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Friday, August 23, 2019

"Your Fiery Trials Are Equipping You for Revival" Jo Ellen Stevens - THE ELIJAH LIST


"Your Fiery Trials Are Equipping You for Revival"
Jo Ellen Stevens, Connersville, IN



August 21, 2019

From the Desk of Steve Shultz:

Steve Shultz     I don't think any of us like going through trials, especially really fiery ones! Yet the Bible tells us we can rejoice:

     1 Peter 4:12-13, "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy."

     I want you to read through this excellent article from Jo Ellen Stevens on this subject...know this—God IS equipping you through it all! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)

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"Your Fiery Trials Are Equipping You for Revival"
Jo Ellen Stevens, Connersville, IN


     Upon arising the other morning, the Lord spoke to me and said, "There is a Credence Clearwater Revival just ahead and is happening now!" He then told me to look these words up and share what He is about to do!

     CREDENCE: Credence means truthfulness, or believability.

     There is a revival of truthfulness coming to America and the world. It is going to be made apparent the difference between the truth-tellers and those who only speak from their own hearts. God is going to separate the real from the fake and is doing this in the earth right now!

     There is a great uncovering of the lies that we have been told and some of the truths that we have held dear in our country. He is going to shake all that can be shaken so that which remains will be the unadulterated truth of God's Word, and He is about to show forth who His true prophets are. All institutions are now being shaken so that new foundations will be laid and they will be laid in the truth of God's Word!

     CLEAR WATER: 1: Water made clear or translucent by filtering. 2: Free from pollution or cloudiness.

     God is in the process of clearing the water that is about to flow through His people! He is taking care of business right now, and cleaning us out for such a time as this so that He can have a clean channel to flow through in the days ahead. If you have been going through a lot recently, maybe He has been cleansing things from your heart and mind so that you can be that pure channel of His love and grace to a dying world.

     REVIVAL: Comeback to life; reawaken; a return of strength or importance; restoration to former vigor, activity, or efficiency, after a period of languor, depression, or suspension; quickening; renewal: as, the revival of hope; the revival of one's spirits by good news.

     There is a revival that is about to happen with those who have walked in truth and sought truth and acted in truth. There is about to be a re-establishment of God's truth that will affect the whole world! God is resuscitating the remnant in the Church from what they have been through in this shaking that is going on, and there is an awakening that is coming to the Body of Christ in an even higher dimension. This, in turn, will awaken the world to God's ways and to the His truth, which is the only answer to their problems.

The Hill of the Lord

     Psalm 24:3-6 says, "Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face. Selah."

     These people who have been been cleansed and washed and have allowed the process to happen in their lives; those who are walking in the truth of God's Word, who have pure hearts and clean hands, will ascend unto the hill of the Lord in these days!

A Shaking is Going On

     God spoke to me and said that this "Credence Clearwater Revival" will begin from those who have survived great shakings in their own life.

     Isaiah 4:3-6 (NKJV), "And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem. When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning, then the Lord will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a covering. And there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain."

     There is a shaking going on and it is because He is preparing us for the hill or mountain of the Lord. In Psalm 24:3, the word "hill" means promotion. God is not trying to kill us in the test that we have been through in these shakings, but He has been all about promoting us!

Tests bring promotion as they cleanse us, making us ready to be the vessels for the clear, pure water of His Word to flow through.

Going Through a Fiery Trial? Rejoice!

     1 Peter 4:12-13, "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy."

     Yes, the key to going through these trials is to understand that He is bringing you to a place like Joseph. God took him out of the prison and trials that tried him for years, and finally brought him up to be second in command to Pharaoh. God was all this time getting things out of him so that He would be able to use him during the famine to save even those who put him in bondage!

     Yes, He has been preparing you in the shaking and fiery trials, so that we can be that city set on a hill for such a time as this. So go through this, rejoice in this...He is taking you to this place. He is bringing you to the promotion of the Lord, for such a time as this!

Arise, Shine!

