Old Testament Intercession:

Judges 14: 5-6:  "Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath:  and, behold, a young lion roared against him.  And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand:  but he told not his father or his mother what he had done."

I Samuel 25: 7:  "And now I have heard that thou hast shearers:  now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel."

I Samuel 25: 15-16:  "But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields.  They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep."

I Samuel 25: 23-26:  "And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.  And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be:  and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.  Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal:  for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him:  but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.  Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal."

I Samuel 25: 28:  "I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid:  for the LORD will certainly make my Lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days."

II Kings 1: 9-10:  "Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty.  And he went up to him:  and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill.  And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.  And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty.  And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty."

Job 42: 10:  "And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends." 

New Testament Intercession:

Romans 8: 18-19:  "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory [glorification, rapture, Holy Fire]  which shall be revealed in us.  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." 

Romans 8: 26-27:  "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:  for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:  but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.  And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God."

Matthew 3: 11-12:  "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:  but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:  he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

John 17: 9-11:  "I pray for them:  I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.  And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.  And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.  Holy Father, keep through thine own name those thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are."

John 17: 15-16:  "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."

John 17: 20-22:  "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:  that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one."

Ephesians 6: 18:  "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints."

II Thessalonians 1: 7-10:  "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:  Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day."

II Thessalonians 2: 8:  "And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming."

Hebrews 7: 25:  "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."

James 5: 16:  "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."

Revelation 1: 14-16:  "His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow;  and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.  And he had in his right hand seven stars:   and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword:  and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength."

Revelation 19: 12-15:  "His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.  And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood:  and his name is called The Word of God.  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations:  and he shall rule them with a rod of iron:  and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." 

Revelation 19: 21:  "And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth:  and all the fowls were filled with their flesh."

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"I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe."

     --Mary Queen of Scots

"A man with God is the majority."

     --Last words of John Knox

"With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men."

     --Samson at Ramath-lehi

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"Identification is the key to intercession, and whenever we stop being identified with God, it is by sympathy, not sin."

"Vicarious intercession* means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them."

[*Vicarious:  "Performed or suffered by one person as a substitute or to the benefit or advantage of another:  SUBSTITUTIONARY:  <vicarious sacrifice>."  --Webster's Third New International Dictionary]

"Am I fulfilling the ministry of the interior?  There is no snare or any danger of infatuation or pride in intercession, it is a hidden ministry that brings forth fruit whereby the Father is glorified . . .The disciple who abides in Jesus is the will of God, and his apparently free choices are God's fore-ordained decrees.  Mysterious?  Logically contradictory and absurd?  Yes, but a glorious truth to a saint."

"The circumstances of a saint's life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you cannot understand at all, but the Spirit of God understands. God is bringing you into places and among people and into conditions in order that the intercession of the Spirit in you may take a particular line. Never put your hand in front of the circumstances and say--I am going to be my own providence here, I must watch this, and guard that. All your circumstances are in the hand of God, therefore never think it strange concerning the circumstances you are in. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to enter into the agony of intercession, but to utilize the common-sense circumstances God puts you in, and the common-sense people He puts you amongst by His providence, to bring them before God's throne and give the Spirit in you a chance to intercede for them. In this way God is going to sweep the whole world with His saints.

"Am I making the Holy Spirit's work difficult by being indefinite, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of intercession, and the human side is the circumstances I am in and the people I am in contact with. I have to keep my conscious life as a shrine of the Holy Ghost, then as I bring the different ones before God, the Holy Spirit makes intercession for them.

"Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions can never be yours, but the Holy Ghost makes intercession in our particular lives, without which intercession someone will be impoverished."

     --Oswald Chambers

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Dreams from the LORD 2008-2009 (excerpts)

By Tim Shey

Copyright 2009 Tim Shey

Hebrews 13: 13: “Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.”

I am now sitting in the jail at the Powder River County Sheriff's Office in Broadus, Montana. Looks like I will stay here overnight and then head west tomorrow. I hitchhiked from Rapid City, South Dakota to Broadus earlier today. It is snowing pretty good outside, so I have a warm place to sleep tonight. When I got dropped off here in Broadus, I went to the Sheriff's Office to see if somone could put me up in a motel for the night. The sheriff suggested that I stay in the jail because it was empty and it had just been cleaned. This will be the first time I have ever stayed in a jail.

Tim is the guy who gave me the ride from just west of Rapid City to Broadus. He is originally from Seattle where he used to work as a sheetrocker. He and his wife and three children live here in Broadus so that they can take care of Tim's grandfather.

Tim told me that he became a Christian a while back after he was in a really bad car crash. His buddy died in the crash and Tim was in a body cast for two months. Crisis sometimes precedes conversion.

We stopped in Belle Fourche, South Dakota where Tim bought me a hamburger at Hardee's. He told me that his grandfather was 88 years old and was a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of Huertgen Forest in World War II. I told Tim that his grandfather should write his experiences down before he passes away. Tim told me that his grandfather really didn't want to talk about the war. His grandfather used to crawl up close to the German lines and call in artillery on their positions. I'm sure he saw a lot of horrible carnage during the war.

So tomorrow I will either hitchhike to Miles City and head west on I-94 or else I will hitchhike through the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Indian Reservations and then take I-90 to Hardin and Billings. The snowstorm is supposed to last into tomorrow morning.

5 February 2008

Amos 1: 4: “So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.”

Amos 1: 7: “So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds.”

Amos 1: 10: “So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds.”

Amos 1: 12: “So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.”

Amos 1: 14: “So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.”

Amos 2: 2: “So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet.”

Amos 2: 5: “So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

10 February 2008

Last night I had a dream about Senator Hillary Clinton. There were two scenes to the dream. In the first scene, Hillary Clinton was speaking to a large group of women (not feminists) inside this big building. These women were beautiful, godly and feminine; they were mothers and homemakers. As Hillary Clinton began to speak to these women, they began to attack her verbally—they were very angry with Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton’s countenance fell and her eyes became downcast and she became very uncomfortable being with all the mothers and homemakers.

In the second scene, Hillary Clinton was sitting with these beautiful, godly, feminine women (not feminists). But there was something different about Hillary—she was wearing a wig of black hair. It appeared like she wanted to disguise herself as a godly, feminine woman, but every woman there could see right through it. Hillary Clinton tried to speak, but all these godly women began to attack her verbally. Hillary Clinton began to frown; she slunk to the floor and wanted to crawl away, but couldn’t. The godly women continued to attack her verbally.

Hillary Clinton could probably be President of New York City or President of San Francisco and Berkeley, California, but she will never be President of the United States. Hillary Clinton is not a godly woman; she is a feminist. Whenever she opens her mouth it sounds like she was educated in Cuba or North Korea.

11 February 2008

Last night I had a dream about Mike Atkins, Pastor of River Crossing Church in Jackson, Wyoming. I was in this house and then Mike Atkins walked into this room where I was standing; he had a confused look on his face.

Deuteronomy 28: 15: “But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.”

Deuteronomy 28: 23: “And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.”

Deuteronomy 28: 28: “The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart.”

Deuteronomy 28: 37: “And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.”

Deuteronomy 28: 45: “Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee.”

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II Timothy 4: 1: “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.”

12 February 2008

Last night I had a dream where I was at this picnic. I was sitting in a chair with these other people who were also sitting in chairs on this lawn next to a sidewalk.

Then someone asked me, “Why don’t you believe in global warming?”

I answered, “Because most people who believe in global warming believe we evolved from apes.”

Then this young woman made a comment about Hillary Clinton. It seemed like she was a supporter of Hillary Clinton (Senator Clinton is running for the Presidency of the United States).

I said, “I am glad that Hillary Clinton is running for president because she makes me laugh.”

The young lady was offended by my remark and began to walk away from the picnic down the sidewalk. A few minutes later I got up and walked down the sidewalk, also. The young lady turned around and walked back toward the people at the picnic. As she approached me on the sidewalk, she began to walk in the grass and made a wide half-circle around me so as to avoid me. I kept on walking down the sidewalk and then she stopped, turned and looked at me. Then the dream ended.

Psalm 92: 7: “When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever.”

22 February 2008

I saw this in a newsletter at Kim and Pat’s place in Stites, Idaho. World Challenge, Lindale, Texas, mails the newsletter out.

“The past few months, we have been receiving an increasing number of letters and writings from our readers about dreams and visions concerning judgments on America. Some of these we discount immediately because they are unscriptural and obviously disoriented rambling. But what we are now receiving cannot be discounted.

“It appears the Holy Spirit is speaking to many godly people about impending disaster on our land. They all see and hear the same message: something is coming soon that will forever change the way we live. These readers are not alarmists; they are intelligent, praying people who love America but have been shaken by what they have envisioned. None of them claim to be prophets, but are simply housewives, laymen, pastors of small churches—unknown, ordinary people upon whom the Holy Spirit is moving in a prophetic way.

“When the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, Peter prophesied that ‘sons and daughters would prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams’ (Acts 2: 12). For years I could not foresee this prophecy being fulfilled in our time. But our All-Arab Summit in Amman, Jordan, last month opened my eyes.

“Fifteen Arab countries were represented at the Summit. We were amazed by the reports we heard of Islamics having dreams and visions of Jesus. One particular Christian internet ministry is receiving thousands of inquiries about Jesus, as well as testimonies of believing in him because of clear visions and dreams proclaiming Christ as Lord. This is happening in every Islamic nation on earth—God be praised.”

          --David Wilkerson

            11-5-07

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A little over a week ago, I was walking out of Kooskia, Idaho when this lady picked me up. Her name was Fran and she lived in the Kooskia neighborhood. We started talking and she told me that she had been trying to quit cigarettes for quite some time. I asked her if she would like for me to pray with her. She agreed and pulled over by the river and let her dog run around for a while. I put my hand on Fran’s shoulder and began to pray in the Holy Ghost (praying in tongues).

I prayed for a short while and then Fran looked at me and told me that she could pick out some of the words that I was saying. (Since around April of 1989, I have been praying in a French tongue. Before that, I spoke in another tongue.) She told me that it sounded like the French spoken in the Caribbean or in Asia (probably the former French Indonesia). Fran recognized the words: “Father”, “heaven”, “church”, “mother”, “feeding” and maybe a couple of other words. She said that she had studied French for nine years. I told her that I had studied German for two years in high school and one year in college—and that I had never studied French in my life.

I remember I was hitchhiking in Montana a few years ago, and this one guy picked me up and he asked me to pray in the Holy Ghost. He said that he was a French major in college and that he had spent several years in France. He told me that the tongue that I prayed in sounded like the French spoken in the Middle Ages.

Two or three years ago, I was staying in Pomeroy, Washington with a family and I laid my hands on the husband and the son and prayed in the Holy Ghost. The wife had studied French and she said that she heard me say, “it is so, it is so” and, I think, “praise.”

Back in the fall of 1989, I was taking a linguistics class at Iowa State University and there was this young lady from Kuwait in that same class. I asked her what languages she knew and she told me that she new Arabic, English and French. So I told her that I was a Pentecostal Christian (she was probably a Muslim) and that I prayed in tongues. She asked me to pray, and after I had prayed just for a short while, she got this surprised, flabbergasted look on her face.

She looked at me in great wonder and asked, “You don’t know what you are saying?”

I answered, “No.”

She asked again, “You REALLY don’t know what you are saying?”

“No. I really don’t. I have never studied French.”

She kept staring at me in wonder and astonishment.

So I asked her, “Do you know what I am saying?”

With a beautiful smile, she answered, “You are singing to your Father up in the sky.”

We were all (there were several girls and myself) sitting on the floor outside the classroom door waiting for the class to begin. A couple of the girls asked me some questions about praying in tongues. The young lady from Kuwait kept staring at me.

A week or so later, the young lady from Kuwait told me that she went back to her apartment and told her younger sister about my praying in tongues. Her sister was more surprised than she was. I remember telling her to read about tongues in Acts 2: 4 and she told me that she had heard about praying in tongues before she had met me. Maybe the Lord used her to minister to her sister and she didn’t even know it. It seemed like her sister was more interested in tongues than she was. Sometimes that is how the Lord works. The Lord’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts; He can see much farther than we can. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Acts 2: 1-11: “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygian, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.”

6 March 2008

Acts 16: 6-10: “Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.”

22 March 2008

Last night I had a dream where someone drove me to this house. It was night time. I walked into the house and there was Harrison Ford. He had a ten-day growth of beard on his face. Harrison was keeping a close eye on the house—he was making sure that no one broke into the house. He had a stern, hawk-like look on his face. When I walked into the house, Harrison turned to me, smiled and shook my hand. He then walked out of the house. It seemed like I was a night watchman for that house—just like Harrison Ford. I was going to make sure that no one broke into that house.

27 March 2008

I am now in Winnemucca, Nevada. On the morning of 22 March, I walked out of Barstow, California (I slept out in my tent the previous night) and finally got a ride all the way to Camarillo. The guy who gave me a ride to Camarillo was Bruce and he was a Christian. We had a real intense talk about the things of God. Bruce dropped me off and we had a short prayer meeting; he gave me some money and so I got a hamburger and headed north on U.S. 101. I then got two rides to Santa Barbara. I walked for quite a while through Santa Barbara and found a place to sleep that night. Santa Barbara is one of the most beautiful places that I have ever seen.

The next day I got a ride to Pismo Beach. I started walking and got a ride with a young, Christian couple to San Luis Obispo. From San Luis I started walking north on U.S. 101, and after a few miles, got a ride with a couple of guys who were in the U.S. Navy. They were going to someplace near Fresno and dropped me off where Highway 41 bisects Highway 46. They had me take a photo of them by this sign that had a picture of James Dean on it—this was where James Dean was killed in a car crash back in the mid 1950s. I walked a few miles up into the hills between Paso Robles and Lost Hills and slept in my tent in a pasture.

That night I had a dream where I was in a field or a ditch and I saw this power line. There were three wooden poles that held up the power line. The middle pole was broken clean off and hanging by the power line. How did the pole get broken? Was it from an earthquake? Two days before, Bruce was driving me through Simi Valley (or somewhere near Simi Valley) and he showed me the San Andreas Fault (he also showed me the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on a hill in the distance). If this dream is from the Lord, it might mean that something is almost disconnected. If the power line had been severed, then it would surely mean that something is disconnected. Maybe California is going to have an earthquake in the near future. The state of California is now legally teaching and promoting homosexuality in California’s public schools; in the past month, a California court ruled that only people with college degrees can homeschool their kids—which means that it will be much more difficult for Christian parents to homeschool their kids. If the people of California continue to thumb their noses at the Lord and promote ungodliness, then the Lord will bring destruction on their state. The Lord destroyed San Francisco with an earthquake (San Andreas Fault) and fire in 1906.

The next day I hitchhiked to Bakersfield, Tehachapi and then Mohave. I slept in my tent near Mohave/California City. I got a lot of sun on my face and forearms and the sunburn was fairly painful—it was hard to sleep that night. The next day I had to walk for a number of miles on Highway 14 and finally got a ride to the Jawbone Store near Cantil and then to a gas station north of Ridgecrest on U.S 395. From there I walked a few miles and then got a ride with a construction worker all the way to Reno. The Presence of God (glorification, rapture) was very, very powerful all the way to Reno.

I slept in a pickup in Sparks that night and had a dream. In the dream I was at some sort of picnic and there were a lot of people there. Then I saw President George W. Bush with some people that I knew from my hometown in Iowa. President Bush was smiling and the people from my hometown were smiling. Then the dream ended.

This morning I walked around five miles east on I-80 and finally got a ride to Fernley, Nevada with a Christian. I was broke, so he gave me a ton of change—nickels, dimes, quarters and pennies—and I got a couple of sandwiches and something to drink in Fernley. From there I walked two or three miles and got a ride with a truck driver named Abraham. We had a great talk. Abraham was originally from Macedonia. He has been in the United States for eight years. He asked me a lot of questions about my Christian faith. Abraham told me that he was a Muslim. We talked a lot about Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. I told him that it was important to know that Isaac was the son of promise (faith) and that Ishmael was the son of the flesh (non-faith). The Messianic Line came through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the Twelve Patriarchs. Abraham (the Macedonian) was very receptive as I spoke to him about having faith in Christ; how His blood cleanses us from sin and that the Kingdom of Heaven is a spiritual kingdom. I wanted to tell Abraham that he was not far from the Kingdom. It was a very edifying conversation and I am very grateful to the Lord that Abraham gave me a ride. He dropped me off here in Winnemucca and was going to take his tractor-trailer all the way to Lewiston, Idaho.

Last night I had a dream where I was standing in this motel room with several other men. We were all wearing coats and ties. I separated myself from these men and walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge of it. Then President George W. Bush walked into the room and sat down on a chair next to the bed. We shook hands and President Bush smiled at me. I told him that I liked the speech that he gave at his 60^th Birthday Party in Chicago a couple of years ago—he was there with Mayor Daly. President Bush then spoke to me for a few minutes and then the dream ended.

In a dream like this one, whenever someone is smiling at me or shakes my hand, it usually means that I am going in the right direction or that I am in God’s perfect will. If someone like President Bush is in the dream, my work is of strategic importance.

Yesterday, I hitchhiked from Miles City, Montana to Gillette, Wyoming. I could be heading to Nebraska tomorrow.

23 April 2008

In the past week or so, the Lord has been showing me “Las Vegas”, “California”, “earthquake”, and “fracture.” It seems like things are speeding up. On 18 April 2008, there was a 5.2 earthquake near West Salem, Illinois (I had a premonition that something like this would happen—actually, I thought maybe an earthquake might hit the West Coast on 18 April 2008); it happened on the 102^nd Anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. That was no accident (of course, there are no accidents in the Kingdom of Heaven). There was an aftershock (4.5 on the Richter Scale) in Illinois a few days later. The Lord is showing me all kinds of things that point to some sort of disaster coming soon: like an earthquake in Las Vegas or an earthquake in California—or maybe both at the same time. I was walking down this highway a few days ago and I noticed something shiny on the gravel of the shoulder. I reached down and took this shiny piece of metal in my hand. It had the shape of the state of California, but the edges were broken off—especially the coastal areas of California. I thought that this was significant. Jesus Christ is Lord, and He can use anything to get our attention. When the Lord bombards your mind with words and images and it bears witness with your spirit, you know that something is going to happen soon. I am not sure how soon “soon” is.

I remember back in 1990, after I had the dream (of 7 September 1990) (see the 10 December 2003 entry in my Dreams from the Lord 2003-2006) about the woman who had the miscarriage: for the next four months, everywhere I went, all I saw was “miscarriage.” I thought I was going crazy at one point. I would say to myself, “Miscarriage? I don’t want anybody to have a miscarriage. Why am I seeing 'miscarriage' all over the place?” It was very annoying. On the 4^th of January 1991, the Lord showed me that something would happen on the 7^th of January. On the 7^th, I was driving the Hanson Lumber delivery truck and I saw “DETH” on a license plate and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was shook to the core. “Who is going to die?” I asked the Lord. At one point, I thought I was going to die—but that wouldn’t shake me to the core, because I don’t particularly like living on the planet, so if I died, I would be liberated from this planet and then I could go home to Heaven.

Anyway, I remember I left Hanson Lumber, drove home and right when I walked into the kitchen, the phone rang. I answered the phone and it was Vanessa, my roommate’s girlfriend. Vanessa was all out of breath and she told me that this young lady (the dream of 7 September 1990) we both knew was in a car crash and that both of her babies died (miscarried—she may have been eight months pregnant). After that, I never saw “miscarriage” again.

Right now, there is this same sense of urgency. The Lord is showing me these things—words, images, perceptions—and I am starting to get annoyed about it all. But when the earthquake(s) hit, it will be for one reason: SIN. There is too much sin being promoted in Las Vegas and California and the wrath of God is coming. It will be Sodom and Gomorrah revisited. So be it.

A couple of nights ago, I had a dream and this voice said, “The economy is going to be just fine.”

2 October 2008

Last night I had a dream where I was at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.  I was walking in this dining area when I noticed Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa; we spoke to each other for a little while.

Then, as I walked through the dining area, a Supreme Court Justice walked up to me, took a hold of my left arm and led me to a table where we could sit and talk for a while.  This other Supreme Court Justice sat down with us.  The three of us watched and talked about this court proceeding that was being televised on a TV screen in the dining room.  The one Supreme Court Justice did most of the talking.  I believe the court proceeding had to do with a man on trial for murder.

I believe this dream means that the next President of the United States will have to fill two Supreme Court vacancies.

22 October 2008

Last night I had a fairly long dream about Russell Crowe, the actor (Gladiator, Master and Commander, A Beautiful Mind).  I was in some city and I went to a theater and saw a film starring Russell Crowe.  After the film, somehow I met Russell Crowe outside the theater and we walked to his apartment.

On the way to his apartment, we saw this old woman with white hair—she was very beautiful.  We both recognized her:  she was a famous opera singer or actress in her younger days.  Now she seemed like she was destitute and in poverty—she was begging on the street corner.

Russell and I began to talk with her and the three of us walked to Russell’s apartment.  There Russell gave her some food to eat and some money.  Russell and I talked for quite some time at his apartment.

The last scene:  Russell Crowe was on a street corner preaching the Gospel.  He was saying things like, “Repent of your sin and ask Jesus Christ into your life.”  There was a lot more to the dream, but the details are gone from me now.

23 November 2008

4 December 2008

Two nights ago I had a dream where I was with Mitt Romney the former Governor of Massachusetts.   He had bought many gifts for some people.  Mitt Romney and I walked to this place where there were many people gathered—it looked like a big picnic.  I helped Mitt Romney pass out the gifts to the people at the picnic.  It was a fairly long dream; I don’t remember all of the details.

That same night I had another dream.  There were several American Indians standing around this pickup talking to each other.  I walked up to them and told them that the American Indians lost “their” land because they were devil worshippers.

7 December 2008

Last night I had the longest dream I have had in years.  In the dream, I was working as a reporter for a large, daily newspaper in New York City.  Then the newspaper promoted me to having my own column.  The newspaper offices were located in a big building in downtown Manhattan.  There were many people that worked at that newspaper.  The dream was very long; most of the details are gone from me now.

10 December 2008

INTERCESSION  (Strong's 6293 Paga)

Paga:  Hebrew for "intercession," has many meanings which help us to understand intercession.

1. Paga:  (Judges 8: 21; I Samuel 22: 17-18; II Samuel 1: 15; I Kings 2: 29)

In all these verses the Hebrew word paga is translated "to fall upon" meaning to kill or destroy.  These verses all refer to obedience to "fall upon" the King's enemies at the King's command.

So we are called to "fall upon" the King of King's enemies (which are demon powers) and destroy their works.

2. Paga:  (Genesis 28: 11,16; Job 36: 32)

In these verses, paga is translated to “light upon”, meaning to hit the exact place God intended.  The first example is Jacob, who just happened to “light upon”(paga), the exact place God wanted him to.  After God had spoken to him, he confesses to the fact that God is in this place, and he didn’t know it.  God had caused him to “light upon” a certain place where Jacob could be spoken to.

The second example is in Job and should be read in many translations.  The New International Version states “He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.”

The New International Version translates paga to “strike its mark.”  This means it hit exactly where God intended.

God-causes are paga, intercession, to hit the exact place needed.  Like Jacob, we might not know we are in the exact place God wanted us to be in we might have just prayed in a certain way or spoke in the Spirit.  Then we find God has caused us to (paga) hit the exact mark.  Compare this with New Testament verses:  "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.  And he that searcheth the heart knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God."  (Romans 8: 26-27)

5. Paga:  (Judges 18: 25)

Translates to "run" upon and destroy.  In this verse you see the violent force of intercession (paga).

[The preceding information regarding intercession was provided by Lewis Somerlot]

10 December 2008

Last night I had a dream where I was walking someplace and I ended up at the River Crossing Church in Jackson, Wyoming.  There were a number of people there and most of them were sitting in groups on the floor.  Some of the people noticed me.

One guy frowned at me and said something like, “You really dissed this place.”

I replied, “Yeah, I don’t like lukewarm churches.”

Pastor Mike Atkins was sitting on the floor in a group of people who were also sitting on the floor.  I sat down a few yards away and I wondered why I was at that church.  Then Mike Atkins’ oldest daughter, Micah, walked into the room and sat down.  She was very, very fat and had trouble walking.  She managed to sit down and seemed relieved that she didn’t have to walk anymore.  I then got up and walked out of the church.

12 December 2008

Last night I had a dream where I was at the Iowa State University campus in student housing.  I was in this apartment and I realized that I was registered for classes at the Vet School (ISU has a College of Veterinary Medicine).  I knew that this was wrong and I wondered why I was there.

I walked out of the apartment and noticed Barack Obama playing basketball at a nearby basketball court.  He was shooting hoops by himself.  Barack Obama noticed me and, I believe, we spoke to each other briefly.  I then walked away from the student housing complex.

15 December 2008

Last night I had a dream where I was a soldier in the U.S. Army in World War II.  I was carrying a Thompson submachine gun and I was wearing a soldier’s uniform.  The U.S. Army had just liberated this city from the Nazis and I was walking in this courtyard.  There was this fifteen-year-old boy who was acting very strange:  it seemed like he was trying to draw my attention away from a certain part of the courtyard.  I knew he was trying to hide a German soldier.  I told the kid to get out of the way.  Then I noticed this German soldier hiding between a bush and a wall.  He had a machine gun in his hand.  I pointed my Tommy gun at the German soldier and shot him full of lead; he fell out of the bush dead.

I then turned to the fifteen-year-old kid in anger and asked him, “Do you know Jesus?  Do you know Jesus?  Do you want to burn in hell when you die?”  I was really angry at the kid for trying to hide the German soldier.  I then put my hand on his shoulder and began praying in tongues.  I wept violently for a few of minutes and then the dream ended.

29 December 2008

Last night I had two dreams.  In the first dream, I was with some people that I knew; their daughter was acting crazy.  So I laid my hands on her head to cast some demons out of her body.

In the second dream, I was hitchhiking somewhere and Todd and Sarah Palin’s oldest son picked me up.  He was wearing a white shirt and a tie for some reason.  He told me that he was in the military.  I told him that this past Presidential Election was a big joke (spending $750,000,000 to put someone in the White House is obscene).  I said that the crowds of people (and most of the Media) that listened to Barack Obama speak at his rallies had the same, glazed-over eyes that the Germans had when Adolf Hitler spoke at the Nazi rallies in the 1930s.  The Germans called Adolf Hitler their Messiah; the American Democrats called Barack Obama their Messiah.  When the fans of the Beatles listened to their music at the Beatles’ rock concerts, they had the same, glazed look in their eyes.  This is called a Satanic anointing.

The Lord raised up Adolf Hitler in Germany to bring judgment on that country for sin.  The Lord raised up Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to bring judgment on that country for sin.  The Lord has now raised up Barack Obama to bring judgment on the United States for sin.  There are many people in the United States who spend millions and millions of dollars aborting pre-born babies, promoting the sin of homosexuality and saving wolves.  If I were to kill a wolf, I would probably spend a year in prison plus a fine of $10,000; if I were to abort a human fetus, I would not spend one hour in prison.  There are too many reprobates in positions of authority in the United States—in government, in education, in the churches, etc.

The Lord told me NOT to vote in the November 2008 Elections.  As of 20 January 2009, one of the United States’ best Presidents—George W. Bush—will leave the White House.  When this happens, a powerful prayer covering will be gone from the Executive Branch of our government.  People get what they deserve and the people of this country deserve Barack Obama.  Divine Wrath is coming to the United States and I am very grateful.

2 January 2009

Yesterday I hitchhiked from Belgrade to Columbus, Montana.  I slept on a lift of lumber in a shed at the Timberweld place last night.  The stack of lumber I slept on was three lifts high; the stack in front of me was four lifts high, so I was well-hidden from anybody at ground level.

This morning around eight o'clock I heard some people talking in the shed that I was in.  There were two men and one woman.  They were taking inventory.  When they got near to where I was sleeping, this one guy climbed up a ladder to read off the numbers to the lady below.

Then the guy on the ladder saw my shaving kit and my shoes.  “Hey, I see something,” he said.

“What is it?” the other guy asked.

“I don't know.  Let me get my flashlight.”  He shined the flashlight on my things and said, “I see a pair of shoes.”

The other guy asked, “Do you see a blanket?  We had a guy sleeping in here a while back.  If you see anybody up there, apologize [for waking him up] and move on to the next stack.”

That's when I spoke up.  “Hey, I'm up here.  I'll get out as soon as I can.”  I had been eating some bread and peanut butter for breakfast.

The guy on the ladder said, “That's all right.”

The two men and the woman continued with their work.

After I packed up my things in my backpack, I jumped down from my sleeping berth and walked over to the man and woman doing inventory—the other guy had walked off to some other place.  We spoke for a little while; the lady said that it had gotten down to 18 degrees F last night.  I stayed nice and warm on the stack of lumber.  I then walked across the railroad tracks to a convenience store to get a cup of coffee.

I will head south to Red Lodge later this morning and then mosey into Wyoming.

3 February 2009

Last night I had a dream where I was in the U.S. Senate Chamber or in a large room adjoining the Senate Chamber.  There were all of these Senators milling around and talking with each other.  I saw Senator John McCain of Arizona walk out of the room.  Then this big, fat Senator gave a fairly long speech.  After his speech, he lay down on the floor flat on his back sweating profusely. The Senator had his arms and legs spread out on the floor—he looked like he was absolutely exhausted.

Then this other Senator began to speak.  He was very large and had long gray hair and a long gray beard; the hair of his moustache was very long and covered up his mouth.  He looked like a complete buffoon; he looked like an absurd version of Santa Claus.

Because of what I saw in the Senate, I didn't take it seriously.  The U.S. Senate is supposed to be one of the most exclusive clubs in the world.  It looked like a big zoo where nothing was getting done.

