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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Bill Yount: "This Is The Moment You Were Born For! The King Is Calling For You!" - THE ELIJAH LIST

Bill Yount: "This Is The Moment You Were Born For! The King Is Calling For You!"

May 18, 2017

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This is an activation word by Bill Yount in which he shares that the Lord is calling us all...yes that means ALL of US...into action!

No more waiting on the sidelines as you are part of the vast army of Christ and are much needed in the harvest at hand.

As Bill Yount shares this word of the Lord:

The Lord says, "There'll be no sitting on the sidelines this year. I'm taking the benches out. There'll be no benches to sit on. I'm calling everyone onto the field of their neighbors, city sidewalks, market places and the nations. Wherever you go, I'll be there." The move is on! The King is calling for you.

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"This Is The Moment You Were Born For! The King Is Calling For You!"

Bill Yount, Hagerstown, MD

I heard these words recently, "We gotta 'GO' for launching! We gotta 'Go' for launching!" Then it dawned on me. There can be no launching without a great shaking. I don't know about you but I'm sitting at the edge of my seat for what's next, for the King is calling.

The King Calls For Us in Many Ways to Launch Us

"As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:" Deut. 32:11

Is your life being stirred, shaken and interrupted? I'll tell you why. The Lord has greater things for you. Like an eagle, He (the Lord) has landed and is shaking the Hell out of the place where you are. Embrace the shaking and kiss your normal life goodbye. It's time to spread your wings and fly, because you're an eagle not a chicken. Don't die in your nest.

"God is up to something good in your life. He is reaching down and taking the good, the bad and the ugly and stirring it all around and causing everything to work together for good for them who love Him and are called according to His purpose."

Forty years ago when I started attending our church, in the spirit I saw a huge eagle in a nest in our balcony. It was stirring the nest in people's lives. It stirred and shook twenty-six of us members out into full-time ministry. Some went overseas and never came back except for visits, for they fell in love with people over there. Some like myself stayed in the states. After 40 years I saw this eagle returning to our church and to the Body of Christ at large. The eagle has landed! The eagle has landed in our lives!

The Eagle Has Landed to Stir Up Our Spiritual Gifts and Talents

When the eagle landed 40 years ago in our church, it began to stir a hunger inside of me to hear God's voice. Back then, I lived two blocks up the street and I would walk to church begging God to let me hear His voice in the church service, for I needed to know what to do with my life. Because I was expecting to hear from the Lord Himself, He never failed to anoint my pastor or anyone else who stands in our pulpit to minister exactly what I needed to hear. For forty years in the same church, God still speaks to me, for my expectation is to hear from Him.

This eagle will stir, shake, and interrupt our lives. Looking back over my life, God has been in my interruptions more than He's been in my plans. I hear the Lord saying, "Kiss your normal life goodbye!" Your nest has had some nice comfortable feathers in it, but this year, as the nest shakes, the sharp sticks will jab and prick us out of our comfort to help us get out of the nest, because we were born to fly.

Every storm and adversity you have ever faced has come to prepare you to spread your wings this year. Don't die in the nest. The harvest is now. God often comes when we least expect it, when we are just going along in life minding our own business, and our dream is within reach and we're almost there. That's when the eagle often comes, interrupting our lives, to be about our Father's business.

"I Am Up to Something Good!"

"Prepare for take off! Make sure your seat belts are fastened securely."

These were the words my wife, Dagmar and I heard sitting on a flight to Houston, Texas recently to minister. Then the pilot came on the intercom and said, "We are expecting a nice flight to Houston today."

When I heard this, I said, "Thank You Lord, we are on the right plane with the right pilot." A little later he says, "I see a couple minor things up here that concern me. I will get the mechanics to check it out, then we'll be on our way. After awhile he says, "I have good news for you. And I have bad news. The good news is, you will be going to Houston. The bad news is, not on this plane."

Those words pierced me and have never left me, for I believe it's a prophetic word for the Body of Christ this year.

I heard the Lord say, "You will be arriving at your destination that I have for you this year, but not by sitting in the pews of your churches. These pews will not take you there, neither will this nest."

We had to exit the plane to board another. Standing in a long line to board again, they announced yet another gate change for another flight. (There will be some gate changes coming for many of us this year.) I was frustrated with all these changes. I said, "Lord, what are You doing, because I'm on a mission for You?"

He said, "First of all, I just saved you from a plane crash. Another thing, I'm up to something good!" Many of God's people with all the stirring, shaking and interruptions are wondering, what is going on in their lives. They are wondering where God is or where He went to.

"Looking back over my life, God has been in my interruptions more than He's been in my plans."

Let me tell you: God is up to something good in your life. He is reaching down and taking the good, the bad and the ugly and stirring it all around and causing everything to work together for the good for them who love Him and are called according to His purpose. He has even pulled the stinger out of death and is using it for His glory!

From the Pit, From the Prison to the Palace, the King is Calling For You

"Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his clothes, and came in unto Pharaoh." Genesis 41:14

There are many of you who feel like you've been in the pit for a long time. Others have felt like you've been in a prison. But we are in a "But God" season. This year the King is calling for you to the palace.

I think we have the wrong impression of what that palace was like for Joseph being second in command. The Bible doesn't describe how beautiful that palace was but it does talk a lot about the reason God brought him there. "To save much people alive in the time of trouble and the famine that was coming" (see Genesis 50:20). Joseph considered the palace only to be a launching pad to launch his dream to save the people.

A King was building a palace in another country. He ordered huge pieces of glass mirrors to hang on the walls of the palace. When the shipment arrived most of them were broken through shipment. He became so angry that he said to his servants, "Break these huge pieces of glass into tiny pieces and throw them away. So they began smashing those huge glass mirrors into tiny pieces. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

As they were sweeping up all of the tiny pieces of glass to throw in the dumpster, one of the servants said to the king, "Oh, king, this stuff looks like diamonds! This stuff looks like diamonds!" As the king looked down on all those broken pieces, he had a divine thought. He had his servants pick up all those tiny broken pieces and he began pasting them all over the walls of the palace. When people came and began admiring the diamonds filling the walls of his palace, the king would finally tell them, "What you are looking at is just tiny broken pieces of glass."

Though hidden, the broken and crushed in spirit will rise out of the dust and ashes of life. God is making diamonds out of dust this year. He's making diamonds out of us. This is the year for broken people to be healed and redeemed and our King will be decorating the walls of His palace house with broken people who shine like diamonds in His Kingdom.

We're Not In Kansas Anymore!

I am reminded of the Wizard of Oz movie where a tornado picked up Dorothy's house in Kansas and whirled it to another place. When it landed, Dorothy said to her dog, "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore." I hear the Lord saying to the Body of Christ, "We're not in Kansas anymore. You can't go back and live like you used to and do the things you used to do. You will have to think differently, for you are in a new place."

The King is calling for you and me. This is the moment we were born for. Ask the King what's next for you. Don't be surprised by what you hear. It may blow your mind. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List go here.)

Bill Yount
Blowing the Shofar Ministry
Email: theshofarhasblown@juno.com
Website: www.billyount.com
Bill Yount has been a member of Bridge of Life in Hagerstown, Maryland, for the past 36 years where he is now an elder and a home missionary. He is currently an advisor at large for Aglow International. Bill faithfully served in prison ministry at Mount Hope for 23 years and now travels full-time, both in the U.S. and internationally, ministering in churches and Aglow circles. "Humility and humor" characterize his ministry as he brings forth a fresh word that is "in season," proclaiming the Word of the Lord! The shofar (or ram's horn) is often used in his meetings, breaking the powers of darkness over regions, churches, and households. The shofar represents God's breath blowing into the nostrils of His people, reviving them and awakening the lost. Many of God's messages, which Bill ministers prophetically, come out of his everyday life with his family and friends.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Surviving the Storms: Tim Tebow Shares Why His Faith Won't Be Shaken - CBN News Abigail Robertson

Surviving the Storms: Tim Tebow Shares Why His Faith Won't Be Shaken

10-26-2016

CBN News Abigail Robertson

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The world has noticed Tim Tebow since his days playing college football. But who could have predicted a Heisman trophy winner and pro football quarterback would find himself in Scottsdale, Arizona, playing Minor League Baseball?

CBN News Reporter Abigail Robertson recently spoke with Tebow to get his perspective on how his life has been shaken.

One of the first questions she asked him -- why baseball?

"Playing baseball for me was something I almost did out of high school, and I decided to go to the University of Florida, and it's been something that's been on my heart throughout the last couple of years," Tebow explained. "I really felt like why not go pursue it if it's something that I'm passionate about and it's on my heart? You know, go after it."

Tebow may be passionate about baseball now, but it wasn't exactly his first career choice. The Denver Broncos drafted him right out of college and after being promoted to starting quarterback, he led the team to their first playoff win in six years.

Tebow's Career Goes Downhill

Despite that promising beginning, the Broncos traded him after the first season ended and things went downhill from there. Tebow was cut or released from three more teams in the years that followed.

"When you're going through that, what do you have to hold onto?" Tebow asked. "What is your foundation? Who are you? And more importantly, whose are you in your relationship with Christ?"

A little over a year ago, Tebow felt God leading him to write a book for others facing challenges of all kinds.

"I wanted to write something to those people to encourage them that there's still a God that loves you, that created you in love, by love, for love, for a purpose, that you matter, and you're significant," he told CBN News. "So when people are going through tough times, they have something to hold onto, and they do in their relationship with Christ."

In his new book, Shaken: Discovering Your True identity in the Midst of Life's Storms, Tebow talks about his tougher times. Those ranged from trying to just be "one of the guys" on a new team surrounded by media frenzy, to living in isolation as paparazzi camped out 12 feet from his front door, to realizing his future in football was likely over.

As he writes, "I had no job, no car, no home."

Keep Calm and Stay Focused

All the while, sports announcers and media headlines were blowing up with people happy to see him failing.

"Not everybody can relate to the highs, but almost everybody can relate to the lows," Tebow said.

Through relentless criticism, he managed to keep calm and remain focused.

"When you believe in yourself and you believe you're doing the right thing and you're giving it your all -- you have to block out the criticism," Tebow said. "You have to block out the naysayers."

"A lot of times people will say, 'Let it go in one ear and out the other," and I just think don't even let it go in one ear," he continued. "Don't even listen to it. Don't even go on social media; don't read it; don't watch the TV."

"For me, it's stay focused on what your goal is, and don't let the naysayers sway you from your goal," he said.

Going Deeper in Jesus

Tebow addresses his struggles in his new book, titled Shaken. He says his prayer for the people who read the book is "that they're encouraged to go find a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ."

"And it's not just the going to church on Sunday morning or Wednesday night," he admonished. "But it's actually a deep relationship, a one-on-one, intimate relationship with a God that loves us so much He sent his son to die for them."

Tebow opens up a lot in the book, but don't expect any details of his dating life. He did, however, share his philosophy on relationships.

"I think prayer is important. I think having Godly wisdom is important from people that you look up to," he told CBN News.

"And I think having people around you that are going to tell you what you really need to hear, not what you want to hear, and they're able to be the people that are able to help guide you in that path because sometimes in relationships you can't always see clear, but people around you can," Tebow advised.

Shaken is not just inspired by his own experiences overcoming disappointment.

"I've seen so many people that everything around them is shaken, and they're thinking, 'I don't even know if I'm going to be here tomorrow,'" Tebow said. "And I've seen some of them with such amazing faith that even in the midst of all of that, they still had something to hold on to, and that was their relationship with Christ."

Giving Back

In 2010, he created the Tim Tebow Foundation, which helps thousands of orphans, special needs, and terminally ill children each year.

Tebow said God planted this seed in him when he was 15 and met a Filipino boy named Sherwin who had backwards feet. In 2015, the foundation opened a hospital in the Philippines that provides patients with life-changing orthopedic surgeries.

Tebow said the hospital is one of his proudest accomplishments.

"Now in our hospital in the Philippines, all the boys who are like Sherwin with their feet on backwards, we get to go pick them up and carry them to the hospital, and they get to walk out," he shared. "But they don't just walk out with physical healing, but spiritual healing, and emotional healing as well."

Tebow has become a major role model for Christians of all ages, but particularly Millennials. CBN News asked what advice he has for how young adult Christians can stand strong in their faith.

"I would say find an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ -- their own faith, not their parents' faith, not their friends, but theirs," Tebow replied. "And develop that and work on that."

"And also find friends that they can invest in, and love in, and disciple, but also friends that are going to be able to lift them up when they are going through tough times because I really believe 'iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another,'" Tebow, said quoting Proverbs. "So find those people in life that are going to invest in you."

Tebow Takes on His Critics

As for the critics of Tebow's baseball career, he told CBN News it's not a make-or-break situation.

"They'll criticize. They'll say, 'Why? The chances of making it are so slim.' But for me it's about pursuing your passion and not being afraid of failure, not being afraid of what people are going to say because I'm also a believer that perfect love casts out all fear," Tebow said.

"Let's just love God, and let's love people and let's bring people together," he continued. "How many people can we love in the name of Jesus? How many people can we help in the name of Jesus? That's the goal. Nothing else is the goal. Nothing else matters. That's what matters, plain and simple. And I feel like that's my passion, and I feel like it's my purpose, too."

Divine Opportunities

And that's exactly what Tebow is doing on and off the field.

He may not be playing in arenas of 75,000 anymore, but the smaller crowds have led to some divine opportunities. Tebow recently made headlines for praying over a fan having a seizure after one of his games. He later learned the man decided to follow Jesus while watching the game in the stands, after overhearing other fans talking about God.

"When you believe that you serve a big God, and when you believe yourself that He has a plan and a purpose for you, you can walk with confidence and go after what He puts on your heart, and you can do it with boldness and courage, and you can go after it not having to listen to the naysaysers," Tebow said.

Tim Tebow may not have seen baseball in his future, but God sure did. With each curve ball life has thrown at him he's continued to trust God's plan for his future, and not let his faith be shaken.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Roseanne Barr 'Shaken' by Anti-Semitic Bigotry of Fellow Liberals - Israel Today

Roseanne Barr 'Shaken' by Anti-Semitic Bigotry of Fellow Liberals

Sunday, April 03, 2016 | Israel Today Staff

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Anti-Semitism

American actress and comedienne Roseanne Barr was in Israel last week to deliver a keynote address to a Jerusalem conference dealing with the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) phenomenon.

Barr said that she had become a pro-Israel advocate after being “shaken” by what she called the naked bigotry of so many liberals who claim to only be criticizing Israel, but who are in fact anti-Semitic.

“Everything I’d ever believed about the left was severely shaken, and the scales began to fall from my eyes in many ways,” said Barr. “It was shocking to realize that what I considered criticism of Israel many, many times gave way to the garden variety anti-Semitism that I’d heard all of my life.”

Barr said she was privy to a lot of such talk because for a long time fellow Hollywood elite were unaware of her own Jewish background.

She eventually came to the realization that “many of those I considered comrades were naked bigots who had absolutely no interest in peace between Israel and Palestinians Arabs at all as I did.”

And the same is true of the “social activist” movement known as BDS.

“BDS [members] do not want peace, nor do they want peace negotiations,” insisted Barr.

Like the classic anti-Semites of old, the actress accused BDS activists of seeking to “isolate and disenfranchise Jews until it will all be Jew-free.”

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

'Indispensable' Ancient Church Shaken By World Violence - WORLD WATCH MONITOR CHARISMA NEWS

The Virgin Mary Church is 'indispensable' to Christianity. (World Watch Monitor)

'Indispensable' Ancient Church Shaken By World Violence

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One of the oldest churches in the world sustained damage last week in the intensified fighting between the Turkish government and Kurdish separatists.

Rocket-propelled grenades destroyed a portion of the wall surrounding the Virgin Mary Church in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on 28 Jan. The Syriac Orthodox church is 1,700 years old.

Fr. Yusuf Akbulut, the priest of the church, was sheltered with his family at his home, located on church grounds, during the attack.

Violence has engulfed Diyarbakir's Sur district, the location of the church, since early December. The government issued an evacuation order on 26 Jan. due to pitched street battles between armed militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkish forces.

Fr. Akbulut, who has overseen the church for 23 years, initially refused to evacuate. He and his wife remained in the building until 28 Jan., saying he feared the church would be levelled in an aerial bombardment if left empty.

"We wouldn't have left the church. But when we looked [on the street] and saw that land mines and rockets were exploding non-stop, we knew that we couldn't stay," he told World Watch Monitor. "Our house was shaking and we thought it would collapse."

The power, electricity, and water were cut off. It was time to flee.

Fr. Akbulut dialed 155, the police emergency line. He was told that his neighbourhood was a no-go area, barricaded off to civil authorities. The operator gave him instructions on how to escape. They stepped out on the street cautiously, with Fr. Akbulut waving a white flag. Nobody was there.

Whole buildings were collapsed, reduced to piles of rubble. "It was like a war zone," he said.

Fr. Akbulut and his family are staying in a hotel for the foreseeable future. Ongoing clashes in the church's neighbourhood prevent their return.

But controversy has followed him. He has fended off reports from the Turkish media that his church had indirect involvement with the PKK.

Turkish newspapers claimed on 30 Jan. that a cache of ammunition and explosives was found on the site of Virgin Mary Church. Fr. Akbulut said that he knew nothing of this cache while he was there, and that it was likely deposited after he fled.

Syriac leaders blasted the reports for insinuating that their church could have any link to violent terrorism.

"We know the goals of these reports, which are hateful and completely made up," announced Evgin Turker, president of the Federation of Syriac Foundations. "After the news came out, threats against us started to rain down."

Turkish Protestant church leaders have condemned the PKK violence, raging for the past two months, issuing a joint call for the state to show justice and mercy to its citizens. In early January, a 12-person delegation came to Diyarbakir to issue a statement calling on both sides to seek a peaceful solution.

"We came to beg all parties to take steps towards peace to escape from this spiral of violence," said Ihsan Ozbek, leader of Turkey's Association of Protestant Churches. The pastors met with the district governor, Huseyin Aksoy, and Diyarbakir mayor, Gultan Kisanak.

The violence in Diyarbakir has engulfed other Christian fellowships. Members of Diyarbakir Protestant Church, located directly across the street from the Virgin Mary Church, couldn't hold regular services in their building for two months.

They met in an alternative site throughout the winter but resumed their meetings in the church three weeks ago. When the attacks started last Wednesday, three members of the church in the building immediately fled. Following the advice of the Turkish security forces, they also waved white flags.

Protestant pastor Ahmet Guvener, a friend of Akbulut, called the priest repeatedly to convince him to flee the neighbourhood.

"The bombs started going off every hour. We called Father Yusuf multiple times to try to get him and his wife to leave," Guvener told World Watch Monitor.

Guvener and Fr. Akbulut both said none of the attacks specifically targeted their churches, which are caught in the ongoing violence between the Turkish military and the PKK.

Fierce fighting has escalated across southeastern Turkey since the end of a two-year ceasefire in July 2015. Youth members of the PKK declared self-rule over large parts of Sur, digging trenches and building barricades to keep authorities out, according to Al-Monitor.

A military statement in the official Anadolu Agency said Turkish forces have so far killed 500 PKK fighters in the southeastern town of Cizre and 149 in Sur since December.

According to the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), the government has imposed curfews on many predominantly Kurdish towns and cities. To date, at least 161 civilians, including dozens of children, have died in the violence.

An 'indispensable' holy site for Orthodox Christians

Fr. Akbulut was insistent that he stay in the church as long as possible, even at the risk of his own life. He considers the church indispensable for his congregation, and for Syriac Orthodox Christianity at large.

"I would not be able to live with myself if I abandoned the church," Fr. Akbulut told the Assyrian International News Agency. "It is a symbol for us Assyrians and a symbol for all Christianity. This is a holy place."

The church is of enormous importance to Eastern Orthodoxy, having produced theologians and patriarchs in the early centuries of Christianity. It holds relics such as a piece of the cross and the bones of the apostle Thomas.

The Virgin Mary Church was recently renovated with funds collected from the Syriac diaspora in Europe. Artisans and masons restored the church's mosaics, hand-carved walnut tree doors, stone and brick walls, and silver lanterns.

Fr. Akbulut leads a congregation of 40 members. He speaks Syriac, a language closely related to Aramaic, the language of Jesus and his disciples.

The congregation represents a tiny remnant of Syriac Christianity, an ancient Eastern Rite Church still found in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey.

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