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During a run, pastor Kathy Melson heard the Holy Spirit tell her to share a series of dreams that signal a global awakening with souls as its heaven-sent focus.
"The heartbeat of the Father is souls—sons and daughters," Melson says.
After the run, the Holy Spirit told Melson to record this video before she showered. From the basement of her home in Colorado, Melson speaks of new beginnings for America, India, China and Pakistan.
Melson, who oversees healing and prophetic ministry at Rez.Church, says the dreams repeated four or five times each night, coinciding with the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah.
Like the Jewish holiday, the dreams indicate a new day and a fresh start for the body of Christ around the world, Melson says.
A pastor who has preached hundreds of funerals for more than 20 years is convinced a dying man with no belief in spiritual things was visited by the Lord Jesus Christ, stirring the man to tell his wife and two adult children "I got God" the day before he passed away in a hospital bed.
"With all of my heart, I believe he had a visitation from the Lord because, prior to that day, neither he nor his wife wanted to hear anything—I mean nothing—about God," says Pastor Becky Salgado, who recently shared the story with Lead Pastor Jonathan Wiggins and his church staff.
Another pastor at Rez.Church says she, too, had a supernatural encounter with a woman seated next to her at Coors Field in Denver during a Colorado Rockies baseball game.
Pastor Kathy Melson says, "This lady taps me on the shoulder and says, 'there's something coming off of you. You're either a healer or a teacher.'
"Well, it's the Holy Spirit, and I'm a pastor," Melson says she told the woman from New Mexico.
Melson, who oversees prophetic and healing ministry, shared both recorded testimonies during of 21 days of prayer with Acts 9:31 as the theme. "I believe we are currently in awakening," says Melson.
Like in Africa and India, where entire villages are coming to faith in Jesus, "He is going to do it in America, too," says Melson.
Watch the video to hear Melson share biblical support for spiritual phenomena like a visitation from the Lord and to hear her personal awakening story from a baseball game. Also hear details of the dying man's encounter with God.
Steve Reesis a freelance Christian journalist who loves the church and writes about how it engages the culture and works toward fulfilling the Great Commission. He lives in Longmont, Colorado, and attends Resurrection Fellowship, a nondenominational, missions-driven church that honors all the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the fivefold ministry offices.
Despite prevailing perceptions that the church is on the decline in the United States and that the nation is becoming increasingly secularized, a university study turned up findings that indicate the opposite is true; the American church is actually experiencing marked growth.
Citing an article at thefederalist.com, this pastor shared with his congregation the findings of a Harvard University study that indicates the church in America is waxing stronger, not waning as some cultural, media, and spiritual leaders posit.
"There's something called the secularization thesis and, that is, that the United States is following the most advanced industrial nations in the death of its once-vibrant faith culture," said Jonathan Wiggins, lead pastor at Rez.Church in Loveland, Colorado.
A charismatic and evangelical, Wiggins believes the veracity of the report and gives valid reasons why the spiritual health of some churches in America is vibrant in his sermon titled, "Running With Giants—Luke."
The article Wiggins cites, "New Harvard Research Says US Christianity Is Not Shrinking, But Growing Stronger," distinguishes between churches that are dying because they embrace cultural mores and those that buck cultural trends by staying true to the Bible.
When Native Indian tribes from the United States, Canada and around the globe return to Washington D.C. this fall, they believe the glory of God is returning with them.
On October 20, 2017, First Nations people will fill Constitution Hall—for the first time in American history—for their Second Annual National Day of Prayer.
The presence of God is coming with them like the forgiveness they brought to the nation's capital last year, when tribes from the U.S., Canada and the world gathered at the Washington Monument for the inaugural Day of Prayer By First Nations on Oct. 21, 2017.
Envisioned by an Euchee (Yuchi) Indian, Dr. Negiel Bigpond, First Nations prayer and worship on the National Mall was heard inside the White House, which acknowledged by telephone the presence of about 75 different Native American and Canadian tribes in D.C.
In the shadow of the monument's standing, granite rock, tribes erected teepees, beat drums, danced, prayed, worshipped and, very intentionally, extended forgiveness to the nation for breaking treaties with Native American Indians.
"Last year, we extended forgiveness to a nation that never asked for it; this year we're releasing the glory of God back over America and the nations," said Willie Jock at a rally in Denver on Saturday.
An Akwesasne Mohawk, Jock read the prayer he authored, "The Power to Forgive," at the base of the Washington Monument.
"As the host people of Turtle Island, we forgive every atrocity and broken covenant ever designed to destroy us as a race of people," Jock said in Washington D.C.
Days later, Jock authored "The Prayer of the Peacemaker," which he recited at the Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota beside Dr. Bigpond, Lakota Sioux Gabrielle Medicine Eagle and Chickasaw Randy Wade.
"We stand beneath the outstretched branches of the great tree of peace and invite all nations to join us as we cry out for the master of life to bring His justice, unity and peace over Standing Rock and all of the Americas," Jock said.
Jock, Eagle, Wade and other members of All Tribes D.C., the sponsor of the annual Day of Prayer By First Nations, spoke Friday night and all day Saturday in Denver at Church in the City/Beth Abraham during a vision rally that brought together Christians, Messianic and indigenous believers in Jesus Christ.
The church is the former home of a Jewish synagogue and later an Indian center.
Between the rally in Denver and the day of prayer, Jock and some members of All Tribes D.C. will visit Israel from Oct. 9-13, when Messianic Jewish believers will impart through prayer the glory of God to Indian leaders before they travel to the nation's capital.
"I believe it's going to begin on Oct. 20th as the First Nations people release the glory of God over America and the world," Jock said.
Jock and other First Nations Leaders agree with the words of Dr. Billy Graham.
"The greatest moments of Native history (lie) ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place," Graham said years ago. "The Native American has been a sleeping giant. He is awakening."
Some Christians groups—All Tribes D.C among them—recognize the accuracy of a deceased prophet who declared 2017 a turnaround year and one of (God's) favor.
It's a year of God's awakening the nations and the return of His glory, according to the late prophet Bob Jones.
"Watch this year as the nations of the world come alive in the holiness of the Father, the love of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit," Jones prophesied before his death.
A website containing other prophecies spoken by Jones is maintained by his wife, Bonnie.
Jock's prayer produced peace of mind and heart even though the events at Standing Rock, where water and burial sites remain contentious issues, didn't go the way Chickasaw leader Wade hoped they would.
"We always talk about a sound, a message," Wade said. "In the Greek, the word 'sound' means to join one place to another. When we make a sound, it touches heaven. I long to see the nations make the sound of worship."
The gatherings in Israel and D.C this year will have shifting effects on the nations as forgiveness in America did in 2016.
Ojibway Cree Mary Faus, who earlier this year was invited to speak at the National Press Club on behalf of Dr. Bigpond at a church conference she attended, agreed a shift took place in the nation in 2016, and she expects another this fall.
At the rally in Denver, Faus said, "The sound that's going forth is shaking the very ground that was used to bury our people.
"The Word Himself is coming alive in the Native Bride.
"The very acts used to shame and humiliate her will be her greatest weapon to undermine the accuser," said Faus, who was chosen by All Tribes leader to emcee inside Constitution Hall on Oct. 20.
Lakota Sioux Gabrielle Medicine Eagle said prayers of forgiveness and peace bring God's glory and presence. He knows from personal experience, forgiving "white people" for the first time when he came to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in 1984.
Before his conversion, Eagle was dismayed by the Department of Interior's handling of Indian reservations, sending youth to residential schools—both parochial and public—that sought to strip them of their cultural identities.
"The word 'reservation,' according to Webster's Dictionary, is defined as 'put aside for later use.'
"God has turned around the word 'reservation'—meaning set aside—for His use. He is restoring our governmental authority," Gabrielle Medicine Eagle said.
Potawatomi Martha Schmitt, who works with Dr. Bigpond at Two Rivers Native American Training Center near Tulsa, Oklahoma, expects members of more than 75 tribes will attend the prayer event on Oct. 20.
Bigpond first envisioned a national day of prayer for First Nations in June of 2016, reserving area around the Washington Monument with the U.S. Park Service a few months later.
He believes the power of forgiveness and prayer bring healing to the nation. Others agree with him, saying All Tribe D.C.'s mission is to stir up the "governmental voice of authority rightly given to First Nations people by our creator."
There are approximately 500 tribes in U.S and 500 more in Canada. Seventy-five tribes prayed on the National Mall last year, and more are expected this year, Schmitt said.
Also in Denver, Navajo leader Ellson Bennett and his adopted South Korean daughter, Callie, spoke and led worship, respectively. Callie is in the running for two Native Music Awards: Best Female Artist of the Year and Best Gospel Inspirational Record.
Representatives from government, education and the church—three of seven mountains of influence—are invited to the day of prayer. Among the invited high-profile speakers are Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and Senator Stewart Greenleaf from Pennsylvania.
Author, speaker and internationally recognized prayer leader Chuck Pierce will represent the church in D.C.
Steve Rees is a freelance writer who loves the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, calls Longmont his home, and attends Rez.Church. He can be contacted by e-mail at:steverees@peoplepc.com.
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The National Day of Prayer for First Nations, held near the Washington Monument, included intercessory petitions, proclamations and declarations of forgiveness by leaders from All Tribes D.C., a fellowship of Christians representing 1,000 American Indians from the U.S. and Canada. (Aftab Uzzaman/Flickr/CC)
Why Prophetic Voices Say the Nation Shifted on Oct. 21
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Some prophetic voices believe the nation shifted, spiritually, Oct. 21, 2016, on what may go down as one of the most important days in American history.
Largely unnoticed, 1,000 Native American Indian tribes from the United States and Canada collectively forgave the U.S. government for breaking treaties with their ancestors during a public ceremony on the National Mall.
The National Day of Prayer for First Nations, held near the Washington Monument, included intercessory petitions, proclamations and declarations of forgiveness by leaders from All Tribes D.C., a fellowship of Christians representing 1,000 American Indians from the U.S. and Canada.
A full-blooded Euchee (Yuchi) Indian, Negiel Bigpond coordinated the first-ever national prayer gathering of Native Americans in the nation's capital.
Like the annual May observance of the National Day of Prayer, signed into law by President Harry S. Truman in 1952, First Nations intercessors will convene again in 2017 during the third week of October.
Dr. Billy Graham, whose son and daughter have served on the National Day of Prayer Task Force, is a prophetic voice who believes that forgiveness by Native Americans might be part of a spiritual awakening within the nation.
"The Native American has been a sleeping giant," Graham writes. "He is awakening. The original Americans could become the evangelists who will help win America for Christ. Remember the forgotten people."
Bigpond agrees that Native Americans have taken a good first step toward aiding national awakening by extending forgiveness to the nation.
"We chose to forgive the U.S., whether it asked for it or not," said Bigpond, a fourth-generation pastor who offered forgiveness and spoke blessings over the nation alongside other tribal prayer warriors.
Bigpond, who has evangelized on 143 reservations, believes the U.S. has suffered spiritual consequences for breaking treaties with Native Americans.
In Scripture, breaking a vow or treaty brings a curse on the land, and the U.S. government broke every treaty it made with the Native American tribes, according to prophetic voice Rick Joyner, who called the prayer event one of the most important in the nation's history from his ministry headquarters in North and South Carolina.
"This is very real," Joyner said. "National injustices are a major issue we're facing now, whether we want to or not, and this is a big one."
Bigpond is an apostle at Morning Star Evangelistic Center in Oklahoma, which is affiliated with Joyner's MorningStar Ministries.
The nation's crises parallel conditions on the reservations, according to Bigpond, a certified drug- and alcohol-abuse counselor.
"We don't want the nation or our people to suffer further," said Bigpond, who holds a doctorate in divinity and is a Euchee tribe chief.
Mary Faus, who represented the Ojibway and Cree tribes at the prayer event, said the unity and power of forgiving a nation that's never apologized or asked for it was amazing.
"We believe this has shifted the nation and we are already feeling the effects of what was accomplished in D.C.," said Faus, who is the director of a house of prayer in Pennsylvania and lead intercessor with husband Jon at Hope of Nations Christian Center.
Joyner agrees that forgiveness and love are major weapons in waging spiritual warfare on behalf of the nation.
"This is one of the most noble acts of true Christian charity I have ever heard of by any people group," Joyner said. "Very few may even know that anything special happened.
"Some of the greatest things happen that way, and only a very few who have their eyes open looking in the right direction, see them," Joyner said.
Portions of a proclamation posted on the All Tribes D.C. website were read by tribal leaders gathered on the National Mall.
The proclamation reads in part, "We forgive every atrocity and broken covenant ever designed to destroy us as a race of people. We break every curse and renounce every lie purposed to decimate us as human beings.
"We forgive the government, the church and the educational system for the use of residential schools that attempted to destroy our culture and silence our voice as people by stealing our language.
"We stand in the gap for those who are unable or unwilling to forgive, and call upon the Master of Life, to forgive us for harboring unforgiveness, resentment, hatred, bitterness and rage.
"We repent of every curse spoken over America by our ancestors and we release the power of forgiveness to bring healing and the peace of Creator God to this land.
"We declare and decree that our voice will no longer be silenced and that this nation and the world will hear our voice as we speak life and blessings over the Americas and the world.
"We stand in faith believing that our citizenship lies in heaven, and we too, all await the return of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
"Being all of one mind and heart, having compassion for one another, we declare our love as brothers; not returning evil for the evil perpetuated against us, but on the contrary we choose to release a blessing, knowing that the Father of us all has called us as his children to bless and not curse, that we may inherit a blessing. Amen."
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After lying naked and cold in a morgue for two days, Sabina says she saw herself hopelessly stuck at the bottom of a deep well.
Surrounded by corpses covered with linen sheets, Sabina says she had a vision of a tree growing at the top of the well. From its trunk, a branch moved toward her as she lay on a hospital gurney. Close enough to reach, the branch changed into flesh as Sabina says she heard the words, "If you grab onto my hand, I will bring you back to life."
Taking hold of it with her cold, lifeless hand, Sabina says she woke to find her body covered from the neck down with a white sheet like other corpses around her.
Hearing voices of doctors in search of a cadaver, Sabina says she sat up on the frigid metal surface below her body.
"I'm alive. Don't worry," she shouted as doctors entered the morgue a second time after running out scared moments before.
Offering Sabina water, food and clothes, the medical staff arranged to transport her to a university research hospital in Moscow, Russia, where she had traveled to visit a son imprisoned on trumped up charges.
Baffled hospital personnel refused to officially or publicly comment after Sabina spent two days in a coma and two more in the morgue.
Returning to Central Asia, Sabina says she surprised family members on her first Sunday morning at home by leaving early, telling her stunned daughters: "There's somewhere I have to go."
A Pentecostal church in a largely Islamic community was Sabina's destination. Inside, she professed faith in Jesus Christ, leaving behind her Muslim faith.
Since then, Sabina says her six daughters and another son (the other died inside a Russian prison where he suffered injuries and brain damage) became Christians and entered full-time ministry or, at least, are studying the Bible.
At 63 years of age, Sabina says she saw her 92-year-old mother and a niece come to faith in Jesus last year, demonstrating that entire household salvation exists even among Muslims. It was two of Sabina's daughters who led their grandmother and cousin to the Lord.
In a big surprise, Sabina's oldest daughter recently came to know Jesus as well. Until the summer of 2016, she was vehemently opposed to the gospel and even having a Bible in her home.
