a Son of Thunder?

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil”- “God will not hold us guiltless”.-
“Not to speak is to speak”.-
“Not to act is to act”.
Attributed to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 
 This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones