10-28-2016
ERBIL, Kurdistan – Officials say the current military effort to kick ISIS out of Mosul could take months. While that's happening on the ground, a growing prayer movement contending for the spiritual fate of the Middle East is spreading throughout the region.
At several houses of prayer, Christians are praying for God's plan to be fulfilled in perhaps the most volatile place on earth.
"We're just seeing an increase of hours of prayer meetings both from believers, local believers, (and) also people outside praying for the Middle East and coming here to pray as well," Fabian Greche, co-founder of the Mesopotamia House of Prayer in northern Iraq, told CBN News.
In the Bible, it is known as Assyria.
Greche says they're praying for the fulfillment of Isaiah 19:23-25: "In that day, Israel will be one of three, with Egypt and Assyria – a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, 'Blessed is Egypt my people and Assyria the work of my hands and Israel my inheritance.'"
"So in order for that to happen (in) this region in the Middle East – all Muslim countries to be a blessing on the earth – we need to become a habitation of the presence of God," Greche explained. "And in order to be a habitation for the presence of God, God is building the altar of prayer and worship, and this is exactly what we are seeing in these prayer meetings."
With so much carnage in the region, the fulfillment of these verses may seem farfetched. Greche says in light of all the bad news, it's important to know where to look.
"We are to look to Jesus, to look at God's promises in His Word, so we would be influenced by Him and not by what happens around us in this world," he said. "We easily get affected by darkness around us. It affects us but if we look at Jesus and at His Word, we see that God wants to pour out His Spirit.
"He's coming back for a Bride and he will have one in the Middle East," he continued. "And so we need to simply look to Jesus, not be influenced by bad news, and hear good reports of what Jesus is doing. It stirs our hearts. And gives us hope to believe for more."
This week, the Mesopotamia House of Prayer is hosting believers from 15 countries for 100 hours of continuous prayer and worship for the Middle East.
In 2003, I was doing a dream interpretation school on an Indian reservation in Idaho. That night I had a dream with clear instruction on how to compel today's seekers to receive the Lord. In the dream, God spoke to me about a menu board with items on it to "scratch the itch" of the seekers and to create "prophetic healing circles" of no more than three people. The menu board had language on it like "organic spiritual alignment," "original root recovery," "spiritual cleansing and re-definement." (Photo via Pixabay)
For our outreach teams, this was our 11th year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada at the Burning Man event. Our ministry theme camp, Freedom Lounge, was once again PACKED out with seekers who would never, ever, ever darken the door of a church. These are the creative ones, the spiritual ones, who wander out in the highways and byways. Their mindset and lifestyles are expressed in every form of twisted mindsets based on today's influences, but Jesus doesn't seem to mind that. He ALWAYS, ALWAYS looks on the hearts of men. He sees the ones He made, knows their journey, and is passionate to bring them out of destructive lifestyles into hope and a future. (Photo of Freedom Lounge via Cindy McGill)
Jesus was really clear on how to fish men. He said, "FOLLOW ME (LISTEN TO ME)...and I'll MAKE you fishers of men." He did not say, "Follow trends, other people, your own thoughts, your old ways, your talking points." Instead, He said to pay attention and He will teach us about His compelling that love draws even the most bruised, hurting, and traumatized heart into a loving transformation with the One who made them, and their lives are forever changed. (Photo via Pixabay)
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"Many of you are feeling humbled with the passion you once had. Yes, it's humility that reminds one of their visions. BECAUSE the FIRST VISION WAS RIGHT. 
"Now I have used this prophetic voice to say this before, and I shall say it again through this voice: The elders are going to mentor the younger. The gray hairs of wisdom are coming out, COMING out! I am turning retirement into re-firement. I am challenging the young ones to LOOK toward the elders and sit at their feet and listen. (Photo via Pixabay)