Jo Ellen Stevens
TCIC Ministries


Email: jostevensariseshine@gmail.com
Website: dstevens7.wix.com/tcic

Jo Ellen Stevens is a prophetic speaker, author, worship leader, and intercessor from Connersville, Indiana. She has ministered with her husband for 23 years, pastoring, teaching, and leading prophetic worship. She operates in a prophetic anointing with words of knowledge and words of wisdom. 

She believes that every Believer should be hearing the Lord's voice and resounding His heart out of their intimate relationship with Him. She also believes God called her many years ago to encourage the Body of Christ to arise and shine with the glory of the Lord for such a time as this, no matter what their age, background, or social status! 

She believes that God has given us each a platform to use the gifts and talents that He has given us to bring those who do not know the Lord out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God, and that social media will play a great part in covering the earth with His glory!

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Thursday, June 20, 2019

"What is God Doing in This Shaking Going On?" Jo Ellen Stevens THE ELIJAH LIST


"What is God Doing in This Shaking Going On?"
Jo Ellen Stevens



June 19, 2019

"What is God Doing in This Shaking Going On?"Jo Ellen Stevens, Connersville, IN

From the Desk of Steve Shultz:
Steve Shultz
I totally agree with what Jo Ellen Stevens shares in her recent article...that there is a LOT of shaking going on right now for many.

Jo Ellen's word will give you a heavenly perspective of what's really going on as she shares:

"So do not fear what is happening to you in this shaking, for I will place you into a place of flowing with My Spirit and My Kingdom rule. I will meet every need that you have if you will not worry but trust Me to bring forth all that you will need, and you shall flow in your Kingdom calling! Those that I move into these positions shall be fruitful and multiply, and peace will be in all they do and in that which I have given them."

Hold on...you will see the hand of God move on your and many other's behalf! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)

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"What is God Doing in This Shaking Going On?"Jo Ellen Stevens, Connersville, IN


You Are Being Positioned to Prosper!

As I was looking through the prayer requests in a personal prayer group I'm a part of the other day, I saw a lot of prayer requests that were about jobs and job loss, etc. God has been speaking to me about what is about to happen in this country. There is a change about to take place and God is in the process of shaking many people out of positions that they have felt trapped in. He is shaking some in the world out of positions that they were never meant to be in. 

In other words, "There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on!"

Haggai 2:6-8, "For thus saith the Lord of hosts; 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory,' saith the Lord of hosts. 'The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' saith the Lord of hosts."

The Lord said to me the other day, "I am shifting people out of positions and replacing them with people who have a calling to do these jobs. These people will be sent to be where they are meant to be, because I called them to these places before they were even born. I had this planned from the beginning! So do not fight, fret or be dismayed. Do not be afraid, nor worry when you see Me start to move you out. Do not worry about what you will eat, drink, or wear because I am doing the shaking.

"Did I not say, 'I am your Shepherd'? Did I not say, 'I will lead you down paths of righteousness for My name sake'? Surely I will lead those who seek first My heart and My Kingdom into the abundant life. Did I not die for this cause so that you might have life and life abundant?"

Matthew 6:31-34, "Therefore take no thought, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or, 'What shall we drink?' or, 'Wherewithal shall we be clothed?' (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

"I Am Setting Up Kingdom Rule!"

"I am in the process of establishing Kingdom life in the earth. Did I not say to pray that My Kingdom would come on Earth as it is in Heaven? So this is what My people have been praying. Did you not believe that I would answer those who have cried to Me day and night? I am setting up Kingdom rule! My Kingdom is very different than what the world has portrayed about work and creative ability.

"In these next days and months you will see many come into their own God-given positions in all of the mountains of society. Many believe that I am for one country or another, or one type of government over another, but nay! I am for seeing My Kingdom set up and I am for freedom for people to be who they were created to be! Yes, there are governments that host this way better than others but still they have not seen what Kingdom looks like, but they are about to.

Do Not Fear, We Will Walk in the Garden Again

"So do not fear what is happening to you in this shaking, for I will place you into a place of flowing with My Spirit and My Kingdom rule. I will meet every need that you have if you will not worry but trust Me to bring forth all that you will need, and you shall flow in your Kingdom calling! Those that I move into these positions shall be fruitful and multiply, and peace will be in all they do and in that which I have given them.

"I will prosper My people to be a blessing upon the whole earth, and you shall be the envy of the whole earth, and they will come and serve Me too. Then they will understand that they no longer work by the sweat of their brow, but will come into the garden that I planned for them to tend all along. It is in the garden that I will walk with them again, in the cool of the day!"

Jo Ellen Stevens
TCIC Ministries

Email: jostevensariseshine@gmail.com
Website: dstevens7.wix.com/tcic

Jo Ellen Stevens is a prophetic speaker, author, worship leader, and intercessor from Connersville, Indiana. She has ministered with her husband for 23 years, pastoring, teaching, and leading prophetic worship. She operates in a prophetic anointing with words of knowledge and words of wisdom. She believes that every Believer should be hearing the Lord's voice and resounding His heart out of their intimate relationship with Him. S

he also believes God called her many years ago to encourage the Body of Christ to arise and shine with the glory of the Lord for such a time as this, no matter what their age, background, or social status! She believes that God has given us each a platform to use the gifts and talents that He has given us to bring those who do not know the Lord out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God, and that social media will play a great part in covering the earth with His glory!
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Monday, November 26, 2018

"God Wants to Paint a Picture of 'Hope' in Your Heart Again" Jo Ellen Stevens, The Elijah List


"God Wants to Paint a Picture of 'Hope' in Your Heart Again"
Jo Ellen Stevens, Connersville, IN



November 25, 2018

From the Desk of Steve Shultz:

Steve ShultzWe are posting words lately that will speak to many hearts and bring healing and wholeness to past wounds. After all, God has a brilliant and glorious future before you...and He wants you to be full of Him and His HOPE!

Jo Ellen Steven's shares this NOW word for many of you:

I am hearing from the Lord that many of you have been sick in heart, sick in body, mind and soul because the enemy, through delays, has begun to try to steal your hope. But God is saying to come to Him again, even right now. He wants to paint a picture of hope into your heart again. He wants to show you that He is the God of all hope. I heard Him say that this is how He wants to heal you!

I pray as you read through Jo Ellen's heartfelt article...it will help to bring great healing where needed. Let this encourage you to be full of HOPE again that God is a God of His word and His promises for you will come to pass. 

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"God Wants to Paint a Picture of 'Hope' in Your Heart Again"
Jo Ellen Stevens, Connersville, IN


Hopelessness is the dread that there is no future for you. This is why God gives us faith to fight this hopelessness, because He is a God of hope. Jeremiah 29:11 (TLB), "For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." The enemy wants us to believe that there is no hope so that He can make us sick inside. Proverbs 13:12, "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life."

You've Been Sick in the Heart

I am hearing from the Lord that many of you have been sick in heart, sick in body, mind and soul because the enemy, through delays, has begun to try to steal your hope. But God is saying to come to Him again, even right now.

He wants to paint a picture of hope into your heart again. He wants to show you that He is the God of all hope. I heard Him say that this is how He wants to heal you!

He is once again going to give you hope. Not the kind that says, "I hope so," but the kind that brings the joy of the Lord that will be your strength—to fight the good fight of faith until you receive the promises you have been standing and believing for.

Not only that, He wants you to know that He loves you even though you are not feeling as if He possibly could. He wants you to know that if you make your bed in Sheol, He is there and still loves you! If the enemy can convince you that God doesn't love you because you have not received the promise, then he can steal your joy.

Knowing the love of Christ that passes knowledge is how you get through this time of hope deferred.

I hear Him saying that He wants to restore your hope! He said there are some things you need to do to get there.

How Not to Lose Your Hope

1. Get before the Lord and let Him paint that picture of hope to you (He did this for Abraham several times until he hoped against hope). Turn off EVERY OTHER VOICE that is AGAINST what He told you in the beginning!

2. Let Him show you how much He loves you and get it into your heart!

3. If there is a word or words that the prophets have given you which rang true at one time, war a warfare with them. 2 Chronicles 20:20, "Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper."

4. Get in the Word of God and CAST DOWN IMAGINATIONS. 2 Corinthians 10:5, "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ..." Take every thought that is warring against that word or words you have received, no matter who it has come from. Cast it down immediately! Get the word and the promise and put them into your heart.

5. Worship God and praise Him for what He has already done in the heavenly realm. It is settled in Heaven, so believe what has been established and say it! Then act like it is the truth. Sing the word. Dance the word. Act out the word.

6. Live like you believe it. Kenneth Hagin used to say, "Faith is simply acting like the Word of God is true!" I heard of a woman who was believing her husband would come back so she began to set the dinner table like he was there and one night he was!

7. Then, having done all to stand, stand therefore with your loins (reproductive parts) girded with that truth. Then pray, pray, pray in the Spirit; you are praying His perfect will when you do! Do all of this with the knowledge of Jeremiah 29:11: HE HAS A PLAN AND A FUTURE. The God-kind of hope is an anchor for the soul (mind, will, and emotions).

Throw your anchor in and then you will stop being moved by these storms that are trying to shake you from your hope and faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and faith is what moves God's hand. Know that your God is big enough and "magnify" Him as David said. Make Him bigger in your heart than your situation. Then watch as God begins to show you who He is!

God is Not a Man That He Should Lie

Hebrews 6:17-20 (TPT), "So in the same way, God wanted to end all doubt and confirm it even more forcefully to those who would inherit His promises. His purpose was unchangeable, so God added His vow to the promise. So it is impossible for God to lie for we know that His promise and His vow will never change!

"And now we have run into His heart to hide ourselves in His faithfulness. This is where we find His strength and comfort, for He empowers us to seize what has already been established ahead of time—an unshakable hope! We have this certain hope like a strong, unbreakable anchor holding our souls to God Himself. Our anchor of hope is fastened to the mercy seat which sits in the heavenly realm beyond the sacred threshold, and where Jesus, our forerunner, has gone in before us. He is now and forever our royal Priest like Melchizedek."

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Arise Shine!

Jo Ellen Stevens
TCIC Ministries


Email: jostevensariseshine@gmail.com
Website: dstevens7.wix.com/tcic

Jo Ellen Stevens is a prophetic speaker, author, worship leader, and intercessor from Connersville, Indiana. She has ministered with her husband for 23 years, pastoring, teaching, and leading prophetic worship. She operates in a prophetic anointing with words of knowledge and words of wisdom. She believes that every Believer should be hearing the Lord's voice and resounding His heart out of their intimate relationship with Him. She also believes God called her many years ago to encourage the Body of Christ to arise and shine with the glory of the Lord for such a time as this, no matter what their age, background, or social status! 

She believes that God has given us each a platform to use the gifts and talents that He has given us to bring those who do not know the Lord out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God, and that social media will play a great part in covering the earth with His glory!

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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Jo Ellen Stevens: "Pray for the Trump Family! The Shaking of the Tower of David" - THE ELIJAH LIST

Jo Ellen Stevens: "Pray for the Trump Family! The Shaking of the Tower of David"


THE ELIJAH LIST Aug 23, 2018

Steve ShultzIntro From Julie A. Smith:
There is no doubt...these are sobering times, even this week with all the news coming out and shaking happening before our very eyes.
We are posting words this week to pray for President Trump and his family—right now.
It looks like the enemy has the upper-hand, but God is going to shake and reveal things without measure in all 7 mountains. We've received quite a few confirming words about this as well.
We wanted to post this recent article by Jo Ellen Stevens, which she just released, about the shaking going on and the importance of praying for the President, his family and especially their son, Barron Trump.
Jo Ellen shares here:
Very important prayer right now: I also heard the Lord say to pray for President Trump's son BARRON TRUMP very specifically. Pray in the spirit (in tongues) as you pray for Barron too!
I, myself, also had a stirring dream this past Sunday morning and believe that there is an intercessory call right now to pray for Barron Trump, especially, and the Trump family. I encourage you to pray that they would be protected and remain in God's perfect peace through any storms that would come their way.
Let's join together and pray (and in the spirit) over the entire Trump family during this time. Saints, our prayers count as the prayers of the righteous availeth much! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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Just days ago on 8/21, there was an earthquake in Venezuela, and it did minimal damage to the area but damaged a building called, "THE TOWER OF DAVID". When I looked at the building, it was a hotel that overlooked another building from the roof, and the other building was lower than the Tower of David. Also, that was a day when a lot of news came out about Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, who decided to make a deal with prosecutors and implicated that the then "candidate Trump" had him pay off two women that were accusing him during his campaign. Also His ex-campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was convicted on 8 counts. The earthquake that happened in Venezuela was a 7.3 on the Richter scale and was in or near the city of Caracas. The good news was that not much damage was done!
We're in Another Shaking, But a Good One!
I want people to know up front that I believe God has placed Donald Trump in office and that he will be there until God says so. When God began to show me this, I was a bit taken back and didn't want to bring it forth, but I feel it is necessary for prayers' sake. In the spirit, I saw Trump on top of David's Tower as if he were David looking down on Bathsheba on that building. I was then impressed by the Lord that as Trump is being accused of these things with these women, God is working on his humility and he is about to have a bit of a shaking that will turn around for his good and bring much repentance and restoration to him. He is going to encounter God at a heart-level like He has never known.
The Lord said that the "Ivory Tower" that he lived in before the presidency is slowly coming down and being placed with God's Strong Tower! He is finding Him (the Lord) to be his only "Strong Tower" in the midst of the shaking that he is encountering. God is saying that the shaking which is happening now will seem high on the Richter scale, but it will not do any permanent damage! He said that as President Trump is going through this, we are to pray, pray, pray that no principalities or powers can have their way!
It is going to look a bit rough for a while, but the president will come forth and do all which God has called him to do! In fact, this is going to solidify his calling even more!
Very important prayer right now: I also heard the Lord say to pray for President Trump's son BARRON TRUMP very specifically. Pray in the spirit (in tongues) as you pray for Barron too!
Don't Be Among the Accusers
The Lord also impressed me that the accusers will suffer because they are coming against God's plans for America. It will be the same principle as it says in Romans 2:1"Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest does the same things."
Can't You Talk Louder, God?
God said those who judge will be judged with the same judgment, and we will begin to see things uncovered on a scale like we have never seen up until this time! He also gave this Scripture to me from Romans 14:4"Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand."
But even as the Lord forgave David and called him "a man after His own heart," so He will do and has done for this president and will cause him to stand before the people in His (God's righteousness). This is not of his own, and who are we to call something unclean that God has cleansed? God also said that we are already seeing an uncovering in parts of the Church that has been kept secret for many years!
So let's pray for President Trump. He has been a friend to the community of faith and the reason that we are to pray for men in authority is so that we can live in peace and preach the Gospel. Amen!
1 Timothy 2:1-3"First of all, then, I admonish and urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that outwardly we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life and inwardly a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way. For such praying is good and right, and it is pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior." (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
Jo Ellen Stevens
TCIC Ministries

Email: jostevensariseshine@gmail.com
Website: dstevens7.wix.com/tcic
Jo Ellen Stevens is a prophetic speaker, author, worship leader, and intercessor from Connersville, Indiana. She has ministered with her husband for 23 years, pastoring, teaching, and leading prophetic worship. She operates in a prophetic anointing with words of knowledge and words of wisdom. She believes that every Believer should be hearing the Lord's voice and resounding His heart out of their intimate relationship with Him. She also believes God called her many years ago to encourage the Body of Christ to arise and shine with the glory of the Lord for such a time as this, no matter what their age, background, or social status! She believes that God has given us each a platform to use the gifts and talents that He has given us to bring those who do not know the Lord out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God, and that social media will play a great part in covering the earth with His glory!

Monday, April 13, 2015

"From Transition To Position" - Jo Ellen Stevens


"From Transition To Position"
Jo Ellen Stevens, Connersville, IN
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Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19 (NKJV)

Focus

When you are going through transition, you must keep focused on the bigger picture. 

If you do not realize that God has a plan for your life and that He loves you and is only taking you to a higher place in Him, the enemy will succeed in causing you to doubt that God's love, provision, and healing are yours while you go through this time. That is the only way the enemy can win. Knowing the love of God through prayer and fasting and focusing on this plan will get you through because it will bring you joy, which is your strength! (Photo via Pixabay)

A Whole New Level of Promotion

Also, when you go through transition, the enemy will remind you who you used to be in the good old days. This is where we try to go back to, like Lot's wife and like the children of Israel as they came out of Egypt. We are not to think on the good, the bad, or the ugly, as the Lord told me once in a time of hard transition. 

God does not want to do what He did back then again!

He has brought you out to take you to a whole new place! This transition in this season will be like nothing you have ever seen before!

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When you go through transition, as Jesus did when going from the Jordan (baptism) to being drawn into the wilderness by the Spirit, it is a very vulnerable time and it is the time to fast and pray and build yourself up in the Word, so when the enemy says, "Did God say...?" you will have the ammunition to counteract the temptation that he brings during this time of testing.

You see, God allows and even draws us into the test during transition so that we will be positioned to a higher level in Him; but the enemy tempts us in this test to give up on God and go through the wrong doors and thus put off our destiny for a season. Been there, done that. So we must watch and pray during this time and speak God's Word only!

Don't Be Angry At The Agents Of Change

The enemy will also tempt you to be angry at those that are the agents of change during this time. Remember Joseph's brothers? This is a time when the spirit of jealousy rises up against you because that spirit knows where you are going and wants to kill that anointing on you! These are, oftentimes, people we love and respect, and can even in leadership – but if we do not get angry with these that mean to do us harm, we will come out of this transition time as Jesus came out of His wilderness experience "in the power of the Spirit"!

So, for us, respecting authority is very important during this time because they just might be sent to bring you to a place of destiny. Remember Saul as David was going from the cave to the palace. There is always a Saul to push you to your destiny!

So, get ready if you are in a place of hard transition, you are about to be positioned for such a time as this! Enlarge your thinking in this hour to know that God has a plan and a greater purpose for you just on the other side of this time of change! He is not mad at you – you are just going through! (Photo via Pixabay)

And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from Him for a season. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of Him through all the region round about... Luke 4:13-15 (KJV)

But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. Genesis 50:20 (NKJV)

Arise, shine!

Jo Ellen Stevens
TCIC Ministries

Jo Ellen Stevens is a prophetic speaker, author, worship leader, and intercessor from Connersville, Indiana. She has ministered with her husband for 23 years, pastoring, teaching, and leading prophetic worship. She operates in a prophetic anointing with words of knowledge and words of wisdom. She believes that every Believer should be hearing the Lord's voice and resounding His heart out of their intimate relationship with Him. 

She also believes God called her many years ago to encourage the Body of Christ to arise and shine with the glory of the Lord for such a time as this, no matter what their age, background, or social status! She believes that God has given us each a platform to use the gifts and talents that He has given us to bring those who do not know the Lord out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God, and that social media will play a great part in covering the earth with His glory!

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Monday, May 26, 2014

Jo Ellen Stevens: A Resurgence Of The Baptism Of Holy Spirit - The Elijah List

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Jo Ellen StevensThe Lord has been speaking to me that there is about to be a resurgence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in this season!

He said that people are going to rise up and desire the power that they see in the early Church but that they no longer see in their denominational churches. And He said that they will have a desire for this because they are seeing that on their own they cannot be set free of the depth of darkness that their generation has taken them into.

I see this stirring in people again like never before! They are seeing their need of the power of God again in their lives. 

I am also hearing that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are once again going to become something that people desire and not look at as some backwoods thing that their parents and grandparents did that caused them embarrassment in the past, but they are going to remember the things that happened when Grandma prayed in tongues and God moved on her behalf! God is going to bring these things to their remembrance in this hour, and a new, deep desire for the deep things of God is about to begin stirring in their souls until they will have nothing less than all that God has for them!

The Lord has looked on these young souls and seen the poverty of their spirits and souls, and His heart is hurting to come near them so that He can heal them. 

So, He is beginning to place a desire in their hearts to come after that which they saw in their parents and grandparents that caused them to long to be clean. It caused them to know peace and to know that there was something in this world that was holy. So, He is putting the desire in their hearts again for the Holy Spirit! Be ready to bring them into this!

Glory Filled The Temple by Robert BartowI am beginning to realize that many who have been raised up in church in the last 20 years have missed out on something that many of us had the privilege of receiving! 

In order to become acceptable to society, we began to first have "seeker-friendly" services. Then, finally, "seeker-friendly" churches. We did not want to offend anyone or leave them out. So we stopped talking about the precious Holy Spirit! 

We stopped allowing Him to move among the Believers, and instead have replaced Him moving with entertainment and all kinds of programs, and it has become more like a social club than a place where we allow God to move in His power.

A while back I had a dream of being in a local church, and my mother, who in the past was always used in the gift of tongues and sometimes interpretation, was about to stand up and speak in tongues. Suddenly a woman who actually looked Pentecostal came up behind her and whispered in her ear and said, "We no longer do that here." This whisper stopped my mother in her tracks! 

The woman in the dream was a woman that was a well-known Pentecostal preacher in our area. I realized that most of the Pentecostal denominations around here were as dead as some of the denominational churches had become! They no longer encouraged their people to pray in the Spirit. And they no longer encouraged their people to move out in their gifts, but had allowed it to slip away because they wanted to become accepted in the world.

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God is once again wanting to have free reign in His Church! He is wanting to move among His people, and He is coming because of a cry of a people who long to see the Holy Spirit come into His Church again and do the miracles of the early Church! 

He is coming, I tell you, in answer to the hunger of a generation who are desperate for the raw power of God! They are desperate enough to look foolish to the world! They are desperate enough to not care what anyone thinks or says. They just know that they have a deep, spiritual need, and only the power of the Holy Spirit can deliver them!

The young people today have been raised up knowing all about the spirit realm, even from childhood movies that taught them how to do witchcraft and all manner of incantations. You cannot turn on television without either seeing witchcraft or sexual perversion being broadcast. They have learned about the power of the dark side, but not knowing the power of God; so much so that when they see the power of God they become afraid of it and think that witchcraft is okay!

Salt And Light by Jennifer PageWe who know of this power need to rise up in this hour and begin to teach and preach again about the precious Holy Spirit! We should begin to have altar calls for the baptism of the Holy Spirit once again in our churches. 

We need to tell them how He will change their life and how He gives them overcoming power. We need to begin to allow "our people" to move in their gifts. In order to have power in the Lord we have to be willing to look foolish to the world. He is waiting on a people who will not care what anyone thinks as long as we have Him!

What if we begin to allow the worship to go on until it comes up before God and He comes and consumes us!? What if? What if we were to preach on the Holy Spirit until people desired to have Him more than the doughnuts in the back of the church? 

What if? What if we allowed people to move in their gifts and they would get a taste of what God can do when they are allowed to obey? What if?
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I am telling you that we are beginning to see that all of our best efforts do not satisfy our souls, and an awakening is happening in the Church! There is a call to those of us that have known who Holy Spirit is in our life to begin to equip those with what we have learned and seen and know of Him!

As Wade Urban always says, "This Kingdom life is all about life in Holy Spirit." It was why Jesus had to go away! He said because if He did not go away the Comforter would not come. The Word also says that had the princes of this world known what would happen that they would have never crucified the Lord of glory (see 1 Corinthians 2:8). 

They didn't know that He wanted to multiply Himself in His followers and that now the same power that Jesus had operated in would be present in those who were simple enough to receive it! Ha! They just didn't know!

John 16:7 (AMP) "However, I am telling you nothing but the truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away. Because if I do not go away, the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you [into close fellowship with you]; but if I go away, I will send Him to you [to be in close fellowship with you].

Arise, shine,

Jo Ellen Stevens
TCIC Ministries

Jo Ellen Stevens is a prophetic speaker, author, worship leader, and intercessor from Connersville, Indiana. She has ministered with her husband for 23 years pastoring, teaching, and leading prophetic worship. She operates in a prophetic anointing, with words of knowledge and words of wisdom. She believes that every Believer should be hearing the Lord's voice and resounding His heart out of their intimate relationship with Him. 

She also believes God called her many years ago to encourage the Body of Christ to arise and shine with the glory of the Lord for such a time as this, no matter what their age, background, or social status! She believes that God has given us each a platform to use the gifts and talents that He has given us to bring those who do not know the Lord out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God, and that social media will play a great part in covering the earth with His glory!

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