Sabina shares her life-from-the-dead experience and testimony of conversion from Islam to Christianity in her native language within the Central Asian country she calls home.
Sabina says a spiritual vision brought her back from the dead and another vision—this one by her future son-in-law—drew him to the country where he now ministers with Sabina's daughter as full-time missionaries.
Family members agreed to share their testimonies of Christian faith with conditions that real names, ministry title and precise locations in the Middle East and Central Asia were not be published.
Sabina's son-in-law, Jamal, a Westerner who spent time in the Middle East as a young boy, had a vision the same year his future mother-in-law walked out of the morgue and into a Pentecostal church.
"God called me to (the Middle East) in 2000 when I had a vision of myself preaching the gospel on the steps of a mosque," says Jamal who, as a youngster, disliked the country where he ministers today with his wife, Aisha.
They met at a world missions meeting in 2006 and married afterward, discovering that Jamal's spiritual vision corresponded with Aisha's heart for people in the same Islamic country in the Middle East, despite her upbringing in Central Asia.
Jamal and Aisha find that Sabina's death and resurrection story provides an open door for them to talk about Jesus with their Muslim friends and neighbors because it's emotional and powerful.
"The first day I was a university student, a classmate in our online group asked me if my wife was Muslim.
"I shared my mother-in-law's story briefly and, as a result of their openness to it, the students' interest in the gospel made it easier for me to share two days later with a group of about 30 Muslims," says Jamal.
Before Jamal married Aisha, he ministered to his best friend, a Muslim, by telling him a simple gospel message. Upon sharing Jesus' love for him, Jamal says his friend began to have dreams and visions and, within a month, he gave his heart to the Savior.
"When we prayed together he began to weep," says Jamal. "After settling himself, he told me, 'Jamal, I just saw Jesus again. This time he had His arms open wide, welcoming me home,'"
The next day, Jamal's friend was in tears again because his Muslim wife threatened divorce from her husband for his conversion from Islam.
After praying for his wife, both of them were baptized three months later.
More recently, Jamal and Aisha have been reading the Bible with Abdul, who they've known for several years. When they shared the gospel with Abdul, he ended the relationship.
"He texted me recently, asking if we could get together, so Aisha and I had Abdul and his wife over.
"During the course of the evening, Abdul pulled me aside and said, 'Jesus really did die on the cross, didn't he?'" says Jamal.
Abdul is now sharing Jesus with his co-workers, one of whom is interested in reading the Bible with the group Jamal and Aisha lead.
"Just recently, we got to go over to Abdul's house and pray over it," Jamal says.
Besides a vision in 2000, Jamal says his call to the Middle East was confirmed in 2003 when he heard God speak to him at a conference, indicating which missions group to partner with.
"I had never heard the name before, so I was kind of puzzled when I heard God's words.
"Five minutes later, the main speaker introduced himself and the organization's name I had just heard God speak.
"I literally went to the back of the room that night and applied for (the organization's) training school," says Jamal.
Two of Aisha's sisters and their husbands are part of the same global missions' organization to which she and Jamal belong. It encourages Bible studies among friends and neighbors in homes or churches planted by indigenous leaders.
The vision is based on the apostle Paul's words in Romans 15:20: "So I have strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, so that I should not build on another man's foundation."
Jamal and Aisha are team leaders of seven adults and five children. The team has formed two house churches in another province, and over the summer of 2016, it planted seven churches among unreached and unengaged people.
Some team members, including Aisha, are ministering to Syrian refugees, which total almost 1 million registered and unregistered people in just one of the Middle Eastern countries hosting them, making it impossible to reach everybody without help from established churches.
"Last year, we adopted an entire refugee camp before winter set in because many babies and toddlers die from the cold. We raised enough money to pay for heat and insulation in their tents," Jamal says.
Aisha requests prayer for her work with Syrian refugees, other partners to join them, unrest in the Middle East, the love of Jesus to be revealed to friends and neighbors, university ministry, travel and health for five children of team members, two of whom belong to her and Jamal.
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