21 February 2009

Last night I had a dream where I prayed for this kid.  After I prayed for him, he began to vomit up some clear fluid.  Then he began to vomit up some thick, black fluid.  I believe this meant that some demons were cast out of him.

25 February 2009

Last night I had a dream where I saw Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.  It was a negative dream.  She was wanted by the police or the FBI.  I saw her picture in a newspaper.  It was a fairly long dream, but most of the details are gone from me now.

I am not impressed with Sarah Palin.  She needs to resign from being Governor of Alaska and go home and take care of her children.  She is being horribly irresponsible; she is chasing herself and sacrificing the lives of her children so that she can pursue her career.  Maybe this is why the Lord told me NOT to vote for John McCain in the Presidential Election in 2008.

31 March 2009

Daniel 12: 10:  "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly:  and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand."

24 June 2009
 
New Testament Circumcision
 
Genesis 17: 10-11:  "This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.  And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you."  (Old Testament Circumcision)
 
Acts 7: 51:  "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost:  as your fathers did, so do ye."
 
Romans 2: 28-29:  "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:  But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."
 
Philippians 3: 3:  "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh."
 
Hebrews 4: 12:  "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
 
Revelation 2: 24:  "But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden." 
 
(The physical in the Old Testament is a foreshadowing of the spiritual in the New Testament)
 
Delivering someone from demons or casting out demons is New Testament Circumcision.  I have gone through at least six deliverance sessions where demons were cast out of my body.  Within a week or so, my body (or parts of my body) became very sore.  This soreness may last from twenty-four hours up to three weeks, in my experience.  When you obey the Lord, demons sometimes will come out of your body.  The Lord may glorify (rapture) your body and then demons may come out of your body.
 
Rapture is spiritual, NOT physical.  There is no such thing as a bodily rapture out of this planet.  Rapture is when the Lord glorifies your body--it is an intense Holy Fire or Presence of God.  In my case, this glorification is so intense it feels like my eyeballs are going to burn out of their sockets; it is almost painful.
 
Demons can dwell in your body and in your soul (i.e., soul ties and generational curses).  I do not believe that a demon can inhabit the spirit of a Christian.  The spirit is the Holy of Holies of a Christian.  The soul and the body are the inner court and outer court of the Christian, respectively.  A Christian can be demonized, but NOT possessed by a demon.
 
The more the Christian dies to self, the more the Christian becomes purified.  Demons hate selfless Christians.  Demons do not want to dwell in the body of a Christian who obeys the Lord.
 

12 July 2009

Enmity.  "A feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity.  [1250-1300; ME enemite < MF; OF enemiste < VL inimicitatem, acc. of inimicitas < L inimic(us) ENEMY]."

ME--Middle English.  MF--Middle French.  OF--Old French.  VL--Vulgar Latin.  L--Latin.

--Random House Webster's College Dictionary

9 August 2009

Acts 28: 27:  "For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their ears have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

8 November 2009

Two very important Kingdom Scriptures:

“The Kingdom comes not with observation.”

“The Kingdom is not in word, but in power.”

The Kingdom of Heaven is primarily a spiritual kingdom, but it does greatly benefit the soul and the body of a man (man is tripartite:  spirit, soul and body).  The Kingdom of Heaven is perceived (felt) in the spirit of a man—it is not observed by the eyes of the flesh.  The people of the world (unbelievers) and carnal Christians cannot perceive the Kingdom of Heaven because they are not spiritual.

The people who work in the Kingdom of Heaven are peculiar in the eyes of the world and in the eyes of carnal Christians.  If the Kingdom of Heaven is not observed by the eyes of the flesh, then the work of the Kingdom cannot be observed by the eyes of the flesh:  e.g. intercession/spiritual warfare.

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The Letters of Isaac Penington (1616-1679):  www.hallvworthington.com/Pennington/Letters1.html

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"True religion confronts earth with heaven and brings eternity to bear upon time.  The messenger of Christ, though he speaks from God, must also, as the Quakers used to say, 'speak to the condition' of his hearers; otherwise he will speak a language known only to himself.  His message must be not only timeless but timely.  He must speak to his own generation."

   --A.W. Tozer

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"A Thumb and a Prayer" by Will Moss

Ravalli Republic; Hamilton, Montana; 28 November 2008

www.ravallirepublic.com/articles/2008/11/28/blife/blife71.txt

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